This ticketing page is ONLY FOR THE LIVESTREAM of the NYD Marathon. Livestream access is pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10–30. The livestream link will be sent to registrants the morning of the marathon.
Please join The Poetry Project on January 1, 2025 for their 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon:
A daylong celebration of the actualizing power of poetry and performance, the Marathon is an event that feels like it happens because it has to and wants to—because we need it to. It’s as though every year before and every year following were somehow all leading up to it—this day, a time-honored tradition and a spacetime anomaly. It’s the annual event by which we mark our calendars and simultaneously serves as a disruption to the very idea of time—a sort of ridiculous compass—a day when nothing makes sense, or maybe the only day when everything becomes clear.
We don't really know what the Marathon is, or how exactly it comes together, and probably never will. But what is certain is that the Marathon changes us every year—which is precisely the power of its expansiveness, magnetism, impact, and ability to bring us together. It is a testament to our belief that poetry, performance, the avant-garde, the raucous, sexy, surprising, subaltern, the weird, have the ability to effect change. A radical spark that stirs what is within us to ignition—a transformation and transmission that reaches beyond us. The Marathon is our annual reaffirmation in the strength of collectivity, in knowing that what we do here—together—does something.
Resonating within and across the legacies and lineages of past New Year’s Marathons—the first coordinated in 1974 by the ever-wonderful and much beloved co-founder and past Director of the Project, Anne Waldman—this monumental gathering features over 130 poets, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers who share work throughout the day. The Marathon has become our annual calling card, a rallying cry, and biggest fundraiser.
The funds raised at the New Year's Day Marathon directly support:
- The Poetry Project’s 50+ live readings and events which are livestreamed (for free!) and reach thousands of in-person and virtual attendees each year
- Our quarterly Newsletter which publishes a breadth of creative and scholarly writing
- Our learning programs which serve hundreds of workshop attendees each season, including at least 3 fully-funded scholarship recipients per workshop
- The payments we make to the 200+ performers, readers, educators, lecturers, editors, curators, and writers we work with each year—as well as the audio and video techs that make our programs possible
The Marathon is crucial to sustaining The Poetry Project’s mission to serve and advocate for the vast community of poets, writers, artists, thinkers, and students who gather and make work here, and strengthens this cultural anti-enterprise that we have been collectively building for a half a century plus.
As we head into another year of compounded grief, unprecedented challenges, and palpable uncertainty, we look forward to the possibility of being with you all on January 1. What is there to hold onto? Each other, this day, our joy, our rage. Our impossible project. How do we hold onto it? By coming together. By organizing. With impossible belief.
See you in the New Year,
The Poetry Project
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The Poetry Project's 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon will begin at 1pm on New Year's Day and run until midnight on January 2nd. The event will be divided into two sections, which will be ticketed separately: 1–6pm and 7pm–midnight, with an hour break in between. During the hour break, the sanctuary will be cleared so that we can reset the space.
Tickets to each section are $30 in advance or $35 at the door. If you would like to attend the entire event, please purchase a ticket to both sections!
We're thrilled this year to offer a limited number of Late Night tickets, which will grant you admission to the marathon from 9pm on. Late Night tickets are available in advance for $20.
The entire event will also be livestreamed. Access to the livestream is pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10–30.
Part One (1–5pm) tickets are available here.
Part Two (6pm–midnight) and Late Night tickets are available here.
Performers by section and by hour to come later this week! Until then, here's this year's Marathon performers:
Dina Abdulhadi, Aria Aber, Angela Abiodun, Kimberly Alidio, Stine An, Jonathan Aprea, Mirene Arsanios, Lauren Bakst, Jess Barbagallo, James Barickman, Arewà Basit, Morgan Bassichis, Jim Behrle, Edmund Berrigan, Anselm Berrigan, Malcolm-x Betts, mayfield brooks, Beth & Lee Ann Brown, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Buffy, Sol Cabrini, Kyle Carrero Lopez & Untitled Queen, IV Castellanos, Anna Cataldo, Charlene Incarnate, Taja Cheek, Yoshiko Chuma & Dane Terry, John Coletti, CAConrad, Lou Cornum, Brenda Coultas, Alex Cuff, Kyle Dacuyan, Marcos de la Fuente, Mónica de la Torre, Patrick DeDauw, Garrett Devoe, Marcella Durand, Tess Dworman, Aaron Edgcomb, Mel Elberg, Will Farris, Jennifer Firestone, Brandon Flynn, Foamola, Kay Gabriel, Heather Glynis, Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough, Gary Gustavo Gomez, Jonathan Gonzalez, E. Tracy Grinnell, Anahit Gulian, Isabella Hammad, Nile Harris, Nazareth Hassan, Laura Henriksen, Sky Hopinka, Juliana Huxtable, Sunny Iyer, Christopher Rey Pérez, Char Jeré & Ava Rose, Emily Johnson, Niall Jones, Nyle Kaliski, Vincent Katz, erica kaufman, John Keene, Zora Jade Khiry, Sahar Khraibani, David Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Krusling, Yaz Lancaster, Car Lara, T Lax, Kris Lee, Annabel Lee, Rachel Levitsky, Ley (Lysis), Er Linsker, Brandon Lopez, Pedro Lopez, Wendy Lotterman, Filip Marinovich, Alisha Mascarenhas, Greg Masters, Tracey McTague, Noa Mendoza, Roberto Montes, Dave Morse, Anna Moschovakis, Tenaya Nasser-Frederick, Anahid Nersessian, Christian Nyampeta, OHYUNG, Funto Omojola, Precious Okoyomon, Laura Ortman & Katherine Liberovskya, Jeannine Otis, DAYS (Ethan Philbrick + Ned Riseley), Matt Proctor, m.s. RedCherries, Ted Rees, Evelyn Reilly, Bob Rosenthal, Anthony Roth Costanzo with Bryan Wagorn, Judah Rubin, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Tamara Santibañez, Ryan Sawyer, Jimin Seo, Salma Shamel, Eleni Sikelianos, Pamela Sneed, Patricia Spears Jones, Sara Jane Stoner, Stacy Szymaszek, Jordan Tannahill, Alex Tatarsky, Selendis Sebastian Alexander Thompson, Edwin Torres, Nora Treatbaby, Mariana Valencia, Morgan Võ, Anne Waldman, Nicole Wallace, Anangookwe Wolf, Sacha Yanow, Oscar yi Hou, Don Yorty, Cerine Z, Deepali Zeer, Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusuf Ibrahim