POEM OF THE DAY
Celebrating
6th Annual PoetryFest Nov 7-9 at IAC


The Charming Nancy

 by

Miriam Gamble

 

She is out there somewhere,

creaking in the swell

of the green lough water,

oozing sugar

and black-market nicotine

into the river's vein.

 

She stirs herself into

my morning coffee;

she is in the smell of money

and clean cotton sheets.

At night she sweats

into my bones

a sugar-island melody,

her blanched dead rat-

a-tatting on my dreams.


Miriam Gamble is Winner of the Eric Gregory Award and a 2011 Somerset Maugham Award, author of two collections of poetry and a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 

Don't miss Gamble's reading at PoetryFest on Saturday, November 7th at 2 pm. Reserve your free spot here or by calling 866-811-4111.

6th Annual Irish Arts Center
PoetryFest

 

Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House - NYU 

and Poetry Ireland

 

A three-day festival of contemporary poetry from both sides of the Atlantic

 

Curated by Belinda McKeon and Aengus Woods


November 7 - 9 

Most events FREE | Ticketed events from $10

  

Our sixth annual PoetryFest celebrates Ireland and America's great literary connection by showcasing an unparalleled array of much-published and award-winning poets. The only New York festival of its kind, PoetryFest immerses participants in an intimate and creative atmosphere filled with readings, storytelling, book signings, conversations, and more. 

 

FEATURED POETS INCLUDE: 

 

TARA BERGIN

Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner 

 

PETER FALLON

Translator, editor and founder of the Gallery Press 

 

ADAM FITZGERALD

Author of the debut collection The Late Parade 

  

MIRIAM GAMBLE

Winner of the Eric Gregory Award and a 2011 Somerset Maugham Award

 
VONA GROARKE
Author of six collections of poetry, most recently

X, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation 

 

MATTHEA HARVEY

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist 


RITA ANN HIGGINS

Peadar O'Donnell Award-winner 

 

DAVE LORDAN

Winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Rupert and Eithne Strong Award, and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award 

 

ROBERT PINSKY

Pulitzer Prize-nominee 

 

GERALD STERN

Former Poet Laureate of New Jersey 

 

KEVIN YOUNG

Winner of the 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize 

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

 

Favorite Poems                

8 pm  | $35, including after party with poets

The welcome return of this intimate and special evening where IAC's friends and special guests read a selection of well-known and personally-chosen best-loved poems. Special guests include with Special Guests Lisa Dwan (Irish actress, reading Beckett, "an instrument of Beckett, in that way saints and martyrs are said to be instruments of God" says The New York Times' Ben Brantley), Joseph O'Neill (Irish novelist and non-fiction writer), Rosie Schaap ("Drink" columnist for The New York Times Magazine), and Maeve Higgins (Irish comedian from Cobh, County Cork). 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

 

Miriam Gamble and Adam Fitzgerald

2 pm | FREE

 

Vona Groarke and Kevin Young

4 pm | FREE

 

Rita Ann Higgins and Robert Pinsky

6 pm | FREE

Opening the reading is Tara Bergin, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Collection 2014

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

 

Dave Lordan and Matthea Harvey  

1:30 pm | $10 member / $12 non-member

Free for Young Patrons ($125) members and higher

 

Peter Fallon in conversation with Belinda McKeon

3 pm | FREE

 

Peter Fallon and Gerald Stern

5 pm   | $10 member / $12 non-member

Free for Young Patrons ($125) members and higher

 

PRE-POETRYFEST EVENT

WITH OUR PARTNERS AT GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE - NYU

The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry: Tara Bergin

Thursday, November 6 | 7 pm

FREE | Reserve your tickets at irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu or 212-998-3950 (option 3)

 

For tickets and more information, visit our website.

 

at Irish Arts Center

553 West 51st Street

New York, NY 10019


Also on Now

IAC | Theatre
 
Lippy
October 15-November 2

CLOSES THIS WEEK!!

A mysterious hunger strike in Leixlip, Co. Kildare is the starting point for a theatrical investigation which is both social and metaphysical. 

Lippy is the winner of Best Production (The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013), The Herald Angel Award (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014), The Scotsman Fringe First Award (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014), Total Theatre for Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014), and Best Production & Best Design (Dublin Fringe Awards 2013).

 

GET TICKETS

What's Next? 

IAC | Literature & Humanities
 
Debut Voices 
with Eimear McBride
Thursday, October 30 | 7:30 pm

Moderated by Rivka Galchen (author of Atmospheric Disturbances)
 
A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing tells the story of a young woman's complex relationship with her family and her struggle to stay intact in the face of trauma. Capturing the space between thought and language, McBride creates an extraordinary intimacy with the reader, offering a plunge into the thoughts, feelings, and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist.

Eimear recently won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Desmond Elliot Prize, and has also won Goldsmiths Prize and Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize.
IAC Recommends
Center For Fiction presents
Notes on Fiction: 
Orfeo by Richard Powers

Friday November 21 | 7:30 pm

 

$18 General Admission 
Buy tickets online or call 212-755-6710

How often do you get a MacArthur Fellow to read you a story...accompanied by music? On November 21, audiences will have the opportunity to hear MacArthur Fellow & author Richard Powers read from his novel Orfeo, which was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize. The Nouveau Classical Project, a hybrid music ensemble and creative production hub that is putting "a new face on classical music" (NPR Deceptive Cadence) and the newly formed Kamea String Quartet will perform a program of music based on Orfeo that Richard Powers describes as "an interesting mix of old and new, familiar and challenging."

For more information, visit centerforfiction.org

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