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

This is Yarrow

by 

Tara Bergin

 

In this country house I had a dream of the city 

as if the thick yarrow heads had told me, 

as if the chokered dove had told me, 

or the yellow elder seeds had made me ask - 

and in the dream I went up to the dirty bus station 

and I saw the black side of the power station 

and as if the brown moth's tapping at the window 

made me say it I said, do you still love me? 

And when I woke and went to the window, 

your tender voice told me: this is yarrow, 

this is elder, this is the collared dove.
 

Tara Bergin is this year's Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner for her debut collection This is Yarrow. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Best British Poetry 2012 and Modern Poetry in Translation.

Don't miss Bergin opening the reading with Rita Ann Higgins and Robert Pinsky at PoetryFest on Saturday, November 8th at 6 pm. Reserve your free spot here or by calling 866-811-4111. She will also be giving a lecture on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm at Glucksman Ireland House - NYU. More details can be found here.

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

 

PoetryFest is generously supported by a grant from The Irish Institute, Inc.
 


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



What's Next? 

IAC | Literature & Music
 
Muldoon's Picnic with Special Guest Rick Moody, Meghan O'Rourke, and Fay La Foe

Monday, November 10 | 7:30 pm

An omnium-gatherum of words and music hosted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon with music by the Wayside Shrines. November 10th's evening features special guests Rick Moody, Meghan O'Rourke, and Fay La Foe.
IAC Recommends
The Pearl Theatre Company and Gingold Theatrical Group 
present
Shaw's MAJOR BARBARA

November 4 - December 14

Photo of Company Member Bradford Cover by Gregory Costanzo

by BERNARD SHAW 

directed by DAVID STALLER 

Tickets just $40 for Irish Arts Center readers when using code IAC to purchase tickets. (Offer valid through Nov. 16, online only)

$50 Previews | $65 Performances 
Buy tickets online or call (212) 563-9261

When the charming weapons-manufacturer Andrew Undershaft goes toe-to-toe with his passionate daughter Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army, over his "ill-gotten" fortune, it leads to the wager of the century. She is determined to save his soul-he is determined to open her eyes to a wider world. Their confrontation will knock their entire family's moral compass up, down, and sideways, never to be the same again. 

One of Shaw's most beloved plays, MAJOR BARBARA offers a complex, comic, and challenging look at wealth and poverty, war and peace, and a wickedly funny appraisal of what it truly means to be "moral" in our modern world.

at The Pearl Theatre
555 West 42nd Street
New York, NY

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