First-ever Poetry & Poltics conference

Attention all you literary fans! We've got a big event coming up in Manchester on April 25 & 26th! The NH Writers Project is holding the Poetry & Politics conference, the first-ever gathering of the state poet laureates from across the country, representing twenty states. Poets attending include Marilyn Nelson, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and William Kloefkorn. The conference will feature a groundbreaking discussion on the role of poetry in our communities and its ability to affect social, political, and cultural change.

Designed as a full weekend of interconnected activities, Poetry & Politics includes a statewide poetry reading tour, a one-day conference, and a gala dinner with keynote speaker Dana Gioia, critic, and newly-appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Sadly, if you want to attend the Saturday conference or the dinner that night, those are already full. But, you can still attend the open statewide poetry readings happening on Friday, April 26th - chances are good that there will be one happening in your town that day!