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Poetry Friday: Giving Voice to Poems
Photo Credit: Lauren Rutten Each year at the Common Gathering, the culminating event of our Spring & Fountain program, we provide attendees with the Giving Voice packet, made especially for that...
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Poetry Friday: Grateful for A Wonderful School Year
Photo: Frank Veronsky As the school year comes to an end, we want to thank the teachers and faculty who make our High School programs a success. They do a great deal of legwork to enrich their...
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Poetry in the Classroom: Welcome to the Poetry Zone!
Once a month throughout the school year, our Poetry blog will feature ideas and activities for classroom use. All these posts will focus on creating opportunities that invite students to experience a...
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Poetry in the Classroom: Welcome to the Poetry Zone, Part 2
Photo: Nancy Erickson CONCEPT: Many students—and teachers–only encounter poetry as part of a language arts lesson or “poetry unit.” This activity gives your colleagues as well as the student body an...
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Poetry in the Classroom: Listening to Poetry
From Homer to Hip Hop Concept: In The Sounds of Poetry, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky writes that the reader’s body is the medium of the poem: not the page, the human body. If you think...
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Poetry in the Classroom: Giving Voice
The Poetry Read-Around CONCEPT: Building on last month’s “Listening to Poetry” activities, “Giving Voice” opens up the experience of listening to poems aloud by inviting everyone in the room to...
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Calling All Educators: You’re Invited to Spring & Fountain Online
Photo by Jeff Kubina It’s a simple premise—people gather together to sit in a circle, read poetry aloud to each other, and talk about the poems, all with the accompaniment of a seasoned poet. For many...
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Poetry Friday: Thanks for a Great School Year!
Ysabel Gonzalez As we launch ourselves into vacations, beaches, and summer book reading, Dodge Poetry is taking some time to reflect on the classroom excitement we had this past Spring, bringing Dodge...
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Ask a Poet: Marina Carreira
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Eduardo C. Corral
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Kyle Dargan
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Jonterri Gadson
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Ellen Hagan
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Robert Hylton
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Kurtis Lamkin
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Jasmine Mans
This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with...
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Ask a Poet: Vincent Toro
Since the end of the summer, we’ve been posting short Q&As on the Dodge Blog each Friday, featuring poets who participated in our Newark High School Mini Festival earlier this week. Through...
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Poetry Friday: Spring & Fountain Refresh
Many of you may not know that Dodge Poetry is only one of five major programs at the Foundation; the others are Arts, Education, Environment and Informed Communities. Although we are the only Dodge...
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Accepting Submissions for Dodge Poets
Poet Roberto Carlos Garcia visiting students at Malcolm X Shabazz High School in 2016. Beyond the Festival You probably know that we host the largest poetry festival in North America, held every other...
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Celebrating a New Tradition: the Newark High School Poetry Festival
We are so grateful to the city of Newark and the communities that live and work there for welcoming the Dodge Poetry Festival with warmth, kindness and absolute love for poetry when we host our...
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