Tickets can be purchased by calling 212-529-1955. Mastercard and Visa are accepted. Check our web site for updated information, http://www.peoplespoetry.org. The Graduate Center at CUNY is located at 365 5th Ave (at 34th St.); the Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery at Bleeker.
a poetry festival unlike any other, rooted in New York City's hybrid sounds, rhythms, and histories - bursts into life for the fourth time to invite New Yorkers to consider and celebrate the inestimable value of all languages and the artists who sculpt, sing, rant, dance and breathe the Realm of Words. This year the People's Poetry Gathering takes as its theme New York as the World, highlighting "Poetry from the World's Endangered and Contested Languages," with poets from every continent and a special feature, “Harpsong: Celtic Poetry and Music” featuring poets, musicians, and scholars from the Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and Breton languages. The world's languages are complemented by programming in the city's languages – English and Spanish as well as Russian, Yiddish
