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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact: Lisa Lappe, lappel@hillstead.org, 860-677-4787 x111 June 10, 2015: FARMINGTON, CT
- Wednesday, July 22
- Wednesday Schedule
- to receive premier reserved seating. Food
- Wednesday, June 24 - Ted Kooser The festival opens with United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006) and Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Ted Kooser
- Sunday, July 12 – Marie Howe
- Wednesday, July 22 – Vijay Seshadri The featured poet will be Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri
- Sunday, August 9 – Li-Young Lee Tina Chang – OUTSPOKEN: A Celebration of Asian Poetry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact: Lisa Lappe, lappel@hillstead.org, 860-677-4787 x111 June 10, 2015: FARMINGTON, CT- Festival tickets are available at www.hillstead.org. 2015 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is American Sign Language Interpreted Wednesday, June 24 Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize and Former United States Poet Laureate & Hadara Bar-Nadav, Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Winner Sunday, July 12 Marie Howe, Former New York State Poet Laureate 
& Ciaran Berry Wednesday, July 22 Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize & Ravi Shankar
Li-Young Lee, Award Winning Poet & Tina Chang, Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
Natalie Diaz, Award Winning Poet Aja Monet & Fresh Voices Competition Winners The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is a unique outdoor arts event located on the grounds of this National Historic Landmark in the heart of Farmington. Beginning on June 24, this American Sign Language interpreted festival presents the first of five performances, scheduled for three Wednesday evenings and two Sunday afternoons throughout the summer. Adding to the humanities-rich content of the festival, Hill-Stead offers poetry writing workshops for all performances (hillstead.org for workshop information). The community cherishes this series of readings and music concerts in the informal outdoor setting of the Hill-Stead estate. Visitors can come early to tour the museum’s world-class Impressionist art collection, walk the trails or attend the pre-performance prelude conversations with the headlining poets. Wednesday Schedule: Gates open at 4:30 pm; prelude conversation with headlining poet at 5 pm; opening poet at 6:00 pm; music begins at 6:30 pm; headlining poet begins at 7:15 pm Sunday Schedule: Gates open at 1:30 pm; prelude conversation with headlining poet at 2 pm; opening poet at 3:00 pm; music begins at 3:30 pm; headlining poet begins at 4:15 pm (August 9th also features a community reading of Asian and Asian-American poetry at noon) Admission: $12 advanced on-line purchase, $15 at the gate, ages 18 and under free. Parking is free. Seating: Bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating in and around the garden, or join Hill-Stead’s Live Poets Society to receive premier reserved seating. Food: Al fresco dining is allowed on the grounds. Festival attendees are welcome to bring their own picnic suppers or purchase food/beverages on site from gourmet food vendors. Poets, pg. 2 of 4 Wednesday, June 24 - Ted Kooser The festival opens with United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006) and Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Ted Kooser. Ted Kooser is the author of 14 full-length collections of poetry; including Splitting An Order (2014), Weather Central, and Delights and Shadows, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. His prose books include The Wheeling Year (2014) and Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, which won the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003. His writing has appeared in many periodicals including The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Antioch Review. He has received two NEA fellowships in poetry, and written three children’s books from Candlewick Press, The Bell in the Bridge (2015), Bag in the Wind, illustrated by Barry Root, and The House Held Up by Trees. 
Sunday, July 12 – Marie Howe Marie Howe is the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the author of three volumes of poetry; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, The Good Thief, and What the Living Do. She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, AGNI, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. 
Wednesday, July 22 – Vijay Seshadri The featured poet will be Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri. He is the author of three collections of poetry; 3 Sections, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Long Meadow, which won the James Laughlin Award, and Wild Kingdom. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, The American Scholar, Antaeus, Bomb, Boulevard, Lumina, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Verse, Western Humanities Review, Yale Review, The Times Book Review, the Philadelphia Enquirer, Bomb, San Diego Reader, and TriQuarterly, and in many anthologies, including Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, Contours of the Heart, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, and Best American Poetry. 
Sunday, August 9 – Li-Young Lee & Tina Chang – OUTSPOKEN: A Celebration of Asian Poetry Hill-Stead presents a full weekend of Asian art, culture, and poetry performances. Directory: uploaded uploaded -> Summer Assignment uploaded -> Post Magazine & Insurance Times 26 May 2011 Editions uploaded -> Alabama Historical Association Annual Meeting Presentations 1980–present 33rd Annual Meeting — 1980 uploaded -> Corbicula an annotated bibliography 1774 2005 uploaded -> Current as of June 5, 2013 Note: This list contains only associate members. To see a full directory of cs4 members uploaded -> Mr. Donald S. Moss Du Quoin Community Unit District 300 Educational Foundation 2011 Excellence in Achievement Award uploaded -> Harold j. Brody, md uploaded -> Kerry B. Dumbaugh uploaded -> Professional experience Download 194.78 Kb. Share with your friends:
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