Palm Beach Poetry Festival Invites Public to 3 Events During National Poetry Month (April)

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - March 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Palm Beach Poetry Festival Invites Local Poets & Poetry Fans to Three Public Events in Boca Raton & Delray Beach During National Poetry Month in April

(Delray Beach, FL – March 26, 2015)  Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and Dr. Blaise Allen, Director of Community Outreach, today invited local poets and poetry fans to three public events in April (National Poetry Month):

April 4 - 12:30 pm  (Saturday)

New York School Poetry

With John Casquarelli

Delray Beach Center for the Arts

$10 fee at the door

In the 1960s, a group of poets took part in a form of writing known as the New York School. Their work was deeply influenced by both modernism and surrealism. The voice of the poems often utilized a kind of urban colloquialism and touched on topics such as consumerism, specific moments in time, sex, and art/theater/music/film. The New York School poetry workshop will include a discussion, listening to audio of New York School poets, reading, writing a New York School poem, and sharing work.

Visiting poet John Casquarelli is the author of two full-length collections and is an English Instructor at CUNY Kingsborough. He also serves as poetry editor for Otter Magazine and was awarded the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry. His publishing credits include work in several journals and anthologies. Later this year, the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) will include one of his poems in the new anthology, Teaching as a Human Experience.

April 9 - 7 pm  (Thursday)

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival's Annual Film Series Celebrating National Poetry Month

Dead Poets Society

Lynn University

Amarnick-Goldstein Theatre

FREE

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, Lynn University is presenting the Oscar-winning movie Dead Poets Society (1989, 128 minutes), in which English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) inspires his students to discover their love of poetry and seize the day. The film co-stars Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Norman Lloyd and Kurtwood Smith, and will be introduced by Paul Henry Barber.

April 30 - 7 pm  (Thursday)

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival's Annual Film Series Celebrating National Poetry Month

Before Night Falls

Lynn University

Amarnick-Goldstein Theatre

FREE

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, Lynn University is presenting Before Night Falls (2001, 133 minutes) co-starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp. Lynn University professor Dr. Jeff Morgan will introduce this episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his early years with Castro’s rebels to his death in NYC.

About the Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2016:

The 12th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held next January at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Festival will feature top poets at numerous ticketed public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions and more. The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, Morgan Stanley, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council ofPalm County, the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post; Visit Florida; WLRN; and Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach’s independent bookseller. For more information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

Available for Interview:

Blaise Allen, Ph.D., Director of Community Outreach

Palm Beach Poetry Festival

drblaiseallen@aol.com

Media Contact:

Gary Schweikhart

PR-BS, Inc.

561.756.4298

gary@pr-bs.net