FIRST ANNUAL ST. GEORGE POETRY FESTIVAL
September 21st
Noon to Midnight
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The First Annual St. George Poetry Festival, an all-day celebration of poetry on Saturday, September 21, 2002, will bring together several generations of world-class, eclectic poets from all across the country to read in a festival atmosphere from Noon until Midnight.

Readings will be interspersed with screenings of experimental films inspired by poetry, and with rare sound recordings of poets. Presses and literary magazines will feature works by the participants, and food and alcohol will be available.

The St. George Theatre is one of the city's forgotten treasures -- a beautiful, 2800 seat theatre built in 1928 as a vaudeville house and closed for the past 25 years. The First Annual St. George Poetry Festival is a benefit for the theatre, which will reopen as a not-for-profit.

Visit the St. George Theatre website...
     
3 MINUTE WALK FROM STATEN ISLAND FERRY TERMINAL
     
READERS:
Joshua Beckman
Alan Gilbert
Robert Kelly
Hoa Nguyen
Matthew Rohrer
Dale Smith
James Tate
Dara Wier
Matthew Zapruder

Anselm Berrigan
Peter Gizzi
Caroline Knox
Lisa Lubasch
Frank Lima
G.E. Patterson
Peter Richards
Mark Schafer
Rick Snyder
Lewis Warsh
Elizabeth Willis

 Garrett Caples
John Godfrey
Noelle Kocot
D.A. Powell
Elena Rivera
David Shapiro
Laura Solomon
Monica de la Torre
John Yau
     
READINGS ON THE FERRY in the early afternoon
12:00
Laura Solomon / Katy Lederer
  
12:30 John Lowther / Randy Prunty  
1:00 Travis Nichols / Noah Gordon  
1:30 Arielle Greenberg / TBA  
MUSIC:
Joe Pernice New Radiant Storm King The Figments
     
POETRY PUBLISHERS:
6x6 Magazine
Cello Entry
Granary Books
Left Hand Books
Slope
Lit
Radical Society		 Aufgabe
Conduit
Jubilat
Open City
Verse Press
Soft Skull Press
Zephyr Books		 Both
Fence
La Petite Zine
Skanky Possum
Baffling Combustions
Four Way Books
811 Books
     
SHORT FILMS IN COLLABORATION WITH POETS
     
RARE SOUND RECORDINGS
     
POETRY READINGS FOR CHILDREN
     
WALKING TOURS of the north shore of Staten Island
     
COST: $15
contact Joshua Beckman for more information