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IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME to be there for it all: the Poetry Project’s Forty-Eighth Annual New Year’s Day Marathon reading. Beginning at 11 a.m. and ending just after midnight, the fundraiser is my favorite New York City tradition, a sentiment echoed by many of the more than hundred and sixty poets who performed remotely over the course of the day on January 1, 2022. The Poetry Project an institution by and for poets predicated on the virtue of nonhierarchical community-building has been around since 1966, offering readings, lectures, workshops, and intergenerational mentorship to emerging writers.

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