The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, returns with a full day of readings, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, Valzhyna Mort, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, Padraig Regan, Philip Schultz, and Luci Tapahonso. Day-long festival runs 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM. Free and open to public; no tickets required.
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A Different Day: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 2
We ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated.
President Biden s inauguration concluded with The Hill We Climb, National Youth Poet Laureate Amada Gorman s beautiful poem written for the ceremony, which includes the lines above, written after the storming of the Capitol. As recently as yesterday, I could barely allow myself the sort of hope and resolve these lines communicate; I was awash, like so many others, in a miasma of anger, confusion, anxiety and fear.