Poets To Focus On Themes Of Love & Loss At Princeton Festival

PRINCETON, NJ — April is National Poetry Month, and the Princeton Festival will celebrate with a poetry reading featuring nine poets from around the world.

The poetry reading will be held virtually. Poets will focus on the themes of ‘love and Loss,' reading poems in their original languages with English subtitles. This will be accompanied by imagery from their native countries.

Gregory Geehern, the Festival’s Acting Artistic Director said they were “proud” to present “highly regarded poets” from around the globe.

“Amanda Gorman’s reading at the recent Presidential Inauguration showed how positive a force poetry can be in our culture and our lives,” Geehern said.

“We feel this event makes a fitting prelude to our June season of performing arts.”

Beginning April 7, each poet will read one piece, approximately two minutes long.

The readings will premiere via the Festival’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/princetonfest/), on Instagram (@princetonfest) and YouTube.

Here are the dates and participating poets:

April 7: Lucilla Trapazzo (Italy/Switzerland)

April 9: Đặng Thân (Vietnam)

April 12: Sabrina De Canio (Italy)

April 16: Peihang “Marshall” Li (China)

April 19: Mariela Cordero (Venezuela)

April 21: Mari Kashiwagi (Japan)

April 23: Vladimir Baboshin (Russia)

April 27: Iskra Peneva (Serbia)

April 29: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (USA)

Readings can be accessed through the Festival website, and will remain available until June 30. Links to the readings will also be available through the Princeton Public Library website, www.princetonlibrary.org.