With 1,500 attendees, 150 poets and 35 reading series, the 1st Annual New York Poetry Festival was awesome!!!
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- Listening to a reading at one of three stages. (Photo: copyright Lawrence Schwartzwald)
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- Tree Swenson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Patricia Spears Jones (Photo: copyright Lawrence Schwartzwald)
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- These kids were awesome!
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- Sell those books!
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- Merchandise, including hand-painted parasols.
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- Bob Holman of The Bowery Poetry Club rockin’ his NYPF T-shirt (Photo: copyright Lawrence Schwartzwald)
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- Ben Fama, Ben Pease and Chris Martin (Photo: copyright Lawrence Schwartzwald)
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- Thanks for the free salsa, Brooklyn Salsa!
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- Thanks for the beer, Brooklyn Brewery!
