• General Ticket: $10

• Members: Free RSVP Required

“Hold fast to dreams / for if dreams die / life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly.” - Langston Hughes

Join us for the worldwide celebration of National Poetry Day with a local focus and help us usher in a new block of poetry-specific programming.  The Power of Poetry invites us to come together and celebrate poetry, the beauty of words, and the ability to capture the human experience with a community-driven poetry read-in. Each read-in will present a curated selection of poems, stitched together by a common thematic thread. For our first iteration, “Verse 1,” we will read from a curated collection of poems inspired by the Saints of Sag Harbor, a semi-permanent window installation depicting creative visionaries from Sag Harbor’s past. The reading will include poems by Nelson Algren, Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, and E.L. Doctorow.

If you are interested in being a reader, please purchase/reserve a ticket first and then fill out a “request to read form” located on your confirmation screen.  Our team will follow up with the next steps.

If you have any questions, please email info@thechurchsagharbor.org.

National Poetry Day, celebrated annually on the first Thursday of October, offers poets, poetry enthusiasts, and lovers of words a chance to celebrate the art form that moves us through the power of rhythm and language and that is rich in the diversity of voices it presents. Whether you come to read or to listen, we look forward to seeing you on this very special day.