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We continue to follow government guidelines regarding Covid-19 safety at the Festival. We encourage masks for indoor events. Please be aware that select indoor programs might require masks and we ask for your cooperation in these cases.
12:00 pm EST
September 30, 2023

Workshop Room 400, NYU Tandon, 5 MetroTech Center

Children / Creative Activity

Poetry and Banner-Making with Josh and Matt!

Some letters can’t be delivered in the usual way… What extraordinary journey will you imagine the letter taking? Join poet Matthew Burgess and artist Josh Cochran for a collaborative poetry & banner-making workshop, inspired by their picture book Sylvester’s Letter.

Participating authors

Josh Cochran

Josh Cochran

Matthew Burgess

Matthew Burgess

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Asian American Writers Worksop
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Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Public Library
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
The Center for Fiction
National Book Foundation
The New York Review Of Books
NYU
Poetry Society Of America
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
St. Francis College
Whiting Foundation