Covid Guidelines for Physical Events

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.
11:00 am EST
September 21, 2026

Main Stage on Borough Hall Plaza

Columbus Park Brooklyn NY 11201 United States

Poetry

Free

The Poem Remembers

Poets Kwame Dawes (Sturge Town), Kimiko Hahn (The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems), and Patricia Smith (The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems) will read poems that explore narrative, personal history, and beauty. Introduced by poet Tina Chang (Hybrida).

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Cultural and Programming Partners

Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Public Library
The Center for Black Literature at MEC
The Center for Fiction
MTA Arts & Design
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