The Poetry Project’s 50th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon with Dancers Douglas Dunn, Jules Bakshi and Paul Singh

By Douglas Dunn + Dancers

Jan 1  |  Culture

January 1, 2024

Part Two, 6 -7 PM

Tickets $30 available for purchase HERE

Every year on January 1st—for fifty rowdy, enduring, and improbable years—The Poetry Project and its friends, lovers, and co-conspirators have gathered for the New Year’s Day Marathon. What began as a reading of thirty-odd poets has grown into a twelve-hour-long spectacle of 150 performances. The New Year’s Day Marathon is The Poetry Project’s signature event and our calling card, an untameable celebration of the horizon of language, the act of devotion, and the edge of experiment that is avant-garde poetry and performance. A nycthemeral testament to centering the margin, to the weird as social practice, the New Year’s Day Marathon is real lived and living proof that poetry is the revelator, the subterranean taste- and troublemaker of the literary arts and downtown cultural scene, and a true accomplice to social change.

More info can be found HERE