Initiated in 1972 and known as New York City's "Woodstock of the Spoken Word," the Spring Poetry Festival brings to the stage New York City public school students, college students, CCNY faculty and alumni, and guest artists of every poetic stripe, all reading their own work.
The Festival is held each year in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, 135th St. and Convent Avenue in Manhattan, from 9-5. The public is invited to attend. Early in the afternoon, the winners of the all-city-public-high school poetry contest read their winning poems.
Read the latest number of our annual anthology of poetry by students, mentors, faculty and guests of the CCNY Poetry Festival: Poetry in Performance 51
The 53rd Annual Spring Poetry Festival takes place on May 2, 2025 in the Marian Anderson Theater of Aaron Davis Hall from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
GUIDELINES FOR THE 2025 CCNY NYC HIGH SCHOOL POETRY CONTEST1st Prize: $400
2nd Prize: $300
3rd Prize: $200
Prize for Best Poem in a Foreign Language: $100
15 Honorable Mentions
Include with entry:
Name and address
Name of school
Phone number of student and school
Name of teacher or advisor
Very Important: Contact Email
Email entries to ccnypoetryoutreachcenter@gmail.com
LIMIT: 2 TYPED POEMS PER PERSON
DEADLINE: MARCH 7, 2025
CONTACT:Alyssa Yankwitt
ccnypoetryoutreachcenter@gmail.com
FEATURED GUEST POETS 1972-2024
L.S. Asekoff/ Amiri Baraka/ Elana Bell/ Ted Berrigan/ Reginald Dwayne Betts/ Gwendolyn Brooks/ Claude Brown/ Billy Collins/ Nicole Cooley/ Jane Cortez/ Robert Creeley/ Cornelius Eady/ James Emanuel/ Elaine Equi/ Allen Ginsberg/ Aracelis Girmay/ David Groff/ Marilyn Hacker/ Kimiko Hahn/ Donald Hall/ Nathalie Handel/ Michael Harper/ Mikhail Horowitz/ Richard Howard/ David Ignatow/ Colette Inez/ Major Jackson/ June Jordan/ Galway Kinnell/ Yusef Komunyakaa/ Stanley Kunitz/ Pamela L. Laskin/ William Matthews/ Eve Merriam/ Stanley Moss/ Marilyn Nelson/ Joel Oppenheimer/ Alicia Ostriker/ William Packard/ Grace Paley/ Raymond Patterson/ Molly Peacock/ Marie Ponsot/ Adrienne Rich/ M.L. Rosenthal/ Muriel Rukeyser/ Sonia Sanchez/ Grace Shulman/ Charles Simic/ Paul Simon/ Louis Simpson/ Tom Sleigh/ Patricia Smith/ Tracy K. Smith/ Richard Tillinghast/ Barry Wallenstein/ Estha Weiner/ Jacqueline Woodson
Last Updated: 11/14/2024 14:41