- City Lore created the People’s Poetry Project to systematically present the
diverse oral poetry traditions of New York City, the U.S. and beyond
POETRY COMMUNITIES Witness the one and only POEMobile, projecting poems on to walls and buildings in tandem with live readings in NYC’s poetry communities. Learn about the Poetry Dialogues, intergenerational workshops facilitating community discussion. Check out our Poetry Dinners, word feasts highlighting the verbal and culinary traditions of NYC’s ethnic communities. |
Learn about City Lore’s Endangered Poetry Initiative highlighting poetry from the world’s threatened, contested, and endangered languages in public performances, films and advocacy. Support our Declaration of Poetic Rights and Values. Watch The Stones of Civilization, our program about Endangered Languages at the United Nations. |
Watch video highlights from Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World, a 2011 series of programs curated by City Lore and Poets House. Read Essays on the Occasion of Illuminated Verses, in which six poets and scholars write about what inspired them about poetry from the Muslim world. Find out about Poetic Voices of the Muslim World, a traveling exhibit and web site by City Lore and Poets House, launching in 2013.
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