{"id":10965,"date":"2021-01-23T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/?page_id=10965"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:39:00","slug":"peoples-poetry-gathering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/grassroots-poetry\/peoples-poetry-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Poetry Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10965\" class=\"elementor elementor-10965\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4399189e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4399189e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28eda4d0\" data-id=\"28eda4d0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a4bb05 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"8a4bb05\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=3GcMxqn9Kos&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c895aa0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c895aa0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00a0The People&#8217;s Poetry Gathering<\/em>, a documentary film by Nick Doob and Steve Zeitlin chronicling the 1999 Gathering.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded by City Lore and Poets House in 1999 and later produced in cooperation with Bowery Arts + Science, the People\u2019s Poetry Gathering was a biennial event that brought together diverse audiences not only to witness stunning performances, but to galvanize public attention around issues of preserving cultural forms and languages.\u00a0 During these festivals in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2006, Lower Manhattan was transformed into a poetry village for three days.\u00a0 The People\u2019s Poetry Gathering was one of the highest profile poetry events in the United States and had an average audience of 10,000.\u00a0 Previous Gatherings featured:<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/grassroots-poetry\/grassroots-poetry\/peoples-poetry-gathering\/1999-2\/\"><strong>1999<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0In New York City, artists,\u00a0folklorists, musicians, and lovers of poetry gathered en masse for the first biennial People\u2019s Poetry Gathering.\u00a0 The festival brought together folk, ethnic, and literary poets from New York City and across the U.S., including cowboy and hobo poets and U.S. poet laureates.<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/\/grassroots-poetry\/peoples-poetry-gathering\/2001-2\/\"><strong>2001<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0The Gathering continued to combine readings with musical performances, including poetry rock concerts by singer songwriters such as Patti Smith, panel discussions, and offbeat happenings, such as a day-long reading of Homer\u2019s\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0on a ship at South Street Seaport. Our festival focus was the oral tradition.<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/\/grassroots-poetry\/peoples-poetry-gathering\/2003-2\/\"><strong>2003<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0The Gathering highlighted ballads and epics.\u00a0 Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, wrote an insightful essay on the ballad for\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/11\/books\/the-ballad-of-the-ballad-poetry-s-bearer-of-bad-news.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on the festival\u2019s opening day; and we hosted a special conference and concert honoring Alan Lomax for his contribution to folk music and poetry.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Beowulf<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sundiata<\/em>\u00a0were among the works featured.<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/\/grassroots-poetry\/peoples-poetry-gathering\/2006-2\/\"><strong>2006<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Through collaborations, performances, dialogues, and panel discussions, the Gathering was inspired to develop a more focused initiative on contested and endangered languages.\u00a0 The 2006 festival was dedicated to the poetry of these languages.\u00a0 The program included a keynote by poet Robert Bly, a program at the United Nations, and a \u201cFestival within a Festival<em>,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Harpsong: Celtic Poetry and Music.<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>All of the Festivals featured traditions such as a\u00a0 midnight reading of Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s poetry in the New York City Marble Cemetery;\u00a0 open mics in English and Spanish; workshops on publishing, writing, and memorizing poems; as well Poetry and Prayer at the Bowery Mission on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by City Lore and Poets House in 1999 and later produced in cooperation with Bowery Arts + Science, the People\u2019s Poetry Gathering was a biennial event that brought together diverse audiences not only to witness stunning performances, but to galvanize public attention around issues of preserving cultural forms and languages.  During these festivals in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2006, Lower Manhattan was transformed into a poetry village for three days.  The People\u2019s Poetry Gathering was one of the highest profile poetry events in the United States and had an average audience of 10,000.  Previous Gatherings featured:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11652,"parent":640,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"page_builder":[],"layout":[],"teaching_artist_category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10965\/revisions\/13876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_builder?post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"layout","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layout?post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"teaching_artist_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teaching_artist_category?post=10965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}