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Adelphi Celebrates Poetry Day with Long Island High School Students

Garden City, NY (04/16/2021) — More than 140 Long Island high school students will explore their creativity during Adelphi University's annual Poetry Day celebration on Friday, April 30. The event, hosted online this year, will be filled with workshops, a poetry slam and contest, a keynote speaker and an award ceremony.

Students will participate in workshops led by Adelphi faculty Caitlin Scena, Michelle Bermudez and Robin Gow. Poet and author Cynthia Dewi Oka will serve as this year's keynote speaker as well as a workshop leader.

Keynote speaker Dewi Oka is the author of "Salvage: Poems and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water: Poems." Her work has appeared in espnW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Academy of American Poets' American Poets magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, wildness, Scoundrel Time, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and others. She is a contributor to the anthologies "Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism," "Who Will Speak for America?" and "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump." Her work has also been selected for the "Best of Kweli: An Aster(ix) Anthology."

High schools participating in this year's Poetry Day include East Islip High School, Freeport High School, Longwood High School, MAST High School, Shoreham-Wading River High School, South Side High School, Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School, Valley Stream Central High School and Waldorf School.

The event, part of Adelphi's Annual High School Special Events Series, will conclude with a poetry contest and awards ceremony celebrating the winners.

To learn more about Poetry Day, visit, adelphi.edu/events/poetry-day.

About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning

Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training, with particular strength in our Core Four-Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves almost 8,000 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 116,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.

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More than 140 Long Island high school students will explore their creativity during Adelphi University’s annual Poetry Day celebration on Friday, April 30.

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