Long Island High Schoolers Celebrate Poetry at Adelphi on April 12
Garden City, NY (04/05/2024) — Adelphi University has invited over 150 local high school students for their annual Poetry Day event on Friday, April 12. The event will take place at Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center on their Garden City campus from 8 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Students will enjoy workshops taught by Adelphi's acclaimed faculty, and an awards ceremony to unveil the poetry winners. They will also have the opportunity to participate in an open-mic poetry slam.
Participating high schools include:
1. Sacred Heart Academy
2. Long Beach High School
3. East Rockaway High School
4. Kellenberg Memorial High School
5. University Academy Charter High School
6. Shoreham-Wading River High School
7. The Waldorf School of Garden City
8. Valley Stream Central HighSchool
9. Academy for Careers in Television and Film
10.Our Savior Lutheran School
11.The Whole Child Academy
12. Smithtown High School East
13. Garden City High School
The keynote speaker for this year's Poetry Day will be Katie Farris, an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor. Farris will speak to students and engage in a Q&A session during the event.
About Katie Farris
Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), which was listed as a Publisher's Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), and the chapbooks A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award, Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), and Mother Superior in Hell (Dancing Girl, 2019). Most recently she is a winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese, and Russian, most recently, The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear, Translations of Lydmila and Boris Khersonsky. She graduated with an MFA from Brown University and is currently a visiting associate professor of Poetry at Princeton University.
Learn more about Adelphi's Poetry Day.
Members of the media are welcome to attend and cover this event.
About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university in the United States with a personalized approach to higher learning
Adelphi University, New York, US, is a highly awarded, internationally ranked and powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives. It is recognized for 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 at the undergraduate and graduate level with particular strength in its 'Core Four' academic areas: the 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 more than 7,250 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 Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.
More than 119,000 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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Adelphi University has invited over 150 local high school students for their annual Poetry Day event on Friday, April 12.