6th Annual Sharon Springs Poetry Festival

Date: October 14, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sharon Springs Central School Auditorium, 514 US-20, Sharon Springs, NY 13459
Organizer: Klinkhart Hall Arts Center
Email address: INFO@KLINKHART.ORG
Klinkhart Hall

Klinkhart Hall Arts Center is pleased to announce the 6th annual Sharon Springs Poetry Festival, live and in-person and with another brilliant line-up of poets!

Jennifer Grotz, Joyce Carol Oates, and Terrance Hayes will join Festival founder Paul Muldoon on Friday & Saturday, October 14 & 15, 2022.

POETRY READING 

On Friday night, October 14, at 7:30 PM each of our guest poets Joyce Carol OatesJennifer Grotz, and Terrance Hayes will present a public reading in the auditorium of the Sharon Springs Central School. Afterward, you’ll be able to meet the poets in the lobby, purchase a copy of one of their books — which they will gladly sign — and meet your fellow poetry lovers. This event is free and open to the public.

SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

As always, the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival includes one very special event that is not open to the public . . .

Paul Muldoon and the three guest poets will conduct poetry workshops for students in local area schools. Sharon Springs Central School will host and coordinate the event, and this year’s student participants will be from Sharon Springs, Cobleskill-Richmondville, Cooperstown, and Canajoharie. 

Why are such well-known and accomplished poets willing to do this? Because, like us, they know it is important. Like us, they believe that the arts are essential and that they contribute in direct and tangible ways to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. What better way to show our commitment to these lofty ideals than to support the work and enthusiasm of our students & teachers?

More about the poets, along with complete Festival schedule & details at klinkharthall.org/poetry-festival-2022/

“Muldoon’s Picnic” — A Literature & Music Extravaganza!

Date: September 10, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sharon Springs Central School Auditorium, 514 US-20, Sharon Springs, NY 13459
Organizer: Klinkhart Hall Arts Center
Email address: INFO@KLINKHART.ORG
Klinkhart Hall

Klinkhart Hall Arts Center presents . . . “Muldoon’s Picnic”
Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM 
Sharon Springs Central School Auditorium
Sharon Springs, NY
Tickets $20 per person, online or at the door (subject to availability)

“OK, it’s not actually a picnic but a music & literature extravaganza”
Time Out New York

Named after a popular New York vaudeville act and an Irish-American knockabout farce from the 1880s, Muldoon’s Picnic is an entertainment devised, developed, and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary at the Irish Arts Center in New York City, the Picnic has also toured widely in Ireland, most recently in August 2022. It will arrive in Sharon Springs NY on Saturday, September 10, 2022, before returning to take up residence in New York.

Billed as a mixum-gatherum of poetry, prose, and music, Muldoon’s Picnic has featured appearances by hundreds of artists. In addition to the “house band” Rogue Oliphant, the Sharon Springs Picnic will feature renowned musicians Richard Thompson and Zara Phillips along with poet Patricia Smith and, of course, poet Paul Muldoon himself.

https://klinkharthall.org/picnic/