The 47th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon
A historic presentation of a beloved, iconic, and enduring annual event, The Poetry Project’s 2021 New Year’s Day Marathon will be a 24-hour continuous, online broadcast featuring readings and performances from a global cast of more than 200 poets, writers, artists, musicians, dancers, and theatre-makers – devotees of the avant-garde and demimonde, proud visionaries and iconoclasts working at the edge across language, time, and place.
Raucous, tender, expansive, and always more than a little unpredictable, The New Year’s Day Marathon celebrates the persistent magic of poets and their co-conspirators. This year’s gathering combines poetry readings with hypnosis, DJ sets and music videos, ritual offerings, celebrations of place and history, cooking segments, short films, archival media, and more. And we kick things off in an 11pm to midnight countdown with a broadcast of live performances and a special feature from the clocktower of St. Mark’s.
Join us as we cast the doors open of our digital congregation to the reprobates and rebels, the dreamers, and wild prophets whose poems and art call us to the essential work of change in the year ahead. It’s a windswept, proudly DIY affair affirming this central recognition – that even across great distance and uncertainty, poetry continues to excite, dazzle, devastate, nourish, connect, and inspire us.
The 47th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon will begin at 11PM EST on December 31st at poetryproject.org/marathon and will be simultaneously multi-streamed to The Poetry Project’s Facebook Live and YouTube live accounts. An hour by hour schedule of the broadcast is forthcoming.
The New Year’s Day Marathon has historically been The Poetry Project’s most important fundraiser of the year. While this year’s presentation is free to access, if you feel compelled to support our vision of more collective, care-based, and equitable cultural community, you can make a contribution here.
FEATURING
Ada Limón / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves / Aisha Sasha John / Alexandra Tatarsky / The Queer Arabs / Amanda Paradise / Andrea Abi-Karam / Andrea Lawlor / Andrei Codrescu / Andrew Durbin / Angel Olsen / Anna Gurton-Wachter / Anna Kreienberg / Annabel Lee / Anne Boyer / Anne Carson / Anne Waldman / Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens / Anselm Berrigan / Arden Wohl / Ariana Reines / Ariel Goldberg / Ashley M. Jones / Asiya Wadud / Barbara Browning / Bayley Blaisdell / benjamin krusling / Bennet Bergman / Bhanu Kapil / Bianca Stone / Bob Holman / Brenda Coultas / Brenda Hillman / Brendan Joyce / Brendan Lorber / Bridget Talone / Brontez Purnell / Bryn Evans / CA Conrad / Caelan Nardone / Candace Hansen / Candace Williams / Carina del Valle Schorske / Carmelita Tropicana / Rataprincess / Carolina Ebeid / Caroline Bergvall / Carrie Lorig / Cat Mahatta / Cecilia Gentili / Cecilia Vicuña / Cedar Sigo / Charles Bernstein / Chris Nealon / Cori Hutchinson / Dana Ward / Daniel Borzutsky / danilo machado / Dave Morse /Demian DinéYazhi’ / Dennis Cooper / Diamanda Galás / Diana Khoi Nguyen / Divya Victor / Don Yorty / Eddie Berrigan / Edgar Oliver / edua restrepo / Edwin Torres / Eileen Myles / Eleni Sikelianos / Eline Marx / Elizabeth Hart / Eloisa Amezcua / Emily Johnson / erica kaufman / Ethan Philbrick / Farnoosh Fathi / Filip Marinovich / Fred Moten / Gabe Kruis / Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué / Gabrielle Octavia Rucker / Genji Amino / George Abraham/ Gia Gonzales / Greg Masters / Hala Alyan / Hamed Sinno / Hannah Black / Helga Davis / Ian Dreiblatt / Imani Elizabeth Jackson / Irreversible Entanglements / Ivanna Baranova / James Barickman / Jan-Henry Gray / Jasmine Gibson / Jay Deshpande / Jaye Bartell / Jayson P. Smith / Jibade Khalil Huffman / Jim Behrle / Joan La Barbara / Joey de Jesus / John Coletti / John Godfrey / John Rufo / John Yau / Jos Charles / José Olivarez / Joseph Keckler / Joshua Escobar / Joyelle McSweeney / Judah Rubin / Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss / Julie Tolentino / Karen Finley / Katie Brunero / Katie Ebbitt / Kay Gabriel / Kazim Ali / Kimberly Alidio / Kristin Prevallet / Krystal Languell / Kyle Dacuyan / Laura Henriksen / Laura Ortman / Ligia Lewis / Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola & Diego Gerard / Lydia Davis / Macy Rodman / Mahogany L. Browne / Manal Kara / Marcella Durand / Mariana Valencia / Marwa Helal / Maryam Ivette Parhizkar / Matt D’Angelo / Matt Longabucco / Maud Pryor / Maxe Crandall / Maya Songbird / Mel Elberg / Melinda Marcellus / Michael Lally / Michael Stasis / Michelle Peñaloza / Michelle Tea / Miguel Gutierrez / Mirene Arsanios / Momtaza Mehri / Mónica de la Torre / Monica Sok / Monica Youn / Morgan Bassichis / Nabila Lovelace / Natalie Shapero / Nicole Peyrafitte / Nicole Wallace / No Bra / Norma Cole / Omar Berrada / Omotara James / Óscar Moisés Díaz / P. Splash Collective / Pamela Sneed / Parker Menzimer / Patricia Spears Jones/ Patsy / Patty Gone / Paul Legault / Penny Arcade / Philip Metres / Pvssyheaven / Rachel Rabbit White / Raquel Salas Rivera / Rataprincess / Ricardo Alberto Maldonado / Robert Glück / Roberto Montes / Rosa Alcalá / Rosamond S. King / Rosmarie Waldrop / Safaa Fathy / sam sax / Sarah Hennies / Sarah Riggs / Sawako Nakayasu / Serena Devi / Sharon Mesmer / Shayla Lawz / Silky Shoemaker / Simone White / Sky Hopinka / Sophie Robinson / Sparrow / Foamola / Special Interest / Stacy Szymaszek / Stephanie Gray / Stephen Motika / Steve Benson / Susan Howe / Taylor Johnson / Telepathic Children / Tess Brown-Lavoie / The Blow / Thurston Moore / Todd Colby / Tongo Eisen-Martin / Trevor Ketner / Trisha Low / Wayne Koestenbaum / Wendy Eisenberg / Wendy Xu / Whispering Pines 10 / Will Alexander / Will Farris / Wo Chan / xime izquierdo ugaz / Yanyi / Yaz Lancaster / Yoshiko Chuma / Yvonne Rainer & MORE
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