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A living public resource · updated 2026-09-23
Literary life, mapped for actual use.
A selective guide to readings, talks, workshops, festivals, and genuinely free film screenings across the NYC–Newark literary corridor. Every entry explains not only what is happening, but who it serves and why it matters.
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Follow comics, visual narrative, translation, performance, and other events where literature crosses media.
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Dodge Poetry Festival
Editor’s pickNJPAC and downtown Newark venues · Downtown Newark · in-person
Three days of readings, performances, craft sessions, translation, poetic ancestry, speculative futures, and literary-career conversations.
Community use: A regional anchor for poets at every career stage; useful as both an artistic immersion and a map of contemporary poetry communities.
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