2025 Dutchess County Poet Laureate

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Ruth Danon

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  • Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in 2023. Her prose and poetry have appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, most recently in On the Seawall, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem,Sunday Salon Zine, The Nu Review, and TheCAPS 25th Anniversary Anthology.  Her work is forthcoming in Pratik, The Beltway Quarterly,  and the Poetry is Bread Anthology, She has performed her poetry across the United States and abroad and has appeared in many podcasts and zoom readings For 23 years she taught in the Creative and Expository Writing Programs she designed and directed for NYU’s School of Professional Studies.  Founder of Live Writing: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, she teaches for Live Writing and New York Writers Workshop. A Bard College graduate, she now lives in Beacon, NY, where she curates literary events and works to create a community of poets. She was one of the founding curators of the BeaconLitfest@the Howland. More about her and her poetry and career can be found at https://www.ruthdanon.com/

Upcoming Events

  • Beyond Conflict and War

    Sunday, October 12th
    at 3:00 pm

    at Beacon Historical Society
    61 Leonard Street, Beacon, NY

    A unique literary event featuring local and regional authors, local veterans, and a former member of the Obama administration presenting classics and original writing about conflict, war, and an often-elusive peace and its impact on us all, civilian and soldier alike: the societal and personal viewed through the lens of literature written for us all. A reception afterwards will offer opportunities for questions and informal exchanges between different worlds, through which we may glimpse the surprising….and maybe the familiar too.

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  • A Gathering of Beacon Laureates

    Thursday, October 16th
    at 7:00 pm

    at Howland Public Library
    313 Main Street, Beacon, NY

    A reading featuring current Beacon Poet Laureate (Ruth Danon,) Deputy Poet Laureate (Mark Ungar) and Poet Laureate Emeritus(Peter Ullian) in one event!

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  • Poets, Criminals and Spies

    Tuesday, October 28th
    at 6:00 pm

    at Staatsburg Library
    70 Old Post Rd, Staatsburg, NY

    Join us for an intriguing evening of poetry as Dutchess County Poet Laureate Ruth Danon shares her work and that of other poets on the theme Poets, Criminals, and Spies.

    Participants are welcome to bring a poem by a published poet on the theme to share as well.

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