15th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Join actor Bill Murray, Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina
Chang, and award-winning poets Anne Carson, Galway
Kinnell and Thomas Lux for this annual
pilgrimage across one of New York City's great architectural gems. This
beloved Poets House event features readings of the poetry of Walt
Whitman, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes and other greats beneath
Roebling's famous arches. The journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn closes
with a celebratory dinner and readings in honor of our 2010 Elizabeth
Kray Award winner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (The Elizabeth Kray Award, or
"The Betty," is given for service to the field of poetry.)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our
ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has authored such
ground-breathing works as A Coney Island of the Mind, Americus,
and Poetry As Insurgent Art; founded the legendary City Lights
Bookstore; and launched the City Lights publishing house, which first
published Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems, among other
seminal works.

Tickets begin at $250 ($225 for
Poets House Members). Reservations are required. For details or
questions, contact Krista Manrique at (212) 431-7920, ext. 2830 or krista@poetshouse.org.