Poetry Downtown 2021

For its 5th edition, the Poetry Downtown Festival shines a spotlight on American Indian poetry—celebrating the rich traditions, vibrant voices, and visionary perspectives Indigenous poets bring to our stages!

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Theme:
In 2021 the theme of Poetry Downtown was:

Get ready to die

This theme is inspired by Kenneth Patchen grafic poem at the September 1961 edition of Liberation. With Get ready to die we honored the 110 th birthday of Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972)

Anthology

You can buy the anthology here

Festival
At PD2021 we selected 8 poets to recite their poems in Los Angeles. At our youtube channel you can find some video’s

Anthology
You can buy the PD2021 anthology ‘Get ready to die’ here.