Irish Arts Center's “literary revelry” (New Yorker) returns with Vona Groarke joining Nick Laird as co-curator. In an intimately reconfigured setup for our flexible theatre and tucked away from the cacophony of the city and our online lives, PoetryFest bridges contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic with a free weekend of readings and conversations with leading Irish, Northern Irish, and North American writers. Featuring readings from Declan Ryan, John Kelly, Leontia Flynn, Ishion Hutchinson, Nuar Alsadir, Shane McCrae, Fran Lock, Henri Cole, and Maggie Millner.