NEWBURYPORT — What do a mayor, a city councilor, an 8-year-old, an immigrant, a School Committee member, a teenager and an investment manager all have in common? Each of them has been moved by the power of poetry.
All of them will be readings their favorite poems and tellings their stories during the 23rd annual Greater Newburyport Favorite Poem Project on Sunday, June 8, at 3 p.m. at the Newburyport Senior/Community Center.
Curated by the Newburyport High School creative writing class, this event will feature a variety of people from the community, each presenting a poem that has affected his/her/their lives.
Readers include local officials, students, retirees, native Clippers, and relatively recent arrivals and three generations of one family. All poems will be presented in English, but some will be told in their original Japanese, German and Korean.
The brainchild of Robert Pinsky, the Favorite Poem Project was launched in 1997 and continues to serve as a profound way of establishing connection among people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.