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Save the date and join us at Rutgers-Newark on March 27, 2025 for our third annual Poetry & Culture Festival!
Registration for teachers is now open! General registration opens March 1, 2025.
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Congratulations to the SOMOS 2024 Poetry Recitation and Composition Winners!
More than two dozen students from six area high schools participated in our SOMOS 2024 Poetry Recitation and Composition Competitions. Congratulations to all those who participated, and special congratulations to … Read More
Article on 2024 SOMOS Festival
SOMOS Poetry & Culture Festival Draws 300 Teachers and Students to RU-N By Lawrence Lerner March 27, 2024 Rutgers University–Newark continually makes its mark as an anchor institution in one … Read More
Article on Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series (February 17 at Rutgers–Newark)
Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series Celebrates Afro-Latin Identities By Carrie Stetler February 2, 2024 Since 1981, the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series has found new ways of exploring Black history and … Read More
The SOMOS NJ Poetry & Culture Festival is made possible by funds and support from Rutgers University–Newark, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Library of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Emerson Collective.
