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Address & Phone
51 N. Swinton Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33444
Phone: 561.243.7922
Fax: 561.243.7018

Box Office, ext. 1
Facility Rentals, ext. 323 and 319
Exhibits, ext. 305 and 306
Membership, ext. 321
Classes, ext. 317
Volunteering, ext. 319
Giving Opportunities, ext. 504

Box Office Hours

Monday-Friday, 10AM – 5PM
Saturday, 10AM – 3PM (in Season ONLY)

Map and Directions

From I-95 North or South take Atlantic Avenue exit 52. Go east one mile to Swinton Avenue. Old School Square is on the NE corner of Atlantic and Swinton Avenues.

To access the Old School Square Parking Garage, turn left (north) on Swinton Avenue and go one block to NE 1st Street. Turn right and go one block to NE 1st Avenue. Turn right. Daily parking in the garage is free; however, there is a $5 fee Monday through Saturday from 4 pm until closing and during select special events.

Parking is also located west of Old School Square off N.E. 1 Avenue and at City Hall (one block west of Swinton) on the corner of N.W. 1 Avenue and N.W. 1 Street.

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january

31oct(oct 31)11:00 am10may(may 10)6:00 pmArt Couture: The Intersection of Art and Fashion(october 31) 11:00 am - (may 10) 6:00 pm

03jan(jan 3)6:00 pm02feb(feb 2)5:00 pmThe Magic Hour | Spotlight Gallery6:00 pm - (february 2) 5:00 pm est

22jan2:00 pm3:30 pmCraft Talks with Nickole Brown & Reginald Gibbons2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Time

(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

Event Details

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Nickole Brown – Writing in the Age of Loneliness: Eco-Poetry & The Writer’s Task
Reginald Gibbons – Inner Craft

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT NICKOLE BROWN received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. She’s the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book, Fanny Says (BOA Editions), won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she periodically volunteers at four different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies will be published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in September 2019.

ABOUT REGINALD GIBBONS Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Gibbons is the author of Last Lake (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and Creatures of a Day: Poems (LSU Press, 2008). He is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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22jan8:00 pm10:00 pmThe Thomas Lux Memorial Poetry Reading with Joy Harjo8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Time

(Wednesday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

Event Details

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Evening reading with special guest Poet Joy Harjo, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, located in the Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT JOY HARJO Joy Harjo’s eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning CDs of music including the award-winning album Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009. Harjo’s most recent book of poetry, An American Sunrise, was published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. in August 2019. Harjo is the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and the first Native American to assume the role. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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23jan2:00 pm3:30 pmCraft Talks with Major Jackson & Jessica Jacobs2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Time

(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

Event Details

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Major Jackson – Imagining What We Cannot See: Poems of Great Description
Jessica Jacobs – Blah, Blah, Love: How to Write Love Poems That Don’t Suck

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT MAJOR JACKSON Major Jackson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020) and Roll Deep (Norton: 2015), winner of the 2016 Vermont Book Award and hailed in the New York Times Book Review as “a remixed Odyssey.” He is the editor of Best American Poetry 2019, The Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems and Renga for Obama: An Occasional Poem. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, he has been awarded a Cave Canem Book Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He serves as the poetry editor of The Harvard Review.

ABOUT JESSICA JACOBS Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books, 2019), Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications including Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Orion, and Guernica. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, editor, and professor, and is now the Associate Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown in Asheville, North Carolina.

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23jan8:00 pm10:00 pmMid Week Reading with Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin & Reginald Gibbons8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Time

(Thursday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

Event Details

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Readings by Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin, and Reginald Gibbons, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, located in the Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT ILYANA KAMINSKY (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). His second collection in English, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), earned him a 2005 Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Dorset Prize, and was named the 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry. In 2008, he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, New Republic, Harvard Review, and Poetry. His latest book is Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019).

ABOUT DANA LEVIN Dana Levin’s most recent book of poetry is the remarkable Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press also published her books, Wedding Day, in 2005 and Sky Burial in 2011. Levin’s poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry 2015, The Arcadia Project: North American Post-Modern Pastoral, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The AmericanPoetry Review, and Poetry. Her work has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.

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