The Poetry Project Staff would like to extend a very hearty THANK YOU to all those who donated their time, effort, energy, food, beverages, and books to help us raise nearly $23,000 (which nudges past our previous record total by $1,000) at the 42nd Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading. In addition the 145 performers and 1100 audience members, we’d like to thank:
Food Donors: Brooklyn Brewery, Butter Lane, Caracas, David Bowler Wines, Luke’s Lobsters, Gillian McCain, Otto’s Tacos, Porto Rico Importing Co., Bob Rosenthal and Don Yorty, S’MAC, Sobaya, Two Boots Pizza, and Veselka. An additional huge thanks to Phil Hartman of Two Boots Pizza for expertly coordinating the food donations!
Book Donors: Argos Books, Augury, Belladonna*, Black Ocean, BookThug, Brooklyn Arts, Burning Deck, Chax, City Lights, Coffee House Press, Commune Editions, Cultural Society, Cuneiform, Edge, Fewer & Further Press, Futurepoem, Letter Machine, Litmus, Nightboat, Noemi, Operating System, Post-Apollo Press, Pressed Wafer, Rescue, Roof, Solid Objects, Susan Mills Artist Books, Tender Buttons, Ugly Duckling Presse, United Artists, Wave, Wonder, YesYes Books, and day-of drop-offs too
Volunteers: Jon Allen, Miriam Atkin, John Barclay-Morton, Julia Barclay-Morton, Jennifer Bartlett, Rijard Bergeron, Marie-Helene Bertino, Katharine Betteridge, Stephen Boyer, Reynaldo Carrasco, Rob Christiansen, John Coletti, Lydia Cortes, Sophie Dahlin, Fran DeMusz, Lori DeGolyer, Elizabeth Devlin, Ted Dodson, Marcella Durand and Ismael, Tasha Dwyer, Will Edmiston, Mel Elberg, Carlos Estrada, Megan Ewing, Dia Felix, Carolyn Ferrucci, Jess Fiorini, Cheryl Fish, Micaela Foley, Dorothy Friedman August, Joanna Fuhrman, Andrew Gayle, Hadley Gitto, Ariel Goldberg, Nada Gordon, Stephanie Gray, Ezra Green, John S. Hall, Phil Hartman, Marissa Havers, Linda Hayes, Dan Heffernan, Megan Heise, Charlotte Henriksen, Michael Honigberg & Brownie, Jeremy Hovenaar, Kim Howie, Erica Hunt, Peter Bogart Johnson, KB Jones, Adeena Karasick & Safia Southey Karasick, erica kaufman, kelly kelly, Christine Kelly, Linda Kleinbub, Zac Kline, Davy Knittle, Carolyn Kohli, Anna Kreienberg, John Kropka, Gabe Kruis, Lana Povitz, Sue Landers, Lindsey Leonard, Karen Lepri, Phoebe Lifton, Siddhartha Lokanandi, Brendan Lorber, Diane Ludin, Kim Lyons, Filip Marinovich, Jillian McManemin, Tracey McTague, Kathleen Miller, Carley & Malka Moore, Jake Moreno, Jonathan Morrill, Dave Morse, Geoff Mottram, Michelle Munizaga, Jack Murray, Marc Nasdor, Elinor Nauen, KB Nemcosky, Laura Nicoll, Carol Nissen, Adam O’Reilly, Lisa Ozag, Nikki Padula, Estefania Palacio, Maryam Parhizkar, Alex Penagos, Jeff Perkins, Trace Peterson, Wanda Phipps, Nina Puro, Evelyn Reilly, Diana Rickard, Sam Robison, Bob Rosenthal, Alan Roth, Douglas Rothschild, Hailey Rozenberg, Judah Rubin, Mariana Ruiz, Elizabeth Sanzari, Sarah Sarai, David Satkowski, Pali Sharwani, Erkinaz Shuminov, Nathaniel Siegel, Marlan Sigelman, Mike Smith, Robert Spees, Meredith Starkman, Sara Jane Stoner, Melissa Tolve, Sophie Tulip, Viktorsha Uliyanova, Édgar Ulloa, Catherine Vail, Natalia Vargas-Caba, Ken Walker, Shanxing Wang, Phyllis Wat, David Wilk, Laura Wilk, Matt Winn, John Wurzler, Emily XYZ, and Don Yorty
Audio: Julia Alsop, Jim Behrle, and John Priest
Lights: Carol Mullins
Video: Robert O’Haire
Photography: Ted Roeder
Marathon Banner: Zach Wollard
Marathon Guest Hosts: Elinor Nauen, Christopher Stackhouse, Todd Colby, Morgan Parker, John S Hall, and Ariel Goldberg
