The Church: The Power of Poetry / Verse 4: Poetry Exploring Liberation, Dec 7th, 2 PM

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THE POWER OF POETRY

Verse 4: Poetry Exploring Liberation

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 2025
2 PM

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TICKETS:

General Ticket: $10

Member Ticket: Free, RSVP Required

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When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air / usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all…”
Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass

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The Power of Poetry returns for its fourth verse! We invite our poetry-loving friends to the next iteration of our recurring community-driven poetry ‘read-in’ series. Verse 4: Unbound & Boundless celebrates voices that explore the many dimensions of liberation. Selected poets will include Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Hayden, Audre Lorde, Aja Monet, Mary Oliver, Ocean Vuong, and others.

In this ongoing series, poems are curated in advance then assigned to readers upon arrival. Poems remain a mystery to the readers until they step up to the mic. The poems are not pre-selected, rehearsed, or memorized. Instead, they are felt, experienced, and actively engaged with in the moment. We are ever grateful to the positive feedback from our community who have organically help to co-create the Power of Poetry format and experience.

Be it social, spiritual, or political, the journey of liberation is both individual and collective. Reflecting on this, we encourage you to join us as we read, listen, and contemplate poetry in real-time.

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If you are interested in reading, please purchase/reserve a ticket first. After check out, there will be a link to the “Request to Read” form on your confirmation screen. If you have any questions, please email kristen@thechurchsagharbor.org

Each Verse of this recurring community-driven series presents a curated selection of poetry that is woven together around a common thematic thread. For those who have missed our previous ”verses,” check them out here: Verse 1 – Saints of Sag Harbror, Verse 2 – An Ode to Some Odes, and Verse 3 – I’m with the Banned.

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The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.

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The Church

48 Madison Street

Sag Harbor, NY 11963

www.thechurchsagharbor.org

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