Скачать или смотреть Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award Presented to Urban Word at the 2021 MacDowell National Benefit

The 2021 MacDowell National Benefit honored Urban Word with the 2nd annual Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award, which was accepted on their behalf by Mahogany L. Browne, Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC and Poet-in-Residence at Lincoln Center. The event also featured a performance by Urban Word's 2021 NYC Youth Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Shvarts, on the stunning stage of National Sawdust in Brooklyn.

Hosted by writer and MacDowell Fellow Cathy Park Hong, the Benefit included performances and interviews with MacDowell Fellows Cheryl Savageau, Sharon Greytak, John Murillo, Raphael Xavier, Anne Beal, Christoper Zuar, Patricia Smith, Shaina Taub, Peter Zuspan, and Nell Painter, MacDowell's board chair, who presented the Marian MacDowell Award to Mahogany L. Browne.