Poetry: A Celebration of Sonnets with Dora Malech and Phillis Levin

Staged in Bryant Park, *A Celebration of Sonnets* sets the sonnet’s tight architecture against the open air of Midtown. The program features poets Dora Malech and Phillis Levin, reading work that tests how a 14-line form can still hold argument, desire, and doubt. In New York, where public parks have long doubled as informal stages for literature, the event extends that civic tradition without turning it into spectacle. The earned observation is simple: the form’s constraints make the listening feel sharper.