An alternative to traditional workshops, this class aims to contextualize students’ poems within the broad field of contemporary poetry. Participants will be asked to bring copies of poems in process, a page of prose (or poetics theory) that relates to the work, and several questions they would like Brenda Hillman to address. These questions will be used as the basis for discussions about craft and aesthetics.

Alastair Reid discusses the impact of Argentina's outstanding man of letters, Jorge Luis Borges, on the writers of the last century.

This annual program on translation honors Katharine Washburn, acclaimed translator and co-editor of the World Poetry anthology.

Poet and songwriter d.b. leonard plays the guitar to some of our favorite children’s poems.

Having brought poetry to the zoo, Dave Johnson brings the zoo to Poets House, reading poems about horses, snakes & wolves.