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Force of Light: A Multimedia Tribute to the Life & Poetry of Paul Celan with Fiona Templeton & Barbez, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - January 7

Poetry Westchester! Poets on Poetry: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - February 8

The Literary Universe: The Library in Poetry and the Imagination, with Catherine Bowman, Nancy Kuhl, Geoffrey O’Brien, Nathalie Stephens & Kevin Young, at the 2009 AWP Conference in Chicago - February 14

A Tribute to Reginald Shepherd with Timothy Donnelly, Marilyn Hacker, Timothy Liu, Kevin Prufer, Evie Shockley, Susan Stewart & Yerra Sugarman, at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, NYU - March 12

Poetry for Children: The Magical Alphabet of Spring with Lee Ann Brown, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - March 21

The 17th Annual Poets House Showcase, at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch - April 4-11

Cats on Trains, Bats on Planes: Poetic Travels with Patricia Hubbell, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - April 4

Poetry Westchester! Neglected No More: Samuel Menashe Recites His Poetry, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - April 5

Celebrating Constantine P. Cavafy with Mark Doty, Olympia Dukakis, Daniel Mendelsohn and Maria Tucci, at The Great Hall, Cooper Union - April 13

Radical Precision: The Poetry of Stephen Dunn, at Barnes & Noble Tribeca - April 17

From the Dark Spring of Language: The Poetry & Prose of Unica Zürn with Mary Ann Caws, Pierre Joris, Jill Magi, Anna Moschovakis, Caroline Rupprecht, and Frederic Tuten, at The Drawing Center - April 23

Poetry for Children: A Drop of Water, A Splash of Sound with Richard Lewis, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - May 9

A Tribute to Jack Gilbert with Jack Gilbert, Jim Finnegan, Linda Gregg, Mary Karr, Henry Lyman, Meghan O'Rourke and Gerald Stern, at NYU Cantor Film Center - May 12

The House That Jack Built: A Jack Spicer Symposium with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CA Conrad, Samuel R. Delany, Larry Fagin, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Jennifer Moxley, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser, at The Poetry Project @ St. Mark's Church - May 15

Italian Poetry Now with Maria Attanasio, Carla Billitteri, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale, Milli Graffi and Jennifer Scappettone, panel at Italian Cultural Institute and reading at The Poetry Project @ St. Mark’s Church - May 26 & 27

Poetry for Children: Backwards, Forwards: A Scroll Workshop with Sophie Blackall, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - June 6

The 14th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to Benefit Poets House, with Hettie Jones, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young - June 8

POETIC CITY: A Poets House Celebration, with Jane Hirshfield, Major Jackson, Ed Sanders, Brenda Shaughnessy and Meredith Monk, at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City - June 10

Writing the Hudson River: 400 Years of Poetic Discovery with Wayne Franklin, Judith Richardson, Nancy Willard and Mark Wunderlich, at Wave Hill - July 12

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A Tribute to Gerald Stern, with Jorie Graham, Edward Hirsch, Li-Young Lee, Anne Marie Macari, Ira Sadoff, Alan Soldofsky and Gerald Stern, at the 2008 AWP Conference in New York City - February 2

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - February 4-March 17

String Talks: A Reading and Performance by Anne Carson, at Skirball Center for Performing Arts, New York University - February 8

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - February 11-March 24

Alice Quinn: Twenty Years of Poetry at The New Yorker, with Henri Cole, Deborah Garrison, Eamon Grennan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Vijay Sheshadri, Jean Valentine & Matthew Zapruder, at The Theresa Lang Center, Arnold Hall New School University - February 21

Branching Out Fresno: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman - February 25

Poetry Westchester! Teen Writing Workshop with Erica Fabri, at Town of Pelham Library - February 25-April 14

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steve Sher, at Larchmont Public Library. February 26-April 1

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Estha Weiner, at Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library - March 1-April 12

Branching Out Hartford: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova - March 2

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Caitlin McDonnell, at Katonah Village Library - March 3-April 7

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at White Plains Public Library - March 4-April 15

Harlem Renaissance Revisited, with John Keene, Mendi + Keith Obadike & Evie Shockley, at Tribeca Performing Arts Center - March 4

Branching Out Little Rock: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings - March 6

Poetry for Children: First Fridays at the Children's Museum of the Arts - March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6

Poetry for Children: Pocket Poems with Bobbi Katz, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - March 8

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, Town of Pelham Library - March 13-April 17

PASSWORDS: Robert and Jean Hollander on The Divine Comedy, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - March 19

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Irvington Public Library - March 25-May 6

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at Scarsdale Public Library - March 26-May 7

Branching Out Salt Lake City: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson - March 26

Poetry Westchester! Poetry Reading by Edward Hirsch, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - March 30

Branching Out New Orleans: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets, at New Orleans Public Library - April 1

Branching Out Milwaukee: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay, at Milwaukee Public Library - April 3

National Poetry Month for Kids at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - April 4, April 11 and April 18

Poetry for Children: The Enchanted World of Nancy Willard, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - April 5

Poetry Westchester! The Beat Poets: a talk by Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - April 6

Branching Out Fresno: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay - April 7

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium, with Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Gizzi, E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Heller, Eric Hoffman, Romana Huk, Erica Hunt, Burt Kimmelman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Peter O’Leary, Kristin Prevallet, Anthony Rudolf, Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro, Lee Spinks, Stacy Szymaszek & John Taggart, at Tribeca Performing Arts Center - April 8

The 16th Annual Poets House Showcase, at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch - April 12-19

Correspondences: Reading and Conversation with Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe & Eugene Schlanger, at Wall Street Rising - April 16

POEMS OF TRANSPORT: A Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day Collaboration between Poets House and N.Y. Waterway, at N.Y. Waterway/World Financial Center Terminal - April 17

Branching Out Little Rock: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson - April 17

Branching Out New Orleans: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings - April 22

Writers Showcase: An Evening in Battery Park City with Dave Johnson and Poets House, at Chevy's Restaurant - April 23

Branching Out Salt Lake City: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets - April 23

Branching Out Jacksonville: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay - April 26

Branching Out Little Rock: Eavan Boland on W.B. Yeats - May 1

Branching Out Milwaukee: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda - May 1

Correspondences: Bilingual Reading and Conversation, with Coral Bracho and Forrest Gander - May 3

Branching Out Jacksonville: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets - May 6

"We're All So Damned Happy It Stinks!" Readings and Responses by John Godfrey, Lisa Jarnot, Aaron Smith and others, at NYU's Fales Library - May 8

Poetry for Children: Wondrous Light, Wondrous Air with Richard Lewis, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - May 10

PASSWORDS: Raymond P. Scheindlin on Judah Halevi, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - May 14

Branching Out Hartford: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets - May 18

Poetry Westchester! Poetry Reading by Tom Sleigh, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - May 18

Poetry for Children: Creatures of Collage with Carin Berger, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch - June 7

The 13th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to Benefit Poets House, with Martín Espada, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and Marilyn Nelson - June 9

POETIC CITY: A Poets House Celebration, with Cornelius Eady, Matthea Harvey, Fanny Howe, Li-Young Lee, Kay Ryan and others, at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City - June 18

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - September 8-October 6

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steven Sher, at Somers Public Library - September 11-25

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Estha Weiner, at Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library - September 13-27

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - September 15-October 6

Form and Function: A Symposium on the Intersection of Poetry & Architecture with A.S. Bessa, Gregg Biglieri, Louise Braverman, Carlos Brillembourg, Brenda Coultas, Rubén Gallo, Patricia Spears Jones, Mónica de la Torre, Susan Mitchell, Frances Richard, Susan Stewart, Jill Stoner, Mónica de la Torre & Marjorie Welish - September 27

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at White Plains Public Library - October 7-28

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Clara Sala, at Mount Vernon Public Library - October 8-29

PASSWORDS: Pablo Medina on Octavio Paz - October 9

Poets House in Battery Park City, Preview Festivities: Poetry for Children: Your Song Is a Map of the City with Chris Martin - October 11

Poets House in Battery Park City, Preview Festivities: Ode to the City: A Poetic Fanfare for New York City with Edward Field, Joan Larkin, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith and John Yau - October 11

Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Irvington Public Library - October 15-November 5

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Jason Schneiderman, at Pelham Public Library - October 16-30

Poetry for Children: Monstrology 101 with Johan Olander - October 25

A Helen Adam Halloween with Edmund Berrigan, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Holman, Susan Howe, Serena Jost, Dan Machlin, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet and Cecilia Vicuña - October 29

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Tina Chang, Monica Ferrell, Eric Gamalinda, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Cathy Park Hong, Khaled Mattawa, Ravi Shankar & Barbara Tran - October 30

Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steven Sher, at Rye Free Reading Room - October 30-November 13

A Tribute to Jane Cooper with Kazim Ali, Jill Bialosky, Martha Collins, Galway Kinnell, Eva Kollisch, Beatrix Gates, Marie Howe, Jan Heller Levi, Thomas Lux & Jean Valentine - November 11

Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Isabelle Garron, Pierre Joris & Sarah Riggs - November 13

Poetry for Children: Once, When the Wind Was Very Young: A Workshop with Richard Lewis - November 15

Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Nathaniel Tarn & Eliot Weinberger - November 20

Poetry Westchester! The Poetry of Federico García Lorca: A Dramatic Reading with Dominique Borel and Suzanne Khuri, and Guitar Accompaniment by Ian Banks, at Mount Pleasant Public Library - December 7

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Strong Is Your Hold: An 80th Birthday Tribute to Galway Kinnell with Robert Bly, E. L. Doctorow, Mark Doty, Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Anne Marie Macari, Sharon Olds, Grace Paley, Gerald Stern & C.K. Williams - February 1

BRANCHING OUT NYC: Robert Pinsky on Robert Frost & William Carlos Williams - February 6

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Floating Valentines—The Red Balloon - February 10

Poetry in the Presence of Sculpture with Brenda Iijima, Jill Magi, Sawako Nakayasu & Srikanth Reddy - February 11

6-Week course: Revealing and Concealing: The Self in Poetry with Rachel M. Simon - February 21-March 28

Semina Poets: Gallery Tour with David Meltzer - February 28

Poetry in the Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center - March 3-April 14

BRANCHING OUT NYC: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes - March 6

6-Week course: Animal Forms with Priscilla Becker - March 6-April 10

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman at Briarwood Branch - March 6-April 17

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Richmondton Branch - March 7-April 18

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Ginny Wiehardt at St. George Library Center - March 9-April 20

Lyric Poetry Festival with David Baker, Linda Gregerson, Stanley Plumly & Ann Townsend - March 10

PASSWORDS: Martha Ronk on Shakespeare - March 13

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Port Richmond Branch - March 19-April 30

PASSWORDS: Elizabeth Arnold on George Oppen - March 20

Master Class with Annie Finch - March 24-25

Data Loss and Memory: Poetics of the Digital Era. A Talk by Caroline Bergvall - March 27

Poets House Showcase Opening Reception - March 31

Poetry in the Branches: Open Mic featuring Jim Tolan at St. George Library Center - March 31

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Ginny Wiehardt at Woodside Branch - April 4-May 16

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Once Around the Sun and Other Travels with Bobbi Katz - April 7

6-Week course: The Quality of Being Present with Scott Hightower - April 11-May 6

Master Class with C. K. Williams - April 14

BRANCHING OUT NYC: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova - April 17

6-Week course: Collaborations with Jen Bervin - April 17-May 22

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Erica Fabri at Elmhurst Branch - April 20-June 1

José Kozer, Ammiel Alcalay and Mark Weiss - April 24

A Tribute to César Vallejo with Jayne Cortez, Mariela Dreyfus, Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander, Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Mónica de la Torre, Cecilia Vicuña & Anne Waldman - April 26

Poetry in the Branches: Open Mic featuring Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center - April 28

International Voices: World Poetry at Poets House with Homero Aridjis, Elizabeth Macklin, Kirmen Uribe, Nabeel Yasin, Breyten Breytenbach, José Luís Peixoto, Pia Tafdrup and Saadi Youssef - April 28

Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Willie Perdomo at Broadway Branch - May 1-June 12

The Poetics of Walking: Baudelaire and Beyond with Brenda Coultas, Lytle Shaw, Jonathan Skinner & Stephen Vincent - May 4

The Poetics of Walking: Weekend Poetry Walks with Brenda Coultas, Lytle Shaw, Jonathan Skinner & Stephen Vincent - May 5

Poetry in the Children's Room: Sea Whisperings from the Smallest of Shells with Richard Lewis - May 5

Master Class with Kimiko Hahn - May 5-6

Transparency and the Invisible with Alan Gilbert, Ann Lauterbach, Lesle Lewis & Mónica de la Torre - May 10

Poetry in the Children's Room: The Sun Returns, The Day Begins: A Journey of Poems with Richard Lewis - May 19

The Enigmatic Life of E. A. Lacey. A Conversation on Queer Literary History with Wayne Koestenbaum and R. M. Vaughan - May 22

Twelfth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Kimiko Hahn, Major Jackson, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and special guests Bill Murray and Oliver Platt - June 11

Poetic City: Celebration on the Waterfront with Chris Abani, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Suji Kwock Kim, Carol Muske-Dukes, U Sam Oeur, Mark Strand, Franz Wright and musical performances by Taylor McFerrin (@ Nelson Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City) - June 20

Always Beginning: Maxine Kumin in Conversation with Sharon Olds & Karen Swenson - September 27

Branching Out Milwaukee: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets - September 27, 2007

Poetry for Children: A, B, See: A Collage Workshop with Robert Warner - September 29

Branching Out Jacksonville: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman - October 2, 2007

PASSWORDS: Simon Armitage on Ted Hughes - October 4

Branching Out Little Rock: Donna Masini on June Jordan - October 4

Poetry Intensive with Simon Armitage - October 5-6

Visitations: Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain at Wave Hill with Thomas Devaney & Carol Muske-Dukes - October 7

Branching Out Hartford: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda - October 7

PASSWORDS: Dick Davis on Persian Poetry - October 9

Poetics of the Condensery: Elaine Equi & Aram Saroyan on Minimalist Poetry - October 11

Branching Out Milwaukee: Jane Hirshfield on Basho - October 11

2007 Poetry In The Branches National Institute - October 12-13

Branching Out Jacksonville: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson - October 16

The Evolution of Contemporary Chinese Poetry: A Panel with Cao Shuying, Cris Mattison, Eleni Sikelianos, Sun Yi & Zhang Er - October 16

Beyond the Ideogram: Readings from Contemporary Chinese Poetry with Martine Bellen, Cao Shuying, Charles Borkhuis, Caroline Crumpacker, Joseph Donahue, John High, Bob Holman, Charles Laughlin, Ma Lan, Rachel Levitsky, Cris Mattison, Leonard Schwartz, Sun Yi, Zhang Er & Zhang Zhen - October 17

Branching Out Salt Lake City: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay - October 17

Poetry for Children: Through a Marble Brightly: Art and Writing Workshop with Richard Lewis - October 20

Events for Teachers, Parents & Writers: The Thread at Play: A Poetry of the Simplest of Objects with Cecilia Vicuña & Richard Lewis - October 20

Branching Out Fresno: Pablo Medina on Octavio Paz - October 22

Branching Out Little Rock: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings - November 1

Branching Out Hartford: Carol Muske-Dukes on Sylvia Plath - November 4

Branching Out Fresno: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson - November 5

Branching Out New Orleans: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca - November 6

Poets House Pre-Holiday Book Sale - November 6-10

Events for Teens: Spinning Verses: Writing Workshop for Teens with Helen Frost @ New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch - November 10

PASSWORDS: Maggie Nelson on Women and the New York School @ Tribeca Performing Arts Center - November 13

A Night Out with the New York School: with Kim Gordon, Wayne Koestenbaum, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Yvonne Rainer and Carolee Schneemann @ Tribeca Performing Arts Center - November 13

The Invention of Farewell: A Poets House Celebration. A fond farewell to 72 Spring Street, hosted by Star Black, Tina Chang, Jayne Cortez, Mark Doty, Kimiko Hahn, Edward Hirsch, Bob Holman, Marie Howe, Hettie Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jan Heller Levi, Philip Levine, Donna Masini, Honor Moore, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Tom Sleigh, Tracy K. Smith, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, Cecilia Vicuña and others - November 17

Branching Out New Orleans: Ron Padgett on Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch - November 20

Branching Out Salt Lake City: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes - November 28

An Eightieth Birthday Tribute to Philip Levine with Kate Daniels, E.L. Doctorow, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Malena Mörling, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine & Charles Wright @ Cooper Union - November 29

Our Emily Dickinson: A 21st Century Response by Artists and Writers with Jen Bervin, Susan Howe, Eliot Weinberger & Brenda Wineapple @ Tribeca Perfcorming Arts Center - December 6

A Tribute to Grace Paley with Wesley Brown, Allan Gurganus, Amy Hempel, A.M. Homes, Galway Kinnell, Naomi Replansky, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Gerald Stern & Jean Valentine @ New School University - December 12

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Exhibition: "Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley & the New York School" Curated by Douglas Crase Opening Reception - February 9

Catalan Poetry Symposium: A Day Long Festival. Keynote by Harold Bloom With Sergio Bessa, Manuel Forcano, Hillary Gardner, Melcion Mateu, Mary Ann Newman, Francesc Parcerisas, Marta Pessarrodona, Jaume Subirana & Christopher Whyte - February 11

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Floating Valentines—The Red Balloon - February 11

Passwords: Vincent Katz on Sextus Propertius - February 16

Passwords: Tony Hoagland on Larry Levis - February 23

Master Class with Tony Hoagland on Image, Diction, Rhetoric - February 25-26

Unlikely Angel: Another Look at New York School Origins With Douglas Crase, Ann Lauterbach, David Lehman & Jed Perl - March 2

6-week Course: Writing from the Outside with Rachel Levitsky - March 7–April 11

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Nadine Mozon at St. George Library Center - March 7-April 4

Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Lisa Rhoades at Richmondtown Branch - March 15-April 5

A Tribute to Ronald Johnson With Joel Bettridge, Barbara Cole, Joshua Corey, Peter O'Leary, Jena Osman & Jonathan Skinner - March 16

Branching Out: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca (Fresno, CA) - March 16

Poetry in The Branches: Poetry Reading with E. Ethelbert Miller at St. George Library Center - March 19

Beauty and Morals: Some Literary Perspectives With John Hollander, Alexander Nehamas, Marie Ponsot & Elaine Scarry (At Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University) - March 22

Exhibition: Artistic Bestiary: Installations by Jane Greer and Brian Getnick Opening Reception - March 24

Master Class with Mark Doty - March 25-26

Branching Out: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (Lake Charles, LA) - March 25

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Zoo's Who With Douglas Florian - March 26

6-week course: Versions of the Erotic with Patrick Rosal - March 30-May 4

Poets House Showcase Opening Reception & 20th Anniversary Birthday Cake Bash - April 1

Branching Out: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore (Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, LA) - April 6

The Children’s Poetry Book Show Opening Celebration - April 8

Branching Out: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes (Lake Charles, LA) - April 8

National Poetry Month Reading With Michael Collier, Natasha Trethewey & David Tucker - April 11

Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center - April 15-May 13

Passwords: Gillian Conoley on Henri Michaux - April 18

Branching Out: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks (Kansas City, MO) - April 19

Poetic Bestiary: A Panel Discussion With Sandra Alcosser, Mark Doty & and Linda Hogan - April 20

Branching Out: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks (Milwaukee, WI) - April 20

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Creatures of Creativity With Mel Glenn - April 22

An Environmental Imagination: Field Institute with Sandra Alcosser - April 22-May 27

Poetry in The Branches: Poetry Reading with Pat Mangan and Frazier Russell at St. George Library Center - April 23

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Richmondtown Branch - April 26-May 24

Archipelagos of Poetry and Politics: A Reading and Conversation With Édouard Glissant and J. Michael Dash, Introduction by Jayne Cortez, Readings by Brent Edwards - April 27

Branching Out: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (Houston, TX) - April 27

Women Poets from the Middle East: Agi Mishol, Naomi Shihab Nye & Vénus Khoury-Ghata - April 29

A Conversation with Hwang Sok-Yong and Ko Un - April 29

Poetry in The Branches: Kids Baseball Poetry Workshop with Dave Johnson at Port Richmond Branch - April 29

A Tribute to Paul Zweig With Morris Dickstein, Adam Gopnik, Galway Kinnell, C.K. Williams & Genevieve Zweig - May 2

Poetry Across Languages at the People’s Poetry Gathering: Keynote Address by Robert Bly (@ the CUNY Graduate Center) - May 3

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Port Richmond Branch - May 4-June 1

Branching Out: Paul Muldoon on Robert Frost (Houston, TX) - May 4

Master Class with Ann Lauterbach - May 5-6

Poetry in The Branches: Eddie Rosa and Renacer Trovero Perform Décima at Port Richmond Branch - May 6

Branching Out: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova (Kansas City, MO) - May 6

Branching Out: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore (Milwaukee, WI) - May 7

Branching Out: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova (Fresno, CA) - May 8

Branching Out: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, LA) - May 11

Exhibition: "Sacred Burial Grounds: Alphanumeric Painting by August Highland" Opening Reception - May 12

Passwords: Patricia Spears Jones on Lorenzo Thomas - May 16

Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Sun Returns, The Day Begins: A Journey of Poems, A Musical Performance With Richard Lewis & The Touchstone Center Ensemble - May 20

Eleventh Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Galway Kinnell & Philip Levine - June 12

Poetic City: A Reading to Celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of Poets House, with Regie Cabico, Martín Espada, Marie Howe, E. Ethelbert Miller, Willie Perdomo, Tracy K. Smith, Gerald Stern & Others (@ Nelson Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City) - June 21

A Memorial for Stanley Kunitz with Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Gretchen Kunitz, Genine Lentine & Sharon Olds (@ 92nd Street Y) - September 20

Babi Yar Remembered: Yevtushenko and Shostakovich in Word and Song with Yevgeny Yevtushenko and musicians Misha & Cipa Dichter, piano; Valentin Peytchinov, bass soloist; and Patrick Gardner, conductor (@ At The Museum of Jewish Heritage - September 27

Special Seminar with Yevgeny Yevtushenko (@ the Museum of Jewish Heritage) - September 27

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Staten Island, Richmondton Branch - September 28-October 26

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Staten Island, Port Richmond Branch - September 28-October 26

Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole: A Reading and Conversation - October 3

Breaking Open: Celebrating the Life and Work of Muriel Rukeyser with Suzanne Gardinier, Jan Heller Levi, Adrienne Rich & Hugh Seidman (@ Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University) - October 5

Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at Staten Island, St. George Library Center - October 7-November 18

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Julie Patton at Staten Island, St. George Library Center - October 10-31

6-Week course: Poetry as the Art of Revision with Sharon Dolin - October 10-November 14

In Love with Love Poems: Old Clichés, New Ironies, the Same Old Chestnuts, Some in Sonnet Form. A workshop with Eva Salzman - October 14

6-Week course: Verse Lab: Experiments in the Practice of Poetry with Suzanne Wise - October 12-November 16

6-Week course: Writing Through: 16 Ways to Enter A Text with Sina Queyras - October 18-November 22

Cave Canem 10th Anniversary Celebration (@at CUNY Graduate Center) - October 12–October 14

Branching Out NYC: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center)- October 17

Poetry for Children: Rain, Rain… Don’t Go Away! with Annie Wright and Michael Romanos - October 21

Poetry in The Branches: Thomas Lux Reading at Grinton I. Will Branch, Yonkers Public Library - October 30

Ruination: Loss in desire. Une poétique. A Talk by Nathalie Stephens - November 2

Master Class with Alice Notley - November 11-12

Branching Out NYC: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca (@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center - November 14

Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets with Rosa Alcalá, Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Sawako Nakayasu, Kyong-Mi Park, Ryoko Sekiguchi & Cole Swensen - November 15–17

Crossing Currents: Panel Discussion on Contemporary Poetry in Japan - November 15

Reading by Contemporary Japanese Women Poets (@ the Bowery Poetry Club) - November 16

Blurring Boundaries: A Conversation on the Art of Translation with Rosa Alcalá, Ryoko Sekiguchi & Cole Swensen - November 17

Poetry for Children: A Pebble, a Stone, and the Gift of Stars with Richard Lewis - November 18

Frank O’Hara Festival - November 28–30

Passwords: Bill Berkson on Frank O'Hara - November 28

Frank O’Hara Reading with Bill Berkson, Anselm Berrigan, Olivier Brossard, Greg Fuchs, John Gruen, Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Kimberly Lyons, Taylor Mead, Scott Murphree, Eileen Myles, Maureen O’Hara, Ned Rorem, David Shapiro, Lytle Shaw, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman & John Yau (@ The Poetry Project) - November 29

Frank O’Hara at MoMA with John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Michelle Elligott, Alfred Leslie & others (@ Bartos Theater and MoMA Library and Archives Reading Rooms, The Museum of Modern Art) - November 30

Master Class with Arthur Sze - December 2-3

Poets House Holiday Benefit Reading with Kimiko Hahn, Patricia Spears Jones & Patrick Rosal (@ Barnes & Noble, Astor Place) - December 8

Poetry for Children: Chris Raschka Can Draw Anything - December 9

Branching Out NYC: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks (@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center) - December 12

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Exhibition: "Walking, Poems and Buildings" Opening Reception - January 7

Passwords: Ron Padgett on Pierre Reverdy - January 20

Poetry in the Children's Room: Not So True Stories & Unreasonable Rhymes, Workshop & Reading with Carin Berger - January 22

Master Class with Ron Padgett - January 29–30

Poetry in the Children's Room: Floating Valentines - February 12

Passwords: Maria Negroni on Susana Thénon - February 17

Poetry in the Children's Room: Framing It All Art Workshop with Lynn Jadamec - March 5

Lit Fest: Propaganda! Collective Action: The Black Took Collective & Belladonna. Readings & Performances by Rachel Levitsky, Zhang Er, Akilah Oliver, Ronaldo Wilson, Duriel E. Harris & Dawn Lundy Martin - March 10

Exhibition: A Poet’s Eye for Collage Opening Reception - March 11

A Tribute to Amy Bartlett: Her Life in Letters with Anne-Marie Levine, Lawrence Joseph, Galway Kinnell, Win McCormack & others - March 23

Passwords: Ann Lauterbach on John Ashbery - March 29

Naked Lunch @ the South Street Seaport: Clayton Eshleman - April 1

A Tribute to Cid Corman with Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, Kristin Prevallet & Anne Waldman - April 1

2005 Poets House Showcase Kick-off Party - April 2

Children's Poetry Book Show Opening Reading - April 2

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop in Fresno, CA - April 4

Poetry in the Children's Room: All the Colors Water Can Hold with Annie Wright - April 9

The Figures: Life Cycle of an Independent Press with Geoffrey Young, Jill Schoolman, Robert Hershon, James Sherry, Anna Moschovakis & Matvei Yankelvich - April 9

Poetry in The Branches: Donna Masini at Richmondtown Library - April 9

Poetics & Violence with Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson & Claudia Rankine, moderated by Sally Bachner - April 12

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Edward Hirsch on Frederico García Lorca in Houston, TX - April 13

Love in the Showcase with Joshua Beckman, Timothy Donnelly, Prageeta Sharma, Brenda Shaughnessy & Matthew Zapruder - April 14

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman in New Orleans, LA - April 14

Literary Animals: An Afternoon at the Zoo with Sandra Alcosser & Joseph Bruchac - April 16

Poetry in The Branches: Marie Howe at Port Richmond Library - April 16

Borderless: A Reading by Canadian Poets with Ken Babstock, Christain Bök, Sue Goyette, Erín Moure & Karen Solie - April 19

The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading with Amber Flora Thomas, Harryette Mullen, Dawn Lundy Martin & Gregory Pardlo - April 21

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Eavan Boland on William Butler Yeats in Fresno, CA - April 25

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop in Houston, TX - April 25

The Katharine Washburn Memorial Program: A Conversation with Glyn Maxwell & Derek Walcott - April 26

Poetry in The Branches: Hettie Jones at Dongan Hills Library - April 27

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Robert Pinsky on W.C. Williams & Robert Frost in Milwaukee, WI - April 28

Poets House Course with Tina Chang: "Flesh and Spirit: Writing the Body" - April 28-June 2

The War Works Hard with Dunya Mikhal & Pierre Joris - April 29

Poetry in the Children's Room: Shel Silverstein Shel-ebration with Jan Heller Levi, Annie Wright, Michael Romanos & D.B. Leonard - April 30

Master Class with Mary Kinzie - May 1

Naked Lunch @ the South Street Seaport: Mary Kinzie & Jeanne Marie Beaumont - May 2

Passwords: Mary Kinzie on Louise Bogan - May 3

Poets House Course with Tracy K. Smith: "American Duende" - May 4-June 8

Exhibition: The Wild Braid: Photographs of Stanley Kunitz in his Garden by Marnie Crawford Samuelson Opening Reception - May 6

Passwords: Jane Miller on Federico García Lorca - May 10

Poetry in The Branches: Joshua Beckman at Dongan Hills Library - May 11

Stanley's Century: Celebrating Stanley Kunitz's 100th Birthday, with Lucie Brock-Broido, Olga Broumas, Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, Gail Mazur, Michael Mazur, Marie Ponsot, Gerald Stern & Nancy Willard

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson in Milwaukee, WI - May 19

Poetry in the Children's Room: Everything Sings, Everything Dances with Richard Lewis - May 21

Poetry in The Branches: Quincy Troupe at Port Richmond Library - May 24

Poets House Course with Brian Blanchfield: "Mapmaking & Wayfinding" - May 24-June 28

Poetry in The Branches: Patricia Smith at Dongan Hills Library - May 25

Master Class with Marie Howe - June 4-5

Tenth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk, Celebrating Stanley Kunitz's 100th Birthday, with Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell & Jean Valentine - June 14

Poetry in The Branches: Willie Perdomo at Port Richmond Library - June 21

Poets House Course with Douglas A. Martin: "The Poetic Account" - June 29-August 3

Poetry in The Branches: Quincy Troupe Reading "Casey at the Bat" at Staten Island Yankees home game, Richmond County Field - June 30

Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Sandra Maria Estevez - July 8

Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Timothy Donnelly - July 22

Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Jonathan Cohen - August 5

Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Joshua Beckman - August 19

Exhibition: Purgatorio: Prints by Milton Glaser Opening Reception - September 9

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman in Milwaukee, WI - September 13

Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Lee Ann Brown - September 16

Downtown Poetry Walk: A Reading & Conversation with Fanny Howe & Ralph Lemon - September 17

The Language of Flowers with Susan Kinsolving & Marta McDowell - September 18

Dante's Purgatorio: A Seminar/Workshop for Poets with Sharon Dolin, Phillis Levin with Peter Covino - September 20 & 27

The Road to William Carlos Williams with Philip Levine - September 22

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Writing Poetry Together with Liz Rosenberg & Hal Sirowitz - September 24

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours with W. D. Snodgrass & Robert Kehew - September 28

Poetry in The Branches: Sapphire at St. George Library Center - October 2

The Irreparable: A Talk on Poetics by Robin Blaser - October 4

Robin Blaser & Etel Adnan Reading @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church - October 5

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Poetry Workshop with Nadine Mozon at Port Richmond - October 6-November 3

Poetry in The Branches: Ana Castillo at Port Richmond - October 8

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore in Kansas City, MO — October 7

Passwords: Juliana Spahr on Kamau Brathwaite - October 11

Extended Course: Making the Urban Poetic with Amy King -
October 12-November 16 (6 sessions)

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Inkless Tales with Elizabeth Bushey - October 15

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Ed Hirsch on Federico García Lorca in Milwaukee, WI - October 16

Poetry in The Branches: Teen Poetry Workshop with Dave Johnson at St. George Library Center - October 17-November 14

Poetry in The Branches: Adult Poetry Workshop with Victoria Hallerman at Richmondtown Branch - October 19-November 16

The Legacy of Homer: A Reading & Exhibition Viewing with Rachel Hadas, Ann Lauinger & J. D. McClatchy @ The Dahesh Museum of Art - October 20

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks in Houston, TX - October 20

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Fresno, CA - October 24

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Houston, TX - October 27

Poetic Migrations: Gloria Gervitz in Conversation with Mónica de la Torre - October 28

A Tribute to Robert Creeley with Ammiel Alcalay, Charles Bernstein, Kathleen Fraser, Peter Gizzi, Anselm Hollo, Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Alex Katz, Vincent Katz, Simon Pettet, Rod Smith, Anne Waldman, John Yau & others @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church - October 29

Master Class with Kathleen Fraser - October 29 & 30

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda in Fresno, CA - November 3

Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Kansas City, MO - November 6

Exhibition: Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era Opening Reception & Panel Discussion with Kimberly Bird, Gene Frumkin, Estelle Gershgoren Novak, Naomi Replansky, Tom Viertel & Mel Weisburd - November 4

Poetry in The Branches Teen Poetry Workshop with Corie Feiner at Richmondtown Branch - November 10-December 15

Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Fastest Animals on Four Wheels with Alexander Zane - November 12

Master Class with C. S. Giscombe - November 12 & 13

Poetry in The Branches Reading: Victoria Hallerman & Lisa Rhoades at Richmondtown - November 13

White Women, Dark Trains & Poem After Poem: Paul Delvaux’s Railroad Sense with C. S. Giscombe - November 15

Exile's Laureate: Paul Laraque, A Reading & Conversation with Jack Hirschman & Paul Laraque - November 20

Annual Holiday Book Sale - December 8-10

Poetry in the Children’s Room: Say Snow—And It Will Snow, Forever with Richard Lewis - December 10

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Passwords: Paul Muldoon on Marina Tsvetaeva's "Poem of the End" - January 8

Poetry in the Children's Room: Poet Robin Hirsch - January 31

Poetry in the Children's Room: Community-Word Project Mural Exhibit Kickoff Event - February 7

Passwords: Kevin Young on Bob Kaufman - February 12

Passwords: Ammiel Alcalay on Charles Olson - February 18

Poetry in the Children's Room: Elizabeth Winthrop: Dancing Granny - March 13

“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat:” A Salute to William Matthews. With Sebastian Matthews, Russell Banks, Daniel Halpern, A. Van Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Patrick Phillips, Stanley Plumly, Gerald Stern & Chase Twichell - March 18

Baptism by Fire: The Work of James Wright. Featuring Anne Wright, Victor Schermer, Michael Graves, Jonathan Blunk, Sander Zulauf & Donna Masini - March 27

Thomas Lux, Michael Ryan & Spencer Reese - March 29

Exhibition: The New Millennium Chapbook Opening Reception - April 2

Poets House Showcase & Children's Poetry Book Show Kick-off Party - April 3

Nicholas Christopher & Philip Schultz - April 8

Reception for Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields - April 12

Passwords: Ishmael Reed on Tom Dent - April 13

Reading: Paul Auster at The Mercantile Library of New York - April 14

Celia Bland, Eloise Bruce, Catherine Doty - April 14

Quincy Troupe, Kyle Dargan, Tyehimba Jess & J.T. Anderson III - April 20

The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht, with Michael Hofmann, Anselm Hollo, Geoffrey O'Brien & Sonia Sanchez - April 22

Poetry in the Children's Room: Richard Lewis: One by One Crickets Follow Me - April 24

Brenda Wineapple & Robert Polito read John Greenleaf Whittier & Kenneth Fearing - April 26

Meena Alexander & David Yezzi - April 27

Poetry in the Children's Room: A Thousand Words Art Workshop - May 1

Passwords: Peter Gizzi on Jack Spicer - May 6

Master Class with Toi Derricotte - May 22 & 23

Katharine Washburn Memorial Program with Clare Cavanagh - June 3

Master Class with Susan Wheeler - June 5 & 6

Ninth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk with Sandra Alcosser, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Marie Ponsot, and the presentation of the Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry to Robert Bly - June 14

Poetry in the Children's Room: The Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater - October 2

Exhibition: The Art of Reading Opening Reception - October 8

Passwords: Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell - October 14

Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissect Globalization: A Reading & Panel Discussion. Moderated by Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr. With Opal Palmer Adisa, Angela Jackson, Jackie Kay, Rosamond King, Jully Makini, Nancy Morejon & Pearl Eintou Springer - October 15

Poetry in the Children's Room: The Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater - October 16

Archival Work: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Poetry Center with Basil King & Myung Mi Kim, Introduced by Steve Dickison - October 19

The 2004 Poetry in The Branches National Institute with Keynote Speaker Galway Kinnell and Guest Poets Toi Derricotte and Dave Johnson - October 22-24

Laura (Riding) Jackson: A Panel Discussion with Laurel Blossom, Forrest Gander, Elizabeth Friedmann & Lisa Samuels - November 4

Poetry in the Children's Room: The Spirit of the Buffalo with Beverly Brodsky - November 6

Nicole Brossard in Conversation with Mary Ann Caws - November 9

Black Serial Poetics: A Conversation & Reading with Nathaniel Mackey & Ed Roberson - November 12

Passwords: Tom Sleigh on Thom Gunn’s Re-invention of Love Poetry - November 18

Words Without Borders: A Reading of International Children’s Literature - November 20

Queer Invention: Writers & Artists Re-Imag(in)e Identity with Ronaldo Wilson, Kathy High, Shelley Jackson, D.A. Powell &Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - December 2

The Wind In Your Hand: And Other Secrets of a Winter’s Day with Richard Lewis - December 4

Poets House Holiday Book Sale - December 8–14

Master Class with Marjorie Welish - December 11–12

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Paul Hoover workshop - March 15 & March 16

Marilyn Hacker workshop - March 22 & March 23

Poets House Showcase Opening - April 5

Poetry at the Zoo: Dave Johnson Reads Animal Poems
Presented in association with the Central Park Zoo - April 6

The People's Poetry Gathering April 11-13

The People's Poetry Gathering, co-sponsored by Poets House and City Lore, is a collaboration between literature and folklore, disciplines which share roots in oral traditions. With more than 100 events taking place throughout Manhattan, the following events took place at 72 Spring Street:

Friday, April 11
Epics And Ballads Questioning the Ancient Forms

From Song to Stanza: The Ballad in Poetry with John Balaban, Lee Ann Brown, Hal Cannon, John Foley, and Marilyn Hacker

Epic Proportions: Documenting History & Culture With Long Poems with Benjamin Bagby, John Foley, Glyn Maxwell, Anne Waldman and C.K. Williams

A Feminist Quest: Revisioning The Epic Hero withDiane Dugaw, Carolyn Forché, Nathalie Handal, Maureen Owen, Stephanie Strickland and Anne Waldman

The Poet In The World: Words In Community I with Etel Adnan, Carolyn Forché, Abdelletif Laâbi, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, and Kishwar Naheed moderated by Ammiel Alcalay

The Poet In The World: Words In Community II with Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Kamau Brathwaite, Ferida Durakovic, Marilyn Hacker, and Jerome Rothenburg moderated by Ammiel Alcalay

Saturday, April 12
Global Poetics: Expanding the Word

Epics and Ballads in Cyberspace with Charles Bernstein, John Foley, Kenny Goldsmith and Stephanie Strickland

The Politics of Translation: A Round Table Discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Nathalie Handal, Abdelletif Laâbi, Khaled Mattawa, Jerome Rothenberg, and Dennis Tedlock

Beyond Identity Poetics: The Journey of The Poem Across Boundaries of Self and State with Etel Adnan, Ferida Durakovic, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Kishwar Naheed, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Sunday, April 13

Epic Writing Workshop with Maureen Owen

Glyn Maxwell on Dante's Inferno

Donald Hall on Thomas Hardy and the Ballad Tradition

Mark Doty on Hart Crane

Joy Harjo Reads from her Poetry

PITB Reading: Typing Explosion: Extemporaneous Poetry Typed to Order With Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo and Sierra Nelson (Muhlenburg) - April 12

Reading: Carolyn Forché & John Koethe Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets - April 14

Reading: Edward Hirsch Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets - April 15

PITB Reading: Samuel Menashe Reads (Jefferson Market) - April 19

Reading: Carol Frost & Judith Hall Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets - April 22

Reading: Robin Robertson & Charles Simic Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets April 24

Children's Room Reading: Dave Johnson April 26

Reading: Rodney Jones & Tom Sleigh, Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets April 28

Reading: J.D. McClatchy on Edna St. Vincent Millay Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets April 29

Reading: Jennifer Michael Hecht & Jeffrey Levine Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets April 30

Children's Room Reading: db leonard May 3

Washburn Memorial Program: Alastair Reid on Jorge Luis Borges May 9

Children's Room: Drumming! African drums, dance and poetry by the first-graders of P.S. 156 - May 10

Mourning the Loss of Baghdad's Cultural Centers with Elias Khoury,Cecilia Vicuña and Bernard Suleyman Radfar Co-sponsored by The Translation Committee at PEN American Center - May 12

Reading: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Molly McQuade presented in association with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Springfest - May 18

The Practice of Poetry: A Conversation with Sam Hamill - May 24

Poetry in the Garden: Sam Hamill reads Japanese Haiku Master Matsuo Basho Presented in association with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Springfest - May 25

Children's Room Reading: Richard Lewis, Sing Your Song Looking Up at the Sky - May 31

Eighth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk June 16

Pre-Conference: SLAM THIS! A day-long intensive seminar for Young Adult Librarians. Co-sponsored by YALSA at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 20

Poetry Book Exhibit & Daily Readings with Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Lorna Goodison, Pamela Mordecai, Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul Vermeersch at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 21-23

Poetry in The Branches Seminar A Universal Language: Building Empathy and Community Through Poetry at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 21

PITB: First Queens International Poetry Festival at the Flushing Library Auditorium. Participating poets include: Huang Xiang, Jyotirmoy Datta, Nathalie Handal, and Zohra Saed. Organized by Movement One: Creative Coalition, and co-sponsored by Poets House, Queens Council on the Arts, Kanda7Tumba, A Gathering of the Tribes, Afrikan Poetry Theater, WenXin Literary Association and RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers) September 13

Poetry in the Children's Room: Hands On Poetry with Melanie Hope September 20

David Antin, A Talk: The Politics of Poetry September 23

Tribute to Pablo Neruda: A Reading of New Translations at the Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center. Hosted by Ilan Stavans, with Ariel Dorfman, April Bernard, Robert Bly, Rafael Campo, Martín Espada, John Felstiner, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, Margaret Sayers Peden, Gary Soto & others. Co-sponsored by Poets House; the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY; PEN American Center; The Mercantile Library; The Neruda Foundation and Farrar, Straus and Giroux September 25

New For(u)ms for Political Poetry in America: A Panel Discussion with Martín Espada, Fanny Howe, Claudia Keelan, Myung Mi Kim, Tracie Morris & Donald Revell October 9

Poetry in the Branches National Institute October 17-19

Celebrating Stanley Kunitz. Presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, in co-operation with Poets House October 19 & 20

Poetry in the Children's Room: Storyteller Julia Morris October 25

Open House for Poetry New Zealand - October 26

A Translation Workshop with Clayton Eshleman - October 26

Origins of Image Making: A 25,000-Year Crash Course with Clayton Eshleman - October 28

NYC Lit Fest 2003: Home & Exile, Politics & Poetry: A Conversation with Eliot Weinberger & Bei Dao - October 30

Poetry in the Children's Room: Bring it on Home with DB Leonard - November 1

Poetry in the Children's Room: "Now You See Me, Now You..." with Chrissie Gittens - November 8

Bringing the Deep Self Forward: A Workshop & Reading with Jane Hirshfield - November 16

An Exhibition: The Poetry Boxes of Artist Robert Warner in Honor of Joseph Cornell's 100th Birthday; Opening Reception - December 2

Poetry in the Children's Room: Winter Trails - December 13

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Beginning Poetry Writing Class with Jacqueline Johnson - March 2, 9 and 16

What's Feminism Got to Do with It? Gender Politics, Poetry and Everyday Life in the 21st Century with Brenda Hillman, Erica Hunt, Eileen Myles and Alicia Ostriker introduced by Suzanne Wise - March 15

Master Class in Poetry Writing with Robert Hass - March 16-17

Poets on Henry Darger with John Ashbery, A.M. Homes and David Shapiro Presented at the American Folk Art Museum by Poets House and the American Folk Art Museum - March 22

Paul Zweig Lecture on Craft with Robert Bly - April 3

Agha Shahid Ali Memorial Reading and Tribute at Vanderbilt Hall, NYU with Meena Alexander, Nicholas Christopher, Michael Collier, Sharon Dolin, Forrest Gander, Amitav Ghosh, Daniel Hall, Thomas Healy, Carol Houck Smith, Galway Kinnell, Geraldine Maxwell, Glyn Maxwell, Jeanne McCulloch, Christopher Merrill, Sharon Olds, Michael Palmer, Elise Paschen, Grace Schulman, Tom Sleigh, Jean Valentine, Chuck Wachtel, William Wadsworth, and Eliot Weinberger. Presented by the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program with the Academy of American Poets, Breadloaf, The Center for Book Arts, the Poetry Society of America and Poets House - April 4

Poets House Showcase Opening - April 6

PITB reading: Caribbean Poets Read featuring Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Staceyann Chin, and Lynne Procope (Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center, Flatbush) - April 11

Rebels Rebel: Editors of Experimental Poetry in Discussion With Lee Ann Brown, Rachel Levitsky, Ravi Shankar and Geoffrey Young. Moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf. Co-sponsored by CLMP as part of their Contents Under Pressure Series - April 12

Mozart's Third Brain: Translating in Concert A Bilingual Reading and Discussion with Göran Sonnevi and Rika Lesser April 16

Poetry Teacher of the Year Awards Ceremony At Scholastic, 555 Broadway, New York, NY - April 23

Seismic Stanzas: Contemporary Poetry Editors in Discussion with Ram Devineni, Alice Quinn, Martha Rhodes, and Juliana Spahr. Moderated by Rebecca Wolff. At the Humanities & Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library - April 24

Stanley Kunitz on Anna Akhmatova Introduced by Morris Dickstein At Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center - May 8

Master Class with Fanny Howe - May 11-12

Katherine Washburn Memorial Program: Translating the 21st Century with Rachel Hadas, Rosanna Warren and Eliot Weinberger - May 30

Master Class with Edward Hirsch - June 8-9

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Willie Perdomo, and Galway Kinnell - June 10

Exhibit: Poets House Showcase Titles for Libraries in Atlanta Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office - June 15-17

Readings: Coleman Barks, Natasha Trethewey, Kwame Dawes, Richard Jackson, Dave Johnson and others. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office - June 15-16

PITB Seminar: A Place for Poetry: A Multifaceted Approach to Poetry in Your Library. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta by Poets House in cooperation with theALA Public Programs Office - June 17

The Poetry Dialogues with Frances Dominguez, Regie Cabico, Ishmaili Raishida, Suheir Hammad, musician Amir Vahab, Toni Blackman, Kewulay Kamara, and George Zavala at The Bowery Poetry Club. Co-sponsored with City Lore and The Bowery Poetry Club. - September 14

Willie Perdomo reads for families. Co-sponsored with Children’s Museum of the Arts as part of the New York is Book Country festival. - September 28

Epics and Ballads 101: A Public Seminar on Oral Traditionas with John Foley - October 12.

Celebrate the History of Black Publishing: reading and reception for Third World Press at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Co-sponsored with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Academy of American Poets and Poets & Writers, Inc. - October 12

New Writing from the U.K. with Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Michael Hulse, Bernardine Evaristo, Pascale Petit & Mimi Khalvati at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College - October 17

The Poets House Children’s Room Opening Celebration: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music with Kurt Lamkin, Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss - October 26

Passwords: David Ferry on Gilgamesh - November 7

On View: Ed Colker's Haybarn Press starting November 12

Meena Alexander on Indian Love Poetry by Women - November 14

Passwords: John Felstiner on Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda and Ranier Maria Rilke - November 20

Passwords: Alice Notley on Homer and the Postmodern War - December 5

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Passwords: Eamon Grennan on Geoffrey Chaucer - January 15

Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception - March 2

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy - March 7

The People's Poetry Gathering Co-sponsored with City Lore March 30–April 1

A Tribute to Stanley Kunitz with Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern, C.K. Williams and Stanley Kunitz.
Co-sponsored by The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, Poetry Society of America, the YMCA National Writers Voice and Poets House April 11

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy April 11

Transfusion: Seamus Heaney Reading and Discussing Translation April 13

Poetry in The Branches Special Program (Mid-Manhattan)-Poetry, Memory and Memoir with Marie Howe and Michael Klein April 14

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon)-Cornelius Eady with Cave Canem Fellows April 26

Decreation: A Libretto by Anne Carson–a benefit reading for Fence Magazine at the Culture Project. Co-sponsored with Fence Magazine - April 30

Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God: A Lecture by Anne Carson May 1

Writing Workshop with Eamon Grennan May 5

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge)–Roger Bonair-Agard May 5

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside)–Robin Becker and Deborah Tall May 10

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy–May 10

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street)–Robin Morgan and Emily Chang May 12

The Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture–Ellen Bryant Voigt on the Craft of Poetry: "Lost and Found: Speech, Music and Repetition in the Poems of Randall Jarrell" May 17

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Rugby)–Quraysh Ali Lansana May 19

"Letters to a Young Poet": An Evening with Stanley Kunitz and Lucille Clifton at Makor Co-sponsored by Poets House and Makor May 23

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp) – Open Mic hosted by Maria Mazziotti Gillan June 2

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street) – Michael Warr and Naomi Shihab Nye June 9

Poets House Annual Bridgewalk Benefit with Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris and Naomi Shihab Nye June 11

Poetry in The Branches Preconference Seminar in San Francisco
With Hettie Jones and Kurt Lamkin. &nbsp Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office - June 14-15

Showcase Exhibit in San Francisco. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 16-18

Panel Discussion: The Poetry Revolution with Hettie Jones and Kurt Lamkin June 16

Readings- Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gillian Conoley & Kurt Lamkin. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 16

Readings- Robert Hass, Hettie Jones, Forrest Hamer & Kim Addonizio &nbsp Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 17

Readings- Chana Bloch, Dave Johnson & Open Mic Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 18

PITB Reading: Andrea Hollander Budy (Riverside) - October 6

PITB Reading: Colette Inez and Ron Price (St. Agnes) - October 6

PITB Reading: Elaine Schwager and Ron Price (Jefferson Market Regional Library) - October 10

PITB Reading: LIVE@your library: "Losing Geography" a conversation with Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepulveda (Mid-Manhattan) - October 17

A Tribute to Hayden Carruth in Honor of his 80th Birthday at Cooper Union, The Great Hall with Adrienne Rich, Galway Kinnell, Grace Paley, Jean Valentine, Sam Hamill, David Budbill, Marilyn Hacker, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Hayden Carruth. This event was made possible by the Lannan Foundation. Co-sponsored with Copper Canyon Press, the NYU Creative Writing Program, YMCA National Writer's Voice, The Poetry Society of America, and The Academy of American Poets - October 17

PITB Reading: Jane Cooper and Martha Collins (Bloomingdale) - October 20

PITB Reading: in Celebration of "Black Poetry Day" (Countee Cullen) - October 20

PITB Reading: Poets from Rattapallax Press and Poetry Wales read (St. Agnes) - October 20

In A Time of Crisis: A Reading of Poems hosted by Alice Quinn at Cooper Union, The Great Hall with U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Michael Cunningham, Eve Ensler, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Sapphire, Vijay Seshadri, Susan Sontag and C.K. Williams Presented with The Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, PEN American Center, Poets and Writers, The Unterberg Poetry Center, Columbia University School of the Arts, NYU Creative Writing Program, New School Graduate Writing Program, CLMP, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Writer's Voice, and Cooper Union. Proceeds to benefit the American Red Cross. - October 22

PITB Reading: Alfred Dorn and Daniel Fernandez (Jefferson Market) - October 27

Poets House Expansion Celebration with Stanley Kunitz - November 9

Fifteen: A Reading in Celebration of Poets House
with Jean Valentine, Willie Perdomo, Donna Masini, Cornelius Eady, Sharon Olds, Regie Cabico, Emily Chang, Marilyn Hacker, Marie Howe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lee Ann Brown, Kimiko Hahn, Kate Rushin, Gerald Stern and Galway Kinnell - November 10

Passwords: Wanda Coleman on Phillis Wheatley - November 16

PITB Reading: Willie Perdomo (East Flatbush) - November 17

Passwords: Bob Perelman on Ezra Pound - December 7

PITB Reading: Secret Identities and Undercover Metaphors: Investigating Poetry and Mystery Fiction with Stephen Dobyns, Edwin Torres & Jena Osman (Bloomingdale) - December 11

Poets House Holiday Book Sale - December 13-15

PITB Reading: Rattapallax Press Presents PO-EP! Launch Reading with Anselm Berrigan & Edwin Torres (St. Agnes) December 15

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Workshop: Family Romance with Cyrus Cassells January 8 and 15

PASSWORDS: Cyrus Cassells on Salvador Espriu January 11

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy January 19

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Enid Dame and Vickie Karp January 26

Seminar: The Poetry of Eros with Marie Ponsot February 12

Poetry in The Branches (Kingsbridge): A Valentine's Reading with Kate Light February 12

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy February 16

PITB Reading: Architecture of the Imagination: Realizing the World in Science Fiction and Poety with Octavia Butler, Cornelius Eady & Gerald Jonas (Mid-Manhattan) February 16

Sandra Alcosser and Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker February 22

The Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture on the Craft of Poetry with Donald Hall February 29

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy March 15

PASSWORDS: Erica Hunt on Nathaniel Mackey March 16

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Tina Barr and Timothy Liu March 11

Poets Coffeehouse Series (Central Library Brooklyn) with Maureen Owen, Jayne Cortez and Ron Padgett , April 5

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Anne Carson April 6

"Losing Geography", a reading and discussion with Ken McCullough, U Sam Oeur and Karen Swenson Mid-Manhattan Library April 8

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy April 12

Poets Coffeehouse Series with John Yau, Albert Mobilio and Mary Ferrari Central Library, Brooklyn, April 12

Panel Discussion: Anthologizing the 20th Century with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Ray González, Geoffrey O'Brien and Eliot Weinberger Cosponsored by The Library of America April 13

Poetry in the Branches Reading (96th Street): Ray González April 15

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Cecilia Vicuña and Reg E. Gaines April 15

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Douglas Goetsch April 15

Poets Coffeehouse Series with Gary Lenhart, Tony Towle and Anselm Berrigan Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn April 19

For Women Poets: Finding Room of Your Own in the Publishing Market with Amy Holman April 22

Poets Coffeehouse Series with Murat Nemet-Nejat, D. Nurkse and Wanda Phipps Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, April 26

The Poetics of Art: A Gallery Tour with John Yau April 29

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Sekou Sundiata April 29

Poetics Consciousness: Frames, Identities, Necessities with Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli May 2

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Allerton): Taylor Mali May 6

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Marie Howe May 6

Celebrating Sulfur: The Life and Death of a Literary Magazine with Clayton Eshleman, Allen S. Weiss and Marjorie Welish May 9

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy May 10

Poetry in the Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Kate Rushin May 13

Passwords: The Peacock's Tail: An Evening of Poetry from Al-Andalus with Lourdes Alvarez May 16

PASSWORDS: The Japanese Zuihitsu or Running Brush with Kimiko Hahn May 25

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy June 14

The Fifth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Sapphire, Gerald Stern and Ruth Stone June 19

Poetry in The Branches Preconference Seminar in Chicago. With Dave Johnson, Luis Rodríguez, Kate Rushin, Gerald Stern, and Michael Warr Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office - July 6-7

Showcase Exhibit in Chicago Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office July 8-10

Panel Discussion: The Poetry Revolution with Stuart Dybek, Kate Rushin, and Michael Warr, July 8

Gerald Stern & Kate Rushin, Stuart Dybek & Luis Rodríguez, July 8

Diane Glancy & Sterling Plumpp, Brigit Pegeen Kelly & Richard Jones, Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office. July 9

Beatriz Badikian & Michael Warr, David Wojahn & Cin Salach, Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office. July 10

Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy July 19

E-books: Friend or Foe of Independent Literary Publishing? Co-sponsored with CLMP September 20

Poetry in The Branches Special Program (Riverside)—Librettoland: At the Intersection of Poetry and Music with Kenward Elmslie and Ishmael Reed October 12

PASSWORDS: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow October 19

Poetry in The Branches Special Program (96th Street)—The Musicality of Neruda: Poetry and Music with Fareed Haque October 26

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon)—Neighborhood Renaissance: New Poets of Bed-Stuy featuring Robert Chapman, Linda Susan Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson and Luis Reyes Rivera October 26

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton)—Mariposa November 4

Poetry Writing Workshop with Marilyn Nelson November 11

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside)–Peter Davison and Marie Ponsot November 18

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush)–Cheryl B., Regie Cabico and Douglas A. Martin December 2

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Bloomingdale)–Joy Harjo December 9

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park)–Kimiko Hahn December 9

Poetry in The Branches Day of Decima: Poetry and Music featuring Eddie Rosa December 9

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PASSWORDS: A Conversation with Susan Howe and Susan Stewart January 12

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush)–Staceyann Chin January 13

Poetry in the Branches Reading (Flatlands)–Diane Glancy January 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands)–Robert Hershon February 7

PASSWORDS: Wayne Koestenbaum on James Schuyler February 8

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge)–Patricia Smith February 10

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon)–Sapphire February 15

Seminar in Cross-Genre Poetics with Anne Waldman February 17

Gwendolyn Brooks Tribute at Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza with Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Haki Madhubuti, and DH Melham. Cosponsored by Poets House and the Brooklyn Public Library. February 18

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Tompkins Square)–Anne Waldman February 20

People's Poetry Gathering Cosponsored by City Lore. April 9-11

Opening Celebration and Gathering Sampler with Jali invocation, José João dos Santos, Taylor Mali, Raymond Patterson, U. Utah Phillips, Tr’o Jarocho Chalchihuecan, and Bob Holman as host. April 9

Poetry Happening: View the Poetry Publication Showcase

Teen Slam with Saul Williams and Keith Roach as host

Teen Program: Winners of the City College/NYC Schools Poetry Contest with Barry Wallenstein as host

Workshop: How to Do a Close Reading of a Poem with Edward Hirsch

The Teacher as Poet with Daniel Ferri and Taylor Mali

Teen Program: Writing the Range: Students meet Cowboy Poets with Wallace McRae and Paul Zarzyski

Teen Program: Improvising Poetry to the Music of the Blues with Carolina Slim and Dave Johnson

Conversations: Word Clash: Poetry Contests and Competitions with Daniel Ferri, Anne MacNaughton, Peter Rabbit, Arturo Santiago, and Bob Holman as moderator

Poetry Happening: Literary Pub Crawl around Greenwich Village

Teen Program: Open Mic with Daniel Ferri as host

Teen Program: Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky meets Students

Teen Program: Poetry in The Branches: NYPL/Poets House with Dave Johnson as host

Poetry and Literacy with Maxine Green, Eugene Redmond, and Nancy Shapiro as moderator

Teen Program: Braggin' Rights: Students Improvise to a Rap Beat with Vast, Blow Out, Influence, Yak, Subconscious, Pumpkin Head, Hashim, Nat Turner, and Fritz Jeanniton as host

Reading: Anne MacNaughton and Peter Rabbit

Teen Program: Slam Workshop with Keith Roach

Poets Pay Tribute: to Henry Dumas with Raymond Patterson, Robert Pinsky, Quincy Troupe, and Eugene Redmond as moderator

People's Poetry Gathering Opening Night Bash: with Braggin' Rights, José João DOS Santos, Don Edwards, Paul Zarzyski, Galway Kinnell, and Bob Holman's SemiCento with Dana Bryant, Edwin Torres and Regie Cabico

"Is Charlie Chan Really Dead?: Representations & Beyond" Reading with Shani Mootoo, Han Ong, Beau Sia, and Lois- Ann Yamanaka

Poets Pay Tribute: "William Carlos Williams and the Opening of American Poetry" with Victor Hernández Cruz

Poets and Bands: Talking Book Festival with Sherman Alexie with Jim Boyd & Rez Bound; Sekou Sundiata with his band; Jerome Rothenberg with the Klezmatics, and DJ Jeannie Hopper

Emergent Forms and Formats: Friday Night Slam: Nuyorican Team vs. Cowboy and Hobo Poets with Linda Hasselstrom, Larry Penn, Bob Suckiel, Paul Zarzyski, Keith Roach as host, and Judge Bruce Wright

Reading: Robert Bly and Robert Pinsky

Poetry Happening: Polymorphously/ Per Verse: An Evening of Erotic Poetry with Penny Arcade, Tony Barrand, Anselm Berrigan, Max Blagg, Lee Ann Brown, Regie Cabico, Kimiko Hahn, Kathe Izzo, Brendan Lorber, Sharon Mesmer, Ed Miller, Eileen Myles, John Roberts, Frazier Russell, Carl Hancock Rux, Edwin Torres, and Elena Alexander as host

Workshop: Publishing Your Poetry with Amy Holman April 10

Conversations: Work Songs with Edward Hirsch

Poets Pay Tribute to Pablo Neruda with Martín Espada and Robert Bly

Reading: Sandra María Esteves and Paul Zarzyski

Conversations: Poets 9-5: Poetry and Work with Linda Hasselstrom, U. Utah Phillips, Patricia Smith and Edward Hirsch as moderator

Emergent Forms and Formats: Head- to- Head Haiku (Slam) with Daniel Ferri

Poetry Happenings: Orientation to the Poetry Publication Showcase of the Year's New Poetry Books with David Lee

Reading: Quincy Troupe and John Trudell

Masters of Oral Tradition: Hobo and Cowboy Recitation Workshop with Larry Penn, Mark Ross, Bob Suckiel, Wallace McRae, and Paul Zarzyski

Poetry Happenings: Don Edwards Concert

Reading: Edward Hirsch and Willie Perdomo

Emergent Forms and Formats: New York Heavyweight Bout with Sherman Alexie and Patricia Smith

Masters of Oral Tradition: Décima Concert with Rafael Pérez Lopez, Arturo Santiago, Jr., Gabriel Segura, Trío Jarocho Chalchihuecan, Yomo Toro, the winner from the Concurso de Trovadores, and Victor Hernández Cruz as host

Reading: Miguel Alagarín and Victor Hernández Cruz

Conversations: A Woman's Place with Sandra María Esteves, Linda Hasselstrom, Patricia Spears Jones, and Teresa Jordan as moderator

Open Mic- Veterans Poetry with Pedro Pietri as host

Poetry Happening: Renga Workshop and Sake Party led by Dee Evetts

Reading: Bob Holman and David Lee

Open Mic: with Guy LeCharles Gonzalez of the Little Bit Louder Poets as host

Open Mic: with Danny Shot of the Long Shot Poets as host

Master Folk Poets: Under Western Skies: Cowboy Poetry and Music- with Don Edwards, Linda Hasselstrom, Wallace McRae, U. Utah Phillips, Paul Zarzyski, and Hal Cannon as host

Reading: Dave Johnson and Patricia Spears Jones

Poets and Bands: Talking Book Festival's Jazzoetry with Lester Bowie, Quincy Troupe with Kelvyn Bell, Eclectic Poetic with Dana Bryant, Tish Benson, Mike Ladd, Mark Batson, Gary Bartz, and Sekou Sundiata

Reading: Patricia Smith and Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Poetry Happening: Burn's Supper with Ed Miller, Lisa Gutkin, and Doug Safranck

Poetry Happening: Poe in the Graveyard with Edgar Oliver and Bob Holman as host

Poems and Prayers with Dave Johnson as host April 11

Workshop: Publishing Your Poetry on the Web with Judith Johnson

Conversations: The Unspoken Word: Folk Meets the Avant Garde with Sound Poets: Jackson Mac Low, Tracie Morris, Charlie Morrow, Anne Tardos, Edwin Torres; Don Edwards (yodeller), Laura Watson (scat singer), Sam Weiss (nigun singer), and Jerome Rothenberg as host

Reading: Jack Agüeros and Martín Espada

Poetry Happening: Poems by Heart: Recitation Circle with Carol Conroy and Galway Kinnell

Conversations: Poetry and Democracy with Sherman Alexie, Wallace McRae, Eileen Myles, Marjorie Perloff, and Bob Holman as moderator

Poetry Happening: Blues BBQ with Cephas and Wiggins

Reading: Ani DiFranco and Sekou Sundiata

Poets Pay Tribute to Yiddish Women Poets with Irena Klepfisz

Conversations: The Oral Tradition with Robert Bly, Kewulay Kamara, Eugene Redmond, and Hal Cannon as moderator

Masters of Oral Tradition: Stories on String: Workshop on the Brazilian Cordel with José João dos Santos (Mestre Azulão) and Candace Slater

Poets Pay Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca with Galway Kinnell

Native American Poetry with Sherman Alexie, Louis Mofsie, John Trudell, and the Native American Writer's Circle

Open Mics with Teresa Jordan, Donald Lev of the Home Planet News Poets, Cristin O' Keefe Aptowicz, and Lee Ann Brown of Tender Buttons Poets

Reading: Linda Hasselstrom and Tracie Morris

Masters of Oral Tradition: The Road to Mandalay: Rudyard Kipling in Story and Song with Tony Barrand and John Roberts

Masters of Oral Tradition: Panel Discussion on the Décima with Arturo Santiago, Jr. (Puerto Rico), Rafael Pérez López and Gabriel Segura (Columbia), Tr’o Jarocho Chalchihuecan (Mexico)

Poetry Happening: View the Poetry Publication Showcase

Poetry Happening: Poetry Jam: A Gathering of the Tribes with Reg E. Gaines, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, David Henderson, Ellyn Maybe, Orion, Amy Ouzoonian, The Rogue Scholars, Carl Hancock Rux, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Juliet Torres, "Skyscrapers, Taxis & Tampax" poets, many other surprises and open mic

Reading: Galway Kinnell and Wallace McRae

Masters of Oral tradition: The Jali Tradition with Abdoulaye Diabate, Manadou Diabate, Erik Goldman, Dionne Kamara, Lansana Kouyate, Joakim Lartey, Mahamadou Salieu Suso, and Kewulay Kamara as host

Reading: Shani Mootoo and Eileen Myles

Conversations: The Art of Recitation with Tony Barrand, Sylvia Cole, Ed Miller, John Roberts, and Sheldon Posen as host

Masters of Oral Tradition: Bluesicians Workshop: Poetry of the Blues with Cephas & Wiggins, Raymond Patterson, Sterling Plumpp, Eugene Redmond, and Sapphire as host

Poets and Bands: Ani DiFranco, Larry Penn, U. Utah Philips, Mark Ross, Bob Suckiel and Paul Zarzyski as host

Poets Pay Tribute: Banquet in Honor of Armand Schwerner--an event designed and produced by Charlie Morrow

Seventh Annual Poetry Publication Showcase March 27-April 30

A Poetry Writing Workshop with Lucie Brock-Broido April 17

The Future of Poetry Publishing: Shifting Ground with Charles Bernstein, Celia O'Donnell, Eileen Tabios and Michael Warr - April 22

Online: A Poet's Guide to the Web with Loss Pequeño Glazier April 24

Passwords: Jonathan Galassi on Eugenio Montale April 27

Islands and Heartlands: New Writing in the Americas Co-sponsored by the Americas Society

Mempo Giardinelli April 16

Marilyn Hacker and Pedro López-Adorno May 4

Sandra Alcosser and Edgardo Vega Yunqué May 6

Raœl Barrientos with translator Ben Heller and Quincy Troupe May 11

Elizabeth Hellman and Rolando Hinjosa-Smith May 20

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and Cornelius Eady March 6

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): U Sam Oeur with translator Ken McCullough March 6

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): In Celebration of Duke Ellington with Reuben Jackson April 15

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Samuel Menashe and Ned O'Gorman April 17

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Richard McCann and Mary Jane Nealon April 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Layding Lumumba Kaliba April 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Hettie Jones April 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Diane di Prima April 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Kewalay Kamara April 29

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Beyle Gottesman May 1

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Marie Howe May 1

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Nuala N’ Dhomhnaill May 5

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Sekou Sundiata May 6

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Philip Levine May 6

Passwords: C.K. Williams on George Herbert and Philip Larkin May 13

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Jack Agüeros and Regie Cabico May 15

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Jane Cooper and Grace Paley May 22

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Kate Rushin, Karen Swenson and special guest Bill Murray. June 14

Poetry Publication Showcase Events at the American Library Association Conference (New Orleans) Cosponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office

Exhibition of the 1999 Poetry Publication Showcase June 26-29

Making Poetry Come Alive in Community Libraries: Panel Discussion June 26

Readings: David Lee, Ana Castillo, Kevin Young, and Andrei Codrescu June 26

Readings: Dave Smith, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Kalamu ya Salaam June 27

Readings: Brenda Marie Osbey, Sue Owen, Martha McFerren and Dave Johnson June 28

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Robert Minhinnick and Molly Peacock October 2

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Yusef Komunyakaa October 16

PASSWORDS: Alicia Ostriker on H.D. October 19

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy October 20

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Edwin Torres November 6

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Hettie Jones and Thomas Lux November 10

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Kurtis Lamkin November 11

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street): Kevin Young November 11

Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Quincy Troupe November 13

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Elaine Equi and Susan Wheeler November 13

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy November 17

PASSWORDS: Arthur Sze on Ma Chih-yuan, Li Ho & Li Shang-yin November 18

Seminar: The Wright Italy with Edward Hirsch & Annie Wright November 20

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Arthur Sze November 20

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Dennis Nurkse and Tim Seibles December 2

Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy December 8

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Billy Collins December 11

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Jennifer O'Grady December 11

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PASSWORDS: Jean Valentine on Osip Mandelstam March 10

Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose with Linh Dinh, lê thi diem thúy, Mong Lan and Truong Tran. Moderated by Monique T. D. Truong. Co-sponsored by The Asia Society and The Asian American Writers' Workshop. March 18

Vietnam: A Culture of Poetry with John Balaban March 21

The Metaphysical Streetcar Conductor with Luciano Erba and translators W. S. DI Piero, Michael Palma and Ann Snodgrass. Introduced by Luigi Fontanella. March 24

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): J. D. McClatchy March 28

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Diane DiPrima March 31

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Dana Bryant and Mike Tyler April 18

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Karl Kirchwey April 25

Sixth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase March 28-May 9

Poetry, Literacy and Democracy with Nikki Giovanni, Colin Harrison and Robert Hass April 3

PASSWORDS: Helen Vendler on Shakespeare's Sonnets April 8

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: What a Poem Knows: The Spellbinding Clarity of Art with Diane Ackerman - April 16

Poetry into Prose and Back Again with Donna Masini April 18

The Poet Engages History: A Celebration of Coffee House Press with Patricia Spears Jones, U Sam Oeur and translator Ken McCullough, and Wang Ping. Moderated by Allan Kornblum - May 1

Your Manuscript: Through the Publisher's Eyes with Allan Kornblum May 2

The Future of Poetry Publishing with Jennifer Joseph, Alice Quinn, Julie Schaper, Michael Wiegers and Paul Yamazaki - May 7

Spring Comes to New York: Readings in Carl Schurz Park Co-sponsored by the Carl Schurz Park Association.

Patricia Spears Jones and Paul Muldoon May 6.

Jack Agüeros and Yusef Komunyakaa May 12.

Grace Schulman and Gerald Stern May 19.

Shinkichi Takahashi: Modern Zen Poet with Lucien Stryk - May 16

Wrights of Spring: Poems, Mountains and Trees in the Poems of James Wright with Richard Lewis and Annie Wright - June 6

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty and Grace Paley - June 22

Poetry Publication Showcase Events at the American Library Association Conference (Washington, D.C.) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association.

Exhibition of the 1998 Poetry Publication Showcase June 27-30

Live at the Library: Poets and Librarians Panel with E. Ethelbert Miller, Robert Pinsky, June 27 Marsha Spyros, and Belle Waring

Readings: Robert Pinsky, Belle Waring, E. Ethelbert Miller and Linda Pastan June 27

Readings: Hilary Tham, Michael Collier, Reetika Vazirani, and Stanley Plumly June 28

Readings: Reuben Jackson, Elizabeth Spires, Richard McCann and Toi Derricotte June 29

Parallel Lines with Regie Cabico, Donna Masini, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, August 2

Cecilia Vicuña and John Yau. Co-sponsored by and held at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor.

Poems for the Millennium: The Modern Experiment as a Global Poetics October 3, 10 & 17 with Jerome Rothenberg

The Power of the Off-Kilter with Cynthia Macdonald October 24

Under Siege: Poetry From Bosnia with Chris Agee, Ammiel Alcalay, Nuala N’ Dhomhnaill and Semezdin Mehmedinovic October 27

Rilke's Poetry of the Real Mind with Greg Glazner November 7

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Baychester): Afaa Weaver November 7

Passwords: Agha Shahid Ali on Faiz Ahmed Faiz November 19

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Alfred Corn and Marilyn Hacker November 21

Passwords: Carole Maso on Gertrude Stein December 3

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Regie Cabico December 5

Poems By Heart: The Art and Joy of Memorization with Carol Conroy December 8

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Hala Bira!: A Celebration of Philippine Literature. Perspectives on Filipino and Filipino-American Writing and Hala Bira Reading with M. Eveline Galang, Eric Gamalinda, Eugene Gloria, Jessica Hagedorn, Jaime Jacinto, Jessica Nepomuceno and Eileen Tabios. Moderated by Nick Carbó. Co-sponsored by The Asia Society and The Asian American Writers' Workshop. March 8

PASSWORDS: Victor DI Suvero on "Pre" Beat Poets March 12

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Sapphire March 15

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Billy Collins April 5

Introduction to Translation with Clementine Rabassa, Lawrence Venuti and Ellen Watson April 5. Co-sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association

PASSWORDS: Laurel Blossom on Edna St. Vincent Millay April 10

The Orphean Moment with Susan Mitchell April 12

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone with Robert Hershon and Hal Sirowitz April 19

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Marie Howe with Poets from the Young Adult Poetry Workshop. May 3

Life Studies: Robert Lowell with Richard Tillinghast May 8

Wrights of Spring: The Poems of James Wright with Carol Conroy and Annie Wright May 10

PASSWORDS: Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear: Robert Creeley on Robert Duncan May 14

Reading Robert Frost with Alice Quinn May 17

Finding Form with Annie Finch June 3

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Toi Derricotte June 21

Sunset Poetry Readings in Wagner Park Co-sponsored by Battery Park City.

Louise Glück and Robert Pinsky June 4.

Thomas Lux and Tracie Morris June 11

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Jayne Cortez, Jessica Hagedorn, Patricia Spears Jones and Dennis Nurkse June 23

Poetry Publication Showcase Events at the American Library Association Conference (San Francisco, CA) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association. Exhibition of the 1996 Poetry Publication Showcase June 28-July 1

Building Poetry Audiences in Libraries with Francisco X. Alarcón, Kay Cassell, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman and Marsha Spyros June 28

Readings: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Francisco X. Alarcón and Jane Hirshfield June 28

Readings: Gary Soto, Clarence Major, Jerome Rothenberg and Diane di Prima June 29

Readings: Thom Gunn, Carolyn Kizer, Carol Muske and Quincy Troupe June 30

A Thousand Years of Zen Poetry with Sam Hamill September 27

Five Slovenian Authors with Andrej Blatnik, Drago Jancar, Brane Mozetic, Boris A. Novak and Tomaz Salamun October 3

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Jayne Cortez October 4

Levels of Consciousness: Women Poets of African Descent with Naomi Long Madgett, Colleen McElroy, Micere Githae Mugo and Maria de Lourdes Teodoro. Introduced and moderated by Patricia Spears Jones. Co-sponsored by New York University's Africana Studies Program and the Institute of Afro-American Affairs, in conjunction with the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc. October 15

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Yiddish Poetry in Translation and in the Original with Richard Fein October 18

A Tribute to Robert Lowell with Frank Bidart, Elizabeth Hardwick, Carl Phillips and Richard Tillinghast. Co-sponsored by the Berg Collection, New York Public Library and held at The Celeste Bartos Forum, NYPL. October 23

The Prose Poem with Carl Phillips October 25

On Poetic Voice with Jane Hirshfield November 5

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Sharon Olds November 8

PASSWORDS: John Felstiner on Paul Celan November 18

Straw, Feathers & Dust--The Radical Poetics of William Stafford with Marvin Bell December 13

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Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Marilyn Hacker February 3

Jean Valentine and Alice Quinn on Eleanor Ross Taylor February 10

Erotic Poetry with Sam Hamill February 17

Simplicity: A Tribute to Ruth Stone with Ruth Stone, Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds February 22

PASSWORDS: Richard Howard on Charles Baudelaire February 28

PASSWORDS: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda March 8

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Martín Espada March 9

Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty: Translating the Brief Songs of the Kisang Courtesan with Constantine Contogenis March 16

A Celebration of Seneca: Translating the Ancient World with David Slavitt, Kelly Cherry, Rachel Hadas and Stephen Sandy March 22

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Eamon Grennan March 23

PASSWORDS: Nina Kossman on Marina Tsvetayeva April 4

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Grace Schulman on Yiddish Poetry April 13

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture with Yusef Komunyakaa April 16

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Eamon Grennan April 20

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Donna Masini April 27

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Donna Masini and Cornelius Eady May 4

PASSWORDS: Mark Doty on Hart Crane May 9

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Nina Kossman and Ina Bliznetsova May 18

Poetry and Jazz at Belvedere Park Readings: Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority. Sekou Sundiata and his Band June 4, Lynn Emanuel and William Matthews June 11, Rafael Campo and Billy Collins June 18, Stephen Dunn and Patricia Smith June 25

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Sandra María Esteves and Edwin Torres June 15

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Cornelius Eady, Donna Masini and Patricia Smith June 24

Poetry Publication Showcase Events at the American Library Association Conference (New York, NY) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association.

Exhibition of the 1995 Poetry Publication Showcase July 6-9

The United States of Poetry: Building Poetry Audiences in Local Libraries with Kay Cassell, Bob Holman, Martín Espada and Naomi Shihab Nye. July 6

Poetry in The Branches: The Model with Patricia Burn, Caroline Bartels, Donald Laub, Cesare Passudetti, Jessica Rosokoff and Marsha Spyros. July 9

Readings: Martín Espada, Donna Masini, Bob Holman and Naomi Shihab Nye July 6

Readings: E. Ethelbert Miller, Christian Langworthy, Michael Burkard and Lorna Goodison July 7

Readings: Julia Alvarez, Willie Perdomo, Colette Inez and Cornelius Eady July 8

Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Robert Pinsky on Dante's Inferno September 28

Yiddish Women Poets with Irena Klepfisz October 3

PASSWORDS: Clayton Eshleman on Antonin Artaud October 9

PASSWORDS: Kathleen Norris on Hildegard of Bingen and Mechtild of Magdeburg October 25

Writing Poetry that Matters: How Poets of Conscience Avoid Rhetoric with Daniela Gioseffi. Co-sponsored by The Open Center. October 26

An Experience of Psalms with Kathleen Norris, Co-sponsored by The Open Center. October 26

Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Jack Agüeros and Willie Perdomo November 2

Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Dave Johnson and Willie Perdomo. Introduced by Donna Masini. December 7

Fifth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase November 9-December 12

The Self-Published Book with Robert Hershon November 12 and 19

The Gift of Tongues: An Evening of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press with Sam Hamill, Heather Allen, Erin Belieu, Timothy Liu, Jane Miller, Karen Swenson and Elaine Terranova. November 15

Marketing Your Book with Mary Bisbee-Beek, Timothy Liu and Michael Wiegers November 16

Poet Memorists with Michael Klein and David Mura November 21

PASSWORDS: David Trinidad on Tim Dlugos December 3

The Electronic Word: Poetry on the Internet and Hypertext with Stephanie Strickland December 10 & 14

Grand Finale Reading with Elizabeth Alexander, Alice Notley and Vijay Seshadri December 12

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PASSWORDS: Helen Vendler on William Butler Yeats February 10

Parallel Lines: Poetry and Hip Hop with Tracie Morris, Greg Tate and Djinji Brown. Moderated by Houston A. Baker Jr. February 21

PASSWORDS: Richard Caddell on Basil Bunting March 9

Culture, Imagination and Performance in American Poetry with Arthur Sabatini March 23 & 25

PASSWORDS: Jerry Ward on Sterling Plumpp March 30

Reading Dorothy Parker and Stevie Smith with Deborah Garrison and Alice Quinn April 8

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Meaning of American Poetry at the Present Time with Robert Pinsky April 21

Dante's Inferno with Robert Pinsky April 22

Poetry: A Banquet--A Seminar for Teachers with Albert Cullum April 27

PASSWORDS: Edmund Keeley on Cavafy and Seferis April 27

The Jazz-Poetry Connection with Barry Wallenstein April 29

Poems from Paintings with F.D. Reeve May 6 & 13

A Literary Friendship: A Screening of Haydn Reiss's Documentary with William Stafford and Robert Bly May 11

PASSWORDS: Robert Bly on William Stafford with special guests Dana Gioia, William Matthews, C.K. Williams, Grace Schulman, Galway Kinnell and others. In collaboration with New York University. May 12

Speaking in Tongues: Poetry Heard in Twelve Languages with host Elena Alexander and poets reading in French, Tagalog, Japanese, Dutch and other languages May 25

CANADIAN POETS AT POETS HOUSE. Co-sponsored by The Writers' Union of Canada.

Exhibition of Canadian Poetry curated by Roberta Morris and Paul Savoie. June 1-10

Opening Reading and Reception with Louise Cotnoir, Adeena Karasick and Roberta Morris June 2

Poetry in the Branches Reading (96th St): Philip Levine June 5

Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority.

Eamon Grennan, Philip Levine and Sharon Olds. June 6

Olga Broumas, T. Begley and Cornelius Eady June 13

Paul Beatty, Richard Martin, Kimiko Hahn and C.D. Wright June 20

Jayne Cortez, Mark Doty and Donna Masini June 27

The United States of Poetry: A Benefit Screening June 12

Poetry Publication Showcase Events at the American Library Association Conference (Chicago, IL) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association.

Exhibition of the 1994 Poetry Publication Showcase June 23-27

The Poetry Audience of the Future with Kay Cassell, Luis J. Rodriguez, Stephanie Strickland and Michael Warr

Readings: Li-Young Lee and Stephanie Strickland June 24

Readings: Sterling Plumpp and Timothy Liu

Readings: Stuart Dybek and Julie Parson June 25

Readings: Rohan Preston and Kyoko Mori

Readings: Michael Warr and Angela Jackson June 26

Readings: Carlos Cumpain and Olivia Maciel

PASSWORDS: Mary Ann Caws on René Char September 28

Modern Poetry with Michael Heller September 30 & October 7

Voices from the English-Speaking Caribbean with Lorna Goodison, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Marlene Nourbese Philip. Co-sponsored with the Americas Society. October 25

Fourth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase October 28-December 2

A Tour of the Berg Collection Exhibit The Hand of the Poet with curator Rodney Phillips November 1

Poetry Publication Showcase Reading with Olivia Maciel, E. Ethelbert Miller and Gregory Orr November 2

Stanley Kunitz Reading at the 92nd Street Y November 6

The Poet as Reviewer with Rochelle Ratner November 8 & 11

Poetry in Transition: The Electronic Word with Stephanie Strickland November 9 & 11

Keys to Submission: Poems into Print with Poets and Writers, Inc. November 13, 20, 27 & December 4

From Manuscript to Publication: Serendipity and Delmore Schwartz with Robert Philips November 14

Paths To Publishing with Ann Close, Kevin Powell, Robyn Selman and Ira Silverberg November 16

Grand Finale Showcase Reading with Patricia Spears Jones, David Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye and Richard Tillinghast. December 2

PASSWORDS: Eamon Grennan on Patrick Kavanagh December 14

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PASSWORDS: Kathleen Fraser on Lorine Niedecker February 24

The Poetry of the New Critics with FD Reeve February 26 & March 5

Women Poets 20 Years Later: Where We Stand with Sharon Bryan, Cheryl Clarke, Cynthia Macdonald and Deborah Tall. March 10

Women Poets 20 Years Later: No More Masks with Cheryl Clarke, Cynthia Macdonald, Linda McCarriston, Molly Peacock and Ruth Stone. Held at City University of New York Graduate Center. March 11

The Body of the Voice with Edwin Torres March 12 & 13

Sex and Surrealism with Terese Svoboda March 19

PASSWORDS: Mutlu and Randy Blasing on Nazim Hikmet March 24

PASSWORDS: William Matthews on Richard Hugo April 6

Reading Pound and Roethke with Gerald Stern April 9 & 16

In the Presence of Language with Richard Lewis, Julie Patton and Cecilia Vicuña April 20 & 27 7 May 4

CONVERSATIONS: Carl Rakosi and Michael Heller April 21

Place and the Transformation of Poetic Voice with Quincy Troupe April 23

PASSWORDS: The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Robert Winner's Poetry with Jane Cooper, Edward Field, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and Sharon Olds. May 5

The Other in Poetry with Galway Kinnell May 7

The Late Poems of Wallace Stevens with Michael Heller May 14

Alphabet and Image: The Poet and the Haunting of Writing Systems with Armand Schwerner May 21 & June 4

PASSWORDS: Gwendolyn Brooks on Etheridge Knight May 26

Parallel Lines: Poetry and Dance. Readings, demonstration and discussion with Jack Anderson, Kenneth King, Jackson Mac Low, Clarina MacLow and Anne Tardos. Held at Judson Memorial Church. June 4

PASSWORDS: Derek Mahon on Louis MacNeice October 6

Green Notebook, Winter Road: A Tribute to Jane Cooper with Jane Cooper, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Cynthia MacDonald, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich and Jean Valentine. Co-sponsored by and held at The Donnell Library. October 13

The Poetry of Ideas with Philip Appleman

Poetry and Science: The World Around Us October 18

Poetry and Belief: The World Within Us October 19

Third Annual Poetry Publication Showcase October 22-November 19

Poetry and Technology: Publishing, Distribution, the Internet and You with Mark Bernstein, John Fowler, James Sherry, Stephanie Strickland and Michael Warr. October 27

Contemporary American Poetry Lectures with Michael Heller

From the Modern to the Contemporary October 29

New Voices: The Political is Poetical November 5

Post-Modern Poetry or The Availability of Everything November 12

Selling Poetry: Superstores, Independents, Bars and the Word on Our Streets with Lisa Domitrovich, Nicolás Kanellos, Allan Kornblum and others. November 3

The Poetry Audience of the Future with Peter Davidson, Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Hacker and Katha Pollitt. November 17

Grand Finale Showcase Reading with Suzanne Gardinier, Stephen Dunn, Maurice Kilwein Guevara and Sapphire. November 18

PASSWORDS: Thom Gunn and Roger Conover on Mina Loy December 1

Poetry in the Age of AIDS with Rachel Hadas December 3 & 10

An Evening of Portuguese Poetry: A Bilingual Reading with Nuno Júdice, Pedrom Tamen and translator Richard Zenith. December 8

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PASSWORDS: Robert Creeley on Louis Zukofsky. Introduced by Michael Heller. February 4

The Poetry of Samuel Beckett with Paul Auster, Deidre Bair and Clark Coolidge March 4

PASSWORDS: Cecilia Vicuña on Rosario Castellanos April 8

BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE: A SERIES OF SCREENINGS AND TALKS ON POETRY AND LANGUAGE-INSPIRED VIDEOS. Organized by Poets House in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art.

Between Word and Image: A Video Exhibition at the MOMA April 1-May 31

Video Viewpoints on Poetry with Shuntaro Tanikawa and Terese Svoboda at the MOMA April 16

Screenings of selected videos from the MOMA exhibition April 19-24

A Panel Discussion on Poetry and Video with Bob Holman, Marjorie Perloff and Terese Svoboda April 22

POETRY and THE BLUES Co-sponsored by 651. An Exchange in Music and Verse with Raymond Patterson, Sterling Plumpp, Eugene Redmond and musicians Gwen Cleveland and Bross Townsend April 28

Muddy Waters Legacy at BAM Majestic Theater with Koko Taylor and Her Blues Machine and Junior Wells. May 2

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Adrienne Rich on Poetry and Politics. Introduced by Jane Cooper May 6

Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park Pavilion. Presented by Battery Park City and produced by Poets House.

Galway Kinnell and Lucille Clifton September 14

Kamau Brathwaite September 21

Robert Hass and Carolyn Kizer September 28

PASSWORDS: John Clare's 200th Birthday Party with Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer and Robert Hass. In collaboration with The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and held at NYU's D'Agastino Hall. September 29

PASSWORDS: Indran Amirthanayagam on Sri Lankan Poetry October 7

Second Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase October 16-30

Anthologies and the Canon: The Poem, the Reader, and the Market at the Millennium with Ray Gonzalez, Joan Larkin, A. Poulin, Jr., and Jerry Ward. October 19

The Tao of Recognition: Awards and Prizes, First Books and Self-Publishing with Didi Goldenhar, Bill Henderson, David Lehman, Robert Sheldon and Tree Swenson. October 21

The Future of Poetry Publishing: The Poetry Audience of the Future with Rosemary Catacalos, Jonathan Galassi, Dana Gioia, Bob Holman, Haki Madhubuti and Luís J. Rodríguez. October 26

Grand Finale Reading with Malkia Cyril, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Leroy Quintana, Anne Waldman and John Yau. October 29

PASSWORDS: George Herbert's 400th Birthday Celebration with Amy Clampitt, Henri Cole, Jane Cooper, Alfred Corn and Stanley Kunitz. In collaboration with The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and held at NYU's Tishman Auditorium. November 4

Seminar on Modern Poetry with Michael Heller 

A Primer on the Foundations of Modern and Contemporary Poetry November 6

Sincerity, Objectification, 'No Ideas But In Things' and the New Critical Poets November 13

Dispersions, Diversities, Disavowals November 20

CONVERSATIONS: Kamau Brathwaite and Nathaniel Mackey November 18

PASSWORDS: Robert Bertholf on Robert Duncan December 2

PASSWORDS: Grace Schulman on May Swenson December 15

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PASSWORDS: Ted Joans on Langston Hughes and André Breton February 27

PASSWORDS: Sam Hamill on Thomas McGrath March 5

Poets of Alaska: A Reading and Discussion with Christianne Balk, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, John Haines, John Morgan and Tom Sexton. Co-sponsored by The Academy of American Poets at Alliance Française. March 10

Oral Traditions: Tlingit Oral Traditions with Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. Introduced by Alec Wilkinson. Co-sponsored by The Academy of American Poets. March 12

Oral Traditions: Soundings on Oral Traditions and Performance with Jerome Rothenberg. Introduced by Armand Schwerner. March 23

Imagination and the Earth: Fifth Annual New York/ New Jersey Teachers' Conference with Sonia Sanchez, John Haines, Luci Tapahonso and Lance Henson. Co-sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. April 2

PASSWORDS: Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman April 16

Whitman and the Feminine: A Reading and Panel Discussion with Gerald Stern, Cynthia Macdonald and Susan Mitchell. April 24

The Magic Word: Language and the Poetic Vision of the Child with Richard Lewis April 29

PASSWORDS: Eavan Boland on Sylvia Plath May 7

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Keats and Birdsong with Stanley Plumly May 14

First Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase June 6-13

Poetry Reviews and the Public Perception of Poetry with Ed Hirsch, Herbert Leibowitz, Rochelle Ratner and Eliot Weinberger. Introduced by Katha Pollitt. June 10

Selling Poetry: Sales and Public Access, with Nancy Bereano, Robert Contant, Jennifer Moyer, and David Wilk. Introduced by Cathy Taylor. June 11

The Future of Poetry Publishing with David Groff, Ed Ochester, Barbara Smith and Scott Walker. Introduced by Jill Bialosky. June 12

Grand Finale Reading with Francisco X. Alarcón, Carol Conroy, Kimiko Hahn, Eileen Myles, Harold Robinson, David Rosenberg and Quincy Troupe. June 13

PASSWORDS: Harriet Zinnes on Jacques Prévert with the French read by Marcel Lidji September 24

PASSWORDS: Julio Marzán on Strange Courage: The Puerto Rican Roots of William Carlos Williams. Introduced by Amy Clampitt. October 15

The Carribbean's Fissured Tongue: Creole and Creolization in Caribbean Poetry with Edouard Glissant and Robert Stewart. In coordination with PSA's Caribbean Festival. October 22

PASSWORDS: William Jay Smith on Walter de la Mare. Introduced by Helen Handley Houghton. October 29

Poésie Sonore: An Evening with Bernard Heidsieck. Introduced by Armand Schwerner and moderated by John Giorno. Co-sponsored by the Committee for International Poetry. November 17

PASSWORDS: Arthur Gregor on Jean Garrigue. Introduced by Aileen Ward. December 3

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Kenneth Rexroth Retrospective with Sam Hamill, Eliot Weinberger, Bradford Morrow, and Linda Hamalian. March 7

Southwestern Poetry Festival with Joy Harjo, Alberto Rios, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peggy Shumaker and Richard Shelton. In collaboration with the Academy of American Poets. March 12-14

PASSWORDS: Edward Butscher on Conrad Aiken March 28

PASSWORDS: Nina Zivancevic on Serbian Women Poets April 4

Epic Voices: A Reading and Discussion of Epic Poetry with Edouard Glissant and Derek Walcott April 11

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Some Notes on Content with Denise Levertov April 25

The Magic Word: A Workshop on Children's Writing and My Tree Has a Way of Speaking: A Performance for Children Based on Children's Writing About Nature with Richard Lewis May 11

PASSWORDS: Seamus Heaney on Keith Douglas May 16

A Tribute to Audre Lord with Urban Bush Women, Sapphire, Chrystos, Sandra Maria Esteves, Nicole Breedlove and Malkia Cyrill. In association with 651 of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. May 19

Native American Oral Traditions with Alanis Obomsawim and Maurice Kenny May 31

PASSWORDS: Mark Rudman on Hart Crane and Malcolm Lowry in Mexico September 26

PASSWORDS: Clayton Eshleman on César Vallejo with Spanish read by Cecilia Vicuña October 3

When the Clouds Clear: A Reading and Discussion with South African Poet Keorapetse (Willie) Kgositsile October 16

From the Edge of Where Things Start: The Oral Traditions of the Bering Straits Chukchi with Barbara Einzig. October 24

An H.D. Retrospective with Jane Augustine, Barbara Guest, Adalaide Morris and Virginia Smyers. Introduced by Perdita Schaffner. November 14

Beneath the Single Moon: A Panel Discussion on American Buddhist Poetry with Anne Waldman, Jackson Mac Low and Armand Schwerner. November 21

The Romantics: A Reading and Slide Presentation with Susie Mee (Preceded by a reception for high school students). December 5

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The World of Something: A Theater Piece for Children Based on Childrens' Writings About the Imagination with Richard Lewis and The Touchtone Center. January 6

PASSWORDS: Murat Nemet-Nejat on Ohran Veli and Modern Turkish Poetry January 25

PASSWORDS: Hank Heifetz on Sanskrit and Tamil Erotic Verse February 8

African-American Oral Traditions with Amiri Baraka and Bilal Addullah March 8

PASSWORDS: Charles Bernstein on Charles Reznikoff March 22

A Bilingual Reading with Soviet Poet Ilya Kutik. Introduced by Allen Ginsberg. Translations read by Simon Petit. March 29

PASSWORDS: Diane Middlebrook on Anne Sexton April 27

A Panel Discussion on George Oppen with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Michael Heller and Harvey Shapiro May 4

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Changing Face of Common Intercourse: Talk Poetry, Talk Show, and the Scene of Writing with Marjorie Perloff May 10

PASSWORDS: Susan Howe on Emily Dickinson September 24

PASSWORDS: Rosmarie Waldrop on Edmond Jabès September 27

Puerto Rican Oral Traditions with Bimbo Rivas, Miguel Algarin and Jorge Brandon. Introduced by Julio Marzán. October 5

PASSWORDS: Serge Gavronsky on Francis Ponge. October 18

Tribute to Chinua Achebe with Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Stanley Diamond, Michael Mbabuike, Larry McMurtry, Grace Paley, Quincy Troupe and John Edgar Wideman. Hosted by Bill Moyers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. In cooperation with the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center. October 28

A Panel Discussion on Muriel Rukeyser with Jane Cooper, Sharon Olds and Galway Kinnell November 7

A Bilingual Panel Discussion on New French Poetry with Michael Deguy, Clayton Eshelman, Serge Gavronsky, and Emmanuel Hocquard. November 15

A Bilingual Reading with Bella Akmadulina and translations by F.D. Reeve. November 27

PASSWORDS: Michael Harper on Robert Hayden November 29

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PASSWORDS: Stanley Kunitz on Gerard Manley Hopkins January 5

Five Poets from the Soviet Union, Now Living in the United States with Konstantin Kuzminsky, Roman Bar-Or, Henry Khudyakov, Alexander Ochereytansky and Ina Bliznetsova. Introduced by William Kistler and FD Reeve. January 12

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Music of Poetry and the Music of Mind with C.K. Williams February 2

A Poet's Work is Never Done: Work Resources for Writers with Gregory Kolovakos, Nancy Larson Shapiro, David Green, Eliot Figman and Laura Vural. February 15

PASSWORDS: Jackson Mac Low on Kurt Schwitters April 6

PASSWORDS: Julio Marzán on Fernando Pessoa April 13

Three Central American Writers with Ana Maria Rodas (Guatemala), Rigoberto Paredes (Honduras), and Jorge Lu’s Oviedo (Honduras). May 2

An Evening of Verse Plays with FD Reeve and Delmore Schwartz May 11

PASSWORDS: Jonathan Galassi on Eugenio Montale May 25

Native American Oral Traditions with John Bierhorst, David Guss and Howard Norman September 25

PASSWORDS: Quincy Troupe on Three African Poets: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Christopher Okigbo and Tchicaya U Tam'si. October 5

The Poetry of Kenneth Patchen and an Exhibit of Kenneth Patchen's Original Artwork with Dennis Brutus. November 9

A Bilingual Reading with Soviet Poet Sergei Task. Introduced by Gerald Stern. Translations read by Chard de Niord. November 21

PASSWORDS: Barbara Guest on Jean Arp's Wolkenpumpe (Cloud-pump) Poetry November 30

PASSWORDS: Ruth Whitman on Abraham Sutskever and Living Yiddish Poetry December 7

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New Poetry From the United Kingdom with Michael Hoffman, Paul Muldoon, Craig Raine and Carol Rumens. February 24

Edgar Allen Poe with Richard Howard April 8

Poetry and Anthropology with Vincent Crapanzano, Stanley Diamond, Robert Hass, Lewis Hyde and Gerald Stern. Moderated by Terese Svoboda. April 21

Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Form of Free Verse with Galway Kinnell May 12

Poetry and Science with Diane Ackerman, Philip Appleman, Siv Cedering, Alicia Ostriker and Jeremiah Ostriker. May 19

Grace Schulman on Leonie Adams June 2

Reading: Anne Hébert with A. Poulin and Eugenio Andrade with Alexis Levitin. In association with the American Literary Translators Association. October 20

PASSWORDS: David Ignatow on Walt Whitman November 3

PASSWORDS: Jayne Cortez on Nicolás Guillén December 1

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Irini Spanidou and Rachel Hadas with William Kistler January 29

Poetry and the Audience with Michael Ryan February 28

William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens: Two of a Kind with David Ignatow March 3

Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) with FD Reeve and William Jay Smith March 10

Reception for Bella Akhmadulina (USSR) April 8

Gavin Ewart Reading April 25

South African Poetry Festival with Nadine Gordimer, Mbulelo Mzamane, Keith Adams, Dennis Brutus, Amelia Blossom House, Duma Ndlovu, Julian DeWette and Hein Willemse. Moderated by William Finnegan April 29-30

Writers from Australia with Laurie Duggan, Helen Garner and Michael Heyward October 20

Spanish Poets in New York with Carlos Edmundo de Ory and José Ramón Ripoll November 3

Viktor Sosnora (USSR) with Allen Ginsberg and FD Reeve December 4

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Poets House Opening with Tomas Tranströmer April 16

New Zealand Poets Reading with Lauris Edmond, Keri Hulme and Bill Manhire May 13

Soviet and American Writers and Editors Seminar. USSR: Victor Andreevich Chalmeev, Genrich A. Egoyan, Alexander Alexandrovich Kosorukov and Sergei Baruzdin. USA: Antonia Bouis, Judith Deutsch, Daniel Halpern, Ted Mooney, Darryl Pinkney, Franklin D. Reeve and Catherine S. Nepomnyaschchy July 22

Yves Bonnefoy with Richard Pevear and Paul Schmidt November 15