Kitsch is a way of describing certain kinds of seemingly trivial, yet treasured, objects in material culture, and poetry has a crucial role in its history.
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October 20, 2012
October 23, 2012
Poet L. S. Asekoff, co-recipient of the Library of Congress’s 15th annual Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry, reads from his work. A moderated conversation with former U.S.
October 11, 2012
Generating new work and revising it might be thought of as the in-breath and out-breath of poetry.
Generating new work and revising it might be thought of as the in-breath and out-breath of poetry.
October 12, 2012
In this introductory workshop, students will learn the tools to help build a poem: language, line breaks, music, sound, silence, shape, structure, image and even a little mystery.
In this introductory workshop, students will learn the tools to help build a poem: language, line breaks, music, sound, silence, shape, structure, image and even a little mystery.
October 27, 2012
Come in costume and hear Poets House’s own Mike Romanos read his favorite spooky and monstrous verse from poets such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Karla Kushkin, Shel Silverstein and
We invite our members to 10 River Terrace for a new Poets House tradition.
October 30, 2012
Arte Institute hosts a celebration and reading of the work of the great Portuguese poet and writer José Saramago (1922-2010), as part of
October 03, 2012
New poets spend a long time developing a basic sense of mastery. Eventually, they have 10 or 20 or 30 poems they are proud of. What next?
