Home away from Home, Poets House
Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye reflects on her myriad experiences at Poets House over the years.
Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye reflects on her myriad experiences at Poets House over the years.
Investigate the future, the supernatural, and the absurdities of “right now” as envisioned by Black poets, artists and scholars.
Claire Van Vliet, MacArthur Award–winning book artist and publisher of works by James Schuyler, Kwame Dawes & others, describes her creative process.
Alison Hawthorne Deming discusses her work as Milwaukee Poet-in-Residence for Poets House’s Field Work project, exploring intersections of poetry & science.
Poet Sarah Stewart explains “shoogle” and shines a light on Scottish poetry collections that use native dialects.
Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
Poets House Board President Emerita Margo Viscusi remembers Betty Kray, co-founder of Poets House and a behind-the-scenes powerhouse in American poetry.
Katharine Coles discusses her work as Salt Lake City Poet-in-Residence for Poets House’s Field Work project, exploring poetry & science via programs at museums & public libraries.
Writer and educator Bill Zavatsky discusses June Jordan’s “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” and the legacy of both poets.
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”