From the Archives: Erica Hunt, Eileen Myles, Brenda Hillman & Alicia Ostriker Talk Feminism
Listen back to 2002 for inspiration on healing the world, getting tossed out of rooms, warding off creeps, and defying the poetry police.
Category: From the Archives
From the Archives: Michael S. Harper on Robert Hayden—Student of Paradox, Decoder of Stereotypes
Posted Feb 6, 2020
Read Michael S. Harper’s remarks on the work of Robert Hayden, the first Black U.S. Poet Laureate (then called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress)
Audio Roundup: Black Poets Honoring Black Poets
By Suzanne Wise, Staff Writer
Posted Feb 19, 2019
A gathering of highlights from our audio archives, featuring prominent black poets discussing the work and legacy of other influential black writers.
From the Archives: Stanley Kunitz on Poetry in a Time of Crisis
Posted Nov 8, 2018
The late Poets House co-founder and U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz argued that poets are “stronger than tyrants” even as the “American myth belongs to politics and power.”
From the Archives: Emerging Poets on Poetry & the Body
Posted Oct 23, 2018
Alumni of the Emerging Poets Fellowship address the theme of the body in writing generated through their discoveries in the Poets House library.
From the Archives: Édouard Glissant & Derek Walcott in Conversation about the Epic
Posted Oct 15, 2018
A debate about the long poem between two giants of Caribbean literature at Poets House in 1991.