Events for Apr 9, 2019

Name: Showcase Reading Series: Eugene Gloria, Adrian Silbernagel, Jesse Rice-Evans & Tina Cane
Start: 2019-08-01T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-08-01T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Elizabeth Kray Hall, Poets House

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Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive

Dec 11, 2018 - Jun 1, 2019

Cheney Chappell Exhibition Space, Poets House, 10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282 United States + Google Map

Over 100 of Poets House co-founder Elizabeth Kray's letters to & from acclaimed poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, June Jordan, Denise Levertov, Clarence Major, Adrienne Rich & more.

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7:00 pm

Epic Voices: Harry Martinson’s Aniara with Fia Backström & Kira Josefsson

Apr 9, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Elizabeth Kray Hall, Poets House, 10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282 United States + Google Map

Swedish artist and writer Fia Backström and translator and writer Kira Josefsson look at Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s 1956 epic science-ﬁction poem, Aniara.

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When an angel carries off my soul,
Embracing it in haze and flame—
There’s neither body nor tears,
Just the sack of my heart filled with poems.

Elena Shvarts
(Trans. Thomas Epstein)

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