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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
Recorded On: Thursday, June 27, 2019
Ross Gay, Tina Chang, Tommy Pico
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2017: Passwords: Anne Waldman with Steven Taylor on William Blake
Recorded On: Wednesday, May 3, 2017
A founder and director of the Poetry Project and co-founder along with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, poet Anne Waldman, with Bessie…
2017: Corrosive Power: A Reading and Conversation with Athena Farrokhzad & Noemi Jaffe
Recorded On: Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad, author of White Blight, appears with her translator Jennifer Hayashida, and Brazilian poet Noemi Jaffe…
2017: Necessary Cuts: Rickey Laurentiis on Revision at Poets House
Recorded On: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Though Paul Valéry claimed “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” what happens between a poem’s creation and its abandonment is revision. Examining “Southern Cross” by Carl Phillips, “Look” by…
2017: Rooms Are Never Finished: The Legacy of Agha Shahid Ali
Recorded On: Friday, April 21, 2017
Kazim Ali, Rita Banerjee, Amanda Golden, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Patricia O’Neill, and Sejal Shah…
2017: Harry Clifton & Alissa Valles: A Reading & Conversation
Recorded On: Thursday, April 20, 2017
Irish poet Harry Clifton, author of Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 and winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and poet and translator …
2017: Passwords: Sholeh Wolpé on Attar
Recorded On: Thursday, April 6, 2017
Written in Persia in the 12th century, The Conference of the Birds by Attar remains a central work in the history of literature, in which the birds of…
2017: Stand Up: Poetry, Richard Pryor, and Institutional Racism in the Arts with Cathy Park Hong
Recorded On: Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Using Richard Pryor as a model, New Republic Poetry Editor and Guggenheim Poetry Fellow Cathy Park Hong examines racial conventions in contemporary poetry and fiction and…
2017: Huddled Masses: Alicia Ostriker on Immigration
Recorded On: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Award-winning poet and critic Alicia Ostriker examines the links between poetry and America’s origins as a nation of immigrants and as a beacon of equality, intended to be…
2017: Passwords: Margaret Randall on Cuban Poetry
Recorded On: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Feminist poet, photographer, and social activist Margaret Randall takes audiences on a linguistic journey through Cuba. Editor of Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades…
2017: Canadian Mosaic: A Reading and Conversation
Recorded On: Thursday, March 16, 2017
Canada’s foremost poets Colin Browne, Daphne Marlatt, and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah read from their work, exemplifying the contemporary…