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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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2018: Negative Space: Luljeta Lleshanaku with Eliot Weinberger and Ani Gjika
Recorded On: Saturday, May 12, 2018
In Luljeta Lleshanaku‘s new collection of poems, Negative Space, childhood memories of the dictatorship in Albania disperse into a calm that shrouds everyday life…
2018: A Shadowy Exultation with Edward Hirsch
Recorded On: Saturday, May 12, 2018
MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Edward Hirsch considers how five 19th- and 20th-century poets treat luminous moments and visionary experiences. It is “Within a Moment: a Pulsation of…
2018: Lullabies and Laments: Experiments in Music and Poetry
Recorded On: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Lullabies and Laments is an experiment in translation, informed by Indic reading, interpretive and performative practices. Moving between Tamil and English, this performance with Grammy Award-nominee Sikkil…
2018: The Sonnet – A Craft Talk with Shane McCrae
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Sonnets have been written in English for about 500 years, and though their popularity has risen and fallen during that time, almost from the beginning poets have utilized sonnets for…
2018: A Celebration of Fernando Pessoa
Recorded On: Saturday, February 10, 2018
Join poets Patricio Ferrari, John Keene, Mónica de la Torre, and Vijay Seshadri for a re-examination of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the seminal Portuguese poet who…
2018: A Celebration of James Wright: A Life in Poetry
Recorded On: Saturday, January 20, 2018
Biographer Jonathan Blunk and special guests Anne Wright, Donna Masini and Gerald Stern celebrate James Wright: A Life in Poetry…
2017: A Letter That Begins With I Love You: A Celebration of Patricia Smith
Recorded On: Saturday, December 9, 2017
The author of seven books of poetry including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Blood Dazzler, and most recently Incendiary Art, a 2014…
2017: (Feeling) At Home in America: 30th Anniversary Event with Camille Dungy (Full Audio)
Recorded On: Saturday, December 2, 2017
American Book Award winner Camille Dungy considers five important poems by Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Maggie Smith, Craig Santos Perez, and Sterling A. Brown that reveal what it…
2017: Five Sonnets: 30th Anniversary Event with Monica Youn
Recorded On: Saturday, November 18, 2017
National Book Award finalist Monica Youn discusses the history of poetry through the lens of the sonnet. Welcome by Poets House Executive Director Lee Briccetti,…
2017: The Wind Will Undo Us: A Tribute to James Tolan
Recorded On: Saturday, November 11, 2017
Denver Butson, Nicole, Callihan, Lorraine Doran, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Wendy Larsen, Owen Lewis, Fran Quinn, Jason Schneiderman, Myra Shapiro, Olivia Stiffler, Cecilia Woloch, Holly Messitt, Junuh Tolan,…