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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2017: 25th Anniversary Showcase Opening Reading with Ishion Hutchinson, Hoa Nguyen, and Marie Howe
Readings by Ishion Hutchinson, Hoa Nguyen, and Marie Howe celebrate the opening of the 25th annual Poets House Showcase, and exhibit of…
2017: Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading
A reading by Poets House Emerging Poet Fellows Sean D. Henry-Smith, Sahar Romani, Nkosi Nkululeko, Marwa Helal, Kyle Ducuyan, Gbenga Adesina, Elisabet Velasquez, Desiree C Bailey, Camonghne Felix…
2017: Poetry and Desire: A Reading and Conversation
Poets Vahni Capildeo, Natalie Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo, and Shivanee Ramlochan examine intimacy, language, and poetry as…
2017: Passwords: Anne Waldman with Steven Taylor on William Blake
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
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
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
Kazim Ali, Rita Banerjee, Amanda Golden, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Patricia O’Neill, and Sejal Shah…
2017: Harry Clifton & Alissa Valles: A Reading & Conversation
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
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
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…