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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2017: Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger
Poet Cedar Sigo presents a new book he edited There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, a collection of 40 years of interviews, letters, poems,…
2017: Iowa International Writing Program 50th Anniversary Reading
Poets House invites audiences to journey around the world with the International Writing Program (IWP), the nation’s unique conduit for the world’s literatures. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah,…
2017: Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke discusses the poetics and politics of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Reading from Brooks’ early…
2017: Technicians of the Sacred: 50th Anniversary
Editor Jerome Rothenberg, George Quasha, Anne Waldman, Barbara Einzig, Stuart Cooke, David Larsen, Ariel Resnikoff, Cecilia Vicuña, and Bob Holman & Papa Susso celebrate the new,…
2017: A Doll for Throwing: When The Self is not The Self – A Craft Talk with Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang will discuss her new book A Doll for Throwing, for which she invented a ventriloquized persona that incorporates historical figures from the…
2017: The Realm of History: Susan Howe and Pattie McCarthy – A Reading and Conversation
Poet Pattie McCarthy, known for re-visioning historical texts, joins living legend and 2017 Robert Frost Medal recipient Susan Howe on the occasion of her 80th…
2017: Prose Architectures Exhibition Opening Reading
Fred Moten and Renee Gladman read to mark the opening of Gladman’s Poets House Exhibition Prose Architectures, which features work from two of her drawings-for-books, …
2017: Poetry as Pluriverse: Rethinking Language Justice Poetry Reading
A Reading with Bei Dao (Eliot Weinberger, translator), Sharmistha Mohanty, Daouda Ndiaye (Mariame Sy, translator),…
2017 25th Anniversary Poets House Showcase Members-Only Open Mic
Readings by Poets House Members Don Hogle, Liora Mondlak, Sarah T. Jewell, Bracha N. Bomze, Rosalie Calabrese, Patricia McKernon Runkle, Rose Bernal, Janet Brof, Lynne Shapiro, Robert Kramer, Vincent…
2017 Showcase Reading Series: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Aziza Barnes, Ching-In Chen, and DéLana R. A. Dameron
Readings by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Button Poetry), Aziza Barnes (i be, but i ain’t,…