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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2017 Showcase Reading Series: Jen Hyde, Cynthia Manick, Tommy Pico, and Martha Rhodes
Readings by Jen Hyde (Hua Shi Hua: Drawings and Poems from China, Ahsahta); Cynthia Manick (Blue Hallelujahs, Black…
2017: Showcase reading series: Elizabeth Arnold, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Alan Felsenthal and Christine Shan Shan Hu
Readings by Elizabeth Arnold (Skeleton Coast, Flood Editions), Cortney Lamar Charleston (Telepathologies, Saturnalia Books), Alan Felsenthal…
2017: Legacy Reading – David Ferry and Gerald Stern
Readings by award winning poets David Ferry (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, University of Chicago Press) and Gerald Stern (Galaxy…
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…