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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2019: A Tribute to Fanny Howe
Poets House honors the life and work of prolific poet, scholar, and activist Fanny Howe, author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. After initially…
2019: North of Invention: A berthDay Celebration with bill bissett
On the occasion of polymath bill bissett’s 80th birthday, we welcomed the poet, painter, musician, and editor to Poets House. bissett presented on his legendary career in…
2019: Passwords: The Ballad: Love, Lyricism & Social Protest with Sarah Arvio
Award-winning poet Sarah Arvio presents her new translations of the poetry of Federico García Lorca, recently published as the acclaimed Poet in Spain. She…
2019: Passwords: The Ballad: Pidgin Kine Rhapsody: Hawaiian English-Creole Poetry from 1970 to the Present with R. Zamora Linmark
Celebrated Filipino American poet and novelist R. Zamora Linmark discusses hybridity and song in Hawaiian ballad traditions. Linmark intersperses the lecture with Hawaiian Pidgin poems by Lois-Ann Yamanaka…
2019: Poetry of the Supernatural: The Weird with Bryan Thao Worra & Linda Addison
Bryan Thao Worra, Lao Minnesotan Poet Laureate and president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, joins Linda Addison, the first black woman…
2019: Academy of American Poets Chancellor Conversations, Part 3: Writing Poetry in a Troubled World
Poets House and the Academy of American Poets host a special opportunity to engage with the Academy’s Chancellors as they take up three timely topics in conversations that will provide…
2019: Academy of American Poets Chancellor Conversations, Part 2: Our Own Foreignness: Border-Crossing Poetry in Translation
Poets House and the Academy of American Poets host a special opportunity to engage with the Academy’s Chancellors as they take up three timely topics in conversations that will provide…
2019: Academy of American Poets Chancellor Conversations, Part 1: Poetry Makes Nothing Happen?: Poetry In/And the Public Sphere
Poets House and the Academy of American Poets host a special opportunity to engage with the Academy’s Chancellors as they take up three timely topics in conversations that will provide…
2019: The Life & Work of Daniel Halpern with Robert Hass
In celebration of a lifetime of dazzling work spanning poetry, editing, and food writing, Daniel Halpern is joined by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass to…
2019: North of Invention: The Shaking Tent with Liz Howard
Liz Howard, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016, discusses this sacred Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) rite and examines the use of ritual practice as a means to…