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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2012: Mark Doty on Walt Whitman
National Book Award winning poet Mark Doty leads a close reading of Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” as well as other works from Leaves of Grass…
2012: Quincy Troupe reads ‘Forty-One Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah’
Quincy Troupe reads and discusses “Forty-One Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah (for Michael Jordan)” as part of Quincy Troupe on the…
2012: Quincy Troupe reads ‘A Poem for Magic’
Quincy Troupe reads and discusses “A Poem for Magic” as part of Quincy Troupe on the Craft of Poetry
2011: Coleman Barks on Rumi’s “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing”
Coleman Barks reads from and discusses his translation of Rumi’s poem “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, // there is a field. I’ll meet you there” and…
2011: Coleman Barks reads Rumi
Poet and preeminent translator of the mystic poet Rumi, Coleman Barks reads from his translations of the poet and discusses the power of 13th and 14th century mystical…
2011: Coleman Barks reads from Rumi’s The Masnavi
Coleman Barks reads an excerpt from his translation of Rumi’s long poem The Masnavi.
2010: A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: An Evening with Adonis
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most revered and influential poets of the Arabic-speaking world. In honor of his 80th birthday,…
2008: Kay Ryan reads ‘Stardust’
Kay Ryan reads her poem ‘Stardust’ as part of Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration.
Recorded in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, June 18,…
2008: Kay Ryan reads ‘Reverse Drama’
Kay Ryan reads her poem ‘Reverse Drama’ as part of Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration.
Recorded in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, June…
2008: Kay Ryan reads ‘Green Behind the Ears’
Kay Ryan reads her poem ‘Green Behind the Ears’ as part of Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration.
Recorded in Nelson A. Rockefeller…