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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
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…
2008: Kay Ryan ‘The Niagara River’
Kay Ryan reads the title poem from her collection The Niagara River as part of Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration.
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2008: Galway Kinnell reads “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Galway Kinnell reads Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” at Brooklyn’s historic Fulton Ferry Landing as part of Poets House’s 13th Annual Poetry Walk Across…
2008: Bill Murray reads Thomas Lux, Martin Espada, and Galway Kinnell
Actor Bill Murray reads poems by Thomas Lux (“Eyes Gouged Out and Replaced by Hot Coals”), Martín Espada (“Rules for Captain Ahab’s Provincetown Poetry Workshop”), Galway Kinnell (“Oatmeal”)…
2008: Bill Murray reads “Oatmeal” by Galway Kinnell
Actor Bill Murray reads Galway Kinnell’s poem “Oatmeal” as part of the 13th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge (Approx. 5 minutes)
2008: George Oppen Centennial Reading (Full Audio)
Readings by Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Gizzi, E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael…
2008: The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium Panel One (Full Audio)
“Biographical-Historical Continuum” panel, moderated by Michael Heller, featuring Stephen Cope on Oppen’s diaries and journals, Norman Finkelstein on the late poems, Eric…
2007: Jane Hirshfield – Bashō and the Immensities of Image (Full Audio)
In this talk, Jane Hirshfield explores the poet Matsuo Bashō’s life and teachings, the inner workings of haiku, and the poems themselves, revealing both the continuing usefulness and…
2007: Dick Davis on Persian Poetry
Poet and translator Dick Davis expands our understanding of the period that gave rise to such voices as Rumi and Omar Khayyam by exploring several poems from the…