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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
Recorded On: Thursday, June 27, 2019
Ross Gay, Tina Chang, Tommy Pico
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2019: Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading
Recorded On: Saturday, June 15, 2019
2019 Emerging Poets Fellows Rabih Ahmed, Kiran Bath, Catherine Chen, Charlene François, James Fujinami Moore, Trevor Ketner,…
2019: Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip: A Collective Reading with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Sean D. Henry-Smith, Erica Hunt, and Rosamond S. King
Recorded On: Saturday, June 1, 2019
Following M. NourbeSe Philip’s talk on the Caribbean (un)epic, Rosamond S. King, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Sean Henry-Smith, and Erica…
2019: Epic Voices: The Caribbean (Un)Epic with M. NourbeSe Philip
Recorded On: Saturday, June 1, 2019
Poet M. NourbeSe Philip writes: “That ‘micropelago’ of tiny islands that arc in one long ache from Cuba to Guyana to enclose the Caribbean Sea (the Cari Basin)…
2019: Craft Talk: Black Feminism 4eva with Simone White
Recorded On: Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Poet and scholar Simone White gives a craft talk on her current project: a long poem that explores the cost of anti-patriarchal life for black women today, “which…
2019: Passwords: Infinite Plentitude & AfroSurrealism with Devin Cain, Alexandria Eregbu & Krista Franklin
Recorded On: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Infinite Plentitude, a performative presentation by the artistic collective du monde noir, explores historical and contemporary AfroSurrealism, with a focus on Martinique as the…
2019: Passwords: Diane di Prima—A Discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, Iris Cushing & Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Recorded On: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
In coordination with the launch of a digitized copy of Diane di Prima’s 1973 chapbook Loba, Part 1 on the Poets House website, this program honors the great…
2019: Passwords: Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader with Derek Fenner, Randall Horton & Pamela Sneed
Recorded On: Saturday, May 11, 2019
A pioneer of the serial poem and a mentor to Jack Spicer and John Wieners, Boston-based poet Stephen Jonas was an important yet under-recognized figure of postwar American poetry. …
2019: Craft Talk: The Revolution Is Emotional: Recovering Art & Community with Yanyi
Recorded On: Saturday, May 4, 2019
Former Emerging Poets Fellow Yanyi returns to Poets House to give a talk on his debut book, The Year of Blue Water …
2018: Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems with Steven Alvarez
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Poet and scholar Steven Alvarez examines Olson’s epic The Maximus Poems as a transnational poetic project that dismantles the walls of a U.S.-centered America,…
2019: Epic Voices: Injun with Jordan Abel
Recorded On: Saturday, April 20, 2019
Jordan Abel, a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, gives a craft talk and performance of his Griffin Prize–winning long poem Injun, which investigates racist depictions of…