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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2002: Erica Hunt on Poetry and Feminism
Poet Erica Hunt discusses the gender-related challenges (and aims) for today’s writers and readers of poetry as part of the panel What’s Feminism Got to Do…
2002: Eileen Myles on Poetry and Feminism
Poet Eileen Myles discusses the gender-related challenges (and aims) for today’s writers and readers of poetry as part of the panel What’s Feminism Got to Do…
2001: Wanda Coleman on Phillis Wheatley
In this Passwords program, poet Wanda Coleman discusses the work of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784). Born in Africa, Wheatley was kidnapped, brought to America, and sold to a prominent…
2001: Anne Carson reads from “Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera” (Full Audio)
Anne Carson reads and discusses Greek poet Sappho’s ‘Fragment 31’ [He seems to me equal to gods that man] from Carson’s Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera.
…2001: Susan Howe and Susan Stewart on Wallace Stevens (Full Audio)
Poets Susan Howe and Susan Stewart discuss modernist and postmodernist poetics, with a special emphasis on Wallace Stevens, one of the “inventors” of the art in…
2000: J.D. McClatchy reads Longfellow’s ‘The Fire of Driftwood’
Poet, editor and critic J.D. McClatchy reads “The Fire of Driftwood” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
2000: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
J.D. McClatchy gives a brief overview of the life and work of Longfellow.
2000: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Full Audio)
Poet, editor and critic J D McClatchy reads and discusses the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), muses on the tides of taste, and presents a fresh view…
1998: Agha Shahid Ali on Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Poet Agha Shahid Ali reads the poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), considered the greatest Urdu poet of the second half of this century, examining his use of…
1998: Alice Quinn on The Future of Poetry Publishing
New Yorker Poetry Editor Alice Quinn discusses what the future may hold for poets, publishers and poetry audiences as part of the 1998 Future…