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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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2002: Erica Hunt on Poetry and Feminism
Recorded On: Friday, March 15, 2002
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
Recorded On: Friday, March 15, 2002
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
Recorded On: Friday, November 16, 2001
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)
Recorded On: Monday, April 30, 2001
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)
Recorded On: Friday, January 12, 2001
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’
Recorded On: Thursday, October 19, 2000
Poet, editor and critic J.D. McClatchy reads “The Fire of Driftwood” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
2000: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Recorded On: Thursday, October 19, 2000
J.D. McClatchy gives a brief overview of the life and work of Longfellow.
2000: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Full Audio)
Recorded On: Thursday, October 19, 2000
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
Recorded On: Thursday, November 19, 1998
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
Recorded On: Thursday, May 7, 1998
New Yorker Poetry Editor Alice Quinn discusses what the future may hold for poets, publishers and poetry audiences as part of the 1998 Future…