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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: Epic Voices: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard & Don Share
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts, first published in Poetry magazine in 1966, has been called one of the greatest poems of the 20th century. Critic and poet …
2019: Epic Voices: Harry Martinson’s Aniara with Fia Backström & Kira Josefsson
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Swedish artist and writer Fia Backström gives a performative talk on Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s 1956 epic science-fiction poem Aniara, which chronicles a flight from…
2019: A Celebration of Bettissima with Merrill Oliver Douglas, Kathy Engel, Lawrence Joseph, Quincy Troupe & Margo Viscusi
Recorded On: Saturday, April 6, 2019
In conjunction with the exhibition Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive, poets read from…
2019: Epic Voices: The Long Poem of the Anthropocene with Allison Cobb
Recorded On: Thursday, April 4, 2019
Poet Allison Cobb presents Green-Wood, her book-length work of ecopoetry that employs research on Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. She will discuss how the long poem and…
2019: Epic Voices: One Hundred Million Million Poems & Oulipo with Matt Madden
Recorded On: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Cartoonist Matt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and the procedural compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle…
2019: Passwords: Gerrit Lansing with Ruth Lepson, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Robert Podgurski & Charles Stein
Recorded On: Saturday, March 16, 2019
“A man of wider and deeper knowledge than almost anyone I have known,” says Pierre Joris of Gerrit Lansing, poet, occult scholar, and confidant to fellow Gloucester resident Charles Olson. Poets…
2019: Epic Voices: Bernadette Mayer & Stacy Szymaszek on the Long Poem & Daily Writing
Recorded On: Saturday, March 9, 2019
Beloved New York School poet and artist Bernadette Mayer joins poet and former director of the Poetry Project Stacy Szymaszek in a craft conversation on daily…
2019: Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Taiyo Na, Sofía Snow & Bill Zavatsky
Recorded On: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Poets and educators explore June Jordan’s essay “For the Sake of a People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” in the second annual panel celebrating Jordan’s work.
…2019: Epic Voices: The Controlling Image: Digges & Levis with Dorianne Laux
Recorded On: Friday, February 22, 2019
Acclaimed for her own hybrid lyric-narrative long poems that explore wide-ranging experience, from working-class America to sex and love, poet Dorianne Laux discusses two long, discursive poems—by Deborah…
2019: Epic Voices: Prophets with Kwame Dawes
Recorded On: Thursday, February 14, 2019
Poet and editor Kwame Dawes presents his recently reissued epic poem Prophets and explores Caribbean poetry and the epic, examining the intersection of African and western…