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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2019: Epic Voices: Injun with Jordan Abel
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…
2019: Epic Voices: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard & Don Share
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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…