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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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2018: A Portrait of the Self as Nation: A Craft Talk with Marilyn Chin
Recorded On: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Born in Hong Kong, award-winning feminist poet Marilyn Chin maps immigrant and transnational identity in poems that are aesthetically wide-ranging and deft, making use of both Eastern and…
2018: Iowa International Writing Program
Recorded On: Saturday, November 3, 2018
Poets House partners with the Iowa International Writing Program, which each year brings exceptional writers from around the world to the U.S., creating new audiences for their work. This poetry…
2018: Epic Voices: James Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim with Langdon Hammer & Stephen Yenser
Recorded On: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
On the eve of Halloween, join Langdon Hammer, James Merrill’s biographer, and Stephen Yenser, Merrill’s literary executor, and as they consider James Merrill’s …
2018: Epic Voices: Jos Charles on Geoffrey Chaucer
Recorded On: Thursday, October 25, 2018
Author of the new National Poetry Series–winning collection feeld, which mines Medieval English for experimental purposes, Jos Charles presents the work of 14th-century poet…
2018: Epic Voices: Forrest Gander on C. D. Wright’s One with Others
Recorded On: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Poet and translator Forrest Gander discusses One with Others, penned by the prolific poet C. D. Wright (1949–2016) as a book-length poetic documentation of the…
2018: Passwords: A Tribute to Fay Chiang with Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones & Jessica Hagedorn
Recorded On: Thursday, October 18, 2018
A poet and community activist who supported the diverse cultures of Chinatown and the Lower East Side through education and artistic initiatives, including her stint as the executive director of…
2018: Epic Voices: Contemporary Diné Poetry & the Epic Tradition with Sherwin Bitsui
Recorded On: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
This talk by Sherwin Bitsui is a contemplation of sources and continuity in contemporary Diné poetry that considers how Navajo poets utilize traditional devices as foundation. Bitsui will…
2018: Name Me a Word: Indian Poetics with Meena Alexander, Ram Devineni, Vijay Seshadri & Arundhathi Subramaniam
Recorded On: Thursday, October 11, 2018
This evening celebrates the release of the landmark anthology Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing, edited by Meena Alexander, with readings…
2018: A Tribute to No More Masks! & Florence Howe with Ellen Bass, Natalie Diaz, Marie Howe, Aracelis Girmay, Donna Masini, Saretta Morgan & Alicia Ostriker
Recorded On: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
In this tribute to No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Ellen Bass joins fellow co-editor and Feminist Press founder Florence…
2018: Epic Voices: Anne Carson on Stillness
Recorded On: Saturday, October 6, 2018
Renowned poet, classicist, and translator Anne Carson explores the concept of stillness in this discussion of various art forms and ancient and modern artists, including Homer, Sappho, Alkman,…