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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2019: Passwords: Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader with Derek Fenner, Randall Horton & Pamela Sneed
A pioneer of the serial poem and a mentor to Jack Spicer and John Wieners, Boston-based poet Stephen Jonas was an important yet under-recognized figure of postwar American poetry. …
2019: Craft Talk: The Revolution Is Emotional: Recovering Art & Community with Yanyi
Former Emerging Poets Fellow Yanyi returns to Poets House to give a talk on his debut book, The Year of Blue Water …
2018: Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems with Steven Alvarez
Poet and scholar Steven Alvarez examines Olson’s epic The Maximus Poems as a transnational poetic project that dismantles the walls of a U.S.-centered America,…
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…