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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: Passwords: Dick Higgins with Steve Clay, Joshua Beckman, Steve McCaffery & Tracie Morris
Recorded On: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
A conceptual artist and concrete poet who helped found the Fluxus movement, Dick Higgins produced “intermedia” works, including “happenings,” films, sound art, music, and experimental texts that continue to shape…
2018: Passwords: Robert Lax with John Beer, Michael N. McGregor & Stacey Tran
Recorded On: Saturday, December 1, 2018
Thomas Merton, the religious writer and poet, described his friend Robert Lax as “a potential prophet, but without rage” with “a mind full of tremendous and subtle intuitions.” A Roman…
2018: A Portrait of the Self as Nation: A Craft Talk with Marilyn Chin
Recorded On: Friday, November 16, 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…