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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: 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…
2018: A Tribute to John Yau
Recorded On: Saturday, December 8, 2018
This evening honors John Yau, the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently Bijoux in the Dark (2018); four books of fiction; and many…
2018: Epic Voices: The Polish Epic with Jacek Dehnel & Bill Johnston
Recorded On: Friday, December 7, 2018
Polish writer and translator Jacek Dehnel joins American translator Bill Johnston to discuss the epic in Polish literature, from the 19th century to contemporary works. Johnston…
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 …