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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2018: Name Me a Word: Indian Poetics with Meena Alexander, Ram Devineni, Vijay Seshadri & Arundhathi Subramaniam
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
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
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,…
2018: Passwords: A Tribute to Pauli Murray with Mahogany L. Browne, Rosamond S. King & t’ai freedom ford
This event honors poet, writer, civil rights activist, legal theorist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray (1910–1985). Hailed as “an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement,” Murray…
2018: Epic Voices: Mary Ann Caws on Mina Loy and Tristan Tzara
Foremost translator of Surrealist writing and editor of the newly released The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings, Mary Ann Caws presents…
2018: Epic Voices: Emily Wilson on The Odyssey
The first woman to translate The Odyssey into English, classicist Emily Wilson “has given Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice” (The New…
2018: Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual? Today’s Poet-Critics on Criticism and Critique
National Book Critics Circle poetry chair Tess Taylor invites some of today’s leading poet critics—Stephanie Burt, Chen Chen, Meghan O’Rourke, Greg Pardlo, and …
2018: Showcase Reading Series: Denizé Lauture, Katy Lederer, Raquel Salas Rivera, Chen Chen
Readings by Denizé Lauture (a kiss to the land, Subpress Collective), Katy Lederer (The bright red horse―and the blue―…
2018: Showcase Reading Series: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Michael Lally, Joy Ladin, Roberto Harrison
Readings by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Oceanic, Copper Canyon), Michael Lally (Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017, Seven Stories), …
2018: Showcase Reading Series: Lawrence Joseph, Natalie Eilbert, Anaïs Duplan, and Tony Robles
Readings by Lawrence Joseph (So Where Are We?, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Natalie Eilbert (Indictus, Noemi), Anaïs…