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2018: A Celebration of Fernando Pessoa

Recorded On: Saturday, February 10, 2018

Join poets Patricio Ferrari, John Keene, Mónica de la Torre, and Vijay Seshadri for a re-examination of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the seminal Portuguese poet who…

2018: A Celebration of James Wright: A Life in Poetry

Recorded On: Saturday, January 20, 2018

Biographer Jonathan Blunk and special guests Anne Wright, Donna Masini and Gerald Stern celebrate James Wright: A Life in Poetry…

2017: A Letter That Begins With I Love You: A Celebration of Patricia Smith

Recorded On: Friday, December 8, 2017

The author of seven books of poetry including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Blood Dazzler, and most recently Incendiary Art, a 2014…

2017: (Feeling) At Home in America: 30th Anniversary Event with Camille Dungy (Full Audio)

Recorded On: Saturday, December 2, 2017

American Book Award winner Camille Dungy considers five important poems by Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Maggie Smith, Craig Santos Perez, and Sterling A. Brown that reveal what it…

2017: Five Sonnets: 30th Anniversary Event with Monica Youn

Recorded On: Saturday, November 18, 2017

National Book Award finalist Monica Youn discusses the history of poetry through the lens of the sonnet. Welcome by Poets House Executive Director Lee Briccetti,…

2017: The Wind Will Undo Us: A Tribute to James Tolan

Recorded On: Saturday, November 11, 2017

Denver Butson, Nicole, Callihan, Lorraine Doran, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Wendy Larsen, Owen Lewis, Fran Quinn, Jason Schneiderman, Myra Shapiro, Olivia Stiffler, Cecilia Woloch, Holly Messitt, Junuh Tolan,…

Julie Carr, Mónica de la Torre and Anna Moschovakis

2017: Borrowed Confessions: Julie Carr, Mónica de la Torre and Anna Moschovakis

Recorded On: Thursday, November 9, 2017

Julie Carr, Mónica de la Torre, and Anna Moschovakis discuss intimacy, feminism, and the act of confession in epistolary poetry from Lorine Niedecker, Jack Spicer,…

2017: Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger

Recorded On: Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Poet Cedar Sigo presents a new book he edited There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, a collection of 40 years of interviews, letters, poems,…

2017: Iowa International Writing Program 50th Anniversary Reading

Recorded On: Sunday, November 5, 2017

Poets House invites audiences to journey around the world with the International Writing Program (IWP), the nation’s unique conduit for the world’s literatures. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah,…

2017: Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks

Recorded On: Thursday, October 19, 2017

Poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke discusses the poetics and politics of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Reading from Brooks’ early…