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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: The City with Rigoberto Gonzalez
Recorded On: Saturday, March 24, 2018
Lambda Award-winning poet Rigoberto González considers five poems that explore the city. As the bittersweet symbol of order and chaos, progress and decay, community and overcrowding, the city…
2018: Writing the Body with Kimiko Hahn
Recorded On: Thursday, March 22, 2018
What does text look like if a writer is “writing the body”? Poet Kimiko Hahn considers this, using as a starting place écriture féminine—the French…
2018: Naomi Replansky 100th Birthday Reading
Recorded On: Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Friends and fellow poets gather to honor National Book Award nominee Naomi Replansky, who has been praised by Philip Levine as a “warrior for social justice” and…
2018: Poland’s Ryszard Krynicki with Clare Cavanagh, Edward Hirsch and Alissa Valles
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, Ryszard Krynicki went on to become one of post-war Poland’s most significant poets, as well as an acclaimed…
2018: Poetry & The Body with Chia-Lun Chang, Alex Cuff, Rico Frederick, Ricardo Hernandez, Cynthia Manick and Adeeba Talukder
Recorded On: Saturday, March 3, 2018
Ricardo Hernandez, Cynthia Manick, Alex Cuff, Chia-Lun Chang, Rico Frederick, Adeeba Talukder, graduates of Poets House’s Emerging Poets Fellowship read new work composed on the theme of…
2018: Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan
Recorded On: Saturday, February 24, 2018
During her life, poet and essayist June Jordan (1936 – 2002) energetically responded to the crises of the disenfranchised with activism, writing and teaching. To continue her legacy of speaking…
2018: Negative Space: Luljeta Lleshanaku with Eliot Weinberger and Ani Gjika
Recorded On: Saturday, May 12, 2018
In Luljeta Lleshanaku‘s new collection of poems, Negative Space, childhood memories of the dictatorship in Albania disperse into a calm that shrouds everyday life…
2018: A Shadowy Exultation with Edward Hirsch
Recorded On: Saturday, May 12, 2018
MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Edward Hirsch considers how five 19th- and 20th-century poets treat luminous moments and visionary experiences. It is “Within a Moment: a Pulsation of…
2018: Lullabies and Laments: Experiments in Music and Poetry
Recorded On: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Lullabies and Laments is an experiment in translation, informed by Indic reading, interpretive and performative practices. Moving between Tamil and English, this performance with Grammy Award-nominee Sikkil…
2018: The Sonnet – A Craft Talk with Shane McCrae
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Sonnets have been written in English for about 500 years, and though their popularity has risen and fallen during that time, almost from the beginning poets have utilized sonnets for…