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2017: Passwords: Sholeh Wolpé on Attar

Recorded On: Thursday, April 6, 2017

Written in Persia in the 12th century, The Conference of the Birds by Attar remains a central work in the history of literature, in which the birds of…

2017: Stand Up: Poetry, Richard Pryor, and Institutional Racism in the Arts with Cathy Park Hong

Recorded On: Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Using Richard Pryor as a model, New Republic Poetry Editor and Guggenheim Poetry Fellow Cathy Park Hong examines racial conventions in contemporary poetry and fiction and…

2017: Huddled Masses: Alicia Ostriker on Immigration

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Award-winning poet and critic Alicia Ostriker examines the links between poetry and America’s origins as a nation of immigrants and as a beacon of equality, intended to be…

2017: Passwords: Margaret Randall on Cuban Poetry

Recorded On: Thursday, March 23, 2017

Feminist poet, photographer, and social activist Margaret Randall takes audiences on a linguistic journey through Cuba. Editor of Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades…

Colin Browne, Daphne Marlatt, and Fred Wah

2017: Canadian Mosaic: A Reading and Conversation

Recorded On: Thursday, March 16, 2017

Canada’s foremost poets Colin Browne, Daphne Marlatt, and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah read from their work, exemplifying the contemporary…

2017: Passwords: Brad Gooch on Rumi

Recorded On: Saturday, February 18, 2017

Poet, novelist, and biographer Brad Gooch discusses the life and work of Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi. Author of the new biography Rumi’s Secret,…

2016: Beyond Bhakti: Contemporary Spiritual Poetics Across Europe and The Americas

Recorded On: Saturday, December 10, 2016

Join us for a reading and discussion of devotional poetry gleaned across expanses of time and geography with Ravi Shankar, Drunken Boat’s founding editor. …

2016: Bhakti: The Art of Devotion

Recorded On: Saturday, December 10, 2016

Archana Venkatesan, Rafiq Kathwari, and Ravi Shankar engage in a discussion concerning the poetics of Bhakti, the Sanskrit word meaning “to participate…

2016: New Literature from Europe – Poetry in Motion

Recorded On: Friday, December 9, 2016

Join us for an intimate discussion about the art of poetry, featuring four very different poetic voices from Europe – Elena Alexieva 
from Bulgaria and the author of…

2016: A Celebration of Rigoberto González

Recorded On: Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Rigoberto González continues to change the landscape of American literature through his groundbreaking poetry, prose, and scholarship, providing readers with a redocumentation of our shared cultural memory. Join…