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2019: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico
2018: Between “Soft” and “Hard” Clocks: A Meditation on Temporality with Erica Hunt
Poet, essayist, and teacher Erica Hunt considers five poems and how they frame time: tense, tempo, slippage, archive, and prophecy. Author of several books of poetry, including …
2018: Passwords: Danez Smith on Audre Lorde
Finalist for the National Book Award and Lambda Award-winner Danez Smith discusses the life and work of legendary poet and activist Audre Lorde (1934–1992), whose radical poetics broke…
2018: The Archive as Resistance: A Craft Talk with Cynthia Cruz
The author of four books and winner of the Hodder Fellowship, among other honors, poet and critic Cynthia Cruz discusses creative engagement with archives as a means of…
2018: Best American Poetry: 30 Years with Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Natasha Trethewey and Others
The acclaimed annual anthology series Best American Poetry celebrates three decades of publication with readings of selections by several of its editors: Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Edward…
2018: The City with Rigoberto Gonzalez
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
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
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
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
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
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…