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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: Between “Soft” and “Hard” Clocks: A Meditation on Temporality with Erica Hunt
Recorded On: Saturday, April 14, 2018
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
Recorded On: Friday, April 13, 2018
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
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
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
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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
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…