Beloved New York School poet Bernadette Mayer and former Poetry Project director Stacy Szymaszek discuss Mayer’s Midwinter Day, Szymaszek’s poetic journals, and other conceptual works.
Matt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo.
Allison Cobb presents Green-Wood, her book-length work of ecopoetry themed around Brooklyn’s famed cemetery, examining the long poem and multigenre writing.
Listen to recent programs on epics and long poems; tributes to Fay Chiang and Pauli Murray; and readings from seminal anthologies of feminist poetry and Indian writing.
Eleven fall programs explore the epic form from ancient to contemporary.
