Emily Wilson (c) Ralph Rosen
Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English, discusses the challenges of making this ancient work feel alive now.
Michael Leong
Michael Leong examines how writers of contemporary long poems—such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, M. NourbeSe Philip, & Robin Coste Lewis—draw on documentation to make claims on our cultural memories.
…James Merrill (c) The New London Day
On the eve of Halloween, join Langdon Hammer, James Merrill’s biographer, and Stephen Yenser, Merrill’s literary executor, as they consider James Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim.
…C D Wright (Photo credit Forrest Gander)
Poet and translator Forrest Gander discusses C.D. Wright’s One with Others, a poetic documentation of the civil rights struggle in small town Arkansas.
with Édouard Glissant and Derek Walcott
Spend an afternoon discovering the poetries of the world with two back-to-back readings by major writers from Mexico, Iraq, South Africa, the Basque Country, Denmark and Portugal—all against the backdrop…
Poetic Voices of the Muslim World examines the central role of poetry in the lives of Muslim men and women around the globe through programs in public libraries. Developed…
Poet and translator David Ferry, author of Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse, shares his translation of this great epic of ancient Mesopotamia. Ferry…
Listen to readings by Marilyn Chin and the Iowa International Writing Program; conversations on Dick Higgins, Robert Lax, and the Polish epic; and a tribute to John Yau!
The following is a master list of all Poets House programs held from 1986 through 2019.
2019Poets House at the Grolier Club:…
