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March 2020
10*10*10: Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson
Join Dave Johnson at 10am to write a new poem in only 10 minutes. We’ll present a new video every weekday for 10 days. For teens to adults. Free!
Find out more »POSTPONED: I am deliberate/ and afraid/ of nothing: Poetry, Protest & Climate Change Activism With Ed Roberson, Joan Kane & Brian Teare
Poet, novelist, and playwright Diane Glancy will present a craft talk on the book of Job and the Cherokee ballad tradition. Join poets Ed Roberson, Joan Kane, and Brian Teare for a reading and conversation about life and justice in the Anthropocene.
Find out more »Exhibition Opening: Participating Witness: The Poetics Of Granary Books with Steve Clay and Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Mary Catherine Kinniburgh and Steve Clay
Join us for a conversation between publisher Steve Clay and archivist Mary Catherine Kinniburgh that celebrates the opening of Participating Witness.
Find out more »Poets House at AWP in San Antonio: CANCELLED
Joined by Camille T. Dungy, Katharine Coles & Alison Hawthorne Deming discuss how poetry’s alignment with science learning creates new paths to knowledge.
Find out more »December 2019
A Tribute to Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe
Poets House and hosts Jennifer Tseng & Kazim Ali honor the life & work of Fanny Howe, with words from Maureen N. McLane, Rae Armantrout, Peter Gizzi & more.
Find out more »November 2019
North of Invention: A berthDay Celebration with bill bissett
(c) Aloysius Wong
On the occasion of polymath bill bissett’s 80th birthday, join us in welcoming the poet, painter, musician, and editor to Poets House!
Find out more »Woke Baby Book Fair
A celebration of independent presses that publish justice-oriented children’s books, curated by Mahogany L. Browne.
Find out more »Passwords: The Ballad: Love, Lyricism & Social Protest with Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio presents her new translations of the poetry of Federico García Lorca, accompanied by flamenco guitarist Sergio Sánchez-Monge Escardó.
Find out more »Passwords: The Ballad: Pidgin Kine Rhapsody: Hawaiian English-Creole Poetry from 1970 to the Present with R. Zamora Linmark
Poet and novelist R. Zamora Linmark discusses hybridity and song in Hawaiian ballad traditions, interspersing the lecture with Hawaiian Pidgin poems.
Find out more »October 2019
Poetry of the Supernatural: The Weird with Bryan Thao Worra & Linda Addison
Bryan Thao Worra, Linda Addison
Two days before Samhain, Bryan Thao Worra and Linda Addison explore supernatural poetics from H. P. Lovecraft to Edgar Allan Poe.
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