A Shadowy Exultation with Edward Hirsch
MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Edward Hirsch considers how five 19th- and 20-century poets treat luminous moments and visionary experiences. It is “Within a Moment: a Pulsation of…
Tag: 30th Anniversary Event
Apr
21
Carl Phillips
Foliage & Pattern: 30th Anniversary Event with Carl Phillips Has Audio Source
L.A. Times Book Award-winner Carl Phillips discusses how pattern makes for meaning and muscularity in five poems. Author of over a dozen poetry books and two…
Apr
14
Erica Hunt (c) Erika Kapin
Between “Soft” and “Hard” Clocks: A Meditation on Temporality: 30th Anniversary with Erica Hunt Has Audio Source
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 …
The City: A 30th Anniversary Event with Rigoberto Gonzalez Has Audio Source
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…
(Feeling) At Home in America: 30th Anniversary Event with Camille Dungy Has Audio Source
American Book Award winner Camille Dungy considers five important poems by Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Maggie Smith, Craig Santos Perez, and Sterling A. Brown that reveal what it…
Five Sonnets: 30th Anniversary Event with Monica Youn Has Audio Source
National Book Award finalist Monica Youn discusses the history of poetry through the lens of the sonnet.
30 Years! A History of Poetry in 30 Poems…