Epic Voices: The Caribbean (Un)Epic with M. NourbeSe Philip
Poet M. NourbeSe Philip discusses her book Zong! and her manuscript Island Liturgies in the context of the (un)epic, “the Caribbean’s most natural form.”
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Epic Voices: Karen Finley on William Carlos Williams’ Paterson
Legendary downtown performance artist Karen Finley looks at William Carlos Williams’ Paterson as a political poem and in relation to her new work in poetry.
Epic Voices: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard & Don Share Has Audio Source
An examination of Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts, called one of the greatest poems of the 20th century, with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard, and Don Share.
Epic Voices: Injun with Jordan Abel Has Audio Source
Jordan Abel, a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, gives a craft talk on and performance of his Griffin Prize–winning long poem Injun.
Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems with Steven Alvarez Has Audio Source
Poet and scholar Steven Alvarez examines Charles Olson’s epic The Maximus Poems as a transnational poetic project dismantling the walls of a U.S.-centered America.
Epic Voices: Prophets with Kwame Dawes Has Audio Source
Poet and editor Kwame Dawes presents his recently reissued epic poem Prophets and explores Caribbean poetry and the epic.
Epic Voices: The Controlling Image: Digges & Levis with Dorianne Laux Has Audio Source
Award-winning poet Dorianne Laux discusses two long poems—by Deborah Digges and Larry Levis—examining how the personal “I” is used.
Epic Voices: Bernadette Mayer & Stacy Szymaszek on the Long Poem & Daily Writing Has Audio Source
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.
Epic Voices: One Hundred Million Million Poems & Oulipo with Matt Madden Has Audio Source
Matt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo.
Epic Voices: The Long Poem of the Anthropocene with Allison Cobb Has Audio Source
Allison Cobb presents Green-Wood, her book-length work of ecopoetry themed around Brooklyn’s famed cemetery, examining the long poem and multigenre writing.