Epic Voices: The Caribbean (Un)Epic with M. NourbeSe
Jun 1, 2019 | 3:00 pmPoet M. NourbeSe discusses her book Zong! and her manuscript Island Liturgies in the context of the (un)epic, “the Caribbean’s most natural form.”
Tag: Epic Voices
Epic Voices: Karen Finley on William Carlos Williams’ Paterson
May 9, 2019 | 7:00 pmLegendary 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: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems with Steven Alvarez
Apr 30, 2019 | 7:00 pmPoet 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: Injun with Jordan Abel
Apr 20, 2019 | 3:00 pmJordan Abel, a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, gives a craft talk on and performance of his Griffin Prize–winning long poem Injun.
Epic Voices: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard & Don Share
Apr 16, 2019 | 7:00 pmAn 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: Harry Martinson’s Aniara with Fia Backström & Kira Josefsson
Apr 9, 2019 | 8:00 amSwedish artist and writer Fia Backström and translator and writer Kira Josefsson look at Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s 1956 epic science-fiction poem, Aniara.
Epic Voices: The Long Poem of the Anthropocene with Allison Cobb
Apr 4, 2019 | 7:00 pmAllison Cobb presents Green-Wood, her book-length work of ecopoetry themed around Brooklyn’s famed cemetery, examining the long poem and multigenre writing.
Epic Voices: One Hundred Million Million Poems & Oulipo with Matt Madden
Mar 21, 2019 | 7:00 pmMatt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo.
Epic Voices: Bernadette Mayer & Midwinter Day with Stacy Szymaszek
Mar 9, 2019 | 3:00 pmBeloved 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: The Controlling Image: Digges & Levis with Dorianne Laux
Feb 21, 2019 | 7:00 pmAward-winning poet Dorianne Laux discusses two long poems—by Deborah Digges and Larry Levis—examining how the personal “I” is used.