Gay New York: An Interview with Artist Nicholas Buffon
Nicholas Buffon discusses capturing gay history and New York’s “decayed and changing present” in his exhibition at Poets House, on view through November 30.
Nicholas Buffon discusses capturing gay history and New York’s “decayed and changing present” in his exhibition at Poets House, on view through November 30.
At Poets House this fall: workshops, readings, talks & performances with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mahogany L. Browne, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass, Fanny Howe, and more.
Hear the words of Walt Whitman in the year of his 200th birthday, along with other poets celebrating NYC, on this annual poetic pilgrimage in support of Poets House.
…Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
Listen to Bernadette Mayer, Dorianne Laux, Kwame Dawes, and Matt Madden on the long poem, and hear about the legacies of June Jordan, Walt Whitman, and Gerrit Lansing.
Writer and educator Bill Zavatsky discusses June Jordan’s “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” and the legacy of both poets.
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
Rigoberto González explores the poem “Mannahatta,” Whitman’s ode to “a skyline made of iron and cement.”