Poet and translator Forrest Gander discusses C.D. Wright’s One with Others, a poetic documentation of the civil rights struggle in small town Arkansas.

Jos Charles discusses Middle English poetics and Chaucer’s “House of Fame,” a three-book poem that allegorizes the creation of celebrity status.

On the eve of Halloween, join Langdon Hammer, James Merrill’s biographer, and Stephen Yenser, Merrill’s literary executor, as they consider James Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim.

Poets House partners with the Iowa International Writing Program, which each year brings exceptional writers from around the world to the U.S.

Poet Farnoosh Fathi speaks on the radical metaphysical poet Joan Murray and shares the process of producing Murray’s Drafts, Fragments, and Poems.

A craft talk with Marilyn Chin, award-winning feminist poet and author of this year’s A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems, moderated by Alice Quinn.

A panel on late minimalist poet Robert Lax on the evening of his birthday and on the occasion of the reissue of his 33 Poems.

Michael Leong examines how writers of contemporary long poems—such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, M. NourbeSe Philip, & Robin Coste Lewis—draw on documentation to make claims on our cultural memories.