This 2nd annual panel in June Jordan’s honor gathers poets & educators to explore her essay “For the Sake of a People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.”

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.

Poets and writers who knew Gerrit Lansing—poet, occult scholar, and confidant to Charles Olson—share remembrances and honor his work.

Matt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo.

At AWP, Paul Guest, Aisha Sasha John, and Aldrin Valdez discuss their various paths into poetry and the ways in which mentorship plays a role in their success and continued praxes.

Allison Cobb presents Green-Wood, her book-length work of ecopoetry themed around Brooklyn’s famed cemetery, examining the long poem and multigenre writing.

Swedish artist and writer Fia Backström and translator and writer Kira Josefsson look at Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s 1956 epic science-fiction poem, Aniara.