Elizabeth Kray Hall, Poets House

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.

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.

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.

Jordan Abel, a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, gives a craft talk on and performance of his Griffin Prize–winning long poem Injun.

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.

Former Emerging Poets Fellow Yanyi returns to Poets House to give a talk on his book, The Year of Blue Water, chosen for the 2018 Yale Younger Poets Prize.

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.

Derek Fenner, co-editor of Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader, joins poets Pamela Sneed and Randall Horton to explore Jonas’ work.

A program honoring Diane di Prima on the occasion of some new releases and the launch of a digitized copy of her 1973 chapbook Loba, Part I on Poets House’s website.

Infinite Plentitude, a performative presentation by the artistic collective du monde noir, explores historical and contemporary AfroSurrealism.

Poet and scholar Simone White gives a craft talk on her current project: a long poem that explores the cost of anti-patriarchal life for black women today.

Poet M. NourbeSe discusses her book Zong! and her manuscript Island Liturgies in the context of the (un)epic, “the Caribbean’s most natural form.”

Travel to the future of poetry: 2019 Emerging Poets Fellows read new work crafted during mentorship by their workshop leader, poet Anselm Berrigan.