On May 28, 2013 at 7:00PM, Poets House is organizing an event to honor the life and work of May Swenson, celebrating the centenary of her birth. Readings will showcase the breadth of her poetic output, from nature poems displaying her keen observation of wildlife to exuberant and erotic love poems celebrating beauty and passion, to place poems recording her travels to the American southwest, France and Italy and her residence in New York. Readers will include Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Sharon Dolin, Langdon Hammer, Richard Howard & Samantha Thornhill.

For more information visit the Poets House website here.

Poets House is located at Ten River Terrace (at Murray Street)
New York, NY 10282
212-431-7920
212-431-8131 (fax)
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May Swenson, (1913 – 1989)