Poetry @ Princeton

On Wednesday, March 1st, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Claudia Rankine presents the Theodore H. Holmes ‘51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture. Rankine is the 2016-17 recipient of Princeton’s Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing. The lecture begins at 5:00 […]

Kay Redfield Jamison Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire Saturday, March 4th @ 3PM ---------------------------------------------------------- In her magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell, whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark […]

Jenny Johnson Reading Wed., March 8, 4:30pm James M. Stewart '32 Theatre, Lewis Center Princeton Hodder Fellow Jenny Johnson will read from her Whiting Award-winning debut poetry collection In Full Velvet. Released by Sarabande Books in February 2017, the collection interrogates the nuances of desire, gender, ecology, queer lineage and community. The event will be […]

Susan Stewart will read from Cinder, which gathers for the first time the poet's work from a thirty-five-year career, including many extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision, Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, […]

Reading by Douglas Kearney and Kirstin Valdez Quade Poet Douglas Kearney and fiction writer Kirstin Valdez Quade read from their work on Wednesday, March 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The event, part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, is free and open to the public.

MARCH 27 | 12:00 PM | 144 Louis A. Simpson International Building Translation Lecture Series: Barry McCrea The next guest for the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication lunch lecture series will be Barry McCrea, Notre Dame, on "Is there such a thing as untranslatable poetry? The case of the Irish Language." McRea will be a 2017-18 […]

Paul Muldoon Selected Poems, 1968-2014 Tuesday, March 28th @ 6PM ------------------------------------------------ Please join us for a reading with Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war.” (TLS) Fellow poet Michael Dickman will introduce his colleague. Full event details Paul Muldoon is the author of twelve previous books of poetry, including […]

Paul Muldoon: Selected Poems, 1968 – 2014 3/28 - 6 pm - Labyrinth Books Join us for a reading with Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war.” (TLS) Fellow poet Michael Dickman will introduce his colleague. Selected Poems 1968–2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections […]

Benjamin Bagby, Anglo-Saxon Harp and Voice THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017, 6:00 PM $25 General, $10 Students PROGRAM “Beowulf” – the epic book in a multi-media performance with Bagby playing the Anglo-Saxon harp and singing/reciting the Beowulf story. Bagby will be joined by Experiential Designer and Adobe Creative Resident  Craig Winslow who will bring the colorful […]

Fund for Irish Studies: “Words for Music, Perhaps” A Day-long Symposium on Irish Lyric and Song Fri., March 31 from 9:45 a.m.-6 p.m. “Words for Music, Perhaps” features panel discussions by renowned scholars Matt Campbell, Aileen Dillane, Paul Hamilton, Barry McCrea, Maureen McLane, Paul Muldoon, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Iarla O’Lionaird, and Dan Trueman, along with Irish […]