Gather with readers and friends to honor the extraordinary Kimiko Hahn. An innovative poet, curator, professor, and collaborator, Hahn was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Her newest book, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton, 2024), offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a […]
About the Poets: Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations (University of Chicago Press) received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was longlisted for the National Book Award. In addition to the poetry collection Everyone I Love Is a Stranger to Someone (Write Bloody, 2014), the experimental pop EP About Repulsion (Fonograf Editions, 2019), and the artist’s book POOL (NECK, […]
Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Shuzo Takiguchi’s poetry: A Kiss for the Absolute (Princeton University Press, 2024). These ingenious, playful, and erotic poems will be read in their original Japanese and in English. Following the reading, […]
About the Poets: Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize and Best Translated Book Award. Gander’s has been a signal voice for environmental poetics. His book Twice Alive focuses on human and ecological intimacies. In October 2024, New Directions will bring […]
Engage with new poems on feminism and humanity from lauded poets Joan Larkin and Alicia Ostriker. Joan Larkin’s latest, Old Stranger: Poems (Alice James Books, 2024), reckons with all of the moments that shape a woman’s life, and the many shapes a woman’s life can take—from mother to daughter to trauma survivor to feminist—asking the reader to contend with whether we can […]
Our annual “literary revelry” (New Yorker) returns with Vona Groarke joining Nick Laird as co-curator. In an intimately reconfigured setup for our flexible theatre and tucked away from the cacophony of the city and our online lives, PoetryFest bridges contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic with a free weekend of readings and conversations with […]