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SUMMARY:Anti-Oppression Poetics: An Instrument of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading featuring Cave Canem fellows Marwa Helal\, Raymond Antrobus\, makalani bandele\, and Aricka Foreman. \n\n\n\nLiberation is not only the antonym of oppression\, it is its antidote. Poets have often used their medium to advance the discourse of liberation and the practice of it in their interior lives and external communities; and\, as June Jordan wrote\, “to face [their] own culpability…in the continuation of injustice and powerful intolerance.” In the difficult terrain of geopolitics\, four Cave Canem Fellows reiterate their position in the Black literary tradition of social justice and commit to free speech as a tenet of artistic practice.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/anti-oppression-poetics-an-instrument-of-liberation/
LOCATION:POWERHOUSE Arena\, 28 Adams Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Lunar New Year Celebration with Hachette Book Group and Kundiman
DESCRIPTION:Join Hachette Book Group and Kundiman for this special Lunar New Year party in downtown Brooklyn\, hosted by Youngmi Mayer and featuring readings and book signings from renowned authors Curtis Chin\, Kat Chow\, Janine Joseph\, Subhashini Kaligotla\, Sahar Muradi\, and Matthew Salesses\, with food and drinks from local vendors! We’ll celebrate the power of community and storytelling as we gather to ring in the new year. RSVP for the event here
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/lunar-new-year-celebration-with-hachette-book-group-and-kundiman/
LOCATION:Hana House\, 345 Adams Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Michael Dumanis and Dorothea Lasky
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Michael Dumanis and Dorothea Lasky\, followed by a reception/signing. \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Authors: \nMichael Dumanis is the author of the poetry collections Creature (Four Way Books\, 2023) and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press)\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is also coeditor (with poet Cate Marvin) of the younger poets’ anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande) and (with poet Kevin Prufer) of Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades). \nHis poems have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, Denver Quarterly\, Harvard Review\, The Hopkins Review\, Iowa Review\, Ninth Letter\, Ploughshares\, and POETRY; in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Project; and on the Poetry Society of America website. His writing has been recognized with residencies at Yaddo\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Hermitage Artist Retreat\, and the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide\, Italy; an Ohio Arts Council grant; a Cuyahoga Country Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship; and the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award. \nBorn in Moscow\, in the former Soviet Union\, Dumanis emigrated with his family at the age of five and grew up in Western New York: the Buffalo suburb of Amherst and the Rochester suburb of Brighton. He holds a BA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University\, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Previously a professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University and Cleveland State University\, where he also served as director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center\, Dumanis joined the Bennington College Literature Faculty in the Fall of 2012. In addition to being a member of the Literature faculty\, he serves as Director of the Poetry at Bennington reading series and Editor of Bennington Review\, a journal he relaunched in 2016\, after a thirty-year hiatus \nDorothea Lasky is the author\, most recently\, of The Shining (October 2023) and Animal\, published in 2019 in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. She is also the author of Milk (Wave Books\, 2018)\, Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton\, 2014)\, Thunderbird (Wave Books\, 2012)\, Black Life (Wave Books\, 2010)\, and AWE (Wave Books\, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books\, 2012)\, The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books\, 2012)\, Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2010)\, Tourmaline (Transmission Press\, 2008)\, The Hatmaker’s Wife (2006)\, Art ( H_NGM_N Press\, 2005)\, and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press\, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978\, she has poems that have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Laurel Review\, MAKE magazine\, Phoebe\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, The Paris Review\, and 6×6\, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s\, 2013)\, co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (with Alex Dimitrov\, Flatiron Books\, 2019) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania\, is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst\, and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University\, Wesleyan University\, and Bennington College. Currently\, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in New York City.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-michael-dumanis-and-dorothea-lasky/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:PSA Reading Series: Andrea Cohen & Nick Flynn
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors: \nAndrea Cohen is the author of eight collections of poetry\, including\, most recently\, The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books\, 2024). Cohen’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books\, the Threepenny Review\, the Atlantic Monthly\, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several residencies at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and teaches poetry at Boston University. \nNick Flynn (writer\, playwright\, poet) has published twelve books\, most recently Low (Graywolf\, 2023); This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (Norton\, 2020)\, a hybrid memoir; and Stay: threads\, collaborations\, and conversations (ZE Books\, 2020)\, which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists\, filmmakers\, and composers. He is also the author of five collections of poetry\, including I Will Destroy You (Graywolf\, 2019). He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress\, and is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. His acclaimed memoir\, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton\, 2004)\, was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro\, and has been translated into fifteen languages.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-reading-series-andrea-cohen-nick-flynn/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Poets Reading Series: Sarah Ghazal Ali\, V. Penelope Pelizzon & Diana Khoi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event at 144 Montague on Friday\, February 16\, featuring poets Sarah Ghazal Ali\, V. Penelope Pelizzon and Diana Khoi Nguyen! Free and open to the public\, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Wine reception for in-person attendees will begin at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow. \nAdvance online ticketing for in-person guests will end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that\, in-person guests will be admitted at the door until we reach capacity. In-person guests are encouraged to get a ticket in advance\, as space is limited. Virtual tickets will be available until start time at 7 PM (ET). A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders. \nClosed captions for the event will be available via Zoom. To request additional accommodations or more information\, please contact us. Note that by attending the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series\, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy below. Effective January 8\, 2024\, all event attendees except readers at a safe distance on stage are required to wear masks due to the current rise in cases in NYC. Our full policy can be found at the end of the event description. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. \nAbout the Authors: \nSarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Djanikian Scholar and winner of the Sewanee Review Poetry Prize\, she has published her poems in American Poetry Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Poem-a-Day\, Guernica and elsewhere. A former Stadler Fellow\, Sarah has received fellowships and residencies from Tin House\, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts\, the Hambidge Center\, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, Community of Writers\, and others. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and an incoming assistant professor of English at Macalester College. \nV. Penelope Pelizzon’s third book of poems\, A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series\, 2024) is a LitHub recommendation for 2024. Her first book\, Nostos\, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second\, Whose Flesh Is Flame\, Whose Bone Is Time\, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is also the coauthor of Tabloid\, Inc.\, a critical study of film\, photography and crime narratives. Her recognitions include a Hawthornden Fellowship\, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship\, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. \nA poet and multimedia artist\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective She Who Has No Master(s). She’s received an NEA fellowship and awards from the 92Y “Discovery” Poetry and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery contests. She teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA program and is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brooklyn-poets-reading-series-sarah-ghazal-ali-v-penelope-pelizzon-diana-khoi-nguyen/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Ahmad Almallah & India Lena González
DESCRIPTION:In their new books\, Border Wisdom and fox woman get out!\, Ahmad Almallah and India Lena González\, illuminate and blur at the thresholds of history and memory\, living and dying\, the body and the earth and the air. For future ancestors\, holding both loss and return\, these poems help us envision the liberation of all occupied homelands. \nFeaturing a guest introduction by Mirene Arsanios. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/ahmad-almallah-india-lena-gonzalez/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Poets Book Launch: Rachel Edelman
DESCRIPTION:oin us for the launch of poet Rachel Edelman’s new collection of poems\, Dear Memphis\, on Saturday\, February 17\, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for a wine reception for in-person guests at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Lynne Sachs and Diane Exavier will open for Edelman. Book signing to follow. \nNote that by attending this event\, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy below. Effective January 8\, 2024\, all event attendees except readers at a safe distance on stage are required to wear masks due to the current rise in cases in NYC. Our full policy can be found at the end of the event description. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. \nAbout Dear Memphis \n“What do I know of exile?” asks the speaker in Dear Memphis\, standing inside the colliding geographies and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up\, this collection explores the displacement and belonging of a Jewish family in Memphis\, Tennessee\, alongside their histories of community and environment. The simultaneous richness and spareness of Edelman’s poems sing with their attention to the particular body and what it cannot carry\, what it cannot put down. Through letters\, visual art\, city documents\, and dialogue\, Dear Memphis excavates ancestry\, inheritance and the ecological possibility of imagining a future. \nAbout the Authors: \nRachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis\, Tennessee\, who writes into diasporic living. Dear Memphis\, published by River River Books\, is their debut collection of poems. Her poems have appeared in Narrative\, the Seventh Wave\, the Threepenny Review\, West Branch and many other journals. They have received material support from City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture\, the Academy of American Poets\, Mineral School\, Crosstown Arts\, and Tin House\, and finalist commendations from the Adrienne Rich Award\, the Pink Poetry Prize\, and the National Poetry Series. Edelman earned a BA in English and geology from Amherst College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She teaches language arts in the Seattle Public Schools\, where embodiment and care root her personal\, poetic and pedagogical practice. \nLynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet who grew up in Memphis and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Over the last four decades\, she has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration\, incorporating elements of documentary\, performance\, and collage. Her films and poems explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences\, often from a personal\, self-reflexive point of view. With each film\, Sachs investigates the implicit connection between the body\, the camera and the materiality of film itself. Her early works on celluloid offer a feminist approach to the creation of images and writing— a commitment which has grounded her vision ever since. Early in her career\, Lynne returned to her hometown to make Sermons and Sacred Pictures (1989)\, a documentary on the life and work of Reverend L.O. Taylor\, an African American minister and filmmaker from Memphis. Lynne’s films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, the New York Film Festival\, and Sundance. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at the Museum of the Moving Image\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Buenos Aires International Festival\, Festival International de Havana\, and China Women’s Film Festival. \nDiane Exavier is a writer\, theatermaker and educator working at the intersection of performance and poetry. She is author of the poetry collection The Math of Saint Felix and the chapbook Teaches of Peaches. Diane concerns herself with what she recognizes as the 4 L’s: love\, loss\, legacy and land. Her work has been presented with the New Group\, BRIC Arts\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Dixon Place and more. She has been commissioned for new play development by the Sloan Foundation\, the New Group\, and Lucille Lortel Theatre. Most recently\, Diane coedited the 2023 new critical edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane. A 2021 Jerome Foundation finalist\, Diane lives and works in Brooklyn.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brooklyn-poets-book-launch-rachel-edelman/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Imogen Binnie & Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Imogen Binnie and Evan Kennedy drive punk sensibility into queer literature at high speed. Maybe they would each contest that description\, if punk is a thing of the past. Binnie’s Nevada (Topside Press\, 2013; FSG\, 2022) and Kennedy’s Metamorphoses (City Lights\, 2023) are books filled with raucous sociality\, gay lust for life\, comic misapprehension\, formal variety\, urban dramedy. If it’s not punk\, it’s something better. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/imogen-binnie-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Alumni Poetry Reading: A.H. Jerriod Avant\, J.D. Debris\, and January O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Readings by NYU MFA alumni\, A.H. Jerriod Avant\, J.D. Debris\, and January O’Neill\, followed by a reception/signing. \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Authors: \nA. H. Jerriod Avant is the author of Muscadine (2023) from Four Way Books. He is from Longtown\, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University\, Avant has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. He’s a recipient of support from Vermont Studio Center\, the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference\, and Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. Avant has received two winter poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a 2019 emerging artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He curated a special series of Poem-a-Day from August 17–August 28\, 2020 and serves as a teaching fellow in English at Wesleyan University.\n\nJ.D. Debris is a poet and fiction writer from Salem\, Massachusetts. His debut collection of poems\, The Scorpion’s Question Mark\, was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Donald Justice Prize. He received his MFA from New York University\, where he was a Goldwater Fellow. His work has received further awards from DISQUIET\, Ploughshares\, and Narrative. A failed rockstar and washed-up boxer\, he still makes music and fights sometimes. He is at work on a novel about two ex-boxers who\, believing they’re cursed\, fall in with a secret society of Catholic leftists.\n\nJanuary O’Neil was born in Norfolk\, Virginia\, and received a BA from Old Dominion University and an MFA from New York University.\n\n\n\n\n\nO’Neil is the author of Glitter Road (forthcoming CavanKerry Press\, 2024); Rewilding (CavanKerry Press\, 2018)\, recognized by Mass Center for the Book as a notable poetry collection for 2018; Misery Islands (CavanKerry Press\, 2014)\, winner of a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and Underlife (CavanKerry Press\, 2009). \nThe recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, O’Neil was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and was named the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for 2019–20 at the University of Mississippi\, Oxford. \nO’Neil is an associate professor of English at Salem State University and and currently serves as the 2022–23 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writers Programs (AWP). She lives in Beverly\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/alumni-poetry-reading-a-h-jerriod-avant-j-d-debris-and-january-oneill/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open: Ann Herendeen & Amatan Noor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open\, which begins with an open mic and culminates in readings by two featured poets. Our featured poets on February 23rd will be Ann Herendeen & Amatan Noor. \n6:00 PM: open mic signup begins \n6:30 to 7:45 PM: open mic \n8 to 8:30 PM: featured readers \nEach reader for the open mic can read for up to a four-minute set. Participants can purchase one of eight tickets in advance to reserve an open mic spot. Once those tickets sell out\, all other participants who’d like to read for the open mic can purchase a ticket to sign up at the door on a first-come\, first-serve basis. There will be time for about 16–18 readers. \nGuests can purchase tickets to attend in person at 144 Montague Street or virtually via Zoom (note: virtual guests cannot read for the open mic). For in-person attendance\, advance online ticket sales end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that\, tickets for in-person attendance can be purchased at the door until we reach capacity. Tickets for virtual attendance will be available until 6:30 PM. A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders. Participants are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance for in-person attendance\, as there are limited seats. Brooklyn Poets members take $5 off. \nNote that by participating in the Friday Night Open\, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy. Effective January 8\, 2024\, all events attendees except readers at a safe distance on stage are required to wear masks due to the current rise in cases in NYC. Our full policy can be found at the end of the event description. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. \nClosed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations\, contact us at bkp@brooklynpoets.org. \nAbout the Authors: \nAnn Herendeen is a native New Yorker and Brooklyn resident who majored in English at Princeton University in the 1970s and is still recovering from culture shock. Due to hand disabilities\, she was not an active writer until her forties\, when computers transformed the writing process from a chore to a pleasure. Since discovering poetry through a new friendship\, Ann has found a supportive community and is drawing on her poetry studies as she completes a work of autofiction set in a dystopian future. She won Poem of the Month honors at the Brooklyn Poets Yawp in January 2023\, and in December of that year received the Brooklyn Poets Robin Romeo Award\, given to an outstanding poet who supports others in the community. \nAmatan Noor is a Bangladeshi poet living in Brooklyn\, NY. She migrated to the United States in 2005 and spent her adolescence in New Jersey. Amatan’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry appears in Dialogist\, Thimble\, Midway and No\, Dear\, among other journals. Amatan has won poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café and Brooklyn Poetry Slam. She is the author of the chapbook Not Guilty (Finishing Line Press\, 2023). Amatan lives in Clinton Hill and is in an ongoing love affair with Fort Greene Park.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brooklyn-poets-friday-night-open-ann-herendeen-amatan-noor/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Page Meets Stage: Terrance Hayes & s.e. zelalem
DESCRIPTION:Join Brooklyn Poets on Saturday\, February 24\, for the return of Page Meets Stage\, a poetry series founded in 2005 and curated by poet Taylor Mali. Featured poets Terrance Hayes and s.e. zelalem will read poems back and forth in a creative conversation\, and Mali will emcee and ask the poets questions. Doors will open for a wine reception for in-person guests at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. \nGuests can purchase tickets to attend in person at 144 Montague or virtually via Zoom. Advance online ticket sales for in-person attendance will end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that\, tickets for in-person attendance can be purchased at the door until we reach capacity; tickets for virtual attendance will be available until the start of the readings at 7 PM. A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders. Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations\, contact us at bkp@brooklynpoets.org. Note that by attending this event\, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy below. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. \nSeries History & Evolution \nOriginally the series was called Page vs. Stage\, but it has never been a competition in any way. In fact\, originally the series wasn’t a series at all. The very first pairing was in November of 2005 and featured Taylor Mali reading opposite his mentor and teacher Billy Collins. It was Bob Holman\, the emcee that night and owner of the Bowery Poetry Club\, who encouraged Mali to turn it into a semi-monthly series. Mali says\, “We’ve had well over 100 pairings of Page Meets Stage\, most of which are available on YouTube. In the beginning\, I used to really care about the labels—about who was PAGE and who was STAGE. These days the lines are much more blurred\, and ideally we pair poets who are accomplished on both ‘surfaces’ who will appreciate each other’s work and be able to have a conversation.” \nAbout the Authors: \ns.e. zelalem is an Ethiopian-American poet from Virginia and the winner of the 2023 Yawp Poem of the Year Award from Brooklyn Poets. She has a background in performance and slam poetry and is interested in time travel\, gossip\, first dates\, illness and lineage. You can find her overplanning a dinner party\, underpacking her bags\, calling her mom back. \nTerrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Wind in a Box; Hip Logic\, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; and Muscular Music\, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His prose collection To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism\, and his new book of prose\, Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry\, came out in 2023. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation\, Guggenheim Foundation and Whiting Foundation and is a professor of English at New York University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/page-meets-stage-terrance-hayes-s-e-zelalem/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Joris/Peyrafitte — Domopoetics: Karstic Actions/Works
DESCRIPTION:A multimedia soirée with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte weaving & braiding their individual & shared travails. \nDomopoetics is the name Joris & Peyrafitte give to 34 years of daily practices in transforming & intertwining their lives & works\, be it through writing\, painting\, video\, physical conditioning\, cooking & all other shared household activities. \nKarstic refers to the geological phenomena of dissolution & transformation at work in the formation of superficial or underground limestone topographies. Here it is taken literally & figuratively as nature & cave explorations are an important part of their process. \nPierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte live in Bay Ridge\, Brooklyn\, N.Y. & collaborate on many pluridisciplinary actions\, books & films. Their Domopoetics-Karstic Actions present performances\, conferences & installations that link their works; a first installment was presented at Galerie Simoncini\, Luxembourg\, in 2017. Their collaborations started shortly after they met in 1990 with NP designing covers & illustrations for a number of books by PJ — over 22 by now. Further collaborative work includes the teaching of seminars on “domopoetics” (Naropa University\, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art\, Limoges)\, & translations of their own writings as well as of poetry from Occitan into English (Bernat Manciet\, Marcella Delpastre) & from English into French (Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman\, the latter with Eline Marx). NP has authored a number of videos\, among these 2 (“Anhalter Bahnhof” & “You Lie”) based on poems by Paul Celan translated by PJ\, 6 “Flash-Interviews” ( 3” videos) with PJ as well as creating the media support for PJ’s Paul Celan presentations (Harvard\, Bard College\, Princeton\, Rice\, Yale & others\, plus the films for the presentations/readings of the 2 Collected Celan volumes (2014\, 2020) at NYU. In 2017 the pair collaborated on the poetry collection The Book of U/ Le livre des cormorans (Editions Simoncini) & in 2020 they created the video-event “Robert Kelly\, A Celebration for his 85th birthday” for The Poetry Project. During the recent Covid-confinement (from March 24 to April 24\, 2020) they broadcast Voilà Lunchtime! on Instagram & Facebook; this daily show shared their lunch preparations as a process-showing of their domopoetic practices. Their most recent KARSTIC ACTIONS/WORKS occupied the three levels of La Galerie Simoncini in Luxembourg from June 4 – July 15 2021.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/joris-peyrafitte-domopoetics-karstic-actions-works/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Speak Now: Claudia Rankine
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated writer Claudia Rankine ’93 returns to Columbia University School of the Arts for the first of a new series of events\, “Speak Now\,” organized by Interim Dean and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, Sarah Cole. \nAbout the Author: \nClaudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry\, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP\, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed\, NYC)\, and The White Card\, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays\, Just Us: An American Conversation\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016\, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors\, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry\, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Lannan Foundation\, the MacArthur Foundation\, United States Artists\, and the National Endowment of the Arts. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program in Fall 2021. She lives in New York. \nBooks available for purchase by Book Culture.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/speak-now-claudia-rankine/
LOCATION:Lenfest Center for the Arts\, the Lantern\, 615 W 129th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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