Readings by Richard Deming and John Yau, and hosted by Claudia Rankine, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It […]

This program will be hybrid- both online and in-person inside the Lower Level Conference Room at the Chatham Square Branch. We will give you poems to read by Carl Phillips during the program. Should you wish to read them ahead, they will be "First Night At Sea," and "Glory On." You will be invited to […]

About the Authors: Brenda Hillman is the author of ten collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book […]

Psychoanalysis and poetry share a significant conceptual and practical terrain: both are committed to saying the unsayable and thinking the unthought; both pay excited attention to slips of the tongue […]