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A conversation with Alice Notley

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

About the Poet: Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. […]

A reading by Alice Notley

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

About the Poet: Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. […]

Poet Sawako Nakayasu

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

About the Poet: Born in Japan and raised in the US, Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her newest books of poetry include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award, and Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020), both of which engage the intersection between writing and translation. Settle […]