Writing for the Poetry Foundation, David Woo says that Rae Armantrout’s recent book Finalists (Wesleyan 2022) “emanates the radiant astonishment of living thought.” Charles Bernstein says, “Her sheer, often hilarious, ingenuity is an aesthetic triumph.” Armantrout’s book, Conjure, was named one of the ten “best books” of 2020 by Library Journal. Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the […]
In her third collection recently published in English, Chimera, (New Directions: 2024, translated by Brian Sneeden, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics, poetics of assemblage that are both informed by the human and the non-human, where poetry blends with writing, myth, orality, field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The center […]
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024), the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016). She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s […]
Featuring Billy Joe Harris, Erica Hunt, Aldon Nielsen, and Simone White, with host Al Filreis Hosted by KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis, the PoemTalk podcast features a lively roundtable discussion of poetry in the PennSound archive. Please join us in the Arts Café for a special episode of PoemTalk held in memory and celebration of […]
Featuring Billy Joe Harris, Erica Hunt, and Aldon Lynn Nielsen, with host Al Filreis Hosted by KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis, we will gather for a reading in celebration of Tyrone Williams (1954-2024), a scholar, poet, and dear friend of the Kelly Writers House. Williams’s work draws on a variety of sources to challenge and […]
About the Poet: Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three […]