Poetry @ Princeton

Come hear Princeton's own Rachel Galvin! Author of Pulleys & Locomotion, translator of Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets Reading and discussion Location: McCosh 40 This reading is organized by Princeton's Graduate Contemporary Poetry Colloquium.  

A panel on contemporary poetry practice and institutionality Speakers: Brenda Shaughnessy, Joshua Kotin, and Anthony Carelli Location: McCosh 40 (Lunch will be served)

Location: Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton We're excited to invite you to come out for a multidisciplinary, multimedia collaborative work by Manual Cinema and the Chicago Q Ensemble, FJORDS , imaginatively presenting the poetry of Zachary Schomburg. Toeing the line between live scored cinema and performance art, FJORDS features shadow puppetry, live silhouette, video, and manipulated slide […]

Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Tuesday, March 13 at 6 PM (245 East Pyne) WHAT’S PAST IS FUTURISM Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky Read their Poetry and Translations of the Russian Avant-Garde (Readings will be in English) Matvei Yankelevich is the […]

Poetry reading by Stephen Dunn Introduction by Greg Djanikian Co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and UPenn's Creative Writing Program. More Info Location: Arts Cafe Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA

Poet K. Silem Mohammad discusses Coleridge and Wordsworth’s collaboration, Lyrical Ballads, in the context of each poet’s development. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Stanley Plumly, author of Posthumous Keats, is joined by poets Michael Harper, Judith Harris and Anne Wright for a discussion of the life and work of this beloved Romantic poet. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to […]

Poet and nonprofit arts leader Gigi Bradford looks at the life and work of women poets of the New World. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Ron Silliman has been crucial to the changing scope of contemporary American poetry for more than forty years. A founder of the Language poetry movement, Silliman established the concept of "the new sentence," which Penn's own poet and scholar Bob Perelman calls "defiantly unpoetic." "Its shifts break up attempts at the natural reading of universal, […]

Hosted by Al Filreis RSVP: seating strictly limited; please rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749 Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program More Info Location: Arts Cafe Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA

Poet Quincy Troupe talks about poetic forms and approaches to craft as exemplified by American poetry along with a discussion of his own poetic innovations. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Event Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House More Info Location: Arts Cafe Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA

Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage. He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a PhD at Duke. His poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies such as Callaloo, Indiana Review, New Caribbean Poetry, New Poetries IV, PN Review, Poetry London, Small Axe, The Ringing […]

National Book Award winning poet Mark Doty leads a close reading of Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” as well as other works from Leaves of Grass. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Location: 11th Street Bar 510 East 11th Street, between Avenues A&B NYC More Info Triptych Readings brings together emerging and established writers for brief and luminous readings in New York City's East Village. All readings are free and open to the public.

Carolina Maugeri's recent mixed media works, A Note on School of the Holy Beast and Takoyaki Hiss, Come L'amore, were included in the exhibitions Cinematic: Medi(t)ations Upon a Medium at the Osvaldo Romberg Studio and Containment Policy at the Pterodactyl Gallery. Since then she has performed music with Tristan Dahn in the Moles Not Molar […]

Althea Ward Clark W ’21 Reading Series Organized by Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing Location: McCosh Hall, Room 50

Poet and scholar Eamon Grennan gives an overview and offers close readings of several poems by the great Irish modernist. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Poet and translator Cole Swensen discusses the Symbolist poets in late 19th century France, with close readings of poems by Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire alongside other poets of the time, including Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. Event sponsored by Poets House More Info Location: Kray Hall Poets House 10 River Terrace NYC Admission: $10, […]

Come hear C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern and others, reading and in conversation. Location: Trenton City Museum Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park Trenton, New Jersey Directions Participating writers and artists include Daniel Aubrey, Luray Gross, Vasiliki Katsarou, Doc Long, Anne Marie Macari, Paul Matthews, Pablo Medina, Hayden Saunier, Mark Schrieber, Gerald Stern, John Timpane, and C. […]