Poetry @ Princeton

Poets Gerald Stern and Alicia Ostriker both have published new collections. Please join us for a post-storm, post-election reading, this Wednesday, November 7th, 2012. Ostriker's new volume, The Book of Life, charts her extraordinary struggle to deal with a wounded world and find reasons for hope. The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the […]

Join the Contemporary Poetry Reading Group for an evening of reading, wine, and discussion surrounding the poetry of J.H. Prynne's book Wound Response. At the end of the first session, there was unanimous agreement that we should devote ourselves to the rest of that book. The next session will focus on the book's second poem, […]

The Evening of the Poem: A Celebration of James Schuyler Thursday, November 8, 4:30PM Campus Club Dining Room 5 Prospect Avenue, Princeton "The Evening of the Poem" will feature a panel discussion moderated by Jeff Dolven (Princeton) and including Maureen McLane (NYU), Lytle Shaw (NYU), and Wayne Koestenbaum (CUNY). After about an hour of discussion, […]

Reading by Sharon Mesmer Wednesday, November 14, 4:30PM Location: 40 McCosh Hall   Sponsored by Princeton's Contemporary Poetry Colloquium

If you are going into the city this weekend, our very own Sara Marcus teams up with Michelle Tea for a reading with The Poetry Project, Friday, November 16th, 10pm.   The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church 131 E. 10th Street New York NY 10003 212-674-0910   Sara Marcus’s first book, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl […]

This is a great opportunity to see two major contemporary poets reading together at a literary hotspot, the KGB Bar in downtown New York City. Monday, November 19, 2012 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street  New York, NY 10003   JOHN KOETHE is the author of several collections of poetry, including […]

C.K. Williams reads from two new books, In Time and Writers Writing Dying Tuesday November 27th, 6pm 122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542   Since his first poetry collection, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation—as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories. We invite you […]

Poets Caryl Pagel and Paul Legault will share the stage at the Kelly Writers House on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 28th at 6pm, in the Arts Café.   Caryl Pagel is the author of Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death, a collection of poetry published by Factory […]