Poetry @ Princeton

Paul Muldoon Reads from His New Poetry Collection: One Thousand Things Worth Knowing Labyrinth Books and the Lewis Center for the Arts invite you to join us for a reading in celebration of another wild, expansive collection of poems by Paul Muldoon. Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace’s original book, and Seosamh […]

Anthony Reed, Department of English and African American Studies, Yale University "Anarchic Regard: Amiri Baraka, Cecil Taylor, and the Sounds of Black Thought" Reception in the Thorp Library to follow the talk.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies Reading A. E. Stallings Poet and Translator Austerity Measures: An American Poet on Living, Writing, and Translating in Athens A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia, and the University of Oxford, and has lived in Athens, Greece, since 1999. She has published three books of poetry […]

Award-winning fiction writer Akhil Sharma and poet and translator A.E. Stallings will read from their work on Wednesday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The event, part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, is free and open to the public.    

Mark Miller, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago "Sin and Structure in Piers Plowman: Apocalypse, Teleology, Demand" Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

NEW JERSEY POETRY OUT LOUD STATE FINALS Friday, March 13, 2015 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Richardson Auditorium at Alexander Hall Princeton University You are cordially invited to the 10th Annual New Jersey Poetry Out Loud State Finals, part of the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Program and Contest for students in grades 9-12. Join us […]

Tracy K. Smith — Ordinary Light: A Memoir Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 at 6PM — Labyrinth Books Princeton The Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith, hailed for her “extraordinary range and ambition” (NYT,) has published a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the […]