Poetry @ Princeton

A discussion of H.D.'s "Sea Garden" McCosh 40, 8 PM Led by Jeff Dolven and Joshua Kotin

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 7:30 p.m. Lewis Arts complex, TBD FREE and open to the public International award-winning writer, bestselling novelist and activist Alaa Al Aswany reads with acclaimed poet Linda Gregerson, recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. The writers read on Wednesday, February 7, […]

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Time: 5pm Location:  Rotunda, Chancellor Green Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University's […]

Valentine’s Day Poetry Slam Feb. 14, 4:30-5:30pm The Center for Language Study is having its second annual Valentine’s Day poetry reading, open to both faculty and students.  Come hear poems about love and affection in different languages, paired with their English translations.  Chocolate and other sweets will be served to make the occasion festive.  If […]

A Talk by Daniel Javitch  (NYU) Tue, 2/20 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 106 McCormick   Although Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso was acknowledged to be a superior romance to the ones that preceded it, the poem was included in the disparagement of the genre and was regularly invoked as an example of what the epic poet ought not to […]

Elspeth Green, "T.S. Eliot's Chemistry" Hinds Library, McCosh Bldg. 2/21 Noon-1:30pm Open to academic members of Princeton University. Contact department for details about receiving information in preparation for the specific workshop.

Friday, February 23, 2018 4:30 p.m. Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex FREE and open to the public To mark the publication of his new volume Lamentations and the performance in Princeton of Olagón, Paul Muldoon gives a special reading with a guest appearance by Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird. Paul Muldoon, author of Olagón, reads from Selected Poems 1968-2014 (Farrar, Straus and […]

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960, takes a poem by W.H. Auden as its starting point. Titled "September 1, 1939," it considers the "euphoric dream" of American life on the cusp of world war, through the eyes of a foreigner—an Englishman. But why was Auden’s understanding of his adopted homeland so enduringly […]