A special live recording of PoemTalk, with Jane Malcolm, Kathy Lou Schultz, and Evie Shockley Hosted by KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis, PoemTalk features a lively roundtable discussion of poetry in the PennSound archive. Please join us in the Arts Café for a special episode of PoemTalk about Muriel Rukeyser, featuring Jane Malcolm, Kathy Lou […]
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In-Person | Thursday | January 30 | 7-9pm Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, Shane McCrae, and Evie Shockley read from their highly acclaimed books in celebration of the 29th Showcase Exhibition. This event is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority. Ebeid reads from Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts (Albion Books, 2023), Mao reads from The Kingdom of […] |
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In conversation with Carlos Andrés Gómez About the Poets: Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) — which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is also the author of Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022) and Spoken Word: A […] |
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For the first lecture event of the semester Professor Fred Moten has invited Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jeff Russell to give a poetry reading at the Department of Performance Studies! Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, scholar/critic, and collagist, and author of the long poem Drafts. Jeff Russell is a poet based in Durham, North Carolina, By […] |
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Readings by and a conversation between Yusef Komunyakaa and MacArthur Fellow and poet Terrance Hayes in celebration of Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa, an anthology dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Introductions by Princeton Arts Fellow and poet Nicole Sealey and award-winning poet John Murillo, editors of the anthology. […] |
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A rare U.S. appearance by Alice Oswald, one of our finest performers of poetry. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, her latest book of poems, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the […]
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In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, moderates a discussion with singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash, poet Peter Gizzi, musician/songwriter/music producer John Leventhal, and filmmaker/visual artist/writer RaMell Ross. Cosponsored by Labyrinth Books. Admission: Free and open […] |
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Mosab Abu Toha and Ammiel Alcalay's poetry bring new meaning to the act of witnessing, writing with and for the dead, summoning the living in a call to imagine anew—form an image of another world lying below the rubble of this world’s unending devastation. This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project's YouTube channel.
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Worship the Lorde! Join us for a celebration of the inimitable Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992), a self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” on February 18, her birthday. Poets JP Howard, I.S. Jones, Zora Satchell, and Brad Walrond will read favorite poems or passages by Lorde alongside their own work, celebrating her visionary influence on their lives and work. Hosted and […] |
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Imani Elizabeth Jackson and Christopher Rey Pérez write against national allegiance, aligning instead with the land, its mud and water—slow geological shifts inscribed within restless migratory movements. From the Rio Grande Valley to the tidal rivers of New England, borders are cracked open, undone by overflowing socialites—a way of living and being with the land that’s inclusive of […]
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Join us for a deep dive into the life and work of Lucille Clifton with poet Kazim Ali. Drawing from research into Clifton’s early manuscripts, late drafts, and children’s literature, Ali presents a study of Clifton from his newest book, Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, 2024). Poet Leslieann Hobayan will moderate a […]
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Hosted by Angel Nafis Featuring Perry Janes, Roya Marsh, Monica McClure, and Brittany Rogers Wine reception to follow Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight’s Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for a powerfully moving and joyful evening of wine, poetry, and performance. February's brilliant featured poets include Pushcart […] |
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Join us for our first Brooklyn Poets Reading Series of the year at 144 Montague on Friday, February 21st, featuring poets Asiya Wadud, Miller Oberman and Brad Walrond! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to […] |
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2024-25 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Poet, Visiting Professor, and Princeton alumna Monica Youn, Class of 1993, will read from her work. Book signing will follow; books will be available for purchase through Labyrinth Books. About the Poet: Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023), […]
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About the Poets: Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The recipient of fellowships from […]
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Etel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World A Symposium, February 27 - March 1 Organized by Omar Berrada & Simone Fattal Hosted by The Poetry Project, with Giorno Poetry Systems and Anthology Film Archives Etel Adnan’s oeuvre did not follow a masterplan; it expanded and shape-shifted ceaselessly. Each book invented its own genre. And yet her tone is unmistakable, combining sharp […]
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A poetry reading by Forrest Gander followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poet: Forrest Gander is a writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a […] |
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COUPLET is a quarterly reading series, produced, curated and hosted by poet Leah Umansky since 2011. It features both emerging and established poets and is co-hosted by The Red Room. This will Livestream on the IG live at @couplet_series on IG. The readers are: 1. Sarah Ghazal Ali 2. Tina Cane 3. Darren C. Demaree […] |