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SUMMARY:Poet Joshua Bennett
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Carlos Andrés Gómez \nAbout the Poets: \nDr. 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 Cultural History (Knopf\, 2023). He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet\, speaker\, actor\, and inclusion strategist from New York City. He is the author of Fractures\, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry\, Hijito\, winner of the Broken River Prize and a #1 SPD bestseller\, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood\, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington\, Carlos is one of the highest booked acts in the history of the college market and among the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world. Carlos’ honors include the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry\, Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize\, Foreword INDIES Gold Medal\, and the International Book Award. A genre-transcending multi-hyphenate\, he partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation\, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos is a proud father of two. \n  \nCarlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet\, speaker\, actor\, and inclusion strategist from New York City. He is the author of Fractures\, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry\, Hijito\, winner of the Broken River Prize and a #1 SPD bestseller\, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood\, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington\, Carlos is one of the highest booked acts in the history of the college market and among the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world. Carlos’ honors include the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry\, Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize\, Foreword INDIES Gold Medal\, and the International Book Award. A genre-transcending multi-hyphenate\, he partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation\, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos is a proud father of two.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poet-joshua-bennett/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading with Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jeff Russell
DESCRIPTION: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 The Time This Reaches You\, is his first book of poetry. Ken Taylor of selva oscura press will moderate a conversation with Rachel and Jeff following the reading. We hope you can join us for this special event. The event will be held in the Richard Schechner Studio\, Room 612 at 721 Broadway. \nAbout the Poets:\nRachel Blau DuPlessis is author of the long poem Drafts (1-114/115) complete from Coffee House Press this May\, and of the on-going Traces\, with Days\, a grouping of books located deep  in our current quarter century. This includes the recent Daykeeping\, published by Selva Oscura Press. Her Selected Poems 1980-2020 was published by Chax. She has written extensively on both feminist and objectivist poetics\, including essays in The Pink Guitar and Blue Studios\, and critical studies in gender and modernism. Her considerable work on Objectivist poetry and poetics includes her pioneering editing of The Selected Letters of George Oppen.Among several awards are a residency at Bellagio\, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts\, and a year at the National Humanities Center. Her poetry has appeared in French\, Italian\,and Russian books and elsewhere in Portuguese\, Spanish\, and German. Website is  www.rachelblauduplessis.net;  all Drafts are available recorded at www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/DuPlessis.php \nJeff Russell is a poet living in Durham\, North Carolina.  He studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and Classical Chinese Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  By The Time This Reaches You is Jeff’s first book of poetry.  Selections of this work have been published in Miracle Monocle\, Entropy\, Tilted House\, Dream Pop\, and Denver Quarterly—FiVES. He is on the advisory board for Jackleg Press.  Multi-voiced recordings of this work are available at jeffwrussell.bandcamp.com. \nKen Taylor is the author of seven published works and three plays. Most recently: “found poem(s)” with Ed Roberson (Ken’s photos\, Ed’s poems) from Corbett vs. Dempsey. He is the founder of selva oscura press\, which he edits with Fred Moten.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-poetry-reading-with-rachel-blau-duplessis-and-jeff-russell/
LOCATION:Richard Schechner Studio\, Room 612\, 721 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Princeton Launch of Dear Yusef
DESCRIPTION: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. Book signing and reception to follow. Cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/princeton-launch-of-dear-yusef/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books
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SUMMARY:Authors Guild\, Academy of American Poets & Strand present: Alice Oswald
DESCRIPTION:A rare U.S. appearance by Alice Oswald\, one of our finest performers of poetry. \nIn 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 sea that surrounds him. \nAs with all of Oswald’s work\, this is poetry that is made for the human voice. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid\, abstract\, and moving with the wash of waves. \n“I’m a real believer in live performance—in getting a human body\, like a musical instrument\, to stand up and play\,” Oswald has said. “To me\, that’s better than anything. I have an image of the oral poem—that thing that is always a becoming thing\, always on the point of being complete. But just as it begins to complete itself\, it vanishes. It’s a performance that’s kind of set up and then melts away and leaves no trace.” \nThis event is part of a collaboration between the Authors Guild Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, and the Strand Book Store\, where we gather writers for live events that highlight the importance of a rich\, diverse literary culture and the authors who contribute to it\, and provide a space for writers and readers to connect in-person.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/authors-guild-academy-of-american-poets-strand-present-alice-oswald/
LOCATION:Strand Bookstore\, 828 Broadway 3rd Floor\, Rare Book Room\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Rosanne Cash\, Peter Gizzi\, John Leventhal & RaMell Ross
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, no tickets required\nAccessibility: Richardson Auditorium is an accessible venue with an assistive listening system. Guests in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era-rosanne-cash-peter-gizzi-john-leventhal-ramell-ross/
LOCATION:Richardson Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Mosab Abu Toha & Ammiel Alcalay
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/mosab-abu-toha-ammiel-alcalay/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A Birthday Celebration of Audre Lorde
DESCRIPTION: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 curated by Anastacia–Reneé. \n“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt\,” Audre Lorde in “Poetry is Not a Luxury.” Photo by Elsa Dorfman. \nReadings in Kray Hall followed by a reception in the Reading Room. \n\nAbout the Poets: \n\nAnastacia-Reneé is an award-winning cross-genre queer writer\, educator\, interdisciplinary artist\, TEDX speaker and former Seattle Civic Poet. She is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist\, (v.)\, and Forget It. Her mixed media art has been exhibited at the Fry Art Museum and her installation\, “Don’t Be Absurd (Alice in Parts)\,” was chosen by NBC as one of the “Queer Artist of Color Must See LGBTQ Arts Shows.” She has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, VONA\, Artist Trust\, Ragdale\, Mineral School and others. Reneé’s poetry\, fiction and nonfiction has been anthologized and published widely. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n\nJP Howard is a poet\, educator\, literary activist\, and community builder. Her debut poetry collection\, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System)\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*)\, Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy\, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians–We Are the Revolution! JP is a featured Lesbian Poet Trading Card (Headmistress Press). JP was a Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. She has received fellowships and/or grants from Cave Canem\, VONA\, Lambda Literary\, and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. JP’s poetry and/or essays have been featured in POETRY Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Slowdown\, The Academy of American Poets\, Split this Rock\, and elsewhere. JP is a Poetry Editor for Women’s Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. http://www.jp-howard.com \nI.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet and editor. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column\, The Legacy Suite\, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections. She is the 2024-2025 Artist-In-Resident at Northwestern University with the Black Arts Consortium. Her full length collection Bloodmercy was chosen by Nicole Sealey as the 2025 winner of the APR / Honickman first book prize. \nZora Satchel is a Black and Chinese American queer poet\, editor\, and cinephile who writes about food\, sex\, film\, family\, and friendship. Her work has been published with Honey Literary\, Drunk Monkeys Magazine\, Stone of Madness Press and elsewhere. She was In Surreal Life\, Emotional Historians Fellow for the summer of 2024\, as well as the 2021 Winter/Spring Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She’s previously served as an assistant editor for Kissing Dynamite Magazine from 2020-21 and is also a founding member of the Estuary Collective which provides workshops for non academic Black poets. She has led editing workshops such as “Cut & Slash” as well as her poetry in cinema generative workshop series ”Stranded at the Drive in”. She has led workshops for both Brooklyn Poets and The Free Black Women’s Library. They holds a degree in Ethnic Studies from Colorado State University and when she is not writing she is performing all around NYC with Brooklyn Poets\, Blasian March\, KGB Bar\, Priyo\, Glow in the City: Unplugged and elsewhere. When not writing\, she is marathoning movies. She lives on the border of Brooklyn and Queens \nBrad Walrond is a poet\, author\, performance artist\, and one of the foremost writers and performers of the 1990s Black Arts Movement centered in New York City. Walrond’s debut collection\, Every Where Alien\, (2024 Moore Black Press | Amistad / HarperCollins)\, is a portrait of the author’s own Black queer exploration of the world\, amidst the discovery of 1990s-early 2000s New York City  underground art and resistance movements. Communities like the House Ballroom scene\, New Black Arts Movement\, Black Rock Coalition\, HIV/AIDS Black queer artivist community\, and the underground house dance and music scene.  Brad’s poems have been published in: The Atlantic\, Poem-A-Day | Academy of American Poets\, African Voices Magazine\, Wordpeace\, About Place Journal\, and elsewhere. Walrond holds a B.A. from The City College of New York and an M.A. from Columbia University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-birthday-celebration-of-audre-lorde/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Imani Elizabeth Jackson & Christopher Rey Pérez
DESCRIPTION: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 both its violence and beauty. \nWe hope you can join us at 7:30 for a reception before the event. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/imani-elizabeth-jackson-christopher-rey-perez/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Passwords: Kazim Ali on Lucille Clifton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a deep dive into the life and work of Lucille Clifton with poet Kazim Ali. \nDrawing 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 conversation with Ali exploring Clifton’s legacy. Presented in partnership with Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. \nReadings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room. \nAbout the Poets: \nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, including several volumes of poetry\, novels\, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water. Photo by Jesse Sutton-Hough. \nLucille Clifton was a beloved poet\, writer\, and educator. She won the National Book Award for Poetry\, among many other honors. \nLeslieann Hobayan is a poet\, essayist\, activist mom\, and host of the podcast\, Spiritual Grit. Her chapbook\, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn is out from Finishing Line Press and her poetry manuscript\, Jeepney Girl: An Archipelago\, was a finalist for the Trio House Press Open. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a 2018 Best of the Net\, her work has appeared in The Rumpus\, Aster(ix) Journal\, The Grief Diaries\, The Lantern Review\, The Mom Egg Review\, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit\, and elsewhere. Photo by Maggie Yurachek.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/passwords-kazim-ali-on-lucille-clifton/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:The Greenlight Poetry Salon
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Angel Nafis\nFeaturing Perry Janes\, Roya Marsh\, Monica McClure\, and Brittany Rogers\nWine reception to follow \nCreated 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. \nFebruary’s brilliant featured poets include Pushcart Prize recipient Perry Janes\, author of Find Me When You’re Ready; Bronx-born activist\, performer\, and educator Roya Marsh\, author of savings time; local writer Monica McClure\, author of The Gone Thing; and editor-in-chief of Muzzle magazine and co-host of VS Podcast Brittany Rogers\, author of Good Dress; Join us for readings and what is always a celebratory event!
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/the-greenlight-poetry-salon/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore\, 686 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Poets Reading Series 2.21.25
DESCRIPTION: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 follow. \nAbout the Poets: \nAsiya Wadud is the author of several poetry collections\, most recently Mandible Wishbone Solvent and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her recent work can be found in Interlude Docs\, Poetry\, e-flux\, Poem-a-Day\, BOMB and elsewhere. Wadud’s work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, Foundation Jan Michalski\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Danspace Project\, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York\, Madhouse Helsinki\, Beirut Arts Center and Kunstenfestivaldesarts\, among others. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and Pacific Northwest College of Art. \nMiller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things (Duke University Press\, 2024) and The Unstill Ones (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets\, 2017). He has received a number of awards for his poetry\, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, the 92Y Discovery Prize\, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship\, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Poems from Impossible Things have appeared in the New Yorker\, Poetry\, the Hopkins Review\, Poem-a-Day and Foglifter. Poems from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry\, London Review of Books\, the Nation\, Boston Review\, Tin House and Harvard Review. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press\, which publishes visual-literary collaborations and teaches at and serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. \nBrad Walrond is a poet\, author\, performance artist and one of the foremost writers and performers of the 1990s Black Arts Movement in New York City. Walrond’s debut collection\, Every Where Alien (Moore Black Press | Amistad / HarperCollins\, 2024) is a portrait of the author’s own Black queer exploration of the world\, amidst the discovery of the 1990s-early 2000s New York City underground art and resistance movements and communities like the New Black Arts Movement\, Black Rock Coalition\, the House Ballroom Scene\, the HIV/AIDS Black queer artivist community and the underground house music scene. Brad’s poems have been published in: the Atlantic\, Poem-A-Day\, African Voices Magazine\, Wordpeace\, About Place and elsewhere. Walrond holds a B.A. from The City College of New York and an M.A. from Columbia University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brooklyn-poets-reading-series-2-21-25/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading by Holmes Poet Monica Youn
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout the Poet: \nMonica Youn is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023)\, which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award\, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Voelcker Award\, and was longlisted for the PEN Jean Stein Award. From From was a New York Times Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023 as well as being named a best book of the year by Time Magazine\, NPR\, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Her previous book\, Blackacre\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the PEN Open Book Award\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was named a best poetry book of 2016 by the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Paris Review. Her book Ignatz was also a finalist for the National Book Award. \nYoun has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship. A former constitutional lawyer\, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is professor of English at UC Irvine.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-holmes-poet-monica-youn/
LOCATION:wallace dance & theater
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SUMMARY:PSA Reading Series: Srikanth Reddy & Lisa Robertson
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nSrikanth 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 the Creative Capital Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Arts\, Reddy is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago\, and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review. His book of lectures on poetry and painting\, The Unsignificant\, was published by Wave Books last fall. Author photo by Kaitlyn Shea. \nLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet\, essayist and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961\, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. She has published 9 books of poetry\, most recently Boat (2022)\, and two books of essays Nilling (2012)\, and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003). Her 2021 book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (If I Can’t Dance\, Amsterdam)\, an annotated translation of Weil’s 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy\, is the most recent outcome of wide rime\, her ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University\, University of Cambridge\, U East Anglia\, UC Berkeley\, UC San Diego\, Piet Zwart Institute\, Simon Fraser University\, American University of Paris\, Naropa\, and California College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, and in 2018\, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has been published in French\, Swedish and Turkish translations. A second novel\, Riverwork\, is forthcoming from Coach House Books. Author photo by Cecilia Grönberg.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-reading-series-srikanth-reddy-lisa-robertson/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Etel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Etel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World\nA Symposium\, February 27 – March 1 \nOrganized by Omar Berrada & Simone Fattal\nHosted by The Poetry Project\, with Giorno Poetry Systems and Anthology Film Archives\n\n \nEtel 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 observation with the associative logic of dreams. “I followed lines I never saw\, went on unchartered roads\, didn’t emerge from any confusion. The present was forever blowing.” Throughout her existence\, she was committed to being “in the rhythms of the world.” In the face of a life “woven with war\,” she chose to look the apocalypse in the eye\, always seeking appropriate forms for bearing witness. \nBorn in Beirut in 1925\, Adnan lived on three continents and in multiple languages\, working as a writer\, a painter\, a journalist\, a professor\, a filmmaker\, among other pursuits. Though she taught philosophy and read voraciously\, she valued nothing more than careful attention to material phenomena: “I know that seeking political and philosophical notions in the street is like trying to construct a barrier to hold back the ocean\, but I won’t look elsewhere.” Solidarity and radical equality were her guiding principles\, as was her ever-renewed wonder at the beauty of the world and her enduring belief in the oneness of being. To her\, landscapes revealed haunted histories of place. Trees were constant interlocutors. A mountain was her best friend. \nOrganized by Omar Berrada and Simone Fattal on the centenary of Etel Adnan’s birth\, this symposium gathers together old friends\, confirmed specialists\, and younger disciples of Adnan’s. They will offer talks\, poetry readings\, and musical performances in response to multiple aspects of her literary and visual work. \nContributors include George Abraham\, Ammiel Alcalay\, Jean-Philippe Antoine\, Amir ElSaffar\, Huda Fakhreddine\, Peter Gizzi\, Maaza Mengiste\, Saretta Morgan & Ica Sadagat\, Eileen Myles & Ryan Sawyer\, Sarah Riggs\, Lisa Robertson\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Brandon Shimoda\, Hamed Sinno\, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. \nThis event is free and open to the public with RSVP. \n\nThursday February 27 \nEvening: Anthology Film Archives \n6:30 pm: Screening\nEtel Adnan: Motion (1980/89 – 2012\, ’92)\nPresented by Bidoun \nRSVP to the film screening here\n\n\nFriday February 28 \nAfternoon: Giorno Poetry Systems \n2:00 pm:\nSimone Fattal & Omar Berrada — Introduction\nAmmiel Alcalay — “…tenderness for the world as it is”: Journeying into the present with Etel Adnan\nSaretta Morgan & Ica Sadagat — Guerrilla Nature: Tactics of the Ethereal \n4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:30 pm:\nBrandon Shimoda — Burn the walls of your own apparitions: on Etel Adnan’s Hiroshimas\nHuda Fakhreddine — Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan and the Arabic Poetic Tradition \nRSVP to the Friday afternoon programming here \n\nEvening: The Poetry Project \n7:00 pm: Light buffet dinner \n8:00 pm:\nBook launch — Etel Adnan: Voyage\, War\, Exile (Litmus Press)\nSarah Riggs — Letters to Etel from Egypt\nGeorge Abraham — When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America \n9:00 pm:\nAmir ElSaffar — Time’s Other Side (music performance) \nRSVP to the Friday evening programming here \n\nSaturday March 1 \nAfternoon: The Poetry Project \n2:00 pm:\nJennifer Scappettone — Leporello as Geopoetics: Etel’s Xenoglossia\nEileen Myles & Ryan Sawyer — Perpetual Present Tempo of Etel Adnan\nJean-Philippe Antoine — Paris\, when it’s naked — Winter 2025 \n4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:30 pm:\nMaaza Mengiste — Letter from East Jerusalem: The Landscape Between\nLisa Robertson — What Light Composes: The Bioluminescence of the Poem \nRSVP to the Saturday afternoon programming here \n\nEvening: Giorno Poetry Systems \n7:00 pm: Light buffet dinner \n8:00 pm:\nPeter Gizzi — For Etel\, For Love\nKamelya Omayma Youssef — A Problem of Certainty \n9:00 pm:\nHamed Sinno — Land without Organs (music performance) \nRSVP to the Saturday evening programming here \nEtel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World was organized by Omar Berrada and Simone Fattal to mark the centenary of Etel Adnan’s birth. It is produced by The Poetry Project and co-hosted by Giorno Poetry Systems. The screening at Anthology Film Archives is presented by Bidoun. \n\nThis program was made possible by generous support from Galerie Lelong\, Sfeir-Semler Gallery\, and White Cube.\n \nAll three galleries are presenting exhibitions of Etel Adnan’s work at the time of the symposium:\nEtel Adnan: This Beautiful Light\, at White Cube\, New York.\nEtel Adnan: On Paper\, 1960-2021\, at Galerie Lelong\, New York.\nEtel Adnan: Zum Hundertsten\, at Sfeir-Semler Gallery\, Hamburg. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\nFebruary 27 – March 1\, 2025\nSt. Mark’s Church\nRSVP link to programming at The Poetry Project only; to RSVP to events at Giorno Poetry Systems and Anthology Film Archives\, follow the links in the symposium program description.\nRSVP: free
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/etel-adnan-in-the-rhythms-of-the-world-a-symposium/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading by Forrest Gander followed by a reception/signing. \nBooks for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Poet: \nForrest Gander is a writer\, translator\, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Mojave Ghost\, Twice Alive; Be With\, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; and Core Samples from the World\, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Recently\, Gander collaborated with the photographer Jack Shear to create the collection Knot (Copper Canyon\, 2022). His other books include two novels\, As A Friend and The Trace; the poetry collections Be With\, Eye Against Eye\, Torn Awake\, Science & Steepleflower; and the essay collection Faithful Existence: Reading\, Memory & Transcendence. Gander’s essays have appeared in The Nation\, The Boston Review\, and The New York Times Book Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, United States Artists\, and Whiting Foundations.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-forrest-gander/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:The 'Winter Edition' of COUPLET Reading Series
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe readers are: \n1. Sarah Ghazal Ali\n2. Tina Cane\n3. Darren C. Demaree\n4. Jennifer Martelli\n5. Elizabeth Scanlon\n6. Bruce Whitacre \nAbout the Poets: \nSarah Ghazal Ali is a writer\, editor\, and educator. She is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow\, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She lives and writes in the Twin Cities\, Minnesota. \nTina Cane is the author of the poetry collections Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books 2022)\, Body of Work (Veliz Books\, 2019)\, and Once More with Feeling (Veliz Books\, 2017). She has also published the chapbooks Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante (Skillman Avenue Press\, 2016) and The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press\, 2008)\, as well as the young adult novel Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) . Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools\, RI. She is the creator/curator of the distance reading series\, Poetry is Bread. \nDarren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections\, most recently “So Much More”\, (Harbor Editions\, November 2024). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant\, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award\, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press\, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system \nJennifer Martelli has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Monson Arts\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, Poetry\, Best of the Net Anthology\, Braving the Body Anthology\, Verse Daily\, Plume\, The Tahoma Literary Review\, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree\, The Queen of Queens\, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and My Tarantella\, which was also shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and named finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Jennifer Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER. \nElizabeth Scanlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Poetry Review. She is the author of Whosoever Whole (Omnidawn) and Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books)\, as well as the chapbooks The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean (The Head & The Hand Press) and Odd Regard (ixnay press). Her poems have appeared in many magazines\, including Poetry Ireland\, Poetry London\, and others. \nBruce Whitacre is the author of Good Housekeeping\, 2024 from Poets Wear Prada. The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks\, 2022 from Crown Rock Media. Both were BookLife Reviews Editors Picks and received BookFest awards. Richard Thomas narrated the audiobook of the latter. Whitacre’s crown sonnet won the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and over thirty five journals. Nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. www.brucewhitacre.com.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/the-winter-edition-of-couplet-reading-series/
LOCATION:KGB Bar\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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