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SUMMARY:Library Live at Labyrinth presents: Idra Novey in conversation with Monica Youn & Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:New poetry by Idra Novey\, the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need\, faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth. \nSoon and Wholly brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in the woods\, providing a bridge between those often polarized realities. Novey’s spare\, contemporary fables move across the Americas\, from a woman housesitting in central Chile\, surrounded by encroaching fires\, to a man in New York about to give birth to a panda. \nOther poems return to the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia\, where Novey revisits the roads and creeks of her childhood: “Maybe we knew we only appeared/to be floating\, but soon and wholly/we’d go under.” Like Lydia Davis and Anne Carson\, Novey draws from the well of her work translating myriad authors\, from Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector to Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian\, and from her own award-winning novels. These are deeply lived poems\, evoking both a singular life and the shared urgencies of our time\, a collection of great inventiveness and wit\, conjuring our “bit part in the history of the future.” \nAbout the Poets: \nIdra Novey is the author of Take What You Need\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and two other novels. Her second poetry collection Exit\, Civilian was chosen by Patricia Smith for the National Poetry Series. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and The Guardian. She teaches creative writing at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. \nIlya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic and Dancing In Odessa and has co-edited and co-translated many other books\, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.   His many honors include The Los Angeles Times Book Award\, the Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award.  He is Professor of Creative Writing at The Lewis Center for the Arts. \nMonica Youn is the author of From From and three previous poetry collections: Blackacre\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, Barter\, and Ignatz\, a finalist for the National Book Award.  She is Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at The Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/library-live-at-labyrinth-presents-idra-novey-in-conversation-with-monica-youn-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books
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SUMMARY:PSA Talks: Maggie Nelson on Ambition\, Autobiography\, and Abundance in Sylvia Plath & Taylor Swift
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Nelson discusses the art and public profiles of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift\, among other artists\, including Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein\, in a discussion of the cultural politics of female fame\, followed by a Q&A.\n \nAbout the Poet: \nMaggie Nelson is the author of many acclaimed books of poetry and prose\, including Pathemata\, Or\, The Story of My Mouth (2025); Like Love: Essays and Conversations (2024); the national bestseller On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021); the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and international bestseller The Argonauts (2015)\, named by the New York Times one of the top 100 books of the 21st century; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011); and Bluets (2009)\, named by Bookforum one of the best books of the past 20 years\, and adapted in 2024 by director Katie Mitchell for the Royal Court Theatre\, London. A 2016 MacArthur Fellow\, she currently teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Sarah St Clair Renard.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-talks-maggie-nelson-on-ambition-autobiography-and-abundance-in-sylvia-plath-taylor-swift/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading & Conversation: Tan Lin & Mónica de la Torre
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Tan Lin and Mónica de la Torre\, hosted by MFA student Elijah Jackson\, followed by a reception/signing. \nBooks for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Authors: \nTan Lin is the author of over 13 books\, including Heath Course Pak (2012)\, Bib. Rev. Ed.\, Insomnia and the Aunt (2011)\, 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010)\, Plagiarism/Outsource (2009)\, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo (2007)\, BlipSoak01 (2003)\, and Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (2000). His work has appeared in numerous journals including Conjunctions\, Artforum\, Criticism\, boundary2\, Cabinet\, the New York Times Book Review\, Art in America\, and Purple. His video\, theatrical\, and LCD work have been shown at Artists Space\, the Marianne Boesky Gallery\, the Yale Art Museum\, Sophienholm Museum (Copenhagen)\, Ontological Hysterical Theatre\, and as a solo show at Treize Gallery in Paris. Lin earned a PhD from Columbia University. He currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University and New Jersey City University. His novel\, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand is forthcoming from Coffee House. \nMónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document (forthcoming from Nightboat in March 2025)\, Repetition Nineteen\, The Happy End / All Welcome\, and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies\, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 and is the recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry. She teaches poetry and experiments in translation at Brooklyn College. \nElijah Jackson is a writer based in New York. Recent poetry and criticism have been published by Fence\, Second Factory\, fieldnotes\, Annulet\, Flash Art\, and others. He is the Poetry Editor of the Washington Square Review.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-conversation-tan-lin-monica-de-la-torre/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Dina Abdulhadi & Farah Barqawi
DESCRIPTION:Dina Abdulhadi & Farah Barqawi are two poets writing through the breath and abundance of contemporary Palestinian poetry; their poems explore loss\, family relations\, and the shifting geographic and affective distances that give grief its many shades. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/dina-abdulhadi-farah-barqawi/
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:Poet Sawako Nakayasu
DESCRIPTION:About the Poet: \nBorn in Japan and raised in the US\, Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language\, performance\, and translation. Her newest books of poetry include Pink Waves (Omnidawn\, 2023)\, a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award\, and Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books\, 2020)\, both of which engage the intersection between writing and translation. Settle Her\, which was written on the #1 bus line in Providence\, Rhode Island on Thanksgiving Day of 2017 on the occasion of her cutting ties with normative Thanksgiving celebrations\, is forthcoming from Solid Objects.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poet-sawako-nakayasu/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Passwords: Cecilia Vicuña on The Other Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Vicuña discusses three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. In this performance talk\, Vicuña illustrates how oral traditions in Chile\, Paraguay\, and Arizona continue renewing themselves as individual/collective practices in the 21st century. \nThis event is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority. \nPerformance in Kray Hall followed by a reception in the Viscusi Reading Room. \nAbout the Poet: \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world\, including ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London\, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in l974. Vicuña was the winner of the 2023 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023\, one of the most prestigious awards given by her homeland. Preceding this recognition\, Vicuña was elected a foreign honorary member of the United States Academy of Arts and Letters and also received the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale. The author of more than 30 volumes of art and poetry published in the United States\, Europe\, and Latin America\, her most recent books are: PALABRARmas (2023); Word Weapons (2023);  and Libro Venado (2022)\, among many others. Photo by Bruno Savelli.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/passwords-cecilia-vicuna-on-the-other-poetry/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Alex Cuff and Morgan Võ
DESCRIPTION:Alex Cuff and Morgan Võ’s imaginaries share an attachment to the surreal\, a commitment to the suspended time of narrative–a world within a world where family\, love\, and loss are best expressed in dreams and stories that know that unlearning what we know is the only way to make sense of it. \nWith guest introduction by Teline Trần \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/alex-cuff-and-morgan-vo/
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:New Works: Carlie Hoffman\, Rodney Terich Leonard\, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado\, and Dr. Maya C. Popa
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Carlie Hoffman’s newest collection with readings from Rodney Terich Leonard\, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado\, and Dr. Maya C. Popa. In One More World Like This World\, Hoffman invokes mythological narratives to explore the predicaments of contemporary women. \n\nReadings in Kray Hall followed by a reception in the Reading Room. \nAbout the Poets: \nCarlie Hoffman is the author of the poetry collections One More World Like This World (Four Way Books\, 2025); When There Was Light (Four Way Books\, 2023)\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and This Alaska (Four Way Books\, 2021)\, winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry as well as a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award.Hoffman is the translator from the German of both Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese [Harvest of Blossoms]\, forthcoming from World Poetry Books\, and White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions\, 2024)\, and the poems of Rose Ausländer. Hoffman’s other honors include a 92NY Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal. \nBorn in Nixburg\, Alabama\, Rodney Terich Leonard is the author of Sweetgum & Lightning (Four Way Books\, 2021). His next collection\, Another Land of My Body\, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. An Air Force veteran who served during the Gulf War\, his society profiles and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review\, Red River Review\, The Huffington Post\, BOMB Magazine\, The Cortland Review\, Poems in the Afterglow\, Poetry Foundation Online\, The Southern Review\, What Rough Beast\, Four Way Review\, The New York Times\, The Amsterdam News\, The Village Voice\, For Colored Boys… (anthology edited by Keith Boykin) and other publications. He holds degrees from The New School\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Teachers College Columbia University. A Callaloo poetry fellow\, he received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and currently lives in Manhattan. \nRicardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. A graduate of Tufts and Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, he is the author of The Life Assignment (Four Way Books\, 2020)\, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award\, one of Remezcla’s Best Books by Latina or Latin American Authors\, and Silver Medalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award. He is also the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/ Collateral (National Poetry Series / Akashic Books\, 2013) and coeditor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press\, 2019)\, a bilingual anthology that raised funds for grassroots recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Maldonado is the Academy of American Poets’s President and Executive Director. \nDr. Maya C. Popa (b. 1989) is most recently the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton 2022; Picador 2023) named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of Poetry. American Faith (Sarabande 2019) was runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and was awarded the North American Book Prize in 2020. Popa is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at NYU. She works closely with established and emerging writers through Conscious Writers Collective\, her online writing platform and community designed to help writers identify and meet their writing and publishing goals.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/new-works-carlie-hoffman-rodney-terich-leonard-ricardo-alberto-maldonado-and-dr-maya-c-popa/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin & Jamieson Webster: Psychoanalysis and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:This evening invites two leading psychoanalytic writers and thinkers to stage an encounter between psychoanalysis and poetry. What is psychoanalysis as a mode of linguistic experimentation? What is poetry as an engagement with the unconscious\, desire\, madness\, and treatment? Jamieson Webster\, psychoanalyst and author of On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (2025)\, and Hannah Zeavin\, historian and founding editor of the psychoanalytic magazine Parapraxis\, will each read new work that addresses the importance of psychoanalysis for poetry and the importance of poetry for psychoanalysis. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-jamieson-webster-psychoanalysis-and-poetry/
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: dg nanouk okpik
DESCRIPTION:About the Poet: \nAmerican Book Award–winning poet dg nanouk okpik’s second collection of poems\, Blood Snow\, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure\, in an ethos of erosion\, in a multitude of encroaching methane\, ice floe\, and rising temperatures. Here\, in a true Inupiaq voice\, okpik’s relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals\, peoples\, traditions\, histories\, ancestries\, and identities. Through an animist process of transfiguration into a shaman’s omniscient voice\, we are greeted with a destabilizing grammar of selfhood. Okpik’s poems have a fraught relationship to her former home in Anchorage\, Alaska\, a place of unparalleled natural beauty and a traumatic site of devastation for Alaskan native nations and landscapes alike. In this way\, okpik’s poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how one’s existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs. Blood Snow is a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, and was listed in The Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2022 and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. dg nanouk okpik was born and spent much of her life in Anchorage\, Alaska. She graduated from Salish Kootenai College with an AFA in Liberal Arts and Liberal Studies\, and later attended the Institute of American Indian Arts\, graduating with an AFA and a BFA in Creative Writing before receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. okpik has won the Truman Capote Literary Award\, the May Sarton Award\, and an American Book Award for her first book\, Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press\, 2012). Blood Snow(Link is external) (Wave Books\, 2022)\, was a finalist (Link is external) for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, listed in The Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2022\, and long-listed for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. Reception to follow. Presented with support from the Bain-Swiggett Fund\, Department of English; Land\, Language\, and Art\, a Humanities Council Global Initiative; and the Arts Council of Princeton.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-dg-nanouk-okpik/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery\, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts\, 102 Witherspoon St\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ishion Hutchinson: Fugitive Tilts w/ Jonathan Galassi
DESCRIPTION:Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home\, displacement\, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. \nIn Fugitive Tilts\, Ishion Hutchinson\, the author House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry)\, turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry\, discovered in childhood; love of home\, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists that look over him with “an angel’s aura\,” from Treasure Island to John Coltrane. \nGathering essays that range across time\, place\, and form\, Hutchinson builds\, piece by piece\, a space from which the suffering of the past and the present can be reckoned with and survived. Through these pieces\, he pays homage to the inheritances and influences that are part of his history and to Derek Walcott in particular\, whose legacy threads through the book. Above all\, Fugitive Tilts is a book suffused with the sea: its sound\, its geography\, and\, as Hutchinson writes\, its “memory in motion.” \nAbout the Poet: \nIshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio\, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District\, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry\, House of Lords and Commons\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and School of Instructions: a Poem\, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature\, the Whiting Award\, and a Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize\, Hutchinson is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/ishion-hutchinson-fugitive-tilts-w-jonathan-galassi/
LOCATION:Books are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Brenda Hillman and Her Friends
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the extraordinary Brenda Hillman and her friends in poetry—Evelyn Reilly\, Patricia Spears Jones\, Major Jackson\, Donna Masini\, and Ama Codjoe—reading poems written by or inspired by her work. The evening culminates in a reading from Hillman and a conversation led by Patricia Spears Jones. \nBrenda Hillman is a poet\, professor\, editor\, and translator who has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. Known for her inimitable innovations in poetic form\, Hillman’s work bridges lyrical and political poetics in writing. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Hillman has also received the William Carlos Williams Prize from Poetry Society of America\, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Hillman is Emerita Professor of English at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, California. She has worked as an activist for social and environmental justice. Last year\, her Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures at the University of Virginia were published as her first prose collection\, Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy\, Meaning and Mystery\, Magic and Morality. \nReadings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow. \nAbout the poets: \nBrenda Hillman is the author of numerous collections of poetry: White Dress\, Fortress\, Death Tractates\, Bright Existence\, Loose Sugar\, Cascadia\, Pieces of Air in the Epic\, Practical Water\, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry\, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire\,which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry; Extra Hidden Life\, Among the Days; and her most recent In a Few Minutes Before Later. In 2016 she was named Academy of American Poets Chancellor. Among other awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry\, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \nEvelyn Reilly is a New York-based poet\, scholar and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam\, Apocalypso and Echolocation\, published by Roof Books; Hiatus\, published by Barrow Street Press; and Having Broken\, Are which was recently published by BlazeVOX. Styrofoam is widely read and written about as an example of ecopoetics and avant-garde experimentation. Reilly‘s poetry and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She is co-curator of the OtherWords Reading Series in Great Barrington\, MA and also a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC. \nPatricia Spears Jones is a poet\, educator\, cultural activist\, anthologist and recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and is author of The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon\, 2023) and 4 other collections and five chapbooks. Her poems are widely anthologized\, and recent work is published in The New Yorker and The Brooklyn Rail. She curated programs at The Poetry Project of St. Marks Church and created WORDS Sunday series in Brooklyn. She has taught Creative Writing at Hunter College\, Barnard College\, Adelphi University and Hollins University as the 2020 Louis D. Rubin Writer in Residence. She is Emeritus Fellow for Black Earth Institute and organizer of the American Poets Congress. Photo by Brett Hall Jones for Community of Writers. \nMajor Jackson is the author of six books of poetry\, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023)\, The Absurd Man (2020)\, Roll Deep (2015)\, Holding Company (2010)\, Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002)\, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review\, The New Yorker\, Orion Magazine\, Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Poetry London\, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in Nashville\, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan. \nDonna Masini is the author of three books of poems—4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton\, 2018)\, Turning to Fiction (Norton\, 2004)\, That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press\, 1994)—and a novel\, About Yvonne (Norton\,1998). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, Paris Review\, Five Points. A recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and NY Foundation for the Arts grants\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowship residencies at Civitella Ranieri\, Bogliasco and Yaddo\, she is a Professor of English/Creative Writing at Hunter College. She has is currently working on her new collection of poems\, Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? Photo by Claire Holt. \nAma Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions\, 2022)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press\, 2020)\, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Among other honors\, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts\, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2023\, Codjoe was appointed as the second Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-tribute-to-brenda-hillman-and-her-friends/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:PSA Reading Series: Chen Chen & Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nChen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions\, 2017)\, which won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize\, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry\, and the GLCA New Writers Award. In his much anticipated second collection\, Your Emergency Contact Is Experiencing An Emergency (BOA Editions\, 2022)\, Chen continues his investigation of family\, both blood and chosen\, examining what one inherits and what one invents\, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump\, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic. Hybrid in form and set in New England\, West Texas\, and a landlocked province of China\, among other places\, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another. \nBrenda Hillman has published more than ten collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press. In Extra Hidden Life\, Among the Days (2018); Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013); Practical Water (2009)\, Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005)\, and Cascadia (2001)\, each book receives her ‘sustained attention’ to one the natural elements. A Publishers Weekly starred review of Extra Hidden Life\, Among the Days elucidates\, “Having written four previous books each addressing one of the four traditional elements of nature\, here she considers wood as a fifth element\, making her hieroglyphic way through ‘forests of grief’ as might one of the book’s beloved beetles\, ‘pressing/ their whole jeweled bodies/ in the beauty of the bark.’ Neither simply empirical nor transcendental\, Hillman’s poetry takes what she calls ‘woodmind’—a sort of deep attention to natural processes—and applies it to notions of human action\, recollection\, imagination\, and craft.” Hillman‘s most recent collection\, In a Few Minutes Before Late (2022)\, is her third book about time; her first book of prose\, Three Talks was published by University of Virginia Press in 2024. Author photo by Robert Hass.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-reading-series-chen-chen-brenda-hillman/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading & Conversation: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge hosted by MFA student Elijah Jackson\, followed by a reception/signing. \nBooks for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nAbout the Authors: \nBorn in Beijing\, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Hello\, the Roses\, Empathy\, I Love Artists\, and A Treatise on Stars\, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her collaborations include works in theater\, dance\, music\, and the visual arts.  She received the Bollingen Prize for poetry in 2020. \nElijah Jackson is a writer based in New York. Recent poetry and criticism have been published by Fence\, Second Factory\, fieldnotes\, Annulet\, Flash Art\, and others. He is the Poetry Editor of the Washington Square Review.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-conversation-mei-mei-berssenbrugge/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:New Works: Like A Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration\, Haymarket Books’ anthology of writers speaking on the United States prison-industrial complex. Contributors Randall Horton\, Angel Nafis\, and Evie Shockley read powerful poems of witness which seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison-industrial complex. Like A Hammer explores how art and imagination can serve as vehicles for endurance\, offering us the hope to envision a better future. \nAs part of this event\, there will be a screening of a selection of films co-produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. These short films showcase Randall Horton\, Evie Shockley and others\, performing their own work\, and in some cases\, sharing the work of an incarcerated peer poet\, from the Like a Hammer anthology.   \nThis event is presented in partnership with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and Haymarket Books. \nAbout the Poets: \nRandall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award\, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award\, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction\, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is a  former member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders which received an American Book Award in Oral Literature and their musical project\, The Baraka Sessions\, was named best vocal jazz album by NPR. Randall’s latest collection of poetry {#289-128} is published by the University of Kentucky (2020) and received the American Book Award in 2021. His memoir Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays is published by Northwestern University Press. Randall is also cofounder of Radical Reversal\, a music project with an emphasis on justice equity through the investigation of sound. Randall is a Professor of English at the University of New Haven.  \nBorn in Chicago\, Illinois and raised in Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, Angel Nafis is a writer and the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics\, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day\, BLACK FUTURES\, The Rumpus\, Poetry Magazine\, Buzzfeed Reader and elsewhere. Nafis is a Cave Canem fellow\, the recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship\, a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. She is the founder and curator of the Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon. With poet Morgan Parker\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective\, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. She teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nPoet & scholar Evie Shockley thinks\, creates\, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Her books of poetry include suddenly we (NAACP Image Award; National Book Award Finalist)\, semiautomatic (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Pulitzer Prize finalist)\, and the new black (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award). Among the honors for her body of work are the Shelley Memorial Award\, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, and the Stephen Henderson Award. Her joys include participating in poetry communities such as Cave Canem and collaborating with artists working in various media. Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/new-works-like-a-hammer-poets-on-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Brenda Hillman & Wendy Xu
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Brenda Hillman and Wendy Xu\, followed by a reception/signing. \nBooks for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nAbout the Poets: \n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Hillman was born in Tucson\, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. She has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press\, a+bend press\, EmPress\, A Minus Press\, and Albion Books and is the author of eleven full-length collections from Wesleyan University Press\, the most recent of which are In A Few Minutes Before Later (2022)\, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013)\, which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize\, and Extra Hidden Life\, among the Days (2018)\, winner of the Northern California Book Award. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Hillman has also received the William Carlos Williams Prize from Poetry Society of America\, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems for Shambhala Press\, co-edited two books by Richard O. Moore\, and\, with Patricia Dienstfrey\, co-edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan\, 2003). She has worked as a co-translator of three books: Poems from Above the Hill by Ashur Etwebi\, Instances by Jeongrye Choi\, and At Your Feet by Ana Cristina Cesar\, all from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Three Talks: Metaphor & Metonymy\, Meaning & Mystery\, Magic & Morality\, her first book of prose essays\, was published by University of Virginia Press in autumn 2024. \nWendy Xu is is a poet and writer\, most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan 2021) and Phrasis (2017)\, named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry\, Granta\, Poetry\, Conjunctions\, The New Republic\, New York Review of Books\, Ploughshares\, and widely elsewhere. A new book Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form\, Futurity\, and Documentary Desire will be published Oct 2025 by the Poets on Poetry series at University of Michigan Press. Xu is assistant professor of writing at The New School in NYC.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-brenda-hillman-wendy-xu/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Lampblack Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nNabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens born poet\, her people hail from Trinidad & Nigeria. Sons of Achilles\, their debut book of poems\, is out now through YesYes Books. You can currently find her kicking it in Tuscaloosa. \nNadia Alexis is a poet\, writer\, and photographer born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem\, NYC. She is the author of Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press\, 2025)\, a hybrid poetry and photography collection that was also a finalist for the Ghost Peach Press Prize. Her writing and photography have been published widely. She has received several honors\, including a Literary Arts Fellowship and a Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission\, a Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards\, a semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest\, an honorable mention poetry prize for the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award\, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole\, she holds an English – Creative Writing PhD and a Poetry MFA from the University of Mississippi. She now lives in Southwest Mississippi where she continues to teach and make art. \nOluwaseun Olayiwola ‘s poems have been published and anthologized in Oxford Poetry\, TATE\, bath magg\, 14poems\, Re:creation\, Queerlings\, and Granta with forthcoming publications in the Poetry Review and PN Review. Most recently\, he was placed second in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. His criticism has been published in Telegraph\, Magma\, Poetry Birmingham\, and the Poetry School. His choreographic work has been commissioned by Southwark Council and he is an associate artist at Swindon Dance. Oluwaseun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance\, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-2019. He lives in London. \nTerrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music\, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic\, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series\, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection\, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. His most recent book\, Watch Your Language\, is a fascinating collection of graphic reviews\, illustrated prose\, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation\, Guggenheim Foundation\, and Whiting Foundation\, and is a professor of English at New York University.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/lampblack-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MoCADA)\, 80 Hanson Pl\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Poetry & Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Seniors in Princeton’s renowned Program in Creative Writing read from the screenplays or collections of poems or translations written as their senior independent work under mentorship of professional writers on the faculty. \nFeatured Seniors\nPoetry:\n\nMalia Chung\nThia Bian\nAnnie Cao\nDavid Odekunle\nRosemary Dietz\nRahma Elsheikh\nJeanie Chang\nEmanuelle Sippy\n\nScreenwriting:\n\nLayla Williams
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/creative-writing-seniors-reading-poetry-screenwriting/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda
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SUMMARY:Love is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill — Book Launch with John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with New Directions \nPlease join us for a special evening celebrating the revered poet Essex Hemphill (1957–1995)\, and the publication of a new landmark selection of his incendiary\, sensual verse Love Is a Dangerous Word. The legacy of the late\, great Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage\, Hemphill’s poems unflinchingly explore the complex\, overlapping identities of sexuality\, gender\, and race; the American political landscape; and his own experiences as a black gay man during the AIDS crisis. This event will be a tribute to Hemphill and his lifetime of achievements as a poet\, performer\, editor\, and activist. The selection\, co-edited by John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr\, serves as both an introduction to Hemphill’s poetic prowess and a treasure trove for those who have long awaited his return to the literary spotlight. \nThe evening will include readings and performances by: John Keene\, Robert F. Reid-Pharr\, Pamela Sneed\, Samiya Bashir\, Jafari Sinclaire Allen\, and more special guests. \nWe hope you can join us at 7:30pm for a pre-event reception to raise a glass to Essex Hemphill. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/love-is-a-dangerous-word-the-selected-poems-of-essex-hemphill-book-launch-with-john-keene-and-robert-f-reid-pharr/
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:In-Store: Robin Walter: Little Mercy w/ Oluwaseun Olayiwola
DESCRIPTION:Event guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/UQUBy_vRHkQ\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nWinner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award\, selected by Victoria Chang. \nIn award-winning poet Robin Walter’s debut collection\, Little Mercy\, writing and looking—seeing feelingly—become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition\, when looking up to see a deer across a stream\, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm\, the self found in other\, the river in vein of wrist. \nAttuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world\, Walter’s poems are often glancing observations unspooling down the page\, their delicacies belying their powers of profound knowing. The formal logic of this work is the intricate architecture of a nest. Each line becomes a blade of grass\, each dash a little twig\, each parenthesis a small feather—all woven together deliberately\, seemingly fragile but held fast with surprising strength. In their lyric variations\, repetitions\, and fragments\, employed toward a deep attention to wren\, river\, and reflection\, the human almost falls away entirely\, a steady and steadying state of being that is unconscious\, expansive. \nWritten out of a broken landscape in a broken time\, Little Mercy is a book of gratitude\, one that draws our inner selves to the present and living world\, to the ways we can break and mend. \nAbout the Poets: \nRobin Walter is a poet\, book artist\, and printmaker. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Seneca Review\, West Branch\, and elsewhere. She teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins\, Colorado. \nOluwaseun Olayiwola‘s poems have been published and anthologized in Oxford Poetry\, TATE\, bath magg\, 14poems\, Re:creation\, Queerlings\, and Granta with forthcoming publications in the Poetry Review and PN Review. Most recently\, he was placed second in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. His criticism has been published in Telegraph\, Magma\, Poetry Birmingham\, and the Poetry School. His choreographic work has been commissioned by Southwark Council and he is an associate artist at Swindon Dance. Oluwaseun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance\, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-2019. He lives in London.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/in-store-robin-walter-little-mercy-w-oluwaseun-olayiwola/
LOCATION:Books are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:COUPLET: National Poetry Month Edition
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. \n[Please note this is a historical building and sadly does not have handicap accessibility. The event is on the top floor and there is a two drink minimum]. \nThis event is sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine. \nReaders for our National Poetry Month Edition are Rita Dove\, Jennifer Espinoza\, Majda Gama\, Julia Kolchinsky\, Abi Pollokoff\, and Alina Stefanescu. \nAbout the Poets: \nRita Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award\, she also received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Other recent honors are the 2021 Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, where she currently serves as vice president for literature\, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and both the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the 2024 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets. Among her numerous books are Thomas and Beulah\, On the Bus with Rosa Parks\, Sonata Mulattica\, Playlist for the Apocalypse and Collected Poems 1974-2004. Her drama The Darker Face of the Earth was staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington and the National Theatre in London\, and her song cycles with composers John Williams\, Tania Leon\, Richard Danielpour and others were performed at Tanglewood\, Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington. Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia. \nJennifer Espinoza is a poet whose work has been featured in Poetry Magazine\, the American Poetry Review\, The Rumpus\, Poem-a-day @poets.org\, and elsewhere. She is the author of I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks)\, THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (The Accomplices) and I Don’t Want To Be Understood (Alice James Books). She holds an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside and currently resides in California with her wife\, poet/essayist Eileen Elizabeth\, and their cat and dog. \nMajda Gama is the award-winning author of In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls (Wandering Aengus Press) and The Call of Paradise\, (Two Sylvia’s\, 2023). Her poetry has been honored with the Graybeal Gowen award for Virginia poets from Shenandoah and the Gregory Djanikian scholar award from Adroit. Majda’s poems can be found in Ploughshares\, POETRY\, Prairie Schooner\, Swamp Pink and Tupelo Quarterly. She is based in Northern Virginia where she tends to a native plant garden that is certified as a home wildlife sanctuary by the Audubon Society. Majda is currently a co-host of the long-running DC literary salon Café Muse. She loves cardamom in her tea\, saffron in her chocolate\, and rosewater in everything. www.majdagama.com. \nJulia Kolchinsky (formerly Dasbach) emigrated from Dnipro\, Ukraine when she was six years old. She is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother\, Don’t Touch the Bones\, 40 WEEKS\, and PARALLAX (The University of Arkansas Press\, 2025) finalist of the Miller Williams Prize. Her next book\, When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books\, 2027)\, is a collaborative collection with Luisa Muradyan. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity\, Shenandoah\, The Account\, and won Michigan Quarterly Review’s Prize in Nonfiction. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University. \nAbi Pollokoff is a poet\, editor\, and book artist. Her work has appeared in publications such as TriQuarterly\, Denver Quarterly\, and Guernica\, and in such installations as the Summit Sound\, the Seattle Convention Center sound installation. Abi was named a 2021 Jack Straw Writer and a 2019 Hugo Fellow. She has held residencies from the Seventh Wave\, the Seattle Review of Books and the Alice Gallery. In 2012\, Abi won the Anselle M. Larson/Academy of American poets Prize for Tulane University\, judged by Caryl Pagel. She was a finalist for the 2022 Coniston Prize\, judged by Dorianne Laux\, and the 2022 Gatewood Prize\, judged by Julie Carr\, and a semifinalist for the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her poem “aubade” was a finalist for the 2019 Omnidawn Broadside Contest\, judged by Dan Beachy-Quick. In addition to her own writing\, Abi is the managing editor of Poetry Northwest Editions and works in publishing. Abi received her MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, by way of Seattle\, New Orleans and the Chicagoland area. www.abipollokoff.com. \nAlina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham\, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook\, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series\, Nov. 2020) and Dor\, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September\, 2021). Her debut fiction collection\, Every Mask I Tried On\, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina’s poems\, essays\, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner\, North American Review\, World Literature Today\, Pleiades\, Poetry\, BOMB\, Crab Creek Review\, and others. She serves as editor\, reviewer\, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. Her new poetry collection will be published by Sarabande in 2025. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/couplet-national-poetry-month-edition/
LOCATION:The Red Room at KGB Bar\, 85 East 4th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A reading by Alice Notley
DESCRIPTION:About the Poet: \nAlice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry\, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971)\, How Spring Comes (1981)\, which received the San Francisco Poetry Award\, Waltzing Matilda (1981)\, Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993)\, The Descent of Alette (1996)\, among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Notley’s recent work includes Alma\, or the Dead Women (2006)\, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005\, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and Certain Magical Acts (2016). Notley has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015\, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Paris\, France.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-reading-by-alice-notley/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:A conversation with Alice Notley
DESCRIPTION:About the Poet: \nAlice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry\, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971)\, How Spring Comes (1981)\, which received the San Francisco Poetry Award\, Waltzing Matilda (1981)\, Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993)\, The Descent of Alette (1996)\, among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Notley’s recent work includes Alma\, or the Dead Women (2006)\, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005\, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and Certain Magical Acts (2016). Notley has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015\, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Paris\, France.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-alice-notley/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Mónica de la Torre & Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft\, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations\, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications\, Pause the Document and Thingifications::Mathematics of Chaos.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/monica-de-la-torre-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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