Application Due: Friday, April 29, 2011

Dorianne Laux’s most recent collections are The Book of Men, Facts about the Moon, Awake, What We Carry and Smoke, and she is co-author of a handbook on writing, The Poet’s Companion. She teaches
poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program.

Kevin Young is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels and Dear Darkness, and editor of five others, including the Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. He teaches at Emory University, where he is also the curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library.

Application Due: Friday, February 4, 2011

Winner of a MacArthur “genius” Award, Anne Carson is a celebrated poet and classicist who has collaborated with artist Robert Currie on performance works. She has taught at McGill, the University of Michigan and NYU.

Application Due: Friday, February 4, 2011

Winner of a MacArthur “genius” Award, Anne Carson is a celebrated poet and classicist who has collaborated with artist Robert Currie on performance works. She has taught at McGill, the University of Michigan and NYU.

Join us for this annual poetic pilgrimage across one of the world’s architectural treasures. Walk with today’s great poets as they read the New York City-inspired poetry of Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes and other literary legends en route to Brooklyn. The journey closes with a celebratory dinner.

All proceeds benefit Poets House. The Poetry Walk, our annual fundraiser, helps make possible the hundreds of free and affordable public programs Poets House presents each year.

In this talk, poet Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men (among other volumes), examines the musical patterns of poetry. Though there are many formal names for the poetic devices that bring together written word and sounded pattern, the emphasis will be on the syllable and the line.

A translator and author of many poetry books (including The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), Marie Ponsot discusses the fairy tale as the dark thread that is woven into our literature.

This day-long symposium on the poetries of the Islamic world brings together scholars, poets and writers from around the globe and features panel discussions and performances of classical, sung and contemporary poetry.

Born in 1948 in Fez, Morocco, internationally acclaimed poet and professor of Arabic poetry Mohammed Bennis reads from his work and discusses his life in poetry with translator and poet Pierre Joris.

Poet and journalist Karen Swenson explores the poetry of Robert Browning (1812–1889), attending to the ways in which his dramatic
monologues and his writing on other cultures and time periods inspired such divergent 20th-century luminaries as Pound, Eliot and Frost.