In an interactive presentation, poet and essayist Natasha Sajé, author of Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, engages the audience in a discussion of the prose poem.
(Part 2, approx. 30 mins.)

Part of Other Impulses: Poets Writing Across Genres

In an interactive presentation, poet and essayist Natasha Sajé, author of Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, discusses the makeup of the prose poem, a hybrid form that derives energy from the collision of opposites: realism and fantasy; poem and novel.
(Part 1, approx. 30 mins.)

Part of Other Impulses: Poets Writing Across Genres

Actor Bill Murray reads poems by Frank O'Hara ("[How wonderful it is that the Park Avenue Viaduct is being rehabilitated]"), Billy Collins ("Another Reason I Don't Keep a Gun in the House", "The Death of the Hat," and "The Art of Drowning") as part of the 9th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
(Approx. 10 minutes)

Actor Bill Murray reads poems by his son Jackson Murray ("That was Summer"), Robert Francis ("Pitcher"), Billy Collins ("The Best Cigarette"), Robert Creeley ("Ballad of the Desperate Husband") and Frank O'Hara ("A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island") as part of the 10th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
(Approx. 14 minutes)

Actor Bill Murray reads poems by Thomas Lux ("Eyes Gouged Out and Replaced by Hot Coals"), Martín Espada ("Rules for Captain Ahab's Provincetown Poetry Workshop"), Galway Kinnell ("Oatmeal") as part of the 13th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
(Approx. 10 minutes)

Actor Bill Murray reads poems by Ron Padgett ("Voice"), Frank O'Hara ("The Critic" and "Poem {for 1959}"), Thomas Lux ("I Love You, Sweatheart") and Kay Ryan ("Poetry is a Kind of Money") as part of the 12th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
(Approx. 10 minutes)

Novelist, poet, and playwright Joseph Coulson remembers poet Robert Creeley, and reads Creeley's poem "I Know a Man" during the Poets House panel discussion The Figures: Life Cycle of an Independent Press
(1 1/2 mins)

Working in dance, poetry, and theater respectively, the work of Maria Hassabi, Paolo Javier, and Kaneza Schaal blurs the lines between disciplines in varying ways. In conjunction with the site-based presentation of Maria Hassabi’s dance performance PREMIERE at Bowling Green, they come together in a conversation about the role of and relationship between word, image, and movement across disciplines.
(Full Audio, approx. 1 hour)