In Sudden Orpheus, an avant-garde puppet-theater piece for adults, puppeteer Ariel Goldberger and poet Leonard Schwartz explore the frontier between poetr
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October 23, 2009
October 24, 2009
In Sudden Orpheus, an avant-garde puppet-theater piece for adults, puppeteer Ariel Goldberger and poet Leonard Schwartz explore the frontier between poetr
October 27, 2009
Poets John Peck and Brian Teare discuss the formal precision and bold subject matter of British poet Thom Gunn (1929–2004), who found his poetic voice during the f
October 28, 2009
A reading with Alfred Corn, Elaine Equi, Wendy Lesser, Robert Pinsky, Robert Polito, Tom Sleigh
October 29, 2009
Francisco Aragón, poet and editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, hosts a reading of leading Latino poets and a panel exploring multi- and interlingualism, the role
November 03, 2009
Four leading Polish poets Bożena Keff, Marzanna Kielar, Tomasz Rożycki & Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, discuss contemporary Pol
November 05, 2009
In celebration of his 70th birthday and the publication of his new book, Mozart’s Third Brain, the preeminent Swedish poet Göran Sonnevi makes a rare appearance with his E
November 12, 2009
Chicago writer Angela Jackson joins poet Patricia Spears Jones for a reading and conversation about their respective writings, including Jackson’s new novel Wh
November 14, 2009
In this workshop of reading, writing and discussing poems about our lives, Naomi Shihab Nye, author of the recent young-adult poetry collection Honeybee, explores how poet
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the author and editor of over 20 volumes, leads a round table session for adults that explores how poetry can help us navigate the different phases of our li
