This reading and writing class is a study of selected members of the New York School of poets, circa 1970–1980. Documentary film and recordings,

On the occasion of the publication of The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, editor Mark Weiss, contributors and translators explore major trends in Cuban poetry,

Students will make poems and experiment with tactile methods, unusual scale, spaces and durations in order to create a more open field for poetic possibility.

Students will compose and revise their own elegies and examine a selection of elegies by Auden, Bishop, Heaney, Lowell, Merwin, Milton, Ponsot, Shelley, Stevens, Walcott and Whitman, among others

With artistic collaborator Robert Currie, poet Anne Carson discusses and reads from Nox, her illustrated “book in a box” that elegizes the loss of her bro

Now in its second year, this two-day national festival of workshops and readings celebrates the microbook.