Now in its second year, this two-day national festival of workshops and readings celebrates the microbook.
Calendar
May 03, 2010
May 05, 2010
Diane Ackerman, acclaimed essayist and author of Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day, talks with Kimiko Hahn, author of To
May 06, 2010
The uncompromising Chilean poet Raúl Zurita reads from his work and talks with Anna Deeny, the English-language
May 11, 2010
Dominican poets Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo and Angela Hernández Núñez are joined by their English-language translator, Judith Kerman, and scholar
May 12, 2010
In recognition of the International Year of Biodiversity, this seminar with poet and eco-critic Jonathan Skinner looks at current poetics and cultures of biodiversity, including fo
May 13, 2010
Poets Maurice Manning and Norman Minnick share poems, tall tales and conversation about the nature of Kentucky poetry, from the lyric to the comic.
May 14, 2010
Poet and eco-critic Jonathan Skinner examines how poets are responding to our relationship to water, taking into account emerging
May 15, 2010
Author and illustrator of prizewinning children’s books, Calef Brown reads from his most popular works and reveals how he creates his illustrations and madcap poems.
Building on the concerns uncovered in Skinner’s two previous seminars, this workshop is an ecopoetics field audit that focuses on Poets House’s location along the Hudson River and introduces site-b
May 18, 2010
Poet, translator and editor of the new volume Chinese Writers on Writing, Arthur Sze reads and discusses modern and contemporary Chinese poetry with scholar and translator
