Roger Conover, editor of Mina Loy's collected poems, and poet and MacArthur Fellow Thom Gunn read and discuss the poems of this early modernist.
Readings & Conversations Archive
December 01, 1994
December 03, 1994, December 10, 1994
AIDS has occasioned an overwhelming response in contemporary American poetry. But exactly how, in the face of illness and despair, does poetry function?
AIDS has occasioned an overwhelming response in contemporary American poetry. But exactly how, in the face of illness and despair, does poetry function?
December 08, 1994
Two Portuguese poets give a bilingual reading of their internationally-acclaimed poems, not widely translated into English.
February 10, 1995
Leading poetry critic Helen Vendler will give a multimedia presentation on the visual arts that inspired the poetry of Irish-born, 1923 Nobel-winner William Butler Yeats (1865-1939
February 21, 1995
An exploration of the connections and influences shared between these two art forms will feature readings by Tracie Morris, NYC's Queen of Hip Hop (and 1993 Slam Champ at the Nuyor
March 09, 1995
A modernist from Northern Britain, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) combined his simple Quaker aesthetics with intense experimentalism.
March 13, 1995
This unedited video of our June 9, 1994 program looks at the relationship between two art fo
April 08, 1995
Two New Yorker editors explore the poetry of these legendary writers and discuss it in relation to the poetry of our time and its time.


