Poetry reading and discussion with Ken McCullough, U Sam Oeur and Karen Swenson

An ALA Live at the Library 2000

Nathaniel Mackey is a distinctive figure in contemporary American literature whose work bridges worlds compassing poetry, jazz, mythology and history.

Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.

Acclaimed poet and essayist Donald Hall delivers the annual Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture on the Craft of Poetry, which honors the poet and literary critic whose library hel