Extemporaneous Poetry Typed to Order with Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo and Sierra Nelson

Poet and translator Michael Hulse discusses the inventive prose of W.G. Sebald (1945-2001), who has been described as “Memory’s Einstein” [New York Times Book Review].

Eamon Grennan shares his insights on Geoffrey Chaucer, literary giant of medieval England and author of the epic masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.

Publication party for Clara Sala's Kingsbridge Library Young Adult Writing Workshop

A feminist look at war in the works of the ancient Greek epicist Homer and in the contemporary imagination.

Publication party for Regie Cabico's Elmhurst and Flushing Branch Library Young Adult Writing Workshops

John Felstiner discusses Chilean-born Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), who won the Nobel Prize in literature and Paul Celan (1920-1970), a German speaking Jewish poet born in Romania, who

Meena Alexander tracks the lineage of love poetry written by Indian women from 600 B.C. to today.