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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: October 20-22, 2011
Chancellors Reading
Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an unforgettable evening as some of the most acclaimed poets of our day come together
on one stage to read from their latest work.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University
566 LaGuardia Place
Poetry Walking Tours
Friday, October 21, 10:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.
Take a trip down the same streets traversed by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings,
Langston Hughes and countless other poets. Walking tours will explore the literary history of
Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art, the West Village, and SoHo. Past tour guides have included poets
Kazim Ali, Anselm Berrigan, Jordan Davis, Bob Holman, Katy Lederer, Cate Marvin, Greg Pardlo,
Tracy K. Smith, Tom Thompson, Mónica de la Torre, among others.
All-Events Passholders only
Various meeting locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
NEW: Make It New: Vision & Innovation in Contemporary Poetry
Friday, October 21, 12:30 p.m.
Cathy Park Hong, Ilya Kaminsky, and Evie Shockley discuss innovative and experimental uses of
language in their own poems and the work of other poets who have influenced them.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only
New York University School of Law Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South
NEW: From City to Country: Regional Aesthetics and Sensibility in American Poems
Friday, October 21, 2:00 p.m.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Matthew Dickman, and Cate Marvin discuss how ideas of place and travel
operate in their own poems and other American poems.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only New York University School of Law Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South
Blaney Lecture
Friday, October 21, 3:30 p.m.
Winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in poetry, Susan Howe presents a lecture on poetry and
telepathy.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only New York University School of Law Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South
Annual lecture series in honor of Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney
Poets Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
Celebrate contemporary poetry and recipients of the premier collection of awards for poetry in the
United States; a reception will follow.
Tishman Auditorium
The New School
66 West 12th Street
Co-sponsored by The New School Creative Writing Program
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Chancellors Discussions on Contemporary Poetry
Saturday, October 22
10:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
5 sessions
Through a series of intimate talks, some of the most renowned poets of our time examine issues
central to poetry today.
Getting Away With It: Risk In Poems
Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa & Gerald Stern
Humans & Others
Juan Felipe Herrera, Kay Ryan & Anne Waldman
Breaking the Line, Breaking the Narrative
Rita Dove, Sharon Olds & Ron Padgett
Suffering through Joy
Mark Doty, Edward Hirsch & Naomi Shihab Nye
Repetition & Refrain
Victor Hernandez Cruz, Carl Phillips & Marie Ponsot
New York University School of Law Tishman Auditorium 40 Washington Square South
Co-sponsored by the New York University Creative Writing Program and supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities
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American Poet Launch Party
Saturday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Reading and reception for the new fall issue of American Poet, the journal of the Academy
of American Poets. Carol Muske-Dukes, Matthew Rohrer, and Tracy K. Smith will read from their
work.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street
Co-sponsored by the New York University Creative Writing Program
Events take place at venues throughout Manhattan; all times are subject to
change.
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