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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
Chancellors Reading, 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.
The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
Poetry Walking Tours, 10:30 a.m.
Follow in the footsteps of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, W.H. Auden, and Marianne Moore on poet-led literary walking tours throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
All-Events Passholders only.
All-Events Passholders will be contacted about walking tour details by early fall.
Publishing 101 for Poets, 10:00 a.m.
Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine, provides an overview of the publishing process and answers questions about the best way to navigate making your work public.
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Panel Discussions on Contemporary Poetry, 12:30 & 2:00 p.m.
Two panels of poets discuss the use of organizing principles and themes to investigate varied subjects, and examine the creative impulse that brings them to poetry over any other art form:
Poetic Explorations
Lee Ann Brown, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Kevin Varrone
The Poetic Impulse
Ken Chen, Lia Purpura, Dara Wier
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Blaney Lecture, 3:30 p.m.
Award-winning poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate Carolyn Forché gives this year’s annual lecture in honor of Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney.
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Poets Awards Ceremony, 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate 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
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
Chancellors Discussions, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Through a series of intimate talks, some of the most renowned poets of our time examine issues central to poetry today:
The Art of Teaching Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye
Reading and Writing Long Poems
Toi Derricotte, Ron Padgett & Anne Waldman
Contemporary Practices of Ecopoetics
Jane Hirshfield, Arthur Sze & C.D. Wright
Form: Inspiration and Experimentation
Marilyn Hacker, Marilyn Nelson & Claudia Rankine
American Poets Abroad
Victor Hernández Cruz, Marilyn Hacker, Edward Hirsch & Arthur Sze
Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street
American Poet Publication Party, 7:00 p.m.
Reading and reception for the new fall issue of American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets. Readers TBA.
Wollman Hall, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor |
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Inaugural Poets Forum Reading
The first of a series of public events, the sold-out Poets Forum Reading on October 18, 2007, provided the rare opportunity to hear some of the most acclaimed poets of our day reading together on one stage. Featuring the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, the reading celebrated the range of outstanding poetry being written in America.
Download selections from the evening's performance, including new and representative poems by thirteen of the Forum participants. More >
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