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Welcome to the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 1 with caption : M. NourbeSe Philip opens The Poetry Center's Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 2 with caption : Poetry Center Mazza Writers in Residence 2018–19: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Juliana Delgado Lopera
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 3 with caption : The Poetry Center's premier Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, September 2018, with Jen Hofer and John Pluecker + Antena
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 4 with caption : Kiese Laymon, Janice Lee inaugurate The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, October-November 2018
M. NourbeSe Philip opens The Poetry Center's Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
Poetry Center Mazza Writers in Residence 2018–19: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Juliana Delgado Lopera
The Poetry Center's premier Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, September 2018, with Jen Hofer and John Pluecker + Antena
Kiese Laymon, Janice Lee inaugurate The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, October-November 2018
Recent Events
VIDEO + AUDIO James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
VIDEO + AUDIO The Black Aesthetic, in performance and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, John Schott, Joshua Horowitz) and Steve Dalachinsky
NO VIDEO NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
VIDEO + AUDIO David Henderson, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Solmaz Sharif, a reading and reception
VIDEO + AUDIO Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, with Lily Hoang, A Bestiary, a reading and book party
VIDEO + AUDIO Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Garrett Caples, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Dale Smith, on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, and reading his own poetry
Lewis Jordan Trio, for Langston Hughes on his Birthday
VIDEO + AUDIO David Hobbs, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, "Oppen and His Early Others"
CANCELLED Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley
VIDEO + AUDIO Jerome Rothenberg, Reading and in Conversation
AUDIO: David Meltzer Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo, in Performance and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Trace Peterson and Max Wolf Valerio, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO William Rowe and Helen Dimos, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, reading at McRoskey Mattress Co.
CANCELLED May-lee Chai and Junse Kim
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell, in Performance
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin, in Performance and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, Reading and in Conversation
The New Talkies: Live Film Narrations at ATA
VIDEO + AUDIO Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in Performance and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Nellie Wong and Genny Lim, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Rebecca Eland, Andrew Schelling, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Orlando White and Patrick James Dunagan, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
VIDEO + AUDIO Janice Lowe plays Leaving Cle, Poetry and Groove, with Yohann Potico and Kevin Carnes
VIDEO + AUDIO Ariel Goldberg and Simone White, Giant Night: The Poetry Project at 50, a Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, a Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Margaret Randall, Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO David Boyce, Hafez Modirzadeh, Marshall R. Trammell & Friends
VIDEO + AUDIO Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: Navigating Space for Women
VIDEO + AUDIO Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Benjamin Hollander, a Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Frances Richard, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "The Mind's Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political"
VIDEO + AUDIO Working With Others: Convivial Research (Revisited)
VIDEO + AUDIO Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo + Video Debut Screening
VIDEO + AUDIO Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette, 2 nights at The Lab
VIDEO + AUDIO José Kozer, a bilingual reading and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks: Prose at The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Florencia Castellano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Pablo Katchadjian, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
VIDEO + AUDIO Julia Bloch and erica lewis, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Jennifer Foerster, Poetry Reading at "When I Remember I See Red"
VIDEO + AUDIO Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Samantha Giles and Angela Hume, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jasmine Gibson, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Hollie Hardy and Mukta Sambrani, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
VIDEO + AUDIO For Franco Beltrametti: with Joanne Kyger, Duncan McNaughton, Donald Guravich, Maggie Brown, Jim Nisbet, Judy Goldhaft, Stefan Hyner
VIDEO + AUDIO Stefan Hyner: “This Other World Not Civilized,” a reading and talk with Lao Tzu, T’ao Yüan Ming, Li T’ai Po
VIDEO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance at McRoskey Mattress Co.
VIDEO + AUDIO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes
VIDEO + AUDIO Sarah Schulman and Terry Castle: a reading from The Cosmopolitans and a conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Elaine Kahn and Trisha Low, Reading and in Conversation
AUDIO Ed Pavlić and David Lau, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey, with Hafez Modirzadeh
VIDEO + AUDIO Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Annie Finch, A Solo Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Clark and Vincent Katz, Reading New Work
VIDEO + AUDIO Vincent Katz and Jane Gregory, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Roberto Tejada, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "Assault on the Quiet Continent: Oppen in Mexico"
VIDEO + AUDIO Gregory Pardlo reading, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO Stephen Rodefer, a Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Leticia Hernández-Linares and Lee Herrick, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Adjunct Action | Poets in Action: Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, Stephanie Young
VIDEO + AUDIO Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: Reading and in Conversation with Tân Khánh Cao
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: John Keene, Counternarratives
VIDEO + AUDIO Tonya M. Foster and David Buuck, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, a reading with Stephen Emerson, Gloria Frym, August Kleinzahler, and Mimi Pond
VIDEO + AUDIO Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems, a Celebration
VIDEO + AUDIO Katy Bohinc and Paul Ebenkamp, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO David Meltzer: Two-Way Mirror
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners
