[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]
[ Friday, February 25, 2011; 10:00 pm; ] Friday
This reading celebrates the publication of 5th issue of VANITAS, a journal of poetry, criticism, and essays. Coming out periodically, it is a venue where international voices test the place of the arts in the world. Some themes from preceding issues include Anarchisms, Popular Song, and Translation. VANITAS 5 takes on film, to see what [...]
[ Wednesday, April 7, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
This reading will celebrate the release of The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985, a superb documentation of the emergence, growth, and varied fortunes of the form over decades of American literary history. The largest and most comprehensive anthology of its kind yet assembled, the volume collects classics of poets theater as well as rarities [...]
[This event took place Wednesday, November 3, 2009]
Report by Nada Gordon
Edwin Torres was stylin’ in his official MTA pop lettrist NY School subway socks and fine loud maybe zinnia print shirt in shades of burgundy, pumpkin, scarlet, neon cantaloupe, and 50s aqua on a warm cream background. I watched him psych up gathering energy to be, as [...]
