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SPRING 2018 CALENDAR POETSHOUSE.ORG Thirty years ago, poet Stanley Kunitz and literary arts visionary Elizabeth Kray joined with poets from across the aesthetic spectrum to create a place for poetry that would nurture practitioners of the art and bring the public into vital experiences with poetic language. Poets House grew out of a need for poets to be less isolated from each other and from audiences, as well as to preserve the history of the art and foster contemporary innovation through the creation of a poetry library and programs that were open to the public. Poets House has traveled a long way from its beginnings in a high school home economics room, where poets such as Bella Akhmadulina and C.K. Williams read in front of kitchen cabinets filled with books. Now, our home on the banks of the Hudson with our 70,000-volume library, program hall, exhibition space, and children’s room serves poets at all stages of their careers and newcomers to poetry—young and old—who come to learn, explore, discover, and invent. One of the enduring gifts of the Poets House founders was their vision of a place for conversation among poets across cultures and contemporary practice. Since our beginning, we have sought to create a home for poetry that embraces the multitude of poetries and communities. We strive on a daily basis to make a democratic and pluralistic space for poets and the public. In safeguarding one of civilization’s oldest art forms, Poets House has always celebrated poetry as a public good. This animating ethos—that is, this engagement with the full range of poetic possibility—is manifest in our 30th year of programming. Our exhibition 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects traces the network of alliances that built Poets House. We also continue our series of programs featuring close, intimate readings of 30 poems by a diverse roster of some of today’s most innovative poets (six poets x five poems each = 30 poems!). Please join us, too, for tributes to poets who have been chroniclers of crisis and warriors for social justice, including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Ryszard Krynicki, and Naomi Replansky. Now more than ever, we need meaningful dialogue and close listening. I invite you to be part of this exchange, to find sustenance and inspiration in poetry and friendship. —Lee Briccetti, Executive Director A NOTE FROM THE POETS HOUSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR There are so many ways to participate in the life of Poets House. Visit the library. Bring a friend. Bring your classes. FOLLOW US @POETSHOUSE: THREE DECADES OF POETS HOUSE Celebrate Poets House’s 30th year of making a home for poetry by joining us for programs that journey through poetry’s history. These events complement our other spring programs, which bring rich poetic traditions together with today’s most exciting practitioners of the art. 30 POEMS: CLOSE READINGS This spring, Poets House continues a yearlong exploration of 30 poems that have left an indelible mark on the history of poetry: six poets provide close readings of five enduring poems (6 x 5 = 30). Following on the heels of talks by Camille T. Dungy and Monica Youn in the fall (recordings are available at poetshouse.org), this spring we present programs with Rigoberto González, Edward Hirsch, Erica Hunt, and Carl Phillips. 30 YEARS! A NARRATIVE IN 30 OBJECTS: 30 TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION Free & Open to the Public In honor of the 30th Anniversary of Poets House, 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects mines the Poets House archives for objects of resonance, including handwritten correspondence between E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Kray, typescripts from Stanley Kunitz and Galway Kinnell, paintings, photographs, journals, and recordings, and much more. On view through May 12, 2018. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 3PM A CELEBRATION OF FERNANDO PESSOA Join poets Patricio Ferrari, John Keene, Vijay Seshadri, and Mónica de la Torre for a re-examination of Fernando Pessoa, the seminal Portuguese poet who wrote in the guise of a myriad of personae with distinct biographies and aesthetics. Upon the release of a new translation of The Book of Disquiet —his fragmentary “factless autobiography”— panelists discuss Pessoa’s inventive rejection of a singular authentic authorial voice and its legacy for contemporary poetry. Co-sponsored by New Directions Publishing. Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are $10, $7 for students and seniors, and free to Poets House members, and take place at Poets House at 10 River Terrace in Lower Manhattan. For more information and directions, please visit poetshouse.org. POETS HOUSE LIBRARY HOURS: TUESDAY – FRIDAY: 11AM – 7PM SATURDAY: 11AM – 6PM

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SPRING 2018 CALENDAR POETSHOUSE.ORG

Thirty years ago, poet Stanley Kunitz and literary arts visionary Elizabeth Kray joined with poets from across the aesthetic spectrum to create a place for poetry that would nurture practitioners of the art and bring the public into vital experiences with poetic language. Poets House grew out of a need for poets to be less isolated from each other and from audiences, as well as to preserve the history of the art and foster contemporary innovation through the creation of a poetry library and programs that were open to the public.

Poets House has traveled a long way from its beginnings in a high school home economics room, where poets such as Bella Akhmadulina and C.K. Williams read in front of kitchen cabinets filled with books. Now, our home on the banks of the Hudson with our 70,000-volume library, program hall, exhibition space, and children’s room serves poets at all stages of their careers and newcomers to poetry—young and old—who come to learn, explore, discover, and invent.

One of the enduring gifts of the Poets House founders was their vision of a place for conversation among poets across cultures and contemporary practice. Since our beginning, we have sought to create a home for poetry that embraces the multitude of poetries and communities. We strive on a daily basis to make a democratic and pluralistic space for poets and the public. In safeguarding one of civilization’s oldest art forms, Poets House has always celebrated poetry as a public good.

This animating ethos—that is, this engagement with the full range of poetic possibility—is manifest in our 30th year of programming. Our exhibition 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects traces the network of alliances that built Poets House. We also continue our series of programs featuring close, intimate readings of 30 poems by a diverse roster of some of today’s most innovative poets (six poets x five poems each = 30 poems!). Please join us, too, for tributes to poets who have been chroniclers of crisis and warriors for social justice, including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Ryszard Krynicki, and Naomi Replansky.

Now more than ever, we need meaningful dialogue and close listening. I invite you to be part of this exchange, to find sustenance and inspiration in poetry and friendship.

—Lee Briccetti, Executive Director

A NOTE FROM THE POETS HOUSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

There are so many ways to participate in the life of Poets House. Visit the library. Bring a friend. Bring your classes.

FOLLOW US @POETSHOUSE:

THREE DECADES OF POETS HOUSE Celebrate Poets House’s 30th year of making a home for poetry by joining us for programs that journey through poetry’s history. These events complement our other spring programs, which bring rich poetic traditions together with today’s most exciting practitioners of the art.

30 POEMS: CLOSE READINGS This spring, Poets House continues a yearlong exploration of 30 poems that have left an indelible mark on the history of poetry: six poets provide close readings of five enduring poems (6 x 5 = 30). Following on the heels of talks by Camille T. Dungy and Monica Youn in the fall (recordings are available at poetshouse.org), this spring we present programs with Rigoberto González, Edward Hirsch, Erica Hunt, and Carl Phillips.

30 YEARS! A NARRATIVE IN 30 OBJECTS: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITIONFree & Open to the Public In honor of the 30th Anniversary of Poets House, 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects mines the Poets House archives for objects of resonance, including handwritten correspondence between E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Kray, typescripts from Stanley Kunitz and Galway Kinnell, paintings, photographs, journals, and recordings, and much more. On view through May 12, 2018.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 3PMA CELEBRATION OF FERNANDO PESSOAJoin poets Patricio Ferrari, John Keene, Vijay Seshadri, and Mónica de la Torre for a re-examination of Fernando Pessoa, the seminal Portuguese poet who wrote in the guise of a myriad of personae with distinct biographies and aesthetics. Upon the release of a new translation of The Book of Disquiet —his fragmentary “factless autobiography”—panelists discuss Pessoa’s inventive rejection of a singular authentic authorial voice and its legacy for contemporary poetry. Co-sponsored by New Directions Publishing.

Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are $10, $7 for students and seniors, and free to Poets House members, and take place at Poets House at 10 River Terrace in Lower Manhattan. For more information and directions, please visit poetshouse.org.

POETS HOUSE LIBRARY HOURS: TUESDAY – FRIDAY: 11AM – 7PM SATURDAY: 11AM – 6PM

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 7PM TRIBUTE TO THOMAS LUXwith BILLY COLLINS, TERRANCE HAYES, MARIE HOWE, MARY KARR, VIJAY SESHADRI, PATRICK ROSAL, AMBER TAMBLYN & OthersIntroduced by JEFFREY McDANIEL Location: CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYFree & Open to the Public

This reading honors the life and work of the late Thomas Lux. Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Poets House, Sarah Lawrence College, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 3PMWRITING & TEACHING IN A TIME OF CRISIS:LESSONS FROM JUNE JORDAN Introduced by JAN HELLER LEVI

During her life, poet and essayist June Jordan (1936–2002) energetically responded to the crises of the disenfranchised with activism, writing, and teaching. To continue her legacy of speaking truth to power, poets

Joshua Bennett, Suzanne Gardinier, Donna Masini, and Aja Monet talk about their own experiences with writing and teaching in our current time of crisis. Presented with the support of the June M. Jordan Literary Estate.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 3PM POETRY & THE BODYwith CHIA-LUN CHANG, ALEX CUFF, RICO FREDERICK, RICARDO HERNANDEZ, CYNTHIA MANICK & ADEEBA TALUKDER

Graduates of Poets House’s Emerging Poets Fellowship read new work composed on the theme of the body as inspired by experiences working in the Poets House archives.

Presented as part of Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, the second annual initiative of the Poetry Coalition, a national poetry coalition working to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.

POETS HOUSE AT AWP IN TAMPA, FLORIDA FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30 – 5:45PMREADING: RICK BAROT, LaTASHA N. NEVADA DIGGS & PATRICIA SPEARS JONESLocation: Ballroom B, First Floor, Tampa Convention Center On the occasion of Poets House’s 30th Anniversary, three award-winning poets, representing the rich diversity of contemporary poetry, read from their work and discuss the role of poetry in our culture.

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 7PMWRITING THE BODY with KIMIKO HAHN

What does text look like if a writer is “writing the body”? Poet Kimiko Hahn considers this, using as a starting place écriture féminine—the French feminist movement of the 1970s that defined writing as, in the words of scholar Elaine Showalter, “inscription

of the feminine body and female difference in language and text.” Hahn explores the concept of a “full-throated” poetry of physicality in the work of writers like Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, Joy Harjo, and Claudia Rankine.

Presented as part of Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, the second annual initiative of the Poetry Coalition, a national poetry coalition working to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 6PMDIAMOND MOUNTAINS: POETS RESPOND TO KOREAN ART Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Free with Museum Admission

Poets Amanda Calderon and Michael Leong read works in response to The Met’s exhibition Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art, featuring artwork from the 18th century to the present

inspired by what may be the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean peninsula: the Diamond Mountains. The region’s location in what is today North Korea has kept it largely inaccessible during modern times.

30TH ANNIVERSARYCLOSE READINGS SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 3PMTHE CITY with RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ

Lambda Award–winning poet Rigoberto González considers five poems that explore the city. As the bittersweet symbol of order and chaos, progress and decay, community and overcrowding, the city is both beacon and demon—a landscape of possibility where dreams are born and where dreams transform

or die. González examines a range of poetic representations of the city and civilization and how, over centuries, urban spaces continue to mirror human joy and anxiety. These poems help us understand the powers of the city—the greatest archive of memory, history, and story.

FEBRUARY / MARCH

Mount Geumgang Viewed from Danbal Ridge

by Jeong Seon

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 7PMBEST AMERICAN POETRY: 30 YEARSwith MARK DOTY, TERRANCE HAYES, NATASHA TRETHEWEY & OthersHosted by DAVID LEHMANThe acclaimed annual anthology series Best American Poetry celebrates three decades of publication with readings of selections by several of its editors, who are among the most renowned poets in the country.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 7PMTHE ARCHIVE AS RESISTANCE:A CRAFT TALK with CYNTHIA CRUZ The author of four books and winner of the Hodder Fellowship, among other honors, poet and critic Cynthia Cruz discusses creative engagement with archives as a means of social resistance and aesthetic

experimentation, offering examples from visual art, including experimental film; contemporary poetry; and her own practice. Presented as part of the Emerging Poets Fellowship public lecture series, with support from the Jerome Foundation.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 7PMPASSWORDS: DANEZ SMITH ON AUDRE LORDENational Book Award finalist and Lambda Award winner Danez Smith discusses the life and work of legendary poet and activist Audre Lorde (1934–1992), whose radical poetics broke new ground in addressing racism, sexism, class inequity, and homophobia.

30TH ANNIVERSARYCLOSE READINGSSATURDAY, APRIL 14, 3PMBETWEEN “SOFT” AND “HARD” CLOCKS: A MEDITATION ON TEMPORALITY with ERICA HUNTPoet, essayist, and teacher Erica Hunt considers five poems and how they frame time: tense, tempo, slippage, archive, and prophecy. Author of several books of poetry, including Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes, Local History, ARCADE, and Piece Logic, she is also co-editor of Letters

to the Future: Radical Writing by Black Women with Dawn Lundy Martin. Erica Hunt is the Parsons Family University Professor of Creative Writing at Long Island University, Brooklyn campus.

TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 7PMPOLAND’S RYSZARD KRYNICKI with CLARE CAVANAGH, EDWARD HIRSCH & ALISSA VALLES Born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, Ryszard Krynicki went on to become one of postwar Poland’s most

significant poets, as well as an acclaimed editor, publisher, and translator. Krynicki joins his translators and fellow poets to read and discuss the release of his book of selected poems, Magnetic Point, and the first uncensored English-language translation of Our Life Grows, originally published in Paris in 1978. Presented as part of the PEN World Voices festival.

30TH ANNIVERSARY CLOSE READINGS SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 3PMFOLIAGE & PATTERN with CARL PHILLIPSL.A. Times Book Award winner Carl Phillips discusses how pattern makes for meaning and muscularity in five poems. Author of over a dozen poetry books and two books of criticism, Phillips’s newest poetry collection is Wild Is the Wind.

SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 21POETRY & HORTICULTURE AT THE HIGH LINE with TOMMY PICO A collaborative program with Poets House and the High Line’s horticultural department. Join poet Tommy Pico at Manhattan’s stunning elevated park built on a former rail line overlooking the Hudson. Visit poetshouse.org for details.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 4PMSHANE McCRAE AT BMCC Location: Borough of Manhattan Community College199 Chambers Street, New York, NY

National Book Award–winning poet Shane McCrae reads from his work.Presented as part of the Emerging

Poets Fellowship public lecture series, with support from the Jerome Foundation. Co-sponsored by BMCC.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 7PMTHE SONNET: A CRAFT TALK with SHANE McCRAE AT POETS HOUSESonnets have been written in English for about 500 years, and though their popularity has risen and fallen during that time, almost from the beginning poets have utilized sonnets for everything from grand statements to private messages. Shane McCrae explores the history of the sonnet and considers its use by today’s poets. Presented as part of the Emerging Poets Fellowship public lecture series, with support from the Jerome Foundation.

APRIL

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MAY / JUNE

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 7PMLULLABIES AND LAMENTS: EXPERIMENTS IN MUSIC AND POETRY

Lullabies and Laments is an experi-ment in translation, informed by Indic reading, interpretive, and performa-tive practices. Moving between Tamil and English, this performance with Grammy Award nominee Sikkil C. Gurucharan and scholar and transla-

tor Archana Venkatesan explores laments and lullabies and the role of gender in expressing love, longing, desire, and devotion. Co-sponsored by City Lore.

30TH ANNIVERSARY CLOSE READINGS SATURDAY, MAY 12, 3PM A SHADOWY EXULTATIONwith EDWARD HIRSCH

MacArthur Award–winning poet and critic Edward Hirsch considers how five 19th- and 20th-century poets treat luminous moments and visionary experiences. It is “Within a Moment: a Pulsation of the Artery,”

William Blake writes, when “the Poets Work is Done.” Such unexpected breakthroughs—sudden and revelatory—arise out of commonplace experiences. How do different poets dramatize epiphanies that rupture time? And how do they integrate them into consciousness?

TUESDAY, MAY 15 THE LITTLE MAGAZINE EXHIBITION OPENING: 6PMTALK WITH CURATOR SOPHIE SEITA: 7PM

This exhibition celebrates the contributions small press magazines have made to the

development of poets, as well as to national and international literary, cultural, and political movements. Emphasizing the material richness and collaborative spirit of experimental publications and publishing communities, the exhibition includes magazines associated with Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Mimeograph Revolution, Conceptual Art, Language Writing, and New Narrative, as well as feminist, queer, and other contemporary communities. On view through September 8.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 7PMNAOMI REPLANSKY 100TH BIRTHDAY READING

Friends and fellow poets gather to honor National Book Award nominee Naomi Replansky, who has been praised by Philip Levine as a “warrior for social justice” and B.H. Fairchild as “the master of a Blakean music radically

unfashionable in its devotion to song-like meters and the reality and politics of working-class experience.”

TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 7PMEMERGING POETS FELLOWSHIP READING

Travel to the future of poetry: 2018 Emerging Poets Fellows read new work crafted during mentorship by their workshop leader, poet Aracelis Girmay. The Emerging Poets Fellowship, now in its seventh year, assists poets by providing writing instruction, mentorship, funding, and access to Poets House’s world-class poetry resources. Presented with support from the Jerome Foundation.

MONDAY, JUNE 11, 6PM23RD ANNUAL POETRY WALK ACROSS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

Support our 30th Anniversary year by attending one of our most beloved pro-grams: our annual po-etic pilgrimage across

the Brooklyn Bridge. Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess and other distinguished poets read poems about the city by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and other New York–centric writers along the way, followed by a celebratory dinner with guest Bill Murray and more poetry. Proceeds make Poets House programs and services possible, including over 100 free programs for chil-dren and teens each year.

Tickets begin at $250 general; $225 for Poets House members. Reservations are required.

For more information, call Poets House at 212-431-7920 or visit poetshouse.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 – SATURDAY, AUGUST 1826TH ANNUAL POETS HOUSE SHOWCASEFree & Open to the Public

The only event of its kind, the Showcase is a free exhibit featuring over 3,000 books of poetry published by over 700

presses over the previous 18 months. Discover a panoramic view of nationwide poetry activity. The exhibition will be accompanied by readings throughout the summer.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 26TH ANNUAL POETS HOUSE SHOWCASEOPENING RECEPTION & READINGRECEPTION: 6 – 7PM READING: 7 – 8PMFree & Open to the Public

Glimpse the freshest crop of new poetry. After browsing the exhibition, listen to poets read from books included in the Showcase.

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CLASSES & WORKSHOPSMASTER CLASSES

Master classes offer advanced writers an opportunity to work intensively with some of the most respected poets of our time. Applications are required. Email [email protected] for more details. Fee: $390.

KIMIKO HAHN Kimiko Hahn is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Brain Fever (2014). Her honors include Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. She is

a Distinguished Professor in the English department and the MFA program at Queens College.

Saturday, March 24, 2:30 – 6:30PMSunday, March 25, 12 – 4PM

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 6

WINTERWEDNESDAYS FEBRUARY 21 – APRIL 4, 6 – 8:30PM (SKIPPING MARCH 14)THE WHOLE POEM with NEIL SHEPARD

THURSDAYS FEBRUARY 22 – MARCH 29, 6 – 8:30PM THE OPEN MIND: LESSONS FROM THE VISUAL ARTSwith ELÉNA RIVERA

SATURDAYSFEBRUARY 24 – MARCH 31, 11:30AM – 2PMTO FIRE & SURPRISE: MAKING NEW POEMS with R.A. VILLANUEVA

SIX-WEEK WORKSHOPS Open to all levels. No application needed, but registration is required. To register, and for more information, visit poetshouse.org. Fee: $325.

TYEHIMBA JESS Tyehimba Jess is the au-thor of leadbelly (2005) and Olio (2016), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His honors include a fellow-ship from the NEA and a

Lannan Literary Award. He is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island.

Saturday, April 7, 2 – 6PMSunday, April 8, 12 – 4PM

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 20

ELAINE EQUIElaine Equi is the author of Sentences and Rain (2015), Click and Clone (2011), and Ripple Effect (2007), among other books. She teaches at NYU and in the

MFA program at the New School. This master class will focus on writing short po-ems; visit poetshouse.org for details.

Saturday, April 14, 2:30 – 6:30PMSunday, April 15, 12 – 4PM

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 27

SPRINGWEDNESDAYSAPRIL 11 – MAY 16, 6 – 8:30PMG/LEANING: ASSEMBLAGE, QUOTATION, INTERTEXTUALITY with EMILY SKILLINGS

THURSDAYSAPRIL 12 – MAY 17, 6 – 8:30PMTHE ARCHAEOLOGY OF POETRY: DIGGING THE MOMENTwith T’AI FREEDOM FORD

SATURDAYSAPRIL 14 – MAY 19, 11:30AM – 2PMIN BETWEEN: POEM & FLASH FICTION with BARBARA HENNING

SUMMER (skipping week of July 4)TUESDAYSJUNE 12 – JULY 24, 6 – 8:30PMPOETICS OF EMOTIONAL RESEARCH with ANAÏS DUPLAN

WEDNESDAYSJUNE 13 – JULY 25, 6 – 8:30PMWE ARE NODES IN THE NETWORK: WRITING POEMS THAT ARE BIGGER THAN OURSELVES (HISTORY, APPROPRIATION & PERSONA) with ALAN GILBERT

THURSDAYSJUNE 14 – JULY 26, 6 – 8:30PM REPETITION, DIVERSION & MYSTERYwith ALEX DIMITROV

ONE-DAY NYC HIGH SCHOOL POETRY WORKSHOPSATURDAY, JUNE 2, 12 – 5PM, FREE

This open-enrollment poetry workshop provides an intensive session of writing and sharing work with peers. Available to the first 15 interested NYC students to sign up. Lunch and Metrocards provided.

WEEKLONG WORKSHOP FOR TEENSMONDAY, JULY 16 – FRIDAY, JULY 20, 12 – 5PM, FEE: $495

This weeklong workshop brings together high school poets from around the city for a marathon session of writing, reading, and discovering poetry with instruction by professional poets. Lunch and Metrocards provided for all. Workshop participants will be selected through an application process. Full scholarships provided for students with need. A celebratory reading takes place Friday, July 20, at 6PM.For more information about our teen workshops, contact Lucy Dunphy Barsness at 212-431-7920, ext. 2825, or email [email protected].

Funding for teen workshops provided by the Thompson Family Foundation. These programs are also made possible in part through a partnership with the Battery Park City Authority.

To register visit poetshouse.org

or call 212-431-7920.

ONE-DAY WORKSHOP LOVE & OTHER POEMS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 11:30AM – 2PM, $95

A poetry workshop and seminar with poet, editor, and translator Nathalie Handal, who teaches at Columbia University and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. Registration required. Visit poetshouse.org for details.

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The Constance Laibe Hays Children’s Room is a creative space filled with the best of children’s poetry books, vintage typewriters, and a card catalog with poetic objects to trigger inspiration. A special thanks to Con Edison, Goldman Sachs,

the Thompson Family Foundation, and others for the support of the children’s programs at Poets House.

Free Class TripsPreschool through high school. By appointment. For more details, contact Education, Volunteer, and Rental Coordinator Lucy Dunphy Barsness at 212-431-7920, ext. 2825

or email [email protected].

Tiny Poets Time Thursdays at 10AM A weekly poetry reading for toddlers. Free & Open to the Public Nearly 10,000 students participated in free Poets

House programs and class trips during the past year.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26 4 – 6PM POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY Free & Open to the Public

Discover poetry! Join young readers and writers along with special guests for an afternoon of readings and fun. Bring a poem of your choice to share or find one at Poets House. This community reading is a great way to tune your ears to new poets and old friends.

Poem in Your Pocket Day is a program of the Office of the Mayor in partnership with the New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education that is designed to showcase talented K-12 faculty and student poets, as well as to encourage New Yorkers to embrace literacy and poetry. This year, Lower Manhattan students will investigate the process and product of invention—how the world works and grows through creativity—designing and writing about their own ideas. Every year, Poets House partners with local schools to enhance their curricula with interactive poetry workshops. The resulting poems are collected in anthologies and presented to each student on Poem in Your Pocket Day at Poets House.

The Constance Laibe Hays Children’s Room at Poets House

Children’s Room Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11AM – 5PM

Children and their adults are invited to visit and explore.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 11AM – 1PMFLOATING VALENTINES: A SCREENING OF THE RED BALLOONFree & Open to the Public

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Poets House presents Albert Lamorisse’s timeless children’s film The Red Balloon. Afterward, children make their own floating valentines in the form of hot air balloon mobiles.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21 3 – 5PM CAN I TOUCH YOUR HAIR?: POEMS OF RACE, MISTAKES, AND FRIENDSHIPwith CHARLES WATERS & IRENE LATHAM

Children’s poet and actor Charles Waters joins poet and novelist Irene Latham to read and discuss their children’s book Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, praised by Kirkus Reviews as a “fresh approach to exploring interracial communication.”

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We salute those individuals and foundations whose leadership donations have enabled the growth of Poets House: Penny & John Barr • Thomas M. & Kate Cheney Chappell • Robert & Angela Kissane • The Estate of Deborah S. Pease • Myra & Harold Shapiro • Margo & Anthony Viscusi • The J. M. Kaplan Fund • The Reed Foundation • The Tomorrow Foundation

Poets House programs and services are made possible, in part, with public funds from: Battery Park City Authority • Institute of Museum & Library Services • Manhattan Borough President’s Office • National Endowment for the Arts • National Endowment for the Humanities • National Science Foundation • New York City Council • New York State Council on the Arts • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Additional support comes from the following donors: Foundations: Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation • AKC Fund • Axe-Houghton Foundation • The Howard Bayne Fund • The William Bingham Foundation • Bydale Foundation • Jerome Foundation • Leon Levy Foundation • LitTAP • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council • Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust • Pine Tree Foundation of New York • Poetry Foundation • The Thompson Family Foundation • The Walbridge Fund • Corporations: Alfred A. Knopf • Amazon • American Express • Berkshire Capital LLP • Con Edison • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP • Goldman Sachs • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP • Lutz & Carr • Merck Partnership for Giving • Penguin Random House • UBS Matching Gift Program • Individuals: Roger Alcaly & Helen Bodian • Arthur Yorke Allen & Mary Stewart Hammond • Tommy Avallone • Diana Basso • Ellen Ivey Bates • Donald Beeson & Mary-Beth Hughes • R. Dyke & Marianne Benjamin • Richard & Marilyn Berger • Jutta & Hans Bertram-Nothnagel • Ernest & Rita Bogen • Jennifer Bohn • Paula Brancato • Louise Braverman & Steve Glickel • Karen Brenner & Robert Stein • Vincent Briccetti • Louisa & Jonathan Brill • Barbara K. Bristol • Lawrence Brooks • Karen Burkhardt • Marilyn Callander • Virginia Carter • Jim Chervenak • Lisa M. Cirando • Robin & Beth Clements • Elizabeth Coleman • Ginnie Cooper • Anne E. Delaney • Pierre & Ellen de Saint Phalle • Pierre & Ellen de Vegh • Frederick & Michele Oka Doner • Linda Earle • Barbara Eckrich • Helen Williams Drutt English • Howard Ellin • Adrian Ellis • Priscilla Ellsworth • Cheri Fein • Leslie & Johanna Garfield • Brad Gooch • Alice Greenwald • Gail Gregg • Patricia Grodd & Michael Stone • David & Joan Grubin • Jim & Erica Barton Haba • Dawn Heimer • Mary Higgins • William Higgins & Anne Covell • Edward Hirsch • George Hirsch • Steven Holl • Paula Hornbostel • Rachael Horovitz • J. Chester & Freda Johnson • Elizabeth Kandall & Jonathan Slone • Melissa Kaish & Jonathan Dorfman • Kristen Kalp • Wendy Keys • William & Eileen Kistler • Alan Klein • Gretchen Kunitz • Elizabeth Lack • Cliff Landesman • Wendy Larsen • Norbert Lempert • Richard Levy & Lorraine Gallard • Owen Lewis & Susan Ennis • Marcia Loughran • Anne Marie Macari • Laurin Macios • Taylor Mali • Fiona McCrae • Kathryn Ann McDonald • Kristin McDonough • H. Bruce McEver • The Estate of Ann McGovern • Josephine A. Merck • James & Agnes Metzger • Richard & Carol Moody • Geoffrey Morley • John Morning • Stanley & Jane Moss • Fred Moten • Elizabeth Motika • Ingegerd Mundheim • William James Murray • Eugene O’Brien • Sharon Olds • Susan Oliver • Thomas Palmer & Dominique Alfandre • Larry & Nancy Pantirer • Ellen Peckham • Antonio Pérez / Borough of Manhattan Community College • Lin Peyton • Carole Pittelman • Arthur Platt & Janet Fink • Charles & Joan Platt • Christie & Roger Platt • Frank Platt • Meghann Plunkett • James & Ellyn Polshek • Renate Ponsold • Nicholas F. & Lee Potter • Lynn Preston • Warrie Price • Frank Puleo • Elise M. Quasebarth • Jonathan Rabinowitz • Charles & Marcia Reiss • Siobhan A. Reardon • Victoria Redel • Ira M. Resnick • Frederic C. Rich • Kathryn Ritchie • Theodore & Elizabeth Barlow Rogers • Paul Romero • Stewart Rosenblum • Neal Rosenthal & Kerry Madigan • Reed & Jane Gregory Rubin • Jeannette Watson Sanger • Susan & Bruce Schlechter • Erik Schurink • Sheila Schwartz • Andrew Senchak • Laura Baudo Sillerman & Robert F.X. Sillerman • Michael T. Sillerman • Ira Silverberg • Lee Slonimsky • E. Ward & Carolyn Smith • Edward Sonnenschein • Giorgio Spanu & Nancy Olnick • André Spears & Anne Rosen • William Spears • Jamie Stern • Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum • John & Eva Usdan • Damen Van Ginneken • Enzo & Mayalen Viscusi • Jennifer Vorbach • William Vrattos • Kim Wainwright • Arete Warren • Eliot Weinberger • David West • Jerrie Whitfield & Richard Motika • Weldon Wilson • Anne Wright • Charles Wright • Benjamin Yakas • Kevin Young • Michael Young • Anonymous (4). And special thanks to the Estate of Joseph A. Precker, Robert J. Wilk, and Paola Baccaglini

We thank each of our members and all of those who have contributed to our support this year. Poets House depends on donations. If you aren’t a member, please consider becoming one. Members at all levels receive free admission to Poets House programs for a full year.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS PLACE FOR POETRY POSSIBLE

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SPRING 2018 HIGHLIGHTS• POETS HOUSE CELEBRATES 30 YEARS!• 30th Anniversary Programs with Rigoberto González, Edward Hirsch, Erica Hunt & Carl Phillips• Tributes to June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Thomas Lux & Fernando Pessoa• Readings and Talks by Cynthia Cruz, Kimiko Hahn, Ryszard Krynicki, Shane McCrae, Tommy Pico, Naomi Replansky & Danez Smith • Exhibitions: 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects, tracing Poets House’s history, and The Little Magazine• Writing Workshops with Alex Dimitrov, Anaïs Duplan, Elaine Equi, T’ai Freedom Ford, Alan Gilbert, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal,

Barbara Henning, Tyehimba Jess, Eléna Rivera, Neil Shepard, Emily Skillings & R.A. Villanueva • 23rd Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

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