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  • e.e. cummings and Edna St. Vincent Millay: 20th Century Stars
    In Tributes

    WITH BLAIR BROWN, SUSAN CHEEVER, BILLY COLLINS, AND NANCY MILFORD

    Blair Brown is a theater, film, and television actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Copenhagen. She played Nina Sharp in the television series Fringe.


    Susan Cheever is the author of E.E. Cummings: A Life, just published by Alfred A. Knopf. She is also the author of fourteen books—among them Louisa May Alcott, American Bloomsbury, Home Before Dark, and Looking for Work. A Guggenheim fellow and a member of the Yaddo Corporation, she currently teaches at the MFA programs at Bennington College and The New School. She lives in New York City.

    Billy Collins is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems; Horoscopes for the Dead; Ballistics; and Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003.

    Nancy Milford is the author of Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Zelda: A Biography. She has been an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University, a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, and has received Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships.

    Thursday, March 6, 2014
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Bruno Walter Auditorium

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  • Edward Hirsch
    In New Salon Series

    Reading and in conversation with Charif Shanahan.


    Co-sponsored with New York University Creative Writing Program.

    February 7, 2013

    Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
    New York, New York
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  • Lucie Brock-Broido
    In New Salon Series

    Reading and in conversation with Charif Shanahan.


    Co-sponsored with New York University Creative Writing Program.

    October 17, 2013

    Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
    New York, New York
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  • A Tribute to Philip Larkin
    In Tributes

     

    Meena Alexander
    "Going"
    Archie Burnett
    "After drinking Glenfiddich"
    Billy Collins
    "At Grass"
    Thomas Sayers Ellis
    "Money"
    James Fenton
    "To the Sea"
    Jonathan Galassi
    "Talking in Bed"
    Deborah Garrison
    "Poetry of Departures"
    Adam Gopnik
    "For Sidney Bechet"
    Eamon Grennan
    "The Explosion"
    Saskia Hamilton
    "First Sight"
    Mary Karr
    "High Windows"
    Nick Laird
    "Aubade"
    J.D. McClatchy
    "Sad Steps"
    D. Nurkse
    "Home is so Sad"
    Katha Pollitt
    "Dockery and Son"
    Rowan Ricardo Phillips
    "MCMXIV"
    Vijay Seshadri
    "Church Going"
    Paul Simon
    "The Mower"
    Zadie Smith
    "The Old Fools"
    Andrew Sullivan
    "The Whitsun Weddings"Readings

    Readings of Poems by Philp Larkin


    Meena Alexander reading "Going"
    Archie Burnett reading "After drinking Glenfiddich"
    Billy Collins "At Grass"
    Thomas Sayers Ellis "Money"
    James Fenton "To the Sea"
    Jonathan Galassi "Talking in Bed"
    Deborah Garrison "Poetry of Departures"
    Adam Gopnik "For Sidney Bechet"
    Eamon Grennan "The Explosion"
    Saskia Hamilton "First Sight"
    Mary Karr "High Windows"
    Nick Laird "Aubade"
    J.D. McClatchy "Sad Steps"
    D. Nurkse "Home is so Sad"
    Katha Pollitt "Dockery and Son"
    Rowan Ricardo Phillips "MCMXIV"
    Vijay Seshadri "Church Going"
    Paul Simon "The Mower"
    Zadie Smith "The Old Fools"
    Andrew Sullivan "The Whitsun Weddings"

     Musical Performances by the Queens College Louis Armstrong Ensemble. Direction, David Engelhard.

     Tuesday April 24th, 2012
     The Great Hall at Cooper Union
     
     Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

     

     

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  • Latino/a Poetry Now: A Conversation
    In On Poetry

    November 8th, 2011
    Woodberry Poetry Room

    Rosa Alcalá, Eduardo C. Corral, and Aracelis Girmay in conversation. Moderated by Francisco Aragón (director of Letras Latinas).

    Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

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  • Aracelis Girmay
    In Readings

     Aracelis Girmay reads "Kingdom Animalia"  on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now. 

    Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

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  • Eduardo C. Corral
    In Readings

    Eduardo C. Corral reads "Monologue of a Vulture's Shadow" on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now. 

    Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

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  • Rosa Alcalá
    In Readings

    Rosa Alcalá reads her poem "Autobiography" on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now. 

    Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

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