Meghan O'Rourke

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

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

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

Lucie Brock-Broido

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

Edward Hirsch

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
 
 

Meghan O'Rourke

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