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Poets House: a place for poetry—library, literary center, locus of poetic inspiration. Tweeting poetic fragments and things-to-know.

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Join Dorn Music Music & Poets House at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall for a one night only spectacular evening of Bach and Poetry with cellist Jan Vogler Jan Vogler alongside inaugural poet and bestselling author Amanda Gorman carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/…

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Poet, biographer, co-founder of Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, David Henderson is now facing some health challenges, please consider joining our efforts to see David through to better times ahead. spot.fund/2gnfssc

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Michael Broder helps us discover and develop our poetic temperament using Gregory Orr’s model. Six Mondays: 10/16 – 11/20 poetshouse.org/event/taking-y…

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Josephine Ishmon leads a celebratory reading class on poems about life, community, and what it means to live. poetshouse.org/event/a-celebr…

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Jessica E. Johnson explores the uses of associative language, which is at once a core poetic power and, at times, a fraught topic. poetshouse.org/event/kinship-…

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Craig Santos Perez explores the most important poetic movement of our time—touching on ecology, environmental justice, and climate change. poetshouse.org/event/craig-sa…

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Examine overarching themes, hybridity, historical nuances, technique, and writing with Anastacia-Renee. Six Wednesdays, Oct 11 – Nov 15 poetshouse.org/event/cry-out-…

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Oct 1: Ellen Bass teaches us to relish the mouthfeel of words and bring the power of sound into our poems. The lyricism of language is a great joy. poetshouse.org/event/remote-3…

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Joseph Stanton teaches strategies on writing poems inspired by flora, fauna, and landscapes in the natural world. Sep 30 & Oct 1 poetshouse.org/event/joseph-s…

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Poet, editor, and educator Iain Haley Pollock reads “if something should happen” by Lucille Clifton, and his own new poem in the spirit of Clifton, “All the Possible Bodies.” poetshouse.org/video/hard-hat…

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Sep 23: Poems often develop through indirection and circling without arrival. Iain Haley Pollock has us step to stage front and say exactly what we mean. poetshouse.org/event/epiphani…

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Sep 23: Sunu P. Chandy asks if lines of poetry can help us maintain perspective, stay hopeful, and hold fast to that which is good? poetshouse.org/event/poetry-t…

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Poet and civil rights attorney Sunu P. Chandy reads “On Kindness” by Aracelis Girmay, plus her own poem “Teaching My Daughter How to Re-Cap the Toddler Toothpaste” from My Dear Comrades, as well as a new poem, “I Like Your Plant.” poetshouse.org/video/hard-hat…

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Daemond Arrindell helps us (de)construct circumstance and perspective, shape narrative and see all pieces of the puzzle. 6 Thursdays, Sep 21-Oct 26 poetshouse.org/event/breaking…

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Sep 16: Cindy Juyoung Ok poses blank space as meaningful. What gaps do we mind, and what breaks do we honor? Where do we hold, wander, and skip? poetshouse.org/event/the-page…

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Poet and educator Sarah Stern reads “The Race,” by Sharon Olds, plus her own poem “Father Turns 80,” from We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune.
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Learn the rules, then break them in this interactive and supportive six-session workshop with Sarah Stern. Six Tuesdays, Sep 5 – Oct 10 poetshouse.org/event/poetry-a…

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Writer and editor Cindy Juyoung Ok reads “Party Dress for a First Born” by Rita Dove, plus work by Sandra Lim, and her own poem “Composition.” poetshouse.org/video/hard-hat…

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Francisco Aragón, poet and Director of Letras Latinas, reads Adela Najarro’s “Volcanic Poetics,” and recent work of his own from After Rubén.
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