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The First Annual Briggs-Copeland Poetry Reading
February 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m
A celebration of the prestigious Briggs-Copeland lectureships, featuring readings by current poetry lecturers Joanna Klink (author of Circadian) and Peter Richards (author of Nude Siren). Introduced by Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of Creative Writing. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Department of English.

Impromptu Poetics: WPR Recording Session with Ilya Kaminsky
February 20, 2009 at 12:00pm
Recording Session with Ilya Kaminsky (author of Dancing in Odessa) and Polina Barskova (author of Traveling Musicians)

Brahmins & Beyond: Matthew Pearl on the Poetic and Literary History of Boston and Cambridge
February 26, 2009 at 7:00 p.m
Matthew Pearl (author of the international bestsellers Dante's Club and Poe's Shadow) takes us on an illuminating journey through Boston's literary landscape during its 19th and early 20th century heyday. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and The Wick, a publication of the Harvard Divinity School.

Impromptu Poetics: WPR Recording Session with Richard Tillinghast
March 2, 2009 at 5:00pm
Recording Session with Richard Tillinghast (author of The New Life)

The Poet's Voice: Mary Jo Bang, Catherine Barnett, and Noelle Kocot
March 11, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us as we launch our season of Poet's Voice readings with three preeminent poets: National Book Critics Circle Award winner Mary Jo Bang (author of Elegy and the forthcoming The Bride of E), Whiting Award winner Catherine Barnett (author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes are Pierced) and Noelle Kocot (author of Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems). Broadsides of a poem by each author will be produced by Harvard's Bow & Arrow Press.

The Poet's Voice: Maurice Manning, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Jeffrey Yang
March 18, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for the second reading in our Poet's Voice series, featuring poets from across the country whose work is staking out new terrain in the American grain. Our readers for the evening will be Yale Younger Poets Prize winner Maurice Manning (author of Bucolics), Sabrina Orah Mark (author of Tsim Tsum and The Babies) and Jeffrey Yang (author of An Aquarium: Poems).

Impromptu Poetics: WPR Recording Session with Susan Howe and Zafer Senocak
March 19, 2009 at 11:00am & 3:00pm
Recording Session with Susan Howe (author of Souls of the Labadie Tract), 11:00am
Recording Session with Zafer Senocak (author of Door Languages), 3:00pm
This exciting new series harks back to one of the Poetry Room's original roles as a pioneering poetry-recording venue. With its early recording label, Harvard Vocarium, the Poetry Room was once a kind of Motown of Modernist poetry. Our new series revives this role for the 21st century and offers attendees a close-listening experience like never before. Each guest poet is invited to add his/her voice to the Woodberry Poetry Room's vital archive by reading new work for 15-20 minutes. Audience members are invited to listen as the recording session takes place and take part in a brief Q&A.

Reconfiguring Romanticism: Readings from Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three,
with Bill Corbett, Gerrit Lansing, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Keith Waldrop & others
March 30, 2009 at 7:00pm
In conjunction with the recent release of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three, this reading and discussion will reveal surprising continuities between the Romantic canon and the experiments of modernism and postmodernism. Introduced by Patrick Pritchett.

Critical Contexts: A Woodberry Poetry Roundtable on the State of Contemporary Poetry
April 1, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
National Poetry Month begins with a dynamic interchange among three influential poet-critics Stephen Burt, Adam Kirsch, and Maureen McLane, as they survey the contemporary poetry landscape and share their current fascinations, concerns and discoveries. Moderated by Robert N. Casper (Program Director of the Poetry Society of America and Publisher of Jubilat). Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Poetry Society of America.

Woodberry Works-in-Progress: Maximum Security Poems: On Boxes, Vasko Popa, Prison and Poetry
April 7, 2009 at 3:00pm
Guest: Idra Novey (author of The Next Country)

Woodberry Works-in-Progress: Hamlet's Blackberry: Poetry & Disconnectedness in the Digital Era
April 16, 2009 at 3:00pm
Guest: Bill Powers (author of the forthcoming Hamlet's Blackberry)
Journalist and two time National Press Club award winner William Powers, AB ' 83 will lead a discussion on the role of poetry in an "always connected" world. Powers began his career at The Washington Post as a staff writer and columnist specializing in the media. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, and many other publications, and he has been a frequent contributor on National Public Radio and other broadcast outlets.

This exciting new series harks back to one of the Poetry Room's original roles as a pioneering poetry-recording venue. With its early recording label, Harvard Vocarium, the Poetry Room was once a kind of Motown of Modernist poetry. Our new series revives this role for the 21st century and offers attendees a close-listening experience like never before. Each guest poet is invited to add his/her voice to the Woodberry Poetry Room's vital archive by reading new work for 15-20 minutes. Audience members are invited to listen as the recording session takes place and take part in a brief Q&A.

The Poet's Voice: Dobby Gibson, Fanny Howe, and Sarah Manguso
April 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for the grand finale reading in our Spring 2009 Poet's Voice series, featuring Dobby Gibson (author of Skirmish, forthcoming from Graywolf Press), Rome Prize winner Sarah Manguso (author of Two Kinds of Decay and Siste Viator), and the 2008 recipient of the Academy Award in Literature, Fanny Howe (author of Gone: Poems and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, forthcoming from Graywolf Press).

Poetry Homecoming : Orientation and Brainstorming Session for Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars
September 15, 2009 at 5:00pm
Meet fellow poets, poetry-lovers and poetry-scholars at this fun and informal gathering at the Woodberry Poetry Room, featuring representatives from the Harvard Review, Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Bow & Arrow Letterpress, the Poetry@Harvard iSite, Gamut, Harvard Advocate, The Wick, and the Spoken Word Society. Learn about upcoming readings and workshops and share your ideas for the forthcoming year. All Harvard undergraduates, grad students, fellows, faculty and staff are welcome.

Reel Time: Reaching Z
September 18, 2009 at 3:00pm
Recordings by Louis Zukofsky, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams & W. C. Williams
REEL TIME is an acoustical journey through one of the preeminent audio archives in the country. Each week throughout the semester participants are invited to read, write and chat during these creative listening sessions at the Woodberry Poetry Room. The weekly listening hours will follow an almost alphabetical route through the Poetry Room's 20th and 21st century collection.

Transatlantics: Poetry Reading by Simon Armitage
September 22, 2009 at 6:00pm
The Fall 2009 season gets off to a felicitous and Anglophile start with a reading by preeminent British poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage (author of Out of the Blue and The Shout: Selected Poems). Introduction by Jorie Graham. Co-sponsored by Department of English and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

WPR Recording Session: Cate Marvin
October 7, 2009 at 5:00pm
The author of the poetry collections World's Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001) and Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande, 2007) and editor of the ground-breaking anthology Legitimate Dangers, Cate Marvin shares her recent work and responds to questions in our first public recording session of the season.

The Poet's Voice: Michael Dickman & Louise Glück
October 14, 2009 at 6:00pm
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, author of A Village Life (Knopf, 2009), and Michael Dickman, author of the compelling debut collection The End of the West (Copper Canyon, 2009), share the stage and their intense topographies in the first Poet's Voice reading of the season. Introduction by Joanna Klink.

The Poetry-Fest Sessions: A Night of Poetry & Jazz with Robert Pinsky, Rakalam "Bob" Moses (drums) and Andrew Urbina (saxophone)
October 18, 2009 at 8:00pm
As the grand finale to the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky will read poems to the accompaniment of renowned drummer Rakalam Bob Moses and saxophonist Andrew Urbina. Sponsored by Adams House and the Woodberry Poetry Room, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.

The Poet's Voice: Olga Broumas & Franz Wright
October 28, 2009 at 6:00pm
Join us for our second Poet's Voice reading of the season, with two authors of "wild avowal" and raw and revelatory assertion, Franz Wright (author of Wheeling Motel) and Olga Broumas (author of Rave: Poems 1975-1999).

The School of Philosophy: An Afternoon of Poetry & Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts
November 1, 2009 at 2:00pm
Donald Revell (author of My Mojave and The Bitter Withy) and WPR Curator Christina Davis intersperse readings of their own works with excerpts from such transcendental thinkers as Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau, in America's early bohemian mecca: Concord, Massachusetts. John Y. Cole, Founding Director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, will make preliminary remarks. A pre-reading reception for the authors will take place at 12:30pm at the School of Philosophy on the grounds of Orchard House, 399 Lexington Rd, Concord.

Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book, with the assistance of Concord Academy, Concord Free Public Library, Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project, Orchard House, and the Thoreau Society.

WPR Recording Session: Nathaniel Tarn
November 5, 2009 at 5:00pm
Poet, translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn - author of Ins and Outs of the Forest River (New Directions, 2008) - lends his voice to our first public recording session of the season in the Woodberry Poetry Room.

WPR Recording Session: Alan Bernheimer
November 6, 2009 at 3:00pm
Introduction by Cris Mattison
A rare visit from San Francisco Language poet Alan Bernheimer, whose most recent collection of poems is The Spoonlight Institute (Adventures in Poetry, 2009). Earlier books include Billionesque and Café Isotope. Bernheimer wrote and performed for the San Francisco Poets Theater and produced the radio program of new writing by poets, "In the American Tree," on KPFA. Join us as he reads from new work and responds to any questions you might have about the emergence and legacy of Language poetry and the literary community with which he has been affiliated (including such literary friends and artistic collaborators as Ted Berrigan, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson and Lyn Hejinian).

Continuities Readings & Discussions: Poetry & Ecology
November 7, 2009 at 3:00pm
Nadia Herman Colburn, Kevin Goodan, Jorie Graham & Nathaniel Tarn 
In this new series founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn, Kevin Goodan, Jorie Graham and Nathaniel Tarn explore the relationship between poetry and the natural world. Faced with ecological devastation, species extinction, climate change and toxic waste, how does the poetic imagination influence the choices we make and help effect change? Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Reel Time: Recordings of Sylvia Plath (with special guest Catherine Bowman)
November 13, 2009 at 5:00pm
Our weekly listening hours crank it up a notch, with a visit from Catherine Bowman (author of The Plath Cabinet), who will offer a reading and curate a close-listening experience to the Woodberry Poetry Room's Plath recordings.

Poets in Prose | Nick Flynn & Douglas A. Martin
November 16, 2009 at 7:00pm
An evening of boundary-crossing between genres ensues when Nick Flynn (author of the award-winning poetry collection Some Ether and the bestselling memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir) and Douglas A. Martin (author of the Roland-Barthian prose-work, Your Body Figured, and the poetry collection In the Time of Assignments) pay a call to Harvard this Fall.

Act-Up Poetic Retrospective | Mark Doty & Eileen Myles
November 24th, 2009 at 6:00pm
In conjunction with the exhibit "Act-Up New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993," two preeminent American poets and lifelong activists Mark Doty (author of My Alexandria and winner of the 2008 National Book Award) and Eileen Myles (hailed as "the rock star of modern poetry" and the author of over 20 volumes of poetry, most recently Sorry, Tree) will present a poetry reading. Introduction by Radcliffe Fellow Kathleen Peterson. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Art Museum, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Woodberry Writers Group: Led by Michael Stynes
February 12, 2010 at 4:00pm
Share your work at the weekly Woodberry Writers Group sessions, led by Michael Stynes. The writing group offers a supportive forum for poets to informally discuss each other's work on a regular basis. Participation is open to all Harvard undergraduates, graduate students and affiliates. For additional information, please contact Michael Stynes

The Poet's Voice: Olena Kalytiak Davis, Matthea Harvey & Rodrigo Toscano
February 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
The Spring 2010 season begins with a triumvirate of linguistic innovators and shatterers of the poetic mold, Olena Kalytiak Davis (author of Shattered Sonnets), Matthea Harvey (author of Modern Life) and Rodrigo Toscano (author of Collapsible Poetics Theater).

Poets for Haiti: Jericho Brown, Jorie Graham, Fred Marchant, Robert Pinsky, Kim Stafford, Daniel Tobin, Afaa Michael Weaver, Rosanna Warren and others
February 23, 2010 at 7:30pm
The Boston literary community unites for a collaborative reading to benefit "Partners in Health" and the people of Haiti. The requested donation is $10, with all proceeds going to Partners in Health (PIH). Organized by Jim Henle and Kim Treidman. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and Harvard's Technical and Clerical Workers Union.

No One is the Homeland: Master Class in Translation , Part I
March 1, 2010 at 5:30pm
Instructor: Laura Healy (translator of Roberto Bolano's Romantic Dogs)
Our first-ever translation workshop will actively engage participants in a wide array of approaches to translation, with dynamic in-class exercises ranging from the orthodox to experimental, the literal to the homophonic. Led by Laura Healy (one of the foremost translators of Roberto Bolano), this exploratory workshop is open to all poets, writers, translators, students and members of the community. No previous translation experience is required. Co-sponsored by Harvard Writers at Work and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Works-in-Progress: Langdon Hammer on James Merrill
Introduction by Helen Vendler
March 3, 2010 at 5:00pm
Join Professor Langdon Hammer, Chairman of the Yale University English Department, as he shares highlights and revelations from his much-anticipated, official biography of James Merrill (1926-1995).

No One is the Homeland: Master Class in Translation , Part II
March 8, 2010 at 5:30pm
Instructor: Laura Healy (translator of Roberto Bolano's Romantic Dogs)
Our foray into literary translation continues with a workshop that focuses on fine-tuning participants' translations-in-progress and assessing these renderings as works of art in their own right. Participants are encouraged to bring a single poem that they have translated into English: Those who have not begun to translate should plan on attending Part One of our Master Class to be given a translation assignment. Co-sponsored by Harvard Writers at Work and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Critical Contexts: WPR Roundtable on Contemporary American Poetry
March 11, 2010 at 6:00pm
Our second annual roundtable on contemporary American poetry offers audiences an opportunity to consider the idiosyncrasies and homogeneities of our present moment and to recognize and explore some of the risks and possibilities that are emerging on the horizon. Guiding this discussion will be three influential critics, David Orr (a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review), Srikanth Reddy (whose critical writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and New Republic) and Rebecca Wolff (founding editor of FENCE Magazine and FENCE Books). Moderated by Robert Casper, Founding Editor of Jubilat. Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

WPR Oral History Initiative: Denise Levertov
March 26, 2010 at 5:00pm
The Poetry Room's Oral History Initiative gets underway with a lively conversation amongst three friends and colleagues of Denise Levertov (1923-1997): Donna Hollenberg (author of the first full-length biography of Levertov), Dick Lourie (founding editor of Hanging Loose Press and a member of Levertov's very first writing workshop in 1965) and Mark Pawlak (poet and editor of Hanging Loose, who befriended Levertov at MIT in 1969).

Fugitive Sparrows: An Emily Dickinson Installation by Zachary Sifuentes
April 6, 2010 at 5:00pm
Our celebration of National Poetry Month is inaugurated by a month-long installation of artwork based on Emily Dickinson's poetry, poetics and creative process, using projectors, telescopes, headphones and an 1844 edition of Webster's Dictionary. On display through May 3, the installation is free and open to the public on weekdays during regularly scheduled Poetry Room hours. The scientific instruments in this installation are courtesy of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. With special thanks to Sara J. Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

The Poet's Voice: Joshua Beckman, Matthew Rohrer & James Tate
April 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
Our grand finale reading in the Spring 2010 Poet's Voice series features Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet and perpetually revelatory provocateur James Tate reading with the dynamic collaborative duo Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer (co-authors of Nice Hat, Thanks and co-conspirators of the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty).

Poetry Reading by Valerie Gillies
April 26, 2010 at 5:30pm
Valerie Gillies, Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate 2005-2008), will give a reading from her work, including her most recent book, The Spring Teller (2009), and a selection of new poems inspired by her stay in America, from her forthcoming volume Songs and Calls. Co-sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature, the Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar, the Humanities Center at Harvard, the Office for the Arts and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Works-in-Progress: The Poetics of the Screenplay
April 28, 2010 at 5:00pm
Bradford Winters, a writer/producer in television whose work includes HBO's Oz and NBC's Kings, and whose poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Image and Spoon River Poetry Review, will explore the common ground between poetry and screenwriting, as well as share his practical insights from experience in both fields. Winters is currently developing Americatown, an HBO series about a far-flung enclave of American immigrants in the near future. Co-sponsored by Harvard Writers at Work and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Continuities Series: Readings & Discussion on Trauma and Healing
May 2, 2010 at 3:00pm
Poet Jericho Brown, nonfiction-writer Helen Epstein (author of Children of the Holocaust) and psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman (Director of Victims of Violence) explore the subject of personal and communal violence and the role that their disciplines play in understanding, confronting and (in some cases) transforming it. Founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn. Co-sponsored by Violence Transformed and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Poetry Homecoming at the Woodberry Poetry Room
September 15, 2010 at 5:00pm
All students, faculty, staff, alums and members of the literary community are invited to join us for our casual and creative kickoff event in the Poetry Room: Meet fellow poets and representatives from Harvard literary magazines and local writing organizations, peruse our recent acquisitions, listen to our audio sampler, summon your inner Modernist muse for our “Waste Land Project,” and get the scoop on this season’s upcoming events. Snacks and scintillating conversation will be provided.

Ambient Reel Time: Recordings by the Modernists
September 22, 2010 at 3:00pm
Hear ye, hear ye: As a part of our 80th Anniversary celebrations, we will be launching a new un-narrated variation on our popular listening-hour series. The recordings will waft through the room: During which time we invite you to sit and imbibe the acoustics, browse books by the authors, or write in tandem with the verse.  Each month of this semester, we will focus on recordings from a different period. Our inaugural event will focus on recordings by the Modernists. Curated by Chloe Garcia Roberts.

The Poet's Voice: Valzhyna Mort, Charles Simic and Matthew Zapruder
September 29, 2010 at 6:00pm
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic (author of That Little Something), Matthew Zapruder (author of Come On All You Ghosts) and Valzhyna Mort (author of Factory of Tears) inaugurate the Fall 2010 Poet’s Voice reading series in this international triptych of voices.

MFA International: Deborah Landau (of NYU), Lisa Olstein (of UMass Amherst), Forrest Gander (of Brown University) and Maggie Dietz (BU, currently at UMass Lowell)
October 4, 2010 at 5:00pm
Four poets representing some of the most dynamic Creative Writing Programs on the Eastern seaboard will gather for a frank and forward-looking discussion on MFA programs, the function and dysfunction of the writing workshop model, pedagogical and poetic innovations that they have found particularly compelling, as well as practical insights regarding applying for MFA programs.

Abyss Has No Biographer: A Talk by Lyndall Gordon
October 12, 2010 at 5:30pm
Lyndall Gordon, one of Oxford University's foremost literary minds, will share from her provocative new biography, Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds (Viking, 2010). Co-sponsored by Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, and the Department of English, Harvard University.

Five Minutes with the Editors: Locating Your Voice in the Literary Zeitgeist A chat with Jennifer Flescher (Tuesday: An Art Project) and Robert Casper (Jubilat)
October 13, 2010 at 5:00pm
Two cutting-edge lit mag editors offer a unique overview of the shifting terrain and terminologies of the contemporary poetic landscape. The goal of this interactive dialogue is to provide participants with an insider’s view of the submission process: to see how a poem goes from slush-pile to publication. The editors will also help to situate their magazines within a larger framework of other dynamic journals and publications that are actively shaping our literary zeitgeist.

WPR Recording Session: Colin Cheney
October 19, 2010 at 3:00pm
Join us for our third season of WPR Recording Sessions with special guest Colin Cheney (National Poetry Series winner and author of Here Be Monsters).  Cheney’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry and Ploughshares. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2010 Pushcart Prize, he currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand.

Five Minutes with the Editor: Preparing Your Work for Print A Workshop with Jennifer Flescher (Tuesday: An Art Project)
October 20, 2010 at 5:00pm
In this workshop, Jennifer Flescher will follow-up on the overview presented in the previous week’s discussion and lead a poetry writing workshop in which at least 5-10 poems (chosen at random) by participants will be looked at in the way that an editor would give them a first read. This is a rare behind-the-scenes, “real time” opportunity to cultivate an editorial eye toward your and others’ work.

Ambient Reel Time: Recordings of the New York School
October 27, 2010 at 3:00pm
This month’s ambient experience will focus on recordings by poets in the New York School and its extended “family.” Stop by the Poetry Room and overhear early readings by John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Barbara Guest, among others. Curated by Chloe Garcia Roberts.

Abreaction: An Installation by Courtney Chelo
November 4, 2010 at 5:00pm
The Poetry Room welcomes visitors to explore Courtney Chelo's curious concoctions of collage, image transfers, block printing and embroidery, as she pursues the themes of loss, forgiveness and home. Meet the artist and learn more about her verbal-visual mergers at an opening reception on Thursday, November 4th from 5:00-6:00pm.

Ambient Reel Time: Recordings of Confessional Poets
November 17, 2010 at 3:00pm
Poet Jericho Brown, nonfiction-writer Helen Epstein (author of Children of the Holocaust) and psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman (Director of Victims of Violence) explore the subject of personal and communal violence and the role that their disciplines play in understanding, confronting and (in some cases) transforming it. Founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn. Co-sponsored by Violence Transformed and the Woodberry Poetry Room.

The Poet's Voice: Gerald Stern and Terrance Hayes
December 1, 2010 at 6:00pm
In the grand finale reading of our Fall 2010 season, Gerald Stern (author of the recently published Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992) and Terrance Hayes (author of Lighthead) unite for an evening of muscular music and Pittsburgh verse.

Poetic Fashion & Unfashion: On Sentiment Miranda Field, Kevin Prufer, Sarah Vap and Rachel Zucker
December 7, 2010 at 6:00pm
Moderated by Annie Finch, this dynamic conversation will confront the ways in which sentiment, emotion, certain forms of conviction and idiosyncratic humanhood are consciously or unwittingly suppressed (or forced to morph) in the contemporary poetic environment. “On Sentiment” marks the first in a series of conversations that address explicit or implicit literary taboos that exist even in a free society.

WPR Recording Session: Laura Kasischke
December 13, 2010 at 3:00pm
Join us for a recording session with special guest Laura Kasischke (author of the poetry collection Lilies Without).  A renowned poet and novelist, her works of fiction include The Life Before Her Eyes (2002) and In a Perfect World (Harper Perennial, 2009).

Ambient Reel Time: Recordings of the Black Mountain School
December 15, 2010 at 3:00pm
This month’s ambient experience will focus on recordings by poets who were considered to be formative members and outliers of the Black Mountain School, including Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Charles Olson. Curated by Chloe Garcia Roberts.