Centennial Events

Thursday, Sep 23, 7:00pm

Boston, MA

POETS OF NEW ENGLAND, 1910-2010
with Frank Bidart, Major Jackson, X.J. Kennedy, Gail Mazur, Mary Oliver, James Tate, Rosanna Warren, and Franz Wright.

Contemporary New England Poets read their own poems as well as the work of New Englanders of yore.

Co-sponsored by Boston Review and the Boston University Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Tsai Performance Center, Boston University
685 Commonwealth Avenue

A Centennial Benefit Reception will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Thursday, Oct 7, 6:00pm

Atlanta, GA

POETS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1910-2010
with Claudia Emerson, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey, C. D. Wright, and Kevin Young.

Contemporary poets celebrate the great tradition of Southern Poetry in America over the past century.

Co-sponsored by the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, MARBL, Emory University.

Admission is free.

Glenn Memorial Auditorium
Emory University

A Centennial Benefit Reception will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Tuesday, Oct 12, 7:00pm

New York, NY

100 YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1910-2010
with U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Daniel Hoffman, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic.

Our U.S. Poets Laureate read their own poems and poems by their predecessors at the famous hall, in honor of the anniversary of the first meeting of the Poetry Society of America in October, 1910, and the publication of The Poets Laureate Anthology.

Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center.

Admission is free.

The Great Hall, Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue

A Centennial Benefit Reception Dinner will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Tuesday, Nov 30, 7:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

POETS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1910-2010
with Wanda Coleman, Robert Hass, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Michael Palmer.

Celebrated Western poets read their own work as well as poems by their favorite poets of the region.

Co-sponsored by PEN Center USA and the Hammer Museum.

Admission is free.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard

A Centennial Benefit Reception Dinner will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.