Date Title Poet
04/25/12 A Tribute to Philip Larkin Philp Larkin

 

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

 

 
07/26/11 Song of the Turkey Buzzard: On the Poetry of Lew Welch, with Gary Snyder Lew Welch
Gary Snyder

Podcast provided by The Library Foundation's ALOUD series

Recorded May 26, 2011 

Co-presented with the Poetry Society of America

For more information about the event visit The Library Foundation.

To purchase a broadside of "Axe Handles," signed by Gary Snyder and made exclusively for this event, visit The Library Foundation store.
07/06/11 Tribute to Daniel Halpern
An evening honoring the great poet, publisher, and teacher.
John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Anthony Bourdain, Janie Fink, Richard Ford, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Campbell McGrath, Joyce Carol Oates, and other special guests,

Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, HarperCollins Publishers, and the New York University Creative Writing Program

May 6, 2010

NYU Kimmel Center
Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor)
60 Washington Square South
New York, NY
11/17/10 Anne Carson on Sappho

Introduced by Alice Quinn.

Co-sponsored with The Culture Project.

May 2000

The Culture Project
New York, New York
11/17/10 Galway Kinnell reads Dylan Thomas Galway Kinnell
Dylan Thomas

Introduced by Rachel Hadas.

The 75th Anniversary of the Poetry Society of America.

Co-sponsored by City University of New York, Baruch College.

November 16, 1985

Baruch College Auditorium
New York, New York
11/16/10 Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke Stanley Kuntiz
Theodore Roethke

Stanley Kunitz on the life and work of Theodore Roethke.

November 8, 2001

The National Arts Club
New York, New York
11/16/10 Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop Vijay Seshadri
Elizabeth Bishop

Poets on Poetry series

Co-sponsored by Poets House.

February 8, 2009

Mount Pleasant Public Library
Pleasantville, New York
11/02/10 Charles Harper Webb on Ron Koertge Charles Harper Webb
Ron Koertge

The Second Annual PSA Festival of California Poets

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Pasadena Public Library
Pasadena, California
11/02/10 Maggie Nelson on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest
Maggie Nelson

The Second Annual PSA Festival of California Poets

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Pasadena Public Library
Pasadena, California
02/17/10 Tribute to W. H. Auden Edward Mendelsohn
W. H. Auden

Edward Mendelsohn reads "Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly," "As He Is,"  and "River Profile."

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA
02/17/10 Tribute to W. H. Auden Dan Chiasson
W. H. Auden

Dan Chiasson reads "Sonnets from China #15," "The Lesson," "September 1st, 1939,"  a song from "The Sea and The Mirror," and "The More Loving One."

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA
02/17/10 Tribute to W. H. Auden Frank Bidart
W. H. Auden

Frank Bidart reads "As I Walked Out One Evening," an excerpt from "1929," "In Schrafft's," and "Dear, Though The Night is Gone."

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA
02/11/10 Tribute to Polish Poetry, volume two

Lawrence Weschler reads "Could Have" and "Maybe All This" by Wislawa Szymborska and "The Pebble" by Sbigniew Herbert

C.K. Williams reads "Bypassing Rue Descartes", "An Honest Description of Myself With a Glass of Whiskey at an Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis" and "Late Ripeness" by Czeslaw Milosz

Adam Zagajewski reads "To Go to Lvov", "Erinna From Telos", "Farewell for Zbigniew Herbert", "My Aunts", "Self-Portrait" and "Try to Praise the Mutilated World".

Wednesday, March 13th, 2002

The Great Hall at Cooper Union
New York, New York
02/11/10 Poetry in a Time of Crisis, volume one

Billy Collins reads "On Being Asked for a War Poem" and "The Stare's Nest By My Window" by W.B. Yeats.

Alastair Reid and Billy Collins read "A Callarse"/"Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda.

Michael Cunningham reads "After Great Pain" by Emily Dickinson and "The Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop.

Eve Ensler reads "Afghanistan" by Raymond Carver, "Zero Circle" by Rumi, "The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field" by Richard Hugo, "The Crowd at the Ball Game" by William Carlos Williams and "Guide" by A.R. Ammons.

Yusef Komunyakaa reads "Monet's Water Lilies" by Robert Hayden and "What Did I Learn in the Wars" from "Anniversaries of War" by Yehuda Amichai.

Stanley Kunitz reads "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova.

Monday, October 22nd, 2001

The Great Hall, Copper Union
New York, New York

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