If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A lecture by J.H. Prynne and Keston Sutherland as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A Poetry Reading by David Shapiro as part of the Poem Present Series. Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondrian's much tabooed...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher with her husband Keith Waldrop of Burning Deck Press, as well as the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2007 The University of Chicago. Adam Zagajewski lives in Krakow and Chicago.His collections in English translation include Tremor (1985), Canvas (1991), Mysticism for Beginners (1997), Another Beauty (2000), and the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Susan Howe's most recent books are The Midnight published by New Directions, and Kidnapped from Coracle Press. Two CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth, and Souls of the Labadie Tract, were released on the Blue Chopsticks label in 2005 and 2007. Her critical study, My Emily Dickinson (1986) is...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ed Roberson's seventh book of poetry, "City Eclogue" was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, "Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In" was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book "Atmosphere Conditions" was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ed Roberson's seventh book of poetry, "City Eclogue" was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, "Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In" was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book "Atmosphere Conditions" was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/20/97; recipient of the Byron Caldwell Book Award; performed by Aquila...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her first children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The author of more than ten books in a range of genres as well as numerous performance works, Carla Harryman's recent publications include Open Box (Belladonna, 2007), Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), Toujours l'epine est sous la rose (Ikko, 2006: tr. Martin Richet), and Gardener of Stars (Atelos, 2001). A collection of...

Leslie Scalapino's It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was recently released by University of California Press at Berkeley. Wrote Robert Creeley: "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection,' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak-and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Derek Mahon, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Reznikoff. Sommer's most...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Derek Mahon, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Reznikoff. Sommer's most...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Donald Revell is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently of A Thief of Strings (2007) and Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems (2005), both from Alice James Books. Winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry, Revell has also received the Gertrude Stein...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Donald Revell is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently of A Thief of Strings (2007) and Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems (2005), both from Alice James Books. Winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry, Revell has also received the Gertrude Stein...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. AUGUST KLEINZAHLER published his first book of poetry, A Calendar of Airs, in 1978. Since then, he has published seven others, including Storm over Hackensack (1985); Earthquake Weather (1989); Red Sauce Whiskey and Snow (FSG, 1995); Green Sees Things in Waves (FSG, 1998); and Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-1990...