Poets House Events in March

Some interest events coming up at Poets House this month to consider before National Poetry Month arrives:

Thursday, March 15, 7:00pm
Passwords: K. Silem Mohammad on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Poet K. Silem Mohammad discusses Coleridge and Wordsworth’s collaboration, Lyrical Ballads, in the context of each poet’s development.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Friday, March 16, 7:00pm
The Life and Works of John Keats with Michael Harper, Judith Harris, Stanley Plumly and Anne Wright
Stanley Plumly, author of Posthumous Keats, is joined by poets Michael Harper, Judith Harris and Anne Wright for a discussion of the life and work of this beloved Romantic poet.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Saturday, March 17, 2:00–4:00pm
Passwords: Gigi Bradford on Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Poet and nonprofit arts leader Gigi Bradford looks at the life and work of women poets of the New World.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Tuesday, March 20, 7:00pm
Quincy Troupe on the Craft of Poetry
Poet Quincy Troupe talks about poetic forms and approaches to craft as exemplified by American poetry and discusses his own poetic innovations.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Wednesday, March 21, 7:00pm
The Life and Work of Hans Faverey
with Renee Gladman, Francis R. Jones, Eliot Weinberger and Jeffrey Yang
This evening celebrates the life and work of Surinam-born Dutch poet Hans Faverey (1933 - 1990), described by J.M. Coetzee as “the purest poetic intelligence of his generation.”
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Saturday, March 24, 2:00–4:00pm
Passwords: Mark Doty on Walt Whitman
National Book Award winning poet Mark Doty leads a close reading of Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” as well as other works from Leaves of Grass.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

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