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1. Literary Fiction Book Club - "Mister Monkey" by Francine Prose

   ... funny” - Boston Globe This discussion is led by Poetry Center docent  Marc Goldfeder. This year the Literary ... the book and join us on the red couches in the lobby of the Poetry Center.  No sign-up is necessary.  The Club is free and open to the ...

   sgzemski - 08/15/2017 - 9:04am

2. Virtual Kids Create: Spooky Poems & Stories

   ... continue in Fall 2022! These self-guided events will include poetry lesson plans for children in various age groups, helping them stay connected to poetry in our virtual space. View past Virtual Kids Create events on the ...

   dgoblirsch - 09/24/2022 - 12:01pm

3. Rosa Alcalá

   ... New York Times describes her third and most recent book of poetry MyOTHER TONGUE as capturing “the messy emotions and ... journals, including Harper’s , The Nation , Poetry , and American Poetry Review , as well as in the anthologies Best ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 12/07/2022 - 3:33pm

4. Mai Der Vang

   ... Mai Der Vang is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), received the Walt ... Poets, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her second ...

   valenzuela9 - 03/28/2022 - 4:34pm

5. Virtual Kids Create: March

   ... in Spring 2021! These self-guided events will include poetry lesson plans for children in various age groups, helping them stay connected to poetry in our virtual space. View past Virtual Kids Create events on the ...

   dgoblirsch - 02/02/2021 - 10:57am

6. Reading: Tiana Clark and Monica Sok

   ... a book signing. Tiana Clark  is the author of the poetry collection,  I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood  ... of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize and 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her writing has appeared in or is ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:35pm

7. Questions of Sustainability, Potable Water, and Swimmer Poetics

   Stacey Balkun     Poetry is a strange art form in that it is always demanded to “do” ... human demands upon the earth that are not sustainable, can poetry help us understand? What do we do with this disrupted world, what do we do with poetry? Can we regain a sense of stability—has such harmony ever existed? In ...

   sgzemski - 05/07/2020 - 8:55am

8. Marilyn Chin

   ... of the Mooncake Vixen (2009). In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has translated poems by the modern Chinese poet Ai Qing ... She’s won numerous awards, including the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute ...

   valenzuela9 - 06/08/2023 - 4:14pm

9. Something Not Fully Flourished: Pastorals, Ecolyric, and the First Day of Spring

   ... Jennifer Chang's “Pastoral” published online at the Poetry Foundation The splintered form held together by the ... often evades definition. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics’ extensive entry on “lyric” notes that the etymology ...

   mgoodrich - 01/18/2025 - 10:02am

10. Spring 2026: Classes and Workshops

    Wonderful classes are coming to the Poetry Center this Spring! From audacity and extravagance to getting out of the ... PM – 3:00 PM    I Did Not Stop for Death: The Poetry of Resilience   with Pamela Uschuk This four-week generative poetry workshop is for people who have dealt in any way with a life-threatening ...

    mgoodrich - 02/28/2026 - 10:38am

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