2008 Poets Forum on Contemporary Poetry
New York City, NY 10012
United States of America
The schedule currently stands as follows:
Poetry Forum Reading- Thursday, November 6, 7 p.m. at the Times Center, 242 West 41st Street. Participants for this reading and other events include:
Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky, Victor Hernández Cruz, Kay Ryan, Louise Glück, Gary Snyder, Lyn Hejinian, Gerald Stern, Sharon Olds, Susan Stewart, Ron Padgett, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Carl Phillips, C. K. Williams, Charles Bernstein, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Anselm Berrigan, James Longenbach, Lucie Brock-Broido, Cate Marvin, Jordan Davis, Claudia Rankine, Timothy Donnelly, Tracy K. Smith, Eamon Grennan, Tom Thompson, Major Jackson,and others.
Poetry Walking Tours- Friday, November 7, 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.: various meeting locations to be announced. These tours will be conducted by selected participating poets and will explore the literary history of certain neighborhoods and places in the city, such as:
The West Village, Harlem, Walt Whitman's SoHo, and The Museum of Modern Art
Poets Awards Ceremony- Friday November 7, 7 p.m. at Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street. This will be the ceremony announcing the recipients of the premier collection of awards for poetry in the United States, followed by a reception. It will include readings and presentations by:
Lucie Brock-Broido, Louise Glück, Eamon Grennan, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Claudia Rankin, and others.
Poets Forum: Discussions of Contemporary Poetry- Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, New York University, 60 Washington Square South. This presentation of four panel discussions is co-sponsored by the New York University Creative Writing Program. During these, the most important American poets of our time willexplore central questions to poetry today.
American Poet Launch Party- Saturday, November 8, 7 p.m.: location to be announced. This is a reading and reception for the new fall issue of the journal of the Academy of American Poets, American Poet. The following poets will read from their work:
Charles Bernstein, Major Jackson, and Cecily Parks.
All events passes are $85 USD before September 1, 2008. Afterward, they will be priced at $110 USD. A limited number of tickets for the Saturday discussion sessions only are available for $60 USD. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.poets.org or by mailing inquiries to
The Academy of American Poets
Attention: Poets Forum
584 Broadway, Suite 604
New York, NY. 10012
Phone: (212)274-0343 / Fax: (212) 274-9427
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