Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”) in the context of viral spread, global fear, the suppression of spring’s natural reawakenings—with Imaad Majeed in Colombo Sri Lanka, Irene Torra Mohedano in Paris, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué in Chicago.
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
Week 1 — Wed, Sept 4 – NOON
Week 2 – Wed, Sept 11 – 8 PM (with Iain Morrison)
Week 3 – Wed, Sept 18 – 10 AM
Week 4 – Thurs, Sept 26 – 6:30 PM (live from Montreal)
Week 5 – Wed, Oct 2 – 10 AM
Week 6 – Wed, Oct 9 – NOON (with Bob Holman)
Week 7 – Wed, Oct 16: 3 PM
Week 8 – Wed, Oct 23: 3 PM (with Charles Bernstein)
Week 9 – Wed, Oct 30 – 10 AM
Week 10 – Wed, Nov 6 – NOON (with Rae Armantrout)
FINAL WORDS – Mon, Nov 11 – NOON
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