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”)...
Good morning! Today the eminent poet Jerome (Jerry) Rothenberg, 88 years young, will be visiting the Writers House, as he does whenever he is touring the east coast. We will be making four new...
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1) Wed 9/8/21, noon (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/15/21, 9:30 AM (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/22/21, 8 PM (wk 3)
4) Wed 9/29/21, 3 PM (wk 4) [Kate Colby visits]
5) Wed. 10/6/21, noon (wk 5)
6) Thu 10/14/21, 6:30 PM (wk 6) (ModPo on the road: LOCATION TBD)
7) Wed 10/20/21, 3 PM (wk 7) [with Edwin Torres]
8) Wed 10/27/21, 6 PM (wk 8) (at Morgan Library, NYC)
9) Wed 11/3/21, 3 PM (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/10/21, NOON (wk 10) [“erica kaufman DAY”] [with Jack Gieseking]
11) Mon 11/15/21, NOON (“final words”)
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