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Poets House Presents: Ed Roberson

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“Looking down from the window / into the bare augur sycamore tree / in the park across the street / the surprise is how full / of red-winged blackbirds it is…” In this Poets House Presents video, Ed Roberson shares new and unpublished poems still in drafts written during the coronavirus pandemic from his home in Chicago. Roberson is the recipient of the 2020 Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent.

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Garous Abdolmalekian

Poets House Presents Garous Abdolmalekian

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In this bilingual reading presented virtually from three cities hosted by Poets House, Garous Abdolmalekian reads poems from his collection Lean Against This Late Hour (Penguin Books, 2020), along with Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey, who cotranslated the book from the Persian. Lean Against This Late Hour is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Lean Against This Late Hour

Paradise (Film Two)

A poem by Anna Moschovakis

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“I don’t know a thing about paradise || In my house nobody ever brought / it up...” Anna Moschovakis reads from her poem “Paradise (Film Two)” from her collection They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (Coffee House Press, 2016) as part of the twenty-fourth annual Poets House Showcase in 2016. Moschovakis’s forthcoming debut novel, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love will be released by Coffee House Press in August.

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They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This

2018

Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

Poets House

Cameron Awkward-Rich

A poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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“I thought I was finished / with desire & what a relief.” In this video from Poets House, Cameron Awkward-Rich reads “What Returns” from his debut poetry collection, Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016).

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Sympathetic Little Monster

Ricochet Editions

American Stanzas

American Stanzas: 2006 - 2016

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American Stanzas: 2006–2016 is a photography and mixed media arts show presenting work by poet and visual artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. The exhibition is sponsored by Poets House and Cave Canem Foundation.

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Poetry

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths

American Stanzas: 2006-2016

Bill Murray at Poets House

Gathering Paradise: Bill Murray Reads to Construction Workers at Poets House.mov

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Bill Murray reads work by poets such as Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Lorine Niedecker to an audience of construction workers who built the Poets House space in Battery Park City in New York City.

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Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens

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Actor Bill Murray read two poems by Wallace Stevens at Bubby's Brooklyn as part of Poets House's seventeenth annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge last month.

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Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge