Poets & Writers Theater

In this 2024 Louisiana Literature Festival event at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Anne Carson reads “Stacks” and is joined by poet Danez Smith and her collaborator and partner Robert Currie for the performance. The piece was originally performed in collaboration with choreographer Jonah Bokaer and sculptor Peter Cole.

“Your mind wants to move, and the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it, moving somewhere you never expected to move.” Anne Carson talks about the artists and philosophers who inspire her to create and think, and how boxing has helped her in the wake of her recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in a conversation with Norwegian author Linn Ullmann for this Louisiana Channel event.

“The viewer has to essentially expose themselves in the most vulnerable way I can think of to another poet’s words.” Using gold leaf paint on the porcelain of men’s urinals around Miami, artist Ian Thomas installs excerpts of contemporary poetry by poets, including Frank Bidart, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Carson, and Natasha Trethewey, as part of the 2015 O, Miami Poetry Festival.