2018-19 O. B. Hardison Poetry Series Brochure

OB HARDISON

50 seasons of poets — season by season Kazim Ali ▪ Kaveh Akbar ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Sherwin Bitsui ▪ Paisley Rekdal ▪ Kwame Dawes ▪ Safiya Sinclair ▪ Sandra Gilbert ▪ Gjertrud Schnackenberg ▪ Mike White ▪ John Burnside ▪ Phillis Levin ▪ Jane Hirshfield ▪ Manuel Gonzales ▪ Yona Harvey ▪ Gary Jackson ▪ Forrest Gander ▪ Javier Zamora ▪ Tracy K. Smith ▪ Tyehimba Jess ▪ Robin Coste Lewis ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Austin Allen ▪ Sharon Olds ▪ Nikki Giovanni ▪ Haki Madhubuti ▪ Toi Derricotte ▪ Kyle Dargan ▪ Gregory Pardlo ▪ Rachel Eliza Griffiths ▪ Andrew Motion ▪ Malachi Black ▪ Laurie Ann Guerrero ▪ A. Van Jordan ▪ Mark Doty ▪ Aimee Nezhukumatathil ▪ Reginald Dwayne Betts ▪ William Archila ▪ Linda Gregerson ▪ Julianna Baggott ▪ Laura Kasischke ▪ Anthony Thwaite ▪ Jaimee Hills ▪ W.S. DiPiero ▪ Rowan Ricardo Phillips ▪ Rita Dove ▪ Adam Zagajewski ▪ Clare Cavanagh ▪ Edward Hirsch ▪ Rae Armantrout ▪ Simon Armitage ▪ Peter Oswald ▪ Rafael Campo ▪ Geoffrey Brock ▪ Heather McHugh ▪ Matthea Harvey ▪ Claudia Rankine ▪ Vijay Seshadri ▪ Stephen Burt ▪ Stephen Dunn ▪ Traci Brimhall ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪ Terrance Hayes ▪ Linda Pastan ▪ Carol Ann Duffy ▪ Seamus Heaney ▪ Joy Harjo ▪ Evie Schockley ▪ Tina Chang ▪ Maurice Manning ▪ Peter Gizzi ▪ C.K. Williams ▪ Stanley Plumly ▪ Charles Simic ▪ Shelley Puhak ▪ Paul Muldoon ▪ Billy Collins ▪ Forrest Gander ▪ B.H. Fairchild ▪ Mary Jo Bang ▪ Kay Ryan ▪ Mark Strand ▪ Chris Andrews ▪ Nikky Finney ▪ Brian Turner ▪ Kwame Dawes ▪ Carl Phillips ▪ Eduardo C. Corral ▪ Gary Snyder ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Yusef Komunyakaa ▪ Aracelis Girmay ▪ James Fenton ▪ Mark Kraushaar ▪ Robert Pinsky ▪ Theo Dorgan ▪ Paula Meehan ▪ Robert Hass ▪ Wendy Wall ▪ Namoi Shihab Nye ▪ Mary Karr ▪ Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon ▪ Naomi Ayala ▪ Valerie Martinez ▪ J. Michael Martinez ▪ Kevin Young ▪ Lucia Perillo ▪ Vera Pavlova ▪ Roseanna Warren ▪ Matthew Ladd ▪ Edward Hirsch ▪ Richard Wilbur ▪ W.S. Merwin ▪ Natalie Merchant ▪ Jane Hirshfield ▪ Patricia Smith ▪ John Burnside ▪ Charles Wright ▪ Kim Addonizio ▪ Kyle Dargan ▪ Lucie Brock-Broido ▪ Afaa Michael Weaver ▪ Juliana Spahr ▪ Arthur Sze ▪ Eamon Grennan ▪ Rita Dove ▪ A.B. Spellman ▪ Michael Harper ▪ Natasha Trethewey ▪ Claudia Emerson ▪ Marie Howe ▪ Bob Hicok ▪ Linda Pastan ▪ Tracy K. Smith ▪ Elizabeth Spires ▪ Rae Armantrout ▪ Frank Bidart ▪ Terrance Hayes ▪ Edwin Torres ▪ Nick Flynn ▪ Eileen Myles ▪ Mary Kinzie ▪ Lucille Clifton ▪ Mark Doty ▪ Tyehimba Jess ▪ Quincy Troupe ▪ Galway Kinnell ▪ Ross Gay ▪ Gerald Stern ▪ Kay Ryan ▪ Richard Howard ▪ John Ashbery ▪ David Rivard ▪ David Wojahn ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Molly Peacock ▪ Henri Cole ▪ Phillis Levin ▪ Derek Walcott ▪ Terrance Hayes ▪ Frank X. Walker ▪ Srikanth Reddy ▪ Tina Chang ▪ Victoria Chang ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Tess Gallagher ▪ Charles Simic ▪ Ted Kooser ▪ Virgil Suarez ▪ Adrian Castro ▪ Sonia Sanchez ▪ Eve Grubin ▪ Kazim Ali ▪ Katie Ford ▪ Jorie Graham ▪ Rosmarie Waldrop ▪ Mark Halliday ▪ Campbell McGrath ▪ Sharon Olds ▪ Elizabeth Alexander ▪ Tony Hoagland ▪ Anne Waldman ▪ Philip Levine ▪ Taha Muhammad Ali ▪ Edward Hirsch ▪ C. K. Williams ▪ Peter Gizzi ▪ Eileen Myles ▪ Harryette Mullen ▪ Jimmy Santiago Baca ▪ Diane Middlebrook ▪ Reginald Gibbons ▪ Thomas Sayers Ellis ▪ Vijay Seshadri ▪ Fanny Howe ▪ Percival Everett ▪ Stanley Plumly ▪ Brad Gooch ▪ Diane Ackerman ▪ Eamon Grennan ▪ Vona Groarke ▪ David McCann ▪ Ko Un ▪ Katia Kapovich ▪ Rachel Blau Duplessis ▪ Linda Gregson ▪ Jean Valentine ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪Pattiann Rodgers ▪ George Schneeman ▪ Robert Bly ▪ Ron Padgett ▪ Steve Clay ▪ Paul Muldoon ▪ Linda Gregerson ▪ Li-Young Lee ▪ Naomi Shihab Nye ▪ Nathalie Handal ▪ Elmaz Abinader ▪ Ellen Bryant Voigt ▪ A. Van Jordan ▪ Honoree Fanonne Jeffers ▪ Shara McCallum ▪ W.D. Snodgrass ▪ Natasha Trethewey ▪ Dolores Kendrick ▪ Alice Notley ▪ Yeats’ Gallery ▪ Kenneth Koch ▪ Susan Howe ▪ Clarence Major ▪ Bruce Smith ▪ David St. John ▪ Galway Kinnell ▪ Billy Collins ▪ Carol Ann Duffy ▪ Les Murray ▪ Lucille Clifton ▪ Marie Howe ▪ Elizabeth Alexander ▪ Joy Harjo ▪ Afaa Michael Weaver ▪ Ahmos Zu-Bolton ▪ Rachel Hadas ▪ Louise Gluck ▪ Sandra Cisneros ▪ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ▪ Arthur Sze ▪ Vijay Seshadri ▪ Toi Derricotte ▪ Thomas Lux ▪ Elizabeth Spires ▪ Tracie Morris ▪ Yusef Komunyakaa ▪ Alan Shapiro ▪ Amy Hempel ▪ Steve Stern ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Stanley Kunitz ▪ Melanie Rae Thon ▪ Michael Martone ▪ Tom Sleigh ▪ Sandra Gilbert ▪ Donald Justice ▪ Brenda Marie Osbey ▪ C.D. Wright ▪ Mark McMorris ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Jane Mead ▪ Mary Oliver ▪ Maggie Nelson ▪ Jennifer Barber ▪ Mark Bibbins ▪ Lawson Fusao Inada ▪ Jennifer Nelson ▪ Heather McHugh ▪ W.S. Merwin ▪ Michael Palmer ▪ Peter Brook ▪ Gary Snyder ▪ Robert Pinsky ▪ Ann Lauterbach ▪ Stanley Plumly ▪ Lucille Clifton ▪ Robert Creeley ▪ Denise Levertov ▪ Dava Sobel ▪ Richard Wilbur ▪ James Tate ▪ Brenda Hillman ▪ DJ Renegade ▪ Reuben Jackson ▪ Al Young ▪ Mary Karr ▪ Reetika Vazarani ▪ Zoe theBidart white page Anglesey ▪ Charles Wright ▪ Jaydoesn’t Parini ▪ Frank ▪ Leslie Scalapino ▪ Mark Rudman ▪ Rafael Campo ▪ Marilyn Hackerseem ▪ George Plimpton ▪ Christopher Buckley ▪ Nuala Ni unfinished Dhomhniall ▪ Eilean Ni Chuilleanan ▪ Gwendolyn Brooks ▪ Kamau Brathwaite ▪ John Ashbery ▪ Anne Carson ▪ Michael Ondaatje ▪ Anthony Hecht ▪ Patricia Smith ▪ Jesus Papoleto Melendez ▪ without the dark stain Pedro Pietri ▪ Jorie Graham ▪ Bei Dao ▪ Derek Walcott ▪ Anne Carson ▪ Christopher Merrill ▪ of alphabets? —Linda Pastan Henri Cole ▪ Lucie Brock-Broido ▪ Jay Wright ▪ Peter Sacks ▪ Patricia Smith ▪ Paul Beatty ▪

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poetry series 2018/19

celebrating fifty seasons of poetry at the Folger

50 seasons of poets Kazim Ali ▪ Kaveh Akbar ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Sherwin Bitsui ▪ Paisley Rekdal ▪ Kwame Dawes ▪ Safiya Sinclair ▪ Sandra Gilbert ▪ Gjertrud Schnackenberg ▪ Mike White ▪ John Burnside ▪ Phillis Levin ▪ Jane Hirshfield ▪ Manuel Gonzales ▪ Yona Harvey ▪ Gary Jackson ▪ Forrest Gander ▪ Javier Zamora ▪ Tracy K. Smith ▪ Tyehimba Jess ▪ Robin Coste Lewis ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Austin Allen ▪ Sharon Olds ▪ Nikki Giovanni ▪ Haki Madhubuti ▪ Toi Derricotte ▪ Kyle Dargan ▪ Gregory Pardlo ▪ Rachel Eliza Griffiths ▪ 1928-1990 Andrew Motion ▪ Malachi Black ▪ Laurie Ann Guerrero ▪ A. Van Jordan ▪ Mark Doty ▪ Aimee Nezhukumatathil ▪ Reginald Dwayne Betts ▪ William Archila ▪ Linda Gregerson ▪ Poet, teacher, author, and scholar, Julianna Baggott ▪ Laura Kasischke ▪ Anthony Thwaite ▪ Jaimee Hills ▪ W.S. DiPiero ▪ O.B. Hardison had wide-ranging Rowan Ricardo Phillips ▪ Rita Dove ▪ Adam Zagajewski ▪ Clare Cavanagh ▪ Edward interests a passion for Armitage ▪ Peter Oswald ▪ Rafael Campo ▪ Geoffrey Hirsch ▪ Raeand Armantrout ▪ Simon teaching.

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Mark Halliday ▪ Campbell McGrath ▪ Sharon Olds ▪ Elizabeth Alexander ▪ Tony Hoagland ▪ Anne Waldman ▪ Philip Levine ▪ Taha Muhammad Ali ▪ Edward Hirsch ▪ C. K. Williams ▪ Peter Gizzi ▪ Eileen Myles ▪ Harryette Mullen ▪ Jimmy Santiago Baca ▪ Diane Middlebrook ▪ Reginald Gibbons ▪ Thomas Sayers Ellis ▪ Vijay Seshadri ▪ Fanny Howe ▪ Percival Everett ▪ Stanley Plumly ▪ Brad Gooch ▪ Diane Ackerman ▪ Eamon Grennan ▪ Vona Groarke ▪ David McCann ▪ Ko Un ▪ Katia Kapovich ▪ Rachel Blau Duplessis ▪ Linda Gregson ▪ Jean Valentine ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪Pattiann Rodgers ▪ George Schneeman ▪ Robert Bly ▪ Ron Padgett ▪ Steve Clay ▪ Paul Muldoon ▪ Linda Gregerson ▪ Li-Young Lee ▪ Naomi Shihab Nye ▪ Nathalie Handal ▪ Elmaz Abinader ▪ Ellen Bryant Voigt ▪ A. Van Jordan ▪ Honoree Fanonne Jeffers ▪ Shara McCallum ▪ W.D. Snodgrass ▪ Natasha Trethewey Anthony ▪ DoloresHecht Kendrick ▪ Alice Notley ▪ Yeats’ Gallery ▪ Kenneth Koch ▪ Susan Howe 1986 ▪ Clarence Major ▪ Bruce Smith ▪ David St. John ▪ Galway Kinnell ▪ Billy Collins ▪ Carol Ann Duffy ▪ Les Murray ▪ Lucille Clifton ▪ Marie Howe ▪ Elizabeth Alexander ▪ Joy Harjo ▪ Afaa Michael Weaver ▪ Ahmos Zu-Bolton ▪ Rachel Hadas ▪ Louise Gluck ▪ Sandra Cisneros ▪ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ▪ Arthur Sze ▪ Vijay Seshadri ▪ Toi Derricotte ▪ Thomas Lux ▪ Elizabeth Spires ▪ Tracie Morris ▪ Yusef Komunyakaa ▪ Alan Shapiro ▪ Amy Hempel ▪ Steve Stern ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Stanley Kunitz ▪ Melanie Rae Thon ▪ Michael Martone ▪ Tom Sleigh ▪ Sandra Gilbert ▪ Donald Justice ▪ Brenda Marie Osbey ▪ C.D. Wright ▪ Mark McMorris ▪ Eavan Boland ▪ Jane Mead ▪ Mary Oliver ▪ Maggie Nelson ▪ Jennifer Barber ▪ Mark Bibbins ▪ Lawson Fusao Inada ▪ Jennifer Nelson ▪ Heather McHugh ▪ W.S. Merwin ▪ Michael Palmer ▪ Peter Brook ▪ Gary Snyder ▪ Robert Pinsky ▪ Ann Lauterbach ▪ Stanley Plumly ▪ Lucille Elizabon ▪ Robert Creeley ▪ Denise Levertov ▪ Dava Sobel ▪ Richard Wilbur ▪ James Tate ▪ Brenda Hillman ▪ DJ Renegade ▪ Reuben Jackson ▪ Al Young ▪ Mary Karr ▪ Reetika Vazarani ▪ Zoe Anglesey ▪ Charles Wright ▪ Jay Parini ▪ Frank Bidart ▪ Leslie Scalapino ▪ Mark Rudman ▪ Rafael Campo ▪ Marilyn Hacker ▪ George Plimpton ▪ Christopher Buckley ▪ Nuala Ni Dhomhniall ▪ Eilean Ni Chuilleanan ▪ Gwendolyn Brooks ▪ Kamau Brathwaite ▪ John Ashbery ▪ Anne Carson ▪ Michael Ondaatje ▪ Anthony Hecht ▪ Patricia Smith ▪ Jesus Papoleto Melendez ▪ Pedro Pietri ▪ Jorie Graham ▪ Bei Dao ▪ Derek Walcott ▪ Anne Carson ▪ Christopher Merrill ▪ Henri Cole ▪ Lucie Brock-Broido ▪ Jay Wright ▪ Peter Sacks ▪ Patricia Smith ▪ Paul

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Tina Chang, Regie Cabico 2016

Tyehimba Jess 2008

Mary Oliver 1985

Octavio Paz 1988

Ntozake Shange 1991

The Alchemy of Poetry

Allen Ginsberg 1977

Beatty ▪ Laurie Anderson ▪ E. Ethelbert Miller ▪ Adrienne Rich ▪ Octavio Paz ▪ Sharon Olds ▪ W.S. Merwin ▪ Paul Muldoon ▪ Rosanna Warren ▪ Robert Creeley ▪ Linda Pastan ▪ Cyrus Cassells ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Hayden Carruth ▪ Jorie Graham ▪ Jane Miller ▪ Mark Doty ▪ Spalding Gray ▪ Cornelius Eady ▪ R.H.W. Dillard ▪ Lucille Clifton Rose Styron ▪ George Plimpton ▪ Robert Hass ▪ Czeslaw Milosz ▪ Olga Broumas ▪ Killarney Clary ▪ Agha Shahid Ali ▪ Sheryl St. Germain ▪ Galway Kinnell ▪ Peter Reading ▪ Rita Dove ▪ Frank Bidart ▪ Kenneth Carroll ▪ Wanda Coleman ▪ John Frederick Nims ▪ Denise Levertov ▪ Adrienne Rich ▪ Octavio Paz ▪ Alice Quinn ▪ Charles Simic ▪ Louise Gluck ▪ Beth Joselow ▪ E. Ethelbert Miller ▪ William Matthews ▪ Maxine Kumin ▪ Martin Espada ▪ Robert Creeley ▪ Marilyn Waniek Cynthia Macdonald ▪ John Updike ▪ Fred Chappell ▪ Richard Tillinghast ▪ Olga Broumas ▪ Carolyn Forché ▪ Jane Kenyon ▪ Jean Nordhaus ▪ Anne Becker ▪ Ai ▪ Mona Van Duyn ▪ Julie Agoos ▪ Charles Wright ▪ Gibbons Ruark ▪ Eamon Grennan ▪ Les Murray ▪ Brendan Galvin ▪ In 2018/19 we celebrate fifty Miroslav Holub ▪ Belle Waring ▪ Donald Justice ▪ Seamus Heaney ▪ ofIgnatow poetry▪ Ntozake at the Shange Folger▪ Jessica Hagedorn ▪ Li-Youngseasons Lee ▪ David Gregory Shakespeare Orr ▪ Edward Kleinschmidt ▪ Linda Library. In this,Pastan ▪ Jean Valentine ▪ Thomas our Lux ▪ golden Jorie Graham ▪ Toi we Derricotte Anthony Hecht ▪ Dave Smith ▪ season, take ▪our Roland Flint ▪ Sonia Sanchez ▪ Molly Peacock ▪ Minnie Bruce Pratt ▪ Adam cue▪ Bernice from the alchemists of old Zagajewski Reagon ▪ June Jordan ▪ Jane Shore ▪ Carol Muske ▪ by presenting poets who Jacobsen are Bruce Weigl ▪ John Balaban ▪ Josephine ▪ Jean Valentine ▪ Saul Bellow ▪ transforming Henry Taylor ▪ Michael Collier ▪ Peter Sacks ▪ language, bringing it ▪ Yehuda Amichai Sharon Olds Philip Levine ▪ Thomas McGrath ▪ Reed Whittemore ▪ Roland Flint ▪ Eilean 2016 lovingly to life.

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Seamus Heaney 1991

Muriel Rukeyser 1978

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Hardison Season Opening

Linda Pastan Marilyn Chin Ellen Bass September 17 Monday at 7:30pm

The evening features Linda Pastan, who read in 1970, as well as two Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, who will read from their work and reflect on the work of two other poets from the Folger’s inaugural season, Lucille Clifton and Carolyn Kizer.

Co-sponsored with the Academy of American Poets Introduction and conversation moderated by Jean Nordhaus Photo: Carina Romano

Photo: John Medel

Linda Pastan’s work is noted for precise and articulate verses that frame and treasure beauty in small, glorious moments. Her collections include Insomnia, Traveling Light, and Queen of a Rainy Country. Among her awards and honors are a Dylan Thomas Award and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in the US, Marilyn Chin has said that her poetry is “steeped with the themes and travails of exile, loss, and assimilation.” Author of four books of poetry and a novel, Chin is the recipient of five Pushcart prizes and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Ellen Bass’s most recent poetry collection, Like a Beggar, “pulses with sex, humor, and compassion” (The New York Times). Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Pablo Neruda Prize, Bass has also written several works of nonfiction.

From Linda Pastan’s “Why Are Your Poems so Dark?”

Isn’t the moon dark too, most of the time?

And doesn’t the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets?

Excerpt from “Why Are Your Poems so Dark?” from Queen of a Rainy Country © 2008 by Linda Pastan.

Used with permission.

Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry

melissa tuckey Brenda cárdenas

Ghost Fishing is a new anthology of eco-justice poetry–work at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment.

October 5 Friday at 7:30pm Co-sponsored with Letras Latinas, literary initiative at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies

Photo: Janet Jennerjohn

Editor of Ghost Fishing, Melissa Tuckey is co-founder of Split This Rock, dedicated to poetry of provocation and witness, as well as co-translator of a book of poems by contemporary Chinese poet Yang Zi. Her poetry collection Tenuous Chapel was selected by Charles Simic for the ABZ First Book Prize.

Brenda Cárdenas’s books of poetry are From the Tongues of Brick and Stone and Boomerang.

With verse that shifts between English and Spanish, her poetry captures her reverence for the natural world. Her work appears in several anthologies and journals, including The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry.

From Brenda Cárdenas’s “Zacuanpapalotls”

We are— one life passing through the prism of all others, gathering color and song, cempazuchil and drum to leave a rhythm scattered on the wind, dust tinting the tips of fingers as we slip into our new light.

Brenda Cárdenas, “Zacuanpapalotls” from Boomerang. © 2009 by Brenda Cárdenas. Reprinted by permission of Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe.

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Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

Sir andrew motion christopher cessac November 5 Monday at 7:30pm

In honor of the late celebrated poet Anthony Hecht, The Waywiser Press presents this annual award to a poet who has published no more than one previous book of verse.

Co-sponsored with The Waywiser Press Introduction by Waywiser Press editor-in-chief Philip Hoy

Prize judge Sir Andrew Motion has published in many genres and is the author of Coming in to Land: Selected Poems 1975-2015. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984, Motion was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999-2009.

Christopher Cessac is the winner of the 13th Hecht Poetry Prize with his book The Youngest Ocean. His other collection, Republic Sublime, won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry.

From Christopher Cessac’s “Poetics in the Suburban”

Parked. Idling. Oblivious to the weather or whether the crops are in, what the factories are paying, when the troops are returning. Aristotle would understand. These moments are hard won and fragile. A little selfish space to dwell on the precious—iambs (a life?), the introduction of scenery (this parking lot?), the difference between Comedy and Tragedy…

Christopher Cessac, “Poetics in the Suburban” from The Youngest Ocean. Copyright © 2017 by Christopher Cessac. Reprinted by permission of The Waywiser Press.

Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute

jen bervin martha nell smith December 10 Monday at 7:30pm

The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems is the first full-color facsimile of this late experimental work by the beloved poet. From the physical to the digital, Bervin and Nell Smith dive deep into the work of Dickinson.

Co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America

Co-editor of The Gorgeous Nothings, Jen Bervin is a poet and visual artist.

Her other books include Draft Notation and The Dickinson Composites. She has received fellowships and residencies in art and writing from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and the Center for Book Arts.

Dickinson scholar Martha Nell Smith is Founding Director of the Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland and Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the University of Virginia. Her publications include Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide and Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson.

At the reception following the reading, Emily Dickinson’s black cake is provided by The Suga Chef.

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Afrofuturism: What Was, What Is, and What Will Be

tananarive due n. k. jemisin airea d. matthews February 12 Tuesday at 7:30pm

Cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism,” and its meaning now encompasses alternative visions of the future influenced by astral jazz, African-American sci-fi, psychedelic hip-hop, rock, rhythm and blues, and more.

Co-sponsored with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book and Poetry and Literature Center Photo: Daniel Ebon

Photo: Laura Hanifin

Screenwriter and author Tananarive Due teaches at Spelman College in Atlanta and Antioch University Los Angeles. An American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient, she is the author of 12 novels and a civil rights memoir.

Speculative fiction writer N. K. Jemisin’s work has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. She was the first black writer to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, in 2016 for The Fifth Season and in 2017 for The Obelisk Gate.

Airea D. Matthews is the author of the poetry collection Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets.

Matthews creates in her poetry a world not bound by time, weaving past into the present and interrogating the present for the sake of the future. She is the executive editor of The Offing.

From Airea D. Matthews’s “Descent of the Composer”

When I mention the ravages of now, I mean to say, then.

I mean to say the rough-hewn edges of time and space, a continuum that folds back on itself in furtive attempts to witness what was, what is, and what will be…

Excerpt from “Descent of the Composer” from Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews © 2016, published by Yale University Press. Used with permission.

Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance

sandra beasley sean hill atsuro riley

The culinary anthology Vinegar and Char delves into the shaping influence of food history, culture, and identity–and celebrates the glory of food itself.

An evening in conjunction with Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures, a Mellon initiative in collaborative research at the Folger

March 11 Monday at 7:30pm Introduction and conversation moderated by W. Ralph Eubanks

Born and raised in Northern Virginia, Sandra Beasley has authored three poetry collections: Count the Waves, I Was the Jukebox, and Theories of Falling.

Her memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, engages with living with disability.

Georgia native Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. He is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press and an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at UA-Fairbanks.

Atsuro Riley’s work vividly paints the blooms of rural South Carolina.

His first book, Romey’s Order, received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and a Witter Bynner Award.

From Sandra Beasley’s “Flour is Firm”

Baking two parts flour to one part water could stop a bullet. So good soldiers carried their hardtack over their hearts…

Excerpt from “Flour is Firm” from Count the Waves by Sandra Beasley © 2015, published by W.W. Norton. Used with permission.

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Soy Isla (I am an Island) At The Phillips Collection

carmen giménez smith April 18 Thursday at 6:30pm Co-sponsored with The Phillips Collection and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies

This reading responds to The Phillips Collection exhibition Soy Isla (I am an Island) examining the work of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926).

Paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, alongside illustrations and design sketches, trace Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early days in Cuba, to her visits to Europe and America, and finally to her current home in Puerto Rico.

Carmen Giménez Smith’s work dissects the female body and society’s responses to it over centuries in language that can be both playful and serious. Her collections include Milk and Filth; Goodbye, Flicker, winner of the Juniper Prize, and, most recently, Cruel Futures. Her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art,Work, and Everything Else, received an American Book Award.

The Daughter We said she was a negative image of me because of her lightness.

She’s light and also passage, the glory in my cortex.

Daughter, where did you get all that goddess?

Her eyes are Neruda’s two dark pools at twilight.

Sometimes she’s a stranger in my home because I hadn’t imagined her.

Who will her daughter be?

She and I are the gradual ebb of my mother’s darkness.

I unfurl the ribbon of her life, and it’s a smooth long hallway, doors flung open.

Her surface is a deflection is why.

Harm on her, harm on us all.

Inside her, my grit and timbre, my reckless.

Carmen Giménez Smith, “The Daughter” from Milk & Filth.

Copyright © 2013 by Carmen Giménez Smith. Reprinted by permission of University of Arizona Press.

Folger Poetry Board Reading

A distinguished poet chosen by the Folger Poetry Board reads from her work as well as the work of those who have been an influence.

kay ryan May 7 Tuesday at 7:30pm Introduction and conversation moderated by poet Hiram Larew

Token Loss To the dragon any loss is total. His rest is disrupted if a single jewel encrusted goblet has been stolen.

The circle of himself in the nest of his gold has been broken. No loss is token.

Known for compact gems of poetry and a swift and cogent style, Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.

Her other books are Flamingo Watching, The Niagara River, and Say Uncle, among others. A former US Poet Laureate, she is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

“Token Loss” from “Erratic Facts”

by Kay Ryan © 2016.

Reprinted by permission of Grove Atlantic Press.

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Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice

Readings & Talks at Georgetown University 2018/19 Aminatta Forna in conversation with Sharon Gelman September 25, 7pm

Award-winning author Aminatta Forna’s novels include Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love, and Ancestor Stones.

She is the Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics and Interim Director of the Lannan Center.

Sharon Gelman is a writer, media producer, human rights activist, and the editor of the volume 200 Women: Who Will Change the Way You See the World.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Janine Joseph October 16, 7pm

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s poetry collection Cenzontle won the A. Poulin, Jr. Prize. He is a founding member of the Undocupoets campaign, which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country.

Born in the Philippines, Janine Joseph is the author of Driving Without a License, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She is a member of Undocupoets and teaches at Oklahoma State University.

Charmaine Craig David Gewanter November 27, 7pm

Charmaine Craig’s most recent work is the novel Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award. Her first novel, The Good Men, was a national bestseller translated into six languages.

Poet, editor, and essayist David Gewanter’s books of poetry include Fort Necessity, War Bird, and In the Belly. He is a professor of English at Georgetown University and former director of the Lannan Center.

Eula Biss John Freeman February 26, 7pm

Eula Biss’s On Immunity: An Inoculation was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review. Her Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Award-winning writer, book critic, and poet John Freeman has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His most recent publication is the poetry collection Maps.

Lannan Center Spring Symposium March 18-19

“Africa Imagines: Reversing the Gaze” We are used to viewing the world through a Western gaze, and through that gaze Africa south of the Sahara has often been seen as an unenviable place.This image of Africa was not invented by the modern media but flows through centuries of literature and art.What happens if we reverse the gaze? How do Africa’s artists, writers, and commentators view their own lands, politics, and culture, and what do they see when they look upon the West?

Nikky Finney April 23, 7pm

Poet Nikky Finney received the 2011 National Book Award for Head Off & Split. She has been a faculty member at Cave Canem, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, and a professor for 23 years at the University of Kentucky.

Presented with the generous support of the Lannan Foundation

Georgetown Lannan Center poetry events are free and open to the public.

All readings take place in Copley Formal Lounge, on campus at 37th & O Streets, NW. Most evenings include a seminar at 4:30pm in the Lannan Center (New North 408) and a reading at 7pm in Copley Formal Lounge, followed by a reception and book signing.

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Special Events at the folger

Eudora Welty Lecture Richard Ford

October 9 Tuesday at 7:30pm Sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation, this annual lecture celebrates creative origins in the spirit of Welty’s treasured One Writer’s Beginnings. Richard Ford was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize with Let Me Be Frank with You and winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day. Other works include short story collections and the New York Times bestseller Canada.

Not Just Another Day Off—

A Poetic Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 21 Monday at 11am Free Join award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson for this special event combining poetry with historical speeches from Dr. King, Gandhi, Mary McLeod Bethune, and more. Nelson’s books include The Homeplace and A Wreath for Emmett Till. Canned and boxed food donations are requested.

A Bicentennial Celebration of Walt Whitman June 3 Monday at 7:30pm Free In celebration of Walt Whitman’s birth, poets and other special guests read from work Whitman created and published during his time in Washington, DC.

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Salons These benefit evenings, held at the homes of friends of the series, include a wine and light-fare reception with an informal reading and conversation with the attending poets. All proceeds support poetry at the Folger. Please contact Teri Cross Davis at tdavis@folger.edu for more information.

September 16 Linda Pastan, Marilyn Chin, & Ellen Bass March 10 Sandra Beasley, Sean Hill, & Atsuro Riley May 6 Kay Ryan

The Folger

Poetry Board Gigi Bradford, Chair • Anne Harding Woodworth, Co-Chair • Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Christina Daub • Harriet Patsy Davis Barbara Goldberg • Patricia Gray Marifrancis Hardison • Joseph Hassett Anita Herrick • Sherman E. Katz Hiram Larew • Robert C. Liotta Richard Lyon • Mary P. McElveen Barbara Meade • Chloe Yelena Miller Mary Muromcew • Jean Nordhaus Jacqueline L. Quillen • Susan S. Rappaport • Heddy Reid • Edith Schafer • Marianne Schuelein Amy Tercek • David Weisman • Mary-Sherman Willis • Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator

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Kay Ryan May 7

Carmen Giménez Smith April 18

Sandra Beasley, Sean Hill, & Atsuro Riley March 11

Tananarive Due, N. K. Jemisin, & Airea D. Matthews February 12

Jen Bervin & Martha Nell Smith December 10

Sir Andrew Motion & Christopher Cessac November 5

Melissa Tuckey & Brenda Cárdenas October 5

Linda Pastan, Marilyn Chin, & Ellen Bass September 17

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