Watch the recording of the 4th annual Reading Rilke event celebrating the visionary poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s led again by poet and translator Mark S. Burrows, together with poet Pádraig Ó Tuama (host of the “Poetry Unbound” podcast), the conversation widens to welcome award-winning broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author Krista Tippett, founder of the “On Being” public radio show and podcast.
Watch the recording of the fourth annual Ekphrastic Poetry challenge, a collaboration between Page Gallery and The Poets Corner. The art is available for viewing online at Page Gallery’s website.
Twelve poets, including two fifth grade students, were selected to read their poems on The Poets Corner over Zoom.
Billy Collins, two term U.S. Poet Laureate, author of thirteen books of poetry, and one of the most popular poets in American today, joined us on The Poets Corner on October 20, 2024. Watch the video anytime!
“Billy Collins is the class clown in the schoolhouse of American poetry. It's earned him a rare spot between critical respect and wide appeal.” —Poets.org Academy of American Poets
In the summer of 2023 two friends decided to write a poem every time they swam—the result is this wonderful book we want to share with you! It’s a series of love letters to the water, to swimming, and to friendship.
Watch the recording and be inspired by the poetry of friendship with Meg and Margaret, you’ll have fun even if you never had any inclination to go swimming!
A reading with the finalists from the 2024 Chapbook Competition.
This reading with 2024 winner Molly Bolton was hosted by distinguished poet, Marie Howe, the judge for 2024's chapbook competition.
Of Molly’s writing, Marie said: “All the world at once is what is held in the lines of these poems: the birthers, the babies who will not live, the faces of flowers, the stones . . . and from it comes poetry that will plead and mourn and hunger and bless. I returned again and again to these poems and was nourished.”
We’re delighted to offer a reading from a beautiful new anthology, hosted by the editor: Tess Taylor, reading along with poets: David Baker, Sophie Cabot Black, Mark Doty, Kirun Kapur, and Danusha Laméris.
Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry from Green Linden Press features over 100 poets who illuminate the queer experience in the U.S. Joining editor & publisher Christopher Nelson on The Poets Corner will be the following major voices in American poetry today: Rick Barot, Ellen Bass, Richard Blanco, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Charif Shanahan.
Join us for a reading and discussion of the poetry of Sergey Gandlevsky, translated by Philip Metres, published by Green Linden Press. Sergey Gandlevsky is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian poets. A Russian critics’ poll in the 2000s named him the country’s most important living poet. A lifelong Muscovite, Gandlevsky has relocated to the Republic of Georgia since the war in Ukraine began.
Join us for this special reading and conversation with Richard Blanco as he shares his new book: Homeland of My Body—a rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his five previous volumes.
In 2024, DownEast books will launch a new literary journal, The Maine Standard, The Nine Poets Collective will be featured with selections of poems that speak to each of their “Obsessions” with an introduction by presidential inaugural poet, Richard Blanco. On January 14th join us to celebrate the upcoming launch of The Maine Standard with readings from The Nine Poets Collective.
Watch the recording of the 5th annual Reading Rilke event celebrating the visionary poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s led again by poet and translator Mark S. Burrows, together with poet Pádraig Ó Tuama (host of the “Poetry Unbound” podcast), poet Kayleen Asbo.
Watch a video of the live ZOOM reading of our fifth annual ekphrastic challenge, a collaboration between Page Gallery and The Poets Corner. NOTE: You can view the work online HERE, before viewing.
Ten poets, along with students read their work on The Poets Corner on Sunday, November 9.
Every year, the poets and the artists carefully deliberate over the submissions and curate a delightful mix of responses for the virtual and in-gallery readings.
Out in paperback this fall, Jane’s latest The Asking: New and Selected Poems offers a signature investigation of the conditions, contradictions, uncertainties, and astonishments that shape our existence. Jane will read from poems old and new, and we’ll talk about the things that are important to her today as she reads and writes poetry and centers herself in the face of a world gone off-kilter.
Mark Doty, Diane Seuss, and Melissa McKinstry gathered to read some of their current poems, as well as poems written in response to poets or poems that they love. In a conversation with our host, Meg Weston, they spoke about writing, influences, and inspiration.
Like wind on a lake, current United States Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze’s twelfth book of poetry, Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), extends a language that ripples and stills, conjuring a cast of fruit trees and gunshots, butterflies and chemistry, animals and man.
Arthur joined us and read from this collection and other poems, and talked about his writing practice and the craft of poetry with our host, Meg Weston.
The term Lyric Essay was first used in the early 1990s by poet and essayist Deborah Tall and was defined in the Seneca Review in 1997: “The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language.”
We’re joined by 4 authors who’ve used the lyric essay in their own writing: Julie Marie Wade, Jill Talbot, Elissa Washuta, and Annaliese Jakimides.
Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist raised in Northern California, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. She reads from her newest book, Blade by Blade (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), “these poems are luminous missives tossed on the wind asking us to re-enter the world we’ve forsaken, to set foot, as if for the first time, on the green earth and begin again.” She and Meg talk about form, stories and writing from grief.
This multi-media event explores kinship through the voices of poets and writers who deepen their understanding of our experience of cicadas, whales, and the more-than-human world, and engage in a discussion about our connections—to others, to nature, and to the universe—revealing how these relationships shape our understanding of existence and shared experience.
We’re joined by Claire Millikin, Jane Pirone, David Baker and Mihku Paul.
The first poetry reading of the year at The Poets Corner—a poetry reading and discussion with five poets reading work to welcome in the new year in community, inviting in both joy and sorrow, and most importantly a chorus of uplifting voices. We’re joined by Margaret Haberman, Didi Jackson, Alison Luterman, Migwi Mwangi, and Maya Stein.
