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 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.
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.
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.
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.
