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.
