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POETRY CENTRAL: BRANCHING OUT
 HETTIE JONES |
on BEAT POETS  |
Poet and prose writer, Hettie Jones is the author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the "beat scene" of the fifties and sixties. Her talk, The Beats Go On, addresses many typical questions about this often-discussed group of writers such as: who were the Beat Poets, why are they “beat” and what does that mean? A look at their work, and the decades of the fifties and sixties in which they wrote, will explain why they remain iconic figures in American poetry.
Read more about Hettie Jones and Beat Poets.
Read poems by Hettie Jones and Beat Poets..
Downtown Library, Third Floor Program Room
Sunday, May 18, 4 p.m.
 SUSAN STEWART |
on ANNA AKHMATOVA  |
Anna Akhmatova, sometimes called 'the poet who buried Stalin' was a writer who pursued her work under extreme conditions of state oppression. Poet Susan Stewart’s talk “Akhmatova: Poet of the Future” explores how poets do not merely follow and reflect the temporary conditions of society and culture under which they live, but create permanent values through their labor of memory and imagination.
Read more about Susan Stewart and Anna Akhmatova.
Read poems by Susan Stewart and Anna Akhmatova.
Downtown Library, Third Floor Program Room
Sunday, March 2, 4 p.m.
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CANCELED
 PABLO MEDINA |
on OCTAVIO PAZ  |
Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1990, was arguably the most influential Mexican poet and essayist of the 20th century. A man of encyclopedic knowledge and vast intellectual range, he was able to bring together in his poetry four great streams of modernity: the European, the Eastern, the Mexican, and the North American. In this talk, “The Cosmic Poetry of Octavio Paz,“ Pablo Medina explores how these four influences made their way into Paz's work and life as threads of a vivid tapestry, an embodiment, if you will, of what Mexican historian Jose Vasconcelos called "the cosmic race."
Read more about Pablo Medina and Octavio Paz.
Read poems by Pablo Medina and Octavio Paz.
Downtown Library, Third Floor Program Room
Sunday, April 6, 4 p.m.
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Poetry Central / Branching Out:
Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova
March 2, 2008
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Carol Muske-Dukes on Sylvia Plath
November 4, 2007
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Martin Espada on Pablo Neruda
October 7, 2007
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Molly Peacock on Edna St Vincent Millay
May 6, 2007
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Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks
March 4, 2007
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