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Title: Fall Classes @ Poets House

 

November @ Poets House 11/15-17: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets And Don’t Forget: Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor $7, Free to Poets House Members FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE WOMEN POETS Cosponsored by Poets House, Belladonna, Bowery Poetry Club, Factorial, and Litmus Press Wednesday, November 15 , 7:00 p.m. Cross Currents and Innovation in Japanese Poetry Ryoko Sekiguchi, Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park, and Sawako Nakayasu will explore contemporary aesthetic and cultural movements in Japan, and reflect on how their own work challenges traditional women's roles in their native country. Moderated by Rachel Levitsky. Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor $7, Free to Poets House Members   Thursday, November 16, 7:00 p.m. Four From Japan: Reading by Contemporary Japanese Women Poets Kiriu Minashita, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Kyong-Mi Park, and Takako Arai will read from the new anthology Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry by Women, the first bilingual volume of Japanese poetics of its kind. Introduced by Sawako Nakayasu. Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery $7, Free to Poets House Members   Friday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. Blurring Boundaries: A Conversation on the Art of Poetry Translation Cole Swensen, Rosa Alcalá, and Ryoko Sekiguchi will present a thought-provoking public conversation on their dual work in poetry and in translation. The conversation will be introduced by Stephen Motika. Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2 nd Floor $7, Free to Poets House Members     Saturday, November 18, 11:00am POETRY FOR CHILDREN: A Pebble, a Stone, and the Gift of Stars, featuring Richard Lewis Children ages 4-10 are invited to gather new enchantments and write poems based on such simple objects of the earth as pebbles and stones, with Richard Lewis (the author of Each Sky Has Its Own Words and A Tree Lives). The exciting session will end with the construction of a small clay vessel. Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor Admission free     FRANK O'HARA FESTIVAL Cosponsored by Poets House, the Poetry Project and MoMA Tuesday, November 28, 7:00pm PASSWORDS: Bill Berkson on Frank O'Hara Poet Bill Berkson will explore the life and work of O'Hara through the lens of the pivotal year of 1956, when O'Hara was preparing his first major collection, Meditations in an Emergency. Poets House 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor $7, Free to Poets House & Poetry Project Members Wednesday, November 29, 8:00pm Frank O'Hara Reading Bill Berkson, Ned Rorem, Maureen O'Hara, Tony Towle, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, Anne Waldman, Taylor Mead, Olivier Brossard, Bob Holman, John Yau, Kimberly Lyons, Lytle Shaw, David Shapiro, Anselm Berrigan, Greg Fuchs, John Gruen, and Scott Murphree will read the work of the beloved New York School icon. The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church 131 East 10th St . $8, $7, Free to Poets House and Poetry Project Members Thursday, November 30, 6:00pm FRANK O'HARA AT MoMA John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Michelle Elligott, Alfred Leslie & others will share their favorite anecdotes about Frank O'Hara and his MoMA heyday. Selected archival materials including correspondence and photographs will be on view in the MoMA Library and Archives Reading Room. Bartos Theater and MoMA Archives Reading Rooms The Museum of Modern Art 4 West 54th Street $10, $8 for MoMA,  Poets House & Poetry Project Members. Tickets available at the MoMA Lobby information desk, the Film & Media desk, or at www.moma.org/thinkmodern     A Don't Forget: Monday, October 30, 6:30pm POETRY IN THE BRANCHES: Reading by Thomas Lux As the culminating event to a series of intensive writing workshops for local high school students, award-winning poet Thomas Lux will read his work accompanied by MFA students from Sarah Lawrence College. Cosponsored by Yonkers Public Library and Sarah Lawrence College MFA Program. Grinton I. Will Branch, Yonkers Library 1500 Central Park Avenue Admission free     Of Other Interest: A Special Offer for Poets House members from Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum Save $4 off adult admission to James Tate–Works & Music Sunday and Monday, November 5 and 6, 7:30 p.m. Special Ticket Price: $20 The award-winning poet reads and discusses his work with Sarah Rothenberg. Works & Process has commissioned new musical settings of Tate's poetry by five contemporary composers – Eve Beglarian, George Flynn, Fred Ho, Arthur Kreiger, and Charles Wuorinen.  The Group for Contemporary Music performs. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 5 th Ave at 89 th Street www.worksandprocess.org To order tickets and save $4: Call the Box Office at 212 423 3587, Monday – Friday, 1 – 5 p.m. or visit the box office on the night of the performance and mention "Poets House."   Poets House is a 45,000-volume poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Poets House's ever-expanding archive of books, journals, chapbooks, audiotapes, videos and electronic media is one of the most comprehensive open-access collections of poetry in the United States. The Reading Room is free and open to the public. Poets House, 72 Spring Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012 Reading Room Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 am-7:00 pm & Saturday, 1:00 pm-6:00 pm Children's Hours: Saturday, 11:00 am-1:00 pm Phone: (212) 431-7920 Website: http://www.poetshouse.org   This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe here Sorry, but replies to this message cannot be read. To notify us of an address change, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and specify "Update" in the subject line.