Welcome to Parkland Poets! We are a non-profit poetry society with a mission to bring more poetry into our community and to the world. Whether you are interested in Traditional Forms, Cowboy Poetry, Free Verse, Experimental Forms, Spoken Word, or any other kind of poetry, we hope that you will …
Welcome to Parkland Poets! We are a non-profit poetry society with a mission to bring more poetry into our community and to the world. Whether you are interested in Traditional Forms, Cowboy Poetry, Free Verse, Experimental Forms, Spoken Word, or any other kind of poetry, we hope that you will …
A celebration of poetry not to be missed! The evening will include a selection of readings by some of the world’s best poets, including the finalists for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize—Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal, Ada Limón, Susan Musgrave, Roger Reeves, and Ocean Vuong—this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient, …
Welcome to Parkland Poets! We are a non-profit poetry society with a mission to bring more poetry into our community and to the world. Whether you are interested in Traditional Forms, Cowboy Poetry, Free Verse, Experimental Forms, Spoken Word, or any other kind of poetry, we hope that you will …
The Library Foundation and Texas Book Festival continue the author series In Conversation with MacArthur Foundation Fellow Terrance Hayes and 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roger Reeves. In Conversation pairs writers for intimate, unmoderated discussions of their work. Both Hayes and Reeves have new essay collections. Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets …
Poet, translator, and three-time Griffin finalist and judge Erín Moure launches her new collection, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, (House of Anansi Press) on August 3rd at 7:00pm ET in Montreal at Parc Drolet. Klara du Plessis joins her, reading from her new book …
Join us on Saturday, November 18th at 1:00pm ET / 6:00pm GMT on Zoom for our fifth Translation Talks, featuring Manolis Aligizakis in conversation with Sharon Dolin. Manolis Aligizakis is a Cretan poet and author. He has published more than 20 books of poetry, three novels, and eleven major translation works. His translation Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II was longlisted for the …
Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time in which everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother …
Don Mee Choi is a markedly influential figure in contemporary experimental poetry, combining the visual, the documentary, and the lyrical in her highly acclaimed books. Choi’s Kor-Us Trilogy (Hardly War, DMZ Colony, and the forthcoming Mirror Nation) intertwines her family history with the troubled and complex modern history of South Korea and its long entanglement with …
Join us on Monday, February 26th at 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT on Zoom for Translation Talks featuring D. M. Bradford in conversation with Donald Nicholson-Smith. Register here! Darby Minott Bradford is a poet, translator, and sometimes curator. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, was a finalist …
Please join us for the official virtual launch of Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets! We will be celebrating this multilingual conversation between fifteen poet-translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and diasporic gathering—out February 15 with Litmus Press!✨ Featuring Hoda Adra, Omar Berrada, Sara Elkamel, Safaa Fathy, Soukaina Habiballah, Marilyn Hacker, Golan Haji, Kadhim J. Hassan, Pierre Joris, Mona Kareem, Souad …