Previous recipients of the Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award include Frank Bidart, Ana Blandiana, Robin Blaser, Yves Bonnefoy, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Seamus Heaney, Adelia Prado, Adrienne Rich, Tomas Tranströmer, Ko Un, Derek Walcott and Adam Zagajewski. Learn more about the Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award.
The Summer Writers Retreat is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room, which doubles as your private studio, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers. You will have the opportunity …
In this lecture/reading, Susan Howe explores "the guarded borders between image and word, individual and community, history and the present, poetry provides an opening ..." Learn more here.
A poetry slam is a high energy competition of spoken word poetry. Poetry slams were invented by a construction worker from Chicago named Marc Smith in the 1980s as a way to bring life back into poetry readings and make the audience engaged in the show! Sony Centre Poetry Slam …
Poetry & the Creative Mind is a celebration of the presence of poetry across the arts, and throughout our lives, which features a star-studded line-up of luminaries presenting readings from poetry’s most significant voices. The 17th annual celebration will include readings and performances from Emmy Award-winning journalist Ann Curry; founding …