Roosevelt Poetry Readings
The Roosevelt Poetry Readings are made possible by a donor gift that will help bring poets of recognized stature to the Institute.
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Anthony Cody
Anthony Cody is the author of two collections of poetry. His most recent collection is The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). Anthony’s debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), was winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
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Poetry Reading and Discussion with Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Transients: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Douglas Ridloff
Douglas Ridloff is the founder and executive director of ASL Slam, a nonprofit organization that creates safe spaces for the Deaf community to thrive in the many modalities of their native language.
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History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith
Clint Smith's upcoming nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed, explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationship to the history of slavery.
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A Political Poetry: Reading and Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
The poet and Radcliffe Institute visiting scholar Solmaz Sharif will read selected poems and participate in a discussion with Evie Shockley RI ’19.
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WHEREAS: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in the American Indian Journal of Culture and Research, American Poets, BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Eleven Eleven, KR Online, Mud City, the New York Times, PEN America, and Poetry, among others. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts & Culture Foundation, and a Whiting Award, and she was a finalist for a 2017 National Book Award. She is the author of WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017) and Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2010). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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