Enjoy the old Q&As! Maybe we'll do this again one day, soon. 

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Michael Brown & Edgar Kunz Poetry Reading - March 10th

3/10/2019, 4:00 pm at Bird in Hand - 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218

A longtime resident of the Bronx, Michael Brown studies at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library. ... [ read more ]

Thea Brown Reading

Watch the debut reading in our new series! February 10, 2019. The HOT L Open is a reading series held on the second Sunday of the month at Bird in ... [ read more ]

Alan Shapiro Reading

Alan Shapiro poetry reading from October 23, 2008. Mr. Shapiro has new poems in Smartish Pace, Issue 16.

Interview with Christopher Buckley

In his new book, Star Apocrypha, the poet Christopher Buckley reaches for a higher lyric pitch and succeeds exponentially. Buckley's poetry addresses matters of this world and of the soul, daily life and the lifeof the imagination with brilliant language and finesse. His poems perform aneloquent dance between memory and the here and now, turning time into the verysame stuff as the clouds and stars.In the following interview, the poet discusses contemporary poetry and his latest book, Star Apocrypha.Maggie Paul: Can you recall some of your earliest experiences with poetry and how they influenced your decision to become a poet?Christopher Buckley: My earliest memory of poetry is from Mt. Carmel School in Montecito fourth grade, fifth? I wrote a poem for Mother’s Day in class, the nun passing out white paper and blue construction paper to paste it on. I remember this because I found it years later in a trunk, my mother had saved it. It was in fact in quatrains rhyming abab, three or four of them with sunlight and bluebirds flying about the edges of the stanzas. I think I came across it while I was in college ... [ read more ]

AWP Day 1

3/28/2019 (9:00am) -- (5:00pm)

Portland - Table T6051

Visit us at T6051 for poetry, fun, and games! 

The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife

Joan Kane’s visionary first collection, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, renders the Alaskan landscape without imposing a human meaning on life in the wilderness; in the process, Kane succeeds, more successfully than many contemporary poets writing about the natural world today, in preserving that landscape's distinctive and often keenly unsettling otherness. In the opening poem, "The Sunken Forests": I recite the ice that has thrown The river over its banks And move through a terrain Of ... [ read more ]