Issues: Miscellaneous

6:30pm: Panel with Brenda Cárdenas, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Scott Inguito, Urayoán Noel & Rich Villar. Moderated by Francisco Aragón

8:00pm: Reading with Brenda Cárdenas, David Dominguez, Gina Franco & Scott Inguito

Francisco Aragón , poet and editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry , hosts a reading of leading Latino poets and a panel exploring multi- and interlingualism, the role of location and other topics.

A Conversation with John Peck & Brian TeareIntroduced by Joshua Weiner

Poets John Peck and Brian Teare discuss the formal precision and bold subject matter of British poet Thom Gunn (1929–2004), who found his poetic voice during the five decades he lived in the Bay Area.

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members and Poetry Society of America Members

The performance on Saturday, October 24 will be followed by a panel at 3:30pm with Thalia Field, Edwin Frank, Ariel Goldberger, Claudia Orenstein & Leonard Schwartz

In Sudden Orpheus , an avant-garde puppet-theater piece for adults, puppeteer Ariel Goldberger and poet Leonard Schwartz explore the frontier between poetry and puppetry, drawing from the myth of Orpheus, the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti and Schwartz's own poems. A panel discussion follows the Saturday performance.

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

In a round-table discussion, John Felstiner leads an in-depth exploration of poems that reveal our spirited yet fraught connection with nature, poems whose environmental imprint and impetus can freshen and sharpen our consciousness of the world around us.

Readings for the first seminar: Psalms , the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Keats, Clare, Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, Frost and Williams; for the second evening: Lawrence, Jeffers, Millay, Roethke, Bishop, Levertov, Haines, Ammons, Merwin, Kinnell, Hughes and Snyder. All materials provided.