uncommon language
This event on 28th May 2018 at 20:00 has past.
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uncommon language: with american poets kathryn maris, sandy solomon & linda gregerson plus: 21 poets read their favourite american poems…
US-based/US-born poets have always had a major impact on London’s poetry scene — despite our being divided by a common language — both as guest readers &, for some, living here & enlivening the poetry world with distinctly US influences, ideas & energy. Hear the American poems that really matter to 21 of our Troubadour poets (list tba) & listen to 3 great US poets reading their own work:
-- Linda Gregerson is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets & teaches creative-writing & Renaissance literature at University of Michigan: latest publication Prodigal: New & Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)
-- Sandy Solomon was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, has directed the US’s National Neighbourhood Coalition & Coalition on Human Needs, & now directs the Creative Writing Program at Vanderbilt University: her collections include Pears, Lake, Sun (University of Pittsburgh)
-- Kathryn Maris was born on Long Island, moved to NYC & has lived in London since 1999: a selection of her work appeared in Penguin Modern Poets 5: Occasional Wild Parties & her latest collection is The House With Only an Attic and a Basement (Penguin, May 2018)
-- plus 21 Troubadour poets reading their all-time favourite American poems…
Price: £7.00
Time: 8:00pm
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