Woodberry Poetry Room Blog

It s time to live in all the rooms we are proud to present our fall 2020 season of virtual events featuring readings talks and performances by cathy park hong in conversation with maggie nelson etel adnan alice notley m.

Woodberry poetry room blog.

The woodberry poetry room is pleased to announce that the recipients of this year s wpr creative fellowship are jared stanley and sameer farooq for their collaborative project a lip smack laughter paper rustles. Woodberry poetry room cambridge massachusetts. The online highlights feature selections from our on going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media as well as born digital recordings from our recent poetry room events. The woodberry poetry room is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year s wpr creative fellowship is sawako nakayasu for her project sounds of war and not war 1941 1945 three wpr creative grants are also being given this year.

One of the largest a v archives for poetry literary recordings in the united states and a special collections reading room at harvard. Poetry room lamont in the sidebar. The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total collection. Ones all speaking together alice notley in an effort to foster community at a time of social distancing the woodberry poetry room is launching an informal poetry exchange that will randomly pair poets from the greater boston area to create collaborative works.

The recipients are jasmine dreame wagner brian teare and tongo eisen martin. Nourbese philip cecilia vicuña a roundtable on ralph ellison at harvard and more. Located in lamont library and overseen by houghton. In an effort to foster community at a time of social distancing the woodberry poetry room is launching an informal poetry exchange that will randomly pair poets from the greater boston area to create collaborative works.

The woodberry poetry room circulating collection presents highlights from 20th and 21st century english language poetry and poetry in translation. The woodberry poetry room houses a landmark collection of over 6 000 poetry recordings 1933 to the present a circulating collection of 20th and 21st century english language poetry a curated selection of international lit mags and journals and the blue star collection of rare books broadsides chapbooks and typescripts. It also gives us great pleasure to announce that harmony holiday has been selected as the recipient of this year s wpr creative grant for her project griot.