Alumni Visitors Series Get involved Everything we do Series programming Reading and writing groups Publications and presswork community writing projects Awards and prizes Annual programs Job opportunities Alumni Visitors Series May 17, 2025 : Betsy Andrews, Lolis Eric Elie, Sanaë…

Licensed Private Trade, Vocational and Technical Schools – Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Licensed Private Trade, Vocational and Technical Schools The following is a list of schools currently licensed with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE). If you are the o…

Joan Harrison Award Thanks to the generosity of Joan Harrison (C'81) the Writers House offers a yearly stipend to a student writer: a "writing scholarship" of $1500 for a current undergraduate who is affiliated with the Kelly Writers House. The scholarship is intended to encourag…

LISTEN TO THE SHOW To celebrate the one hundredth episode of PoemTalk — the series began in 2007 and is ongoing — producer and host Al Filreis convened seven poet-critics who had participated in previous episodes: Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, William J. Harris, erica kaufman, Tra…

Steven W. McLaughlin is the 14th president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, having assumed the role on July 1, 2025. McLaughlin has extensive experience within higher education. For nearly 30 years, he held a variety of positions at Georgia Tech, both i…

Office of the President | cooperedu Academics Admissions About Give Cooper Union Office of the President Steven W. McLaughlin is the 14th president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, having assumed the role on July 1, 2025. McLaughlin has extensive experi…

LISTEN TO THE SHOW When a poet asserts she has the voice of no, does that mean she has it — has got that voice down , can do that voice — and wants to know it from the inside in order to get past it, or wants to doubt it, so that she and we can get on to the positive change we se…

LISTEN TO THE SHOW Five hundred cards in a box: on each is typewritten a few words or phrases of poetic writing. This is Robert Grenier ’s Sentences . Al gathered Joseph Yearous-Algozin , Jena Osman , and Bob Perelman to talk about this complex work. As Jena notes several times, …

LISTEN TO THE SHOW Aaron Shurin (then just in from the Bay Area), John Tranter (visiting from Australia), and Charles Bernstein (coming in from New York) joined Al Filreis for this episode of PoemTalk to discuss a poem by Ray DiPalma, “It makes of nonsense.” The poem was written …

LISTEN TO THE SHOW Rae Armantrout , Laura Elrick , and Rachel Blau DuPlessis joined PoemTalk ’s producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Catherine Wagner ’s “This Is a Fucking Poem.” The text of the poem is most readily available in Wagner’s book My New Job (Fence Books, 2011).…

Machine: a reading series at the Kelly Writers House featuring electronic literature M^<4|\3 M^<H1N3 MACHINe a reading series at the kelly writers house featuring electronic literature << a poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. >> [william carlos williams] MACHINE…

On November 18, 2013 , Steve McLaughlin hosted a celebration of PennSound’s 10th anniversary. After introductory remarks offered by Al Filreis, there were short talks each by Charles Bernstein, Michael Hennessey, Danny Snelson, Katie Price, Steve McLaughlin himself, and Benjamin …

LISTEN TO THE SHOW In a special long episode of PoemTalk, Ron Silliman , Jessica Lowenthal , Randall Couch and PoemTalk’s producer and host Al Filreis gathered to discuss two sections of “ Draft 85: Hard Copy ,” which is the 85th “draft” or canto in Rachel Blau DuPlessis's ongoin…

Pikowsky, Gray Accept Interim Appointments in Enrollment Management and Office of the Registrar | News Center Skip to main navigation Pikowsky, Gray Accept Interim Appointments in Enrollment Management and Office of the Registrar Reta Pikowsky and Jeremy Gray have been named to i…

RSS feed | subscribe by email POEMTALK is a collaboration of the Kelly Writers House , PennSound , and the Poetry Foundation . PoemTalk's producer and host is Al Filreis , our engineers are James La Marre and Chris Martin, and our editor for every episode has been Steve McLaughli…