Best American Poetry: the movie and a launch on Thursday, Sept. 20!
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
We’re on the road (in New York City, in fact), but wanted to let you know about the “Best American Poetry Reading 2018” on Thursday, September 20, at 7 p.m.
The event will take place at the New School’s auditorium (Room A106), the Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall. Series editor David Lehman and Dana Gioia, guest editor for the Best American Poetry 2018 volume, will headline an all-star cast of poets to launch the volume. I’m told this is an annual rite of fall in New York.
Dana is also former chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts and now California’s poet laureate (and always, always a cherished friend). In the video below, he calls his guest editorship “a privilege and a challenge.”
The book includes poets we’ve written about before – A.E. Stallings, Kay Ryan, Dick Davis, David Mason, Tracy K. Smith, Robin Coste Lewis and more.
We’ve run an excerpt from his introduction, “A Poet Today is more Likely to be a Barista than a Professor,” here.
Below a sampler of the Thursday event. It was filmed by Dana’s son, Michael Gioia.
