Past events
Award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy will read both new and published poems. She is the author of four acclaimed Copper Canyon Press poetry collections. Her much-anticipated new collection, The Octopus Museum is due out in April of 2019. It parses her deep fears for …
Carl Phillips is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently Reconnaissance (2015). Other books include The Tether, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Double Shadow, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His prose books are …
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (2017) Holding Company (2010) and Hoops (2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of …
Alan Shapiro has published over ten books of poetry, most recently Life Pig (2016); Reel to Reel (2014), a finalist for the Pulizer Prize; Night of the Republic (2012), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize; and Old War (2008), winner of the Ambassador Book …
Just published in March, 2019, Alan Shapiro will be reading work from his latest collection, Against Translation, as well as other new and selected works. Alan Shapiro has generously donated his time and spirit for this reading, to help …
On Sunday, November 5, the Katonah Poetry Series will complete its 50th anniversary celebration with a reading by noted Canadian poet Carla Funk. Funk was born and raised in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, one of the earliest Mennonite settlements in the province. She now …
Poet, translator, and scholar Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. She earned a BA from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, relocated to New York in 1993 …
The Katonah Poetry Series Welcomes Pulitzer Prize Winner Peter Balakian— On Sunday, June 3 at 4 pm the Katonah Poetry Series welcomes Peter Balakian—acclaimed poet, memoirist, scholar and translator— for its season finale. Balakian was recently honored with the 2016 Pulitzer …
“Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed, How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.” –National Book Award Committee “First you’ll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you’ll notice the grace, …
“Poetry allows me to explore and express my authentic self—whether the poem concerns childhood or social change or a poisonous plant.” —Kimiko Hahn “In Brain Fever Kimiko Hahn… touches concrete ground in the realm of neuroscience, and in the world …