Woodberry Poetry Room Blog

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.
Woodberry poetry room blog. 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. Located in lamont library and overseen by houghton. The recipients are jasmine dreame wagner brian teare and tongo eisen martin. The woodberry poetry room circulating collection presents highlights from 20th and 21st century english language poetry and poetry in translation.
Nourbese philip cecilia vicuña a roundtable on ralph ellison at harvard and more. 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. Last updated on jul 31 2019 the woodberry poetry room is a special collections reading room and audio visual archive at harvard university. 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.
Poetry room lamont in the sidebar. 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 listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total collection. One of the largest a v archives for poetry literary recordings in the united states and a special collections reading room at harvard.
All events are free and open to the public with a maximum. 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. To search our circulating collection via hollis type the name of the respective author or text and narrow down your search by selecting location.