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On November 16 1985, the Poetry Society of America celebrated its 75th Anniversary by inviting Galway Kinnell to read from the work of Dylan Thomas. He delightfully contributed some of his own poems as well. Rachel Hadas introduced the program, recorded at the City University of New York's Baruch College Auditorium. Kinnell's books include The Book of Nightmares and A New Selected Poems, a finalist for the National Book Award.
Caught up in the charged atmosphere of New York City that followed the disaster of September 11, 2001, novelist Rick Moody took the stage at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater and spoke with great warmth about the work of poet Susan Wheeler, whose simple eloquence was just right for that moment - and many others since. Produced by the Poetry Society of America for its Writers-on-Poets series. Wheeler's work frequently appears in the Best American Poetry anthologies and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker and other publications. Her books include Bag o' Diamonds, Smokes, and Source Codes. Moody's books include The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions.
In her introduction The New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn describes poet and classicist Anne Carson as a meteor whose every new book is a heavenly event. If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho, Carson's apt translation of the iconic Greek poet, which she discusses and reads from in this May, 2000 presentation by the Poetry Society of America Recorded during a slide show and lecture at the Culture Project in New York, Carson is as entertaining as she is insightful about the life and work of a poet whose work has lasted for millennia while her life remains a tantalizing mystery for the ages.
