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Poets House | Lower Manhattan

Poets House

Just two blocks northwest of Ground Zero is Battery Park City, a quiet pocket of southwest Manhattan running alongside the Hudson River. The Poets House (poetshouse.org) recently moved here from Soho, and now sits around the corner from the Battery Park City public library—the New York Public Library's first green, leed-certified branch in Manhattan—and just north of the Irish Hunger Memorial. 

The Poets House has a public-access poetry collection of more than fifty thousand volumes and hosts more than two hundred events annually nationwide. Still, it feels like a peaceful site of retreat in which to read, think, and write, with desks and chairs lining a long wall of windows overlooking the Hudson and separate rooms for those desiring more solitude. 

In addition to its shelves of poetry volumes, the Poets House hosts an annual showcase of all the poetry titles published in the United States each year, whether in print, on CD, or DVD. A site for the written, spoken, and recorded word, the Poets House is working "to create a future where everyone has entree into the ageless, borderless conversation that is poetry." – Michelle Johnson, Managing Editor

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Sept./Oct. 2011

Poetry Untethered, the marquee section in this issue, features essays and poems by nine poets from the English-speaking world — including Jane Hirshfield, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maya Khosla.


Table of Contents

Poetry Untethered

"Poetic Collaborations: A Conversation with Dana Gioia"
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Two Poems, Stephanie McKenzie
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Four Poems, Nicholas Samaras
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"Mother Throws Milk Bottles at Soldiers," Ilya Kaminsky
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An essay by Jane Hirshfield (US)
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An essay by Ian Brinton (UK)
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Varia

LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
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AUTHOR PROFILE: Valzhyna Mort
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CITY PROFILE: Reykjavík, Iceland
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INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: The Crime Writing of Blake Edwards - J. Madison Davis
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World Literature Today 100th Year