MIT Open House, with CMS/W Events
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
15 events found.
poetry
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Poetry Reading: William Corbett
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCorbett taught writing at MIT for 22 years. Granary Books recently published his collaboration with painter Rackstraw Downes, I Rode with the Cossacks.
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Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Fred Marchant
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCollins is founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston. Marchant is emeritus co-director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center.
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Poetry Reading: Kathleen Ossip
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesKathleen Ossip is a 2016-2017 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and is the editor of the poetry review website SCOUT.
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Poetry Across Borders
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement, come share poems from cultures beyond the US.
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B.I.C. at MIT
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHaitian poet, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti.
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Poetry Reading: Nicole Terez Dutton
MIT Building 56, Room 154 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNicole Terez Dutton's work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, 32 Poems, Indiana Review and Salt Hill Journal.
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Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe
MIT Building 56, Room 154 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFanny Howe's most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award.
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Poetry Reading: Mark Pawlak
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn M.I.T. alumnus (B.S. Physics, 1970), Mark Pawlak is the author of nine poetry collections and the editor of six anthologies.
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Poetry Reading: Stephen Tapscott and Erica Funkhouser
MIT Building 56, Room 154 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesStephen Tapscott lives in Cambridge and is a professor (Literature) at MIT, and Erica Funkhouser’s newest book of poems, Post and Rail, was the recipient of the 2017 Idaho Prize and is due out in print this April.
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Poetry Reading: Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesTyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry.
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Poetry Reading: Raquel Salas Rivera
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country) from Birds, LLC and the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their book x/ex/exis.
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Poetry Reading: David Rivard
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDavid Rivard’s most recent book, Standoff, received the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry and was listed by The New Yorker in its “Books We Loved in 2016” roundup.
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Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Andrea Cohen: The William Corbett Poetry Series
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAndrea Cohen is the author of six poetry collections, including, most recently Nightshade and Unfathoming.