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July 13, 2016
7:00 - 9:00
Only Disconnect
Contemporary Turkish literature would look different if authors wrote soulful books like Atay’s.
Surviving the Script
There’s a story I know by heart. It’s a monologue I once performed often, about a woman named Laura.
Get in the Crystal
When I saw the party announcement weeks ago I felt a sinking feeling and simply avoided it. At 10 p.m. on election night, after it…
Debates over what poetry is for are as old as poetry itself, but how does the question change at a time when poetry’s audience continues to fragment politically and economically? In conjunction with The Point‘s issue 12 symposium on the same topic, please join Poetry editor Don Share and poets and teachers Lamar Jorden, Srikanth Reddy, and Kush Thompson for a discussion moderated by Point editor Jon Baskin about how poets and thinkers are attempting to answer fundamental questions of contemporary poetry’s value, method, and role in society. More info & RSVP here.