A video/ audio reading in Scotland (sort of) with David Wheatley

A video/ audio reading in Scotland (sort of) with David Wheatley

by | Oct 27, 2015 | Audio/Video, Events |

A few weeks ago David Wheatley and I read together for the Scottish Poetry Library, in a delightful online-only real-time event orchestrated by Robert Peake and Jennifer Williams. You can now see and/or hear the whole event, or any part thereof, via YouTube, by clicking the link in this sentence. Thanks, YouTube! Thanks, Jennifer and Robert and David and tech support people! Let us know what you think, if you do check it...
You can now watch my TED talk.

You can now watch my TED talk.

by | Jun 5, 2014 | Audio/Video, Criticism, Events |

Given at TEDGlobal Edinburgh in 2013, it’s a TED talk (live onstage with good lighting and so on) about why I like poetry, and about some of the more serious things that poetry can do for us, whether or not we spend much of our lives reading it. Many thanks to all the people at TED who helped make it possible, and made it (I hope) OK to watch. (I’m used to hearing myself on audio at this point, but video? Still weirds me out.) Discussed: science fiction, death, global English, and poems by A. E. Housman, Rae Armantrout, Wallace Stevens, Terrance Hayes, Denise Riley, and John...
A revealing talk with John Ebersole

A revealing talk with John Ebersole

by | Sep 10, 2013 | Audio/Video, Interviews |

John Ebersole does the New Books in Poetry podcast, which has recently interviewed Michael Robbins, Lisa Olstein, Dana Gioia and me. It’s an hour-plus of me talking and John asking what I hope turned out to be very good questions; you can listen in whole or in...