– Garrett Hongo, “What For”

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Read an interview with Garrett Hongo from Lantern Review:

A Conversation with Garrett Hongo

Garrett Hongo was born in the back room of the Hongo Store in Volcano, Hawai`i in 1951. He grew up in Kahuku and Hau`ula on the island of O`ahu and moved to Los Angeles when he was six, much to his everlasting regret.

– Garrett Hongo, “Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi“

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Watch Garrett Hongo read and discuss his third book of poems, Coral Road, with the National Park Service:

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– Anselm Hollo, “Mardi”

Broadside of “Mardi” by Anselm Hollo

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Listen to Anselm Hollo’s 2004 reading with Ron Padgett at the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Anselm Hollo begins at 6:08 minutes.

– Anselm Hollo, “Lost Original”

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Read this interview with Anselm Hollo from Poetry Society of America:

Q & A American Poetry: Anselm Hollo

Poets answer the question: “What’s American about American Poetry?”

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– Stratis Haviaras, “Tree”

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Read this article about Stratis Haviaras’s work as curator of the Harvard Poetry Room:

Haviaras Retires After 26 Years as Curator of Poetry Room | News | The Harvard Crimson

When President James B. Conant ’14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he

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– Amira Hanafi, “No Comment”

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Listen to Amira Hanafi, with Ladan Osman, read for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

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Read an interview with Amira Hanafi:

How To Get Lost in a City: An Interview with Amira Hanafi

Until very recently, Amira Hanafi lived in Chicago. Now she lives in Cairo. In both cities she makes a habit of walking, sometimes with others. It’s a deliberate kind of wandering, a determined getting lost-ness, and enough work comes out of her walking, that I have started to think of the city as her studio.

Watch Amira Hanafi present her work exhibiting art in the Artellewa Art Space in Ard El Lewa, Cairo, Egypt:

Making and Exhibiting Contemporary Art in an Informal Settlement – Amira Hanafi

March Meeting 2012

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– Misty Harper, “Dear General”

Broadside of “Dear General” by Misty Harper

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Listen to Misty Harper read her poetry for the Poetry Center of Chicago Reading Series, with Kristy Bowen and Katrina Vandenberg:

Misty Harper begins reading at 38:00 minutes.

– Misty Harper, “We Went Away”

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Vintage poster of Elizabeth Hardwick’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

– Elizabeth Hardwick

Read an interview with Elizabeth Hardwick:

The Art of Fiction No. 87

Elizabeth Hardwick lives on the west side of Manhattan, on a quiet street near enough to Central Park to have heard the crowds and speakers at the great political demonstrations in Sheep’s Meadow. Her apartment is light and spacious. “Like modern architecture,” she says,…

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– Kimiko Hahn, “The Dream of a Lacquer Box”

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Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Tom Raworth, Diane di Prima, Kimiko Hahn, Eugene Gloria, Patricia Smith, Luis Rodriguez, Robert Bly, Brian Turner, Bruce Weigl, Tyehimba Jess, A. Van Jordan, Arielle Greenberg, Billy Corgan, Franz Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Louise Glück, and Alicia Ostriker.

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– Kimiko Hahn, “The Sweetwater Caverns”

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Watch Kimiko Hahn read her work for the American Poets Reading:

Kimiko Hahn: American Poets Reading

Kimiko Hahn reads from her book, BRAIN FEVER, at the reception celebrating the release of American Poets (Vol. 47), the Academy’s biannual journal. Recorded at The New School in New York City on October 18, 2014. *For highest quality playback, change your YouTube settings (the gear icon) to 720p HD.

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