As & When

Poetry, Arts & Culture Events in New York City for villageofcrickets.org

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Overheard at NYPL’s Books at Noon with Sloane Crosley, 10/28/15

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Overheard at NYPL’s Book at Noon with Yusef Komunyakaa, 10/21/15

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“I don’t think I could write poetry without an image. It’s what we see, and what we are willing to become.”

Yusef Komunyakaa, NYPL’s Books at Noon, 10/21/15

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I like to think that science is a superb vehicle for literature.

Richard Dawkins, NYPL’s Book at Noon, 10/14/15

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Overheard at NYPL’s Books at Noon with Richard Dawkins, 10/14/15

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“It’s no crime to be ignorant. We’re all ignorant of a great many things. Myself included. I’m ignorant of things like American football, folklore in Borneo...”

Richard Dawkins, NYPL, Books at Noon, 10/14/15

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Selected quotes from Poets Forum, 10/10/15

“You look into the past, you look into the future, to the slime-moulds that will inherit the earth. What will their poetry be?”

Anne Waldman

“It’s diversity that is the fuel for innovation.”

Toi Derricotte

“A sonnet now is something that has a whiff of fourteen about it.”

Linda Gregerson

“I am already waist deep in what you call the ‘muddy’ before I realize I am writing a book.”

Alicia Ostriker

“You don’t need all of the words. You need the right ones. And they needn’t be very many.”

Alberto Rios

“When I am writing, I’m not looking at the event, but at the history.”

Claudia Rankine

“We have to become a collective voice, and a big voice. Or we’ll all become little patterns.”

Juan Felipe Herrera

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Sometimes the things you're criticized for as a young person can be your deliverance. And that's a miracle.

Marie Howe, Poets Forum, 10/9/15

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Quotes from the Chancellors’ of the Academy of American Poets Reading.

“I’ve been writing autobiographical things all my life. Recently I’ve been thinking, why have I done that? It’s just no fun.”

Toi Derricotte

“Theology is bunk, but the springtime wind is real.”

Alicia Ostriker

“The border is a real crack in an imaginary dam.”

Alberto Rios

*rustling a book* “This poem is called: book sounds.”

Juan Felipe Herrera

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The only thing better than this would be if all of these poets were in my house, reading to me.

Claudia Rankine, Chancellors’ Reading for the Academy of American Poets, 10/9/15

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Overheard at the Chancellors’ of the Academy of American Poets Reading, NYU Skirball Center, 10/9/15

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Overheard at Books at Noon, 9/30/15

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"You have to have your character on the verge of a nervous breakdown or you have no book."

Erica Jong, NYPL’s Books at Noon, 9/30/15

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"The ugliest thing is when you hide your pleasure."

Leopoldine Core, KGB Bar, 9/28/15

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"We cannot bear to have our depths unmonstered." 

Nicky Beer, KGB Bar, 9/28/15

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"I was wearing a Hamlet... helmet! Sorry, that was a Freudian slip. Like the whole of this play." 

 Hamlet In Bed, Rattlesticks Theater, 9/27/15

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Overheard at New York Public Library.

9/23/15