Classic Podcasts

Elaine Equi's latest book, Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award. Other collections include Surface Tension,Decoy, and Voice-Over.

Darin Strauss is the bestselling author of the New York Times Notable books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy. His new novel, More Than It Hurts You, was published this summer.

Todd Hasak-Lowy is the author The Task of This Translator, his debut story collection. His first novel, CAPTIVES, is forthcoming in October 2008 from Spiegel & Grau.

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer and filmmaker. His books published in English include the short story collections The Nimrod Flipout and most recently The Girl On The Fridge.

Introduction by Matthew Rohrer

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

This event honors Agha Shahid Ali, esteemed NYU professor and poet. His posthumous poetry collection, The Veiled Suite, will be published in February 2009 by W.W. Norton. Readings will be given by Nicholas Christopher, Michael Collier, Daniel Hall, Marie Ponsot, Grace Schulman, Tom Sleigh, Jean Valentine, and Chuck Wachtel.

Co-sponsored by W.W. Norton

The Emerging Writers Series showcases graduate students of the NYU Creative Writing Program. Readings feature established writers as special guests.

Amy Hempel is the acclaimed author of four short story collections: Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. Note: This podcast is a recording of an earlier reading, featuring Darin Strauss in conversation with Amy Hempel in spring 2008.

Christian Hawkey is the author of Citizen Of; Hour, Hour; and The Book of Funnels, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award in 2006.

In conversation with Robert N. Casper

Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America

Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry including The Dead & the Living, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, and The Father, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book is One Secret Thing.

Introduction by Deborah Landau

Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, and Chelsey Minnis

Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot and Chelsey Minnis read from their newest collections. Introduction by Matthew Rohrer.

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Charles Simic, the fifteenth poet laureate of the United States (2007-2008), has published numerous collections of poems, among them, "My Noiseless Entourage;" "Selected Poems: 1963-2003," for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; "The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems;" and "The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems," for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His most recent book is "The Renegade: Writings on Poetry and a Few Other Things" (2009).

In conversation with Alice Quinn