Poetry Month 2019

Join us in-store at the Co-op and 57th Street Books — and around town at the Poetry Foundation, the American Writers Museum, and the University of Chicago — for an outstanding lineup of Poetry Month 2019 readings.

My Oceanography and Fingerprints of Previous Owners
A Reading with Harriet Levin and Rebecca Entel
Thursday, April 4, 6pm at the Co-op

Great American Desert
Terese Svoboda with Sarah Dimick
Friday, April 5, 6pm at the Co-op

Pray for Brother Alexander and Aerul depărtării
Octavian Gabor and Noemi Marin
Tuesday, April 9, 6pm at the Co-op

Doomstead Days
Brian Teare
Friday, April 12, 6pm at the Co-op

Sant Jordi Day 2019: Still Life with Children
Poems from the Catalan by Francesc Parcerisas
Tuesday, April 23, 6pm at 57th Street Books

H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds
Peter Filkins
Saturday, April 27, 3pm at the Co-op

A Reading with Basil and Martha King
Sunday, April 27, 3pm at the Co-op

Bob Dylan's Poetics with Timothy Hampton
Tuesday, April 2, 6:30pm
American Writers Museum | 180 N. Michigan Ave.

Poetry off the Shelf with John Wilkinson & Edgar Garcia
Thursday, April 4, 7pm
Poetry Foundation | 61 W. Superior St.

A Poetry Reading featuring Arian Reines
Friday, April 5, 6pm
Regenstein Library, Room 122A-B | 1100 E. 57th St.

And don't forget...

Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 is Thursday, April 18!

Receive 20% off your purchase of all in-stock poetry for reciting a poem at the Seminary Co-op or 57th Street Books. Join the fun from 8:30am-8pm at the Co-op and 10am-8pm at 57th Street Books!

Rules for Recitation

1. Poem must be memorized (no peeking).
2. Poem must be at least eight lines long. No Haiku, Tanka, Limericks, Couplets (Heroic or otherwise), Sestets, Acrostics or balladmongering of any kind.
3. Reciter must be able to explain meaning of said poem. Kidding!

Related Titles

My Oceanography

By: Levin, Harriet

Paperback | $10.40 | 9781933880679

Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse serves as a starting point, yet these poems extend far beyond ekphrasis in their imaginative...

Fingerprints of Previous Owners

By: Entel, Rebecca

Paperback | $16.00 | 9781944700232

A Starred Review from Kirkus
One of the Chicago Review of Books Best Books to Survive Trump

At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort's overgrown inland property, secretly...

Great American Desert : Stories

By: Svoboda, Terese

Paperback | $13.17 | 9780814255209

Water, its use and abuse, trickles through Great American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie. In "Dutch Joe," the eponymous hero sees the...

Pray for Brother Alexander

By: Noica, Constantin, trans. by O

Paperback | $20.00 | 9781947447523

Constantin Noica's (1909-1987) Pray for Brother Alexander is a meditation on responsibility, freedom, and forgiveness. On the surface, the book describes events and people from Noica's life during his time in a political communist prison in Romania. However, the volume is not a historical account...

Doomstead Days

By: Teare, Brian

Paperback | $17.95 | 9781643620022

WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE

LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD

Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of...

Still Life With Children

By: Parcerisas, Francesc

Paperback | $20.00 | 9781622885435

Awarded the Souerette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book from the Texas Institute of Letters

Cyrus Cassells' vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas' work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply...

H. G. Adler : A Life in Many Worlds

By: Filkins, Peter

Hardcover | $29.95 | 9780190222383

The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those
...

History Now : From Learning to Draw / a History

By: King, Basil

Paperback | $15.00 | 9780996427579

Poetry. Art. Vivid, hybrid writing... It is the perspective of someone who has been trained not just to look, but to see, and to not miss anything in his field of vision....

Bob Dylan's Poetics

By: Hampton, Timothy

Hardcover | $29.95 | 9781942130154

A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting

Bob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has...

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