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Watch Date(s)Thu, May 14, 2020
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips on the power of poetry to speak to, and widen our lenses on, the "great pains" of our times, and how it truly is "music for when the music is over."
Here is the poet, and a look back at his 2017 reading at PoetryFest.
Irish Arts Center Poem of the Week is a series of select footage from ten years of PoetryFest—our annual festival that has welcomed Billy Collins, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Kevin Young, Vona Groarke, Ciaran Carson, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Natalie Diaz, Paul Muldoon, Tina Chang, and so many more prominent voices from Ireland and America—as well as new commissioned readings, presented with the readers’ reflections on the featured work.
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