Upcoming Events featuring Jennifer Clarvoe
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Reading with Maggie Dietz
Monday, April 27, 8:00PM
Blacksmith House, Cambridge, MA
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Reading with Elaine Bleakney
Tuesday, May 5, 7:00PM
So & So Books, Raleigh, NC
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Reading with Sibani Sen
Monday, May 11, 7:00PM
Cary Library, Lexington, MA
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Reading with Elaine Bleakney
October 2026, Kenyon Women’s Conference
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
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Reading
Thursday, November 19, 7:00PM
Phinista Cafe, Cambridge, MA
Online Reading
Words of the Spirit: Making Connections, an event honoring the first Massachusetts poet laureate, Regie Gibson, with Richard Cambridge, Jennifer Clarvoe, Sibani Sen, and Cammy Thomas, March 27, 2026 at First Parish in Lexington, MA.
Review
“On Grief’s Alphabet, Poetry by Carrie Etter,” On the Seawall, September 2024
Online Conversation
featuring novelist Lilana Corobca, and her translator, Monica Cure, in celebration of the publication of the English translation of Corobca’s Too Great A Sky. Brookline Booksmith, Transnational Literature Series, October 2024.
Online Reading
Červená Barva Press Reading, June 2024.
Review
“‘A Line that Bears its Leveling Pain’: The Craft of George Kalogeris’ Winthropos,” Literary Matters, Issue 14.2
Poets in Conversation with Works of Art
An online course with Jennifer Clarvoe, January 2022, hosted by Lexington Community Education
Keats’s great poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” ends with the pronouncement, “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.” Rilke’s sonnet, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” ends with the injunction, “You must change your life.” How does art speak to us? Poets have been endlessly inspired to give words to what is silent in a painting, sketch, or sculpture. We will consider some of the best-known examples of poems (by Keats, Rilke, Auden, and others) responding to a range of kinds art (ancient and modern), in addition to a number of wildly inventive contemporary examples. We will spend time looking (virtually) at works as diverse as Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and Joseph Cornell’s boxes, and discuss some of the poems they have inspired. Although this is not a writing course, we will experiment with a few writing exercises to find our ways into the strategies used by poets over the years.
Online Reading
Somerville ArtBeat, July 2020.
Reading
Lunch Poems, UC Berkeley, March 2017.
