The Poetry of Aging November 2nd, 2024 at 2:30PM Future Event TBA Participants: Robert C. Abrams Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Robert C. Abrams, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. At Weill Cornell he maintains a clinical practice devoted to psychiatric conditions in older adult patients, and at the affiliated medical college he is engaged in research in old-age depression, psychoses and… read more » Rachel Hadas Professor of English, Rutgers University Poet, essayist, & translator Poet, essayist, and translator Rachel Hadas is the author of many books, including, most recently, “Ghost Guest” (2023), “Pandemic Almanac” (2022), and “Piece by Piece” and “Love and Dread” (both 2021). Her newest collection, “Forty-four Pastorals,” is forthcoming, and a prosimetrum entitled “From Which We Start Awake” is in progress. Hadas has published widely in… read more » Owen Lewis Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Poet View Papers / Presentations » Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, Field Light(Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward; 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards), Marriage Map (short list Rubery Book Awards)and Sometimes Full of Daylight, all from Dos Madres Press, and three chapbooks, mostly recently Knock-knock (2024). best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Prizes include: 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Competition, 2023 Arts & Letters/ Rumi Prize, 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry… read more » James Marcus Editor, Translator, & Critic James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New… read more » Mark Polizzotti Publisher & Editor in Chief, Metropolitan Museum of Art Mark Polizzotti’s books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Apollo, The Nation, Bookforum, and elsewhere. His translations of works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and others… read more »
Robert C. Abrams Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Robert C. Abrams, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. At Weill Cornell he maintains a clinical practice devoted to psychiatric conditions in older adult patients, and at the affiliated medical college he is engaged in research in old-age depression, psychoses and… read more »
Rachel Hadas Professor of English, Rutgers University Poet, essayist, & translator Poet, essayist, and translator Rachel Hadas is the author of many books, including, most recently, “Ghost Guest” (2023), “Pandemic Almanac” (2022), and “Piece by Piece” and “Love and Dread” (both 2021). Her newest collection, “Forty-four Pastorals,” is forthcoming, and a prosimetrum entitled “From Which We Start Awake” is in progress. Hadas has published widely in… read more »
Owen Lewis Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Poet View Papers / Presentations » Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, Field Light(Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward; 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards), Marriage Map (short list Rubery Book Awards)and Sometimes Full of Daylight, all from Dos Madres Press, and three chapbooks, mostly recently Knock-knock (2024). best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Prizes include: 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Competition, 2023 Arts & Letters/ Rumi Prize, 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry… read more »
James Marcus Editor, Translator, & Critic James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New… read more »
Mark Polizzotti Publisher & Editor in Chief, Metropolitan Museum of Art Mark Polizzotti’s books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Apollo, The Nation, Bookforum, and elsewhere. His translations of works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and others… read more »