MoMA Talks: Performances and Readings

July 24, 2009 07:00 PM This reading features poetry that was influenced by the experimental music and media scene of the 1970s, and which responded to the era’s urban blight and depressed economies. Participants include musician and writer Richard Hell, poet Eileen Myles, and poet, actor, and musician Saul Williams. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Looking at Music: Side Two

July 24, 2009 07:00 PM This reading features poetry that was influenced by the experimental music and media scene of the 1970s, and which responded to the era’s urban blight and depressed economies. Participants include musician and writer Richard Hell, poet Eileen Myles, and poet, actor, and musician Saul Williams. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Looking at Music: Side Two

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Dante Alighieri's poem, The Divine Comedy, remains influential in contemporary culture. The political corruption, conflict between church and state, tests of morality, and frought love in the nine circles of the Inferno—which Dante began to write some seven hundred years ago—echo profoundly in our world today. His depiction of hell, sin, and punishment has also impacted artists from Sandro Botticelli to Robert Rauschenberg and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Caroline Bergvall, poet, and Co-Chair, Writing MFA, Milton Avery School for the Arts, Bard College; Rachel Jacoff, Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Italian, Wellesley College; and Robert Pinsky, poet, conjure these themes through readings of their own works as well as those by Dante, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Juan Goytisolo, and others. A reception follows the reading. This program is a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Dante Alighieri's poem, The Divine Comedy, remains influential in contemporary culture. The political corruption, conflict between church and state, tests of morality, and frought love in the nine circles of the Inferno—which Dante began to write some seven hundred years ago—echo profoundly in our world today. His depiction of hell, sin, and punishment has also impacted artists from Sandro Botticelli to Robert Rauschenberg and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Caroline Bergvall, poet, and Co-Chair, Writing MFA, Milton Avery School for the Arts, Bard College; Rachel Jacoff, Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Italian, Wellesley College; and Robert Pinsky, poet, conjure these themes through readings of their own works as well as those by Dante, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Juan Goytisolo, and others. A reception follows the reading. This program is a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.

Kenneth Goldsmith, reads Bern Porter’s 1955 poem Clothes. Recorded April 22, 2010 at MoMA.

Kenneth Goldsmith, reads Bern Porter’s 1955 poem Clothes. Recorded April 22, 2010 at MoMA.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by the poet as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.

Read by Thomas Sayers Ellis as part of the Futurism and the New Manifesto program, February 20, 2009 On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, poets Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, and Alicia Stallings recite historical works, as well as their own contemporary manifestos, in the public space of the Museum's Garden Lobby. This program is a collaboration with Poetry magazine. Download the program handout in PDF format More information available from the Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org Listen to the Poetry Foundation's interview with Mary Anne Caws.