‌ The Life of a Poet

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The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations established in 2013. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles, the series is now helmed by noted poet and editor Kyle Dargan, featured poets have included Terrance Hayes, Elizabeth Alexander, Ada Limon, Marilyn Chin and Carl Phillips among many others.

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  • The Life of a Poet Featuring Marie Howe, Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Languages & Humanities

    "Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. ” —Stanley Kunitz, former Poet Laureate Established in 2013, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have…

    $10.00

  • The Life of a Poet Featuring Acclaimed Poet Reginald Harris in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Languages & Humanities

    “Reginald Harris’s Autogeography is the winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. The book has been praised for being great black poetry and great LGBT poetry, but it’s great writing beyond category.”         - Poet, Sean Singer Established in 2013, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth…

    $10.00

  • The Life of a Poet Featuring Brian Gilmore, author of No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Lectures & Conversations

    A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse The discussion will feature poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Folger Poetry Manager and eminent DC Poet, Karl Carter Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community, despite often being overshadowed…

    $12.00

  • Ron Charles, Former Washington Post Book Critic: A Tipping Point in US Books & Letters

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Lectures & Conversations

    This conversation is a part of Hill Center's Life of a Poet series. Ron Charles will be in conversation with poet, editor, and Life of a Poet curator and moderator, Kyle Dargan. A recent New York Times article mourned the end of the Washington Post's Book World as a major blow to literary journalism and…

    $12.00