Peripheries

Join us for an evening of poetry in the historic Divinity Chapel (aka the "Emerson Chapel"). Featuring new translations of the 7 penitential psalms by Talin Tahajian (@talinout), Sam Bailey, & Emma De Lisle. Wednesday, 9/24, 5:30-7PM Divinity Hall, 14 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

Join us for Peripheries' Issue 7 launch Thursday 4/1 at the Barker Center Thompson Room, 6-7PM. Readings by Carl Phillips, @amandathegunn, Aline Dolinh and Alan Yan. With an art exhibition, live music, and refreshments.

This Tuesday, 2/4, 6:30 – 8 pm, join us for a reading, discussion, and reception with acclaimed poet Alice Oswald, celebrated for her profound engagement with oral traditions & classical texts. Location: Braun Room, Swartz Hall, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge.

2024 Peripheries Poetry Competition, judged by Josh Bell: 1st place: Aline Dolinh, “Dream Sequence Stricken From a Tapestry.” 2nd place: Alan Yan, “Impossible Blue.” Finalists: Esther Heller, Kányin Olorunnisola, Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio Stacey Forbes.

Join us this Thursday, 10/17 for a reading with Isaac Jarnot, Ariella Ruth, & Josh Kurtz! 5:30-6:30, Center for the Study of World Religions. Register here: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d7… Isaac will also hold a workshop Friday 10/18, 10am. Email peripheries@hds.harvard.edu to apply.

Join us a for a special event on Adrie Kusserow's The Trauma Mantras with two of our own HDS poets, Zia Pollis and Yena Sharma Purmasir, this Thursday 9/19. 6PM, CSWR Common Room. See you there! register: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3L…

CORRECTION: Tonight's event @ 6PM! Join us for a reading w/ Jackie Wang, Stephanie Burt, Nat Raha, & Ethan Seeley. Thrilled to kick off this year with so much incredible poetry! 6:00-7:30 in the CSWR Common Room 42 Francis Ave (Harvard Divinity School).

Join us 9/9 for our first event of the semester: a reading w/ Jackie Wang, Stephanie Burt, Nat Raha, & Ethan Seeley. Thrilled to kick off this year with so much incredible poetry! 6:30-7:30 in the CSWR Common Room 42 Francis Ave (Harvard Divinity School).

peripheriesjournal.com/inauguralpoetr… Inaugural Poetry Competition judged by Josh Bell. First prize $700, second prize $400. No fees. No theme. Publication in Issue 7, distributed by Harvard University Press. Submission link in bio.

Reading & Q&A with Jane Miller this Wednesday, 4/17 at 4pm, CSWR Common Room @HarvardDivinity! Jane will present poems from Paper Banners (@copper_canyon_press 2023) & from more recent work. Zoom & in-person registration: tinyurl.com/yj5yk6r9

*Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize* Congratulations to our winners B-Dragon Suite by Stine An Perennial Counterpart by Yongyu Chen Monk Fruit by Edward Salem ✨ nightboat.org/announcing-nig…

Poetry readers & translators of all experience levels are welcome at this discussion & workshop on the craft of poetry translation w/ Daniel Kraft (MTS '18) this Tuesday, March 5 from 5:30-7:00pm. No foreign language background required! Register here: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9S….

Please join us on Thursday, February 29, 3-4:30pm for a very special reading and craft talk with our dear friend @amandathegunn celebrating her new book, Things I Didn't Do With This Body (@CopperCanyonPrs). Please register to join us in person or on Zoom: tinyurl.com/mr3ca63a

Poetry reading & craft talk w/ the inimitable Stephanie Burt at 3:30 Thursday, 2/8 at the CSWR! Intro by Adam Scheffler, & workshop w/ Stephanie Friday 2/9 11:00-1:00. Register for in-person or virtual reading @ tinyurl.com/yzr39c5f; to workshop email sherahbloor@g.harvard.edu

Print copies of Issue 6 at grolierpoerybookshop.org or preorder through @HarvardPress (hup.harvard.edu). Digital version forthcoming!

Thank you to all who came to our launch! Especially readers and performers Alice Oswald, @VChangPoet, @jorie_graham, @swabregimen, and @JBalmerGuitar, and to all at @HarvardDivinity and CSWR who helped make such a beautiful event possible.

"Poems on the Divine," a new folio today on TYR, features nine poets whose work is "a gesture toward something other, something beyond the great boundary of the signifiable," writes TYR assistant editor @talinout. Explore the folio here: yalereview.org/poems-on-the-d…

Submissions for Issue 7 now open! Go to peripheriesjournal.com/submit. We look forward to receiving your work! (Pictured: Margaux Crump, "Grafts II", featured in Issue 6.)

Issue 6 launch party tomorrow night at 6pm! Readings by Alice Oswald, Jorie Graham, and Victoria Chang; music & visual art, & refreshments. Free and open to the public! Come in person or virtually. Registration (recommended, not required) here: tinyurl.com/254v4n2v.