Other People's Poetry (OPP) is a new repertory poetry reading series. One poet, one book of great poetry per event.
OPP's mission: To develop an audience for poetry. To provide opportunities for audiences to interact with poetry that has otherwise fallen out of the oral tradition (because the originating poets are no longer alive to present the work themselves). To broaden notions of canon. To recognize the important work done by our poetic predecessors. To increase the diversity of literary ...
Other People's Poetry (OPP) is a new repertory poetry reading series. One poet, one book of great poetry per event.
OPP's mission: To develop an audience for poetry. To provide opportunities for audiences to interact with poetry that has otherwise fallen out of the oral tradition (because the originating poets are no longer alive to present the work themselves). To broaden notions of canon. To recognize the important work done by our poetic predecessors. To increase the diversity of literary programming in DFW, in part, by creating more opportunities for DFW's discrete poetic communities to intersect and collaborate.
For Its inaugural event, OPP will be presenting the second volume of Rainer Marie Rilke's NEW POEMS, first published in 1908 and most memorably translated into English by Edward Snow, in its entirety. Readers: Stephanie Amsel / Richard Bailey / Rebecca Balcarcel / MH Clay / Tim Cloward / Dan Collins / Jolee Davis / Chris George / Kendra Greene / Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi / Lisa Huffaker / Amos Hunt / Paul Koniecki / Courtney Marie / Joe Milazzo / Reverie Powell / James Barrett Rodehaver (Bear The Poet) / Carlos Salas / Opalina Salas / Christopher Stephen Soden / Sophia Terazawa / Leah Tieger / Joaquin Zihuatanejo.
Copies of NEW POEMS will be available for purchase at the event, thanks to our sponsor and host Deep Vellum Books.