Poetry Class with American Poets Edward Hirsch and Patty Seyburn (Video)

Poetry Class with Edward Hirsch and Patty SeyburnOn Tuesday, November 19, 2024, the 2nd Year American Studies MA students, who take an American poetry class taught by Patty Seyburn, attended an online zoom dialogue between the two poets about living a poet’s life, poetic influences and affinities, poetry movements, the poetic canon and its limitations, poetic temperaments, poets and language, American poetry, Latin American poetry, Eastern European poetry, how the arts instigate one another, and the poets’ social club. The event was organized by Patty Seyburn and Dana Bădulescu, who teach the same group of students. 

Edward Hirsch is a poet, author, former professor of English at Wayne State University and University of Houston, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ”Over the course of many collections of poetry and criticism, and the long-running “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post, Hirsch has transformed the quotidian into poetry in his own work, as well as demonstrated his adeptness at explicating the nuances and shades of feeling, tradition, and craft at work in the poetry of others.” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edward-hirsch). Hirsch’s volume of selected poems Nocturnal Fire, prefaced by Norman Manea and translated into Romanian by Răzvan Hotăranu, came out in a biblingual edition in 2014. His best-seller book How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, translated Cum să citeşti un poem şi să te îndrăgosteşti de poezie by Dana Bădulescu and Radu Andriescu, was published by Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iaşi in 2015.

Poet and professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, Patty Seyburn has published five poetry collections: Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, 2014); Hilarity (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009), which won the Green Rose Prize awarded by New Issues Press; Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002); and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998), which won the 1997 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award in 2000. Additionally, Seyburn’s work has been anthologized in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), edited by Deborah Ager and M. E. Silverman; Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books, 2015), edited by Suzanne Lummis; 99 Poems for the 99 Percent (99: The Press, 2013), edited by Dean Rader; Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006), edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin; and Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2013), edited by William Olsen and Jack Ridl. (https://poets.org/poet/patty-seyburn)

Edward Hirsch has kindly given us permission to post the recorded video of his dialogue with Patty Seyburn. You can watch it below:

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