CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Tom Healy

This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Tom Healy, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of a poem (TBD). Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.

Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you've been "getting it," CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.

Actively participate or simply listen and learn!

The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.

Tom Healy is a writer, poet, and chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which oversees the Fulbright program worldwide. Tom's first book, What the Right Hand Knows, was a finalist for the 2009 L.A. Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. His most recent book, Animal Spirits, a collaboration with tattoo artist Duke Riley, was published by Monk Books in 2013. His poems have appeared in a variety of national and international journals, including The Paris Review,Boston Review, and Yale Review. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest, and Hope and IOU: New Writing on Money. Healy is a contributor to The Huffington Post and Creative Time Reports. He was awarded the New York City Arts Award by Mayor Michael Bloomberg for leading rebuilding efforts for the downtown arts community after 9/11. Healy is currently a professor at New York University and is a visiting professor at the New School.

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Toward opening new possibilities for discovery, thought, connection, and joy, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of gay American poet John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work.

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