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POETS HOUSE LIBRARY HOURS:TUESDAY-FRIDAY: 11AM-7PMSATURDAY: 11AM-6PM

Unless otherwise indicated, all programs take place at Poets House at 10 River Terrace in Lower Manhattan and are $10 general admission, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Poets House members.For more information and directions, please visit poetshouse.org

SEPTEMBERTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 7PM

TRIBUTE TO PHILIP LEVINELocation: The Great Hall at Cooper Union7 East 7th St, New York, NY Free & Open to the Public In February 2015, Philip Levine—one of the great voices in American poet-ry—died at 87. While his poems cham-pioned the working class of his native Detroit, he understood poetry to be a global art form. Author of more than twenty collections, including Pulitzer Prize-winning The Simple Truth (1994),

Levine taught at California State University, Fresno for over three decades and served as the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate. This event honors his life and artistry. Readers include Kate Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Mari L’Espe-rance, Paul Mariani, Jane Mead, Tomás Q. Morín, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, Gerald Stern, and David St. John.

Co-sponsored by Academy of American Poets; Cave Canem Foun-dation; Cooper Union; NYU Creative Writing Program; Penguin Random House; Poetry Society of America; Queens College; Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 3PM

FRED MOTEN: PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Poet and scholar Fred Moten explores the ways in which race and poetics—in the wake of colonialism and in the midst of ecological disaster—enter into artistic experimentation, shap-ing the conditions under which black poets work. Moten’s "partial corre-spondences" investigate the formal implications of blackness and experi-mentation, generativity and discovery.

A NOTE FROM THE POETS HOUSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

What does poetry do? Well, nothing without a cooperative act—and that is part of its appeal.

Poets House, a place for poetry honoring the many expressions of the art, is a place of cooperation and co-creation—and that is part of its appeal.

Light-filled and serene, on the banks of the Hudson, Poets

House is one of the largest poetry libraries in the U.S. Yet it creates a space of intimacy and welcome, a place for language in our lives and our cultural landscape.

Part of poetry’s genius is opening the universal through the single voice. Poets House also opens the universal through the specific, creating a specific place for poetry that opens into many places, and into a wider sense of community, extending far beyond the confines of geography. Witness, for example, the ten-city con-clusion of Poetic Voices of the Muslim World, a Bridging Cultures partnership with library systems around the country, exploring po-etry as lived practice in Muslim cultures. Thousands of people have attended these programs. Hundreds-of-thousands have seen the traveling exhibit. What does poetry do? It tells us "what it feels like to be alive in a certain time and place," wrote Stanley Kunitz.

As you look at this calendar, you will see that there is so much histo-ry and co-creation to be shared this fall. Programs focusing on the work of Ai, Bernadette Mayer, John Wieners; talks by Fred Moten, Jerome Rothenberg, Jane Hirshfield and Lynn Emanuel. The Li-brary Symposium at Poets House brings together poets, archivists, collectors and curators to talk about the library of the future—both as a metaphor for imagination and as a living institution dedicated to shared knowledge, undergoing profound transformations.

There are also great workshops, seminars on craft, events for chil-dren, free class trips and a remarkable visual arts exhibition of Trev-or Winkfield’s work.

What does poetry do?

When Cornelius Eady was recently interviewed at Poets House and asked pointedly, "Why poetry?" he retorted instantly, "Why sleep?" You need time, Cornelius said, to put experience togeth-er…and "if you don’t sleep, you fall off a cliff." I laughed out loud; this is what poetry does, it keeps us from falling off a cliff! What a marvelous way of thinking about our lives in language: poetry, modulating experience and essential to our well-being.

Join us this fall as some of our country’s great poets help us think in profound ways that refresh our spirit and the language we live with (and keep us from the edge of the cliff).

— Lee Briccetti, Executive Director

FALL 2015 CALENDAR POETSHOUSE.ORG

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7PMMODPO LIVE: THE RISE OF IMAGISM Free & Open to the Public

As thousands of people attend electronically, you are invited to join Al Filreis and co-teachers Julia Bloch and erica kaufman at Poets House for this live recording session of ModPo, one of the great on-line poetry classrooms in the world. Designed for all levels, this introduction to Imagism nurtures a richer appreciation for great po-ets such as H.D. and William Carlos Williams. Audience members are not required to enroll in ModPo, but are invited to do so at coursera.org/course/modernpoetry

Co-sponsored by ModPo at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7PMPASSWORDS: JEROME ROTHENBERG ON OUTSIDE & SUBTERRANEAN POETRY

Earlier this year, Jerome Rothenberg’s Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present was published as the twelfth and culminating volume in his formative series on ethnopoetics, begun nearly a half century ago with Technicians of the Sacred (1968). Join Rothenberg as he steps back to reconsider what holds these works together and what the future might be for this omnipoetics, theoretically moving toward a final, perhaps unobtainable, "anthology of everything."

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 7PM A SEISMOGRAPHIC ATTENTION: AN EVENING WITH JANE HIRSHFIELD

In her only New York City event for two books newly published this year, Jane Hirshfield, one of the foremost poets of her generation and a mas-ter illuminator of poetic craft, will read from The Beauty (poems) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Trans-form the World (essays). This will be followed by a conversation with the

audience about the ways poetic language, attention, and word-craft navigate and enlarge personal and shared existence.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7PMWORDS OF WAR, WORDS OF LOSS WITH ROBYN CRESWELL & DUNYA MIKHAILLocation: National September 11 Memorial & Museum, 180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007

Tickets: Free, reservation through 911memorial.org/programs required.

Poetry has always been central to Arabic cultur-al expression. Today it encompasses the whirl-wind of events sweeping across the Middle East, serving to mourn trage-

dy, and to articulate political fantasies. Robyn Creswell, scholar of the poetry and intellectual history of the Middle East, and Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail, recipient of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, discuss poetry as a way to under-stand contemporary Arab society.

Co-sponsored by City Lore and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, AT 7PMTRIBUTE TO AILocation: CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016Free & Open to the Public

Ai (1947-2010) carved her literary leg-acy deep into the hearts and minds of a wide audience, lifting a voice for vulnerable members of society. For this tribute, poets Timothy Donnelly, Rigo-berto González, Joy Harjo, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, Yusef Ko-munyakaa, Timothy Liu, Sapphire, and Susan Wheeler read from Ai’s Collected Poems (2012). Actor Eisa Davis will perform a selection of Ai’s well-known dramatic monologues, giving a sense of the power still resonating through this body of work.

Co-Presented with Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Graduate Center for the Humanities, CUNY, Kundi-man, Poetry Society of America

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER

TREVOR WINKFIELD: THE COLLABORATORON VIEW SEPTEMBER 29-JANUARY 16Free & Open to the Public 11am-7pm Mon-Tues; 11am-6pm Sat

"An artist so totally out of touch with the present art scene as to make one wonder whether there is such a thing...." — John Ashbery

Best known for his paintings, Trevor Winkfield enjoys a parallel ca-reer as a book cover designer. This exhibition, spanning a thirty year period, showcases his visionary contributions to the aesthetic of poetry publishing. Featured works include recent portraits of Ron Padgett, Peter Gizzi, Douglas Crase and John Ashbery and a selec-tion of drawings and painted studies. The exhibition underscores the artist’s significant connection to such New York School poets as: Harry Mathews, Larry Fagin, Charles North, Barbara Guest, Miles Champion, and others.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 6-8PMOPENING RECEPTION WITH TREVOR WINKFIELDFree & Open to the Public

Trevor Winkfield

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 7PMJOHN WIENERS CELEBRATION

John Wieners (1934-2004) participated in the San Francisco Renaissance and influenced the poetics of pacifism and gay rights. The many registers of Wieners’s poetry are explored in an evening of readings and conversation occa-sioned by two new books, Supplications: Se-lected Poems of John Wieners and Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals, with presenters including Joshua Beckman, Raymond Foye, Fanny Howe, Rachel Levitsky, Hoa Nguyen, Cedar Sigo, Mónica de la Torre, Lewis Warsh and others.

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Wave Books

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 7PMAN EVENING WITH CEC ARTSLINK FELLOW LIWAA YAZJIFree and open to the public

In this artist talk, playwright, poet, and filmmaker Liwaa Yazji discusses her art-making as a means of exploring broadly the way people relate to the unknown and endure crises, sharing work created this fall in residency as a CEC ArtsLink Fellow at Poets House. To accompany her first book of poet-ry, Peacefully, We Leave Home (2014), she directed a documentary film that examines the reflexive relationship between individuals and their homes, particularly during wartime.

Co-sponsored by CEC ArtsLink

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7PM IOWA INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM READING Poets House welcomes five poets from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa for an evening of readings and conversation. This event explores the various cultural spaces that poetry occupies, internationally and domestically. Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Christopher Merrill, introduces visiting poets Johanna Aitchison (New Zealand), Anas Atakora (Togo), Matthew Cheng (Hong Kong), Yao Feng (Macau), and Marie Silkeberg (Sweden).

Co-presented with the International Writing Program at the Uni-versity of Iowa

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, 3PMREADING & CONVERSATION WITH BERNADETTE MAYER

Gather to celebrate the endless capacity and singular brilliance of Bernadette Mayer. She is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry including Poetry State Forest (2008) and Sonnets (1989), which was recently reprinted to mark its twen-ty-fifth anniversary. A 2015 Guggen-heim fellow, Mayer has left her mark on readers, writers, and entire literary

movements. This reading will feature special introductions by Mi-chael Ruby and Sam Truitt, co-editors of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Collected Early Books of Bernadette May-er (2015). Follow Mayer’s example and "turn formally to love to spend the day."

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER OCTOBER / NOVEMBER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, NOON-7PMLIBRARY SYMPOSIUM AT POETS HOUSE

An afternoon spent in silence? A-Z? The cosmic order of Borg-es’s library of the imagination? Whatever the duration, extent, or dimensions of your perfect library, this day-long symposium will delight and inform as it winds through the many roles librar-ies take on in the community of readers and in the imagination, as collection, as shared intellectual and physical space, and as the symbol of shared knowledge.

12pm: Collections, Curators, and Community: A Conversation with Nancy Kuhl, Shannon Mattern & Kevin Young1:30: Poets at Poets House: Catharine Barnett, Tyehimba Jess & Monica Youn share their discoveries and new poems created during their residency a Poets House.3:00: Ander Monson on Ephemera and Kevin Young on Collections4:30: Susan Howe in Conversation with Nancy Kuhl6:00: Reception Funded in part by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, NOON-2PMLIBRARY AS MATERIAL WITH ANDER MONSONFee: $50. Register online at poetshouse.org or call (212) 431-7920

Ander Monson, author of Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Li-braries (2015), leads a generative trawl through the 60,000-vol-ume library at Poets House. Through encounters with unex-pected materials found between the pages, library-nauts will have the unique opportunity to "publish work back" into books that once seemed completed.

Robert LaVigne

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7 PMAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK WITH LYNN EMANUEL

Reassessing the book’s potential as poetic form, Lynn Emanuel considers her own compositional choices—why she places a let-ter addressed to Baudelaire here and a lyric or persona poem there—as well as examples for developing a book’s architecture set by poets such as Mallarmé and Pessoa. Discover the personal and artistic imperatives that inform this capacious poet’s work.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, AT 6:30 AND 7:30PMPOETRY READING WITH ROSAMOND S. KING AT THE METLocation: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments – Gallery 681Free with Museum Admission

Join the ongoing conversation between the literary and visual arts as Rosamond S. King per-forms evocative, interdisciplinary poems within the setting of the Musical Instruments permanent collection galleries.

Presented in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 3PMPASSWORDS: MIRIAM NICHOLS ON ROBIN BLASER

Miriam Nichols expertly edited The Astonishment Tapes (2015), a transcript of twenty autobi-ographical audiotapes recorded in an attic room in Vancouver by poet Robin Blaser in 1974. Blaser, along with Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, formed the Berke-ley core of what is now known as the San Francisco Renaissance. Reminiscent of the perfect mix at-tained by Blaser’s legendary mar-tinis, this talk by Nichols blends gossip and literary legacy into a balanced representation of this mythic poet.

BRIDGING CULTURES: POETIC VOICES OF THE MUSLIM WORLD continues this fall in Atlanta and Houston

In the past two and a half years, over 300,000 public library vis-itors in Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Lou-is, San Francisco, Washington DC and the borough of Queens, viewed the traveling exhibit or attended programs and events related to Poetic Voices of the Muslim World, our national initia-tive examining the central role poetry plays in the lives of Muslim men and women around the world. This fall, the project travels to Atlanta and Houston.

HOUSTONLocation: Central Library, 500 McKinney Street, Houston, TXTravelling Exhibit On View: September 1 – November 30, 2015

Events:Thursday, September 24, 2015 Islam and the Blues with Dr. Sylviane Diouf Thursday, October 1, 2015E-mails from Scheherazad: Reading and discussion with poet Mohja Kahf

Thursday, November 5, 2015 Song of the Reed: Rumi with Dr. Jawid Mojaddedi and Amir Vahab and his ensemble

Thursday, November 19, 2015The Traveling Word: A West African Epic with Kewulay Kamara

ATLANTALocation: Central Library, One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GATraveling Exhibit on view: September 1 – November 30, 2015

Events:Tuesday, October 27, 2015The Worlds of the Ghazal with Dr. Syed Akbar Hyder and Kiran Ahluwalia

Tuesday, November 3, 2015The Traveling Word: A West African Epic with Kewulay Kamara

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Islam and the Blues with Dr. Sylviane Diouf

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Reading and discussion with poet Kazim Ali For more information about Poetic Voices of the Muslim World and a list of additional events, vist pvmw.org

Co-sponsored by City Lore Funded by the Bridging Cultures Pro-gram of the National Endowment for the Humanities, with addi-tional support from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

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HOSTING EVENTS AT POETS HOUSE

Our Literary Partners Program welcomes individuals, poetry presses, and non-profit organizations to rent Poets House at a special discounted rate. Ideal for hosting book launches, readings and classes!

To learn more, please contact Program Assistant Lauren Clark at lauren@poetshouse.org or call (212) 431-7920 x 12818.

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JEROME ROTHENBERG SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 & 11 SATURDAY NOON-4PM SUNDAY NOON-4PM

Jerome Rothenberg is a poet and translator who compiled the groundbreaking anthology, Tech-nicians of The Sacred (1968). He is Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego.

Application Deadline: Oct 2

A. VAN JORDAN SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & 8 SATURDAY 2-6PM SUNDAY NOON-4PM

A. Van Jordan is The Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of four collections of poems, most recent-ly The Cineaste (2013). His awards include a Whiting Writers Award and a Pushcart Prize.Application Deadline: Oct 16

TERESE SVOBODASATURDAY-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 & 6 SATURDAY NOON-4PM, SUNDAY NOON-4PM

Terese Svoboda is the author of more than a dozen books. Her forthcoming titles include When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected & New Poems and Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet.Application Deadline: Nov 20

Tuesdays from 6-8:30pm, October 13th — November 17thLiterary Adaptation: Writing Through Rewriting with Paul Legault

Wednesdays from 6-8:30pm,October 14th — November 18thDivine Ekphrasis: Reading Art, Read-ing Self, Reading Soul with Sharon Dolin

Thursdays, from 6-8:30pm, October 15th — November 19thWriting Your Obsession with Laura Sims

Saturdays, 11:30am-2:00pm, October 17th — November 21stMyth into Modern Poetry with Antoinette Brim

ONE DAY WORKSHOPSATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2-6PM BREAKING HABITS OF SYNTAX WITH DONNA MASINIFee: $125 Register online at poets-house.org or call (212) 431-7920

Donna Masini is the author of two collections of poetry, Turning to Fic-tion (2004) and That Kind of Danger (1994), winner of the Barnard Wom-en Poet’s Prize, and two novels. She lives in New York where she teaches in Hunter College’s MFA program.

EMERGING POETS FELLOWSHIPNow in its fifth year, The Emerging Poets Fellowship is an annual opportunity for poets to receive guidance and instruction from a distinguished and diverse faculty in the special environment of Poets House’s extensive poetry library, unique archives, and wide-ranging programs. The fellowship, funded by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation, will be led by Adam Fitzgerald in the spring of 2016. This twelve-week program facilitates artistic and professional development through weekly workshops and individualized men-toring sessions. Guest faculty includes Claudia Rankine and Cornelius Eady.

The 2015 Fellows were Aziza Barnes, Rio Cortez, Ricardo Hernandez, Esther Lin, Yanyi Luo, Andriniki Mattis, Vikas K. Menon, Timothy Ree, Paul Tran, and Aldrin Valdez.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2015. For more information and application forms, please visit poetshouse.org. Tuition is free to those accepted into the program.

CLASSES & WORKSHOPSMASTER CLASSES

Master classes offer advanced writers an opportunity to work intensively with some of the most respected poets of our time. Applications are required. Email classes@poetshouse.org for more details. Fee: $390

SIX-WEEK OPEN-ENROLLMENT WORKSHOPS Workshops are open to all levels. No application is needed, but registration is required. To

register, and for more information, visit the classes page under "Programs & Events" on poetshouse.org or call (212) 431-7920. Fee: $325

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Saturday, October 3, 1pmKite Building and Chinese Poetry WorkshopAll ages welcome. Art materials charge $10

Cast your imagination skyward with this poetry and kite-building workshop. Participants will personalize their high-flying creations by marking them with poems inspired by the images and metaphors of traditional Chinese poetry.

Co-presented with China Institute

Saturday, October 24th, 11amWrite Back Soon! Adventures in Letter Writing with Karen BenkeRecommended for middle schoolers. Art materials charge $10

Join us for an exploration into the lost art of letter writing. Pen postcard prompts and letter lead-ins to create a mailable gift you can send to a friend at the end of the workshop.

Karen Benke is the cele-brated author of Sister, Rip the Page! and Leap Write In! She lives in the San Fran-cisco Bay Area, with her teenage son, a magic cat named Clive, and a rescue dog.

Saturday, October 31st, 11am to 5pmA Haunted (Poets) HouseAll ages welcome. Free & Open to the Public

Drop in during the day to listen to classic spooky poetry, make a monster mask, and write a spell or incantation on "ancient" paper.

Saturday, November 21st, 11am to 5pmDiorama-Rama All ages welcome. Art materials charge $10

Stop by Poets House to mix together cool art materials and poetic fragments inside clear-sided boxes. Watch as a literary diorama forms before your eyes.

Saturday, December 5, 11amEnormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings with Matthew BurgessAll ages welcome. Suggested donation: $5 per child

Poet Matthew Burgess will read from his new picture book biography Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E Cummings, and he will lead an E. E.-inspired poetry activity for writers of all ages.

Matthew Burgess is the author of two books, Slippers for Elsewhere and Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cum-mings, and he is the editor of the forthcoming Dream Clos-et, an anthology of art and writing about childhoodspaces.

Children’s Room Hours: Thursday-Saturday 11am-5pmChildren and their adults are invited to visit and explore.

Tiny Poets Time: Thursdays at 10amFree & Open to the PublicA weekly poetry reading for toddlers.

Free Class Trips: Preschool through high school. By appointment. For more details, contact Education Coordinator, Mike Romanos at (212) 431-7920 x 12825 or email mike@poetshouse.org

THE CONSTANCE LAIBE HAYS CHILDREN’S ROOM AT POETS HOUSE

The Constance Laibe Hays Children’s Room is a creative space filled with the best of children’s poetry books, vintage type-writers and a card catalog with poetic objects to trigger inspiration. A special thanks to Con Edison, Goldman Sachs, The Thompson Family Foundation, Turrell Fund, and others for support of children’s programs at Poets House.

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We salute those individuals and foundations whose recent generous leadership donations have enabled the growth of Poets House: Penny & John Barr • Thomas M. & Kate Cheney Chappell • Robert Kissane • The Estate of Deborah S. Pease • Myra & Harold Shapiro • Margo & Anthony Viscusi • The J. M. Kaplan Fund • Leon Levy Foundation • The

Reed Foundation • The Tomorrow Foundation

Poets House programs and services are made possible, in part, with public funds from Institute of Museum & Library Services • Manhattan Borough President’s Office • National Endowment for the Arts • National Endowment for the Humanities • New York City Council • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs • New York State Council on the

Arts • The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Additional support comes from the following donors: Foundations: Axe-Houghton Foundation • The Howard Bayne Fund • Cornelia & Michael Bessie Foundation • Bydale Foundation • The Concordia Foundation • Dedalus Foundation• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation • Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art • The Sherman Fairchild Foundation• Jerome Foundation • LitTap • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council • Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation • National Science Foundation • Jim Neuberger & Helen Stambler Neuberger Foundation • Stavros Niarchos Foundation • Pine Tree Foundation of New York • Renaissance Foundation • The Thompson Family Foundation • Turrell Fund • The Ver-vane Foundation • The Walbridge Fund • The Whistler Trust • The Winston Foundation • Charles Wright Foundation

Corporations: Alfred A. Knopf • American Express • Berkshire Capital • Con Edison • Debevoise & Plimpton • Goldman Sachs • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP • Lutz & Carr • Merck Partnership for Giving • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Individuals: Roger Alcaly & Helen Bodian • Arthur Yorke Allen & Mary Stewart Hammond • Page Ashley • Andrew Bab • Anne Newman Bacal & Jules Bacal • Susan Baker & Michael Lynch • Ellen Ivey Bates • John and Natalie Blaney • Dyke Benjamin • Jutta & Hans Bertram-Nothnagel • Michel & Marie-Eve Berty • Robert Bielecki • Ernest & Rita Bo-gen • Michael Boyd • Louise Braverman & Steve Glickel • Louisa Briccetti & Jonathan Brill • Barbara K. Bristol • Karen Burkhardt • Marilyn Callander • Ivan Chermayeff • Jim Chervenak • Peter Cole • Bill Conway • Ginnie Cooper • Mary Cronson • Joan Davidson • Pierre & Ellen de Saint Phalle • Pierre & Ellen de Vegh • Frederick Doner & Michele Oka Doner • Katie Dove & Seth Hendon • Linda Earle • Priscilla Ellsworth • Cheri Fein • David Ferry • Irvine and Elizabeth Flinn • Fredericka Foster & Bennett Shapiro • John Fraser • Sarah Fuller • Kristin Gamble and Charlie Flood • Johanna & Leslie Garfield • Deborah Garrison • Marilyn Gelber • Prosser Gifford • Photios Giovanis • Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. • Alice Greenwald • Patricia Grodd • David & Joan Grubin • Agnes Gund • Jim & Erica Haba • Robert Herrmann • William Higgins & Anne Covell • Edward Hirsch • George Hirsch • Steven Holl • Rachael Horovitz • J. Chester & Freda Johnson • Elizabeth Kandall • Meredith Kane • Harry Kendall • Wendy Keys • Paula Kiely • William Kistler • Wendy Larsen • Norbert Lempert • Richard Levy and Lorraine Gallard • Owen Lewis & Susan Ennis • Nanette Loftus • Karen Lorenzo • Susan Lorence • Marcia Loughran • William Louis-Dreyfus • Anne Marie Macari • Taylor Mali • K. Ann McDonald • Bruce McEver • Rachel McPherson • Josephine A. Merck & James Stevenson • John Morning • Jane & Stanley Moss • Eliz-abeth Motika • Margaret Murray • William James Murray • Jim Neuberger • Eugene O’Brien • Susan Oliver • Thomas Palmer & Dominque Alfandre • Antonio Pérez / Borough of Manhattan Community College • Lin Peyton & Morris Han-cock • Carole Pittelman • Audrey Platt • Frank Platt • Nicholas & Sheila Platt • Renate Ponsold • Linda Nochlin Pommer • Nicholas F. Potter • Joan Pratt • Warrie & Warfield Price • Anna Rabinowitz • Theresa Marie Reilly • Charles & Marcia Reiss • Frederic C. Rich • Christopher & Rebecca Roberts • Lillie Robertson • Theodore Rogers & Betsy Barlow Rogers • Paul Romero • Stewart Rosenblum • Neal Rosenthal & Kerry Madigan • Ruth & Alfred Rosenthal • Katharine Rudbeck • Anthony Sanders • Jeff Scheuer • Susan Schlechter • Michael Schwab • Richard & Sheila Schwartz • Andrew Senchak •Sam & Karen Seymour • Michael Sillerman • Laura Baudo & Robert F.X. Sillerman • Ward & Carolyn Smith • André Spears & Anne Rosen • Rene Steinke • Jamie Stern • Peter Stern & Helen W. Drutt English • Mr. & Mrs. James Stevens • Catharine Stimpson • Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum • Jacqueline Terrassa • John & Eva Usdan •Michael Van Valkenburgh • Alicia Vargas • Alexander Villari • Enzo & Mayalen Viscusi • Kim Wainwright • Eliot Weinberger • Jerrie Whitfield &

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FALL 2015 HIGHLIGHTS • Tributes to Ai and Philip Levine• Exhibition of works by Trevor Winkfield • A symposium on the Library with Susan Howe, Nancy Kuhl, Ander Monson, Kevin

Young & more• Talks by Lynn Emanuel, Jane Hirshfield & Fred Moten• Rosamond S. King at the Met• Workshops & classes for every level & schedule