Horatio: If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. Hamlet: Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it [...]
Archive for January, 2011
A few words from the Danes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Editors' Prize, Hamlet, March, Poetry, Promotion, Readiness, reading period, Shakespeare, Submissions on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Augury Live! Tonight!
Posted in Art, Augury Books, Nothing, Poetry, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Lehman, Event, Foretelling, Kimiko Hahn, Noelle Kocot, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum, Saskia Hamilton, Stacy Szymaszek on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Enjoy the weather and come hear some poetry at the Rubin tonight! TONIGHT at 7pm! Kimiko Hahn, Saskia Hamilton, Noelle Kocot, David Lehman, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Stacy Szymaszek will read poems by themselves and others reflecting absence, emptiness, and nothing—themes inherent in Buddhist art and philosophy. Poems about Nothing is one in a [...]
The Human Factor by David Lehman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augury, Augury Books, David Lehman, Event, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum, The Human Factor on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is our great pleasure to present this poem by David Lehman, one of the readers at tomorrow night’s Poems about Nothing event at the Rubin Museum. “The Human Factor” appears in When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). The Human Factor The gambler knows nothing’s more addictive than deception with [...]
Press About Our Event
Posted in Augury Books, Facebook, Nothing, Poetry, Rubin Museum, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Lehman, Event, Kimiko Hahn, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum, Saskia Hamilton, Stacy Szymaszek on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As we get closer and closer to our Event on Wednesday, we just want to thank everyone who was kind enough to help us get the word out. Thanks especially to The Academy of American Poets, The Best American Poetry Blog, The Rumpus, CUNY‘s MFA Program, and Adam at HTMLGIANT. Also, we just received news that [...]
Miracles by Brenda Shaughnessy
Posted in Art, Augury Books, Nothing, Poetry, Rubin Museum, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Brenda Shaughnessy, Event, Miracle, Nothing, Poem, Rubin Museum on January 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Brenda Shaughnessy will be reading at the upcoming Poems about Nothing event at the Rubin Museum this Wednesday. This poem is from her forthcoming third book, Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press 2012), and was originally published in The Nation (Fall 2010). Miracles I spent the whole day crying and writing, until they became the same, [...]
Heteralocha Acutirostris by Kimiko Hahn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Event, Kimiko Hahn, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week we continue to post work by the readers at the upcoming Poems about Nothing reading at the Rubin Museum. The event will take place this coming Wednesday, January 26th–for more details, please click on the Upcoming Events tab above. Today, we are pleased to present a poem by Kimiko Hahn from her [...]
An excerpt from Shift at Oars by Stacy Szymaszek
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Event, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum, Stacy Szymaszek on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stacy Szymaszek will be reading at the upcoming Poems about Nothing event at the Rubin Museum on January 26th. For more information about the reading, please click on our Upcoming Events tab. This is an excerpt from “Shift at Oars” which can be found in her book Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, New York, [...]
An excerpt from Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Ben Lerner, Event, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week we continue to bring you work by the poets reading at the upcoming Poems about Nothing series at the Rubin Museum on the 26th. For more details about the reading, please click on our Upcoming Events tab above. Today’s poet is Ben Lerner. from ANGLE OF YAW HE HAD ENOUGH [...]
Oeuvre by Noelle Kocot
Posted in Augury Books, Poetry, Rubin Museum, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Event, Noelle Kocot, Nothing, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Rubin Museum on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a beautiful new poem from Noelle Kocot who will be reading at the upcoming Poems about Nothing event at the Rubin Museum on January 26th. Please click on our Upcoming Events tab above for more information about the reading. Oeuvre The purring of incidence in the light’s disappearance, The ground of, how [...]
