PETER COLE
Events
2023
November 17: Writers Voices for Peace and Justice, San Francisco State College, Creative Writing Program, with Adina Hoffman
October 18: Poetry reading, from Draw Me After, Abernathy Hall, 4:30 p.m., Middlebury College.
October 17: The Quint Memorial Lecture: “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life,” Twilight Hall Auditorium, 4:30 p.m., Middlebury College.
October 11: Colloquium on Collaboration in the Arts, with Aaron J. Kernis, discussing “Edensongs,” an oratorio. Institute for Sacred Music, Yale, 3:30 p.m.
February 12: Reading, in the “Us & Them” series at Molasses Books, 770 Hart St. Brooklyn, NY 11237, 8 p.m.
February 9: Head of College Tea with Paul North, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. A discussion about the making of Draw Me After a life in poetry and translation.
2022
December 6, 6-8 p.m.: Book Launch at The Drawing Center (SoHo, NYC), with artist Terry Winters and curator Claire Gilman. Moderated by novelist Joshua Cohen.
November 30: Reading from Draw Me After, with poets Billie Chernicoff and Barry Schwabsky. Tailfeather Bar, Brooklyn. Part of Divagations–a reading series sponsored by Caesura Magazine
November 22: Publication of Draw Me After, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a new collection of poems.
November 17: University of Iowa, “On Drawing and Being Drawn in Translation,” talk to MFA and other students; Poetry reading from Draw Me After, with poet Kaveh Akbar, at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
November 14-16: Piyyut Conference, University of Minnesota, Keynote address, and reading from Draw Me After (Creative Writing, U of Minnesota, with Peter Campion).
April 29: Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, “Draw Me After: Readings and a Conversation with Nate Klug,” 12:00-1:00 (PDT)
April 27: MacX BGC, What Is Conservation, 6-7:30 pm (EDT)
January-May: Teaching, Yale University
January 12: Spertus Institute, Chicago. Ideas Forum: Reimagining Tradition. 7 pm Central Time.
2021
September 19: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Cloisters, Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith, Roundtable on the art, cultures, and poetry of the period. Sponsored by Fordham University Center for Jewish Studies.
October 21-22: New St. Andrew’s College, Moscow Idaho, residency with Adina Hoffman.
January-May: Teaching, Yale University
2020
January-May: Teaching, Yale University
March: Publication of On Being Drawn: An Ekphrastic Translation (with Commentary), Cahier Series (Sylph Editions) — a chapbook, with drawings by Terry Winters
October 22-23: New St. Andrew’s College, Visiting Writer
October 29-Nov 3: Vermont Studio Center, Visiting Writer
2019
November: Oxford University and Cambridge University
October 26: UCLA
January-June: Yale University, Teaching
April 9: Emily Dickinson House, Master Class, “This was different—‘Twas Translation”: On Translating the World, and Other (Transcendental) Pleasures in Poetry.
February 17-19: Carleton College, Minnesota
2018
October 11: MacArthur Fellows Forum, Chicago
October 10: Poetry Foundation, Poetry Day Reading, Harold Washington Library, Chicago
October 9: University of Illinois at Chicago
May 10: Yale Art Gallery, Joel Shapiro Exhibition, a Reading and Conversation, 5:30 p.m.
March 19: Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St. Y, with Laura Kaskische
February 15: Yale University, Graduate Poets Reading Series, 4 p.m. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 4 p.m.
2017
October 30-November 7: Kyoto / Tokyo
October 26-29: Hong Kong
October 23: Yale Club, NYC
October 17: Bard College
October 16: Columbia University
October 9-12: Colby College
June 8: Greenwich, CT, JCC 12:30
June 7: Paris Review Poetry Night, Hymns & Qualms, reading and conversation, with Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Robyn Creswell, 7 p.m., 544 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 (invitation only)
June 6: Bryant Park Reading, with Gerald Stern, Judith Vollmer 7 p.m.
May: Publication of Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (FSG)
May 4-5: PEN World Voices Festival
May 21: Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture: On Teaching Poetry, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, Introduction by Forrest Gander
May 22: Green Apple Books, San Francisco 7:30 pm
May 25: Chevalier’s Bookstore, Los Angeles, with Kaveh Akbar, 7 p.m.
March 2: Carnegie Hall, George Benjamin, “The Dream of the Song,” with Bejun Meta, counter tenor (based on selections from the Dream of the Poem)
February 11: AWP, Us & Them: A Writer/Translator Reading, 4:30 pm
February 27, 6 pm: Moderator, Panel on translating classical Arabic into English, with translators Robyn Creswell (The Tongue of Adam, by Abdelfattah Kilito) and Elias Muhanna (The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri)
January-June: Yale University, Teaching