Imagine it's a rainy January night at a coffee shop in Hollywood. You're at a poetry open-mic night, expecting old women to read cat poetry, when suddenly Sylvia Plath walks to the stage lost in thoughts of "fetid wombs" and "indefatigable hoof-taps" to read from Ariel. Or imagine you just hopped on a boxcar, somewhere in Colorado, only to find Jack Kerouac reading from Mexico City Blues over the sound of clacking train tracks. While it's impossible to have interactions with these poetry iconoclasts, you will have an opportunity to hear a real poetry legend and MacArthur Genius when PEN Center USA brings Anne Carson to the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. Carson will be reading... More >>>