Celebrating National Poetry Month with Jonathan Galassi & Robert Perkins

Join Jonathan Galassi and Robert Perkins to celebrate National Poetry Month as they shared stories of Nobel Prize winning poets with whom they have worked, including Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, and Louise Glück. The event brought unparalleled insights into the lives and legacies of these literary icons and the creative processes that shaped their timeless works.

About the Athenaeum

Robert Perkins is a storyteller. His longest continuous collaboration is called the Written Image and represents forty years of collaborations with poets, including three Nobel Prize winners: Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, and Louise Gluck. His most recent work is called Already Broken. His past and present work can be seen on the internet under his name. Jonathan Galassi is Chairman and Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he has worked since 1986. He has worked with many poets during his career including Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Frank Bidart, Louise Gluck and Gjertrud Schnackenberg, and has translated the poetry of Eugenio Montale, Giacomo Leopardi, and Primo Levi and has published several volumes of his own poetry and two novels. His new poem, The Vineyard, will appear next year.