Lannan Center Podcast

Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world. Based in the President’s Office, the Center brings attention to a traditional domain of academic research, but sees poetry as a current practice rather than as a field of historical research. The Center recognizes that “art’s social presence,” in the phrase of Adrienne Rich, is vital to contemporary culture; that poetry, or writing more generally, traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought: it reconfigures these fields according to the designs of imagination. The Lannan Center hosts Readings and Talks throughout the academic year. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Podcasting since 2019 • 73 episodes

Lannan Center Podcast

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Volha Hapeyeva and Valzhyna Mort | 2025-2026 Readings and Talks

On April 7th, 2026, the Lannan Center hosted a poetry reading and talk with Volha Hapeyeva and Valzhyna Mort. Hosted by Carolyn Forché.Volha Hapeyeva (b. in Minsk, Belarus) is a...

April 07, 2026 • 1:04:05

2026 Lannan Literary Festival: An Evening with Salman Rushdie

On March 31, 2026, Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie joined former NPR host and Princeton visiting professor Razia Iqbal for a conversation about his extraordinary writing life, viewed through the lens of change Rushdie will discuss his latest wo...

March 31, 2026 • 1:00:10

2026 Lannan Literary Festival: An Evening with Travis Chi Wing Lau

On March 26, 2026, Poet Travis Chi Wing Lau, author of What’s Left Is Tender, joined radio host Georgina Godwin for an intimate conversation about his powerful exploration of disability, chronic pain, and family silence.

March 26, 2026 • 57:02

2026 Lannan Literary Festival: An Evening with Julia Alvarez

On March 24, 2026, Dominican-American poet, novelist and essayist, Julia Alvarez read from her latest poetry collection in conversation with radio host Georgina Godwin. The poems in Visitations reflect on change across the arc of decades—family...

March 24, 2026 • 1:05:32

Yuri Herrera | 2025-2026 Readings and Talks

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, the Lannan Center hosted a conversation between Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera and Carmen Lamas (Latinx Literary Culture Professor at the University of Virginia).

February 10, 2026 • 57:24

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