Center for Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word
The purpose of The Harold Clurman Center for Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word is to explore the relationship between the actor and dramatic language, to celebrate dramatic and poetic language as a necessary but perhaps under-appreciated aspect of the actor’s art and craft, and to open channels of communication between poets, playwrights, actors, directors, voice specialists and critics in order to better understand issues of written and spoken language and the relationship between them. The Board of Advisors for this Center is Literary Critic Harold Bloom, Poet John Ashbery, Poet Grace Schulman, Voice Experts Cicely Berry, Andrew Wade and Deborah Hecht.
“In the true spirit of Harold Clurman, for which it was named, the poetry reading series at the Stella Adler Conservatory is marvelous for its inter-cultural daring. The audiences are exciting for their mix of young actors, writers, and dedicated readers. To appear there is to be fully aware of stage presence in reciting poetry and of the poetry in stage presence. At one reading, I picked up a wax rose from a stage set and presented it to one of the poets. It was wax, not real, but for me symbolic of the unity of theater and poetry. The two arts are inextricably joined.”
– Grace Schulman, Poet
Next Event
An Evening of Poetry with Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate
Tuesday, November 15th, 2023 at 7:00pm ET
Location: Studio T1
Free and open to the public!
Poet Laureate
Award-Winning Writer Sonia Sanchez is Poet Laureate in perpetuity.
Poet in Residence
Award Winning Writer Mark Doty is the 2021-2022 Poet-in-Residence.
Previous Poet-in-Residence Artists include:
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, 2020-2021
Grace Schulman, 2019-2020
Gregory Pardlo, 2018-2019
Idra Novey, 2017-2018
Yusef Komunyakaa, 2016-2017
Sonia Sanchez, 2015-2016
The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series
The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series, created in 1997, brings great poets to the Studio to read their work and, if interested, discuss their artistic process. Poetry readings are free and open to the public.
Participating Artists Include:
| John Ashbery Erin Belieu Harold Bloom Susan Baron Alexander Chee Marc Cohen Henri Cole Alfred Corn Darian Dauchan Deborah Diggs Mark Doty Carol Muske Dukes Marcella Durand Cornelius Eady Jonathan Galassi Forrest Gander Manuel Gonzalez Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas |
Gerrit Henry Edward Hirsh Saeed Jones Galway Kinnell Kenneth Koch Yusef Komunyakka Li-Young Lee David Lehman Philip Levine Anne Marie Macari Cate Marvin Jeffrey McDaniel Stanley Moss Peter Nickowitz Idra Novey Sharon Olds Gregory Pardlo Molly Peacock Robert Pinsky |
Liam Rector F.D. Reeve Eugene Richie Grace Schulman Martha Serpas Ravi Shankar Reginald Shephard James Sherry Evie Shockley Charles Simic Jonathan Skinner Patricia Smith Gerald Stern Mark Strand James Tate Susan Wheeler C.K. Williams Jerry Williams |
