Readings
Greg Delanty’s recent online reading and talk for the publication of The Professor of Forgetting (LSU Press).
ALSCW - David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize Reading
Poet Greg Delanty has been named the first recipient of the David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize. The prize was established at Suffolk University through the generosity of the Ellen LaForge Memorial Foundation. It honors Ellen LaForge, a lifelong avid poetry lover and supporter, and poet and translator David Ferry. The prize, along with a $2,000 honorarium, is awarded to an accomplished poet who has also published books of translation.
Focus Reading: NO MORE TIME - CLIMATE CRISIS POEMS
“Burlington, Vermont based poet Greg Delanty dedicates his latest book to all those who work to slow climate change. He reads several of his poems on the theme of extinction and humanity’s transformation of the ecological landscape.”
Cork Culture Night 2020
Greg Delanty reads from his poetry chapbook The King Of The Lam as part of Cork Culture Night 2020.
Poetry Passages: The Pearl
“Look, a natural defense
to whatever will damage,
hurt the small soul inside,
the soft-bodied creature,
mollusk: oyster or mussel…”
Published in the Atlantic in 2022
Irish poet Greg Delanty, author most recently of The Ship of Birth: Poems, reads from his poetry and discusses both poetry and politics, as part of a poetry series sponsored by the University Professors Program and the BU Humanities Foundation. Poetry is worth the attention it requires, Delanty insists, and he reads poems about his mother, his changing native Ireland, God and the divine, the nature of tragedy, and the natural world, among other topics, and a series of "American sonnets." Hosted by University Professors Program and the Humanities Foundation at Boston University on April 12, 2007.