Anne Carson: On Corners

In partnership with the Onassis Cultural Center New York, LIVE welcomes award-winning poet, celebrated translator, and professor of Ancient Greek, Anne Carson, to deliver an illustrated lecture, "On Corners." Presenting a range of texts and figures both classic and contemporary, Carson will touch on inspirations from Homer’s Odyssey, Aristotle, and Sophokles, to Samuel Beckett, Borges, James Turrell, and many more.

Co-presented with the Onassis Cultural Center New York.

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ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.