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Ben Lerner: An Evening of Poetry at the Morgan

Join us in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for an evening featuring renowned poet and author Ben Lerner. For the annual Kenneth A. Lohf Poetry Reading, Lerner will read from his book, The Lights—a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in their unpredictability, in their intensities—the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.











When: Thu., May. 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.
212-685-0008
Price: $15
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Join us in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for an evening featuring renowned poet and author Ben Lerner. For the annual Kenneth A. Lohf Poetry Reading, Lerner will read from his book, The Lights—a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in their unpredictability, in their intensities—the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.

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