Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity

“The fascination of cities,” wrote Langston Hughes, “seizes me, burning like a fever in the blood.” In their new anthology Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity, Jed Rasula and Tim Conley reshape the poetic landscape of modernism, collecting poems — inspired by Paris, Cracow, Buenos Aires and many other urban hubs — that reflect all the feverish innovations of that era. Join poet and scholar Jed Rasula for a reading and conversation with Josh Schneiderman.