{"title": "Fully Registered: Virgil's Eternal Aeneid, with Jane Mallison", "start": "2026-11-04T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$150 for the six sessions (recommended) or $30 per session", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/classics"], "description": "A members-only seminar at The New York Society Library reading Virgil's Aeneid in the new English translation by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright. Led by Jane Mallison, this session covers Books 5 and 6, following the Trojan hero Aeneas on his westward journey in search of a new homeland. 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It welcomes adults who join the discussion at the branch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tompkins-square-library-monthly-adult-book-group-reading-dis-116616/", "official_url": "https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2026/11/10/tompkins-square-library-monthly-adult-book-group-reading-discussing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d30f9920f8d114d1c40b19f3de12be366ce090f7b59ba6d5aac8469a4e44265-600.webp"}, {"title": "Verge Books Book Launch: The Tablets: Selected Poems and Translations by Armand Schwerner", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Verge Books holds a celebration of the life and work of the poet Armand Schwerner at Poets House, marking a new volume of his selected poems and translations. Speakers including Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Nicole Peyrafitte, Charles Bernstein, Ellen Zweig, Adam Schwerner, and Charlie Morrow offer tributes in music, film, and poetry. The centerpiece, The Tablets, is a work written over decades imagining a trove of Assyriological texts that explores translation, interpretation, and how language generates meaning, with the poet inhabiting a scholar-translator offering tentative, often contradictory readings in an ersatz archaeology both comic and spiritual. The volume also gathers a generous selection of Schwerner's translations and shorter poems.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/verge-books-book-launch-the-tablets-selected-poems-and-trans-86669/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}