Poetry & Language

Center For Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word

The purpose of the Harold Clurman Center for Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word is to explore the relationship between the actor and dramatic language, to celebrate dramatic and poetic language as a necessary but perhaps underappreciated aspect of the actor’s art and craft, and to open channels of communication between poets, playwrights, actors, directors, voice specialists, and critics in order to better understand issues of written and spoken language and the relationship between them. The Board of Advisors includes literary critic Harold Bloom, poet John Ashbery, poet Grace Schulman, and voice experts Cicely Berry, Andrew Wade, and Deborah Hecht.

The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series
The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series brings great poets to the Studio to read their work and, if interested, discuss their artistic process. Poetry readings are free and open to the public.

“In the true spirit of Harold Clurman, for which it was named, the poetry reading series at the Stella Adler Conservatory is marvelous for its inter-cultural daring. The audiences are exciting for their mix of young actors, writers, and dedicated readers. To appear there is to be fully aware of stage presence in reciting poetry and of the poetry in stage presence. At one reading, I picked up a wax rose from a stage set and presented it to one of the poets. It was wax, not real, but for me symbolic of the unity of theater and poetry. The two arts are inextricably joined.”
– Grace Schulman, Poet

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