Join us for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on Friday, November 7th, featuring poets Jasmine Reid, Keetje Kuipers and José Olivarez! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.

About the Poets:

Jasmine Reid is a poet for the people and the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020) and Interlocutor Goddess (Autumn House Press, 2025). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Jerome Foundation and Poets House, her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is a community organizer and assistant professor at NYU. Find her at her reidjasmine.com.

Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Previously a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Keetje is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest, and teaches at the dual-language writers’ gathering Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she co-directs the Headwaters Reading Series for Health & Well-Being and keeps an eye out for bears in her backyard.

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and the author of two collections of poems, including, most recently, Promises of Gold—which was long listed for the 2023 National Book Awards. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. Along with Felicia Rose Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he co-edited the poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. Alongside Antonio Salazar, he published the hybrid book, Por Siempre in 2023. José Olivarez received a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He lives in Jersey City, NJ.