Proceeding from radically different angles—a sprawling polyphony of influences and procedural constraints—Kimberly Alidio and Grace Nissan each engage in acts of world-making, and by extension, in acts of undoing. Through grief and its close relation to utopia, language becomes a site of (de)composition, signaling an ethics that lives between what is and what could be. Guest introduction by […]

Over the last ten years philosopher-artist Denise Ferreira da Silva and artist-writer Arjuna Neuman have collaborated on a series of films and artworks that they call Elemental Cinema. In these works, the four elements — water, earth, fire, air — inform the artists’ considerations of questions such as: How can we understand existence other than from the post-Enlightenment notions […]

Please join us for an evening celebrating the publication of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez (Nightboat, 2025), edited by Margaret Busby, with a foreword by Sapphire. Jayne Cortez (1934–2012)—a renowned member of the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa—was a prolific poet, having published twelve books and nine recordings […]

Aria Aber, Rachel Mannheimer, Maggie Millner & Leigh Sugar: Poetry Reading A reading by Aria Aber, Rachel Mannheimer, Maggie Millner, and Leigh Sugar, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, October 10, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers […]

Join us to celebrate 14 years of Leah Umansky's reading series, COUPLET! About the Poets: Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s […]

An evening of sonic investigations with the tonal geologist Ryan C. Clarke and the sound and performance duo SCRAAATCH. Clarke will present a performance lecture and listening session in conversation with various expanded Caribbean thinkers (Tom Dent, Wilson Harris, Clyde Woods, Sylvia Wynter, etc.) that will be a circulatory call and response to techno's subversive social and spiritual […]

About the Poets: Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. Her books include Pause the Document (2025), Repetition Nineteen (2020), Public Domain (2008), and Talk Shows (2007). De la Torre has edited BOMB Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College. Rodrigo Toscano is the author […]

Join us for an insightful evening with acclaimed writers James P. Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl—two resonant voices reflecting on life, memory, mentorship, and the power of writing. Lenfestey will read from his newest book Time Remaining (Milkweed, 2025)—a stirring meditation on aging, memory, and the enduring beauty of language in life’s later chapters. Ruhl will read from her newest collection of […]

Invested in the lyric and its troubled relationship to the social, Sol Cabrini and Juliana Spahr's poems emerge from the tense proximity between moments of lyrical devotion and scenes of everyday violence (“the grain of grass / the motor’s hum / the moon’s denial / each sunbeam a demonstration of complicity,” Cabrini). To be attuned to “nature”—even possibly […]

Join us for a launch party and reading by poets featured in the new anthology Poetry Is Not A Luxury (Simon & Schuster, 2025) curated by the creator of the @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account. Featuring Dorothea Lasky, J. Mae Barizo, Jason Schneiderman, Wendy Xu, Jose Olivarez, Thomas Dooley, Noelle Kocot, Elizabeth Metzger, and Nour Al Ghraowi.

An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. Drawing from six previously published books—including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things—as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns—the strangeness of our […]

Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language, translingual borders, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. Day 1 Schedule: 6:00pm Welcome Reception 7:00pm James Welch Prize Reading: Chris Hoshnic, Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo, dg nanouk okpik. Hosted by Keetje Kuipers 8:00pm Night 1 Reading: Kimberly Blaeser, Bonney Hartley, m.s. RedCherries. Hosted by Rob Arnold About the James Welch […]

Alystyre Julian’s Outrider is the first feature-length portrait of Grammy-nominated, epic poet, performer, and activist Anne Waldman. Outrider collaborates with Waldman as a person woven of poetry, an inimitable creative and social force dedicated to the propulsion of the artistic imagination and the generative collaborations which form in its wake. The film moves within Waldman’s artistic circles and poetic vortex, […]

Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language, translingual borders, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. Day 2 Schedule: 11:30am Panel Discussion: Chris Hoshnic, Elise Paschen, Kimberly Blaeser Translational Migrations: Indigenous Languages and Bilingual Poetics This panel explores the possibilities of translation in Indigenous languages and the creative potential of […]

About the Poets: Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Northern California. She has been publishing poetry and fiction for 50 years. Her recent titles include Which Walks (2025), Personal Volcano (2019), Who That Divines (2014), all from Nightboat Books. She lives in Richmond, CA. Kevin Holden is a poet, […]

In this limited series designed by 2025 Poet-in-Residence Traci Brimhall, contemporary poets will guide visitors in a lucid “dream walk” of the Guggenheim, leading participants on a journey not of answers, but of unfolding questions. Rather than looking to art and poems for wisdom, how can the questions that they inspire be a better lantern […]

Prose shatters the social contract between reader, writer, and author; the conventions that once partitioned “reality” from the world of the book no longer hold. Language begins to leak, entering us through a strangeness akin to a linguistic séance. Suddenly, we’re becoming character, wondering how to move in a world where Alexis Almeida and Lara Mimosa Montes, each […]

In October 2024, a few hundred writers and book workers signed an open letter boycotting Israeli literary and cultural institutions that are complicit in violating Palestinian rights, and/or have not recognized those rights publicly. Within a week, more than 5,500 more writers and book workers joined them in taking this position. The unprecedented size of […]

About the Poets: D. A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His most recent book is Repast: Tea, Lunch & Cocktails, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. His honors include the […]

Jameson Fitzpatrick, Ariana Reines & Emily Skillings: Poetry Reading A reading by poets Jameson Fitzpatrick, Ariana Reines, and Emily Skillings, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, October 24, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here *** About the Poets: Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks […]

This evening pairs two interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of video and poetry to share work alongside and with each other: Ricardo Bracho, a writer and educator known for his queer anti-capitalist plays, and Andrew Demirjian, an artist and educator working across a variety of media to re-mix and re-compose belonging beyond the nation state. In […]