For the first lecture event of the semester Professor Fred Moten has invited Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jeff Russell to give a poetry reading at the Department of Performance Studies! Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, scholar/critic, and collagist, and author of the long poem Drafts. Jeff Russell is a poet based in Durham, North Carolina, By […]

A rare U.S. appearance by Alice Oswald, one of our finest performers of poetry. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, her latest book of poems, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the […]

Mosab Abu Toha and Ammiel Alcalay's poetry bring new meaning to the act of witnessing, writing with and for the dead, summoning the living in a call to imagine anew—form an image of another world lying below the rubble of this world’s unending devastation. This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project's YouTube channel.

Worship the Lorde! Join us for a celebration of the inimitable Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992), a self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” on February 18, her birthday. Poets JP Howard, I.S. Jones, Zora Satchell, and Brad Walrond will read favorite poems or passages by Lorde alongside their own work, celebrating her visionary influence on their lives and work. Hosted and […]

Imani Elizabeth Jackson and Christopher Rey Pérez write against national allegiance, aligning instead with the land, its mud and water—slow geological shifts inscribed within restless migratory movements. From the Rio Grande Valley to the tidal rivers of New England, borders are cracked open, undone by overflowing socialites—a way of living and being with the land that’s inclusive of […]

Join us for our first Brooklyn Poets Reading Series of the year at 144 Montague on Friday, February 21st, featuring poets Asiya Wadud, Miller Oberman and Brad Walrond! 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 […]

About the Poets: Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The recipient of fellowships from […]

A poetry reading by Forrest Gander followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poet: Forrest Gander is a writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a […]

COUPLET is a quarterly reading series, produced, curated and hosted by poet Leah Umansky since 2011. It features both emerging and established poets and is co-hosted by The Red Room. This will Livestream on the IG live at @couplet_series on IG. The readers are: 1. Sarah Ghazal Ali 2. Tina Cane 3. Darren C. Demaree […]