This evening invites two leading psychoanalytic writers and thinkers to stage an encounter between psychoanalysis and poetry. What is psychoanalysis as a mode of linguistic experimentation? What is poetry as an engagement with the unconscious, desire, madness, and treatment? Jamieson Webster, psychoanalyst and author of On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (2025), and Hannah Zeavin, historian and […]

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. In Fugitive Tilts, Ishion Hutchinson, the author House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered […]

About the Poets: Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the GLCA New Writers Award. In his much anticipated second collection, Your Emergency Contact Is Experiencing An Emergency (BOA Editions, […]

A reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge hosted by MFA student Elijah Jackson, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Authors: Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Hello, the Roses, Empathy, I Love Artists, and A Treatise on Stars, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her collaborations include works […]

A reading by Brenda Hillman and Wendy Xu, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Poets: Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. She has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, EmPress, A Minus Press, and Albion Books and […]

Co-presented with New Directions Please join us for a special evening celebrating the revered poet Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), and the publication of a new landmark selection of his incendiary, sensual verse Love Is a Dangerous Word. The legacy of the late, great Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as […]

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 event is sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine. Readers for our National Poetry Month Edition are Rita Dove, Jennifer Espinoza, Majda Gama, Julia Kolchinsky, […]