Poetry readings by Hala Alyan, Megan Fernandes, and Edgar Kunz, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, […]

Please join us at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore for a conversation between poet Jena Osman and artist and founder of DABA Press Adam Pendleton, to mark the launch of Osman's 'A Very Large Array: Selected Poems' (DABA, 2023) In-person or Livestream on Instagram @artbooksps1 Osman's writing reinvents poetry as an instrument for dissecting vision, […]

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Erin Marie Lynch for a reading of her debut poetry collection, Removal Acts, along with an audience Q&A and book signing. Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, Removal Acts reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence and, with "critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn" (Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat), traces […]

Featuring Marilyn Chin, Carolyn Forché, Nikky Finney, Marie Howe, Ed Roberson, Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center teams with the Academy of American Poets to present its annual Chancellors’ reading, featuring Marilyn Chin, Carolyn Forché, Nikky Finney, Marie Howe, Ed Roberson, Tracy K. Smith, Patricia Smith, and Natasha Trethewey.

We at the Poetry Project stand in solidarity with Palestinians in occupied Palestine, in Gaza, and in the global diaspora; and commit to ongoing organizational efforts toward Palestinian liberation. As an organization and as individuals, we demand an end to the ongoing occupation of Palestine and an end to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We […]

Poetry readings by Gillian Conoley and Annelyse Gelman, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Gillian Conoley is a poet, editor, and translator. Her new collection is Notes from the Passenger with Nightboat Books May 2023. The author of ten collections of poetry, Conoley received the Shelley Memorial Award […]

An evening celebrating the release of OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics, edited by Michael Nardone, featuring performances and readings by Cecilia Vicuña and Raven Chacon. Nardone writes in his afterword to the collection that “the domain of the aural opens, at once, on to the act of composition and on to the iterative context of a composition’s reception; it comprises embodiment(s) […]

Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents 2023-24 Resident Poet Evie Shockley and Terrance Hayes Tuesday, October 31 at 7pm Live and in person at the studio Free and open to the public

Terrance Hayes’s new poetry collection, So to Speak, explores how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. Published on the same day, Watch Your Language uses drawings and essays to reimagine reading as an imaginative and critical act of observing language. Hayes shares these collections and is joined by […]

Members of the literary community will read from All Souls, the posthumously published collection by Saskia Hamilton, whose poems and lyric fragments transform fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Readers will include Catherine Barnett, Susan Bernofsky, Maureen N. McLane, Maya Popa, Alice Quinn, James Fenton, Rosanna Warren, Sharon Olds, and others. All […]

Readings by J. Mae Barizo, Ava Chin, Bushra Rehman, and Jenny Xie followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist and the author of two books of poetry: Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect. […]

The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the "emerging writers") from a mix of genres reading alongside a headlining author. Tonight's headliner is Safia Elhillo, featuring the talents of Cassi Quayson, Clare Flanagan, Dasia Moore, and Farah Barqawi, and hosted by Migwi Mwangi. The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the "emerging writers") from a mix of genres reading […]