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 […]

A true poet’s poet, lover’s poet, everybody’s poet, James Schuyler was a dear and committed friend and mentor to many in the Poetry Project's community, and generations later remains a reason many of us are poets at all. Please join us as we celebrate the centenary birthday of this beloved New York icon with a performance of […]

Please join us for "The Perhaps Unexpected," a reading and conversation with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Dr. Rosamond S. King, two poets whose work is rooted in critical engagement with the real and gives rise to radical imaginaries. Recognized for their finely calibrated environments and richly interdependent publics, small island nations find themselves on the frontlines of […]

Poetry readings by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Katie Farris’s most recent book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), was recommended by The New York Times and listed as Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 […]

About the Authors Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize, and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his […]

In this second day of the Poetry Is Not a Luxury program, entitled Poetic License, poets and artists will share new work, work in-progress, and artistic reflections that express Lorde’s conviction that “poetry is not a luxury.” Featuring panel discussions, poetry readings, and performances, the day will be interspersed with moments of grounding and personal […]

A reading, live music, & visual art presentation What is the relationship between fleeing and feeling? How can the voices of those who came before - and the stutters that leaven those voices - carry into our present moment, mingling with our own? JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies asks what rites we need now and how poetry, […]

Join us for the launch of poet Alyson Gold Weinberg's debut poetry collection, Bellow & Hiss, on Wednesday, November 15, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for in-person guests at 6 PM and the reading will begin at 7 PM. Book signing to follow. Note that by attending this event, you agree […]

Registration required Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa and co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International […]

Click Here to reserve tickets for this event Join Poetry Ireland Residency Fellow, Nithy Kasa, and Cave Canem Fellow, Safia Jama at the Irish Arts Center Cave Canem has partnered with Poetry Ireland in its International Residencies program, I bhFad igCéin (Far Afield), to bring a poet to The City to write and experience the literary life abroad. At the end of her […]

A reading to celebrate the new collection, Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate, featuring Michael Earl Craig, Dorothea Lasky, Matthew Rohrer, Sampson Starkweather, Bianca Stone, and Ocean Vuong.  Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here.

Join Heid E. Erdrich and the 2023 James Welch Prize winning poets J.K. Tsosie and Kalehua Kim for an in-person reading and celebration of their work. Presented in partnership with Poetry Northwest and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). Barrier-free entry for all, please RSVP below. In-person event Friday  |  Nov 17  |  6-8pm  |  Free About the winners: J.K. Tsosie is Diné—Bitter Water Clan and born for […]

Join us for the Lampblack Reading Series on Friday, October 20th at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) located at 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Featuring India Lena González, Jared Jackson, and Ama Codjoe! This event is free and open to the public. Limited seating (*priority will be given to people with disabilities). Cash […]

Featuring: Jericho Brown, Mark Bibbins, and Cate Marvin Hosted by: Erin Belieu, Carl Phillips, Michael Wiegers, and John Reed Poetry is vital to language and living. Since 1973, Copper Canyon Press has been publishing extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers. This 50th anniversary event celebrates the Press—and the many poets […]

Event guidelines: All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at […]

Registration required: Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and black study and has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the latest of which, written with Stefano […]

A poetry reading by Nick Laird in conversation with Terrance Hayes, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and critic. He is the author of several books, most recently, His many honors include the Eric Gregory Award, the […]

Come out for an incredible evening of poetry and performance with the legendary poet Anne Waldman and the students of Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Poet, curator, professor, performer, and cultural activist Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics […]