Every year on January 1st—for fifty rowdy, enduring, and improbable years—The Poetry Project and its friends, lovers, and co-conspirators have gathered for the New Year's Day Marathon. What began as a reading of thirty-odd poets has grown into a twelve-hour-long spectacle of 150 performances. The New Year's Day Marathon is The Poetry Project's signature event and […]
About the Authors: Natalie Diaz was born on the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of […]
About the Authors: Erica Hunt is the author of Local History, Arcade, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, VERONICA: A Suite in X Parts and, most recently, Jump the Clock. Hunt's poems and non-fiction […]
Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence Mahogany L. Browne continues her Seen, Sound, Scribe series, curating thought-provoking and often politically driven evenings of spoken word, spirited conversation, and presentations of new work. The January […]
We’re thrilled to announce that Poets House will reopen the doors of our home for poetry on Saturday, January 27 with a community-wide Reopening Celebration from 3-6 pm, featuring performances by the Cornelius Eady […]
Spectral Evidence is Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest. This new collection moves among considerations of the professional wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only […]