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 the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O’odham). Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, finalist for the National […]
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 have appeared in BOMB, Boundary 2, Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, FENCE, Hambone, In the American Tree and Conjunctions. among other publications. Essays […]
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 20 iteration features recitation and interviews with the poet and NEA and Cave Canem Fellow Nicole Sealey (Ordinary Beast, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are […]
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 Trio, and readings by Monica Youn, and others TBA. This event is free and open to the public with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority. […]
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 Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia […]