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 […]

A poetry reading featuring Cave Canem fellows Marwa Helal, Raymond Antrobus, makalani bandele, and Aricka Foreman. Liberation is not only the antonym of oppression, it is its antidote. Poets have often used their medium to advance the discourse of liberation and the practice of it in their interior lives and external communities; and, as June […]

Join Hachette Book Group and Kundiman for this special Lunar New Year party in downtown Brooklyn, hosted by Youngmi Mayer and featuring readings and book signings from renowned authors Curtis Chin, Kat Chow, Janine Joseph, Subhashini Kaligotla, Sahar Muradi, and Matthew Salesses, with food and drinks from local vendors! We’ll celebrate the power of community and storytelling as we gather to ring in […]

Readings by Michael Dumanis and Dorothea Lasky, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Michael Dumanis is the author of the poetry collections Creature (Four Way Books, 2023) and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is […]

About the Authors: Andrea Cohen is the author of eight collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024). Cohen’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several residencies at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry […]

Join us for our next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event at 144 Montague on Friday, February 16, featuring poets Sarah Ghazal Ali, V. Penelope Pelizzon and Diana Khoi Nguyen! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Wine reception for in-person attendees will begin at 6 PM and readings […]

In their new books, Border Wisdom and fox woman get out!, Ahmad Almallah and India Lena González, illuminate and blur at the thresholds of history and memory, living and dying, the body and the earth and the air. For future ancestors, holding both loss and return, these poems help us envision the liberation of all occupied homelands. Featuring a guest introduction […]

oin us for the launch of poet Rachel Edelman's new collection of poems, Dear Memphis, on Saturday, February 17, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for a wine reception for in-person guests at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Lynne Sachs and Diane Exavier will open for Edelman. Book signing […]

Imogen Binnie and Evan Kennedy drive punk sensibility into queer literature at high speed. Maybe they would each contest that description, if punk is a thing of the past. Binnie’s Nevada (Topside Press, 2013; FSG, 2022) and Kennedy’s Metamorphoses (City Lights, 2023) are books filled with raucous sociality, gay lust for life, comic misapprehension, formal variety, urban dramedy. If it’s not punk, […]

Readings by NYU MFA alumni, A.H. Jerriod Avant, J.D. Debris, and January O’Neill, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: A. H. Jerriod Avant is the author of Muscadine (2023) from Four Way Books. He is from Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, Avant […]

Join us for the Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open, which begins with an open mic and culminates in readings by two featured poets. Our featured poets on February 23rd will be Ann Herendeen & Amatan Noor. 6:00 PM: open mic signup begins 6:30 to 7:45 PM: open mic 8 to 8:30 PM: featured readers Each reader […]

Join Brooklyn Poets on Saturday, February 24, for the return of Page Meets Stage, a poetry series founded in 2005 and curated by poet Taylor Mali. Featured poets Terrance Hayes and s.e. zelalem will read poems back and forth in a creative conversation, and Mali will emcee and ask the poets questions. Doors will open for a […]

A multimedia soirée with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte weaving & braiding their individual & shared travails. Domopoetics is the name Joris & Peyrafitte give to 34 years of daily practices in transforming & intertwining their lives & works, be it through writing, painting, video, physical conditioning, cooking & all other shared household activities. Karstic refers to the geological phenomena of […]

Celebrated writer Claudia Rankine '93 returns to Columbia University School of the Arts for the first of a new series of events, “Speak Now,” organized by Interim Dean and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole. About the Author: Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American […]

Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Kundiman. Curated by Cathy Linh Che. How can the work of writers contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of community organizations contribute to creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? […]

In torqued sentences, detourned phrases, philosophical excavations and punishing satire, Nora Treatbaby and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim make war on the real world. Our Air, Treatbaby’s full-length debut (Nightboat, 2024), builds on the titular promise of her chapbook Hope Is Weird. Zenia’s bitterly ironic Tel Aviv (Porosity Press, 2021) urges a fierce opposition to the fatal logic of the present. Together, they […]