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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]