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 […]

RSVP Required  Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. This beautiful, slender collection—small and weighted like a coin—is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as they are virtuosic. “Not the meaning,” Phillips writes, “but the meaningfulness of […]

A Reading by Mira Rosenthal and Tomasz Rozycki with Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Mira Rosenthal is the author of Territorial, a Pitt Poetry Series selection and finalist for the INDIES Book of the Year award, and The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. […]

Please join PPOW, Primary Information, and The Poetry Project in celebrating the publication of Martin Wong’s Footprints, Poems, and Leaves and Das Puke Book! Featuring readings by Wo Chan, Lydia Cortés, Christopher “Daze” Ellis, Antonia Kuo, Eugene Lim, Emily Zhou, and others TBA! Self-published in 1968, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves collects dozens of poems written by Martin Wong between 1966 and 1968. Hand-written in a signature calligraphic […]

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 on poetics, feminism, and politics have been collected in Moving Borders: […]

Readings by Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of […]

Event guidelines: Doors will open at 6PM, and the reading will begin at 7PM. All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Additional copies of the authors' books will be available for purchase at the event. Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise. […]

How do we think our way through memory? How do we memory our way through thought? Poets Samuel Espíndola Hernández and Jimin Seo undo any false diametrics figured by these questions, revealing memory and thought to be the same circle, the same doorway to/from the same house. Featuring guest introductions by Kyle Dacuyan and Cedar Sigo. This event will also be livestreamed […]

Poets and organizers Zaina Alsous and Dana Ysabel Dela Cruz make work of resistance and refusal, challenging colonial narratives and logics, invigorating new ways to dream and speak and move. This is poetry in service of struggle, transformative as birds in flight. Featuring guest introductions by Marwa Helal and Erica Hunt. This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's […]

Writer Terrance Hayes takes the Guggenheim stage to deliver an evening of poetry readings from his two newest books, So to Speak and Watch Your Language. Hayes will discuss how poetry and language can serve as powerful tools to process or challenge abstraction. So to Speak and Watch Your Language are companion texts combining poetry, sketches, and illustrated essays to consider the […]

Join us in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for an evening featuring renowned poet, playwright, and essayist Claudia Rankine. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Rankine is the author and editor of many poetry collections, including the New York Times best-selling Citizen: An American Lyric, […]

Ada Limón launches her signature project as the nation's Poet Laureate—a joyful and provocative anthology of nature poems commissioned from 50 of the most celebrated American poets. Join Limón for this evening of readings and conversation featuring contributors Ilya Kaminsky, Patricia Smith, and Kevin Young.

OFFSITE EVENT: ST. JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 PM Michael Ondaatje presents A Year of Last Things: Poems In conversation with Sonali Deraniyagala Tickets $28.00 (book included) Greenlight kicks off Poetry Month with a special event with Booker Prize winning author Michael Ondaatje: his long awaited return to poetry with the collection A Year of Last […]

He learned again the breaking line’s breath-like leap… Join Michael Ondaatje—Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient, Warlight, Anil’s Ghost, and other acclaimed works of fiction and memoir—as he reads from and discusses his new collection of poetry, A Year of Last Things, in conversation with Knopf editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin. “In A Year of Last Things, Ondaatje comes close to writing something […]

Latinx poets investigate the connections between Latinx identity, poetry, and language. This event will be held in person at the Bronx Library Center. FEATURING Denice Frohman Melissa Lozada-Oliva Urayoán Noel An all-star group of poets speak with Bronx Library Center staff about their experiences of being Latinx in the United States, declaim some of their poetry […]

A reading by Tyree Daye with Sharon Olds, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Tyree Daye was raised in Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), and River […]

Readings by Adrienne Chung, Lisa Olstein, and Rachel Zucker with Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Adrienne Chung is the author of Organs of Little Importance (Penguin 2023), a winner of the NationalPoetry Series. Her work has been published in The Yale Review, Joyland, Diagram,  and […]

Poets House is pleased to host an afternoon of exceptional poetry presented by Voices of Poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. This event features acclaimed poets Antoinette Brim-Bell, Poet Laureate of Connecticut; Chard DeNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont; Cornelius Eady, co-founder of Cave Canem; and Molly Peacock, former President of the Poetry Society of America. This event will take place in-person at Poets […]

Please join us for a  celebratory reception hosted by Cornelius Eady and Myra Shapiro. Eady will read from his chapbook, 706 Union Ave: Memphis Session (Kattywompus Press, 2020), and Shapiro will read from her book, When the World Walks Toward You (Kelsay Books, 2021). This event is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority. The 28th Poets House Showcase exhibit—the […]