Join us at 144 Montague or online via Zoom for an evening of poetry in solidarity with & support of Sudan including an open mic and featured readings by Dalia Elhassan, Hafizah Geter, Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Ladan Osman, hosted and curated by Amina Iro. All proceeds will be donated to the Sudanese American Physicians Association […]

In-person  |  Friday  |  May 3  |  7-9pm  |  Free and open to the public. Readings: 7-8pm Refreshments 8-9pm After an extended in-person absence, Marsh Hawk Press is happy to invite the community to a book launch celebrating five recent titles. These include poetry collections as well as poetic memoirs from the Chapter One: On Becoming a Poet […]

Reading and conversation: 7-8pm Refreshments: 8-9pm Rosebud Ben-Oni and Megan Fernandes, whose highly acclaimed books were published during the pandemic, will have a conversation about the challenges of writing in that time. This event is part of the celebration of the 28th Poets House Showcase: Books of the Pandemic. About the Authors: Born to a Mexican mother and […]

Emily Johnson and Cuthwulf Eileen Myles are two multi-hypenate artist powerhouses and dear Poetry Project friends whose works and lives and working lives think through the knot of desire, connection, futurity, relationships, the land, time, life, memory, death, just about everything else. This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.

Critically-acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky presents Ukrainian poetry featured in the collection In the Hour of War, joined by fellow poets and translators Yuliya Musakovska and Olena Jennings. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. At this event, award-winning poet and author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa Ilya Kaminsky will introduce […]

The poems in Joyelle McSweeney and Eleni Sikelianos’s new books, Death Styles and Your Kingdom, echo and vibrate the psychic and material conditions of survival, guided by complicated interconnections that exceed solace or comfort, that bind us to living and dying histories, to histories of living and dying. Featuring introductions by Aristilde Kirby and Sarah Riggs This event will also be livestreamed for free […]

Refreshments 8-9pm John Keene, the National Book Award Winner for Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021) is joined by poet and performance artist, Pamela Sneed, the author of Funeral Diva (City Lights, 2020). Each poet will read from their books and contribute to a wide-ranging conversation from coming of age during the AIDS epidemic to publishing new poetry amidst […]

About the Authors: Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Purgatorio, and Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from […]