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BPL Presents welcomes Edwidge Danticat, Mahogany L. Browne & Renée Watson, who lead this tribute to a true American original: the poet Nikki Giovanni. The conversation will be led by Rebecca Carroll.  Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—The New Book—is a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as […]

To commemorate the closing of Erasures: Mary Ruefle, join us for a craft talk on Ruefle’s work from the poet Mark Wunderlich. Beginning in 1998 and continuing as part of her ongoing work, former Vermont State Poet Laureate Mary Ruefle has produced a series of altered books from which she creates poetic texts in a process called erasure, which Ruefle […]

Book Launch: Kevin Young presents Night Watch: Poems In conversation with Vinson Cunningham Wine reception to follow Award-winning poet and poetry editor of The New Yorker Kevin Young launches his newest collection Night Watch, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal. Following on his exquisite Stones, Young’s new […]

Join us for the launch of Gbenga Adesina's debut book of poetry, Death Does Not End at the Sea, on Friday, September 5 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Camonghne Felix will open for Adesina, and a Q&A with the poets will […]

In a world fraying at its edges – through displacement, climate threat, and spiritual fatigue – what remains sacred? What sounds, what languages, what ancestral echoes do we still carry? The Island Isn’t Silent brings together three powerful Caribbean voices, Jason Allen-Paisant, Kei Miller, and Lauren K. Alleyne, to reflect on poetry’s ability to map […]

Side A is the first half of a two-part poetic experience exploring the vast terrain of Caribbean identity and memory. This showcase gathers two acclaimed poets whose work charts a course through personal and collective reckonings. In this intimate and ceremonial session, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Trinidadian poet and mother of the late Phife Dawg of A […]

The Mouth of the Root: On Oral Tradition and Living Memory hosted by Derron Sandy Guest Poets: Derron Sandy (TT), Jason Allen-Paisant (JA), Rosamond S. King (TT), Kei Miller (JA), Ras Atiba (JA), Nadia Alexis (HT) Side B - The Mouth of the Root is the rhythmic counterpart to Side A’s reflective register - a […]

Book Launch: Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith present The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward In conversation with Hala Alyan, Aubrey Hirsch, Mira Jacob, and Chase Strangio Tickets $25 (book included) Acclaimed and award-winning authors Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith launch The People's Project,  a liberatory anthology of twenty-six writers—a community in book form—charting […]

A reading by Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Kevin Young, hosted by Terrance Hayes, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name. She received her MFA from New York University, was the 2020–2021 […]

A reading by Sarah Aziza, Megan Pinto, and Katie Yee, co-sponsored with Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Sarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, […]

Poet, memoirist, and translator Ron Padgett discusses the friendship between two New York School poets. A fifteen-minute Q&A will follow this thirty-minute lecture. Ron Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of […]

Experience the newest poetry collections from CAConrad and Golden. CAConrad engages with extinction and regeneration within the Anthropocene in Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024). CAConrad’s electrifying sculptural poems ebb and flow like a current and as each new piece is formed, they collapse, eternally returning to themselves. Golden’s second collection, Reprise (Haymarket, 2025), is also a book of […]

Books Are Magic presents our second annual Small Press Small Fest, highlighting some of our favorite independent publishers in NYC and beyond! Poetry. Novels. Memoirs. Works in translation. Picture books. This day has it all, and more! From 10:30am-5pm, come to our Montague store to celebrate some of our favorite indie presses, with readings and […]

Join McNally Jackson at Elizabeth Street Garden, as a poet or audience member, for the exciting Poetry in the Garden reading series, hosted biweekly on Summer Sundays at 5 p.m. For each reading, we ask poets to submit work connected to various themes. For September 14th, poets can focus on the theme of "armature" or […]

Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background. This salon will feature a […]

What do poetry, film, sound, and comedy have in common? Join us on September 16 for readings by Kimberly Alidio, Courtney Bush, Natalie Shapero, and Emily Skillings followed by a discussion and Q/A. Kimberly Alidio will read from Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions, 2025), a hybrid work exploring how art sustains us through grief, drawing on diasporic memory and sonic/visual media. Courtney Bush’s A […]

Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos celebrating their new poetry books. Puerto Rican writer and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz’s debut poetry collection From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions) and poet and translator Isabel Sobral Campos’s award-winning The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation (Futurepoem) are two extraordinary book-length poems which […]

Join Lost & Found and Litmus Press for an evening of reading, music, and conversation to celebrate and launch poet, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books (Litmus Press, 2025). Alcalay will be introduced by Zohra Saed, followed by a musical introduction by Safira Berrada-Riggs on ‘oud and vocals. CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work […]

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT. The Poetry Society of America celebrates twenty-three years of its Chapbook Fellowship with a reading by three poet-fellows, past and present: Isabella DeSendi (2019), David Gorin (2024), and Cecily Parks (2005). The poets’ award-winning chapbooks will be available for purchase. About the Poets: Isabella DeSendi is a Latina […]

Join us for our annual BPL Book Prize Shortlist Reading & Panel, featuring the shortlisted authors for 2025 BPL Book Prize. Fiction shortlist: The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera Hum by Helen Phillips In Universes by Emet North Nonfiction/poetry shortlist: Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking […]

Three Mile Harbor Press celebrates the publications of new poetry collections: Elizabeth Knapp’s Causa Sui, winner of the 8th annual Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Award, and Pamela Hughes’ long-awaited second full-length collection, Femistry. Come join us for a kick-off reading and book signing! About the Poets: Elizabeth Knapp is the author of two previous poetry collections, Requiem with an Amulet in […]

The poetry of The Atlantic has, from the magazine’s first issue in 1857, called attention to the unfinished project of the nation. Join us at McNally Jackson as The Atlantic's poetry editor, Walt Hunter, and the poets Joshua Bennett and Rita Dove discuss The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry, a collection of nearly 100 Atlantic poems infused with the language of America’s […]

Opening and closing every season with workshop readings reminds us of all the ways in which poetry is created through a sustained process of shared, communal work. Please join us in celebrating the work that emerged from our 2025 summer workshops, led by Drew Zeiba, Latif Askia Ba, Andrea Abi-Karam, and Maru Pabón and Yasmine Seale!

NYU English & the Some Contemporary Poetries (SCP) Initiative warmly invite you to Algarabía: A Reading and Conversation with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, hosted by Urayoán Noel. When: Tuesday September 23rd, 5:30 PM Where: Event Space, 244 Greene St Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayagüez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, educator, and translator of trans experience. The 2018-19 […]

Event guidelines: Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow the talk. The event will be livestreamed […]

Across cultural and political fronts and with extraordinary aesthetic ambition, Juliana Huxtable and Mohammed El-Kurd each have a singular gift for bringing people together with shared purpose. Both committed, radical thinkers of form, Huxtable and El-Kurd exert maximalist pressure on the given, on what’s there and could be made otherwise. In their relentless tears across genre and medium, with […]

About the Poet: Harryette Mullen is the award-winning author of several poetry collections, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Regaining Unconsciousness (Graywolf, September 2025). She teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. Author photo by Judy Natal.

Event guidelines: Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow the talk. The event will be livestreamed […]

Anthony Joseph & Jive Poetic with Terrance Hayes: Poetry Reading A reading by Anthony Joseph and Jive Poetic, hosted by Terrance Hayes, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, September 26, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair […]

Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport, Manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene. The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight […]

Join McNally Jackson at Elizabeth Street Garden, as a poet or audience member, for the exciting Poetry in the Garden reading series, hosted biweekly on Summer Sundays at 5 p.m. For each reading, we ask poets to submit work connected to various themes. For September 28th, poets can focus on the theme of "sign" or […]

Celebrating a Century of Poetry in The New Yorker Seriously Entertaining — House of SpeakEasy’s critically-acclaimed literary cabaret — is coming to powerHouse Books to Seriously Celebrate A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025. Join us to hear original storytelling from four poets featured in the anthology: Billy Collins, Vijay Seshadri, Bianca Stone, and Monica Youn. […]

Please join Poets & Writers for an evening of poetry and conversation featuring CYRUS CASSELLS winner of the 2025 Jackson Poetry Prize in conversation with PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 | 7PM EDT THE GREENE SPACE, NEW YORK CITY This event will also be livestreamed. Tickets required. Register here. About the Poets: CYRUS CASSELLS, the […]

Event guidelines: Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow the talk. Home address is collected for […]