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SUMMARY:Reading: Kimberly Alidio + Grace Nissan
DESCRIPTION:Proceeding from radically different angles—a sprawling polyphony of influences and procedural constraints—Kimberly Alidio and Grace Nissan each engage in acts of world-making\, and by extension\, in acts of undoing. Through grief and its close relation to utopia\, language becomes a site of (de)composition\, signaling an ethics that lives between what is and what could be. \nGuest introduction by Oliver Silverman \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-kimberly-alidio-grace-nissan/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Denise Ferreira da Silva + Arjuna Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Over the last ten years philosopher-artist Denise Ferreira da Silva and artist-writer Arjuna Neuman have collaborated on a series of films and artworks that they call Elemental Cinema. In these works\, the four elements — water\, earth\, fire\, air — inform the artists’ considerations of questions such as: How can we understand existence other than from the post-Enlightenment notions of nature and world? What does it mean to disorder Western thinking? What other ways of knowing – across cultures\, time\, space\, and form – can we learn and relearn? The films are fractal compositions\, interfacing between the quantic\, cosmic\, organic\, and historic\, and drawing from visual arts\, sciences\, and philosophy. \nFor this night at The Poetry Project\, Ferreira da Silva and Neuman will come together to read from the script of the in-progress fifth and final film in their series. The film\, called Wild Fury / On Complicity\, turns to fire as a material for imagining together how the world was\, how it could be\, how it must be\, and how it wasn’t but could have been – anterior potentials\, future revivals\, and indeterminate urgencies. In a historical moment of deepening and maddening brutality\, the film blurs tenses in order to ask how rebellion and refusal look and feel in the past\, present\, and future simultaneously. In addition to their reading from Wild Fury\, Ferrera da Silva and Neuman will also present their 2020 film Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020) and engage the audience in a conversation about their practices.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-denise-ferreira-da-silva-arjuna-neuman/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening celebrating the publication of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez (Nightboat\, 2025)\, edited by Margaret Busby\, with a foreword by Sapphire. \nJayne Cortez (1934–2012)—a renowned member of the Black Arts Movement\, the Civil Rights Movement\, and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa—was a prolific poet\, having published twelve books and nine recordings of poetry\, among other artistic collaborations. Now\, for the first time\, readers can follow over four decades of Cortez’s creative and political life in one comprehensive volume. From her first collection\, Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man’s Wares (1969)\, to On the Imperial Highway (2008)\, the work is saturated with the blues-inflected sounds\, and promises\, of liberation; something “unruly\, uncompromising & persistent.” \nThe evening will feature a performance from Cortez’s band\, The Firespitters. Denardo Coleman\, Cortez’s son\, will be on drums. With readings by LaTasha Nevada Diggs\, Lois  Griffith\, Kyle Carrero Lopez\, Aja Monet\, Tracie Morris\, Quincy Troupe\, T’ai Freedom Ford\, Rosamond S. King\, Tangie Mitchell\, Jessica Care Moore\, Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez\, and Anne Waldman. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-celebration-of-firespitter-the-collected-poems-of-jayne-cortez/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Aria Aber\, Rachel Mannheimer\, Maggie Millner & Leigh Sugar: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Aria Aber\, Rachel Mannheimer\, Maggie Millner & Leigh Sugar: Poetry Reading \nA reading by Aria Aber\, Rachel Mannheimer\, Maggie Millner\, and Leigh Sugar\, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nFriday\, October 10\, 5pm \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nThe Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair accessible.  \n*** \nAbout the Poets: \nAria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection\, Hard Damage\, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and graduate student at USC\, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, New Republic\, The Yale Review\, Granta\, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German\, she writes in her third language\, English. She serves as the poetry editor of Amulet\, as a contributing editor at The Yale Review\, and works as an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Aber divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn. Her first novel GOOD GIRL was published by Hogarth (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2025. \nRachel Mannheimer was born and raised in Anchorage\, Alaska\, and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Her first book\, Earth Room\, was selected by Louise Glück as the inaugural winner of the Changes Book Prize and published in 2022. She works as a literary scout\, teaches poetry at Drew University\, and is a contributing editor at The Yale Review. \nMaggie Millner is the author of Couplets\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, one of The Atlantic‘s ten best books of 2023\, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Couplets has been (or will be) translated into six languages and published in seven countries. Maggie’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, POETRY\, Kenyon Review\, BOMB\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review. \nLeigh Sugar (she/her) is a Michigan-based disabled artist. Her debut collection\, FREELAND\, was a finalist for both the Alice James Award and the Jake Adam York Prize\, and is available as of June 2025  from Alice James Books. She also created and edited the anthology That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Poetry and Prose by Artists Teaching in Carceral Settings (New Village Press\, 2023). She is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland with the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. \nA graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing MFA in poetry\, Leigh also holds an MPA in criminal justice policy from John Jay College\, and has taught workshops and ongoing classes in settings including the Poetry Foundation\, Hugo House\, The Institute for Justice and Opportunity\, and various prisons. Leigh works for Rachel Zucker’s podcast\, Commonplace\, and lives in Ann Arbor\, MI\, with her pup Elmo. Learn more and say hi at www.leighksugar.com or on Instagram @lekasugar!
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/aria-aber-rachel-mannheimer-maggie-millner-leigh-sugar-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:The 14th Anniversary Edition of COUPLET Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate 14 years of Leah Umansky’s reading series\, COUPLET! \nAbout the Poets: \nMary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone\, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, A Doll for Throwing\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, Purgatorio\, and Paradiso\, as well as Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz\, and co-translated\, with Yuki Tanaka\, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \nDr. Taylor Byas\, Ph.D. is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, where she is a Features Editor for The Rumpus\, an Editorial Advisor for Jackleg Press\, a member of the Beloit Poetry Journal Editorial Board\, and a Poetry Editor-at-Large for Texas Review Press. Her debut full-length\, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times from Soft Skull Press\, won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award\, the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry\, and the 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her second full-length\, Resting Bitch Face\, was a September pick for Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club. \nDorothea Lasky is the author of several books\, including MEMORY and Mother. \nJanuary Gill O’Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024)\, Rewilding (2018)\, Misery Islands (2014)\, and Underlife (2009)\, all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012 to 2018\, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Poetry\, The Nation\, American Poetry Review\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Sierra\, and more. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, Cave Canem\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Beverly\, Massachusetts\, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025). \nJason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen\, 2024)\, as well as a book of essays Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry\, 2025)\, and the craft book Teaching Writing Through Poetry: An Introduction to Poetic Form (Bloomsbury\, 2025). He is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. \nLeah Umansky is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently\, OF TYRANT (Word Works Books 2024.) She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. She is the creator of the STAY BRAVE Substack which encourages women-identifying creatives to inspire other women-identifying creatives to stay brave in their creative pursuits. Her creative work has been featured on PBS and The Slowdown Podcast\, and in such places as The New York Times\, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day\, USA Today\, POETRY\, Bennington Review\, and American Poetry Review. She is an educator and writing coach who has taught workshops to all ages at such places as Poetry School London\, Poets House\, Hudson Valley Writers Center\, Memorial Sloan Kettering and elsewhere. She is working on a fourth collection of poems ORDINARY SPLENDOR\, on wonder\, joy and love. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/the-14th-anniversary-edition-of-couplet-reading-series/
LOCATION:Books are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Ryan C. Clarke + SCRAAATCH
DESCRIPTION:An evening of sonic investigations with the tonal geologist Ryan C. Clarke and the sound and performance duo SCRAAATCH. Clarke will present a performance lecture and listening session in conversation with various expanded Caribbean thinkers (Tom Dent\, Wilson Harris\, Clyde Woods\, Sylvia Wynter\, etc.) that will be a circulatory call and response to techno’s subversive social and spiritual tradition of agitated re-enchantment of the industrialized landscape of the West. SCRAAATCH will offer songs for the troubled heart\, prepared for electro-acoustic and electronic instruments and voice. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-ryan-c-clarke-scraaatch/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Mònica de la Torre at the Segue Series
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nMónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. Her books include Pause the Document (2025)\, Repetition Nineteen (2020)\, Public Domain (2008)\, and Talk Shows (2007). De la Torre has edited BOMB Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College. \nRodrigo Toscano is the author of twelve poetry books\, most recently WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA (Omnidawn)\, a National Poetry Series finalist. His Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books) was a National Poetry Series selection. His poetry has appeared in over twenty anthologies. He is a board member of the New Orleans Poetry Festival.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-monica-de-la-torre-at-the-segue-series/
LOCATION:Artists Space\, 11 Cortlandt Alley\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:New Works: James Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful evening with acclaimed writers James P. Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl—two resonant voices reflecting on life\, memory\, mentorship\, and the power of writing. Lenfestey will read from his newest book Time Remaining (Milkweed\, 2025)—a stirring meditation on aging\, memory\, and the enduring beauty of language in life’s later chapters. Ruhl will read from her newest collection of deeply personal essays\, Lessons from My Teachers (Simon & Schuster\, 2025)\, that documents the profound and lasting impacts of the bonds between a teacher and a student. \nReadings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room.. \nAbout the Authors: \nJames P. Lenfestey is the author of Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain\, a Minnesota Book Award finalist\, and multiple collections of essays and poems\, including A Marriage Book. He is also the editor of multiple anthologies\, including Robert Bly in This World (University of Minnesota Press). Lenfestey is a former college English instructor\, alternative school administrator\, marketing communications consultant\, and editorial writer for the Star Tribune\, where he won several Page One awards for excellence. As a journalist\, he covers education\, energy policy\, and climate science. He is chair of the Literary Witnesses poetry series\, teaches at the Mackinac Island Poetry Festival\, and lives in Minneapolis with his wife. \nSarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright\, author\, essayist\, and professor. Her plays include The Oldest Boy (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2016)\, Dear Elizabeth (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2016)\, Stage Kiss (Concord Theatricals\, 2015). Her plays In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (Theatre Communications Group\, 2010) and The Clean House (Samuel French\, 2007) were finalists for the Pulitzer prize in 2010 and 2005. Her plays have been produced worldwide and translated into fourteen languages. Originally from Chicago\, Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University\, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights\, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award\, and a Lilly Award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Photo by Greg Constanzo.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/new-works-james-lenfestey-and-sarah-ruhl/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Sol Cabrini + Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:Invested in the lyric and its troubled relationship to the social\, Sol Cabrini and Juliana Spahr‘s poems emerge from the tense proximity between moments of lyrical devotion and scenes of everyday violence (“the grain of grass / the motor’s hum / the moon’s denial / each sunbeam a demonstration of complicity\,” Cabrini). To be attuned to “nature”—even possibly enchanted by it—isn’t a retreat into escapism but its opposite: an intensification of what is here and exists. It’s easy to give up on poetry when the world is on fire; harder to insist that we need it precisely because of that reason. \nGuest introduction by Ethan Philbrick \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-sol-cabrini-juliana-spahr/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry is Not a Luxury
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a launch party and reading by poets featured in the new anthology Poetry Is Not A Luxury (Simon & Schuster\, 2025) curated by the creator of the @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account. \nFeaturing Dorothea Lasky\, J. Mae Barizo\, Jason Schneiderman\, Wendy Xu\, Jose Olivarez\, Thomas Dooley\, Noelle Kocot\, Elizabeth Metzger\, and Nour Al Ghraowi.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-is-not-a-luxury/
LOCATION:Wollman Hall\, The New School\, 65 West 11th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:In Person: Ada Limón with Patricia Smith\, Amber Tamblyn\, and Corey Stoll at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church with Books Are Magic
DESCRIPTION:An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic\, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. \nDrawing from six previously published books—including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind\, The Carrying\, and Bright Dead Things—as well as vibrant new work\, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity\, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns—the strangeness of our brief human lives\, the ever-changing nature of the universe—and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world. \nBoth a lush overview of her work and a powerful narrative of a poet’s life\, this curation embodies Limón’s capacity for “deep attention\,” her “power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires” (The New York Times). From the chaos of youthful desire\, to the waxing of love and loss\, to the precarity of our environment\, to the stars and beyond\, Limón’s poetry bears witness to the arc of all we know with patient lyricism and humble wonder. \n“A poet of ecstatic revelation” (Tracy K. Smith)\, Limón encourages us to meet our shared futures with open and hungry hearts\, assuring “What we are becoming\, we are / becoming together.” \nAbout the Authors: \nAda Limón is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the editor of the You Are Here anthology and the author of five collections of poems\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Bright Dead Things\, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She’s also the author of the picture book In Praise of Mystery based on the poem engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper. Limón is a MacArthur Fellow\, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and was named a TIME Woman of the Year. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, and American Poetry Review. She lives in Glen Ellen\, California. \nPatricia Smith is the author of ten books of poetry\, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scriber\, 2025)\, Unshuttered (Northwestern 2023)\, Incendiary Art (Northwestern 2017)\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the LA Times Book Prize\, the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press\, 2008)\, a National Book Award finalist. Smith is a 2024 inductee into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame\, as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a chancellor in the Academy of American Poets\, a Guggenheim fellow\, an National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University\, as well as a former distinguished professor for the City University of New York. Currently\, she is at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories. \nAmber Tamblyn is the author of seven books across genres\, including the critically acclaimed National Bestselling novel Any Man and poetry collection\, Dark Sparkler. She’s the creator of the popular newsletter Listening in the Dark\, an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress\, and award winning director. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, New York Magazine\, and the The Poetry Foundation\, among others. \nCorey Stoll is an actor working in theater\, film and television. Films include Midnight in Paris (Independent Spirit nomination)\, AntMan\, This is Where I Leave You\, West Side Story\, and First Man. TV credits include House of Cards (Golden Globe nomination)Billions\, and Girls. Theatre includes Appropriate (Tony nomination)\, Intimate apparel (Drama Desk nomination) Othello\, Julius Caesar\, and Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare in the Park\, Macbeth at csc. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/in-person-ada-limon-with-patricia-smith-amber-tamblyn-and-corey-stoll-at-st-ann-the-holy-trinity-church-with-books-are-magic/
LOCATION:St. Anne & The Holy Trinity Church\, 157 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Poetics: Chris Hoshnic\, Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo\, dg nanouk okpik\, Kim Blaeser\, Bonney Hartley\, m.s. RedCherries
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language\, translingual borders\, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. \nDay 1 Schedule:\n6:00pm Welcome Reception\n7:00pm James Welch Prize Reading: Chris Hoshnic\, Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo\, dg nanouk okpik. Hosted by Keetje Kuipers\n8:00pm Night 1 Reading: Kimberly Blaeser\, Bonney Hartley\, m.s. RedCherries. Hosted by Rob Arnold \nAbout the James Welch Prize Readers: \nChris Hoshnic is a Navajo poet\, playwright\, and filmmaker\, honored with the 2023 Indigenous Poets Prize for Hayden’s Ferry Review and the Poetry Northwest 2025 James Welch Prize. His fellowships include the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar\, UC-Berkeley Arts Research Center\, and the Diné Artisan and Authors Capacity Building Institute\, with support from Indigenous Nations Poets\, Playwrights Realm\, Tin House\, and others. He currently directs Diné Kids Film Club\, a career readiness project for young Indigenous people in the arts. \nDesireé Bewley Dallagiacomo is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is a poet and memoirist raised in the foothills of Northern California and the swamplands of Southeast Louisiana. She is the recipient of the 2025 James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry\, and she has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, The Harpo Foundation\, Tin House Writing Workshop\, and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, among others. Desireé received her BA in Feminist Studies and a certificate from the Visualizing Abolition Studies program from the University of California\, Santa Cruz and she is a poetry candidate in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She is writing about indigeneity\, class\, surveillance\, and the carceral state.  She is the founder of The Heart of It Writing Retreat & Residencies\, and with a team of writers and organizers\, she is procuring seed funding to steward land and creative space to house no-cost and low-cost retreats alongside other co-op creative projects. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, Sink\, was published by Button Poetry. \ndg nanouk okpik is Inupiaq\, Inuit from Alaska. okpik is the author of Blood Snow (Wave Books\, 2022)\, a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, and Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press\, 2012)\, which won the American Book Award and the May Sarton Award. okpik was also the recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship. \nAbout the Night One Readers: \nKimberly Blaeser\, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate\, is the author of works in several genres. Her six poetry collections include Ancient Light (2024)\, Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (2020)\, and Copper Yearning (2019). \nBonney Hartley (Munsee/Mohican) holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a 2024 and 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and a 2025 Forge Project Fellow. Her work has appeared in Stonecoast Review\, The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press)\, and Boundless (Amherst College Press)\, among others. She is a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community and founding member of Mohican Writers Circle. \nm.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation. Her debut\, mother (Penguin Books) was a finalist for the National Book Award.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/indigenous-poetics-chris-hoshnic-desiree-bewley-dallagiacomo-dg-nanouk-okpik-kim-blaeser-bonney-hartley-m-s-redcherries/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Outrider at The Poetry Project: "A map of legacy"
DESCRIPTION:Alystyre Julian’s Outrider is the first feature-length portrait of Grammy-nominated\, epic poet\, performer\, and activist Anne Waldman. Outrider collaborates with Waldman as a person woven of poetry\, an inimitable creative and social force dedicated to the propulsion of the artistic imagination and the generative collaborations which form in its wake. The film moves within Waldman’s artistic circles and poetic vortex\, to include Patti Smith\, Meredith Monk\, Bob Dylan\, Thurston Moore\, Pat Steir\, Fast Speaking Music and many poets of The Poetry Project and Naropa University. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-outrider-at-the-poetry-project-a-map-of-legacy/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Poetics: Tacey Atsitty\, Heid Erdrich\, Joan Naviyuk Kane\, Elise Paschen\, Nicole Wallace
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language\, translingual borders\, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. \nDay 2 Schedule: \n11:30am Panel Discussion: Chris Hoshnic\, Elise Paschen\, Kimberly Blaeser\nTranslational Migrations: Indigenous Languages and Bilingual Poetics\nThis panel explores the possibilities of translation in Indigenous languages and the creative potential of bilingualism in poetry. We approach translation as a migratory act\, one that reveals tensions\, ruptures\, and resonances between languages. Through poetry and dialogue\, we examine how linguistic interplay can foreground fragmentation\, resistance\, and hybridity. These intersections offer new modes of expression that honor Indigenous epistemologies while simultaneously interrogating colonial legacies.\n\n1:00pm Panel Discussion: Joan Naviyuk Kane\, Bonney Hartley\, Desiree Dallagiacomo\nCommunity and Visibility: Asserting Tribal Sovereignty through Literature\, Poetry and Art\nHow do we define Indigenous poetics outside the frameworks imposed by Western literary traditions? How can literature\, poetry\, and visual art serve as tools of resistance\, healing\, and sovereignty? How can we support Indigenous poetry for greater visibility and connection across geographical spaces? And how can we foster both critical thinking and creative responsibility to ensure visibility for all Native writers?\nThis panel explores the power of Indigenous artistic expression as a method of reclaiming narrative\, asserting tribal sovereignty\, and building sustainable\, community-driven platforms for visibility and support. We will consider how Indigenous poetics\, rooted in land\, language\, and lived experience\, resist colonial boundaries and offer expansive possibilities for cultural survival and transformation.\n\n2:30pm Panel Discussion: dg nanouk okpik\, Nicole Wallace\, m.s. Redcherries\nExperimental Poetry Practices in Indigenous Poetry\nPoetry has long served as a powerful tool for resistance and reclamation. This panel invites an exploration of how experimental poetic forms\, whether through hybridity\, genre-bending\, or documentary practices\, can be used to challenge and dismantle colonial narratives. We will explore work that engages with cross-genre innovation\, multilingualism\, archival interventions\, and other strategies that disrupt dominant histories. How might poetic form itself become a site of refusal\, recovery\, or reinvention?\n\n4:00pm Panel Discussion: Heid Erdrich\, Rob Arnold\, Tacey Atsitty\nReclamation\, Empowerment\, Repair\nPoetry has long served as a powerful tool for resistance and reclamation. This panel invites an exploration of how experimental poetic forms\, whether through hybridity\, genre-bending\, or documentary practices\, can be used to challenge and dismantle colonial narratives. We will explore work that engages with cross-genre innovation\, multilingualism\, archival interventions\, and other strategies that disrupt dominant histories. How might poetic form itself become a site of refusal\, recovery\, or reinvention?\n7:00pm Night 2 Reading: Tacey Atsitty\, Heid Erdrich\, Joan Naviyuk Kane\, Elise Paschen\, Nicole Wallace\, hosted by María Elisa Schmidt \nAbout the Night Two Readers: \nDr. Tacey M. Atsitty\, Diné (Navajo)\, is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). Atsitty is a recipient of the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry and other prizes. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts\, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY; EPOCH; Kenyon Review Online; Prairie Schooner; When the Light of the World Was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry; Leavings\, and other publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press\, 2018)\, and her second book is (At) Wrist (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2023). She is a member of the Advisory Council for BYU’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and a board member for Lightscatter Press. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Beloit College in Wisconsin\, where she lives with her husband. \nHeid E. Erdrich curates art exhibits\, teaches\, researches\, and collaborates with other artists. In 2024 she was the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate and in 2025 she served as the James Welch Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Montana Missoula. Erdrich is Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her most recent books are Boundless: Abundance in Native American Art and Literature (co-edited\, Amherst Press\, 2025) Verb Animate -Poems\, Prose\, and Prompts from Collaborative Acts (Trio House Press\, 2024) and National Poetry Series winner Little Big Bully (Penguin 2020). \nJoan Naviyuk Kane’s books of poetry include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (2009)\, Hyperboreal (2013)\,  Milk Black Carbon (2017)\, Dark Traffic (2021)\, and with snow pouring southward past the window (forthcoming in 2026) in addition to the chapbooks The Straits (2015)\, Sublingual (2018)\, A Few Lines in the Manifest (2018)\, Another Bright Departure (2019)\, Ex Machina (2023) and & all the ones who chose to leave her (forthcoming in 2028). Her edited volumes include the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (House of Anansi Press)\, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic (Wesleyan University Press)\, and the forthcoming Colonialism and the Environments: Past\, Presents\, Futures (Heidelberg University Press). A Guggenheim Fellow\, Radcliffe Fellow\, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow\, and Whiting Award and Paul Engle Prize recipient\, she’s a 2025 United States Artists Fellow raising her children in Oregon\, where she’s an Associate Professor at Reed College. \nElise Paschen\, an enrolled member of the Osage Nation\, is the author of Blood Wolf Moon\, Tallchief\, The Nightlife\, Bestiary\, Infidelities (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize)\, and Houses: Coasts. As an undergraduate at Harvard\, she received the Garrison Medal for poetry. She holds M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. Her poems have been published widely\, including Poetry Magazine\, The New Yorker\, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and The Best American Poetry. She has edited or co-edited numerous anthologies\, including The Eloquent Poem and The New York Times best-seller\, Poetry Speaks. A co-founder of Poetry in Motion\, Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \nNicole Wallace’s first chapbook\, WAASAMOWIN\, was published by IMP in 2019. Most recently\, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog\, A Perfect Vacuum\, and LitHub. They have also contributed to programs and publications celebrating the work and life of the late poet\, Diane Burns\, author of Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II\, 1981).
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/indigenous-poetics-tacey-atsitty-heid-erdrich-joan-naviyuk-kane-elise-paschen-nicole-wallace/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Segue Reading Series: Laura Moriarty and Kevin Holden
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nLaura Moriarty was born in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, and grew up in Northern California. She has been publishing poetry and fiction for 50 years. Her recent titles include Which Walks (2025)\, Personal Volcano (2019)\, Who That Divines (2014)\, all from Nightboat Books. She lives in Richmond\, CA. \nKevin Holden is a poet\, translator\, and essayist. His books include Pink Noise (2023)\, Solar (2015)\, which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Birch (2015)\, which won the Ahsahta Press Chapbook Award. He is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/segue-reading-series-laura-moriarty-and-kevin-holden/
LOCATION:Artists Space\, 11 Cortlandt Alley\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Museum Dream Walk with Traci Brimhall
DESCRIPTION:In this limited series designed by 2025 Poet-in-Residence Traci Brimhall\, contemporary poets will guide visitors in a lucid “dream walk” of the Guggenheim\, leading participants on a journey not of answers\, but of unfolding questions. \nRather than looking to art and poems for wisdom\, how can the questions that they inspire be a better lantern in the darkness? Stopping at select artworks chosen by each guiding poet\, participants will respond to poetry readings and generative prompts that invite them to ponder\, imagine\, and open space within themselves. The dream walk becomes a way for visitors to enter their own wonder\, deepen curiosity\, and step into a dream state where being and making so often happens. \nDream walks will be led by poets Traci Brimhall\, Nicole Callihan\, Tiana Clark\, Heid E. Erdrich\, Eugenia Leigh\, Erika Meitner\, Brynn Saito\, and Leah Umansky.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/museum-dream-walk-with-traci-brimhall/
LOCATION:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, 1071 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Alexis Almeida + Lara Mimosa Montes
DESCRIPTION:Prose shatters the social contract between reader\, writer\, and author; the conventions that once partitioned “reality” from the world of the book no longer hold. Language begins to leak\, entering us through a strangeness akin to a linguistic séance. Suddenly\, we’re becoming character\, wondering how to move in a world where Alexis Almeida and Lara Mimosa Montes\, each in their own way\, scramble the coordinates of the sentence. Fiction here is not driven by plot but unfolds in the mind\, and through it\, the body of those who read. In the process\, we’re irretrievably altered. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-alexis-almeida-lara-mimosa-montes/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading Networks of Value — A PalFest Event Organized in Collaboration with The Poetry Project
DESCRIPTION:In October 2024\, a few hundred writers and book workers signed an open letter boycotting Israeli literary and cultural institutions that are complicit in violating Palestinian rights\, and/or have not recognized those rights publicly. Within a week\, more than 5\,500 more writers and book workers joined them in taking this position. The unprecedented size of the literary boycott signals the clarity with which people see the material and psychological connections between art and politics\, between art and war\, perhaps even between North and South. \nWhat limits and contradictions do we encounter when we use boycott as a starting point for resisting pacification in the arts and literature? What new possibilities\, directions\, and actions are opened up by working through and against them\, in dialogue and in relation to one another? A number of writers will be invited by The Palestine Festival of Literature to think about these questions and more. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-networks-of-value-a-palfest-event-organized-in-collaboration-with-the-poetry-project/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:PSA Reading Series: D.A. Powell & Jenny Xie
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His most recent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry\, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America\, and the John Updike Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Matt Valentine. \nJenny Xie is the author of Eye Level and The Rupture Tense\, both shortlisted for the National Book Award. Her honors include recognition from the Academy of American Poets\, the Vilcek Foundation\, New York Foundation of the Arts\, and the Jerome Foundation. She is assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College and resides in New York City.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-reading-series-d-a-powell-jenny-xie/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Jameson Fitzpatrick\, Ariana Reines & Emily Skillings: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Jameson Fitzpatrick\, Ariana Reines & Emily Skillings: Poetry Reading \nA reading by poets Jameson Fitzpatrick\, Ariana Reines\, and Emily Skillings\, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nFriday\, October 24\, 5pm \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \n\n\n\n\n\n*** \nAbout the Poets: \nJameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Poetry Review\, The Sewanee Review\, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts\, she teaches first-year writing at New York University. \nNamed one of Flavorwire’s 100 best living writers and “a crucial voice of her generation” by KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt\, Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet\, Obie-winning playwright\, performing artist\, and translator. Her most recent books are The Rose (Graywolf\, 2025)\, which Chris Kraus called “thrilling and harrowing\,” and Wave of Blood\, published in the UK in 2024 by Divided Publishing. Her other books include A Sand Book (Tin House\, 2019)\, winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award\, The Cow (Alberta Prize\, 2006)\, Coeur De Lion (2007)\, and Mercury (2011)\, all from Fence Books\, and The Origin of the World (2014) from Semiotext(e). Her Obie-winning play Telephone (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and has been performed and published in Norwegian translation at the Mollebyen Literary Festival (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others. Recent commissions include Possession (2023)\, a major sculpture and performance collaboration with Liz Magic Laser\, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn\, NY\, and Divine Justice (2022)\, a 24-hour theatrical environment at Performance Space New York. \nEmily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave\, 2017)\, which Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric\, hypnotic\, and hypervigilant debut.” Her second book\, Tantrums in Air\, will be published in 2025. Skillings’ recent poems can be found in Poetry\, Harper’s\, Granta\, FOLDER\, jubilat\, and the New York Review of Books. She is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery\, which was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2021. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative\, a feminist poetry collective\, small press\, and event series. She received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts\, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Skillings currently teaches creative writing at Yale\, NYU\, and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/jameson-fitzpatrick-ariana-reines-emily-skillings-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Ricardo Bracho + Andrew Demirjian
DESCRIPTION:This evening pairs two interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of video and poetry to share work alongside and with each other: Ricardo Bracho\, a writer and educator known for his queer anti-capitalist plays\, and Andrew Demirjian\, an artist and educator working across a variety of media to re-mix and re-compose belonging beyond the nation state. In addition to sharing their individual and collaborative work in text and video\, Bracho and Demirjian will be joined by a cohort of emerging poets including Jamaal Spence\, Rae Norman\, and WENXI. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-ricardo-bracho-andrew-demirjian/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Segue Reading Series: Wo Chan and Kay Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:About the Poets: \nWo Chan is the author of Togetherness (2022) and performs in drag as The Illustrious Pearl. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell\, New York Foundation of the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Asian American Writers Workshop\, Poets House\, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY\, WUSSY\, Mass Review\, No Tokens\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. Find them at @theillustriouspearl. \nKay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of Perverts (2025)\, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (2023)\, and A Queen in Bucks County (2022). She’s the Editorial Director at the Poetry Project in New York City.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/segue-reading-series-wo-chan-and-kay-gabriel/
LOCATION:Artists Space\, 11 Cortlandt Alley\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Patricia Smith on The Intentions of Thunder in conversation with Maya Marshall
DESCRIPTION:Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry \n“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” —Danez Smith\, The Guardian \nA collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry\, a “masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard” (Poetry Foundation). \nThe Intentions of Thunder gathers\, for the first time\, the essential work from across Patricia Smith’s decorated career. Here\, Smith’s poems\, affixed with her remarkable gift of insight\, present a rapturous ode to life. With careful yet vaulting movement\, these poems traverse the redeeming landscape of pain\, confront the frightening revelations of history\, and disclose the joyous possibilities of the future. The result is a profound testament to the necessity of poetry—all the careful witness\, embodied experience\, and bristling pleasure that it bestows—and of Smith’s necessary voice. \nLyrical and sly\, meditative and volcanic\, The Intentions of Thunder stunningly explores the fullness of living. The inimitable poetry of Patricia Smith radiates in The Intentions of Thunder—reaffirming Smith’s place as one of the indispensable poets of our time. \n\nAbout the Poets: \nPatricia Smith is an inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of nine acclaimed books of poetry\, including Unshuttered; Incendiary Art\, finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, Smith is a creative writing professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a former distinguished professor at the City University of New York. She lives in New Jersey with her husband. \nMaya Marshall is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. Winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love. She co-founded underbelly\, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Her writing is featured in numerous publications\, including Prose for the People (Penguin Random House\, 2025)\, American Poetry Review\, The Rumpus\, Prairie Schooner\, Boston Review\, Poets.Org\, Split This Rock\, and Best New Poets. A Cave Canem and MacDowell fellow\, she is the editorial director of poetry at Haymarket Books\, where she serves as a literary consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship. She lives in Decatur\, Georgia.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/patricia-smith-on-the-intentions-of-thunder-in-conversation-with-maya-marshall/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St.\, New York\, NY\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Reading: Remembering Cole Heinowitz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, translator\, musician\, scholar\, teacher\, friend\, mage: Cole Heinowitz (1974–2025) was a singular being who was loved by many. On October 27\, we will gather to remember Cole with readings\, films and performances that span Cole’s incredible life and friendships. Featuring Cat Tyc\, Carla Harryman\, Christopher Funkhauser\, Nada Gordon\, Lea Bertucci\, Matvei Yankelevich\, Barrett Watten\, Anna Moschovakis\, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola\, Iris Cushing\, Abe Etkin\, Marianne Shaneen\, Felix Bernstein\, a performance by Shiba Nemat-Nasser \, Lea Bertucci \, Stephen Cope\, Gryphon Rue and more TBA. \nWe hope you can join us at 7:30 pm for a reception before the event. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-remembering-cole-heinowitz/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T014301
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SUMMARY:N​o Smoking: A Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program to celebrate visiting award-winning poet Mary Ann Samyn’s new collection\, The Return from Calvary (42 Miles Press). Mary Ann will read with Professor Timothy Donnelly\, recipient of a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and author most recently of Chariot\, published in 2023 by Wave Books. \nFollowing the reading\, both poets will participate in a Q&A and sign copies of their books. \nOn Mary Ann Samyn’s The Return from Calvary:\nWhat good is suffering? Why does it happen? How do we go on? In her much-anticipated seventh collection\, Mary Ann Samyn brings her eye for beauty\, however fleeting\, and her signature wit to bear on these questions. “The Book of Grief trails off\, or I lose my place\,” she writes\, looking up\, out\, in\, away—\, by turns haunted or reassured by dreams and memories\, kept company by nature. “Will there ever be comfort again in this life?” Mary Ann asks\, “God so loved the world\, we are told. / I walk the neighborhood where I left off being a child. / There is nothing doing\, save a light breeze.” \nAbout the Poets: \nMary Ann Samyn is the author seven full-length collections of poetry: Captivity Narrative (The Journal Prize/Ohio State University Press\, 1999)\, Inside the Yellow Dress\, Purr\, Beauty Breaks In (2001\, 2005\, 2009\, all from New Issues )\, My Life in Heaven (FIELD Poetry Prize/Oberlin College Press\, 2013)\, Air\, Light\, Dust\, Shadow\, Distance (42 Miles Press Poetry Award\, 2018)\, and The Return from Calvary (also from 42 Miles\, 2025) . Her work has appeared in American Literary Review\, Bennington Review\, Colorado Review\, FIELD\, Laurel Review\, Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English in the MFA program at West Virginia University and can be found on Substack where she writes Cake & Poetry (https://maryannsamyn.substack.com). She lives in West Virginia and in her home state of Michigan. \nTimothy Donnelly’s most recent book\, Chariot\, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many\, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize\, and The Cloud Corporation\, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His poems have been widely translated and anthologized\, and have appeared in such periodicals as American Poetry Review\, Conjunctions\, Harper’s\, The Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere\, as well as in multiple Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Donnelly is a recipient of Columbia University’s Distinguished Faculty and Faculty Mentoring Awards\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award\, and The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Connors Prize\, as well as fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Lannan Foundation\, the New York State’s Writers Institute\, and the T. S. Eliot Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/no-smoking-a-poetry-reading-series/
LOCATION:413 Dodge Hall\, 2960 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T210000
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SUMMARY:NYC Writers Circle
DESCRIPTION:Wed October 29th 7-9pm \nKGB Bar Second Floor \n85 East Fourth Street \nReaders: Matt Attanasio\, Azucar\, Lisa Marie Basile\, Robin Eisgrau\, Laura Picklesimer\, Amon Pierson \nHosts: Natalie Kimber\, Talia Bar Noy \nOrganizers: NYC Writers Circle \nSponsored by: Gotham Writers Workshop and The Rights Factory
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/nyc-writers-circle/
LOCATION:The Red Room at KGB Bar\, 85 East 4th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading: Anselm Berrigan + Cedar Sigo
DESCRIPTION:Every poem gives shape to an emergence\, a reentry into the world from a place of altered consciousness\, which is never fixed\, and isn’t new either\, but made different each time through a knowledge that wants to know itself. To find language after suffering a stroke\, to insist on the darkness of uncertainty with even darker humor: Cedar Sigo and Anselm Berrigan are infinite disciples of the poem. They write right next to the beating heart of language\, giving us just enough distance to be able to hear it. Come hear them read from their newly released publications\, Siren of Atlantis and Don’t Forget to Love Me. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-anselm-berrigan-cedar-sigo/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T210000
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SUMMARY:Kimiko Hahn & Rickey Laurentiis: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kimiko Hahn & Rickey Laurentiis: Poetry Reading \nA reading by Kimiko Hahn and Rickey Laurentiis\, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nThursday\, October 30\, 7pm \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Poets: \nKimiko Hahn is author of ten collections of poetry\, including The Ghost Forest: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton\, 2024) which plays with given forms while creating new ones\, and\, in doing so\, honors past writers. Previous books Foreign Bodies\, Toxic Flora\, and Brain Fever were prompted by fields of science; The Narrow Road to the Interior takes title and forms from Basho’s famous journals. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics\, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review. In 2023\, Kimiko was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, PEN/Voelcker Award\, Shelley Memorial Prize\, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize\, American Book Award\, and NEA Fellowships. In her service to the field\, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and has created a chapbook archive at the Queens College Library. She will serve as New York State Poet from 2025-2027. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College\, The City University of New York. \nRickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, to love the dark. Their writing has been supported by several foundations and fellowships\, including the Whiting Foundation (2018)\, Lannan Literary Foundation (2017)\,  Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy (2014)\, Poetry International Rotterdam (2014)\, the National Endowment for the Arts (2013)\, Cave Canem Foundation (2009-2011)\, and the Poetry Foundation\, which awarded them a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2012. In 2016\, they traveled to Palestine as an invited reader for the Palestine Festival of Literature. Laurentiis received a MFA in Writing from Washington University in St Louis\, where they were a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow\, and a Bachelors in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College\, where they read literature and queer theory. They are the trans author of Death of the First Idea (2025)\, from Knopfs\, and Boy with Thorn\, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize\, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and a Lambda Literary Award. Boy with Thorn was also named one of the top ten debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine and a top 16 best poetry book by Buzzfeed\, among other distinctions.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/kimiko-hahn-rickey-laurentiis-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T210000
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SUMMARY:Poet as Witness - Readings from Anna Malihon\, Iryna Vikyrchak\, Lesyk Panasiuk\, Olena Jennings\, Nina Murray\, and Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid | Thursday | Oct 30 | 7-9pm EST (GMT-4) \nWhen war shatters daily life\, poetry rises as testimony. Ukrainian poets speak in words that refuse silence\, tracing the lines between loss and resilience\, grief and human dignity. These voices transform private sorrow into collective memory\, recording\, resisting\, and reimagining a world against the grain of destruction. \nWith readings from Anna Malihon\, Iryna Vikyrchak\, Lesyk Panasiuk and their translators Olena Jennings\, Nina Murray\, and Ilya Kaminsky.\nModerated by Uilleam Blacker. \nPresented in partnership with Razom for Ukraine and the Ukrainian Cultural Festival. \n7-8pm Poetry Readings in Kray Hall and streamed on zoom.  \n8-9pm Reception and Book Signing in the Viscusi Reading Room
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poet-as-witness-readings-from-anna-malihon-iryna-vikyrchak-lesyk-panasiuk-olena-jennings-nina-murray-and-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T193000
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SUMMARY:Brave\, Unbodied Scheme featuring: Aditi Kini\, Rainer Diana Hamilton\, Dorothea Lasky\, Malvika Jolly\, Olga Mikolaivna\, & Tangie Mitchell
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 poets from all over the city\, and give them a backdrop of McNally Jackson’s Seaport location to read their new work. Join us to hear poems\, drink wine\, and enjoy the “pulsed life”. \nThis month’s reading features Aditi Kini\, Rainer Diana Hamilton\, Dorothea Lasky\, Malvika Jolly\, Olga Mikolaivna\, & Tangie Mitchell \nAbout the Poets: \nAditi Kini writes prose\, scripts\, and text objects from an office with butterscotch walls in Ridgewood\, Queens. And now\, Hyde Park\, where Aditi just started a PhD in English and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Oriental Cyborg (2024)\, a collection of notes\, jokes\, and queries on race\, automata/automation\, and globalization\, won Essay Press’s Chapbook Prize. \nRainer Diana Hamilton ‘s fourth book\, Lilacs\, is out from Krupskaya this fall. They are also the author of God Was Right (2018)\, The Awful Truth (2017)\, and Okay\, Okay (2012). They write\, broadly\, about the forms that dreams\, art\, and love have taken. \nDorothea Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose\, including The Shining (Wave Books) and MEMORY (Semiotext(e)). \nMalvika Jolly is the winner of the 2025 Alice James Award for her forthcoming debut poetry collection\, Visiting Hours of the World (March 2027). She is a graduate student at NYU where she teaches in the undergraduate writing program. She runs the poetry reading series The New Third World. \nOlga Mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography\, word\, translation\, and installation. She has multiple publications out with Tilted House and a forthcoming chapbook\, “our monuments to California\,” she calls them\, with Ursus Americanus. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky’s first full length collection in English There Won’t be a Culmination\, will be out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University \nTangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured in The Poetry Project Newsletter\, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora\, No\, Dear\, Poetry Wales\, Mosaic and more. She is a 2024 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow\, a Watering Hole poetry fellow\, and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brave-unbodied-scheme-featuring-aditi-kini-rainer-diana-hamilton-dorothea-lasky-malvika-jolly-olga-mikolaivna-tangie-mitchell/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St.\, New York\, NY\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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