Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry “Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” —Danez Smith, The Guardian A 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” […]
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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 […] |
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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. Following the reading, both poets will participate in a Q&A […] |
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Wed October 29th 7-9pm KGB Bar Second Floor 85 East Fourth Street Readers: Matt Attanasio, Azucar, Lisa Marie Basile, Robin Eisgrau, Laura Picklesimer, Amon Pierson Hosts: Natalie Kimber, Talia Bar Noy Organizers: NYC Writers Circle Sponsored by: Gotham Writers Workshop and The Rights Factory
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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 […]
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Kimiko Hahn & Rickey Laurentiis: Poetry Reading A reading by Kimiko Hahn and Rickey Laurentiis, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Thursday, October 30, 7pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Kimiko Hahn is author of ten collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: […]
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Hybrid | Thursday | Oct 30 | 7-9pm EST (GMT-4) When 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 […] |
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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 […]
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Join us for a reading with poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poetry maker, Samiya Bashir, as she presents poets from our New York City Regional Workshop, Poets as Deep Thinkers. Readers will share works that move in conversation with A Poem for Deep Thinkers—both Amiri Baraka’s razor-sharp 1961 poem and Rashid Johnson’s immersive Guggenheim installation. […]
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Laura Henriksen is the author of Duvall, Shelley (Newest York, 2025) and Laura’s Desires (Nightboat, 2024). Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). He is a poet, editor, and critic whose work can be found in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project […] |
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