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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 […] |
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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 […]
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […] |
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Hosted by Al Filreis, PoemTalk features a roundtable close reading of poetry recordings in the PennSound archive. This special episode of PoemTalk, filmed in front of an audience, will feature poems by Pierre Joris (1946–2025) and Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024), who were longtime collaborators and dear friends of the Kelly Writers House. The episode indeed will be one way for […]
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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 […]
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co-sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of English hosted by: Herman Beavers rsvp: register here to attend in person About the Authors: Therí Alyce Pickens creates powerful, ground-breaking, award-winning scholarship in the fields of Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, and Disability Studies. She wrote Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press 2019), […]
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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 […] |
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known […]
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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 […] |
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