|
S
Sun
|
M
Mon
|
T
Tue
|
W
Wed
|
T
Thu
|
F
Fri
|
S
Sat
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0 events,
|
2 events,
-
Join the Bain-Swiggett Library of Contemporary Poetry for an open house and reading with Professor Patricia Smith. The reading is free and open to members of the Princeton community. About the Speaker Patricia Smith is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation. She is […]
-
An evening celebrating the release of OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics, edited by Michael Nardone, featuring performances and readings by Cecilia Vicuña and Raven Chacon. Nardone writes in his afterword to the collection that “the domain of the aural opens, at once, on to the act of composition and on to the iterative context of a composition’s reception; it comprises embodiment(s) […]
$8
|
1 event,
-
Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents 2023-24 Resident Poet Evie Shockley and Terrance Hayes Tuesday, October 31 at 7pm Live and in person at the studio Free and open to the public |
2 events,
-
A reading and discussion with professors Ilya Kaminksy and Katie Farris, along with Maya Chabra, Andrew Janco & Olga Livshin —poets and translators from two new books that consider what it means to be Ukrainian during unthinkable times. No tickets required. This event is free and open to the public. About the Speakers Maya Chhabra’s translations […]
-
On Wednesday November 1st in Manhattan the Palestine Festival of Literature is staging a free, public event titled: But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience Professor Rashid Khalidi will be in conversation with National Book Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Michelle Alexander, the acclaimed civil rights lawyer and authors of The […] |
3 events,
-
Members of the literary community will read from All Souls, the posthumously published collection by Saskia Hamilton, whose poems and lyric fragments transform fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Readers will include Catherine Barnett, Susan Bernofsky, Maureen N. McLane, Maya Popa, Alice Quinn, James Fenton, Rosanna Warren, Sharon Olds, and others. All […]
-
Terrance Hayes’s new poetry collection, So to Speak, explores how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. Published on the same day, Watch Your Language uses drawings and essays to reimagine reading as an imaginative and critical act of observing language. Hayes shares these collections and is joined by […]
-
Readings by J. Mae Barizo, Ava Chin, Bushra Rehman, and Jenny Xie followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist and the author of two books of poetry: Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect. […] |
1 event,
-
The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the "emerging writers") from a mix of genres reading alongside a headlining author. Tonight's headliner is Safia Elhillo, featuring the talents of Cassi Quayson, Clare Flanagan, Dasia Moore, and Farah Barqawi, and hosted by Migwi Mwangi. The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the "emerging writers") from a mix of genres reading […] |
0 events,
|
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
A true poet’s poet, lover’s poet, everybody’s poet, James Schuyler was a dear and committed friend and mentor to many in the Poetry Project's community, and generations later remains a reason many of us are poets at all. Please join us as we celebrate the centenary birthday of this beloved New York icon with a performance of […]
$8
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
Please join us for "The Perhaps Unexpected," a reading and conversation with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Dr. Rosamond S. King, two poets whose work is rooted in critical engagement with the real and gives rise to radical imaginaries. Recognized for their finely calibrated environments and richly interdependent publics, small island nations find themselves on the frontlines of […] |
2 events,
-
Poetry readings by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Katie Farris’s most recent book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), was recommended by The New York Times and listed as Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 […]
-
About the Authors Timothy 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. A Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his […] |
1 event,
-
In this second day of the Poetry Is Not a Luxury program, entitled Poetic License, poets and artists will share new work, work in-progress, and artistic reflections that express Lorde’s conviction that “poetry is not a luxury.” Featuring panel discussions, poetry readings, and performances, the day will be interspersed with moments of grounding and personal […] |
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
3 events,
-
In person and on Youtube rsvp: register here to attend in person Join us for a multilingual reading (English, French, and Polish) and moderated discussion of new publications of poetry by Mireille Gansel, Joan Sidney, and Alex Braslavsky. Gansel, joined by her translator Sidney, will read from Soul House, her first book of poetry in English translation […]
-
Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the bestselling Dark Star Trilogy, and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner and Professor of Creative Writing Patricia Smith read from their work as part of the 2023-24 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing. The reading is […]
-
A reading, live music, & visual art presentation What is the relationship between fleeing and feeling? How can the voices of those who came before - and the stutters that leaven those voices - carry into our present moment, mingling with our own? JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies asks what rites we need now and how poetry, […] |
3 events,
-
About the Authors Maureen N. McLane is a poet, scholar, and critic whose work often arises from the conjunction of romanticism and/or now. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG, 2008); World Enough (FSG, 2010); This Blue (FSG, 2014); Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016); Some Say (FSG, 2017); What I’m Looking For: Selected Poems (Penguin UK, 2019); and More Anon: Selected Poems (FSG, 2021). Her poems have appeared in e.g. Bomb, […]
-
hosted by: Al Filreis rspv: register here to attend in person About the Authors An American poet and artist, SALLY VAN DOREN is the author of four poetry collections, including Sibilance (LSU Press 2023) and Sex at Noon Taxes which received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have been featured in Poetry Daily, Poetry London, The Moth, The New […]
-
Join us for the launch of poet Alyson Gold Weinberg's debut poetry collection, Bellow & Hiss, on Wednesday, November 15, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for in-person guests at 6 PM and the reading will begin at 7 PM. Book signing to follow. Note that by attending this event, you agree […] |
4 events,
-
About the Author Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, August 2023), a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Ninetails, is coming out from Penguin Books in May 2024. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the […]
-
Registration required Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa and co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International […]
-
Click Here to reserve tickets for this event Join Poetry Ireland Residency Fellow, Nithy Kasa, and Cave Canem Fellow, Safia Jama at the Irish Arts Center Cave Canem has partnered with Poetry Ireland in its International Residencies program, I bhFad igCéin (Far Afield), to bring a poet to The City to write and experience the literary life abroad. At the end of her […] |
4 events,
-
The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, returns with a full day of readings, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, Valzhyna Mort, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, Padraig Regan, Philip Schultz, and Luci Tapahonso. Day-long festival runs 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM. […]
-
Join Heid E. Erdrich and the 2023 James Welch Prize winning poets J.K. Tsosie and Kalehua Kim for an in-person reading and celebration of their work. Presented in partnership with Poetry Northwest and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). Barrier-free entry for all, please RSVP below. In-person event Friday | Nov 17 | 6-8pm | Free About the winners: J.K. Tsosie is Diné—Bitter Water Clan and born for […]
-
Join us for the Lampblack Reading Series on Friday, October 20th at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) located at 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Featuring India Lena González, Jared Jackson, and Ama Codjoe! This event is free and open to the public. Limited seating (*priority will be given to people with disabilities). Cash […] |
0 events,
|
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
Prickly Moses: Poems & Aurora Americana: Poems Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press present an evening of readings by the poets whose collections are the most recent in the press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The series is edited by Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emeritus, and professor of […] |
0 events,
|
4 events,
-
A special live filming In person and on YouTube rsvp: register here to attend in person The PoemTalk podcast features a lively roundtable close reading of poetry. This special 200th episode of PoemTalk, featuring the poetry of Evie Shockley, will be filmed in front of an audience. PoemTalk host and producer Al Filreis will lead […]
-
Registration required: Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and black study and has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the latest of which, written with Stefano […]
-
Event guidelines: All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at […] |
2 events,
Overview A step away from the din of Midtown—and a haven from devices and other distractions—PoetryFest sets its own pace for an exchange of emotions and ideas through the words of bards from both sides of the Atlantic. In this engaging “literary revelry” (New Yorker) curated by Nick Laird, we configure our flexible theatre into […]
$25
-
Come out for an incredible evening of poetry and performance with the legendary poet Anne Waldman and the students of Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Poet, curator, professor, performer, and cultural activist Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics […] |
1 event,
|