Poetry @ Princeton

A multimedia soirée with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte weaving & braiding their individual & shared travails. Domopoetics is the name Joris & Peyrafitte give to 34 years of daily practices in transforming & intertwining their lives & works, be it through writing, painting, video, physical conditioning, cooking & all other shared household activities. Karstic refers to the geological phenomena of […]

Celebrated writer Claudia Rankine '93 returns to Columbia University School of the Arts for the first of a new series of events, “Speak Now,” organized by Interim Dean and Parr […]

Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Kundiman. Curated by Cathy Linh Che. How can the work of writers contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of community organizations contribute to creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? […]

In torqued sentences, detourned phrases, philosophical excavations and punishing satire, Nora Treatbaby and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim make war on the real world. Our Air, Treatbaby’s full-length debut (Nightboat, 2024), builds on the titular promise of her chapbook Hope Is Weird. Zenia’s bitterly ironic Tel Aviv (Porosity Press, 2021) urges a fierce opposition to the fatal logic of the present. Together, they […]

RSVP Required  Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. This beautiful, slender collection—small and weighted like a coin—is Rowan Ricardo Phillips […]

A Reading by Mira Rosenthal and Tomasz Rozycki with Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Mira Rosenthal is the […]

Please join PPOW, Primary Information, and The Poetry Project in celebrating the publication of Martin Wong’s Footprints, Poems, and Leaves and Das Puke Book! Featuring readings by Wo Chan, Lydia Cortés, Christopher “Daze” Ellis, Antonia Kuo, Eugene Lim, Emily Zhou, and others TBA! Self-published in 1968, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves collects dozens of poems written by Martin Wong between 1966 and 1968. Hand-written in a signature calligraphic […]

About the Authors: Erica Hunt is the author of Local History, Arcade, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, VERONICA: A Suite in X Parts and, most recently, Jump the Clock. Hunt's poems and non-fiction have appeared […]

Readings by Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With […]

Event guidelines: Doors will open at 6PM, and the reading will begin at 7PM. All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Additional copies of the authors' books will be available for purchase at the event. Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise. […]

How do we think our way through memory? How do we memory our way through thought? Poets Samuel Espíndola Hernández and Jimin Seo undo any false diametrics figured by these questions, revealing memory and thought to be the same circle, the same doorway to/from the same house. Featuring guest introductions by Kyle Dacuyan and Cedar Sigo. This event will also be livestreamed […]

Poets and organizers Zaina Alsous and Dana Ysabel Dela Cruz make work of resistance and refusal, challenging colonial narratives and logics, invigorating new ways to dream and speak and move. This is poetry in service of struggle, transformative as birds in flight. Featuring guest introductions by Marwa Helal and Erica Hunt. This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's […]

Writer Terrance Hayes takes the Guggenheim stage to deliver an evening of poetry readings from his two newest books, So to Speak and Watch Your Language. Hayes will discuss how poetry and language can serve as powerful tools to process or challenge abstraction. So to Speak and Watch Your Language are companion texts combining poetry, sketches, and illustrated essays to consider the […]

Join us in J. Pierpont Morgan’s historic library for an evening featuring renowned poet, playwright, and essayist Claudia Rankine. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and […]