Poetry @ Princeton

In-person  |  Friday  |  May 3  |  7-9pm  |  Free and open to the public. Readings: 7-8pm Refreshments 8-9pm After an extended in-person absence, Marsh Hawk Press is happy to invite the community to a book launch celebrating five recent titles. These include poetry collections as well as poetic memoirs from the Chapter One: On Becoming a Poet […]

Reading and conversation: 7-8pm Refreshments: 8-9pm Rosebud Ben-Oni and Megan Fernandes, whose highly acclaimed books were published during the pandemic, will have a conversation about the challenges of writing in that time. This event is part of the celebration of the 28th Poets House Showcase: Books of the Pandemic. About the Authors: Born to a Mexican mother and […]

Poet Pamela Laskin will be the featured guest poet for the 52nd annual City College Poetry Festival held at the Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall. Upwards of 150 students from as many as 50 schools are expected to recite their poems at this year’s festival. The event commences with readings by elementary school students, followed […]

Refreshments 8-9pm John Keene, the National Book Award Winner for Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021) is joined by poet and performance artist, Pamela Sneed, the author of Funeral Diva (City Lights, 2020). Each poet will read from their books and contribute to a wide-ranging conversation from coming of age during the AIDS epidemic to publishing new poetry amidst […]

About the Authors: Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Purgatorio, and Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from […]