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Celebrate Catherine Barnett and Jason Koo as they each read from their fourth full-length poetry collections: Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (Graywolf, 2024) and No Rest (Diode Editions, 2024). The pair will discuss metaphysics, grief, and what new poetic territory they’ve breached in their most recent books. Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading […] |
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About the Poets: ARMEN DAVOUDIAN grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House) and the translator, from the Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams (Ugly Duckling Presse). His poems appear in the Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review. He is a PhD candidate in English and a Next Generation Scholar Fellow at […]
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Co-Presented with Books Are Magic, BPL Presents welcomes Claudia Rankine and Jess Row. A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. A globe-spanning epic novel […] |
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In-Person | Saturday | September 7 | 4-6pm | Free with RSVP Join us for a special performance by the Cornelius Eady Group and readings by Merrick Sloane and Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador in celebration of the release of the PAINTING EP. This event is free and open to the public. Digital copy of the EP, PAINTING, with $10 donation. All […] |
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About the Poet: MAMIE MORGAN lives on Edisto Island, South Carolina, with her husband and their two dogs, Henrietta Modine and Wednesday Stewart. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Oxford American, Muzzle, Washington Square Review, Carolina Quarterly, Fish Barrel Review, Sixth Finch, Four Way Review, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Everyone I've Danced With Is Dead, was published by JackLeg Press […] |
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A durational performance In this latest performance of Subject Index, Iain Morrison will read aloud from Emily Dickinson’s work, wearing a simulacrum of her iconic white dress. Audience members and onlookers are welcome to come and eavesdrop as they please, while Morrison maps his own subjective index of Dickinson’s poems in a spreading nest of scribbled […]
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Tune in for a virtual reading with Diane Seuss and Leah Umansky, reading from their newest collections, Modern Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Of Tyrant (Word Works Books, 2024). In poems and in conversation, Seuss and Umansky consider poetic and political authority from the academy to the office. It will be an indispensable conversation on the role of the poet in […] |
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About the Poet: Iain Morrison is a poet based in Edinburgh, Scotland where he is part of Fruitmarket art centre’s curatorial team. His collection I’m a Pretty Circler was shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Prize in 2019. He was ArtfulScribe writer-in-residence at University of Southampton throughout 2018. Performances include an award-winning night of drag queen poetry at the […]
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Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest accolades. Here, from artichokes to zinc, Muldoon navigates an alphabet of image and history, […]
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Join us in honoring the life, work and legacy of seminal poet and scholar Tyrone Williams. Poets, colleagues, and friends including Pat Clifford, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Thom Donovan, Barbara Henning, Erica Hunt, Brenda Iijima, Pierre Joris, Burt Kimmelman, Mike Lala, Andrew Levy, C.J. Martin, and Julie Patton will read work by and about Williams. Bring your remembrance! We’ll have an open-mic for everyone who wishes to contribute their […] |
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Celebrate the launch of Fletch Fletcher‘s Confessional (Finishing Line Press, 2024) with readings by Michael Lee Bross, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Michelle Greco, Darla Himeles, and Yesenia Montilla! Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room. We have a 70-person capacity, so please RSVP early. About the Poets: Michael Lee Bross holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. […] |
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In this shared reading, poets Megan Pinto, Jimin Seo, and Spencer Williams take the Greenlight stage to present their debut poetry collections, Saints of Little Faith, OSSIA and TRANZ. In Saints of Little Faith, Pinto moves between personal and generational histories, through collisions of abuse, psychosis, and rage, alongside their reprieve: beauty, tenderness and the landscapes these forces inhabit. Seo's OSSIA takes up a […] |
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The Jackson Poetry Prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent. It was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. Eligible poets must have published at least two books of acknowledged literary merit. The 2024 prize carries a monetary value of $100,000. Nominees are […]
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About the Poets: Hala Alyan is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor at New York University, and writer. She is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her latest novel, The Arsonists' City, was a finalist for the 2022 Aspen […]
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Poetry Reading: Michael Chang and Jennifer Tseng Friday, September 20, 5pm A reading by Michael Chang and Jennifer Tseng, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) & THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO […] |
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Join us Tuesday, September 24th at 7pm for a reading to celebrate Susan Bernofsky's recent translation of Yoko Tawada's Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel. She will be in conversation with Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Hurt You. In order to facilitate this in-person author event, we will be partially closing the second floor starting at 5:45pm. Please review our Safety guidelines and register for the event […] |
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About the Poet: PETER GIZZI is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fierce Elegy (2023), Now It’s Dark (2020), and Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, all from Wesleyan. In 2020 Carcanet published Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems and in 2024 Penguin UK published an expanded edition of Fierce Elegy. His honors include fellowships from The Rex Foundation, […]
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Please join us on Wednesday, September 25th at 8pm as we celebrate the release of the new and expanded fifteenth-anniversary edition of Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng by m. nourbeSe philip, published by Graywolf Press. m. nourbeSe philip will be joined in conversation by Tonya M. Foster. Book sales will be managed by Books Are […]
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Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. Jones is a poet, playwright, educator, and cultural activist. Winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, her most recent book The Beloved Community was released in 2023. Jones's archives are housed in the Manuscripts, Archives, and […]
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The New Salon: Anne Boyer in Conversation with Hari Kunzru Thursday, September 26, 7pm A reading by Anne Boyer followed by a conversation/Q&A with Hari Kunzru and a reception/signing. Co-sponsored with NYU's XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Authors: Poet and essayist Anne Boyer was born […] |
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Come celebrate '13' years of COUPLET! COUPLET is a quarterly reading series, produced, curated and hosted by poet Leah Umansky since 2011. It features both emerging and established poets and is co-hosted by The Red Room. This will Livestream on the IG live at @couplet_series on IG. Our readers for the '13th Anniversary Event' are: […]
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Holding onto the notion of the “human” while exploring its degraded definition within a world governed by capital, Vincent Toro and Daniel Borzutzky craft a poetics resisting the forces that reduce life to flesh and turn death into data. In the work of both these visionaries, the page becomes a technology to denormalize dystopia and estrange corporate lingo via […]
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In-Person + Streamed on Zoom | Saturday | September 28 | 5-7pm Join Esther Belin and the 2024 James Welch Prize winning poets Kara Briggs and Kateri Menominee, in-person or remotely on Zoom, for a reading and celebration of their work. Presented in partnership with Poetry Northwest and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). Free entry for all, please RSVP below. You will receive a Zoom link in your […] |
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The next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event at 144 Montague on Friday, September 29, will feature poets Paul Hlava Ceballos, Yesenia Montilla and Kwame Dawes! This is an official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event. Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Wine reception for in-person attendees will begin at 6 PM […] |
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estselling author Elizabeth McCracken (The Hero of this Book, The Souvenir Museum) and award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy (Tanya, Our Andromeda) read from their recent work to kick off the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing. This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth […] |
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Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. In Cabot Black’s Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon, 2024), poems about sheep herding examine the connection between people, land, animals, and power. Howe’s New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024), collates poems from her four previous collections, […]
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If Dennis Cooper has a long history of involvement with The Poetry Project community, Derek McCormack feels as if he ought to. McCormack’s The Well-Dressed Wound turns fashion designer Martin Margiela into the Devil; his Castle Faggot stars a Count Chocula-like villain in a scat amusement park filled with the bodies of decomposing gays. In his novels, short stories, poetry and films, Cooper’s […]
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