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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]