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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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rsvp: register here to attend in person This performance and discussion coincides with a Brodsky Gallery installation of work from Upstage (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), a book in which words by Bruce Andrews and visuals by Sally Silvers combine to explore distinctive looks, textures, and language of pandemic-era Asbury Park, NJ. About the Poets: Poet, performance writer, poetics theorist, […]
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Held on the patio of The Farminary, the seminary’s 21-acre sustainable farm, we are excited to present a curated evening of poetry, music, and celebration of the arts. Exploring the theme of the Bible and its aesthetic legacies, featured guests include: Christian Wiman, poet, translator, editor, essayist Jessica Jacobs, poet Nathan Salsburg, guitarist and composer […] |
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About the Poet: Zilka Joseph is an internationally published poet who has authored six collections. Her work is influenced by Indian and Western cultures, and her Bene Israel roots, and has appeared in journals such as Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Asian Literary Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine. She was nominated for PEN and Pushcart awards, been interviewed […] |
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Poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney reads recent work, followed by a conversation with Dorothea Lasky, Associate Professor of Writing and Head of the Poetry Concentration. “Where, oh where would we be without the dynamic intelligence and feats of lyric daring that Douglas Kearney’s work has delivered to American poetry?” –Tracy K. Smith “I have […]
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About the Poets: Writing for the Poetry Foundation, David Woo says that Rae Armantrout’s recent book Finalists (Wesleyan 2022) “emanates the radiant astonishment of living thought.” Charles Bernstein says, “Her sheer, often hilarious, ingenuity is an aesthetic triumph.” Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New […]
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Poetry Reading: Douglas Kearney and Ariana Reines Friday, October 18, 2024, 5pm A reading by Douglas Kearney and Ariana Reines, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, Optic Subwoof, a collection of his […] |
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About the Poet: Don Mee Choi, a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: the 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 […]
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National Poetry Series-winning poet and novelist Sam Sax (Madness, Bury It, Yr Dead) reads from their work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases seniors in the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books. About the author: […]
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In-person | Tuesday | October 22 | 7-9pm | Free with RSVP Discover a new collection on divorce and renewal during a reading with Mark Doty and Emily Hyland. In celebration of Hyland’s debut poetry collection, Divorced Business Partners (Howling Bird Press, 2024), friends Doty and Hyland will discuss their mentorship and reflect on connection and loss in their respective […] |
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Please join us for an evening featuring readings by poets Farnoosh Fathi and m.s. RedCherries. Fathi’s second book of poems, Granny Cloud, was released in Sept 2024 by New York Review Books and “is a portrait of ecstatic decisions and revisions, constantly reversed, constantly renewed.” RedCherries's debut collection, mother, was released in July 2024 from Penguin Books […] |
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Terrance Hayes discusses Bob Kaufman's poetry, followed by a Q&A, as part of the Poetry Society's semiannual storefront lecture series. Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986) was born in New Orleans and lived in San Francisco. There, he associated with the bohemian North Beach scene and edited the magazine Beatitude. A writer whose work is infused with the countercultural vernacular of his time, Kaufman performed his jazz-inflected, […]
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Poetry Launch: Matthew Rohrer, Annelyse Gelman, and Jack Underwood Thursday, October 24, 2024, 7pm A reading by Matthew Rohrer to celebrate his new poetry collection, Army of Giants, with Annelyse Gelman and Jack Underwood, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann […] |
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Acclaimed poet Don Mee Choi (Mirror Nation, DMZ Colony, Hardly War), the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer in English this year at Princeton, and National Book Award-winning writer Samanta Schweblin (Seven Empty Houses, Fever Dream) read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative […]
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Gather with readers and friends to honor the extraordinary Kimiko Hahn. An innovative poet, curator, professor, and collaborator, Hahn was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Her newest book, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton, 2024), offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a […] |
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