2024-25 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Poet, Visiting Professor, and Princeton alumna Monica Youn, Class of 1993, will read from her work. Book signing will follow; books will be available for purchase through Labyrinth Books. About the Poet: Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023), […]
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About the Poets: Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The recipient of fellowships from […]
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Etel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World A Symposium, February 27 - March 1 Organized by Omar Berrada & Simone Fattal Hosted by The Poetry Project, with Giorno Poetry Systems and Anthology Film Archives Etel Adnan’s oeuvre did not follow a masterplan; it expanded and shape-shifted ceaselessly. Each book invented its own genre. And yet her tone is unmistakable, combining sharp […]
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A poetry reading by Forrest Gander followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poet: Forrest Gander is a writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a […] |
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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. The readers are: 1. Sarah Ghazal Ali 2. Tina Cane 3. Darren C. Demaree […] |
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Sam Ace and Jess Barbagallo know that poetry wouldn’t be poetry without performance, that the poem thrives on transience, unsettling familiar forms to gather us in a bare, open present. With queer brilliance and deep commitment to experimentation, their work invites us to come as we are and realize that we were never who we thought we were. […]
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A poetry reading by Farnoosh Fathi, Sally Keith, and Amanda Nadelberg, hosted by Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024), […] |
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Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry and current Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Kwame Dawes discusses the life and work of acclaimed novelist and poet and former director of the Institute of Jamaica, Neville Dawes (1926–1984), whose radical writings broke new ground in the development of Caribbean writing. Reading in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading […] |
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A reading by Elaine Equi and Geoffrey Nutter, hosted by NYU Creative Writing Undergraduate Program Manager, Jerome Murphy, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Authors: Elaine Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1953. She received a BA and an MA in English from Columbia College, where she taught a poetry workshop for […]
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Event guidelines: All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at […]
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About the Poets: Courtney Bush is a writer and filmmaker from Mississippi. She is the author of Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022) and the National Poetry Series selection I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023). Her third book, A Movie, is forthcoming in 2025 from Lavender Ink. Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context […] |
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angela abiodun and Mahogany L. Browne are two poets whose linguistic work expands the formation of new vocabularies—vocabularies that are as sensorially rich as they are rooted in political stakes. Their work demands that we pay attention, forging a commitment to a kind of justice that's inseparable from the lived experience of the Black body. Guest introductions by Marwa […]
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Please join us for a special evening honoring the life and work of poet, essayist, translator and teacher Lyn Hejinian (May 17, 1941–February 24, 2024). Hejinian is perhaps best known as a founding member of the Language Writing group of poets and for her book My Life, which revolutionized the form of verse memoir, as well as […]
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Best-selling novelist and incoming 2025-26 Hodder Fellow Ayana Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Unsettled) and National Book Award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker (Calligraphies, A Stranger’s Mirror) read from their recent work in the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. About the Authors: Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of […] |
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About the Poets: Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, including Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son, and Stranger by Night. He has also published seven books about poetry, among them 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and The Heart of American Poetry. His memoir, My Childhood in Pieces, will be published in June. […]
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About the Poets: Karl Michael Iglesias is a Puerto Rican actor, director and writer from Milwaukee, WI, who now resides in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he is also the former creative director of the First Wave program under the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives. His poetry can be read in […] |
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What distance enables us to diagnose the ills of the world without disavowing what makes us part of it? Daisy Atterbury and Betsy Fagin write with planetary perspective: a lucid rendition of skies and land owned and sold toward boundless colonial expansion (the last frontier). Their poems reinvest sites of disaster with the desire of the poet, brightening the […]
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The Organism for Poetic Research, Affect Theory Working Group, and Global Modernisms Working Group invite you to a reading with writers Eric Dean Wilson and Jaydra Johnson in celebration of Jaydra's new book Low: Notes on Art and Trash (Fonograf Editions, 2024). When: Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 6:30pm Where: The Event Space, 244 Greene […] |
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New poetry by Idra Novey, the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need, faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth. Soon and Wholly brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in […] |
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Maggie Nelson discusses the art and public profiles of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift, among other artists, including Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein, in a discussion of the cultural politics of female fame, followed by a Q&A. About the Poet: Maggie Nelson is the author of many acclaimed books of poetry and prose, including Pathemata, Or, The Story of My […]
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A reading by Tan Lin and Mónica de la Torre, hosted by MFA student Elijah Jackson, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Authors: Tan Lin is the author of over 13 books, including Heath Course Pak (2012), Bib. Rev. Ed., Insomnia and the Aunt (2011), 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of […] |
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