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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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Dina Abdulhadi & Farah Barqawi are two poets writing through the breath and abundance of contemporary Palestinian poetry; their poems explore loss, family relations, and the shifting geographic and affective distances that give grief its many shades. This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project's YouTube channel.
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About the Poet: Born in Japan and raised in the US, Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her newest books of poetry include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award, and Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020), both of which engage the intersection between writing and translation. Settle […]
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Cecilia Vicuña discusses three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. In this performance talk, Vicuña illustrates how oral traditions in Chile, Paraguay, and Arizona continue renewing themselves as individual/collective practices in the 21st century. This event is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority. Performance in Kray […]
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Alex Cuff and Morgan Võ’s imaginaries share an attachment to the surreal, a commitment to the suspended time of narrative–a world within a world where family, love, and loss are best expressed in dreams and stories that know that unlearning what we know is the only way to make sense of it. With guest introduction by Teline […]
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Celebrate Carlie Hoffman’s newest collection with readings from Rodney Terich Leonard, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, and Dr. Maya C. Popa. In One More World Like This World, Hoffman invokes mythological narratives to explore the predicaments of contemporary women. Readings in Kray Hall followed by a reception in the Reading Room. About the Poets: Carlie Hoffman is the author of the poetry collections One More World Like This World (Four […] |
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This evening invites two leading psychoanalytic writers and thinkers to stage an encounter between psychoanalysis and poetry. What is psychoanalysis as a mode of linguistic experimentation? What is poetry as an engagement with the unconscious, desire, madness, and treatment? Jamieson Webster, psychoanalyst and author of On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe (2025), and Hannah Zeavin, historian and […]
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About the Poet: American Book Award–winning poet dg nanouk okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures. Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, okpik’s relationship to language is an access point […] |
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Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. In Fugitive Tilts, Ishion Hutchinson, the author House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered […]
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Celebrate the extraordinary Brenda Hillman and her friends in poetry—Evelyn Reilly, Patricia Spears Jones, Major Jackson, Donna Masini, and Ama Codjoe—reading poems written by or inspired by her work. The evening culminates in a reading from Hillman and a conversation led by Patricia Spears Jones. Brenda Hillman is a poet, professor, editor, and translator who has been an active part […] |
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About the Poets: Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the GLCA New Writers Award. In his much anticipated second collection, Your Emergency Contact Is Experiencing An Emergency (BOA Editions, […]
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Celebrate the release of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, Haymarket Books’ anthology of writers speaking on the United States prison-industrial complex. Contributors Randall Horton, Angel Nafis, and Evie Shockley read powerful poems of witness which seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison-industrial complex. Like A Hammer explores how art and imagination can serve as vehicles for endurance, […]
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A reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge hosted by MFA student Elijah Jackson, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Authors: Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Hello, the Roses, Empathy, I Love Artists, and A Treatise on Stars, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her collaborations include works […] |
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A reading by Brenda Hillman and Wendy Xu, followed by a reception/signing. Books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. About the Poets: Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. She has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, EmPress, A Minus Press, and Albion Books and […] |
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About the Poets: Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens born poet, her people hail from Trinidad & Nigeria. Sons of Achilles, their debut book of poems, is out now through YesYes Books. You can currently find her kicking it in Tuscaloosa. Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem, […] |
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Seniors in Princeton’s renowned Program in Creative Writing read from the screenplays or collections of poems or translations written as their senior independent work under mentorship of professional writers on the faculty. Featured Seniors Poetry: Malia Chung Thia Bian Annie Cao David Odekunle Rosemary Dietz Rahma Elsheikh Jeanie Chang Emanuelle Sippy Screenwriting: Layla Williams |
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Co-presented with New Directions Please join us for a special evening celebrating the revered poet Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), and the publication of a new landmark selection of his incendiary, sensual verse Love Is a Dangerous Word. The legacy of the late, great Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as […]
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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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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 event is sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine. Readers for our National Poetry Month Edition are Rita Dove, Jennifer Espinoza, Majda Gama, Julia Kolchinsky, […] |
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About the Poet: Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. […] |
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About the Poet: Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including 165 Meeting House Lane (1971), How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award, Waltzing Matilda (1981), Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993), The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others. Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. […] |
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We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications, Pause the Document and Thingifications::Mathematics of Chaos.
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Join us for a night of readings from Christopher Brunt and Timothy Liu, who will be reading from their latest work! Christopher Brunt’s War at Home (saturnalia, 2024) is a mythic, surreal journey through the chaos of memory, masculinity, and transformation, where fractured selves seek redemption in the face of addiction, loss, and the haunting specter of power. With lyrical […] |
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