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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman at 192 BOOKS
DESCRIPTION:Event with Haleh Liza Gafori \n 
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/anne-waldman-at-192-books/
LOCATION:192 Books\, 192 10th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Nikki Giovanni with Edwidge Danticat\, Mahogany L. Browne\, Renée Watson & Rebecca Carroll
DESCRIPTION:BPL Presents welcomes Edwidge Danticat\, Mahogany L. Browne & Renée Watson\, who lead this tribute to a true American original: the poet Nikki Giovanni. The conversation will be led by Rebecca Carroll. \nNikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—The New Book—is a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time\, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life.\nFor decades\, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time\, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about her indelible legacy\, her family history\, and the small pleasures of her richly lived life. \nIn The New Book\, Nikki Giovanni slashes at the ridiculousness of our cultural and political climate: “We have no secrets/since the world shrunk/and the icebergs melted/and all the year books/are digitized./… and we press Like/or No Like/as if it mattered.” \nA world-renowned poet and a key member of the Black Arts Movement who died in December\, Giovanni’s many previous books of poetry include Black Judgment (1968)\, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978) and Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983). Her works were influenced by her participation in the Black Arts Movement and Black Power movement in the 1960s. \nIn this tribute reading and panel\, Edwidge Danticat\, Mahogany L. Browne & Renée Watson will read from and discuss Giovanni’s work\, The New Book\, and help our audience fathom and commemorate a unique literary legacy. \nThe New Book and others will be available for purchase courtesy of Greenlight Bookstore. \nAbout the Authors: \nRenée Watson is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author. Her books have sold over one million copies.  Her young adult novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. Her children’s picture books and novels for teens have received several awards and international recognition. Many of her books are inspired by her experiences growing up as a Black girl in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry and fiction center around the experiences of Black girls and explore themes of home\, identity\, body image\, and the intersections of race\, class\, and gender. For more information\, find her here: https://www.reneewatson.net/ \nMahogany L. Browne\, a MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee\, is a writer\, playwright\, organizer\, & educator. Browne received fellowships from All Arts\, Arts for Justice\, Air Serenbe\, Baldwin for the Arts\, Cave Canem\, Hawthornden\, Poets House\, Mellon Research\, Rauschenberg\, Wesleyan University\, & UCross. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon\, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater)\, Black Girl Magic\, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair\, Browne’s poetry collection\, Chrome Valley (highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times)\, is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner\, and she is most excited to tour her newest YA Novel in Story A Bird in the Air. Mahogany L. Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College\, and is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center. \nEdwidge Danticat is the author of several books\, including Breath\, Eyes\, Memory\, an Oprah Book Club selection\, Krik? Krak!\, a National Book Award finalist\, The Farming of Bones\, The Dew Breaker\, Brother\, I’m Dying\, Create Dangerously\, Claire of the Sea Light\, The Art of Death\, Everything Inside\, a Reese’s Book Club selection and National Book Critics Circle Awards winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States\, Best American Essays 2011\, Haiti Noir\, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for children and young adults: Anacaona\, Behind the Mountains\, Eight Days\, The Last Mapou\, Mama’s Nightingale\, Untwine\, My Mommy Medicine\, and a travel narrative\, After the Dance. Her memoir\, Brother\, I’m Dying\, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a  2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.  She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow\, a 2018 Ford Foundation “Art of Change” fellow\, the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize\, the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award\, the 2011 Bocas Nonfiction Prize and 2020 Bocas Fiction Prize\, the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Literature\, a 2020 United States Artists Fellow\, a two-time winner of The Story Prize\, and the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.  Her essay collection\, We’re Alone\, was published in 2024. She teaches at Columbia University. \nRebecca Carroll is a writer\, cultural critic\, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 Essential Conversations about Race in a Pivotal Year for America\, and the award-winning Billie Was a Black Woman. Her first book\, which features an original interview with Nikki Giovanni from 1994\, was recently re-released as a 30th anniversary updated edition: I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers. Rebecca’s writing has been published in The Atlantic\, the Los Angeles Times\, Essence\, New York magazine\, and the Washington Post\, among other national publications. Her critically acclaimed memoir\, Surviving the White Gaze\, was called “gorgeous and powerful” by the New York Times Book Review. She currently serves as editor-at-large for The Meteor media collective.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/tribute-to-nikki-giovanni-with-edwidge-danticat-mahogany-l-browne-renee-watson-rebecca-carroll/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Passwords: Mark Wunderlich on Mary Ruefle
DESCRIPTION:To commemorate the closing of Erasures: Mary Ruefle\, join us for a craft talk on Ruefle’s work from the poet Mark Wunderlich. \nBeginning in 1998 and continuing as part of her ongoing work\, former Vermont State Poet Laureate Mary Ruefle has produced a series of altered books from which she creates poetic texts in a process called erasure\, which Ruefle has defined as an act of “creating a new text by disappearing the old text that surrounds it.” Using correction fluid\, markers\, and gouache\, and often incorporating collaged found images\, the original texts are partially covered over to reveal new and surprising voices\, phrases\, narratives\, and fragmented poems. \nReadings in the chapbook room with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room. \nAbout the Poets: \nPoet\, writer\, essayist\, and visual artist\, Mary Ruefle is the author of over a dozen books of poems\, essays\, and short fiction\, including most recently The Book (Wave Books\, 2023). \nA graduate of Bennington College\, where she studied literature\, and as a resident of Bennington\, Vermont\, Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors\, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. For Dunce (Wave Books\, 2019) she was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, 1989) won the Iowa Poetry Prize. From 2019 to 2024\, Ruefle served as Vermont State Poet Laureate. \nIn an interview with The Paris Review\, Ruefle is quoted as saying\, “I think there’s always a certain amount of invisibility when you write. You’re alone in a room\, no one is looking over your shoulder. When I was young\, writing was the one invisible space I had\, and it made me very happy because I could become invisible while writing. I still feel this way\, except there’s much less of a difference between my inner\, creative life and my outer life than when I was young. And that’s a joyful thing!” \nWidely recognized as a major figure in American poetry\, this exhibition showcases Mary Ruefle as a distinctive visual artist as well. Previous iterations of the exhibition were shown at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum\, the Saint Louis Poetry Center\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. \nMark Wunderlich is the author of God of Nothingness (Graywolf Press\, 2021); The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press\, 2014)\, winner of the Rilke Prize; Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf Press\, 2004); and The Anchorage (University of Massachusetts Press\, 1999)\, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He has received fellowships from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Amy Lowell Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  His poems\, interviews\, reviews and translations have appeared in journals such as Slate\, The Paris Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, Poetry\, Yale Review\, Fence and Tin House\, and his poems are widely anthologized.  Wunderlich has taught at Stanford and Barnard College and in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University\, Ohio University\, San Francisco State University and Sarah Lawrence.  As an arts administrator\, he has worked at the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.  He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin\, and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Wunderlich lives in the Hudson River Valley and has taught at Bennington since 2004. He became the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars in August 2017.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/passwords-mark-wunderlich-on-mary-ruefle/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Kevin Young with Vinson Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Kevin Young presents Night Watch: Poems  \nIn conversation with Vinson Cunningham\nWine reception to follow \nAward-winning poet and poetry editor of The New Yorker Kevin Young launches his newest collection Night Watch\, a book of personal and American experiences\, both beautiful and troubling\, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal. Following on his exquisite Stones\, Young’s new collection\, written over the span of sixteen years\, shapes stories of loss and legacy\, inspired in part by other lives. A collection that will stand as one of Young’s best—Night Watch shapes sorrow with music\, wisdom\, heartache\, and wit. Young reads from and discusses his poetry with an audience Q&A to follow.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/kevin-young-with-vinson-cunningham/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene\, 686 Fulton Street
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Gbenga Adesina
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Gbenga Adesina’s debut book of poetry\, Death Does Not End at the Sea\, on Friday\, September 5 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Camonghne Felix will open for Adesina\, and a Q&A with the poets will follow the readings. There will also be time to purchase books & get them signed at the end! \nNote that by attending this event\, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy. All in-person attendees for events are currently required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage. We will have masks available. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community. \nAbout Death Does Not End at the Sea \nWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\nIn Gbenga Adesina’s groundbreaking debut book of poems\, a defiant and wise exploration of exile\, voyages\, and spiritual odysseys\, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history—a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father\, tired of fear and breathlessness\, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin—to Paris\, the south of France\, Turkey\, and Senegal to investigate his ancestral roots; and finally\, a group of immigrants on small boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea sing in order not to drown\, in a stunning sequence that invokes the middle passage. In a lyrical voice at once new and surprisingly ancient\, Adesina’s Death Does Not End at the Sea explores the complexity of elusive citizenship\, an immigrant’s brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning\, a chorus of elegies\, and a cosmic love song between the living and the dead. \nAbout the Author \nGbenga Adesina is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He received his MFA from New York University where he held the Goldwater Poetry Fellowship and was mentored by Yusef Komunyakaa. He has received support from the Poet’s House\, New York; Fine Arts Work Center\, Provincetown; Colgate University’s Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship\, Folger Shakespeare’s Library\, Washington DC; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Harlem and Harvard University’s historic Woodberry Poetry Room. His work has been published in the Paris Review\, Harvard Review\, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day\, Guernica\, Yale Review\, New York Times Magazine\, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. His first book of poetry\, Death Does Not End at the Sea is out this fall. \nAbout the Opener \nCamonghne Felix\, poet and essayist\, is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation (One World\, 2023)\, which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry\, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards\, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets\, Harvard Review\, LitHub\, the New Yorker\, PEN America\, Poetry Magazine\, Freeman’s Journal and elsewhere. Her next full length work\, Let the Poets Govern\, is forthcoming from One World\, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/book-launch-gbenga-adesina/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:THE ISLAND ISN’T SILENT: Sound\, Survival\, and the Sacred - A Literary Botánica Conversation
DESCRIPTION:In a world fraying at its edges – through displacement\, climate threat\, and spiritual fatigue – what remains sacred? What sounds\, what languages\, what ancestral echoes do we still carry? The Island Isn’t Silent brings together three powerful Caribbean voices\, Jason Allen-Paisant\, Kei Miller\, and Lauren K. Alleyne\, to reflect on poetry’s ability to map survival\, re-enchantment\, and belonging in uncertain times. Through readings and conversation\, the writers delve into the landscapes – literal and metaphorical – that have shaped their work: the shifting geographies of migration\, the music of memory\, and the language of spiritual and political inheritance. Anchored by this year’s Literary Botánica theme\, the event draws on the idea of poetry (and prose) as both remedy and ritual\, offering not only witness to grief and upheaval but also pathways to resilience. At the heart of the conversation is hope\, not as abstraction\, but as a living\, grounded force. Jason Allen-Paisant’s new work of literary nonfiction\, The Possibility of Tenderness\, infuses the natural world with a language of care\, inviting us to reimagine softness as a form of power. This theme of quiet strength and healing threads through the work of each panelist\, challenging the assumption that survival must be hard-edged. Together\, they consider how the Caribbean imagination continues to offer what the world most needs: a vocabulary of rootedness\, a cadence of care\, and the sacred sound of possibility. This conversation is a garden of listening. A ceremony of sound. And a reminder: the island has never been silent – it has only waited for us to hear.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/the-island-isnt-silent-sound-survival-and-the-sacred-a-literary-botanica-conversation/
LOCATION:Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:LAUREATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - SIDE A
DESCRIPTION:Side A is the first half of a two-part poetic experience exploring the vast terrain of Caribbean identity and memory. This showcase gathers two acclaimed poets whose work charts a course through personal and collective reckonings. In this intimate and ceremonial session\, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor\, Trinidadian poet and mother of the late Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest\, and Roberto Carlos Garcia\, Afro-Dominican poet\, publisher\, and elegist engage in a deep\, lyrical conversation about motherhood\, migration\, music\, and mourning. As son\, father\, black and first-generation American growing up in the 70s it was a time when Carlos Garcia’s consciousness was being shaped by hiphop which provided a respite and sanctuary for the dispossessed\, unsure\, othered and uncertain. Rooted in the Literary Botánica’s theme of Root & Remedy\, this event is both reading and ritual – a moment to honor the power of poetry to hold what language alone cannot. From Caribbean folktale to hip hop lyric\, this session becomes a healing altar built from memory and verse. It is also a powerful appreciation of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s poetry which itself is a masterful weaving of Trinidadian voice and American experience\, capturing the cadence\, spirit\, and resilience of a diasporic self rooted in two worlds. Her use of Trinidadian creole is not just stylistic – it is an act of cultural preservation and pride\, bringing the rhythms of her birthplace into the heart of the place she has adopted as home. In fleshing out the intricacies of Trinidad and the U.S.\, Cheryl’s work\, a womb for memory\, migration\, and identity\, offers readers a textured\, multilingual understanding of what it means to belong everywhere and nowhere all at once. Through this dual lens\, Boyce-Taylor reclaims space for Caribbean-American narratives with emotional depth and fierce tenderness. This conversation is the umbilical connection of Cheryl’s selves as mother and as woman. In many Caribbean traditions\, grief is not meant to be hidden; it’s sung\, danced\, written\, and witnessed. This session is a grief remedy\, a sound bath\, a soft protest against silence and forgetting. By placing two master poets in dialogue\, we not only honor the lineage of storytelling\, but invite the audience to plant their own elegies in the fertile soil of language.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/laureates-of-the-caribbean-side-a/
LOCATION:Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:LAUREATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - SIDE B feat. Cooper Libre
DESCRIPTION:The Mouth of the Root: On Oral Tradition and Living Memory hosted by Derron Sandy Guest Poets: Derron Sandy (TT)\, Jason Allen-Paisant (JA)\, Rosamond S. King (TT)\, Kei Miller (JA)\, Ras Atiba (JA)\, Nadia Alexis (HT) \n \n\n\nSide B – The Mouth of the Root is the rhythmic counterpart to Side A’s reflective register – a celebration of the Caribbean’s vibrant oral traditions\, where the word is embodied\, chanted\, freestyled\, and sung. This performance-based showcase brings together voices versed in extempo\, dub\, spoken word\, and ancestral call. This showcase is rooted in the performance lineage of the region\, where the poet is griot\, voicebox\, and rhythm keeper. Here\, memory lives in sound. The mouth becomes vessel; and the word\, when spoken aloud\, becomes power. Featuring masterful performers who stretch the possibilities of voice and cadence\, and curations pairing selections and poet by Afrodiasporic historian-Dj Cooper Libre\, ‘The Mouth of the Root’ is where poetry dances with music\, protest\, and play. It is a reminder that long before we wrote it down\, we said it out loud. This is the oral tradition – alive\, pulsing\, and still making new memory from the old.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/laureates-of-the-caribbean-side-b-feat-cooper-libre/
LOCATION:Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A SPECIAL EPISODE OF POEMTALK: PIERRE JORIS; JEROME ROTHENBERG
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Al Filreis\, PoemTalk features a roundtable close reading of poetry recordings in the PennSound archive. This special episode of PoemTalk\, filmed in front of an audience\, will feature poems by Pierre Joris (1946–2025) and Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024)\, who were longtime collaborators and dear friends of the Kelly Writers House. The episode indeed will be one way for the PennSound\, PoemTalk and Kelly Writers House community to express our deep admiration for the poetic achievements of these two cherished colleagues.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-special-episode-of-poemtalk-pierre-joris-jerome-rothenberg/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith with Hala Alyan\, Aubrey Hirsch\, Mira Jacob\, and Chase Strangio at SJNY
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith present The People’s Project: Poems\, Essays\, and Art for Looking Forward\nIn conversation with Hala Alyan\, Aubrey Hirsch\, Mira Jacob\, and Chase Strangio\nTickets $25 (book included) \nAcclaimed and award-winning authors Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith launch The People’s Project\,  a liberatory anthology of twenty-six writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty. Inspired by Jones and Smith’s conversations in the wake of the 2024 election\, The People’s Project is a collection of poems\, essays\, and visual art on what we—individually and collectively—can hold onto\, and what we can work towards. Joining Jones and Smith for a successive reading with book contributors Hala Alyan\, Aubrey Hirsch\, Mira Jacob\, and ACLU’s LGBTQ Rights Project Co-Director Chase Strangio\, followed by a discussion and signing. $3 of every ticket purchase will be donated to the ACLU.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/saeed-jones-and-maggie-smith-with-hala-alyan-aubrey-hirsch-mira-jacob-and-chase-strangio-at-sjny/
LOCATION:St. Joseph’s University\, New York – Brooklyn\, 245 Clinton Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11205\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:A poetry reading by Therí Pickens and Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:co-sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program\, the Department of Africana Studies\, and the Department of English \nhosted by: Herman Beavers \nrsvp: register here to attend in person \nAbout the Authors: \nTherí Alyce Pickens creates powerful\, ground-breaking\, award-winning scholarship in the fields of Arab American Studies\, Black Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and Disability Studies. She wrote Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press 2019)\, a theoretical tour-de-force which fundamentally shapes Black Disability Studies. Her editorial work ushered in new conversations about Black Disability Studies in two major journals: African American Review (2017) and College Language Association Journal (2021). Her first monograph\, New Body Politics: Narrating Black and Arab Identity in the United States (Routledge 2014) brought together Arab and Black American literary and cultural production through the lenses of Black feminism and Disability Studies. In another editorial project\, Arab American Aesthetics (Routledge 2018)\, she curates a discussion about what makes artistic production uniquely Arab American. \nProfessor Pickens’s public writing refuses to diminish or pre-masticate the complexities of our world for a wider public. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Black Girl Nerds\, The Counter\, Inside Higher Ed\, and Ms. Magazine. She is a sought-after podcast guest who brings wit\, excitement\, and humor to podcasts including Busy Being Black\, Contemporary Black Canvas\, New Books Network\, The Cipher\, and the MoMA Podcast. \nAlongside her scholarship\, Professor Pickens is a poet\, whose first collection\, What Had Happened Was\, will debut in 2025 from Duke University Press. She is a proud alum of Margaret Porter Troupe Arts (2006)\, Community of Writers (2017\, 2020)\, Kenyon Writers’ Retreat (2018)\, Colgate Writers Workshop (2019)\, Bread loaf – Sicily (2019)\, Hurston/Wright (2023)\, VONA (2023)\, and Rutgers’ University Poets and Scholars Retreat (2023). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming from Prairie Schooner\, The Journal\, Diode\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly\, Langston Hughes Review\, The Madison Review\, and Cane: A New Critical Edition. \nIn addition to Professor Pickens’s research\, she coaches with the National Council for Faculty Development and Diversity. She also runs her own developmental editing and sensitivity reading business: Inquiry Editing\, LLC. \nA poet\, musician\, educator\, and curator\, Yolonda Wisher is the author of Monk Eats an Afro. She was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, in 1999 and third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change. In 2022\, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. \nWisher’s writing has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, The New York Times\, and most recently\, the anthologies Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and This Is The Honey: An Anthology Of Contemporary Black Poets. Wisher’s commissioned poetry/spoken word is part of several public artworks and performances including Eight Eight Time (2025) by Kendrah Butler-Waters\, Terry Klinefelter\, Suzzette Ortiz\, and Sumi Tonooka; Ascendance (2024) by Nina Cooke John; The Frances Suite (2022) by Ruth Naomi Floyd\, and For Philadelphia (2018) by Jenny Holzer. Wisher performs and records a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. \nWisher taught high school English for a decade\, co-founded the youth-led Germantown Poetry Festival\, and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts. Wisher is an artist-in-residence in Jefferson University’s Humanities & Health program\, teaching poetry to first-year medical students\, staff\, and patients. She is also a lead artist for Healing Verse Germantown\, a poetry and public art project that engages Germantown residents in writing poetry in response to gun violence. \nWisher’s curatorial projects include Declaration House (2024)\, The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance (2024)\, Love Jawns: A Mixtape (2019)\, Stellar Masses (2018)\, Outbound Poetry Festival (2017)\, Yolanda Wisher’s Rent Party (2017)\, and City of Poetry (2016). She is the senior curator at Monument Lab\, a public art\, history\, and design studio in Philadelphia.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-poetry-reading-by-theri-pickens-and-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Sasha Debevec-McKenney & Kevin Young: Poetry Reading hosted by Terrance Hayes
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Kevin Young\, hosted by Terrance Hayes\, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Poets: \nSasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name. She received her MFA from New York University\, was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin\, and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker\, The Yale Review\, and Granta. She was born in Hartford\, Connecticut. \nKevin Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose\, including Stones\, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Brown; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015\, longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Jelly Roll: a blues\, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; Bunk a New York Times Notable Book\, longlisted for the National Book Award and named on many “best of” lists for 2017; and The Grey Album\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award\, a New York Times Notable Book\, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The poetry editor of The New Yorker\, where he hosts the Poetry Podcast\, Young is the editor of eleven other volumes\, including A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker\, 1925-2025 and the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Society of American Historians\, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. He is currently a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU. \nTerrance Hayes’s most recent publications include a collection of poems\, So To Speak\, and collection of essays\, Watch Your Language\, that were published by Penguin in 2023. Earlier publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin\, 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave\, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.  American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin won the Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Poetry and was a finalist the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry\, the 2018 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry\, and the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Hayes is a Silver Professor of English at NYU.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/sasha-debevec-mckenney-kevin-young-poetry-reading-hosted-by-terrance-hayes/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Sarah Aziza\, Megan Pinto & Katie Yee: Kundiman New Books Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Sarah Aziza\, Megan Pinto\, and Katie Yee\, co-sponsored with Kundiman\, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature\, followed by a reception/signing. \nOpen to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \nAbout the Authors: \nSarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half\, a genre-bending work of memoir\, lyricism\, theory\, and history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream through and as the Palestinian body. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, and The Nation\, among others. \nMegan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith (Four Way Books in the US and forthcoming with the87press in the UK) and the chaplet Lovesick (Belladonna* Collaborative). Megan’s poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Poets.org\, Ploughshares\, the Slowdown Podcast and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers\, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn. \nKatie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction\, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\,  No Tokens\, The Believer\, the Washington Square Review\, Triangle House\, Epiphany\, and Literary Hub. By day\, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night\, she writes\, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog\, Ollie. Maggie; or\, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar is her first novel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/sarah-aziza-megan-pinto-katie-yee-kundiman-new-books-reading/
LOCATION:Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:PSA Talk: Ron Padgett on Kenneth Koch & Frank O’Hara
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, memoirist\, and translator Ron Padgett discusses the friendship between two New York School poets. A fifteen-minute Q&A will follow this thirty-minute lecture. \nRon Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, from whom he also received the Frost medal. Padgett’s most recent collection is Pink Dust (NYRB). In the fall of 2025\, Coffee House Press will issue his Very Collected Poems. Padgett’s translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (NYRB). Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960. Author photo by John Sarsgard.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/psa-talk-ron-padgett-on-kenneth-koch-frank-ohara/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:New Works: CAConrad and Golden
DESCRIPTION:Experience the newest poetry collections from CAConrad and Golden. CAConrad engages with extinction and regeneration within the Anthropocene in Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books\, 2024). CAConrad’s electrifying sculptural poems ebb and flow like a current and as each new piece is formed\, they collapse\, eternally returning to themselves. Golden’s second collection\, Reprise (Haymarket\, 2025)\, is also a book of births and returns. Pairing photography and poetry\, Golden documents the realities of being Black and trans in America with subtle lyricism and vulnerability. \nReadings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room. \nAbout the Poets: \nCAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a PEN Josephine Miles Award\, a Creative Capital grant\, a Pew Fellowship\, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages\, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books). They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson\, Arizona\, as well as in Spain and Portugal. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please visit them at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88. \nGolden (they/them) is a Black gender-nonconforming photographer\, author\, & educator raised in Hampton\, VA (Kikotan land)\, currently residing in Boston\, Massachusetts (Massachusett people & Wampanoag land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books\, 2022)\, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (2023)\, and Reprise (Haymarket Books\, 2025). Their photographic series On Learning How to Live\, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021)\, documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving & living in the United States.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/new-works-caconrad-and-golden/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Isabella DeSendi
DESCRIPTION:Join Isabella DeSendi in celebrating the launch of her debut full-length collection\, Someone Else’s Hunger\, on Friday\, September 12th at 144 Montague Street! Doors will open at 6:30 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Matthew Gellman\, Phil SaintDenisSanchez\, m. mick powell & Chet’la Sebree will open for DeSendi. \nAbout Someone Else’s Hunger \nDislocated in her own skin after a sexual assault\, Isabella DeSendi wrestles with the thorny border between desire and appetite in her incandescent debut collection. Poised between her Cuban matrilineage and her first-generation adolescence in America\, between assimilation and reclamation\, between owning her own cravings and becoming a sacrifice to “someone else’s hunger\,” these poems dissect our human obsession with beauty and the body. The poems in this collection use the lyric form to enact destruction and reparation as they attempt to reverse the vector of aesthetic power toward grace. Because Someone Else’s Hunger is beautiful\, devastatingly so\, it surveys violence\, romance\, eating disorders\, structural racism\, and socioeconomic inequality\, all while yearning to still find beauty everywhere. At the nail salon\, the speaker chooses red lacquer and the tech “paints the color of / anger or desire across the long lake of [her] nail”; in the city\, where she feels like “an animal caught / in the sewer of [her] life” with “spring’s pink garbage / strewn into the streets while petals performed / their daily adagio down the avenue”; and behind her mother’s house\, where she used to vomit at the lip of the reservoir\, “where the water would congeal / then break like dough under [her] body’s simple rot.” \nThe expansive mercy of DeSendi’s breath-taking images is never more apparent than the moment they turn\, as when she heralds the avian frenzy “in the moment right after a purge”: “always the miracle of birds arriving\,” “a messy flurry…curious if any piece of me could be salvaged\, was still good enough to be taken home to the other starlings to eat.” This speaker’s ability to see the tenacious tenderness that drives the scavenger\, to recognize its creative intelligence for nourishment\, belies the resuscitative artistry that never abandons her as she turns carrion into continuance\, coming alive again. Someone Else’s Hunger subverts the revenge to recovery plot\, arguing that the truest testament to the speaker’s inner strength is the resilience it took to survive. DeSendi formally moves between restraint and excess\, illustrating the great courage required to relinquish the control she won back when she became the master of her suffering. But the reward of risking exposure\, daring to open herself to the world and let herself feed off it? Abundance. The arrival of spring and “with it the audacious dirt\,” this realization that “sometimes / in the breaking I am bettering / and in the bettering I am free.” \nAbout the Poets: \nIsabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and educator whose work has been published in Poetry\, the Adroit Journal\, Poetry Northwest\, and others. Her debut poetry collection Someone Else’s Hunger will be published by Four Way Books on September 15\, 2025. Her chapbook Through the New Body won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020. Recently\, she has been named a 2025 New Jersey Poetry Fellow\, a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and was included in the 2024 Best New Poets anthology\, among other awards. Isabella has attended Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop\, the Storyknife Writers’ Residency in Alaska\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Hoboken\, New Jersey. \nMatthew Gellman’s first book\, Beforelight\, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions\, Ltd. in 2024. His second book\, The Understudy\, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. Matthew has received awards and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts\, Brooklyn Poets\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts\, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in Bennington Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Northwest\, Gulf Coast\, Poem-a-Day\, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. \nPhil SaintDenisSanchez is a Creole poet from New Orleans. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets\, the Adroit Journal\, Poetry International\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, and elsewhere. His poem “monarchs are the communication medium for when i die” was a finalist for Poetry International’s C.P. Cavafy Prize and his chapbook watch out for falling bullets was a finalist for The Atlas Review’s and Button Poetry’s chapbook contests\, and a notable manuscript for BOAAT’s chapbook contest. A semifinalist for the 2020 Discovery Prize\, he has received scholarships to attend Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and presented at AWP on creating collaborations between poetry and music. His debut collection\, before & after our bodies\, is forthcoming on Button Poetry in 2025. He studied music theory and composition at The City College of New York\, records under the name SaintDenisSanchez\, and currently lives in Brooklyn. \nm. mick powell is a poet\, a professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, an artist\, an Aries\, and the author of DEAD GIRL CAMEO. They enjoy chasing waterfalls and being in love. \nChet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study\, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and Mistress. Her third poetry collection Blue Opening and debut essay collection turn (w)here: essays on (be)longing are forthcoming in 2025 and 2026\, respectively. She’s an assistant professor at The George Washington University and faculty in Randolph College’s Low-Residency MFA program.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/book-launch-isabella-desendi/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues\, Many Fires
DESCRIPTION:The evening will celebrate Pierre Joris‘s life & prolific œuvre — and most of all POASIS II\, Selected poems 2000–2024 (Wesleyan University Press\, 2025)\, a book he finished before he passed. Copies will be available at the event. The program will feature poetry\, music\, & tributes reflecting the scope of Joris’s decades-spanning\, boundary-crossing work. As Joris wrote: “I am a space traveler trying to write myself into an oasis corner\, an amen corner\, as I circumambulate the polis of my life span\, stopping here & there. Yet even this station\, this mawqif\, this poasis — as I call it with a made-up word or name in the title of one book — is never a given but always a wrestling… to start a new fire to lighten the next steps.” \nWe hope you can join us at 7:15pm for a reception before the event. The memorial will start at 8pm sharp. \nThis event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/pierre-joris-poasis-many-tongues-many-fires/
LOCATION:St. Mark’s Church\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Small Press Small Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Books Are Magic presents our second annual Small Press Small Fest\, highlighting some of our favorite independent publishers in NYC and beyond! \nPoetry. Novels. Memoirs. Works in translation. Picture books. This day has it all\, and more! From 10:30am-5pm\, come to our Montague store to celebrate some of our favorite indie presses\, with readings and signings from special guests\, free swag\, and of course\, stacks on stacks of books! \nTabling From 10:30-1:30 \nFeminist Press: readings by Marisa Crawford\, Megan Milk\, and Naomi Extra from 1-2pm \nNew Directions \nTransit \nVerso \nTabling From 2:00-5:00 \nOther Press \nBlack Lawrence Press: readings by July Westhale\, David Rigsbee\, Joshua Garcia\, and James Cagney from 2-3pm \nGraywolf: readings by Ariana Reines\, Stacey D’Erasmo\, & Mark Dotten from 3-4pm \nAstra House: readings by E.Y. Zhao from 4-5pm \nEvent guidelines: \n\nRSVP is highly encouraged but not required.\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/2nd-annual-small-press-small-fest/
LOCATION:Books are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local\, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. \nThe Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors\, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors\, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers. \nThe Brooklyn Book Festival was launched in 2006 as a one-day event to address the need for a free\, major literary event that embraced the diverse constituencies of New York City. It has since grown to include 8 days of city-wide Bookend events\, its flagship Festival Day with 300 authors and a Literary Marketplace with 250 independent and major publishers\, and the BKBF Children’s Day that celebrates childhood reading. The Festival’s credo is “hip\, smart and diverse”.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/brooklyn-book-festival/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson at Elizabeth Street Garden\, as a poet or audience member\, for the exciting Poetry in the Garden reading series\, hosted biweekly on Summer Sundays at 5 p.m. For each reading\, we ask poets to submit work connected to various themes. \nFor September 14th\, poets can focus on the theme of “armature” or the theme of “border.” (No pressure to write about both.) To read on September 14th\, poets need to submit poetry before the event\, by September 12th\, midnight. Because we have so many poets who want to read in the garden\, each poet has a two-minute reading limit; this may mean two pages\, but it might mean less\, depending on the density of the work. We hate to set time limits\, but we want to share this reading opportunity with as many people as possible. \nSubmit your poetry to art@elizabethstreetgarden.com. \nThe last reading for 2025 will be September 28th. The last theme of the season will be announced after the September 14th reading. \nReadings are hosted by Yvonne Brooks and Joseph Reiver.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-in-the-garden/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Street Garden\, Elizabeth Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:World Poetry Salon: Colm Tóibín\, Martin Hayes\, and Leonard Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon\, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry\, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background. \nThis salon will feature a reading by poet Colm Tóibín accompanied by musician Martin Hayes. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Tóibín’s poetry during the reading. Following the reading\, Tóibín will be interviewed by event host Leonard Schwartz. \nAbout the Artists: \nColm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels\, two collections of stories\, and a volume of poetry\, Vinegar Hill. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and The Times Literary Supplement. In 2000/2001\, he was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. In 2021\, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. \nPraised by the Irish Times as a musician with an “insatiable appetite for adventure”\, Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most significant talents to emerge in the world of Irish traditional music. He is the founder of the musical supergroup The Gloaming\, The Common Ground Ensemble\, and the Martin Hayes Quartet. He is the artistic director of Masters of Tradition\, an annual festival in Cork\, Ireland\,and a co-curator for the Marble Sessions at the Kilkenny Arts Festival\, Ireland. \nLeonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including\, most recently\, Flacofolio (with artist Heide Hatry)\, Actualities I: Transparent\, to the Stone\, Actualities II and III: Two Burned Hotels\, and Actualities IV/V Comic Earth (2021\, 2022\, 2023\, Goats & Compasses). Heavy Sublimation (Talisman House\, 2018) and Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press\, 2017)\, with painter Simon Carr\, are also out and about. His work in poetics The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press\, 2016)\, is inclusive of poetry\, essays\, and interviews. Other titles include If (Talisman House\, 2012)\, and At Element (2011)\, which explore the idea of an eco-poetics\, as well as The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008). He edited and co-translated Benjamin Fondane’s Cine- Poems and Other\, with New York Review Books. From 2003 to 2018 he produced and hosted the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/world-poetry-salon-colm-toibin-martin-hayes-and-leonard-schwartz/
LOCATION:Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library\, Event Center\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:New Works: Kimberly Alidio\, Courtney Bush\, Natalie Shapero\, and Emily Skillings
DESCRIPTION:What do poetry\, film\, sound\, and comedy have in common? Join us on September 16 for readings by Kimberly Alidio\, Courtney Bush\, Natalie Shapero\, and Emily Skillings followed by a discussion and Q/A. \nKimberly Alidio will read from Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions\, 2025)\, a hybrid work exploring how art sustains us through grief\, drawing on diasporic memory and sonic/visual media. Courtney Bush’s A Movie (Lavender Ink\, 2025) blends personal narrative with cinematic reflection\, recounting her experience making an 18-minute vampire film. Natalie Shapero’s Stay Dead (Copper Canyon Press\, 2025) examines survival\, performance\, and the dark comedy of despair. Tantrums in Air (The Song Cave\, 2025) shifts through poetic forms with grace and humor\, reimagining the boundaries and expectations of poetry. \nAbout the Poets: \nKimberly Alidio is the author of Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions\, 2025)\, and Teeter (Nightboat Books 2023)\, which won the Nightboat Poetry Prize (2022) and the Lambda Literary Award (2024). She is also the author of three other books of poetry: Why Letter Ellipses (selva oscura press\, 2020)\, : once teeth bones coral : (Belladona\, 2020)\, and after projects the resound (Black Radish Books\, 2016). Her essays appear in e-flux\, Poetry Foundation\, Social Text\, American Quarterly\, and Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora. \nCourtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker. She is the author of the National Poetry Series selection I Love Information (Milkweed Editions\, 2023) along with other full-length poetry collections Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press\, 2022)\, A Movie (Lavender Ink\, 2025)\, and The Lamb with the Talking Scroll (forthcoming from blush lit\, 2025). She works in childcare and teaches poetry workshops\, sometimes about Rilke\, through Cool Memories. \nNatalie Shapero’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The London Review of Books\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collections Stay Dead (Copper Canyon Press\, 2025)\, Popular Longing (Copper Canyon Press\, 2021)\, Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017)\, and No Object (Saturnalia Books\, 2013)\, and she has performed at The Pulitzer Arts Foundation\, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s\, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine. \n\nEmily Skillings is the author of the poetry collections Fort Not (2017) and Tantrums in Air (2025) both published by The Song Cave. Her recent poems can be found in Poetry\, Harper’s\, Granta\, The Yale Review\, and the New York Review of Books. Skillings is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery\, which was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2021. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative\, a feminist poetry collective\, small press\, and event series. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/new-works-kimberly-alidio-courtney-bush-natalie-shapero-and-emily-skillings/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Conversation: Cristina Pérez Díaz & Isabel Sobral Campos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos celebrating their new poetry books. Puerto Rican writer and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz’s debut poetry collection From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions) and poet and translator Isabel Sobral Campos’s award-winning The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation (Futurepoem) are two extraordinary book-length poems which confront violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books\, followed by a conversation moderated by Lost & Found Fellow Coco Sofia Fitterman. Books will be available at the event. Free and open to all\, please register to attend. \nAbout the Poets: \nCristina Pérez Díaz is a Puerto Rican writer and translator. Her translation of José Watanabe’s ‘Antígona’ won the 2023 ASTR Translation Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in \, \, and . She has published two chapbooks of poetry in Spanish: Adentro crían pájaros (Parawa) and Nueva anatomía imaginaria (La impresora). Haunted by the violent legacies of colonialism on both landscape and bodies\, her first book deliriously dreams with the foundation of a country from the bed of two lovers. has garnered praise from Mara Pastor\, Chloe García Roberts\, Phoebe Giannisi\, Margarita Pintado Burgos\, and Isabel Sobral Campos\, who writes “Pérez Díaz’s dazzling poem stretches the borders between languages and histories\, unearthing a chasm that challenges the colonial forces behind its eruption.” \nIsabel Sobral Campos is the author of The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation\, selected for the Futurepoem 2023 Other Futures Award\, as well as two other full-length poetry books\, How to Make Words of Rubble (Blue Figure Press\, 2020)\, and Your Person Doesn’t Belong to You (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press\, 2018). She has published several chapbooks\, and her poetry has appeared in the Boston Review\, Black Sun Lit\, and the Brooklyn Rail. Her poems have also been included in the anthologies BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press) and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World (Spuyten Duyvil). In 2024\, her collaborative translation of Salette Tavares’s LEX ICON was published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She co-founded and edits Sputnik & Fizzle press with her sister and lives in Cambridge\, MA.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-conversation-cristina-perez-diaz-isabel-sobral-campos/
LOCATION:Martin E. Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: Book Launch & Reading with Ammiel Alcalay
DESCRIPTION:Join Lost & Found and Litmus Press for an evening of reading\, music\, and conversation to celebrate and launch poet\, translator\, critic\, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated\, monumental new book CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books (Litmus Press\, 2025). Alcalay will be introduced by Zohra Saed\, followed by a musical introduction by Safira Berrada-Riggs on ‘oud and vocals. \nCONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books combines three of Ammiel Alcalay’s previously published poetic texts—Scrapmetal (2007)\, the cairo notebooks (1993)\, and from the warring factions (2002)—with a new work\, “Controlled Demolition.” Unlike most writing categorized as “documentary” poetry\, here the author and his process are constant reference points\, serving as a prism to refract changes over time and circumstance in what becomes a mix of memoir\, poetry\, auto-critique\, prose narrative\, history\, and investigative journalism by other means. \nBooks will be available at the reading\, which will be followed by a reception. Free and open to all\, this reading and book launch will take place in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 5th Ave\, NYC. Please register to attend. \nAbout the Author\nPoet\, novelist\, translator\, essayist\, critic\, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books\, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece\, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017\, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/controlled-demolition-book-launch-reading-with-ammiel-alcalay/
LOCATION:Martin E. Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Chapbook Fellowship Reading: Isabella DeSendi\, David Gorin\, and Cecily Parks
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT. \nThe Poetry Society of America celebrates twenty-three years of its Chapbook Fellowship with a reading by three poet-fellows\, past and present: Isabella DeSendi (2019)\, David Gorin (2024)\, and Cecily Parks (2005). The poets’ award-winning chapbooks will be available for purchase.\n \nAbout the Poets: \nIsabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and educator whose work has been published in POETRY\, The Adroit Journal\, Poetry Northwest\, and others. Her debut poetry collection\, titled Someone Else’s Hunger\, will be published by Four Way Books on September 15\, 2025. Her chapbook Through the New Body won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020. Recently\, she has been named a 2025 New Jersey Poetry Fellow\, a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and was included in the 2024 Best New Poets anthology\, among other awards. Isabella has attended Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop\, the Storyknife Writers’ Residency in Alaska\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Hoboken\, New Jersey. Author photo by Matt Harring. \nDavid Gorin is the author of To a Distant Country\, selected by Jennifer Chang for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and forthcoming this year. His writing received the 2023 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and has been supported by MacDowell and Millay Arts. In recent years\, he has taught creative writing and literature at the Pratt Institute\, Deep Springs College\, Stanford Continuing Studies\, the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution (via the Yale Prison Education Initiative)\, Eastern Correctional Facility (via the Bard Prison Initiative)\, and Yale. He curates the WAVEMACHINE poetry and performance series in San Francisco and is co-editor of The Constant Critic at Fence. \nCecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections\, including The Seeds\, which will be published by Alice James Books in October 2025. The recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, she is the guest editor of Best New Poets 2025 and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields\, Meadows\, and Grasses. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, A Public Space\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, several editions of The Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin. Author photo by Jessica Attie.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/chapbook-fellowship-reading-isabella-desendi-david-gorin-and-cecily-parks/
LOCATION:Poetry Society of America\, 119 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Meet the 2025 BPL Book Prize Finalists\, Mosab Abu Toha\, Gina María Balibrera\, Alice Driver\, Alexis Pauline Gumbs\, Emet North\, Helen Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual BPL Book Prize Shortlist Reading & Panel\, featuring the shortlisted authors for 2025 BPL Book Prize. \nFiction shortlist: \nThe Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera \nHum by Helen Phillips \nIn Universes by Emet North \nNonfiction/poetry shortlist: \nForest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha \nLife and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver \nSurvival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde\, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs \nEach fall\, BPL honors outstanding works of nonfiction/poetry and fiction. Selected by librarians and staff\, who draw on their broad knowledge of literature and the many populations they serve\, the BPL Book Prize recognizes writing that captures the spirit of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize was established in 2015 by the Brooklyn Eagles\, young\, engaged Brooklynites who are passionate about the library and work to engage new patrons. \nThis talk will feature the 2025 shortlist nominees in conversation with Jessica Harwick\, prize judge and BPL librarian. On Sunday\, Sept 21\, the winners will take part in a panel in conversation with one another and a Brooklyn author at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Past winners include Kaveh Akbar\, Blair L.M. Kelley\, Catherine Lacey\, Lamya H\, Xochitl Gonzalez\, and Threa Almontaser.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/meet-the-2025-bpl-book-prize-finalists-mosab-abu-toha-gina-maria-balibrera-alice-driver-alexis-pauline-gumbs-emet-north-helen-phillips/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Three Mile Harbor Press Reading: Elizabeth Knapp and Pamela Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Three Mile Harbor Press celebrates the publications of new poetry collections: Elizabeth Knapp’s Causa Sui\, winner of the 8th annual Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Award\, and Pamela Hughes’ long-awaited second full-length collection\, Femistry. Come join us for a kick-off reading and book signing! \nAbout the Poets: \nElizabeth Knapp is the author of two previous poetry collections\, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak (Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, 2019)\, winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize\, and The Spite House (C&R Press\, 2011)\, winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize. She is the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Hood College and lives in Maryland with her family. \nPamela Hughes is the author of a previous collection of poetry\, Meadowland Take My Hand (Three Mile Harbor Press\, 2017). Her work has appeared in: Prairie Schooner; The Brooklyn Review; Canary; Literary Mama; Minnesota Review; PANK; Paterson Literary Review & elsewhere. She graduated from Brooklyn College with an MFA in Creative Writing\, teaches creative writing at Bloomfield College of Montclair St. University and is the editor of Narrative Northeast\, a literary and arts magazine that supports diverse voices and visions.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/three-mile-harbor-press-reading-elizabeth-knapp-and-pamela-hughes/
LOCATION:Poets House\, 10 River Terrace\, at Murray Street (NYC)
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:Atlantic Reads: Walt Hunter presents The Singing Word\, in conversation with Joshua Bennett & Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:The poetry of The Atlantic has\, from the magazine’s first issue in 1857\, called attention to the unfinished project of the nation. Join us at McNally Jackson as The Atlantic‘s poetry editor\, Walt Hunter\, and the poets Joshua Bennett and Rita Dove discuss The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry\, a collection of nearly 100 Atlantic poems infused with the language of America’s songs\, myths\, and history\, from the Civil War to the present. Book signing to follow. \nAbout the Authors: \nWalt Hunter is the editor of The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry. \nJoshua Bennett is a professor at MIT and the author of Spoken Word. \nRita Dove is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/atlantic-reads-walt-hunter-presents-the-singing-word-in-conversation-with-joshua-bennett-rita-dove/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St.\, New York\, NY\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T190000
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SUMMARY:Reading Summer 2025 Workshop Reading
DESCRIPTION:Opening and closing every season with workshop readings reminds us of all the ways in which poetry is created through a sustained process of shared\, communal work. Please join us in celebrating the work that emerged from our 2025 summer workshops\, led by Drew Zeiba\, Latif Askia Ba\, Andrea Abi-Karam\, and Maru Pabón and Yasmine Seale!
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/reading-summer-2025-workshop-reading/
LOCATION:The Poetry Project\, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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SUMMARY:9/23 Algarabia: A Reading & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:NYU English & the Some Contemporary Poetries (SCP) Initiative warmly invite you to Algarabía: A Reading and Conversation with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera\, hosted by Urayoán Noel. \nWhen: Tuesday September 23rd\, 5:30 PM\nWhere: Event Space\, 244 Greene St \nRoque Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayagüez\, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet\, educator\, and translator of trans experience. The 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia\, he has received the Premio Nuevas Voces and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize\, among other awards and recognitions. His eight poetry books include lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi\, 2019)\, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award\, and while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds LLC\, 2019). The Rust of History (Circumference\, 2022)\, his translation of poetry by Sotero Rivera Avilés\, was longlisted for ALTA’s National Translation Award\, and his translation of Ada Limón’s poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is currently on its way to Jupiter’s moon. Salas Rivera is an assistant professor in the Comparative Literature Program at the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico\, and Creative Editor for sx salon: a small axe literary platform. \nHis most recent book\, Algarabía (Graywolf\, 2025) is an epic poem that follows the journey of Cenex\, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/9-23-algarabia-a-reading-conversation/
LOCATION:244 Greene Street #106 (Event Space)\, 244 Greene Street #106 (Event Space)\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:New York
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