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Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry “Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” —Danez Smith, The Guardian A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a “masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard” […]
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Poet, translator, musician, scholar, teacher, friend, mage: Cole Heinowitz (1974–2025) was a singular being who was loved by many. On October 27, we will gather to remember Cole with readings, films and performances that span Cole's incredible life and friendships. Featuring Cat Tyc, Carla Harryman, Christopher Funkhauser, Nada Gordon, Lea Bertucci, Matvei Yankelevich, Barrett Watten, Anna Moschovakis, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, Iris Cushing, Abe Etkin, Marianne Shaneen, Felix Bernstein, a performance […] |
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Award-winning poet and 2024 Princeton Holmes Poetry Prize winner Maya Marshall reads from her work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Marshall’s books will be available to purchase and have signed. This event is […]
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Join the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program to celebrate visiting award-winning poet Mary Ann Samyn's new collection, The Return from Calvary (42 Miles Press). Mary Ann will read with Professor Timothy Donnelly, recipient of a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and author most recently of Chariot, published in 2023 by Wave Books. Following the reading, both poets will participate in a Q&A […] |
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About the Poet: Marcella Durand's latest books are A Winter Triangle, which received the Poetic Justice Institute Prize in 2024 and was published this fall by Fordham University Press, and The Light Factory, a collaboration with her mother, painter Suzan Frecon, published by Insurance Editions 2025 with support from David Zwirner Gallery. She is the co-editor with […]
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Wed October 29th 7-9pm KGB Bar Second Floor 85 East Fourth Street Readers: Matt Attanasio, Azucar, Lisa Marie Basile, Robin Eisgrau, Laura Picklesimer, Amon Pierson Hosts: Natalie Kimber, Talia Bar Noy Organizers: NYC Writers Circle Sponsored by: Gotham Writers Workshop and The Rights Factory
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Every poem gives shape to an emergence, a reentry into the world from a place of altered consciousness, which is never fixed, and isn’t new either, but made different each time through a knowledge that wants to know itself. To find language after suffering a stroke, to insist on the darkness of uncertainty with even […]
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Hybrid | Thursday | Oct 30 | 7-9pm EST (GMT-4) When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Ukrainian poets speak in words that refuse silence, tracing the lines between loss and resilience, grief and human dignity. These voices transform private sorrow into collective memory, recording, resisting, and reimagining a world against the grain […]
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Kimiko Hahn & Rickey Laurentiis: Poetry Reading A reading by Kimiko Hahn and Rickey Laurentiis, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Thursday, October 30, 7pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Kimiko Hahn is author of ten collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: […] |
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Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport, Manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene. The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight […]
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Join us for a reading with poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poetry maker, Samiya Bashir, as she presents poets from our New York City Regional Workshop, Poets as Deep Thinkers. Readers will share works that move in conversation with A Poem for Deep Thinkers—both Amiri Baraka’s razor-sharp 1961 poem and Rashid Johnson’s immersive Guggenheim installation. […]
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Laura Henriksen is the author of Duvall, Shelley (Newest York, 2025) and Laura’s Desires (Nightboat, 2024). Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). He is a poet, editor, and critic whose work can be found in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project […] |
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The Light That Burns Us (World Poetry, 2024) is the English-language debut of Jazra Khaleed, one of Greece’s most radical poetic voices. It is an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, and by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization. […] |
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We are delighted to welcome world-renowned poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson to Princeton to deliver the eighth annual Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts. A public reception will follow in Chancellor Green Rotunda. Support for the Fagles Lecture is given in memory of Robert Fagles and has been provided in […] |
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Roberto Tejada and Jennifer Nelson’s poems move accross scales of experience, weaving collective calamities with what’s most proximate, visible to the touch: A forest floor, razor-wired parks, the charged surface of a painting. In a poetics shaped by both myth and matter, Nelson and Tejada unearth histories deposited in soil, attending to the unspoken, summoning both descendants […]
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Poet, performance artist, musician, and publisher Jayne Cortez left an indelible mark on American letters and writers across the globe. Sharp and incisive, her words speak ferociously about material longing, intimacy, violence, and that which is often left unsaid, encapsulating undeniably human experiences with candor and directness. With an expansive lens, she could equally absorb […] |
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Join Cave Canem in celebrating the 25th Anniversary winner of the Cave Canem Prize, Brandon Kilbourne. His work, Natural History, illuminates the intersections between science and poetry in poems that demonstrate the wonder, curiosity, and precision required by both disciplines. |
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Mike Carlson, Tina Chang & Terence Winch with Matthew Rohrer: Poetry Reading A reading by poets Mike Carlson, Tina Chang, Terence Winch, hosted by Matthew Rohrer. The reading will be followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, November 7, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click […]
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About the Poets: Dong Li is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. A Translator in Residence at Princeton University for Fall 2025, his latest full-length English translation is the forthcoming PEN/Heim-winning The Ruins (Deep Vellum, 2025) by the Chinese poet YE Hui. His debut poetry collection, The Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023), was […]
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Join us for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on Friday, November 7th, featuring poets Jasmine Reid, Keetje Kuipers and José Olivarez! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow. About the Poets: Jasmine Reid is […] |
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About the Poets: Samiya Bashir is the author of I Hope This Helps (2025) and Field Theories (2017), winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her other books are Gospel (2009), and Where the Apple Falls (2005). Samiya’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & […] |
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The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing presents the annual Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportunity for students, as well as all in the greater Princeton region, to hear and meet outstanding contemporary writers. All readings are free and open to the public and are followed by a book signing. Multiple Pushcart Prizes-winning poet […] |
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The writer Kevin Killian (1952–2019) authored a magnificent, singular body of poetry—irreverent and elegiac at turns, with a lavish lyrical sensibility. “I write,” he said, “Because it’s fun / Because, like Jell-O, / I have been invented.” Out of print for years, Killian’s collected poetry is finally available in this volume from Nightboat, edited by Evan Kennedy and Jason Morris, […]
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Join Persea Books and Creative Writing at The New School for a celebration of independent publishing and three new books from Persea authors. Poetry Editor Gabriel Fried will introduce Elizabeth Bradfield, reading from her new book SOFAR, Michelle Peñaloza, winner of the Persea Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice and the James Laughlin Awards for All the […]
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Join us in person or remotely for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. The exhibit of poetry and images at Poets House explores how nature shapes our lives, and how we can shape nature’s […] |
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Cathy Linh Che, Emily Hockaday, Allyson Paty, & Jason Schneiderman: Alumni Poetry Reading A reading by Cathy Linh Che, Emily Hockaday, Allyson Paty, and Jason Schneiderman, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale by McNally Jackson. Friday, November 14, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here About the Poets: Cathy Linh Che is […] |
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P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Donika Kelly to celebrate and discuss her latest collection of poetry, The Natural Order of Things: what does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did? Donika will be joined in conversation by Marie Howe, author of Pulitizer Prize winning New […]
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Lauren Cook is the author of Sex Goblin (2024) and I Love Shopping (2025). He is a transsexual naturalist from upstate New York. Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have received fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, and the Poetry Project, and their work has been published in the Boston Review, Pigeon […] |
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Available from publishers The Song Cave for the first time in 50 years, Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike has long enjoyed cult status. It is the record of a poet whose life has been shattered by poverty, drug addiction, and mental illness. Wieners creates a complex schizo-analysis of language, capitalism, incarceration and state power, while reflecting on […]
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P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Isabella DeSendi to celebrate and her new debut poetry collection, Someone Else's Hunger. Isabella will be joined by Leila Chatti, author of Wildness Before Something Sublime, and Eugenia Leigh, author of Bianca. Along with a discussion and audience Q&A, Isabella will also sign copies of her book. About the Poets: Isabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and […]
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National Book Award-winning poet and Princeton alumnus, Nathaniel Mackey, Class of 1969, reads from his work. Mackey is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, a multi-volume fiction work, two books of criticism, and co-editor of two anthologies. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the […]
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A night of poetry with Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani, Clint Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib Tue, Nov 18 at 7:30pm Harvey Theater at BAM Strong Tickets start at $28 Please note: All online and phone orders are subject to a $3 facility fee and an $8 handling fee per ticket. All orders at the box office […]
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We have a remarkable lineup for November 19th! Join us for our for our November event, featuring CHARLES BERNSTEIN and ELIZABETH T. GRAY JR., followed by an extended Q&A engaging the ideas of Quantum Poetics. Wednesday, November 19th, 6:15 PM Free. Doors open 5:45 PM Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) — Room 304 (3rd floor) […]
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Collaborative reading of the poetry works of Nikki Giovanni Wed, Nov 19 at 7pm BAM Rose Cinemas Tickets start at $17 Please note: A $2 handling fee per ticket will be added to your order. As part of the program, we’re screening the documentary Going To Mars, which offers an in-depth look at the life and […]
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This will be a gathering to read perform and listen to works by and with and about Alice Notley, who passed away this past spring in Paris. Notley said St. Mark's Church was where she imagined her work being heard as she was working on new poems, which was always, so this has to happen […] |
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Registration required: In-person ($10) | Livestream ($5) Free for members About the Poets: Philip Metres is the author of thirteen books, including Dispatches from the Land of Erasure (University of Michigan 2025), and Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. His work—poetry, translation, essay, criticism—has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. […]
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