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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. For September 28th, poets can focus on the theme of "sign" or […] |
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Bestselling author and MacArthur Fellow Karen Russell (Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove) and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown (The Tradition, The New Testament) read from their work to kick off the 2025-26 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books. At the event, authors’ books will be […]
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Celebrating a Century of Poetry in The New Yorker Seriously Entertaining — House of SpeakEasy’s critically-acclaimed literary cabaret — is coming to powerHouse Books to Seriously Celebrate A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025. Join us to hear original storytelling from four poets featured in the anthology: Billy Collins, Vijay Seshadri, Bianca Stone, and Monica Youn. […]
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Event guidelines: Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow the talk. Home address is collected for […]
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Proceeding from radically different angles—a sprawling polyphony of influences and procedural constraints—Kimberly Alidio and Grace Nissan each engage in acts of world-making, and by extension, in acts of undoing. Through grief and its close relation to utopia, language becomes a site of (de)composition, signaling an ethics that lives between what is and what could be. Guest introduction by […]
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Join us for an evening celebrating the release of The Intentions of Thunder, a collection of new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry. The Intentions of Thunder collects poems spanning from three decades of Patricia Smith’s decorated career, from 1991 (Life According to Motown) to 2023 (Unshuttered), as well as uncollected works […] |
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Over the last ten years philosopher-artist Denise Ferreira da Silva and artist-writer Arjuna Neuman have collaborated on a series of films and artworks that they call Elemental Cinema. In these works, the four elements — water, earth, fire, air — inform the artists’ considerations of questions such as: How can we understand existence other than from the post-Enlightenment notions […]
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Hodder Poets Represent Through the Decades celebrates 80+ years of the Hodder Fellowship with readings by award-winning poets who recipients of the Fellowship, a highly competitive artist fellowship program awarded by Princeton University. Poets include Mary Jo Bang (1999-2000), Cynthia Cruz (2010-2011), and Jacob Shores-Argüello (2018-2019), organized by current Princeton Arts Fellow, former Hodder Fellow […] |
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As part of the Princeton French Film Series, you’re invited to watch Claude McKay, From Harlem to Marseille (2023) by filmmaker Matthieu Verdeil, who will be in attendance for a Q&A. Practical information: Open to everyone upon registration. In French and English with English subtitles, the screening will start at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, October […]
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Please join us for an evening celebrating the publication of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez (Nightboat, 2025), edited by Margaret Busby, with a foreword by Sapphire. Jayne Cortez (1934–2012)—a renowned member of the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa—was a prolific poet, having published twelve books and nine recordings […]
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It is fall at the Farminary, which means a night of poetry is in order! We are excited to welcome Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama for a reading and book signing. Ó Tuama hosts Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios and has published critical and theological essays, a memoir, and multiple volumes of poetry. Working […]
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Aria Aber, Rachel Mannheimer, Maggie Millner & Leigh Sugar: Poetry Reading A reading by Aria Aber, Rachel Mannheimer, Maggie Millner, and Leigh Sugar, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, October 10, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers […]
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Join us to celebrate 14 years of Leah Umansky's reading series, COUPLET! About the Poets: Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s […]
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An evening of sonic investigations with the tonal geologist Ryan C. Clarke and the sound and performance duo SCRAAATCH. Clarke will present a performance lecture and listening session in conversation with various expanded Caribbean thinkers (Tom Dent, Wilson Harris, Clyde Woods, Sylvia Wynter, etc.) that will be a circulatory call and response to techno's subversive social and spiritual […]
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About the Poets: Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. Her books include Pause the Document (2025), Repetition Nineteen (2020), Public Domain (2008), and Talk Shows (2007). De la Torre has edited BOMB Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College. Rodrigo Toscano is the author […]
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Join us for an insightful evening with acclaimed writers James P. Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl—two resonant voices reflecting on life, memory, mentorship, and the power of writing. Lenfestey will read from his newest book Time Remaining (Milkweed, 2025)—a stirring meditation on aging, memory, and the enduring beauty of language in life’s later chapters. Ruhl will read from her newest collection of […] |
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Invested in the lyric and its troubled relationship to the social, Sol Cabrini and Juliana Spahr's poems emerge from the tense proximity between moments of lyrical devotion and scenes of everyday violence (“the grain of grass / the motor’s hum / the moon’s denial / each sunbeam a demonstration of complicity,” Cabrini). To be attuned to “nature”—even possibly […]
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Join us for a launch party and reading by poets featured in the new anthology Poetry Is Not A Luxury (Simon & Schuster, 2025) curated by the creator of the @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account. Featuring Dorothea Lasky, J. Mae Barizo, Jason Schneiderman, Wendy Xu, Jose Olivarez, Thomas Dooley, Noelle Kocot, Elizabeth Metzger, and Nour Al Ghraowi.
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An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. Drawing from six previously published books—including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things—as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns—the strangeness of our […]
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Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language, translingual borders, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. Day 1 Schedule: 6:00pm Welcome Reception 7:00pm James Welch Prize Reading: Chris Hoshnic, Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo, dg nanouk okpik. Hosted by Keetje Kuipers 8:00pm Night 1 Reading: Kimberly Blaeser, Bonney Hartley, m.s. RedCherries. Hosted by Rob Arnold About the James Welch […]
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Alystyre Julian’s Outrider is the first feature-length portrait of Grammy-nominated, epic poet, performer, and activist Anne Waldman. Outrider collaborates with Waldman as a person woven of poetry, an inimitable creative and social force dedicated to the propulsion of the artistic imagination and the generative collaborations which form in its wake. The film moves within Waldman’s artistic circles and poetic vortex, […]
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Join us for a multi-day forum exploring issues and ideas around language, translingual borders, and the environment as experienced by Indigenous communities throughout the country. Day 2 Schedule: 11:30am Panel Discussion: Chris Hoshnic, Elise Paschen, Kimberly Blaeser Translational Migrations: Indigenous Languages and Bilingual Poetics This panel explores the possibilities of translation in Indigenous languages and the creative potential of […]
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About the Poets: Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Northern California. She has been publishing poetry and fiction for 50 years. Her recent titles include Which Walks (2025), Personal Volcano (2019), Who That Divines (2014), all from Nightboat Books. She lives in Richmond, CA. Kevin Holden is a poet, […]
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In this limited series designed by 2025 Poet-in-Residence Traci Brimhall, contemporary poets will guide visitors in a lucid “dream walk” of the Guggenheim, leading participants on a journey not of answers, but of unfolding questions. Rather than looking to art and poems for wisdom, how can the questions that they inspire be a better lantern […] |
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Prose shatters the social contract between reader, writer, and author; the conventions that once partitioned “reality” from the world of the book no longer hold. Language begins to leak, entering us through a strangeness akin to a linguistic séance. Suddenly, we’re becoming character, wondering how to move in a world where Alexis Almeida and Lara Mimosa Montes, each […]
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Join us at the Writers House for a reading by acclaimed poet Gregory Djanikian, who was for many years the Director of Creative Writing at Penn. Djanikian’s latest book, Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, written over several decades, takes for its many subjects romantic love and its difficulties, the horrors of the […]
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The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Bass’ books will be available to purchase. Featured Student Readers Wyatt Browne Athena Chu Avery Gendler Tacy Guest Kelly Kim This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books. |
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In October 2024, a few hundred writers and book workers signed an open letter boycotting Israeli literary and cultural institutions that are complicit in violating Palestinian rights, and/or have not recognized those rights publicly. Within a week, more than 5,500 more writers and book workers joined them in taking this position. The unprecedented size of […]
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About the Poets: D. A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His most recent book is Repast: Tea, Lunch & Cocktails, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. His honors include the […]
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Jameson Fitzpatrick, Ariana Reines & Emily Skillings: Poetry Reading A reading by poets Jameson Fitzpatrick, Ariana Reines, and Emily Skillings, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Friday, October 24, 5pm Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here *** About the Poets: Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks […]
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This evening pairs two interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of video and poetry to share work alongside and with each other: Ricardo Bracho, a writer and educator known for his queer anti-capitalist plays, and Andrew Demirjian, an artist and educator working across a variety of media to re-mix and re-compose belonging beyond the nation state. In […]
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About the Poets: Wo Chan is the author of Togetherness (2022) and performs in drag as The Illustrious Pearl. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and […]
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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 […] |