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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