Poets House

Join us on Wednesday, 4/29 at 7 PM ET to celebrate the run of @ParnassusPoetry Join Herbert Leibowitz and friends in-person or online to remember, rejoice, and explore this unparalleled literary journal and the unique contribution to the literary community!

Poets House is flying out west for a few days next week for the AWP conference in Los Angeles! Come chat with us at our Book Fair Booth 519, and get a book signed by one of our incredible featured poets! We will STILL be open in NYC at our usual hours during the conference!

Poets House is going to AWP! Join us, The New School, and poets from the "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" anthology for an evening of poetry, cake, and drinks at Far Bar, LA! Free with RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/awp-poet…

Bea Gates speaks about cross-generational activism, memory, and community as the shelter and protector of the possibility of love: poetshouse.org/bea-gates-on-r… Join Bea Gates at Poets House this Saturday to write poetry responsive to the current moment: poetshouse.org/event/beatrix-…

Join our Poetry Workshop with Cindy Juyoung Ok online next Saturday, March 22, 12-3PM! Explore how page constraints can prompt creativity in poetry, flash fiction, and tiny essays! Register via the link in our bio! Scholarships available—email [email protected] for details.

Hello all! Unfortunately we will be closed on Friday March 14th for a staff training. We will reopen on Saturday March 16th with regular library hours. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Next Tuesday, 3/4, join our next remote Crosswords event, featuring #JosephLuzzi who will be reading from his new translation of #Dante Alighieri’s “Vita Nouva” (@LiverightPub 2024) Free with RSVP 7 PM ET REMOTE ON ZOOM RSVP here: bit.ly/dante-luzzi 🔗

March and April workshop sign ups are available! Single session intensives, 4-week and 6-week courses. These online and in-person workshops with established and accomplished poets will stretch and inspire your poetry skills. Register for a class here: poetshouse.org/programs-event…

Anastacia-Reneé, poet and teaching artist of the workshop PLAY AS RESISTANCE, chats with Poets House about our right to play, self-care, and joy, and daily practices of resisting tyranny: poetshouse.org/anastacia-rene…

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker speaks with Poets House about "Dereliction", writing process, and Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics: ow.ly/bVSS50V3WsX Join Imani Elizabeth Jackson and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker to celebrate their newest collections: ow.ly/ffsX50V3WsY

Poets Out Loud meets the first and third Saturday of every month to read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. Open to all experience levels.

Kazim Ali speaks with Poets House about poetic influences, postmodern feminist poetics, and intimate communion with the unknown. To read the full interview: ow.ly/kApf50UZNCn To RSVP to the event: ow.ly/IVpx50UZNCo

– from Mirtha Dermisache's "Selected Writings" (Siglio/UDP, 2018) Next Wednesday (Feb 19) at 7PM, celebrate the closing of our Autonomy in Practice exhibition with a choral reading of Sergio Chejfec's collection responding to Mirtha Dermisache’s graphisms: poetshouse.org/event/month-of…

Join us on March 1 to celebrate Imani Elizabeth Jackson and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's collections that explore Black diasporic experiences through the topographical and the surreal! Free with RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/new-work…

Friday February 21, 6:30PM! Come celebrate the publication of Alice Rothchild’s free verse autobiography, "Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician" (@newvillagepress, 2025) with a reading and reception. Free with RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/new-work…

In December Poets House hosted a reading with four amazing poets, including Charif Shanahan. After this event, Charif Shanahan spoke with Poets House about ekphrastic self-portraits, noticing seeds of poetry everywhere, and community as a verb: poetshouse.org/charif-shanaha…

Celebrate the art of translation with readings from “A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder” (@circbooks, 2024) by Icelandic poet Brynja Hjálmsdóttir (@hjalmsdottir), trans. by Rachel Britton (@rachel.a.britton) on Zoom Sat Feb 22, 2:30EST / 7:30GMT. RSVP here: poetshouse.org/event/crosswor…

Join us for a celebration of the inimitable Audre Lorde on February 18. Hosted and curated by Anastacia–Reneé, readers will include JP Howard, I.S. Jones, Zora Satchell, and Brad Walrond will read favorite poems or passages by Lorde alongside their own work.