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| | In-Person & Zoom | Tues | July 14 | 7-9pm Exhibition Opening Reading: Pierre Joris’ Notebooks Join us in celebrating the opening of Pierre Joris’ Notebooks, featuring remarks by Nicole Peyrafitte and Nathalie Jacoby (Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg), along with readings of Pierre’s poetry by Florent Toniello, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Urayoán Noel, Ariel Resnikoff, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, and Randall Horton with Jacob Crumel (2026-2027 Pierre Joris Fellow for Radical Reversal). The occasion is especially meaningful, as it falls on Pierre Joris’ birthday and honors his enduring legacy following his passing in 2025. RSVP NOW |
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| | | Deadline to Apply: July 31, 2026 Hiring: Development Director Poets House seeks an experienced, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Development Director to personally lead and execute all aspects of fundraising for the organization. This is a working position: the Development Director is the primary implementer of all development activities and is expected to carry out the day-to-day work of building and sustaining a contributed revenue program that meets or exceeds the organization’s annual fundraising goals. APPLY NOW |
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| | In Person | Saturday | July 11 | 12-1pm Riverside Poetry Reading Group – July Love reading poetry but wish you had someone to discuss it with? Join Poets House staff for an hour of guided poetry reading and discussion in the library once per month. Take in the views of the Hudson River as we chat about poems new and old, classic and cutting-edge. This month, Poets House staff member Leo Kreider will lead a discussion about catalog poems—conceptual poems that list, account for, describe, and self-reflexively critique enumeration and administration. Poets will include Dionne Brand, Lucy Ives, and Lev Rubinstein. RSVP NOW |
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| | Wagner Park | Friday | Jul 17 | 7-9pm Summer Nights: Yaissa Jiménez, Eileen Myles, and Samantha Crain Join us under summer sunsets for Yaissa Jiménez, whose debut collection Ritual Papaya (Zemí Book, 2018) draws from Afro-Dominican spiritual tradition, Eileen Myles, whose newest collection is Working Life (Grove Press, 2023), and indie musician Samantha Crain who won three NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) performs in the second installment of Summer Nights. Don’t miss this stellar night of poetry and live music in the parks! RSVP HERE |
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| | | The Algonquin | Sat | Jul 18 | 2pm-2:30 Poets House at the 15th NYC Poetry Festival: Five Borough Reading Poets House is returning to NYC Poetry Festival! This year, we’re delighted to feature Rose Foley, Aristilde Kirby, Jahtiek Long, Lorraine Olaya and Maria Rubio representing the five boroughs of New York City. Food and beverages will be available for purchase, but we recommend bringing snacks and water to stay energized and hydrated throughout the day. Admission to the New York City Poetry Festival is free. RSVP on the festival website. |
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| | | In Person | Saturday | July 25 | 12-1pm ET Riverside Poetry Writing Group – July Love writing poetry but wish you had a reliable writing community? Join Poets House staff for an hour of low-stakes poetry writing and discussion in the library once per month. Take in the views of the Hudson River as we chat about our writing lives before generating new work together. Staff will provide optional prompts, but self-guided writers—as well as absolute beginners—are always welcome. This month, a Poets House staff member will lead the group with conversation and prompts. Participants are always welcome to depart from the prompt. RSVP HERE |
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| | | In-Person & Zoom | Thurs | Jul 23 | 7-9pm My Wise Little Ghost: Book Launch with Emily Hyland and Lo Naylor Join Emily Hyland for a reading celebrating the launch of her newest poetry collection, My Wise Little Ghost (Trio House Press, 2026), followed by a conversation with Lo Naylor. The evening will conclude with a reception, where Emily will provide pizza for all from her beloved Pizza Loves Emily! Books will be available for sale, and all proceeds will go to Poets House. RSVP HERE |
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| | | Emily | Jul 24-Nov 9 Emily Pizza Fundraiser “The Poet” pizza returns! Visit Emily Pizza’s Brooklyn location at 919 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 to order a limited edition "Poet” pizza. “The Poet” is a vodka sauce pie with red onion, mozzarella, pecorino, havarti, banana peppers, and a drizzle of Emily’s famous green goddess ranch dressing. A portion of the proceeds will go to the library. Eat pizza, help Poets House! Find directions to the restaurant and full menu HERE. To try pizza from Pizza Loves Emily for free at the book launch for Emily Hyland RSVP HERE. |
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| | | In-Person | Sat | Aug 8 | 3-5pm Black Lawrence Press Summer Reading Join us in celebrating brand new titles from Arielle Hebert and Sébastien Luc Butler, and experience the brilliant minds of David Rigsbee, Claudia Cortese, Isaac Pickell, and Max McDonough. Established in 2004, Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, prose, and anthologies. RSVP HERE |
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| | | Wagner Park | Friday | Aug 21 | 7-9pm Summer Nights: Safia Elhillo, Jenny Xie, and Nadine El Roubi Each Friday night performance pairs electric readings from poets with a multigenre musical performances, all staged in picturesque venues steps from the Hudson River. Tune into the musicality in verse and the poetics of sound—these nights of poetry, music, and dancing aren’t to be missed! RSVP HERE |
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| | | Remote | 4 Tuesdays | Jul 7-Jul 28 | 7-9pm ET Remote 4-Week Workshop: Temperance Aghamohammadi: Eroticka! New Poetics of Intimacies (SOLD OUT!) In this workshop, we will take on the issue of eroticism as an aesthetic category and as a subject matter. We will develop a new lens through which to view and construct the physical, psychic, and emotional infrastructure of a poem. How does one create intimacy between a poem’s elements? How does one develop sonic tension and release? How have poets and other artists engaged with Eros as a craft technique and subject matter? Drawing on erotic theory and gender studies, we will explore how to activate various intimacies in our work to build our own understandings of Eros as an essential drive in art making. We will look at art that challenges our ideas around Eros, including works by Rickey Laurentiis, Sappho, Julian Talamentez Brolaski, Ariana Reines, Hoa Nguyen, erotic writers, electronic music, visual art, and others. TICKETS HERE |
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| | | In Person | Saturday | Jul 11 | 12-3pm In-Person 3-Hour Workshop: Jackie Braje: Talk to Me: Writing Conversational Poems A great poem can often feel like a conversation—with yourself, with the speaker of the poem, and with the world around you. But how does one create the seemingly effortless affect of a “conversational poem”? What makes a poem feel engaging, colloquial, or intimate? In this workshop, we’ll explore different ways of communicating spontaneity and approaching the blank page as a dialogue with the reader. We’ll specifically look to the New York School (of course) and poets like Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch and Barbara Guest, as well as more contemporary poets like Kim Addonizio and Danez Smith. TICKETS HERE |
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| | | Remote | 6 Thursdays | Jul 16-Aug 20 | 6:30-8:30pm ET Remote 6-Week Workshop: Martine Bellen: Generating, Revising, Polishing: The Practice of Poetry Generating new work and revising it might be thought of as the in-breath and out-breath of poetry. In this stress-free workshop, participants are encouraged to work on unfinished poems that have been sitting around on their desktops for a while, as well as to generate new work conceived in conversation with poems read in the workshop (both published poems and ones written by participants) and through writing prompts. Group feedback will address the precision of language, rhythm, form, theme, and poetry’s mysteries. Revisions will be shared during workshop meetings, and the polishing process will be discussed. The ease of writing poetry (like a series of breaths) will be cultivated. TICKETS HERE |
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| | | In Person | 4 Thursdays | Jun 18-Jul 16 | 6:30-8:30pm ET Workshop: Poetry of Collaboration: Radical Togetherness in a Time of Crisis with Ayesha Raees The etymology of lyric traces back to the Greek lyrikos, meaning “of or for the lyre,” an ancient string instrument used to accompany sung poetry performances. The instrument’s melodiousness, coupled with the speaker’s voice, configured the poem as a powerful vessel to communicate a feeling-ful inner life. In this four-week, generative course, we’ll draw on the work of musicians such as Joni Mitchell, Stephen Sondheim, Gabriel Kahane, Kendrick Lamar, MF Doom and Adrianne Lenker and the poetry of writers such as Fred Moten, Hanif Abduraqqib, Victoria Chang, Tangie Mitchell and Anthony Thomas Lombardi. No prior musical training is required for this course. TICKETS HERE |
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| | | Remote Craft Session | Thursday | Jul 23 | 7-9pm ET Craft Session: And I Eat Men Like Air: Horror as a Meaning-Making Device with Erika Walsh Horror movies serve to either subvert or uphold, implicitly or explicitly, tropes rooted in systemic racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, class disparity, and more. This pattern has become increasingly evident as real-life horrors such as the global rise of fascism have erupted and, simultaneously, horror movies and shows have become increasingly popular, perhaps in part as a way of pointing to, challenging, and attempting to make sense of these modern brutalities. This class will examine, through a queer, feminist lens, how conventions of the horror genre such as body horror, ecological horror, and domestic terror reflect the historical, social, and political contexts of our lives. TICKETS HERE |
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| | | In Person | Saturday & Sunday | Jul 25-26 | 12-4pm ET In-Person 2-Day Workshop: Carlie Hoffman: Desire, Myth, and the White‑Hot Center: A Two-Day Immersion in Poetic Craft and Critique In this two-session seminar and workshop, we’ll gather at summer’s white‑hot center to think about how poems hold desire: urgent, unrequited, ecstatic, impossible. We’ll move from classical myth to contemporary work, reading poets who write into longing, desire, and the complicated layers of love and human connection. Together, we’ll talk about how to deepen emotional stakes, focus imagery, and make space on the page for contradictory feelings. By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with new poems, a set of prompts you can return to all summer, and renewed ways of thinking about desire, connection, and what it means to draw from the white‑hot center in your own work. TICKETS HERE |
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| | In Person | Friday | Jul 10 | 7pm ET New Jersey Performing Arts Center: Spoken Word Salsa In this first-of-its-kind event, spoken word artists and salsa artists illuminate their rhythmic, lyrical and cultural connections. Your host is Caridad de la Luz, the Emmy-winning Executive Director of the acclaimed Nuyorican Poets Cafe. There will be electrifying spoken word performances from Nuyorican poets Elisabet Velasquez and Isabel Cruz. The show culminates in a poetry-inspired set by GRAMMY-nominated salsa singer Frankie Negrón. After the performance, will be a salsa dance party at NICO Kitchen + Bar! TICKETS HERE |
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