Reading and Publication party for participants in the Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner

What are Langston's lessons? An examination of the work of Langston Hughes will help you learn more about America. It will help you explore the tough tapestry of race. His work will make you look into the mirror and see yourself. Are you ready? Who was this man who taught us how to dream? The life and work of Langston Hughes echoes the social transformation of America from the 1920s to the early 1960s. How did he put blues and jazz into his words? What was his secret? Come dance with the dreamer and discover how he changed literature.

Readings to celebrate National Poetry Month and the opening of this display of the best poetry for children from the past year.

On view April 8 - 29

A prim and proper representative of the avant-garde. A private, single woman who lived with her mother, counted many (misbehaving) great writers as her friends, and famously influenced the course of American letters. A modest person who saluted boldness. A city-dweller who was a close observer of animals. An artist who embraced science. A punctilious failure at punctuation. A writer of prose that sounded like poetry and of poetry that sounded like prose. A woman writer revered by male writers in her lifetime, when women were often dismissed (at least until they were properly dead).

On view April 1 - 29
View the dazzling Poets House Showcase, a cornucopia of the poetry published in the United States since last year. Not to be missed.

Sip champagne and bite into sugary confections from New York’s finest cake bakers as you view the dazzling Poets House Showcase, a cornucopia of the poetry published in the United States since last year. Not to be missed.

Sip champagne and bite into sugary confections from New York’s finest cake bakers as you view the dazzling Poets House Showcase, a cornucopia of the poetry published in the United States since last year. Not to be missed.