Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
A Place for Poetry
Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry.
Announcing our Spring 2019 Season
This spring, join us here at Poets House for an exciting season of readings, talks, and programs!
- Our Epic Voices series continues with talks by Jordan Abel, Karen Finley, M. NourbeSe and many more;
- Passwords, our long-running series of poets on poets, includes events on Diane di Prima, Gerrit Lansing, and others;
- Yanyi and Simone White visit us for craft talks;
- Plus PH at AWP, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the 24th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, and more!
And don’t miss our spring six-week workshops: The Sonnet with Bhisham Bherwani, Our Poetry, Our Selves with J. Mae Barizo, and Memory as Renewal: Dedications, Portraits & Elegies with Barbara Henning!
We’re also thrilled to announce Chapbooks of the Mimeo Revolution, our new digital collection! Once a month, a rare chapbook from our library will be digitized and added to the site, complete with commentary on its cultural and historic context and relevant multimedia, when available. These curated chapbooks will be drawn from the years of the Mimeo Revolution, a period from the 1960s to the mid-1980s when small presses and grassroots poetry communities proliferated. Now available to read are Bob Kaufman’s Golden Sardine and Kathleen Fraser’s Change of Address & Other Poems, with more soon to come!
Upcoming Events
Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive
Dec 11, 2018 - Apr 15, 2019Over 100 of Poets House co-founder Elizabeth Kray’s letters to & from acclaimed poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, June Jordan, Denise Levertov, Clarence Major, Adrienne Rich & more.
…Epic Voices: One Hundred Million Million Poems & Oulipo with Matt Madden
Mar 21, 2019 | 7:00 pmMatt Madden explores the relationship between long-form poetic traditions and compositions of the avant-garde French writing group Oulipo.
Literary Partners Program: Red Hen Press presents Elizabeth Bradfield, Eloise Klein Healy, Maurya Simon, and Amber Flora Thomas
Mar 23, 2019 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmRed Hen Press, in celebration of its 25th Anniversary, presents a reading with acclaimed poets Elizabeth Bradfield, Eloise Klein Healy, Maurya Simon, and Amber Flora Thomas.
From the Blog
Take Five: Barbara Henning on Memory, Doubts, Speculation & Inspiration
Poets House six-week workshop instructor Barbara Henning talks about the process of writing poems of commemoration, among other topics.
Book Report: Poetry Picks for Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Poets House staff pick their favorite poetry books that take on gender, history, and power.
Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Taiyo Na
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
Take Five: Barbara Henning on Memory, Doubts, Speculation & Inspiration
Poets House six-week workshop instructor Barbara Henning talks about the process of writing poems of commemoration, among other topics.
Book Report: Poetry Picks for Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Poets House staff pick their favorite poetry books that take on gender, history, and power.