Press & Publicity
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Poets House Rebuilds
Poets House, A Place for Poetry
- “Poetry Finds a (Calming) Home in the Hurly-Burly of 21st Century New York” (Nieman Storyboard)
- Poets House Celebrates 30th Anniversary (Fox5 News, VIDEO)
- Poets House is one of the “most gorgeous NYC Libraries” (Time Out New York)
- “Tucked away in a corner of Battery Park City, flanking the Hudson, a literary refuge awaits” (Our Town Downtown)
- Valeria Luiselli on her Poets House library residency for the New Yorker‘s blog
- E.E. Cummings’s desk in the Poets House library (Poetry Foundation / New York Times)
- Poets House, “a free literary oasis for everyone” (The Villager)
The Showcase
- “Poets House Showcase Celebrates Twenty-Five Years”(Poets & Writers)
- “Showcasing Poetry: An Annual Poets House Event Celebrates 25 Years” (Library Journal)
Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
- “Bill Murray Joins Poets House’s Annual Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge” (The Observer)
- “Inside Bill Murray’s ‘Secret’ Love of Poetry” (Rolling Stone)
Poetry for Kids
- Must Do: Poets House in Battery Park City, “the perfect place to open little minds to the wonderful world of poetry” (Mommy Nearest)
- Actor Charles Waters, “Poet to the Younger Set” at Poets House (Video, Tribeca Trib)
- “Poetry for the (Younger) Ages” (Tribeca Trib)
- “Poetry Offers Insight Into Children’s Lives” (Voice of America article and audio report)
Emerging Poets
- The Wall Street Journal features Poets House Emerging Poet Fellows José Olivarez, Emily Brandt, Cynthia Manick, and Nicole Shanté with their “Odes to a Summer Dress”
- Emerging Poets Fellowship, with Ocean Vuong (Peril, Asian Australian magazine of arts and culture)
Exhibitions
- Poets House exhibit of poet Barbara Guest & Artist Fay Lansner “teams two artistic temperaments” (Downtown Express)
- “The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman” at Poets House (Hyperallergic)
- Holland Cotter reviews exhibit of George Schneeman’s collaborations with poets (New York Times)
- Founding Friendships exhibition honoring co-founders Betty Kray and Stanley Kunitz (New York Times)
- “Emily Dickinson, Sweet Genius” at Poets House (New York Times)
- “Poets’ Holiday Greetings Cards: An Intimate Glimpse into Genius at Poets House” (The Guardian, UK)