Programs and Events
Each year, Poets House presents a vast range of poetry talks, panels, readings, seminars, performances, and classes that give audiences the chance to experience some of the leading international voices of the day.
Craft Talk with Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips gives a craft talk on “Pale Colors in a Tall Field” reflecting on his poetics, process, and mentoring next generation poets.
Poets House Presents: Tyree Daye
Poet and Educator Tyree Daye reads from his forthcoming second collection Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), from Raleigh, NC.
Poets House Presents: Heid E. Erdrich
Prolific Poet and interdisciplinary artist Heid E. Erdrich reads from “Little Big Bully” (Penguin, forthcoming 2020), from Minneapolis, MN.
Literary Partners Program: Scarlet Tanager Books Presents Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California
Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, co-editors of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, will lead contributors in reading work from the anthology.
CANCELLED: Everyday Experimentation with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Everyday Experimentation with Cyree Jarelle Johnson: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop. Six Tuesdays, October 13–November 24 (Skip Nov 3). Registration Deadline: September 24
Avant-Garde to the People with Xandria Phillips: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Because drastic times call for drastic poetics this workshop is dedicated to our most experimental written voices. Six Wednesdays, Oct. 14–Nov. 25, 2020 (Skip Nov. 11).
See the full list of all past Poets House programs, 1986 to the present