Cumulative Program List
The following is a master list of all Poets House programs held from 1986 through 2020. Stay up-to-date, click here to sign up for our weekly e-blast.
2020
Online Program: Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Charles Waters – Nov 18
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Rosamond S. King – Nov 13
Poetry + Spirituality: On The Lotus Sutra with Donald Lopez, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, & Thomas Fink – Nov 12
Online Program: Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Pablo Medina – Nov 11
Online Program: Poets House Presents: North of Invention with Joshua Whitehead – Nov 6
Online Program: Craft Talk with Heid E. Erdrich – Oct 29
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Yona Harvey – Oct 30
Master Class with Kazim Ali: Cryptoforms
Master Class with Rae Armantrout: In Brief
Master Class with Rick Barot: The Personal and the Political
Online Program: Poets House Presents: francine j. harris – Oct 23
Online Program: Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Julian Talamantez Brolaski – Oct 21
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Lisa Robertson – Oct 16
Using a “Canon” (Feminine) with Patricia Spears Jones: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Writing Towards the Unknown with Joanna Fuhrman: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Avant-Garde to the People with Xandria Phillips: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
CANCELLED: Everyday Experimentation with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Heid E. Erdrich – Oct 9
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Tyree Daye – Oct 2
Online Program: Craft Talk: A Life of Making Poems with Lawrence Joseph – Sep 25
Online Program: Poetry Path Workshop with Charles Waters – Sep 25
Online Program: Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Rita Dove – Sep 25
Online Program: Introduction to the Poetry Path in Battery Park City – Sep 25
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Lois-Ann Yamanaka – Sep 25
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Joshua Escobar – Sep 18
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Rae Armantrout – Sep 11
The New Gen! Rising African Poets with Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani – Sep 8
Online Program: Poets House Presents: John Murillo – Sep 4
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Joey De Jesus – Jul 31
Language Is a Temptation: Bernadette Mayer reads July 31 from Memory – Jul 31
Language Is a Temptation: Lynne Sachs reads July 30 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 30
Literary Partners Program: Kweli International Literary Festival – Jul 30 (Willie Perdomo and Vincent Toro)
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Gabrielle Civil – Jul 29
Language Is a Temptation: Urayoán Noel reads July 29 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 29
Literary Partners Program: Sharon Dolin in Conversation with Kim Addonizio – Jul 29
Literary Partners Program: Kweli International Literary Festival – Jul 29 (Milena Brown, Imani Gary, and Camille Collins)
Language Is a Temptation: Rachel Valinsky reads July 28 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 28
Language Is a Temptation: Simone White reads July 27 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 27
Literary Partners Program: Kweli International Literary Festival – Jul 27 (Lauren Francis-Sharma & Krystal Sital)
Language Is a Temptation: Emmy Catedral reads July 26 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 26
Language Is a Temptation: Morgan Ritter reads July 25 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 25
Language Is a Temptation: giovanni singleton reads July 24 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 24
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Tacey M. Atsitty – Jul 24
Literary Partners Program: Kweli International Literary Festival – Jul 23 (Megha Majumdar & Dr. Nafissa Thompson-Spires)
Language Is a Temptation: Grace Murphy reads July 23 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 23
Language Is a Temptation: Fanny Howe reads July 22 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 22
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Jesse Seldess – Jul 22
Language Is a Temptation: Stephen Motika reads July 21 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 21
Language Is a Temptation: Brenda Coultas reads July 20 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 20
Language Is a Temptation: Matt Connors reads July 19 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 19
Language Is a Temptation: Barbara Epler reads July 18 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 18
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Genya Turovskaya – Jul 17
Language Is a Temptation: Peggy DeCoursey reads July 17 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 17
Language Is a Temptation: Olivier Brossard reads July 16 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 16
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Kay Ulanday Barrett – Jul 15
Language Is a Temptation: Lee Ann Brown reads July 15 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 15
Language Is a Temptation: Andrew Durbin reads July 14 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 14
Language Is a Temptation: Rona Cran reads July 13 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 13
Language Is a Temptation: Greg Masters reads July 12 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 12
Language Is a Temptation: Ann Stephenson reads July 11 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 11
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Jake Skeets – Jul 11
Language Is a Temptation: Sarah Cain reads July 10 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 10
Language Is a Temptation: Aldrin Valdez reads July 9 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 9
Online Program: Poets House Presents: R. Zamora Linmark – Jul 8
Language Is a Temptation: Peter Gizzi reads July 8 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 8
Language Is a Temptation: Jill Magi reads July 7 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 7
Language Is a Temptation: Tausif Noor reads July 6 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 6
Language Is a Temptation: J’Lyn Chapman reads July 5 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 5
Language Is a Temptation: Bill DeNoylles reads July 4 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 4
Language Is a Temptation: Jen Bervin reads July 3 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 3
Language Is a Temptation: Anaïs Duplan reads July 2 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 2
Language Is a Temptation: Anselm Berrigan reads July 1 from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory – Jul 1
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs – Jul 1
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Xandria Phillips – Jun 26
Online Program: Poetry & Science: Naturalists & Nature Poets with Rick Cech & Yanyi – Jun 25
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Alan Felsenthal – Jun 24
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Rachel Eliza Griffiths – Jun 19
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Chen Chen – Jun 17
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Tommy Pico – Jun 12
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Jesse Rice-Evans – Jun 10
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Vincent Toro – Jun 5
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Mark Doty – Jun 3
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Diane Glancy – May 29
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Yanyi – May 27
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Joan Naviyuk Kane – May 22
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Brian Teare – May 20, 2020
Online Video Conference Master Class with Major Jackson: Imagining What We Cannot See – May 16
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy – May 15
Online Program: Passwords: Selections from Chapbooks of the Mimeo Revolution – May 14
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Nicole Wallace – May 13
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Major Jackson – May 8
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Caroline Bergvall – May 6
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Ed Roberson – May 1
Online Program: Poem in your Pocket Day – Apr 30
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Joy Harjo – Apr 29
10*10*10*2: Daily Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson: Second Series – Apr 27
Online Program: Film Screening & Talk: Made in Harlem with Zohra Saed & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs – Apr 24
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Lucy Ives – Apr 24
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Amy Hale – Apr 22
Live Stream: Tuesday Talk: Nature in Poetry with Bob Holman – Apr 21
Dream Work/Poem Work with Cynthia Cruz: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop – Apr 18
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Timothy Liu – Apr 17
Online Program: Dave Johnson Reads Four Poems By Stanley Kunitz – Apr 16
Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Desirée Alvarez: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop – Apr 15
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Garous Abdolmalekian – Apr 15
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Andrea Abi-Karam – Apr 10
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Cynthia Cruz – Apr 8
Online Video Conference Master Class With Mark Doty: Writing the Self in Time – April 4 & 5
10*10*10: Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson – Mar 30, 2020 – Apr 3, 2020
Online Program: Poets House Presents: Desirée Alvarez – April 3
Live Stream: Diane Glancy: Craft Talk –Apr 2, 2020
CANCELLED: Laureate Voices: How to Love a Country with Richard Blanco & Nathalie Handal
Poets House at AWP in San Antonio: CANCELLED – March 6, 2020
2019
Poets House at the Grolier Club: A Celebration of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY – January 31
Epic Voices: Prophets with Kwame Dawes – February 13
Master Class: Master Class with Kwame Dawes: The Art of Distraction – February 16 & 17
Six-Week Workshop: The Art of Concealing and Revealing in Poetry with Neil Shepard – Six Wednesdays, February 20–April 3 (skipping March 27)
Epic Voices: The Controlling Image: Digges & Levis with Dorianne Laux – February 21
Six-Week Workshop: Ontogeny, Phylogeny & Poetry with Michael Broder – Six Thursdays, February 21–April 4 (skipping March 28)
Master Class: Master Class with Dorianne Laux: The Discretion of the Line – February 23 & 24
Six-Week Workshop: Lyric Technologies: Generating Poetry in the Age of Social Media with Rosebud Ben-Oni – Six Saturdays, February 23–March 30
Epic Voices: Bernadette Mayer & Stacy Szymaszek on the Long Poem & Daily Writing – March 9
Passwords: Gerrit Lansing with Ruth Lepson, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Robert Podgurski & Charles Stein – March 16
Epic Voices: One Hundred Million Million Poems & Oulipo with Matt Madden – March 21
Poets House at AWP in Portland, Oregon: Reading & Discussion: Mentorship & Accessibility in Poetry with Paul Guest, Aisha Sasha John & Aldrin Valdez, Portland Ballroom 253-254, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR – March 28
Epic Voices: The Long Poem of the Anthropocene with Allison Cobb – April 4
Epic Voices: Harry Martinson’s Aniara with Fia Backström & Kira Josefsson – April 9
Six-Week Workshop: The Sonnet with Bhisham Bherwani – Six Wednesdays, April 10–May 15
Six-Week Workshop: Our Poetry, Our Selves with J. Mae Barizo – Six Thursdays, April 11–May 16
Six-Week Workshop: Memory as Renewal: Dedications, Portraits & Elegies with Barbara Henning – Six Saturdays, April 13–May 18
Epic Voices: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts with Maureen N. McLane, Tom Pickard & Don Share – April 16
Epic Voices: Injun with Jordan Abel – April 20
Another Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 25
Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems with Steven Alvarez – April 30
Walt Whitman Bicentennial Reading, Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th St, New York, NY – May 2
Craft Talk: The Revolution Is Emotional: Recovering Art & Community with Yanyi – May 4
PEN America World Voices Festival: Oppression Rewritten – May 7
Epic Voices: Karen Finley on William Carlos Williams’ Paterson – May 9
Passwords: Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader with Derek Fenner, Randall Horton & Pamela Sneed – May 11
PEN America World Voices Festival: Babyn Yar: Through the Voices of the Fallen – May 11
Passwords: Diane di Prima—A Discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, Iris Cushing & Mary Catherine Kinniburgh – May 14
Passwords: Infinite Plentitude & AfroSurrealism with Devin Cain, Alexandria Eregbu & Krista Franklin – May 23
Craft Talk: Black Feminism 4eva with Simone White – May 28
Epic Voices: The Caribbean (Un)Epic with M. NourbeSe Philip – June 1
Master Class with Robert Pinsky: Leading with Music – June 8 & 9
Poetry Walk: 24th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 10
Six-Week Workshop: Six-Week Workshop: To Fire & Surprise: Making New Poems with R. A. Villanueva – Six Tuesdays, June 11–July 23 (skipping July 2)
Six-Week Workshop: Poems as Prayers: Writing Toward a Just World with Caits Meissner – Six Wednesdays, June 12–July 24 (skipping July 3)
Six-Week Workshop: The Self: Autobiography &/In Poetic Forms with Cynthia Manick – Six Thursdays, June 13–July 25 (skipping July 4)
Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading – June 15
Workshop: It’s About Time: Writing Workshop for Seniors with Dave Johnson – June 19, 21, 26, 28
Exhibition Opening: Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present – June 20
Exhibition: Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present – June 20 – November 30
Workshop: Writing in Response to Gay New York: A Writing Workshop for Seniors with Michael Klein – June 21–23
Night at the Museums at Poets House – June 25
Showcase Opening: 27th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading with Ross Gay, Tina Chang & Tommy Pico – June 27
Showcase Reading Series: Charles Bernstein, Andrea Abi-Karam, Abigail Chabitnoy & Ed Bok Lee – July 11
Showcase Reading Series: Roberto Tejada, Cody-Rose Clevidence & Shayla Lawson – July 18
Poets House Members-Only Open Mic – July 23
Showcase Reading Series: Asiya Wadud, Arthur Sze, Chase Berggrun & Jesús Papoleto Meléndez – July 25
Showcase Reading Series: Eugene Gloria, Adrian Silbernagel, Jesse Rice-Evans & Tina Cane – August 1
One-day Workshop: Re-Cognition, Re-Vision, and Revelation: Pushing the Boundaries of Your Poems with Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs – September 21
One-day Workshop: You Are Here: Poems of Place with KC Trommer – October 5
Poetry & Science: Poetry, Deep Time & the Stars with Mordecai-Mark Mac Low & Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – October 5
Six-Week Workshop: Finding Your Voice and Your Duende: Writing Poems of Love and Death with Sarah Arvio – 6 Saturdays, October 12 – November 23 (Skipping November 2)
Favorite Poem Reading with Robert Pinsky & Special Guests – October 12
Six-Week Workshop: Alter | Altar II: Sigil, Soma, Score, Salve with ELÆ (Lynne DeSilva-Johnson) – 6 Tuesdays, October 15 – November 19
Six-Week Workshop: Witness: A Poetry Writing and Performance Workshop with Rosamond S. King – 6 Wednesdays, October 16 – December 4 (Skipping November 13 & 27)
Six-Week Workshop: Direct Address: Writing New Poems with Emily Hunt – 6 Thursdays, October 17 – November 21
North of Invention: The Shaking Tent with Liz Howard – October 17
Six-Week Workshop: Ear to the Canvas: Lessons from the Visual Arts with Eléna Rivera – 6 Saturdays, October 19 – November 23
A Tribute to W. S. Merwin –Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York NY – October 21
Poetry & Science: Our Intimate Connections to Trees with Nalini Nadkarni & Forrest Gander – October 22
The Life & Work of Daniel Halpern with Robert Hass – October 25
Academy of American Poets Chancellor Conversations – October 26
One-day Workshop: Dreams & Diaspora: Exploring Speculative Poetics with Bryan Thao Worra – October 27
Poetry of the Supernatural: The Weird with Bryan Thao Worra & Linda Addison – October 29
One-day Workshop: I Remember the First Time I Sat Down and Ordered My Feelings: The List Poem with R. Zamora Linmark – November 1
Master Class: Master Class with Jericho Brown: In the Tradition – November 2 & 3
Passwords: The Ballad: Love, Lyricism & Social Protest with Sarah Arvio – November 2
Children’s Program: Woke Baby Family Book Festival with Story Times for the Kids! – November 9
North of Invention: A berthDay Celebration with bill bissett – November 21
Master Class: Master Class with Fanny Howe: Childhood Days – December 7 & 8
Master Class: Master Class with Gregory Orr: Saying, Singing, Imagining, Naming – December 14 & 15
A Tribute to Fanny Howe – December 14
2018
A Celebration of Derek Walcott, Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue (between 91st & 92nd street), New York NY – January 18
A Celebration of James Wright: A Life in Poetry – January 20
Master Class: Master Class with Gregory Pardlo – January 20 & 21
One-Day Workshop: Raising the Stakes—Maximizing Rhetorical Devices in Poetry with Sarah Blake – January 27
A Celebration of Fernando Pessoa – February 10
One-Day Workshop: Love and Other Poems: A One-Day Workshop with Nathalie Handal – February 10
Tribute to Thomas Lux, CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue NY, NY – February 13
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 17
Six-Week Workshop: The Whole Poem with Neil Shepard 6 Wednesdays, February 21-April 4
Six-Week Workshop: The Open Mind: Lessons from the Visual Arts with Elena Rivera 6 Thursdays, February 22-March 29
Six-Week Workshop: To Fire and Surprise: Making New Poems with R.A. Villanueva 6 Saturdays, February 24-March 31
Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan – February 24
Poets House at AWP in Tampa, Florida (Reading: Rick Barot, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Patricia Spears Jones) Ballroom B, First Floor, Tampa Convention Center, Tampa FL – March 9
Writing the Body with Kimiko Hahn – March 22
Diamond Mountains: Poets Respond to Korean Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York NY – March 23
30th Anniversary Close Readings: The City with Rigoberto Gonzalez – March 24
Best American Poetry: 30 Years with Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Natasha Trethewey and Others – April 3
The Archive as Resistance: A Craft Talk with Cynthia Cruz – April 10
Passwords: Danez Smith on Audre Lorde – April 13
30th Anniversary Close Readings: Between “Soft” and “Hard” Clocks: A Meditation on Temporality with Erica Hunt – April 14
Poland’s Ryszard Krynicki with Clare Cavanagh, Edward Hirsch and Alissa Valles” – April 17
Poetry & Horticulture at The High Line with Tommy Pico, The High Line – April 21
Children’s Program: Can I Touch Your Hair: Poems of Race, Mistakes & Friendship with Charles Waters and Irene Latham – April 21
30th Anniversary Close Readings: Foliage & Pattern with Carl Phillips – April 21
Pablo Neruda: The Poetry of Resistance – April 21
Shane McCrae at BMCC, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York NY – April 24
The Sonnet: A Craft Talk with Shane McCrae – April 24
Children’s Program: Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 26
Lullabies and Laments: Experiments in Music and Poetry – May 8
30th Anniversary Close Readings: A Shadowy Exultation with Edward Hirsch – May 12
Negative Space: Luljeta Lleshanaku with Eliot Weinberger and Ani Gjika – May 12
Exhibition Opening: The Little Magazine – May 15
Exhibition: The Little Magazine – On View May 15 – November 20
Naomi Replansky 100th Birthday Reading – May 23
Workshop: One-Day NYC High School Poetry Workshop – June 2
Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading – June 5
Poetry Walk: 23rd Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 11
Showcase Opening: 26th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception and Reading – June 28
Showcase: 26th Annual Poets House Showcase – On View June 28 – August 18
Showcase Reading: Showcase Reading Series: Dorothea Lasky, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Celina Su – July 12
Workshop: Weeklong Workshop for Teens – July 16-20
Showcase Reading: Showcase Reading Series: Lawrence Joseph, Natalie Eilbert, Anaïs Duplan, and Tony Robles – July 19
Showcase Reading: Showcase Reading Series: Joy Ladin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Michael Lally, Roberto Harrison – July 26
Showcase Reading: Showcase Reading Series: Denizé Lauture, Katy Lederer, Raquel Salas Rivera, and Chen Chen – August 2
Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual? Today’s Poet-Critics on Criticism and Critique – September 14
Epic Voices: Emily Wilson on The Odyssey – September 20
Epic Voices: Mary Ann Caws on Mina Loy and Tristan Tzara – September 27
One-Day Workshop: Riddles, Parables, and Other Alternatives to the Lyric Poem with Geoffrey Hilsabeck – September 29
Passwords: A Tribute to Pauli Murray with Mahogany L. Browne, Rosamond S. King & t’ai freedom ford – September 29
A Tribute to Lucie Brock-Broido – Miller Theatre, Columbia University – October 3
Epic Voices: Anne Carson on Stillness – October 6
Name Me a Word: Indian Poetics with Meena Alexander, Ram Devineni, Vijay Seshadri & Arundhathi Subramaniam – October 11
Epic Voices: Contemporary Diné Poetry & the Epic Tradition with Sherwin Bitsui – October 16
Passwords: A Tribute to Fay Chiang with Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones & Jessica Hagedorn – October 18
Epic Voices: Oceanic Percussion & Cubanology with Omar Pérez – October 20
Epic Voices: Forrest Gander on C. D. Wright’s One with Others – October 23
Epic Voices: Jos Charles on Geoffrey Chaucer – October 25
Epic Voices: James Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim with Langdon Hammer & Stephen Yenser
Epic Voices: Scottish Epic Meets American Western with MacGillivray (CANCELLED) – November 1
Master Class: Master Class with Tracie Morris– November 3 & 4
Iowa International Writing Program – November 3
Passwords: Farnoosh Fathi on Joan Murray (CANCELLED) – November 8
Master Class: Master Class with Shane McCrae – November 10 & 11
Six-Week Workshop: Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Reclamation, Resistance, Self-Healing & Survival with Bushra Rehman – Six Tuesdays, October 9–November 13
Six-Week Workshop: The Archaeology of Poetry: Digging the Moment with t’ai freedom ford – Six Wednesdays, October 10–November 14
Six-Week Workshop: Pushing a Visceral Limit with Asiya Wadud – Six Thursdays, October 11–November 15
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: A Craft Talk with Marilyn Chin – November 15
Six-Week Workshop: Poetic Investiture: Seeking the Source of Our Poetic Powers with Michael Broder – Six Saturdays, October 13–November 17
Master Class: Master Class with Marilyn Chin – November 17 & 18
Passwords: Robert Lax with John Beer, Michael N. McGregor & Stacey Tran – November 30
Epic Voices: The Contemporary Long Poem and Cultural Memory with Michael Leong – December 1
Passwords: Dick Higgins with Steve Clay, Joshua Beckman, Steve McCaffery & Tracie Morris – December 4
Epic Voices: The Polish Epic with Jacek Dehnel & Bill Johnston – December 6
A Tribute to John Yau – December 8
Exhibition: Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive – On View December 11, 2018 – April 15, 2019
Exhibition Opening: Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive – December 11
2017
One-Day Workshop: Seeing our Stanzas: Ekphrasis & Identity with Rachel Eliza Griffiths – January 21
An Invitation to Poetic Discovery 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair, Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, 801 Mt. Vernon Pl. NW, Washington, DC – February 9
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 11
Passwords: Brad Gooch on Rumi – February 18
Six-Week Workshop: Finding the Art in the Line with Elaine Sexton – 6 Tuesdays February 21-March 28
Six-Week Workshop: Visions and Visionary Poetics with Julian Talamantez Brolaski – 6 Thursdays February 23-March 30
Six-Week Workshop: Experimenting with Lyric Poetry with Megan Fernandes – 6 Saturdays February 25-April 1
Short Talks on Large Legacies in Black History – February 25
Cage Shuffle – March 3 & 4
Canadian Mosaic: A Reading and Conversation – March 16
One-day Workshop: The Bridges Amidst: Poetry and Prose – March 18
Exhibition: Poetry Since 1912: Books, Issues, & Ephemera from the Poetry Foundation – on View March 22-July 8, 2017
Exhibition Opening: Poetry Since 1912: Books, Issues, & Ephemera from the Poetry Foundation – March 22
Passwords: Margaret Randall on Cuban Poetry – March 23
Children’s Program: Exceptional Expressions The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY – March 25
Huddled Masses: Alicia Ostriker on Immigration – March 28
Poets House & PEN Mingle – April 4
Against Individualism: Cathy Park Hong on the Craft of Poetry – April 5
Passwords: Sholeh Wolpé on Attar – April 6
Six-Week Workshop: An Equal Music: Writing Poems from a Musical Influence with Jay Deshpande – 6 Tuesdays April 11-May 16
Six-Week Workshop: The Whole Poem: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Poem’s Content and Form with Neil Shepard – 6 Thursdays April 13-May 18
MetFridays: About Place The MET Breuer, 945 Madison Ave, New York, NY – April 14
Harry Clifton & Alissa Valles: A Reading & Conversation – April 20
Rooms Are Never Finished: The Legacy of Agha Shahid Ali – April 21
Six-Week Workshop: The Art of Truth Telling: Discernment, Authenticity, and Risk with Eugenia Leigh – 6 Saturdays April 22-May 27
Masterclass: Kazim Ali: Sound Sense & Sway – April 22 & April 23
Rickey Laurentiis at BMCC Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY – April 25
Necessary Cuts: Rickey Laurentiis on Revision – April 26
Children’s Program: Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 27
PEN World Voices Festival Prelude! A House Divided, The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, New York NY – April 30
Corrosive Power: A Reading and Conversation – May 2
Passwords: Anne Waldman with Steven Taylor on William Blake – May 3
Poetry and Desire: A Reading and Conversation – May 4
One-Day NYC High School Poetry Workshop – May 6
One day workshop: Attention in Its Highest Form Is the Same Thing as Prayer: Poetry as Receptivity and Effortless Effort with Farnoosh Fathi – May 6
Masterclass: Catherine Barnett – May 13 & 14
Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks – June 1
Master Class: Nick Flynn – June 3 & 4
Six-Week Workshop: Poets Respond: Poetry as Political Dialogue with Camille Rankine – 6 Tuesdays June 6-July 11 (Skipping July 4)
Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading Hosted by r. erica doyle – June 7
Poetry Walk: The 22nd Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 12
Six-Week Workshop: Preludes: The Long Poem with Paolo Javier 6 Wednesdays June 21-July 26
Six-Week Workshop: Poetry in the Body with Priscilla Becker – CLASS CANCELLED
Showcase: 25th Annual Poets House Showcase – on view June 22 – August 12, 2017
Showcase Opening: 25th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception & Reading – June 22
Showcase Opening: Showcase Opening Reading with Marie Howe, Ishion Huthinson, and Hoa Nguyen – June 22
One-Day Workshop: Occult: Poetry and Divination with Timothy Liu and Hoa Nguyen – June 24
Showcase Reading: David Ferry and Gerald Stern – June 27
A Walking Poets’ Library, MC Hyland at Prismatic Park – July 4-6, July 8 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Workshop: “Taking Your Voice for a Walk” with Emily Skillings – July 4 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Workshop: “Walking Together, Talking Together” with MC Hyland – July 5 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Workshop: “Ghost Walk” with Hossannah Asuncion – July 6 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Showcase Reading: Elizabeth Arnold, Alan Felsenthal, Christine Shan Shan Hou, and Wendy Xu – July 13
One-Day Workshop: I am Most I When You are Most You: Poetry, Prayer and the Language of your Highest Attention with Farnoosh Fathi – July 15
Weeklong Poetry Workshop for Teens – July 17-21
(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals, CAConrad at Prismatic Park – July 18-23 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Showcase Reading: Cynthia Manick, Jen Hyde, Tommy Pico, and Martha Rhodes – July 20
Exhibition: The Poets House Showcase 25th Anniversary Celebration: A Pop-Up Show – July 27 – September 16
Showcase Reading: Alex Dimitrov, t’ai freedom ford, Lauren Hunter, and Debora Kuan – July 27
Showcase Reading: Aziza Barnes, Ching-In Chen, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, and DéLana R. A. Dameron – August 3
Poets House Members-only Open Mic – August 10
The Envy of the World, Joshua Bennett at Prismatic Park – August 15-20 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Dwell in Possibility! Donna Masini at Prismatic Park – August 29-31, September 2-3 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, Between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23rd & 26th Streets
Poetry as Pluriverse: Rethinking Language Justice – A Reading – September 22, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave New York NY
Poetry as Pluriverse: Rethinking Language Justice – A Reading and Conversation – September 23, Poets House 10 River Terrace New York NY
Exhibition Opening: Prose Architectures – September 26
Exhibition: Prose Architectures – On view September 26 – November 4
Workshop:Demolishing Monuments (A Liberatory Practice) with Mahogany L. Browne – September 28
The Realm of History: Susan Howe and Pattie McCarthy – A Reading and Conversation – September 28
Workshop:Breaking Open Jargon through Poetry with Sahar Romani September 30
A Doll for Throwing: When The Self is not The Self – A Craft Talk with Mary Jo Bang – September 30
Technicians of the Sacred: 50th Anniversary – October 3
Six-Week Workshop: The Linked Sequence with sam sax – 6 Tuesdays, October 10 – November 14
Six-Week Workshop: New Forms, New Tricks with Sharon Dolin – 6 Wednesdays, October 11 – November 15
Six-Week Workshop: Make it New: Writing Against Ritual and Habit with Jenny Xie – 6 Thursdays October 12 – November 16
Passwords: Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks – October 19
Six-Week Workshop: Poetic Narratives: Writing the Varied and Whole Story with DéLana R. A. Dameron 5 Saturdays October 21-November 18 and Sunday, November 19
Passwords: Passwords: Sina Queyras on Sylvia Plath – October 24
Children’s Program: All Hallow’s Eve at Poets House! – October 28
Master Class: Master Class with Phillis Levin – October 28 & 29
Iowa International Writing Program 50th Anniversary Reading – November 5
Tribute to Joanne Kyger -The Poetry Project, St Mark’s Church, 131 E 19th Street New York NY – November 6
Passwords: Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger – November 7
Borrowed Confessions: Julie Carr, Mónica de la Torre and Anna Moschovakis – November 9
One Day Workshop: Mining the Poetic Unconscious with Kaveh Akbar – November 10
The Wind Will Undo Us: A Tribute to James Tolan – November 11
A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks 92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave New York NY – November 13
30th Anniversary Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception for 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects – November 16
30th Anniversary Exhibition: 30 Years! A Narrative in 30 Objects – On View November 16, 2017 – May 12, 2018
30th Anniversary Close Readings: Five Sonnets: 30th Anniversary Event with Monica Youn – November 18
30th Anniversary Close Readings: Feeling At Home in America: 30th Anniversary Event with Camille Dungy – December 2
Master Class: Master Class with Brenda Shaughnessy – December 2 & 3
A Letter That Begins With I Love You: A Celebration of Patricia Smith – December 8
2016
A Tribute to James Tate, The New School Auditorium (Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall) 66 West 12th Street – February 4
Six-week Course:The Art of Concealing and Revealing with Neil Shepard –
6 Wednesdays, February 17 – March 30 (skipping March 9)
Six-week Course:The Pleasures and Employment of Form: Sonnet, Sestina, Villanelle, Rondeau with Eléna Rivera – 6 Thursdays, February 18 – March 31 (skipping March 24)
Six-week Course: (Power) Ballads and Ceremonials: A Poetry and Pop Workshop with Rosebud Ben-Oni Class Cancelled
Exhibition: Metamorphosis: The Collaboration of Poet Barbara Guest & Artist Fay Lansner On view February 20-October 15, 2016
Curator Tour and Conversation for Metamorphosis: The Collaboration of Poet Barbara Guest & Artist Fay Lansner – February 20
Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception for Metamorphosis: The Collaboration of Poet Barbara Guest & Artist Fay Lansner – February 20
Children’s Program: Tiny Poets Time with Charles Waters – February 25
An Afternoon with Bernadette Mayer – March 5
Art & Craft with Robin Coste Lewis – March 11
Gold Morning, Sweet Prince: Shakespeare and Modern Poetry with Robert Pinsky Kaye Playhouse, 68th Street between Park and Lexington – March 21
This Grubbing Art: The Poetry of Hayden Carruth – March 23
Master Class: Master Class with Marilyn Hacker – March 25 & 26
Poetry, Politics & Place with Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Naomi Shihab Nye & Luis J. Rodriguez 2016 AWP Conference & Bookfair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles CA – March 31
A Tribute to Jean Valentine The New School Auditorium (Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall) 66 West 12th Street – April 5
The Forever Open Theater: A Reading with Patrizia Cavalli – April 6 Cancelled due to illness
Six-week Course: Political Poetry with Bhisham Bherwani – Class Cancelled
One-day Workshop: As Leaves to a Tree: How to Let Poems Start Themselves with Geoffrey Nutter – April 9
Six-week Course:Is It or Is It Like?: A Poetics of Comparison with Wendy Xu –
6 Wednesdays, April 13 – May 18
Celebrating Jayne Cortez – Beautiful Sea of Waves: For Jayne Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, David Rubenstein Atrium – April 14
Celebrating Jayne Cortez – Firespitter: A Tribute to Jayne Cortez – April 16
Master Class: Master Class with Rowan Ricardo Phillips – April 16 & 17
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Poem in Your Pocket Day Celebration at Poets House: Open Mic & Community Read-In – April 21
A Poetry Reading and Celebration of Melissa Green with J. Mae Barizo, Melissa Green & Marie Howe – April 21
Celebrating Jayne Cortez – If the woman is a drum…, The Highline – April 23
Six-week Course:Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem with Barbara Henning – 6 Saturdays, April 23 – May 28
(In)verse: Poets Translate Each Other – April 27
Exhibition: The Poets’ Rebellion: Poetry, Memory, and the Easter Rising On view May 4 – June 21
Leabhar na hAathghabhála/Poems of Repossession: A Reading of Modern Irish Poetry – May 4
Hurt So Good: Building the Body of the Beloved & Other Emotional Imageries with Natalie Diaz – May 10
One-day Workshop: Re-Visioning Home with Wendy S. Walters – May 21
Blood of the Sun: A Bilingual Reading with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin – May 18
Women of the World Poetry Slam Awards – May 24
Member’s Event: Treasures from the Poets House Library – May 25
Master Class: Master Class with Ada Limón – May 28 & 29
An American Lyric with Claudia Rankine – June 6 (rescheduled from April 13)
Six-week Course: The Elegy: Poetics of Protest and Collective Grief with Kamilah Aisha Moon – 6 Wednesdays, June 8 – July 13
Six-week Course: Queering Form with Rickey Laurentiis-Class Cancelled
One-day Workshop: Weaving and Poetry with Jill Magi – June 11
Poetry Walk: 21st Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 13
One-day Workshop: Starting with Art with Joseph Stanton – June 18
Celebrating The Collected Poems of Adrienne Rich – June 21
Night at the Museums – June 21
Six-week Course:F****** Theory with Sara Jane Stoner – 6 Tuesdays, June 28 – August 2
Sufi Songs: Crosscurrents in Persian and Turkish Classical Music with Amir Vahab and his Ensemble – July 13
Showcase: 24th Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase – On view July 14 – August 21
Showcase Opening: 24th Poets House Annual Showcase Opening Reception – July 14
Showcase Reading: Poets House Showcase Opening Reading with Patricia Spears Jones, Alicia Jo Rabins, Camille Rankine, and Stacy Szymaszek – July 14
Showcase Reading: Poets House Showcase Reading Series with Janice Lowe, Michael Morse, Solmaz Sharif, and Vincent Toro – July 21
Showcase Reading: Poets House Showcase Reading Series with Laurel Blossom, Tyehimba Jess, Anna Moschovakis, and Wayne Miller – July 28
Showcase Reading: Poets House Showcase Reading Series with Cameron Awkward-Rich, Derek Austin, Rickey Laurentiis, and Simone White – August 4
Showcase Reading: Poets House Members Open Mic – August 11
Self-Bomb, Culture-Bomb: An Evening with Aase Berg & Sade Murphy – September 28
Metamorphosis: A Reading from the work of poet Barbara Guest – October 1
Poets House Emerging Writers at Lit Crawl – October 1
Six-week Course: All the Tambourines: Celebration & Ode as Lens of Possibility with Angel Nafis – 6 Tuesdays, October 11-November 22
Six-week Course: Borders and Identity: The Poetics of Place with Rosebud Ben-Oni – 6 Wednesdays, October 12 – November 16
Six-week Course: Stretching Tension: Developing a Toolbox for Structuring Your Poem with David Tomas Martinez – 6 Thursdays, October 13 – November 17
Pulling the Trigger: Colleen McElroy on the Craft of Poetry – October 13
Six-week Course: Deeply Revising Poems: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff with Regan Good – 6 Saturdays, October 15 – November 19
Come Shining: A Tribute to C.D. Wright – CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium -October 19
Hideous: A Reading and Conversation with Sylvia Legris & Will Alexander – October 20
50 Years of Hanging Loose: An Anniversary Celebration – October 25
Four-Week Course: Dreams and Mysticism—Revealing the hidden in our poetry: A Poetry Workshop for Seniors with Steven Sher, Greenwich House Senior Center, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY – Thursdays, October 27 – November 17
Exhibitions: American Stanzas: 2006–2016 with Rachel Eliza Griffiths – On view October 28, 2016 – February 18, 2017
Exhibition Opening: American Stanzas: 2006–2016: Exhibition Opening Reception – October 28
Master Class: Master Class with Laure-Anne Bosselaar – October 28, 29, and 30
Children’s Program: Halloween (Poe)treats! – October 29
American Stanzas: A Reading – November 3
Iowa International Writing Program Reading – November 7
Black Love: A Reading and Craft Talk with Joshua Bennett – November 10
Absolute Splendor: A Tribute to Cynthia MacDonald – November 15
Love, H: The Letters of Hettie Jones & Helene Dorn – November 17
The Art of Awareness with Steve Zeitlin – November 29
Murder, Prison, Suicide, and Joy: A Craft Talk with Jericho Brown– December 1
One-Day Workshop: Landscapes of Memory with Khadijah Queen – December 3
Master Class: Master Class with Jericho Brown – December 3 and 4
A Celebration of Rigoberto González – December 6
Bhakti: The Art of Devotion – December 10
Beyond Bhakti: Contemporary Spiritual Poetics Across Europe and The Americas – December 10
Members Event: Holiday Greetings from the Poets House Library – December 14
Poetic Voices of the Muslim World Comes to New York City City Lore, 56 E. First Street – December 15
2015
Creating the Future: Art & Climate Change with Alison Hawthorne Deming – January 10
Master Class: Writing the 21st Century Nature Poem with Alison Hawthorne Deming – January 10 & 11
Master Class: words + pictures with Elaine Equi – January 17 & 18
Mark Strand Memorial, American Academy of Arts and Letters – January 18
Language Matters with Bob Holman: a film by David Grubin, National Museum of the American Indian – January 21
Transgenres with Vijay Seshadri – CANCELLED due to a death in Mr Seshadri’s family. To be rescheduled
Benefit: Friends, Poets, Gastrolaters! A Benefit for Poets House – February 9
Six-week Course: BRAINLINGO: Writing The Voice Of The Body with Edwin Torres – 6 Wednesdays, February 18 – March 25
Six-week Course: Poems from Late Empire with Scott Hightower – 6 Thursdays, February 19 – March 26
Six-week Course: A Pattern of Behavior: Serial Poems with Krystal Languell – 6 Saturdays, February 21 – April 4 (skipping March 14)
John Berryman at 100: A Day-long celebration, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University – February 26
Your Language—My Ear: Russian and American Poets at Close Quarters, International Affairs Building,Columbia University – March 3
Nguyen Phan Que Mai: A Reading and Discussion with Bruce Weigl – March 10
Exhibition: Seeking the Glyph: Edward Sanders – On View March 31 through May 23
Exhibition Opening: Seeking the Glyph: Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk with Edward Sanders – March 31
Six-week Course: What’s Inside is Just a Lie: The Agony & Ecstasy of Influence with R. Erica Doyle – 6 Wednesdays, April 1 to May 6
Six-week Course: Bad Bitch Poetics with Sally Wen Mao – 6 Thursdays, April 2 to May 7
Six-week Course: Practicing Sands: Play & Process with Farnoosh Fathi – 6 Saturdays, April 11 to May 23 (skipping May 9)
Veils and Words: Poetry by Mohja Kahf, Dunya Mikhail, and Farzaneh Milani 2015 AWP Conference & Bookfair, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN – April 11
From The New World: A Reading by Jorie Graham – April 16
A Broad Margin to My Life: Maxine Hong Kingston – April 18
Spring Poems & Songs in the Winter Garden – April 19
Workshop: Hands On/Hands Off: A Seminar on Artistic Collaboration with Bill Berkson – April 25
Hurt So Good: Building the Body of the Beloved & Other Emotional Imageries with Natalie Diaz – April 28 CANCELLED due to family emergency. To be rescheduled
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Poem in Your Pocket Day 2015 – May 30
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Neighborhood Community Read-In – May 30
Ritual Writing: Poetry Workshop for Seniors reading – May 12
Tribute to Galway Kinnell, The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street – May 12
Person, Place, Thing with Randy Cohen & Diane Ackerman – May 14
Poetry in the World: The Natural World of California: Poetry with Cedar Sigo, Juliana Spahr, and Tanya Sarmina, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA – May 15
Poetry in the World: Poetry and Science: A Reading, Conversation, and Workshop with Jane Hirshfield, Oakland Public Library, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA – May 16
Tribute to Wanda Coleman – May 16
Keeping It Real & Imagining It with Afaa Michael Weaver – May 19
Lines into Sentences: Prose Poetry & Fiction with Renee Gladman, Ben Lerner and Eileen Myles – May 21
2015 Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading – June 2
Six-week Course: So Long, Reality: Writing the Fantastical with Idra Novey – 6 Wednesdays, June 3 to July 15 (skipping June 17)
Alternate Worlds? Poetry & Popular Fiction with Laura Kasischke – June 4
Master Class: Master Class with Laura Kasischke – June 6 & 7
Poetry Walk: The 20th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge: A Benefit for Poets House – June 8
Six-week Course: Manuscripting: Building the Book with Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán – 6 Tuesdays, June 9 to July 14
Six-week Course: That Serious, Notorious, Public Form: The Sonnet with Brian Teare – 6 Thursday June 11 to July 30 (skipping June 25 and July 2)
Exhibition Opening: Walking the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems on Brooklyn and Beyond and Walt Whitman & the Art of the Book – June 12
Exhibition: Walking the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems on Brooklyn & Beyond – On View June 12 through July 25
Exhibition: Walt Whitman & the Art of the Book: Contemporary Visions – On View June 12 through September 19
Master Class: Master Class with Major Jackson – June 13 & 14
Celebrating India, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave – June 19
Showcase: 23rd Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase – On view June 25 – August 1
Showcase Opening: 23rd Poets House Annual Showcase Opening Reception – June 25
Showcase Reading: 23rd Poets House Annual Showcase Opening Reading – June 25
Showcase Reading: 2015 Showcase Reading Series – July 9
Showcase Reading: 2015 Showcase Reading Series – July 16
Showcase Reading: 2015 Showcase Reading Series – July 23
Workshop: Writing Beyond Yourself: Persona Poems with Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs – July 25 & 26
Showcase Reading & Members Event: Gratitude: Poets House Members Open Mic Reading – July 30
Workshop for Teens: Summer Poetry Workshop for High School Students with Dave Johnson – Monday July 27 – Friday July 31
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors reading and publication event – September 10
First Nations Australia Writers’ Network Reading – September 10
A Tribute to Philip Levine, The Great Hall at Cooper Union – September 24
Fred Moten: Partial Correspondence – September 26
Exhibition: Trevor Winkfield: The Collaborator – September 29, 2015–January 10, 2016
Exhibition Opening Reception: Trevor Winkfield: The Collaborator opening reception with the artist -September 29
ModPo Live: The Rise of Imagism – September 30
Passwords: Jerome Rothenberg on Outside & Subterranean Poetry – October 1
Children’s Program: Kite Building and Chinese Poetry Workshop – October 3
Master Class: Translations & Transcreations, from English & Other Foreign Languages with Jerome Rothenberg – October 10 & 11
A Seismographic Attention: An Evening with Jane Hirshfield – October 12
Six-week Course: Literary Adaptation: Writing Through Rewriting with Paul Legault – 6 Tuesdays, October 13 – November 17
Words of War, Words of Loss with Robyn Creswell & Dunya Mikhail – October 13
Six-week Course: Divine Ekphrasis: Reading Art, Reading Self, Reading Soul with Sharon Dolin – 6 Wednesdays, October 14 – November 18
Six-week Course: Writing Your Obsession with Laura Sims – 6 Thursdays, October 15 – November 19
Six-week Course: Myth into Modern Poetry with Antoinette Brim – 6 Saturdays, October 17 – November 21
Tribute to Ai, CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium – October 19
Children’s Program: Write Back Soon! Adventures in Letter Writing with Karen Benke – October 24
One Day Workshop: Breaking Habits of Syntax with Donna Masini – October 24
John Wieners Celebration – October 22
Children’s Program: A Haunted (Poets) House – October 31
An Evening with CEC ARTSLINK Fellow Liwaa Yazji – November 5
Library Symposium at Poets House – November 7
Master Class: Always Be Closing with A. Van Jordan – November 7 & 8
One Day Workshop: Library as Material with Ander Monson – November 8
University of Iowa International Writing Program Reading – November 9
Reading and Conversation with Bernadette Mayer – November 14
Autobiography of a Book with Lynn Emanuel – November 17
Children’s Program: Diorama-Rama – November 21
Poetry Reading with Rosamond King, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – December 4
Children’s Program: Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings with Matthew Burgess – December 5
Master Class: Master Class with Terese Svoboda – December 5 & 6
Passwords: Miriam Nichols on Robin Blaser – December 12
2014
Workshop: “I am your own way of looking at things”: The Poetic Practice of William Stafford: A Workshop for Young Writers aged 12 – 18 – January 25
Passwords: Naomi Shihab Nye & Kim Stafford on William Stafford – January 25
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 8
Benefit: Wild nights! Wild nights! A Dionysian Feast to Benefit Poets House – February 10
Children’s Program:Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 14
Six-week Course: Birds Not Birdcages with R.A. Villanueva 6 Saturdays, February 22 to April 5 (skipping March 1)
Passwords: Elizabeth Alexander on Lucille Clifton – February 22
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Ghassan Zaqtan & Fady Joudah with Mark Doty – February 25
Six-week Course: The Self and the World: Oppositional Energies inside a Poem with Neil Shepard 6 Wednesdays, February 26 to April 2
Song of the Reed: The Poetry of Rumi with Coleman Barks, Brad Gooch, & Anne Waldman 2014 AWP Conference & Bookfair, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA – March 1
Duncan and Jess: Between Fields, with Michael Davidson, Lisa Jarnot, Daniel C. Remein and Lytle Shaw Fales Library at NYU Bobst Library – March 6
Ten-week Course: Rilking with Ariana Reines 10 Thursdays, March 13 to May 15
Children’s Program: Guess Who Zoo with Howard Eisenberg – March 22
Master Class: Conversation Pieces: Creating Poems that Talk to Other Poems with Susan Wheeler – March 22 & 23
Exhibition: The New American Poetry and Beyond: A Pop-Up Chapbook Exhibition Co-presented with the CUNY ChapFest – April 1–12
Exhibition Opening Reception & Panel Discussion: The New American Poetry and Beyond: A Pop-Up Chapbook Exhibition Co-presented with the CUNY ChapFest – April 1
Master Class: Strange Angels: The Art of Metaphor with Ellen Bass – April 5 & 6
Secrets on the Way: Dance Inspired by the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue at 38th St, Co-presented with Scandinavia House – April 7
On the Edge with Edwin Torres – April 8
Passwords: Tom Sleigh on Seamus Heaney – April 10
Six-week Course: Introduction to Poetry: A Generative Workshop with Amy Lawless 6 Saturdays, April 12 to May 17
Master Class: Who’s Speaking?: Persona Writing with Philip Schultz – April 12 & 13
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Inside Form, Outside Elements: Brenda Hillman on Craft – April 17
Exhibition: A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman– April 22 – November 15
Exhibition Opening: A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman – April 22
Six-week Course: From the Earth to the Stars: Writing Poems of Spiritual Questioning with David Groff 6 Wednesdays, April 23 to May 28
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Poem in Your Pocket Day: A Landmark Celebration – April 24
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Neighborhood Poetry Read-In with the Brooklyn & Queens Poet Laureates – April 24
On the Poetry Talent with Alice Notley – April 29
Relative Strangeness: Rosmarie Waldrop and Nikolai Duffy – May 1
Master Class: Form: Making and Breaking It with Edward Hirsch – May 3 & 4
Members Event: Sleep That Sacred Flower: A Healing Retreat at Poets House – May 3 & 4
Love Speaks: A Day of Art & Poetry from the Muslim World with Kazim Ali, Marie Howe, & Frances Pritchett The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue – May 11
On Craft & Sound with Tracie Morris – May 13
Benefit: Person, Place, Thing “Live” with Randy Cohen & Tracy K. Smith: A Benefit for Poets House – May 14
Children’s Program: Giving Trees: MillionTreesNYC – May 24
Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading – June 3
Poetry Walk: The Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge: A Benefit for Poets House – June 9
Six-week Course: This Condensary: Short Poems with Brian Teare 6 Thursdays, June 12 to July 24
Six-week Course: The Poetry of Form: Physical Structures in the History of Verse with Regan Good 6 Tuesdays, June 17 to July 29
Six-week Course: Crossing the Line with Priscilla Becker 6 Wednesdays, June 18 to July 30
Showcase: 22nd Annual Poets House Poetry Publication ShowcaseOn view June 26- August 16
Showcase Opening: Poets House 22nd Annual Showcase Opening Reception June 26
Showcase Reading: Showcase Opening Reading with Meena Alexander, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Lehman, and Rachel Zucker June 26
In Conversation: Maria Hassabi, Paolo Javier, and Kaneza Schaal June 27
Workshop: Ubiquitous Dividend: A Day-long celebration of Robert Kocik’s Supple Science“ June 28
Six-week Course: Earthworks and Skywriting: Poems of Landscape with Eleni Stecopoulos 6 Saturdays, July 12 to August 16
Children’s Program: Build a City of Poems: An Interactive Exhibition of Poetry and Art, 406 B Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, Saturdays and Sundays July 19 & 20, 26 & 27, August 2 & 3, 9 & 10
Workshop: Poetry Summer: Intensive Workshop for High School Students July 21 to 25
Showcase Reading: Emily Abendroth, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Frances Justine Post, and Wendy S. Walters July 23
Workshop: Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets –A workshop led by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin July 26 & 27
Showcase Reading: Jeffrey Harrison, Joan Larkin, Lenelle Moïse, and Spencer Reese July 30
Showcase Reading: Cathy Linh Che, Harmony Holiday, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Mark Wunderlich August 6
Six-week Course: From Journal to Poem with Barbara Henning – 6 Saturdays, September 20 to November 1
Mutants & Hybrids: Mixing Genres with Eleni Sikelianos – September 23
Children’s Program: Our Earth, Our Sky: A Celebration of the Poetry of Childhood with Richard Lewis and The Touchstone Center Theater Ensemble – September 27
There Once Was and Always Will Be: Evoking the Poetic Worlds of Childhood: A program for educators and adults – September 27
Six-week Course: Writing About Big Ideas with Jennifer Michael Hecht – 6 Wednesdays, October 8 to November 12
Workshop for Teens: The Connection in Disconnection: One-day High School Poetry Workshop with Farrah Field – October 11
Six-week Course: Love Me in Your Language with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs – 6 Tuesdays, October 14 to November 18
“A Sexy New Animal”: The DNA of the Prose Poem with Natasha Sajé – October 15
Workshop: “Why Must It Always End This Way?” Narrative Theory & Poetry Workshop with Natasha Sajé – October 18
Workshop: Catch Sight of Desire: A Monologue Lab for Poets with Lenelle Moïse – October 18
Architecture & Archives: The Library as Source Material with Valeria Luiselli – October 21
John Berryman: A Centennial Seminar with Daniel Swift – October 23
Four-Week Course: Ritual Writing: A Poetry Workshop for Seniors with Steven Sher, Greenwich House Senior Center, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY – Thursdays, October 23, to November 13
Three-Week Course: Text, Event, & Chorus: Intergenre Writing for Poets with Corina Copp – Saturdays, October 25, to November 8
Six-week Course: Rewriting With Abandon: The Art of Revision with Sharon Dolin – 6 Thursdays, October 30 to December 11 (skipping November 27)
Children’s Program: Haunted Poets House: A Halloween Reading and Celebration – October 31
Six-week Course: Departures: A Way to Start the Poem with Patricia Spears Jones – 6 Saturdays, November 1 to December 13 (skipping November 29)
To Be Fair: Stephen Burt on Poetry & Criticism – November 6
The Leopard with J.D. McClatchy – November 8
Reading and Panel Discussion with the Iowa International Writing Program’s Resident Poets – November 10
Hands On/Hands Off: A Seminar on Artistic Collaboration with Bill Berkson – November 15 RESCHEDULED to April 25, 2015
Book Release Party for New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight – November 15
“The Proper Stuff of Fiction”: The Poet’s Novel with Laynie Browne – November 20
Children’s Program: Poetry Time with Charles Waters – November 22
Teacups Filled with Snow: Writing Poetry for Children & Young Adults with Matthea Harvey & Marilyn Nelson – November 22
Exhibition Opening Reception: Winter Wedding: Holiday Cards by Poets – December 2
Exhibition: Winter Wedding: Holiday Cards by Poets – December 2, 2014 – March 21, 2015.
Children’s Program: Imagination Islands: A Map-Making Workshop – December 6
Dispatches: Poetry & Reportage with Eliza Griswold – December 6
Get Wrapped Up: Poetry of the Kimono – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, December 12
Exquisitely Personal: Poetry & Memoir with Nick Flynn, Sarah Manguso & Megan O’Rourke – December 13
2013
Exhibition: Toothpaste & Coffee House: Change & Continuity February 9 – June 4, 2013
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 9
Exhibition Opening: Toothpaste & Coffee House: Change & Continuity Opening Reception and Talk with Allan Kornblum – February 9
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Publishing Poetry But Didn’t Know Who or How to Ask with Allan Kornblum – February 10
Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton; CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium – February 21
Six-week Course: Ekphrastic Poetry with Bhisham Bherwani 6 Wednesdays, February 27-April 3
Six-week Course: Preparing a Chapbook: Exploring Theme, Organization, and Publication with Stephen S. Mills 6 Thursdays, February 28-April 4
Six-week Course: Trance Poetics: Activate Your Writing Mind with Kristin Prevallet 6 Saturdays, March 2-April 4
An Afternoon with Adonis and Khaled Mattawa Poets House @ the 2013 AWP Conference, Boston, MA – Thursday, March 7
Children’s Program: Imagination Islands – March 9
Passwords: Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick on Ernst Meister – Tuesday, March 19
Native Innovation: Crazy Brave: An Evening with Joy Harjo National Museum of the American Indian – March 21
Native Innovation: Reading by Natalie Diaz, Santee Frazier, LeAnne Howe, Cedar Sigo & Orlando White – March 22
Native Innovation: Conversations, Panels and Readings with Sherwin Bitsui, Joe Bruchac, Allison Hedge Coke, Santee Frazier, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Maurice Kenney, dg okpik, Cedar Sigo & James Thomas Stevens – March 23
Native Innovation: Conversations and Readings with Sherwin Bitsui, Joe Bruchac, Allison Hedge Coke, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo, Maurice Kenney, Cedar Sigo, Orlando White & Karenne Wood – March 24
The Painter’s Poet: A Talk on Philip Guston by Clark Coolidge – April 4
Poetry in The Branches National Institute for Children’s & Youth Services Librarians – April 5
Children’s Program: Blown Away by Poetry – April 6
Passwords: Don Share on Miguel Hernandez – April 9
Passwords: Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley on Yannis Ritsos – April 11
Six-week Course: The “I” in “Team”: Persona, Dialect and the Lyric First Person with Gregory Pardlo 6 Wednesdays, April 17-May 22
Poem in Your Pocket Day Community Breakfast April 18
Poem in Your Pocket Day Poetry Reading and Concert by local students – April 18
Workshop: Listening as Practice with Anselm Berrigan 6 Thursdays, April 18-May 23
Passwords: Lisa Jarnot on Robert Duncan – April 19
Six-week Course: Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop with Martha Rhodes 6 Saturdays, April 20-May 25
The Russian Avant-Garde Goes Underground: A Colloquium and Reading – April 20
Passwords: Jennifer Scappettone on Amelia Rosselli – April 25
Passwords: Stephen Dobyns on James Wright – May 7
Nothing Personal: An Afternoon With The Dark Room Collective – May 11
Master Class: Master Class with Heather McHugh – May 11 & 12
Master Class: Master Class with Lynn Emanuel – May 18 & 19
Flowers Dreaming the Elevation Allegiance: A (Soma)tic Poetry Primer with CAConrad – May 22
Children’s Program: Ships, Seas and Poetries! – June 1
Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading Hosted by Jen Bervin Tuesday, June 4
Workshop: The Art of Writing Poems: A Poetry Workshop for Seniors with Hermine Meinhard – 6 Thursdays, June 6 – July 18, The Caring Community Senior Center at Independence Plaza
Master Class with Thomas Lux – June 8 & 9
The 18th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge: A Benefit for Poets House with Thomas Lux & others June 10
Workshop: Line Break There, or Maybe Not with Idra Novey 6 Tuesdays, June 11-July 23
Workshop: Down to the Bone Gristle: Exercises in Revision & Editing with Tara Betts 6 Wednesdays, June 12-July24
Workshop: Room to Move: The Long Poem with Brian Teare 6 Thursdays, June 13 – July 25
Workshop: Nuts and Bolts: A Poetry Workshop with Bill Zavatsky 6 Saturdays, June 15 – July 27
Bad News! i was there… by JoAnne Akalaitis June 17
An Evening with Robert Polito June 18 (Fiterman Hall, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 245 Greenwich Street)
An Evening with Adélia Prado and her translator Ellen Doré Watson June 19 (POSTPONED DUE TO VISA ISSUES)
Poetic City’s 1959 with Terri Lyne Carrington and Edward Sanders June 26 (Rockefeller Park, River Terrace at Warren Street)
Showcase: 21st Annual Poets House Poetry Publication ShowcaseOn view June 27- August 3
Showcase Opening: Poets House 21st Annual Showcase Opening Reception June 27
Workshop: Conquering the Blank Page: Poetry as a Teaching Tool with Emily Moore (Five-day summer workshop for teachers) July 8 – 12
Exhibition: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here July 11-October 5
Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception for Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here July 11
Showcase Reading Sarah Arvio, Roger Bonair-Agard, Will Schutt and Cecilia Vicuña July 18
Showcase Reading Catherine Barnett, Peter Filkins, Thomas Glave and Rachel Levitsky July 23
Showcase Reading Alex Dimitrov, Karen Garthe, Michael Leong and Susan Wheeler July 25
Showcase Reading LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Cornelius Eady, Dean Kostos and Dorothea Lasky July 30
Relative Strangness: Rosmarie Waldrop with Nikolai Duffy September 26 RESCHEDULED TO 2014
Children’s Program: Holding Up the Sky: Haiku Poetry Workshop September 28
Exhibition Event: Panel Discussion: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here October 1
Workshop: The Art of Writing Poems: A Poetry Workshop for Seniors with Hermine Meinhard – 5 Thursdays, October 10 – November 21, The Caring Community Senior Center at Independence Plaza
Workshop: “Don’t Draw the Line”: The Prose Poem with Michael Klein 6 Saturdays, October 12–November 16
Member’s Event: Root of a Dream: Poets House Members’ Sleepover October 12–13
Master Class: Master Class with Stephen Dobyns October 12 & 13
Workshop: Poetic Imagery with Geoffrey Nutter 6 Tuesdays, October 15–November 19
Passwords: Tony Hoagland on Tomas Tranströmer October 16
Workshop: The Sonnet with Kim Addonizio 6 Wednesdays, October 16–November 20
Workshop: Before, During, and After with Brenda Coultas 6 Thursdays, October 17–November 21
Robert Pinsky on Edgar Allan Poe at The Morgan Library October 17
Workshop: The Five Powers of Poetry: A Seminar for Teachers with Tony Hoagland October 18– October 20
Children’s Program: Tell-Tale Tales: An Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe October 26
Affective Intensities: An Evening with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Charles Altieri November 5
Passwords: Kwame Dawes on Contemporary African Poetry November 8
Master Class: Master Class with Kwame Dawes November 9 & 10
A Reading with Adélia Prado and her translator Ellen Doré Watson November 14
Children’s Program: Diorama-Rama! with Carin Berger November 16
Exhibition: come celebrate with me: The Work of Lucille Clifton November 19, 2013 – March 14, 2014
Exhibition: A Compendium of Creatures November 19, 2013 – March 14, 2014
Exhibition Opening: “come celebrate with me: The Work of Lucille Clifton” and “A Compendium of Creatures”November 19
Master Class: Master Class with Marie Howe December 7 & 8
2012
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: James Shapiro on William Shakespeare – February 4
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 11
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Molly Peacock on John Donne and George Herbert – February 11
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Linda Gregerson on Edmund Spenser and John Milton – February 18
Workshop: Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem with Barbara Henning – February 25
A Florianthology: An Exhibition on the Art and Poetry of Douglas Florian Opening Reception – February 26
Workshop: Memory, Image and the Poem with Eléna Rivera – February 29
Workshop: Prayer, Despair and Ecstasy with Ariana Reines – March 8
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Haruo Shirane on Basho and Haiku – March 10
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: K. Silem Mohammad on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth – March 15
Panel on John Keats with Michael Harper, Judith Harris, Stanley Plumly and Anne Wright – March 16
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Gigi Bradford on Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley and Frances E.W. Harper – March 17
Quincy Troupe on the Craft of Poetry – March 20
Children’s Program: Please Bury Me in the Library with J. Patrick Lewis – March 24
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Mark Doty on Walt Whitman – March 24
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Eamon Grennan on W.B. Yeats – March 28
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Cole Swensen on 19th Century French Poetry – March 29
Poetry in the Branches National Institute with Guest of Honor Philip Levine – March 30 &31, 2012
Workshop: The Memory Palace with Hettie Jones – April 11
Workshop: The Whole Poem with Neil Shepard – April 12
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Ghassan Zaqtan with Fady Joudah – April 13
Master Class with Joan Larkin – April 14 & 15
Children’s Program: Poem Runs and UnBEElievables with Douglas Florian – April 15
Seeing About: Sébastien Smirou with Pierre Joris and Andrew Zawacki – April 19,
25th Anniversary Event: Stanzas in Meditation: A Gertrude Stein Celebration – April 21
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: C.K. Williams on Robert Frost – April 25
Poem in Your Pocket Day Community Breakfast and Poetry Read-In – April 26
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Poem in Your Pocket, Song in Your Heart – April 26
Master Class with Tom Sleigh – April 28 & 29
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Terese Svoboda on Kay Boyle, Lola Ridge, Hart Crane, Mina Loy and Marianne Moore – May 1
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Joan Richardson on Wallace Stevens – May 3
Children’s Program: What If…And Other Lives of Spring Blossoming – May 5
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Herbert Leibowitz on William Carlos Williams – May 8
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Marjorie Welish on The Imagists – May 10
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: A Seminar with Ann Lauterbach on The Objectivists – May 12
Master Class with Eileen Myles – May 12 & 13
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Cornelius Eady on the Harlem Renaissance – May 15 (CANCELLED)
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Vijay Seshadri on W.H. Auden – May 17
Master Class with Matthea Harvey – May 19 & 20
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Rosamond King on Caribbean Poets of the 20th Century – May 22
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Martín Espada on Puerto Rican Poetry – May 31
25th Anniversary Event – Children’s Program: Dear Aunt Emily and Uncle Walt – June 2
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Lee Ann Brown on Black Mountain Poets – June 2
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Saskia Hamilton on John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell – June 5
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Carol Muske-Dukes on the Beats – June 8
Master Class with Carol Muske-Dukes – June 9 & 10
The 17th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 11
Workshop:
Sewing, Hammering, Ploughing, Rowing, Welding, Sanding: Whatever It Takes to Finish That Poem with Scott Hightower – June 21
Poetic City 2012 with Tina Chang, Paolo Javier, Gabriel Kahane and Suzanne Vega – June 26
Workshop: Generating Great Work with Rachel M. Simon – June 26
Members Event: Poets House Showcase Members Preview – June 30
2012 Poets House Showcase Opening Reading – June 30
We’re Floating: An Interactive Poetry Walk with Artist and Poet Jon Cotner – July 7 & 14
Showcase Reading: Naomi Replansky and Lynne Sharon Schwartz – July 10
Showcase Reading: John Ashbery – July 12
Showcase Reading: Celebrating the Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (New York Poetry Festival, Governors Island) – July 22
Poetry: Movement and Memory with Max Blagg and Wickham Boyle – July 25
Poets House Emerging Poets Residency Reading – July 26
A Tribute to Siv Cedering – September 20
Poetry Reading on Governors Island Inspired by the Art of Mark di Suvero (Nolan Park, Governor’s Island) – September 22
Children’s Program: A Box Marked Summer with Bobbi Katz – September 29
Wheel with a Single Spoke: The Life and Work of Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu – October 3
Manuscript Workshop with Kathleen Ossip – October 3
Aaron Shurin on the Craft of Poetry – October 4
25th Anniversary Event – 25th Anniversary Finale: Celebrating Stanley Kunitz and Elizabeth Kray – October 6
Poetry Slam? Or Slam Poetry? with Mahogany L. Browne, Taylor Mali, James Merenda & Jeanann Verlee – October 10
Workshop: Generating, Revising, Polishing: The Practice of Writing Poetry with Martine Bellen – October 11
Workshop: Begin to Build a Poem with Estha Weiner – October 12
An Evening in Honor of Taha Muhammad Ali – October 16
The Poetics of Kitsch with Daniel Tiffany, Sianne Ngai, Joyelle McSweeney, and Johannes Goransson – October 20
Witter Bynner Fellowship Reading with L.S. Asekoff and Philip Levine – October 23,
Children’s Program: Screamin’ Green Halloween Readings (World Financial Center) – October 27
Members Event: Root of a Dream: Poets House Member’s Sleepover – October 27
Workshop: Shadows and Mayhem: Writing Beyond the Known with John Murillo – November 3
Russian Masters: The Life and Work of Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva – November 8
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich (92nd Street Y) – November 9
Master Class on Revision and Close Reading with Fanny Howe – November 10 & 11
Poets from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program – November 10
Passwords: Marjorie Perloff on John Cage – November 13
Firespitter: Jayne Cortez with Rosamund King – November 14 (CANCELLED)
Children’s Program: An Ode to Odetta with Samantha Thornhill – November 17
Passwords: David Hinton on Classical Chinese Poetry – November 30
Children’s Program: A Perfect Day with Carin Berger – December 1
A Conversation with Robert Hass and E.O. Wilson (American Museum of Natural History) – December 6
Master Class with Paul Muldoon – December 8 & 9
2011
North of Invention: A Festival of Canadian Poetry (Jeff Derksen & Lisa Robertson, a.rawlings & Jordon Scott) – January 23
The Transcendental Thread in American Poetry: A Seminar with Daniela Gioseffi – January 29
The Language of Conservation @ AWP w/Mark Doty, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Pattiann Rogers and Sandra Alcosser – February 4
Elizabeth Bishop at 100 – February 8
Member’s Event: Advance screening of Poetry: The Movie – February 9
Children’s Program: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 12
Master Class with Anne Carson & Robert Currie: EGOCIRCUS, a collaborative workshop – February 19 & 20
Workshop: WORKshop with Priscilla Becker – Feb 22
Workshop: Writing Between the Lines with Christopher Schmidt – Feb 23
Workshop: Text, Image, Theme & Between with Jill Magi – Feb 24
Master Class with Kevin Young – March 5 & 6
What the Chapbook Means to Me – March 5
Passwords: Pierre Joris on Paul Celan – March 18
Children’s Program: Forever Friends with Carin Berger – March 19
Illuminated Verses: Introduction to the Language of the Qur’an: A Seminar with Bruce Lawrence – March 19
Poetic Process & Inspiration: Jean Valentine & Brian Teare – March 31
Queer Optimism & Affective Poetry (Wendy Lee, Michael Snediker, Brian Teare & Dara Wier) – April 2
Workshop: Poetry (&) Comics with Paolo Javier – April 5
Insolent Grace: The Transatlantic Life of Alberto de Lacerda: Exhibit Opening with Jhumpa Lahiri, Christopher Middleton, Luis de Sousa & Devid Wevill –
April 6
Of the Mortal Fire: Christopher Middleton with John Yau – April 7
Workshop: Poetic Forms with Star Black – April 9
Workshop: Language Innovation with Paul Barman – April 13
Children’s Program: Fairly Varied Fairy Tales with Marie Ponsot – April 14
Passwords: Karen Swenson on Robert Browning – April 14
Children’s Program: Poetry & Popcorn with James Stevenson – April 16
Illuminated Verses: Transmutations with Moroccan Poet Mohammed Bennis – April 26
Illuminated Verses: The Traveling Word: A West African Epic (Kewulay Kamara) – April 28
Pluriverse: An Afternoon with Ernesto Cardenal – April 29
Resistance is Fertile: Harryette Mullen with Barbara Henning – April 29
Harryette Mullen with Niki Heard & Camille Rankine (Location: Cave Canem) – April 30
Illuminated Verses: From Tablet to Pen: The Literary Life of Islam; A Seminar with Reza Aslan – May 5
Day-long Symposium: Bridging Cultures: Poetries of the Islamic World (Location: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center) – May 7
Passwords: Myth, Fable & Fairy Tale with Marie Ponsot – May 14
The Marriage of Music & Meaning with Dorianne Laux – May 19
Master Class: Master Class with Dorianne Laux – May 21 & 22
Children’s Program: Sea Tale with Richard Lewis & the Touchstone Center Ensemble – June 4
16th Annual Poetry Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge – June 13
The Language of Conservation @ ALA with Mark Doty– June 26
Showcase Reading: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Joshua Harmon, Yehoshua November & Kathleen Ossip – July 12
Showcase Reading: Amy Holman, Paul Legault, Carol Muske–Dukes & Thomas Sleigh – July 14
Showcase Reading: Alan Gilbert, Karla Kelsey, Marie–Elizabeth Mali & Laura Newbern – July 19
Showcase Reading: New Directions 75th Anniversary celebration with Susan Bernofsky, Forrest Gander, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Richard Sieburth, Mónica de la Torre & Eliot Weinberger – July 21
Showcase Reading: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Albert Mobilio, Jena Osman & Evie Shockley – July 26
Children’s Program: The Humpback’s Wail with Chrissie Gittins – September 10
Nerve Ant: Japanese poet Kiwao Nomura with Translators Forrest Gander and Kyoko Yoshida – September 15
Children’s Program: Battery Park City Block Party – September 17
Children’s Program: Poems from the Sky @ The Gallery at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center at Governor’s Island – September 17
Children’s Program: Freshly Picked Poetry! cosponsored with Tribeca Greenmarket – September 24
25th Anniversary Event: Falling in Love with Poetry – An Introductory Seminar with Edward Hirsch – September 24 (CANCELLED)
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: David Ferry on Gilgamesh – September 29
Children’s Program: Enchanted Fairies & Elves cosponsored with Battery Park City Parks Conservancy – October 2
25th Anniversary Event: A Performance of “Bracko” with Anne Carson, Robert Currie and friends – October 4
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Yopie Prins on Homer and Sappho – October 4
Workshop: The Language of Music with Dave Johnson 6 Tuesdays, October 4-November 8
Workshop: Breaking Open: Overcoming Barriers with Rachel Levitsky 6 Thursdays, October 6-November 10
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Sheldon Pollock on Sanskrit poetry – October 12
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Paula Varsano on Ancient Chinese Poetry – October 13
Jane Hirshfield on the Craft of Poetry – October 19
Emily Dickinson at Poets House From the Donald & Patricia Oresman Collection Opening Reception – October 20
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Rosanna Warren on Latin Poetry – October 21
Garrett Hongo on the Craft of Poetry – October 26
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Coleman Barks on Rumi – October 27
Children’s Program: Monstrology/Alienology 101 with Johan Olander – October 29
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Greg Delanty and Michael Matto on Anglo-Saxon Poetry – October 29
25th Anniversary Event:Passwords: Arvind Mehrotra on Kabir– November 3
Philosopher Poet: A Reading and Conversation with Michel Deguy – November 4
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: Jerome Rothenberg on Ethnopoetics and the Origins of Poetry – November 8
Approaching You in English: Israeli Poet Admiel Kosman with Lisa Katz – November 9
An Evening with Hungarian Poet Dénes Krusovsky – November 11
25th Anniversary Event: Children’s Program: We Are Rivers with Richard Lewis and the Touchstone Center Ensemble – November 12
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: A Seminar with Jean and Robert Hollander on Dante – November 12
“Like the Wheels of Birds”: Emily Dickinson’s Itinerary of Escape – A Talk by Marta Werner – November 15
Member’s Sleepover – November 15
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: David Young on Petrarch – November 17
Master Class with Glyn Maxwell – November 19 & 20
25th Anniversary Event: Passwords: A Seminar with Glyn Maxwell on Chaucer and Christopher Marlowe – November 19
25th Anniversary Event: Children’s Program: Choose Your Own Odyssey – December 3
Passwords: A Seminar with Jen Bervin on Emily Dickinson – December 3 & 10
Master Class with Anne Waldman – December 10 & 11
2010
Poetry for Children: Floating Valentines: A Screening of The Red Balloon – February 13
Exhibition: The Fist Clenched Round My Heart: An Exhibition of Love Poetry at Poets House February 13 – March 13
Exhibition Opening: The Fist Clenched Round My Heart: An Exhibition of Love Poetry at Poets House Opening Reception – February 13
On Modern Poetry: Public Seminars with Michael Heller, The Foundations of Modern and Contemporary Poetry – February 20
On Modern Poetry: Public Seminars with Michael Heller, “No Ideas but in Things”: Developments, Diversities, Dispersions, Disavowals – February 27
Master Class with Marie Ponsot – February 27 & 28
Listening, Recording, Writing with Stacy Doris – March 13
Lyric Persuasions: A Conversation with Rae Armantrout & Norman Fischer – March 16
Exhibition:
Exhibition: “How Does a Bird Imagine? What Does a Tree Know?” An Exhibition of Community-Created Poetic Spaces, Opening Reception – March 20
Exhibition: Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception – March 20
The Green Man: A Panel with Carolyn Dinshaw, Michael Hrebeniak, Basil King & Thomas Meyer – March 23
Six-week Course: Visual Poetry with Jen Bervin – 6 Wednesdays, March 24–April 28
Six-week Course: The Elegy with Bhisham Bherwani 6 Thursdays, March 25–April 29
Children’s Program: The Little General and the Giant Snowflake with Matthea Harvey – March 27
Spain’s Bard: Jesús Aguado with Electa Arenal & Beatrix Gates – April 13
Texts to Argue Through: A Conversation with John D’Agata, Thalia Field & Jena Osman – April 16
Children’s Program: Grand Opening of the Constance Laibe Hays Children’s Room at Poets House – April 17
Nordic Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Jonas J. Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg – April 21
A Civil Feast of Jazz & Poetry with Poet Afaa Michael Weaver & Jazz Musicians Harold Anderson, Bill Lowe & Stan Strickland – April 21
The Opening of the Field: A Conversation with Nalini Nadkarni & Leonard Schwartz – April 22
Poem in Your Pocket Day with Poets House- April 29
Nox: From Box to Book with Anne Carson & Currie – April 29
Children’s Program: “How Does a Bird Imagine? What Does a Tree Know?” with Richard Lewis – May 1
It’s About Nature: Children’s Learning & the Poetic Experience with Richard Lewis – May 1
Annual Chapbook Festival @ CUNY Graduate Center – May 3 & May 4
Chile’s Dante: An Evening with Raúl Zurita & Anna Deeny – May 6
Ecopoetics After Copenhagen: Poetry & Biodiversity: A Public Seminar with Jonathan Skinner – May 12
Ecopoetics After Copenhagen: Poetry & Watersheds: A Public Seminar with Jonathan Skinner – May 14
Ecopoetics After Copenhagen: Urban Field Poetics: A Writing Workshop with Jonathan Skinner – May 15
Back Home: A Conversation & Reading with Maurice Manning & Norman Minnick – May 13
Children’s Program: My Life as a Blue Elephant with Calef Brown – May 15
Language of the Neighborhood: Chinese Poetry Today with Arthur Sze & Lucas Klein – May 18
Sweethearts of Rhythm: An Evening with Marilyn Nelson & Jerry Pinkney – May 20
Ecopoetical Futures: A Panel with Marcella Durand, Brenda Iijima, Ted Mathys & Tyrone Williams – May 25
Elements & Energies: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman on Poetry, Ecology & Environmental Action – May 27
Children’s Program: River of Words with Robert Hass – May 29
An Ethics Occurs at the Edge of What We Know: A Seminar with Brenda Hillman – May 29
Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman in the Great Outdoors: A Reading – May 29
Poetry Walk: The 15th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge: A Benefit for Poets House with Anne Carson, Tina Chang, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux & Bill Murray June 14
Flow–Winged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino. Directed by Fiona Templeton, with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley. Music by Joan Jeanrenaud. Projected drawings by Eve Biddle. Technical director: Ray Roy III – June 19 & June 20
Memorial for Leslie Scalapino with Petah Coyne, Simone Fattal, Joan Retallack, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ann Lauterbach, Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Molissa Foley, Fiona Templeton, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Clay, Rachel Levitsky, Susan Landers, James Sherry, Brenda Iijima, Pierre Joris, Judith Goldman, E. Tracy Grinnell & Tom White at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church – June 21
The 18th Annual Poets House Showcase – June 28-July 31
Exhibition: Gathering: An Exhibition of Poems & Prints by Ed Colker June 28 -October 9
Exhibition: Radiance: An Exhibition of Paintings by James Walton Fox June 28 -October 9
Poetic City: A Celebration of the Poetry and Music of Haiti, with L’Orchestre Septentrional, Jacqueline Beauge-Rosier, Anthony Phelps, Josaphat-Robert Large and Janine Tavernier, in Rockefeller Park – July 7
Exhibition Opening: Gathering: An Exhibition of Poems & Prints by Ed Colker Opening Reception July 8
Exhibition Opening: Radiance: An Exhibition of Paintings by James Walton Fox Opening Reception – July 8
Poets House Showcase Reading with Julie Sheehan, Leslie Chang, Terese Svoboda & Mark Bibbins – July 13
Poets House Showcase Reading with Ryan Murphy, Estha Weiner, Maureen McLane & Evelyn Reilly – July 15
Poets House Showcase Reading with Matvei Yankelevich, Indigo Moor, Monica Youn & Nathalie Handal – July 20
Poets House Showcase Reading with Tan Lin, Rachel Levitsky, Joanna Fuhrman & Ken Chen – July 22
Poets House Showcase Reading featuring Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS with Star Black, Cyrus Cassells, Douglas Crase, Mina Pam Dick, Patricia Spears Jones, Timothy Liu & Dante Michaux – July 27
Other Worlds: A Reading & Discussion of the Poetry of Afzal Ahmed Syed with Arsalan Kahn, Shehla Naqvi & Mahwash Shoaib – September 29
New York Inferno: Eileen Myles with Douglas A. Martin – September 30
The Art of Losing with Nick Flynn, Marie Howe & Kevin Young – October 2
Six-week Course: Vision and Revision with Neil Shepard – October 5-November 9
Six-Week Course: Basic and Bold: The Remix with Patricia Spears Jones – October 6–November 10
Greek Avant-Gardist: Demosthenes Agrafiotis with John Sakkis – October 6
Six-Week Course: The Chapbook with Anna Moschovakis – October 7–November 18
Nordic Voices: Jörgen Gassilewski & Anna Hallberg with Charles Bernstein – October 7
Open House New York at Poets House – October 10
Passwords: Kathleen Norris on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Poetry – October 14
Spiritual Poetics: A Seminar with Kathleen Norris – October 16
Poets & Readers Together: W. S. Merwin Visits with Librarians at Poets House – October 21
Children’s Program: The Monsterologist with Bobbi Katz – October 23
Workshop: Structural Excavations with Lisa Jarnot – October 23 and 24
Passwords: Archie Burnett and Christopher Ricks on A. E. Housman – October 27
A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: An Evening with Adonis – November 1
Passwords: Jerome Rothenberg on Experimental Romanticism & the Roots of Contemporary Poetics – November 5
Children’s Program: World Record Imaginations with Karen Benke – November 6
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture with Maria Damon, Hank Lazer, Stephen Paul Miller & Alicia Ostriker – November 11
(Re) writing Culture with Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Craig Santos Perez & Barbara Jane Reyes – November 13
A Sweetness Buried in the Mind: Gerald Stern with Ross Gay – November 18
The Lost Poetry of World War II: A Seminar with Daniel Swift – November 20
Workshop: Poems, Prayers & Possession with Gabrielle Calvocoressi – November 20 & 21
Children’s Program: Wind, Ice & Other Tremblings of Winter with Richard Lewis December 4
Master Class with Edward Hirsch – December 4 & 5
2009
Poetry In The Branches: Poetry Westchester! Poets on Poetry: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop, at Mount Pleasant Public Library February 8
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: The Magical Alphabet of Spring with Lee Ann Brown, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch March 21
Workshop: Breaking Through: A Generative Workshop for All with Marie Howe April 1-22
Showcase: The 17th Annual Poets House Showcase, at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch April 4-11
Showcase Opening: The 17th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch April 4
Children’s Event: Cats on Trains, Bats on Planes: Poetic Travels with Patricia Hubbell, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch April 4
Poetry In The Branches: Poetry Westchester! Neglected No More: Samuel Menashe Recites His Poetry, at Mount Pleasant Public Library April 5
Radical Precision: The Poetry of Stephen Dunn, at Barnes & Noble Tribeca April 17
Workshop: Writing Away from the Surface with Patricia Smith May 6-June 10
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: A Drop of Water, A Splash of Sound with Richard Lewis, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch May 9
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: Backwards, Forwards: A Scroll Workshop with Sophie Blackall, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch June 6
Poetry Walk: The 14th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to Benefit Poets House, with Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey, with special guest Bill Murray June 8
Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration, with Jane Hirshfield, Major Jackson, Ed Sanders, Brenda Shaughnessy and Meredith Monk, at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City June 10
A Housewarming Party for Poets House September 25
Children’s Event: Invocation of the Muse with Kurt Lamkin September 26
Like Most Revelations: Richard Howard in Conversation with Timothy Donnelly & Brenda Wineapple October 7
Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Charles Bernstein & Régis Bonvicino October 14
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children : Old Days, New Days: A Celebration of Daylight with Richard Lewis October 17
Passwords: John Felstiner Asks, “Can Poetry Save the Earth?” October 20
Workshop: Public Seminars with John Felstiner: “Can Poetry Save the Earth?” October 21 & 22
Sudden Orpheus: A Puppet Show by Ariel Goldberger & Leonard Schwartz October 23
Polish Poetry Now: Panel Moderated by Bill Johnston & Benjamin Paloff November 3
Polish Poetry Now: Reading with Tadeusz Dabrowski, Bozena Keff, Marzanna Kielar & Tomasz Rózycki – November 4
Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Angela Jackson & Patricia Spears Jones November 12
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: The Buzz with Naomi Shihab Nye November 14
Transfer: A Seminar with Naomi Shihab Nye November 14
Passwords: Kit Robinson on “Time is/Was: Writing Memory in the Discontinuous Present” November 17
Exhibition: Robert Frost’s Annual Christmas Cards – December 2, 2009 – January 30, 2010
Exhibition Opening: Robert Frost’s Annual Christmas Cards Opening Reception – December 2
2008
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library February 4-March 17
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library February 11-March 24
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman February 25
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Writing Workshop with Erica Fabri, at Town of Pelham Library February 25-April 14
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steve Sher, at Larchmont Public Library February 26-April 1
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Estha Weiner, at Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library March 1-April 12
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova March 2
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Caitlin McDonnell, at Katonah Village Library March 3-April 7
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at White Plains Public Library March 4-April 15
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings March 6
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: First Fridays at the Children’s Museum of the Arts March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: Pocket Poems with Bobbi Katz, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch March 8
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, Town of Pelham Library March 13-April 17
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Hettie Jones March 17
Passwords: Robert and Jean Hollander on The Divine Comedy, at NYPL Mulberry Street Branch March 19
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading March 24
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Irvington Public Library March 25-May 6
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at Scarsdale Public Library March 26-May 7
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson – March 26
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Poetry Reading by Edward Hirsch, at Mount Pleasant Public Library March 30
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets, at New Orleans Public Library April 1
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay, at Milwaukee Public Library April 3
Children’s Event: National Poetry Month for Kids at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch April 4, April 11 and April 18
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: The Enchanted World of Nancy Willard, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch April 5
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! The Beat Poets: a talk by Hettie Jones, at Mount Pleasant Public Library April 6
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay April 7
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading April 7
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Steve Sher April 12
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Estha Weiner April 12
Showcase: The 16th Annual Poets House Showcase, at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch April 12-19
Showcase Opening: The 16th Annual Poets House Showcase Opening Reception, at NYPL Jefferson Market Branch April 12
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Writing Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Erica Fabri April 14
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Writing Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Rachel Simon April 15
Poem in Your Pocket Day: Poems of Transport: A Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day Collaboration between Poets House and N.Y. Waterway, at N.Y. Waterway/World Financial Center Terminal April 17
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson April 17
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Joanna Fuhrman April 17
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings April 22
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets April 23
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay April 26
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Eavan Boland on W.B. Yeats May 1
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda – May 1
Correspondences: Bilingual Reading and Conversation, with Coral Bracho and Forrest Gander May 3
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets – May 6
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Joanna Fuhrman May 6
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Rachel Simon May 7
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: Wondrous Light, Wondrous Air with Richard Lewis, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch May 10
Passwords: Raymond P. Scheindlin on Judah Halevi, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch May 14
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets May 18
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Poetry Reading by Tom Sleigh, at Mount Pleasant Public Library May 18
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: Creatures of Collage with Carin Berger, at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch June 7
Poetry Walk: The 13th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to Benefit Poets House, with Martín Espada, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and Marilyn Nelson June 9
Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration, with Cornelius Eady, Matthea Harvey, Fanny Howe, Li-Young Lee, Kay Ryan and others, at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City June 18
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Mount Pleasant Public Library September 8-October 6
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steven Sher, at Somers Public Library September 11-25
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Estha Weiner, at Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library September 13-27
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Mount Pleasant Public Library September 15-October 6
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Rachel Simon, at White Plains Public Library October 7-28
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Clara Sala, at Mount Vernon Public Library October 8-29
Passwords: Pablo Medina on Octavio Paz October 9
Children’s Event: Poets House in Battery Park City, Preview Festivities: Poetry for Children: Your Song Is a Map of the City with Chris Martin October 11
Poets House in Battery Park City, Preview Festivities: Poetry Walking Tours of Battery Park City October 11
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman, at Irvington Public Library October 15-November 5
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Jason Schneiderman, at Pelham Public Library October 16-30
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Steve Sher October 16
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Estha Weiner October 18
Children’s Event: Poetry for Children: Monstrology 101 with Johan Olander October 25
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop with Steven Sher, at Rye Free Reading Room October 30-November 13
Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Isabelle Garron, Pierre Joris & Sarah Riggs November 13
Children’s Event: The Right Stuff: Astronaut Training with Meghan McCarthy November 15
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Joanna Fuhrman November 16
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Rachel Simon November 18
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Publication Party with Clara Sala November 19
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Jason Schneiderman November 20
Correspondences: A Reading & Conversation with Nathaniel Tarn & Eliot Weinberger November 20
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Teen Poetry Writing Workshop Publication Party with Joanna Fuhrman December 3
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! Adult Poetry Writing Workshop Group Reading with Steve Sher December 4
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry Westchester! The Poetry of Federico García Lorca: A Dramatic Reading with Dominique Borel and Suzanne Khuri, and Guitar Accompaniment by Ian Banks, at Mount Pleasant Public Library December 7
2007
Branching Out: Branching Out NYC: Robert Pinsky on Robert Frost & William Carlos Williams February 6
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Jane Hirshfield on Bashō February 8
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Floating Valentines—The Red Balloon February 10
Poetry in the Presence of Sculpture with Brenda Iijima, Jill Magi, Sawako Nakayasu & Srikanth Reddy February 11
6-Week course: Revealing and Concealing: The Self in Poetry with Rachel M. Simon February 21-March 28
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks February 27
Passwords: David Meltzer on West Coast Beats February 27
Semina Poets: Gallery Tour with David Meltzer February 28
Poetry in the Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center March 3-April 14
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks March 4
Branching Out: Branching Out NYC: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes March 6
6-Week course: Animal Forms with Priscilla Becker March 6-April 10
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Joanna Fuhrman at Briarwood Branch March 6-April 17
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Richmondton Branch March 7-April 18
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Ginny Wiehardt at St. George Library Center – March 9-April 20
Lyric Poetry Festival with David Baker, Linda Gregerson, Stanley Plumly & Ann Townsend March 10
Passwords: Martha Ronk on Shakespeare March 13
M. Nourbese Philip and Misani March 15
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Port Richmond Branch March 19-April 30
Passwords: Elizabeth Arnold on George Oppen March 20
Master Class: Master Class with Annie Finch March 24-25
Data Loss and Memory: Poetics of the Digital Era. A Talk by Caroline Bergvall March 27
Poetry in The Branches: Open Mic featuring Corie Feiner March 28
Showcase: 15th Annual Poets House Showcase March 31 – April 30
Showcase: Poets House Showcase Opening Reception March 31
Poetry in the Branches: Open Mic featuring Jim Tolan at St. George Library Center March 31
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Ginny Wiehardt at Woodside Branch April 4-May 16
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman April 5
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Once Around the Sun and Other Travels with Bobbi Katz April 7
6-Week course: The Quality of Being Present with Scott Hightower April 11-May 6
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes April 12
Master Class: Master Class with C. K. Williams April 14
Branching Out: Branching Out NYC: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova April 17
6-Week course: Collaborations with Jen Bervin April 17-May 22
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Erica Fabri at Elmhurst Branch April 20-June 1
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson April 21
Cuba’s Bard: A Conversation with José Kozer, Ammiel Alcalay and Mark Weiss April 24
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: Paul Muldoon on Robert Frost April 25
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: Ron Padgett on Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch April 26
Poetry in the Branches: Open Mic featuring Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center – April 28
Showcase Event: International Voices: World Poetry at Poets House with Homero Aridjis, Elizabeth Macklin, Kirmen Uribe, Nabeel Yasin, Breyten Breytenbach, José Luís Peixoto, Pia Tafdrup and Saadi Youssef April 28
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Hettie Jones on The Beat Poets April 30
Poetry in the Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Willie Perdomo at Broadway Branch May 1-June 12
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes May 3
Workshop: The Poetics of Walking: Weekend Poetry Walks with Brenda Coultas, Lytle Shaw, Jonathan Skinner & Stephen Vincent May 5
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Sea Whisperings from the Smallest of Shells with Richard Lewis May 5
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay May 6
Master Class: May 5 & 6
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca May 8
Transparency and the Invisible with Alan Gilbert, Ann Lauterbach, Lesle Lewis & Mónica de la Torre May 10
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Sun Returns, The Day Begins: A Journey of Poems with Richard Lewis May 19
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop May 23
Poetry Walk: Twelfth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Kimiko Hahn, Major Jackson, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and special guests Bill Murray and Oliver Platt June 11
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes June 12
Always Beginning: Maxine Kumin in Conversation with Sharon Olds & Karen Swenson September 27
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets September 27
Children’s Program: Poetry for Children: A, B, See: A Collage Workshop with Robert Warner September 29
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman October 2
Passwords: Simon Armitage on Ted Hughes October 4
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Donna Masini on June Jordan October 4
Workshop: Poetry Intensive with Simon Armitage October 5 & 6
Visitations: Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain at Wave Hill with Thomas Devaney & Carol Muske-Dukes October 7
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda October 7
Passwords: Dick Davis on Persian Poetry October 9
Poetics of the Condensery: Elaine Equi & Aram Saroyan on Minimalist Poetry October 11
Branching Out: Branching Out Milwaukee: Jane Hirshfield on Basho October 11
Workshop: 2007 Poetry In The Branches National Institute October 12-13
Branching Out: Branching Out Jacksonville: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson October 16
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay October 17
Children’s Program: Poetry for Children: Through a Marble Brightly: Art and Writing Workshop with Richard Lewis October 20
Workshop: Events for Teachers, Parents & Writers: The Thread at Play: A Poetry of the Simplest of Objects with Cecilia Vicuña & Richard Lewis October 20
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Pablo Medina on Octavio Paz October 22
Branching Out: Branching Out Little Rock: Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings November 1
Branching Out: Branching Out Hartford: Carol Muske-Dukes on Sylvia Plath November 4
Branching Out: Branching Out Fresno: Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson November 5
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca November 6
Book Sale: Poets House Pre-Holiday Book Sale – November 6-10
Poetry In The Branches: Events for Teens: Spinning Verses: Writing Workshop for Teens with Helen Frost @ New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch November 10
Passwords: Maggie Nelson on Women and the New York School @ Tribeca Performing Arts Center November 13
Branching Out: Branching Out New Orleans: Ron Padgett on Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch November 20
Branching Out: Branching Out Salt Lake City: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes November 28
2006
Exhibition: Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley & the New York School, Curated by Douglas Crase On view February 9 through March 18
Exhibition Opening: Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley & the New York School, Curated by Douglas Crase Opening Reception February 9
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Floating Valentines—The Red Balloon February 11
Passwords: Vincent Katz on Sextus Propertius February 16
Passwords: Tony Hoagland on Larry Levis February 23
Master Class: Master Class with Tony Hoagland on Image, Diction, Rhetoric February 25-26
Exhibition Event: Unlikely Angel: Another Look at New York School Origins With Douglas Crase, Ann Lauterbach, David Lehman & Jed Perl March 2
6-week Course: Writing from the Outside with Rachel Levitsky March 7–April 11
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Nadine Mozon at St. George Library Center March 7-April 4
Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Lisa Rhoades at Richmondtown Branch March 15-April 5
Branching Out: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca (Fresno, CA) – March 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry Reading with E. Ethelbert Miller at St. George Library Center March 19
Exhibition: Artistic Bestiary: Installations by Jane Greer and Brian Getnick On view March 24 through May 6
Exhibition Opening: Artistic Bestiary: Installations by Jane Greer and Brian Getnick Opening Reception March 24
Master Class: Master Class with Mark Doty March 25-26
Branching Out: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (Lake Charles, LA) March 25
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Zoo’s Who With Douglas Florian March 26
6-week course: Versions of the Erotic with Patrick Rosal March 30-May 4
Showcase: 2006 Poets House Showcase April 1 – 29
Showcase Opening: Poets House Showcase Opening Reception & 20th Anniversary Birthday Cake Bash April 1
Branching Out: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore (Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, LA) – April 6
Children’s Showcase: The Children’s Poetry Book Show On view April 8 – 29
Children’s Program: The Children’s Poetry Book Show Opening Celebration April 8
Branching Out: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes (Lake Charles, LA) – April 8
National Poetry Month Reading With Michael Collier, Natasha Trethewey & David Tucker April 11
Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at St. George Library Center April 15-May 13
Passwords: Gillian Conoley on Henri Michaux April 18
Branching Out: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks (Kansas City, MO) – April 19
Poetic Bestiary: A Panel Discussion With Sandra Alcosser, Mark Doty & and Linda Hogan April 20
Branching Out: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks (Milwaukee, WI) – April 20
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Creatures of Creativity With Mel Glenn April 22
6-week course: An Environmental Imagination: Field Institute with Sandra Alcosser April 22-May 27
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry Reading with Pat Mangan and Frazier Russell at St. George Library Center April 23
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Richmondtown Branch April 26-May 24
Branching Out: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (Houston, TX) – April 27
Women Poets from the Middle East: Agi Mishol, Naomi Shihab Nye & Vénus Khoury-Ghata April 29
A Conversation with Hwang Sok-Yong and Ko Un April 29
Poetry in The Branches: Kids Baseball Poetry Workshop with Dave Johnson at Port Richmond Branch April 29
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Port Richmond Branch May 4-June 1
Branching Out: Paul Muldoon on Robert Frost (Houston, TX) – May 4
Master Class: Master Class with Ann Lauterbach May 5 & 6
Poetry in The Branches: Eddie Rosa and Renacer Trovero Perform Décima at Port Richmond Branch May 6
Branching Out: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova (Kansas City, MO) – May 6
Branching Out: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore (Milwaukee, WI) May 7
Branching Out: Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova (Fresno, CA) – May 8
6-week course: Surfacing History: A Poetry and Graphic Arts Workshop with Jill Magi May 9 – June 13
Branching Out:
6-week course: The Moving Image: Poetry and Film with Eric Gamalinda May 11 – June 15
Exhibition: Sacred Burial Grounds: Alphanumeric Painting by August Highland On view May 12 through June 24
Exhibition Opening: Sacred Burial Grounds: Alphanumeric Painting by August Highland Opening Reception May 12
Passwords: Patricia Spears Jones on Lorenzo Thomas May 16
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Sun Returns, The Day Begins: A Journey of Poems, A Musical Performance With Richard Lewis & The Touchstone Center Ensemble May 20
Poetry Walk: Eleventh Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Galway Kinnell & Philip Levine June 12
Special Seminar with Yevgeny Yevtushenko (@ the Museum of Jewish Heritage) September 27
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Helen Decker at Staten Island, Richmondton Branch September 28-October 26
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Sydney A. Francis at Staten Island, Port Richmond Branch September 28-October 26
Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole: A Reading and Conversation October 3
Poetry in The Branches: Adult Writing Workshop with Corie Feiner at Staten Island, St. George Library Center October 7-November 18
Poetry in The Branches: Teen Writing Workshop with Julie Patton at Staten Island, St. George Library Center October 10-31
6-Week course: Poetry as the Art of Revision with Sharon Dolin October 10-November 14
Cave Canem 10th Anniversary Celebration (@at CUNY Graduate Center) October 12–October 14
6-Week course: Verse Lab: Experiments in the Practice of Poetry with Suzanne Wise October 12-November 16
Workshop: In Love with Love Poems: Old Clichés, New Ironies, the Same Old Chestnuts, Some in Sonnet Form. A workshop with Eva Salzman October 14
6-Week course: Writing Through: 16 Ways to Enter A Text with Sina Queyras October 18-November 22
Branching Out NYC: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda (@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center) October 17
Children’s Program: Poetry for Children: Rain, Rain… Don’t Go Away! with Annie Wright and Michael Romanos October 21
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches National Institute: A Weekend Intensive for Librarians October 27 & 28
Poetry in The Branches: Thomas Lux Reading at Grinton I. Will Branch, Yonkers Public Library October 30
Ruination: Loss in desire. Une poétique. A Talk by Nathalie Stephens November 2
Master Class: Master Class with Alice Notley November 11-12
Branching Out NYC: Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca (@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center) November 14
Crossing Currents: Panel Discussion on Contemporary Poetry in Japan November 15
Reading by Contemporary Japanese Women Poets (@ the Bowery Poetry Club) November 16
Blurring Boundaries: A Conversation on the Art of Translation with Rosa Alcalá, Ryoko Sekiguchi & Cole Swensen November 17
Children’s Program: Poetry for Children: A Pebble, a Stone, and the Gift of Stars with Richard Lewis November 18
Frank O’Hara Festival November 28–30
Passwords: Bill Berkson on Frank O’Hara November 28
Frank O’Hara Reading with Bill Berkson, Anselm Berrigan, Olivier Brossard, Greg Fuchs, John Gruen, Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Kimberly Lyons, Taylor Mead, Scott Murphree, Eileen Myles, Maureen O’Hara, Ned Rorem, David Shapiro, Lytle Shaw, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman & John Yau (@ The Poetry Project) November 29
Frank O’Hara at MoMA with John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Michelle Elligott, Alfred Leslie & others (@ Bartos Theater and MoMA Library and Archives Reading Rooms, The Museum of Modern Art) November 30
Master Class: Master Class with Arthur Sze December 2-3
Children’s Program: Poetry for Children: Chris Raschka Can Draw Anything December 9
Branching Out NYC:
Master Class: Master Class with Jean Valentine December 16 & 17
2005
Exhibition: “Walking, Poems & Buildings” A Poetry & Architecture Collaboration On view January 7 – February 25
Exhibition Opening: “Walking, Poems & Buildings” A Poetry & Architecture Collaboration Opening ReceptionJanuary 7
Passwords: Ron Padgett on Pierre Reverdy January 20
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Not So True Stories & Unreasonable Rhymes, Workshop & Reading with Carin Berger January 22
Workshop: Master Class with Ron Padgett January 29–30
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Floating Valentines February 12
Passwords: Maria Negroni on Susana Thénon February 17
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Framing It All Art Workshop with Lynn Jadamec March 5
Exhibition: A Poet’s Eye for CollageOn view March 11 – April 29
Exhibition Opening: A Poet’s Eye for Collage Opening Reception March 11
Passwords: Ann Lauterbach on John Ashbery March 29
Naked Lunch @ the South Street Seaport: Clayton Eshleman April 1
A Tribute to Cid Corman with Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, Kristin Prevallet & Anne Waldman April 1
Showcase: 2005 Poets House Showcase On view April 2 – 30
Showcase Opening: 2005 Poets House Showcase Kick-off Party April 2
Showcase Event: Children’s Poetry Book Show Opening Reading April 2
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop in Fresno, CA April 4
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: All the Colors Water Can Hold with Annie Wright April 9
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Donna Masini at Richmondtown Library April 9
Poetics & Violence with Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson & Claudia Rankine, moderated by Sally Bachner April 12
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Edward Hirsch on Frederico García Lorca in Houston, TX – April 13
Showcase Event: Love in the Showcase with Joshua Beckman, Timothy Donnelly, Prageeta Sharma, Brenda Shaughnessy & Matthew Zapruder April 14
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman in New Orleans, LA – April 14
Poetry in the Zoos: Literary Animals: An Afternoon at the Zoo with Sandra Alcosser & Joseph Bruchac April 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Marie Howe at Port Richmond Library April 16
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Eavan Boland on William Butler Yeats in Fresno, CA – April 25
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop in Houston, TX April 25
The Katharine Washburn Memorial Program: A Conversation with Glyn Maxwell & Derek Walcott April 26
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Hettie Jones at Dongan Hills Library April 27
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams & Robert Frost in Milwaukee, WI – April 28
Six-week Course: Flesh and Spirit: Writing the Body with Tina Chang 6 Thursdays, April 28-June 2
The War Works Hard with Dunya Mikhal & Pierre Joris April 29
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Shel Silverstein Shel-ebration with Jan Heller Levi, Annie Wright, Michael Romanos & D.B. Leonard April 30
Workshop: Master Class with Mary Kinzie May 1
Naked Lunch @ the South Street Seaport: Mary Kinzie & Jeanne Marie Beaumont May 2
Passwords: Mary Kinzie on Louise Bogan May 3
Six-week Course: “American Duende” with Tracy K. Smith6 Wednesdays, May 4-June 8
Exhibition: The Wild Braid: Photographs of Stanley Kunitz in his Garden by Marnie Crawford Samuelson On view May 6 – June 25
Exhibition Opening: The Wild Braid: Photographs of Stanley Kunitz in his Garden by Marnie Crawford Samuelson Opening Reception May 6
Passwords: Jane Miller on Federico García Lorca May 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Joshua Beckman at Dongan Hills Library May 11
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson in Milwaukee, WI May 19
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Everything Sings, Everything Dances with Richard Lewis May 21
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Quincy Troupe at Port Richmond Library May 24
Six-week Course: “Mapmaking & Wayfinding” with Brian Blanchfield 6 Tuesdays, May 24-June 28
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Patricia Smith at Dongan Hills Library May 25
Workshop: Master Class with Marie Howe June 4-5
Poetry Walk: Tenth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk, Celebrating Stanley Kunitz’s 100th Birthday, with Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell & Jean Valentine June 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Willie Perdomo at Port Richmond Library June 21
Six-week Course: “The Poetic Account” with Douglas A. Martin6 Wednesdays, June 29-August 3
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Quincy Troupe Reading “Casey at the Bat” at Staten Island Yankees home game, Richmond County Field – June 30
Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Sandra Maria Estevez July 8
Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Timothy Donnelly July 22
Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Jonathan Cohen August 5
Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Joshua Beckman August 19
Exhibition: Purgatorio: Prints by Milton GlaserOn view September 9 – October 29
Exhibition Opening: Purgatorio: Prints by Milton Glaser Opening Reception September 9
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman in Milwaukee, WI – September 13
Walt Whitman: Poet and Printer: Readings @ the South Street Seaport with Lee Ann Brown September 16
Downtown Poetry Walk: A Reading & Conversation with Fanny Howe & Ralph Lemon September 17
The Language of Flowers with Susan Kinsolving & Marta McDowell September 18
Workshop: Dante’s Purgatorio: A Seminar/Workshop for Poets with Sharon Dolin, Phillis Levin with Peter Covino September 20 & 27
Passwords: The Road to William Carlos Williams with Philip Levine September 22
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Writing Poetry Together with Liz Rosenberg & Hal Sirowitz September 24
Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours with W. D. Snodgrass & Robert Kehew September 28
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Sapphire at St. George Library Center October 2
The Irreparable: A Talk on Poetics by Robin Blaser October 4
Robin Blaser & Etel Adnan Reading at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church October 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Teen Poetry Workshop with Nadine Mozon at Port Richmond – October 6-November 3
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Ana Castillo at Port Richmond October 8
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore in Kansas City, MO October 7
Passwords: Juliana Spahr on Kamau Brathwaite October 11
Six-week Course: Making the Urban Poetic with Amy King 6 Wednesdays, October 12-November 16z
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Inkless Tales with Elizabeth Bushey October 15
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Ed Hirsch on Federico García Lorca in Milwaukee, WI October 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Teen Poetry Workshop with Dave Johnson at St. George Library Center5 Mondays, October 17-November 14
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches: Adult Poetry Workshop with Victoria Hallerman at Richmondtown Branch6 Wednesdays, October 19-November 16
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks in Houston, TX October 20
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Fresno, CA October 24
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Houston, TX October 27
Poetic Migrations: Gloria Gervitz in Conversation with Mónica de la Torre October 28
Workshop: Master Class with Kathleen Fraser October 29 & 30
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda in Fresno, CA November 3
Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes in Kansas City, MO November 6
Exhibition: Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era On view November 4 – December 10
Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception & Panel Discussion for Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era with Kimberly Bird, Gene Frumkin, Estelle Gershgoren Novak, Naomi Replansky, Tom Viertel & Mel Weisburd November 4
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Teen Poetry Workshop with Corie Feiner at Richmondtown Branch – November 10-December 15
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Fastest Animals on Four Wheels with Alexander Zane November 12
Workshop: Master Class with C. S. Giscombe November 12 & 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Victoria Hallerman & Lisa Rhoades at Richmondtown November 13
White Women, Dark Trains & Poem After Poem: Paul Delvaux’s Railroad Sense with C. S. Giscombe November 15
Exile’s Laureate: Paul Laraque, A Reading & Conversation with Jack Hirschman & Paul Laraque November 20
Book Sale: Annual Holiday Book Sale – December 8-10
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Say Snow—And It Will Snow, Forever with Richard Lewis December 10
2004
Passwords: Paul Muldoon on Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Poem of the End” January 8
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Poet Robin Hirsch January 31
Workshop: Master Class with Lucie Brock-Broido January 31 & February 1
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Community-Word Project Mural Exhibit Kickoff Event February 7
Workshop: Master Class with Marie Ponsot February 7 & 8
Passwords: Kevin Young on Bob Kaufman February 12
Passwords: Ammiel Alcalay on Charles Olson February 18
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Elizabeth Winthrop: Dancing Granny March 13
Exhibition: The New Millennium Chapbook April 2 – 30
Exhibition Opening: The New Millennium Chapbook Opening Reception April 2
Showcase: Poets House Showcase & Children’s Poetry Book Show April 3 – 30
Showcase Opening: Poets House Showcase & Children’s Poetry Book Show Kick-off Party April 3
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Charlotte Doyle April 3
Showcase Event: Reception for Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields April 12
Passwords: Ishmael Reed on Tom Dent April 13
Reading: Paul Auster at The Mercantile Library of New York April 14
National Poetry Month Reading: Mary A. Koncel & Melissa Hotchkiss April 21
The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht, with Michael Hofmann, Anselm Hollo, Geoffrey O’Brien & Sonia Sanchez April 22
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Richard Lewis: One by One Crickets Follow Me April 24
National Poetry Month Reading: Lucie Brock-Broido & Deborah Digges April 28
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: A Thousand Words Art Workshop May 1
Passwords: Peter Gizzi on Jack Spicer May 6
Workshop: Master Class with Toi Derricotte May 22 & 23
Katharine Washburn Memorial Program: Clare Cavanagh June 3
Workshop: Master Class with Susan Wheeler June 5 & 6
Poetry Walk: Ninth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk with Sandra Alcosser, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Marie Ponsot, and the presentation of the Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry to Robert Bly June 14
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater October 2
Exhibition: The Art of Reading October 8 – November 22
Exhibition Opening: The Art of Reading Opening Reception October 8
Passwords: Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell October 14
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater October 16
Workshop: The 2004 Poetry in The Branches National Institute with Keynote Speaker Galway Kinnell and Guest Poets Toi Derricotte and Dave Johnson October 22-24
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: The Spirit of the Buffalo with Beverly Brodsky November 6
Nicole Brossard in Conversation with Mary Ann Caws November 9
Black Serial Poetics: A Conversation & Reading with Nathaniel Mackey & Ed Roberson November 12
Passwords: Tom Sleigh on Thom Gunn’s Re-invention of Love Poetry November 18
Children’s Program: Words Without Borders: A Reading of International Children’s Literature November 20
Children’s Program: The Wind In Your Hand: And Other Secrets of a Winter’s Day with Richard Lewis December 4
Book Sale: Poets House Holiday Book Sale December 8–14
Workshop: Master Class with Marjorie Welish December 11–12
2003
Passwords: Eamon Grennan on Geoffrey Chaucer January 15
Workshop: Master Class: Ellen Bryant Voigt February 15 & 16
A Poet’s Novelist: Michael Hulse on W.G. Sebald February 26
Workshop: Master Class: Paul Hoover March 15 & March 16
Workshop: Master Class: Marilyn Hacker March 22 & March 23
Poets House Showcase April 5 – May 30
Poets House Showcase Opening April 5
The People’s Poetry Gathering April 11-13
The People’s Poetry Gathering, co-sponsored by Poets House and City Lore, is a collaboration between literature and folklore, disciplines which share roots in oral traditions. With more than 100 events taking place throughout Manhattan, the following events took place at 72 Spring Street:
Friday, April 11
Epics And Ballads Questioning the Ancient Forms
From Song to Stanza: The Ballad in Poetry with John Balaban, Lee Ann Brown, Hal Cannon, John Foley, and Marilyn Hacker
Epic Proportions: Documenting History & Culture With Long Poems with Benjamin Bagby, John Foley, Glyn Maxwell, Anne Waldman and C.K. Williams
A Feminist Quest: Revisioning The Epic Hero withDiane Dugaw, Carolyn Forché, Nathalie Handal, Maureen Owen, Stephanie Strickland and Anne Waldman
The Poet In The World: Words In Community I with Etel Adnan, Carolyn Forché, Abdelletif Laâbi, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, and Kishwar Naheed moderated by Ammiel Alcalay
The Poet In The World: Words In Community II with Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Kamau Brathwaite, Ferida Durakovic, Marilyn Hacker, and Jerome Rothenburg moderated by Ammiel Alcalay
Saturday, April 12
Global Poetics: Expanding the Word
Epics and Ballads in Cyberspace with Charles Bernstein, John Foley, Kenny Goldsmith and Stephanie Strickland
The Politics of Translation: A Round Table Discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Nathalie Handal, Abdelletif Laâbi, Khaled Mattawa, Jerome Rothenberg, and Dennis Tedlock
Beyond Identity Poetics: The Journey of The Poem Across Boundaries of Self and State with Etel Adnan, Ferida Durakovic, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Kishwar Naheed, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Sunday, April 13
Epic Writing Workshop with Maureen Owen
Glyn Maxwell on Dante’s Inferno
Donald Hall on Thomas Hardy and the Ballad Tradition
Mark Doty on Hart Crane
Joy Harjo Reads from her Poetry
Poetry In the Branches: PITB Reading: Typing Explosion: Extemporaneous Poetry Typed to Order With Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo and Sierra Nelson (Muhlenburg) April 12
National Poetry Month Reading: Edward Hirsch Co-sponsored with The Academy of American Poets April 15
Poetry In the Branches: Poetry In The Branches Reading: Samuel Menashe Reads (Jefferson Market) April 19
Children’s Program: Children’s Room Reading: Dave Johnson April 26
Children’s Program: Children’s Room Reading: db leonard May 3
Reading: Brenda Hillman, Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College 150 E. 25th Street, Manhattan May 8
The Katharine Washburn Memorial Program: Alastair Reid on Jorge Luis Borges May 9
Children’s Program: Drumming! African drums, dance and poetry by the first-graders of P.S. 156 May 10
Workshop: New Issues in Poetry & Poetics: A Master Class with Brenda Hillman May 10 & 11
Workshop: The Practice of Poetry: A Conversation with Sam Hamill May 24
Children’s Program: Children’s Room Reading: Richard Lewis, Sing Your Song Looking Up at the Sky May 31
Poetry Walk: Eighth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk with Galway Kinnell, Cornelius Eady, Quincy Troupe and Grace Paley June 16
Showcase: Exhibition of the 2002 Poetry Publication Showcase at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 21-24
Showcase Readings: Robert Creeley & Carl Dennis at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 21
Showcase Readings: Lorna Goodison & Pamela Mordecai at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 22
Showcase Reading: Librarians’ Open Mic at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 22
Showcase Readings: Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul Vermeersch at the joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in Toronto June 23
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Hands On Poetry with Melanie Hope September 20
David Antin, A Talk: The Politics of Poetry September 23
Wokshop: Poetry in the Branches National Institute, Keynote speaker Robert Pinsky, guest poets Kate Rushin, Dave Johnson & Quincy Troupe October 17-19
Celebrating Stanley Kunitz. Presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, in co-operation with Poets House October 19 & 20
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Storyteller Julia Morris October 25
Open House for Poetry New Zealand October 26
Workshop: A Translation Workshop with Clayton Eshleman October 26
Origins of Image Making: A 25,000-Year Crash Course with Clayton Eshleman October 28
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Bring it on Home with DB Leonard November 1
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Now You See Me, Now You… with Chrissie Gittens November 8
Workshop: Bringing the Deep Self Forward: A Workshop & Reading with Jane Hirshfield November 16
Exhibition: The Poetry Boxes of Artist Robert Warner in Honor of Joseph Cornell’s 100th Birthday December 2, 2003 – January 30, 2004
Exhibition Opening: The Poetry Boxes of Artist Robert Warner in Honor of Joseph Cornell’s 100th Birthday December 2
Passwords: Passwords: John Kinsella on Lionel Fogarty December 9
Children’s Program: Poetry in the Children’s Room: Winter Trails December 13
2002
Sandra Alcosser and Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker February 22
Workshop: Beginning Poetry Writing Class with Jacqueline Johnson – February 23 – March 2, 9 and 16
Master Class: Master Class in Poetry Writing with Robert Hass March 16-17
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Robert Bly on Craft April 3
Showcase: Tenth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase April 6 – May 4
Showcase: Poets House Showcase Opening Reception April 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Caribbean Poets Read featuring Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Staceyann Chin, and Lynne Procope (Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center, Flatbush) April 11
Poetry Teacher of the Year Awards Ceremony At Scholastic, 555 Broadway, New York, NY – April 23
Master Class: Master Class with Fanny Howe May 11-12
Katherine Washburn Memorial Program: Translating the 21st Century with Rachel Hadas, Rosanna Warren and Eliot Weinberger May 30
Master Class: Master Class with Edward Hirsch June 8-9
Poetry Walk: Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Willie Perdomo, and Galway Kinnell June 10
Showcase: Poets House Showcase Titles for Librarians Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 15-17
Showcase Readings: Coleman Barks, Natasha Trethewey, Kwame Dawes, Richard Jackson, Dave Johnson and others. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 15-16
Showcase Readings: Librarians’ Open Mic Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Poetry After 9/11: : Readings from the Anthology with Paul Violi, Frank Lima, Patricia Spears Jones, Eliot Katz, Andrea Carter Brown & Carter Ratcliff Sept 21
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Poetry After 9/11: Readings from the Anthology with Alicia Ostriker, Hal Sirowitz, Colette Inez, Jean Valentine, Geoffrey O’Brien & David Lehman, New Amsterdam Branch Library September 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: George Dickerson and Mark Nickels, The Donnell Library September 17
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: Poetry After 9/11: : Readings from the Anthology with Paul Violi, Frank Lima, Patricia Spears Jones, Eliot Katz, Andrea Carter Brown & Carter Ratcliff September 21
Workshop: Poetry in The Branches Workshop: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Veronica Golos September 25 – October 30
Children’s Program: Willie Perdomo reads for families at the Children’s Museum of the Arts. Co-sponsored with Children’s Museum of the Arts as part of the New York is Book Country festival September 28
Children’s Program: Willie Perdomo reads for families at Poets House. Co-sponsored with Children’s Museum of the Arts as part of the New York is Book Country festival September 28
Workshop: Poetry in The Branches Workshop: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Regie Cabico October 1 – November 5
Workshop: Poetry in The Branches Workshop: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Regie Cabico October 2 – November 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: CavanKerry Press Presents—Notable Voices: Robert Cording, Ken Rosen & Mary Ruefle, Hudson Park Branch Library October 3
Poetry in The Branches National Institute: Poetry in The Branches National Institute with Keynote speaker Ed Hirsch and special guests Patricia Smith, Veronica Golos & Dave Johnson October 4 – 6
Workshop: Poetry in The Branches Workshop: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Clara Sala October 8 – November 12
Epics and Ballads 101: A Public Seminar on Oral Traditionas with John Foley October 12.
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading: CavanKerry Press Presents—New Voices: Sherry Fairchok, Sondra Gash, Joan Cusack Handler & Liz Hutner Hudson Park Branch Library October 17
Children’s Program: The Poets House Children’s Room Opening Celebration: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music with Kurt Lamkin, Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss October 26
Passwords: David Ferry on Gilgamesh November 7
On View: Ed Colker’s Haybarn Press starting November 12
Meena Alexander on Indian Love Poetry by Women November 14
Passwords: John Felstiner on Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda and Ranier Maria Rilke November 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Regie Cabico Flushing Branch Library December 4
Passwords: Alice Notley on Homer and the Postmodern War December 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Workshop Publication Party and Reading with Clara Sala Kingsbridge Branch Library December 17
2001
Passwords: Passwords: A Conversation with Susan Howe and Susan Stewart on Wallace Stevens January 12
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Staceyann Chin January 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Flatlands): Diane Glancy January 24
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy February 7
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Robert Hershon February 7
Passwords: Wayne Koestenbaum on James Schuyler February 8
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Patricia Smith February 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Sapphire February 15
Seminar in Cross-Genre Poetics with Anne Waldman February 17
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Tompkins Square): Anne Waldman February 20
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy March 7
Poetic Fictions: A Panel Discussion with Mary Jo Bang, Stuart Dybek and Suzanne Gardinier March 9
Showcase: Ninth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase March 24-April 3
Members Events: Poetry Publication Showcase Members Preview March 24
Showcase: Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception March 24
People’s Poetry Gathering: The People’s Poetry Gathering Co-sponsored with City Lore March 30–April 1
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy April 11
Katharine Washburn Memorial Program: Transfusion: Seamus Heaney Reading and Discussing Translation April 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Special Program (Mid-Manhattan): Poetry, Memory and Memoir with Marie Howe and Michael Klein April 14
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Cornelius Eady with Cave Canem Fellows April 26
Workshop: Writing Workshop with Eamon Grennan May 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Roger Bonair-Agard May 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Robin Becker and Deborah Tall May 10
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy May 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street): Robin Morgan and Emily Chang May 12
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Ellen Bryant Voigt on the Craft of Poetry: Lost and Found: Speech, Music and Repetition in the Poems of Randall Jarrell May 17
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Rugby): Quraysh Ali Lansana May 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Open Mic hosted by Maria Mazziotti Gillan June 2
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street): Michael Warr and Naomi Shihab Nye June 9
Poetry Walk: The Sixth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris and Naomi Shihab Nye June 11
Showcase: Exhibition of the 2000 Poetry Publication Showcase Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 16-18
Showcase Panel Discussion: The Poetry Revolution with Hettie Jones and Kurt Lamkin June 16
Showcase Readings: Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gillian Conoley & Kurt Lamkin. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 16
Showcase Readings: Robert Hass, Hettie Jones, Forrest Hamer & Kim Addonizio   Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 17
Showcase Readings: Chana Bloch, Dave Johnson & Open Mic Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office June 18
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Andrea Hollander Budy October 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (St. Agnes): Colette Inez and Ron Price October 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Jefferson Market Regional Library): Elaine Schwager and Ron Price October 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Mid-Manhattan) LIVE@Your Library: Losing Geography, a conversation with Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepulveda October 17
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Bloomingdale) Jane Cooper and Martha Collins October 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Countee Cullen): In Celebration of Black Poetry Day October 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (St. Agnes): Poets from Rattapallax Press and Poetry Wales read October 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Jefferson Market): Alfred Dorn and Daniel Fernandez October 27
Poets House Expansion Celebration with Stanley Kunitz November 9
Passwords: Wanda Coleman on Phillis Wheatley November 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Willie Perdomo November 17
Passwords: Passwords: Bob Perelman on Ezra Pound December 7
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Bloomingdale): Secret Identities and Undercover Metaphors: Investigating Poetry and Mystery Fiction with Stephen Dobyns, Edwin Torres & Jena Osman December 11
Members Events: Poets House Holiday Book Sale (Members Private Sale) December 13
Book Sale: Poets House Holiday Book Sale December 13-15
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (St. Agnes): Rattapallax Press Presents PO-EP! Launch Reading with Anselm Berrigan & Edwin Torres December 15
2000
Workshop: Family Romance with Cyrus Cassells January 8 and 15
Passwords: Cyrus Cassells on Salvador Espriu January 11
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy January 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Enid Dame and Vickie Karp January 26
Seminar: The Poetry of Eros with Marie Ponsot February 12
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches (Kingsbridge): A Valentine’s Reading with Kate Light February 12
Poetry in The Branches: Architecture of the Imagination: Realizing the World in Science Fiction and Poety with Octavia Butler, Cornelius Eady & Gerald Jonas (Mid-Manhattan) February 16
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy February 16
The Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: On the Craft of Poetry with Donald Hall February 29
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Tina Barr and Timothy Liu March 11
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy March 15
Passwords: Erica Hunt on Nathaniel Mackey March 16
Showcase: Eight Annual Poetry Publication Showcase April 1 – May 12
Members Events: Eighth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Members Preview April 1
Showcase: Eighth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception April 1
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Anne Carson April 6
Poetry in The Branches: Losing Geography, a reading and discussion with Ken McCullough, U Sam Oeur and Karen Swenson Mid-Manhattan Library April 8
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy April 12
Showcase: Panel Discussion: Anthologizing the 20th Century with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Ray González, Geoffrey O’Brien and Eliot Weinberger Cosponsored by The Library of America April 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (96th Street): Ray González April 15
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Cecilia Vicuña and Reg E. Gaines April 15
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Riverside): Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Douglas Goetsch April 15
Workshop: For Women Poets: Finding Room of Your Own in the Publishing Market with Amy Holman April 22
The Poetics of Art: A Gallery Tour with John Yau April 29
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Sekou Sundiata April 29
Showcase: Poetics Consciousness: Frames, Identities, Necessities with Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli May 2
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Allerton): Taylor Mali May 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Marie Howe May 6
Showcase: Celebrating Sulfur: The Life and Death of a Literary Magazine with Clayton Eshleman, Allen S. Weiss and Marjorie Welish May 9
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy May 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Kate Rushin May 13
Passwords: The Peacock’s Tail: An Evening of Poetry from Al-Andalus with Lourdes Alvarez May 16
Passwords: The Japanese Zuihitsu or Running Brush with Kimiko Hahn May 25
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy June 14
Poetry Walk: The Fifth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Sapphire, Gerald Stern and Ruth Stone June 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Preconference Seminar in Chicago. With Dave Johnson, Luis Rodríguez, Kate Rushin, Gerald Stern, and Michael Warr Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office July 6-7
Showcase Readings: Gerald Stern & Kate Rushin, Stuart Dybek & Luis Rodríguez Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office July 8
Showcase Readings: Diane Glancy & Sterling Plumpp, Brigit Pegeen Kelly & Richard Jones, Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office July 9
Showcase Readings: Beatriz Badikian & Michael Warr, David Wojahn & Cin Salach, Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago by Poets House in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office July 10
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy July 19
E-books: Friend or Foe of Independent Literary Publishing? Co-sponsored with CLMP September 20
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy October 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Special Program (Riverside)—Librettoland: At the Intersection of Poetry and Music with Kenward Elmslie and Ishmael Reed October 12
Poetry in The Branches: (Richmondtown) Investigating Genre with Donna Masini and Walter Mosley October 14
Passwords: J.D. McClatchy on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow October 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Special Program (96th Street)—The Musicality of Neruda: Poetry and Music with Fareed Haque October 26
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon) Neighborhood Renaissance: New Poets of Bed-Stuy featuring Robert Chapman, Linda Susan Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson and Luis Reyes Rivera October 26
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Mariposa November 4
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy November 8
Workshop: Poetry Writing Workshop with Marilyn Nelson November 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Peter Davison and Marie Ponsot November 18
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Cheryl B., Regie Cabico and Douglas A. Martin December 2
Memorization Circle: Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy December 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Bloomingdale): Joy Harjo December 9
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Kimiko Hahn December 9
Poetry in The Branches: Day of Decima: Poetry and Music featuring Eddie Rosa December 9
1999
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): U Sam Oeur with translator Ken McCullough March 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and Cornelius Eady March 6
People’s Poetry Gathering: People’s Poetry Gathering Cosponsored by City Lore April 9-11
Opening Celebration and Gathering Sampler with Jali invocation, José João dos Santos, Taylor Mali, Raymond Patterson, U. Utah Phillips, Tr’o Jarocho Chalchihuecan, and Bob Holman as host. April 9
Poetry Happening: View the Poetry Publication Showcase
Teen Slam with Saul Williams and Keith Roach as host
Teen Program: Winners of the City College/NYC Schools Poetry Contest with Barry Wallenstein as host
Workshop: How to Do a Close Reading of a Poem with Edward Hirsch
The Teacher as Poet with Daniel Ferri and Taylor Mali
Teen Program: Writing the Range: Students meet Cowboy Poets with Wallace McRae and Paul Zarzyski
Teen Program: Improvising Poetry to the Music of the Blues with Carolina Slim and Dave Johnson
Conversations: Word Clash: Poetry Contests and Competitions with Daniel Ferri, Anne MacNaughton, Peter Rabbit, Arturo Santiago, and Bob Holman as moderator
Poetry Happening: Literary Pub Crawl around Greenwich Village
Teen Program: Open Mic with Daniel Ferri as host
Teen Program: Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky meets Students
Teen Program: Poetry in The Branches: NYPL/Poets House with Dave Johnson as host
Poetry and Literacy with Maxine Green, Eugene Redmond, and Nancy Shapiro as moderator
Teen Program: Braggin’ Rights: Students Improvise to a Rap Beat with Vast, Blow Out, Influence, Yak, Subconscious, Pumpkin Head, Hashim, Nat Turner, and Fritz Jeanniton as host
Reading: Anne MacNaughton and Peter Rabbit
Teen Program: Slam Workshop with Keith Roach
Poets Pay Tribute: to Henry Dumas with Raymond Patterson, Robert Pinsky, Quincy Troupe, and Eugene Redmond as moderator
People’s Poetry Gathering Opening Night Bash: with Braggin’ Rights, José João DOS Santos, Don Edwards, Paul Zarzyski, Galway Kinnell, and Bob Holman’s SemiCento with Dana Bryant, Edwin Torres and Regie Cabico
“Is Charlie Chan Really Dead?: Representations & Beyond” Reading with Shani Mootoo, Han Ong, Beau Sia, and Lois- Ann Yamanaka
Poets Pay Tribute: “William Carlos Williams and the Opening of American Poetry” with Victor Hernández Cruz
Poets and Bands: Talking Book Festival with Sherman Alexie with Jim Boyd & Rez Bound; Sekou Sundiata with his band; Jerome Rothenberg with the Klezmatics, and DJ Jeannie Hopper
Emergent Forms and Formats: Friday Night Slam: Nuyorican Team vs. Cowboy and Hobo Poets with Linda Hasselstrom, Larry Penn, Bob Suckiel, Paul Zarzyski, Keith Roach as host, and Judge Bruce Wright
Reading: Robert Bly and Robert Pinsky
Poetry Happening: Polymorphously/ Per Verse: An Evening of Erotic Poetry with Penny Arcade, Tony Barrand, Anselm Berrigan, Max Blagg, Lee Ann Brown, Regie Cabico, Kimiko Hahn, Kathe Izzo, Brendan Lorber, Sharon Mesmer, Ed Miller, Eileen Myles, John Roberts, Frazier Russell, Carl Hancock Rux, Edwin Torres, and Elena Alexander as host
Workshop: Publishing Your Poetry with Amy Holman April 10
Conversations: Work Songs with Edward Hirsch
Poets Pay Tribute to Pablo Neruda with Martín Espada and Robert Bly
Reading: Sandra María Esteves and Paul Zarzyski
Conversations: Poets 9-5: Poetry and Work with Linda Hasselstrom, U. Utah Phillips, Patricia Smith and Edward Hirsch as moderator
Emergent Forms and Formats: Head- to- Head Haiku (Slam) with Daniel Ferri
Poetry Happenings: Orientation to the Poetry Publication Showcase of the Year’s New Poetry Books with David Lee
Reading: Quincy Troupe and John Trudell
Masters of Oral Tradition: Hobo and Cowboy Recitation Workshop with Larry Penn, Mark Ross, Bob Suckiel, Wallace McRae, and Paul Zarzyski
Poetry Happenings: Don Edwards Concert
Reading: Edward Hirsch and Willie Perdomo
Emergent Forms and Formats: New York Heavyweight Bout with Sherman Alexie and Patricia Smith
Masters of Oral Tradition: Décima Concert with Rafael Pérez Lopez, Arturo Santiago, Jr., Gabriel Segura, Trío Jarocho Chalchihuecan, Yomo Toro, the winner from the Concurso de Trovadores, and Victor Hernández Cruz as host
Reading: Miguel Alagarín and Victor Hernández Cruz
Conversations: A Woman’s Place with Sandra María Esteves, Linda Hasselstrom, Patricia Spears Jones, and Teresa Jordan as moderator
Open Mic- Veterans Poetry with Pedro Pietri as host
Poetry Happening: Renga Workshop and Sake Party led by Dee Evetts
Reading: Bob Holman and David Lee
Open Mic: with Guy LeCharles Gonzalez of the Little Bit Louder Poets as host
Open Mic: with Danny Shot of the Long Shot Poets as host
Master Folk Poets: Under Western Skies: Cowboy Poetry and Music- with Don Edwards, Linda Hasselstrom, Wallace McRae, U. Utah Phillips, Paul Zarzyski, and Hal Cannon as host
Reading: Dave Johnson and Patricia Spears Jones
Poets and Bands: Talking Book Festival’s Jazzoetry with Lester Bowie, Quincy Troupe with Kelvyn Bell, Eclectic Poetic with Dana Bryant, Tish Benson, Mike Ladd, Mark Batson, Gary Bartz, and Sekou Sundiata
Reading: Patricia Smith and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Poetry Happening: Burn’s Supper with Ed Miller, Lisa Gutkin, and Doug Safranck
Poetry Happening: Poe in the Graveyard with Edgar Oliver and Bob Holman as host
Poems and Prayers with Dave Johnson as host April 11
Workshop: Publishing Your Poetry on the Web with Judith Johnson
Conversations: The Unspoken Word: Folk Meets the Avant Garde with Sound Poets: Jackson Mac Low, Tracie Morris, Charlie Morrow, Anne Tardos, Edwin Torres; Don Edwards (yodeller), Laura Watson (scat singer), Sam Weiss (nigun singer), and Jerome Rothenberg as host
Reading: Jack Agüeros and Martín Espada
Poetry Happening: Poems by Heart: Recitation Circle with Carol Conroy and Galway Kinnell
Conversations: Poetry and Democracy with Sherman Alexie, Wallace McRae, Eileen Myles, Marjorie Perloff, and Bob Holman as moderator
Poetry Happening: Blues BBQ with Cephas and Wiggins
Reading: Ani DiFranco and Sekou Sundiata
Poets Pay Tribute to Yiddish Women Poets with Irena Klepfisz
Conversations: The Oral Tradition with Robert Bly, Kewulay Kamara, Eugene Redmond, and Hal Cannon as moderator
Masters of Oral Tradition: Stories on String: Workshop on the Brazilian Cordel with José João dos Santos (Mestre Azulão) and Candace Slater
Poets Pay Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca with Galway Kinnell
Native American Poetry with Sherman Alexie, Louis Mofsie, John Trudell, and the Native American Writer’s Circle
Open Mics with Teresa Jordan, Donald Lev of the Home Planet News Poets, Cristin O’ Keefe Aptowicz, and Lee Ann Brown of Tender Buttons Poets
Reading: Linda Hasselstrom and Tracie Morris
Masters of Oral Tradition: The Road to Mandalay: Rudyard Kipling in Story and Song with Tony Barrand and John Roberts
Masters of Oral Tradition: Panel Discussion on the Décima with Arturo Santiago, Jr. (Puerto Rico), Rafael Pérez López and Gabriel Segura (Columbia), Tr’o Jarocho Chalchihuecan (Mexico)
Poetry Happening: View the Poetry Publication Showcase
Poetry Happening: Poetry Jam: A Gathering of the Tribes with Reg E. Gaines, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, David Henderson, Ellyn Maybe, Orion, Amy Ouzoonian, The Rogue Scholars, Carl Hancock Rux, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Juliet Torres, “Skyscrapers, Taxis & Tampax” poets, many other surprises and open mic
Reading: Galway Kinnell and Wallace McRae
Masters of Oral tradition: The Jali Tradition with Abdoulaye Diabate, Manadou Diabate, Erik Goldman, Dionne Kamara, Lansana Kouyate, Joakim Lartey, Mahamadou Salieu Suso, and Kewulay Kamara as host
Reading: Shani Mootoo and Eileen Myles
Conversations: The Art of Recitation with Tony Barrand, Sylvia Cole, Ed Miller, John Roberts, and Sheldon Posen as host
Masters of Oral Tradition: Bluesicians Workshop: Poetry of the Blues with Cephas & Wiggins, Raymond Patterson, Sterling Plumpp, Eugene Redmond, and Sapphire as host
Poets and Bands: Ani DiFranco, Larry Penn, U. Utah Philips, Mark Ross, Bob Suckiel and Paul Zarzyski as host
Poets Pay Tribute: Banquet in Honor of Armand Schwerner–an event designed and produced by Charlie Morrow
Showcase: Seventh Annual Poetry Publication Showcase March 27-April 30
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): In Celebration of Duke Ellington with Reuben Jackson April 15
Islands and Heartlands: New Writing in the Americas Co-sponsored by the Americas Society April 16-May20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Samuel Menashe and Ned O’Gorman April 17
Workshop: A Poetry Writing Workshop with Lucie Brock-Broido April 17
Showcase: The Future of Poetry Publishing: Shifting Ground with Charles Bernstein, Celia O’Donnell, Eileen Tabios and Michael Warr– April 22
Showcase: Online: A Poet’s Guide to the Web with Loss Pequeño Glazier April 24
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Layding Lumumba Kaliba April 24
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Diane di Prima April 24
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Hettie Jones April 24
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Richard McCann and Mary Jane Nealon April 24
Passwords: Jonathan Galassi on Eugenio Montale April 27
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Kewalay Kamara April 29
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Beyle Gottesman May 1
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Marie Howe May 1
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Nuala N’ Dhomhnaill May 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Sekou Sundiata May 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Philip Levine May 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Workshop with Denise Duhamel 3 Fridays May 7 – 21
Passwords: C.K. Williams on George Herbert and Philip Larkin May 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Jack Agüeros and Regie Cabico May 15
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Jane Cooper and Grace Paley May 22
Poetry Walk: Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Kate Rushin, Karen Swenson and special guest Bill Murray June 14
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry in The Branches Workshop Publication Party and Reading: Denise Duhamel’s Sunset Park Branch Library workshop June 18
Showcase: Exhibition of the 1999 Poetry Publication Showcase at the American Library Association Conference (New Orleans) Cosponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office June 26-29
Showcase Readings: David Lee, Ana Castillo, Kevin Young, and Andrei Codrescu at the American Library Association Conference (New Orleans) Cosponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office June 26
Showcase Readings: Dave Smith, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Kalamu ya Salaam at the American Library Association Conference (New Orleans) Cosponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office June 27
Showcase Readings: Brenda Marie Osbey, Sue Owen, Martha McFerren and Dave Johnson at the American Library Association Conference (New Orleans) Cosponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office June 28
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Robert Minhinnick and Molly Peacock October 2
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Yusef Komunyakaa October 16
Passwords: Alicia Ostriker on H.D. October 19
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy October 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Edwin Torres November 6
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Flatlands): Hettie Jones and Thomas Lux November 10
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Kurtis Lamkin November 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th Street): Kevin Young November 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Elaine Equi and Susan Wheeler November 13
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (East Flatbush): Quincy Troupe November 13
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy November 17
Passwords: Arthur Sze on Ma Chih-yuan, Li Ho & Li Shang-yin November 18
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Sunset Park): Arthur Sze November 20
Seminar: The Wright Italy with Edward Hirsch & Annie Wright November 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Macon): Dennis Nurkse and Tim Seibles December 2
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart with Carol Conroy December 8
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Kingsbridge): Billy Collins December 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Jennifer O’Grady December 11
Book Sale: Holiday Book Sale December 15-18
1998
Passwords: Jean Valentine on Osip Mandelstam March 10
Vietnam: A Culture of Poetry with John Balaban March 21
Showcase: Sixth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase March 28-May 9
Showcase: Sixth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception March 28
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): J. D. McClatchy March 28
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Diane DiPrima March 31
Showcase: Poetry, Literacy and Democracy with Nikki Giovanni, Colin Harrison and Robert Hass April 3
Passwords: Helen Vendler on Shakespeare’s Sonnets April 8
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: What a Poem Knows: The Spellbinding Clarity of Art with Diane Ackerman April 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Dana Bryant and Mike Tyler April 18
Workshop: Poetry into Prose and Back Again with Donna Masini April 18
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Karl Kirchwey April 25
Showcase: Your Manuscript: Through the Publisher’s Eyes with Allan Kornblum May 2
Spring Comes to New York: Readings in Carl Schurz Park: Patricia Spears Jones and Paul Muldoon. Co-sponsored by the Carl Schurz Park Association May 6
Showcase: The Future of Poetry Publishing with Jennifer Joseph, Alice Quinn, Julie Schaper, Michael Wiegers and Paul Yamazaki May 7
Spring Comes to New York: Readings in Carl Schurz Park: Jack Agüeros and Yusef Komunyakaa. Co-sponsored by the Carl Schurz Park Association May 12
Shinkichi Takahashi: Modern Zen Poet with Lucien Stryk May 16
Spring Comes to New York: Readings in Carl Schurz Park: Grace Schulman and Gerald Stern. Co-sponsored by the Carl Schurz Park Association May 19
Poetry Walk: Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty and Grace Paley June 22
Showcase: Exhibition of the 1998 Poetry Publication Showcase at the American Library Association Conference (Washington, D.C.) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 27-30
Showcase Readings: Robert Pinsky, Belle Waring, E. Ethelbert Miller and Linda Pastan at the American Library Association Conference (Washington, D.C.) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 27
Showcase Readings: Hilary Tham, Michael Collier, Reetika Vazirani, and Stanley Plumly at the American Library Association Conference (Washington, D.C.) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 28
Showcase Readings: Reuben Jackson, Elizabeth Spires, Richard McCann and Toi Derricotte at the American Library Association Conference (Washington, D.C.) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 29
Workshop: Poems for the Millennium: The Modern Experiment as a Global Poetics with Jerome Rothenberg October 3, 10 & 17
The Power of the Off-Kilter with Cynthia Macdonald October 24
Rilke’s Poetry of the Real Mind with Greg Glazner November 7
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Baychester): Afaa Michael Weaver November 7
Passwords: Agha Shahid Ali on Faiz Ahmed Faiz November 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Riverside): Alfred Corn and Marilyn Hacker November 21
Passwords: Carole Maso on Gertrude Stein December 3
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Richmondtown): Regie Cabico December 5
Memorization Circle: Poems By Heart: The Art and Joy of Memorization with Carol Conroy December 8
1997
Passwords: Victor DI Suvero on “Pre” Beat Poets March 12
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Sapphire March 15
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Billy Collins April 5
Workshop: Introduction to Translation with Clementine Rabassa, Lawrence Venuti and Ellen Watson. Co-sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association April 5
Passwords: Laurel Blossom on Edna St. Vincent Millay April 10
The Orphean Moment with Susan Mitchell April 12
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone with Robert Hershon and Hal Sirowitz April 19
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Marie Howe with Poets from the Young Adult Poetry Workshop May 3
Life Studies: Robert Lowell with Richard Tillinghast May 8
Wrights of Spring: The Poems of James Wright with Carol Conroy and Annie Wright May 10
Passwords: Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear: Robert Creeley on Robert Duncan May 14
Reading Robert Frost with Alice Quinn May 17
Finding Form with Annie Finch June 3
Sunset Poetry Readings in Wagner Park: Louise Glück and Robert Pinsky. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City June 4
Sunset Poetry Readings in Wagner Park: Thomas Lux and Tracie Morris. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City June 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Toi Derricotte June 21
Poetry Walk: Second Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with Galway Kinnell, Jayne Cortez, Jessica Hagedorn, Patricia Spears Jones and Dennis Nurkse June 23
Showcase: Exhibition of the 1996 Poetry Publication Showcase at the American Library Association Conference (San Francisco, CA) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 28-July 1
Showcase Readings:Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Francisco X. Alarcón and Jane Hirshfieldat the American Library Association Conference (San Francisco, CA) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 28
Showcase Readings:Gary Soto, Clarence Major, Jerome Rothenberg and Diane di Primaat the American Library Association Conference (San Francisco, CA) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 29
Showcase Readings:Thom Gunn, Carolyn Kizer, Carol Muske and Quincy Troupeat the American Library Association Conference (San Francisco, CA) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 30
A Thousand Years of Zen Poetry with Sam Hamill September 27
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Jayne Cortez October 4
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Yiddish Poetry in Translation and in the Original with Richard Fein October 18
The Prose Poem with Carl Phillips October 25
On Poetic Voice with Jane Hirshfield November 5
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Sharon Olds November 8
Passwords: John Felstiner on Paul Celan November 18
Straw, Feathers & Dust: The Radical Poetics of William Stafford with Marvin Bell December 13
1996
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Marilyn Hacker February 3
Jean Valentine and Alice Quinn on Eleanor Ross Taylor February 10
Book Sale: A Valentine of a Book Sale from Poets House! Members Private Sale February 13, All Welcome February 14
Erotic Poetry with Sam Hamill February 17
Simplicity: A Tribute to Ruth Stone with Ruth Stone, Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds February 22
Passwords: Richard Howard on Charles Baudelaire February 28
Passwords: Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda March 8
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Martín Espada March 9
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Eamon Grennan March 23
Passwords: Nina Kossman on Marina Tsvetayeva April 4
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Grace Schulman on Yiddish Poetry April 13
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa April 16
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Eamon Grennan April 20
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Donna Masini April 27
Early Rebels: Four Yiddish Women Poets with Ruth Whitman April 27
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St): Donna Masini and Cornelius Eady May 4
Passwords: Mark Doty on Hart Crane May 9
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Nina Kossman and Ina Bliznetsova May 18
Poetry and Jazz at Belvedere Park Readings: Sekou Sundiata and his Band, co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 4
Poetry and Jazz at Belvedere Park Readings: Lynn Emanuel and William Matthews, co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 11
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Sandra María Esteves and Edwin Torres June 15
Poetry and Jazz at Belvedere Park Readings: Rafael Campo and Billy Collins, co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 18
Poetry Walk: Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge: A Benefit for Poets House In Honor of Elizabeth Kray with Galway Kinnell, Cornelius Eady, Donna Masini and Patricia Smith June 24
Poetry and Jazz at Belvedere Park Readings: June 25
Showcase: Exhibition of the 1995 Poetry Publication Showcase at the American Library Association Conference (New York, NY) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association July 6-9
Showcase Readings:Martín Espada, Donna Masini, Bob Holman and Naomi Shihab Nye at the American Library Association Conference (New York, NY) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association July 6
Showcase Readings:E. Ethelbert Miller, Christian Langworthy, Michael Burkard and Lorna Goodison at the American Library Association Conference (New York, NY) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association July 7
Showcase Readings: Julia Alvarez, Willie Perdomo, Colette Inez and Cornelius Eady at the American Library Association Conference (New York, NY) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association July 8
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (96th St.): Robert Pinsky on Dante’s Inferno September 28
Yiddish Women Poets with Irena Klepfisz October 3
Passwords: Clayton Eshleman on Antonin Artaud October 9
Passwords: Kathleen Norris on Hildegard of Bingen and Mechtild of Magdeburg October 25
Workshop: Writing Poetry that Matters: How Poets of Conscience Avoid Rhetoric with Daniela Gioseffi. Co-sponsored by The Open Center October 26
Workshop: An Experience of Psalms with Kathleen Norris, Co-sponsored by The Open Center October 26
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (Allerton): Jack Agüeros and Willie Perdomo November 2
Showcase: Fifth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase November 9-December 12
Showcase: Fifth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception November 9
Workshop: The Self-Published Book with Robert Hershon November 12 and 19
Showcase: The Gift of Tongues: An Evening of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press with Sam Hamill, Heather Allen, Erin Belieu, Timothy Liu, Jane Miller, Karen Swenson and Elaine Terranova November 15
Marketing Your Book with Mary Bisbee-Beek, Timothy Liu and Michael Wiegers November 16
Showcase: Poet Memorists with Michael Klein and David Mura November 21
Passwords: David Trinidad on Tim Dlugos December 3
Poetry in The Branches: Poetry in The Branches Reading (New Dorp): Dave Johnson and Willie Perdomo. Introduced by Donna Masini December 7
Workshop: The Electronic Word: Poetry on the Internet and Hypertext with Stephanie Strickland December 10 & 14
Showcase: Grand Finale Reading with Elizabeth Alexander, Alice Notley and Vijay Seshadri December 12
Book Sale: Holiday Book Sale Members Private Sale 4:00pm-8pm; All Welcome 11:00am-8:00pm December 18
1995
Passwords: Helen Vendler on William Butler Yeats February 10
Passwords: Richard Caddell on Basil Bunting March 9
Parallel Lines: Poetry and Dance Screening and Reception March 13
Workshop: Culture, Imagination and Performance in American Poetry with Arthur Sabatini March 23 & 25
Passwords: Jerry Ward on Sterling Plumpp March 30
Reading Dorothy Parker and Stevie Smith with Deborah Garrison and Alice Quinn April 8
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Meaning of American Poetry at the Present Time with Robert Pinsky April 21
Dante’s Inferno with Robert Pinsky April 22
Workshop: Poetry: A Banquet–A Seminar for Teachers with Albert Cullum April 27
Passwords: Edmund Keeley on Cavafy and Seferis April 27
Workshop: The Jazz-Poetry Connection with Barry Wallenstein April 29
Workshop: Poems from Paintings with F.D. Reeve May 6 & 13
A Literary Friendship: A Screening of Haydn Reiss’s Documentary with William Stafford and Robert Bly May 11
Workshop: Poets of the “New World,” Independence, Immigration, and the World’s Wars: Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Emma Lazarus, and Muriel Rukeyser with Milton Kessler May 20 & 27
Exhibition: Canadian Poets at Poets House, curated by Roberta Morris and Paul Savoie, Co-sponsored by The Writers’ Union of Canada June 1-10
Exhibition Opening: Opening Reading and Reception with Louise Cotnoir, Adeena Karasick and Roberta Morris June 2
Poetry in the Branches: Poetry in the Branches Reading (96th St): Philip Levine June 5
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park: Eamon Grennan, Philip Levine and Sharon Olds. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 6
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park: Olga Broumas, T. Begley and Cornelius Eady. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 13
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park: Paul Beatty, Richard Martin, Kimiko Hahn and C.D. Wright. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 20
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park: Jayne Cortez, Mark Doty and Donna Masini. Co-sponsored by Battery Park City Authority June 27
The United States of Poetry: A Benefit Screening June 12
Showcase: Exhibition of the 1994 Poetry Publication Showcase at the American Library Association Conference (Chicago, IL) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 23-27
Showcase Readings: Li-Young Lee and Stephanie Strickland / Sterling Plumpp and Timothy Liu. At the American Library Association Conference (Chicago, IL) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 24
Showcase Readings: Readings: Stuart Dybek and Julie Parson / Rohan Preston and Kyoko Mori. At the American Library Association Conference (Chicago, IL) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 25
Showcase Readings: Readings: Michael Warr and Angela Jackson / Carlos Cumpain and Olivia Maciel. At the American Library Association Conference (Chicago, IL) Co-sponsored by the American Library Association June 26
Passwords: Mary Ann Caws on René Char September 28
Workshop: Modern Poetry with Michael Heller September 30 & October 7
Fourth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase October 28-December 2
Showcase: Fourth Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception October 28
A Tour of the Berg Collection Exhibit The Hand of the Poet with curator Rodney Phillips November 1
Poetry Publication Showcase Reading with Olivia Maciel, E. Ethelbert Miller and Gregory Orr November 2
Stanley Kunitz Reading at the 92nd Street Y November 6
Workshop: The Poet as Reviewer with Rochelle Ratner
November 8 & 11
Workshop: Poetry in Transition: The Electronic Word with Stephanie Strickland November 9, 11 & 18
Keys to Submission: Poems into Print with Poets and Writers, Inc. November 13, 20, 27 & December 4
Showcase: From Manuscript to Publication: Serendipity and Delmore Schwartz with Robert Philips November 14
Showcase: Paths To Publishing with Ann Close, Kevin Powell, Robyn Selman and Ira Silverberg November 16
Showcase: Grand Finale Showcase Reading with Patricia Spears Jones, David Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye and Richard Tillinghast December 2
Passwords: Eamon Grennan on Patrick Kavanagh December 14
1994
PASSWORDS: Kathleen Fraser on Lorine Niedecker February 24
The Poetry of the New Critics with FD Reeve February 26 & March 5
Women Poets 20 Years Later: No More Masks with Cheryl Clarke, Cynthia Macdonald, Linda McCarriston, Molly Peacock and Ruth Stone Held at City University of New York Graduate Center. March 11
WORKSHOP: Body of the Voice with Edwin Torres March 12 & 13
Sex and Surrealism with Terese Svoboda March 19
Passwords: Mutlu and Randy Blasing on Nazim Hikmet March 24
Passwords: William Matthews on Richard Hugo April 6
WORKSHOP: Reading Pound and Roethke with Gerald Stern April 9 & 16
WORKSHOP: In the Presence of Language with Richard Lewis, Julie Patton and Cecilia Vicuña April 20 & 27 7 May 4
CONVERSATIONS: Carl Rakosi and Michael Heller April 21
Place and the Transformation of Poetic Voice with Quincy Troupe April 23
Passwords: The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Robert Winner’s Poetry with Jane Cooper, Edward Field, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux and Sharon Olds May 5
The Other in Poetry with Galway Kinnell May 7
WORKSHOP: The Late Poems of Wallace Stevens with Michael Heller May 14
WORKSHOP: Alphabet and Image: The Poet and the Haunting of Writing Systems with Armand Schwerner May 21 & June 4
PASSWORDS: Gwendolyn Brooks on Etheridge Knight, The Donnell Library, 20 West 53rd Street, May 26
Parallel Lines: Poetry and Dance. Readings, demonstration and discussion with Jack Anderson, Kenneth King, Jackson Mac Low, Clarina MacLow and Anne Tardos Held at Judson Memorial Church. June 4
PASSWORDS: Derek Mahon on Louis MacNeice October 6
Green Notebook, Winter Road: A Tribute to Jane Cooper with Jane Cooper, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Cynthia MacDonald, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich and Jean Valentine Co-sponsored by and held at The Donnell Library, October 13
WORKSHOP: The Poetry of Ideas with Philip Appleman: Poetry and Science: The World Around Us October 18
WORKSHOP: The Poetry of Ideas with Philip Appleman: Poetry and Belief: The World Within Us October 19
Third Annual Poetry Publication Showcase Opening Reception October 22 (Showcase on View October 22-November 19)
Contemporary American Poetry Lectures with Michael Heller: From the Modern to the Contemporary October 29
Contemporary American Poetry Lectures with Michael Heller: New Voices: The Political is Poetical November 5
Contemporary American Poetry Lectures with Michael Heller: Post-Modern Poetry or The Availability of Everything November 12
The Poetry Audience of the Future with Peter Davidson, Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Hacker and Katha Pollitt November 17
Grand Finale Showcase Reading with Suzanne Gardinier, Stephen Dunn, Maurice Kilwein Guevara and Sapphire November 18
PASSWORDS: Thom Gunn and Roger Conover on Mina Loy December 1
Poetry in the Age of AIDS with Rachel Hadas December 3 & 10
1993
Passwords: Robert Creeley on Louis Zukofsky. Introduced by Michael Heller February 4
The Poetry of Samuel Beckett with Paul Auster, Deidre Bair and Clark Coolidge March 4
Passwords: Cecilia Vicuña on Rosario Castellanos April 8
Between Word and Image: A Series of Screenings and Talks on Poetry and Language-Inspired Videos. Organized by Poets House in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art April 1-May 31
Between Word and Image: Between Word and Image: A Video Exhibition at the MOMA April 1-May 31
Between Word and Image: Video Viewpoints on Poetry with Shuntaro Tanikawa and Terese Svoboda at the MOMA April 16
Between Word and Image: Screenings of selected videos from the MOMA exhibition April 19-24
Between Word and Image: A Panel Discussion on Poetry and Video with Bob Holman, Marjorie Perloff and Terese Svoboda April 22
Muddy Waters’ Legacy at BAM Majestic Theater with Koko Taylor and Her Blues Machine and Junior Wells May 2
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Adrienne Rich on Poetry and Politics. Introduced by Jane Cooper May 6
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park Pavilion:Galway Kinnell and Lucille Clifton. Presented by Battery Park City and produced by Poets House September 14
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park Pavilion:Kamau Brathwaite. Presented by Battery Park City and produced by Poets House September 21
Sunset Readings at Hudson River Park Pavilion:Robert Hass and Carolyn Kizer. Presented by Battery Park City and produced by Poets House September 28
Passwords: John Clare’s 200th Birthday Party with Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer and Robert Hass. In collaboration with The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and held at NYU’s D’Agastino Hall September 29
Passwords: Indran Amirthanayagam on Sri Lankan Poetry October 7
Second Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase October 16-30
Seminar on Modern Poetry with Michael Heller: A Primer on the Foundations of Modern and Contemporary Poetry November 6
Seminar on Modern Poetry with Michael Heller: Sincerity, Objectification, ‘No Ideas But In Things’ and the New Critical Poets November 13
Seminar on Modern Poetry with Michael Heller: Dispersions, Diversities, Disavowals November 20
CONVERSATIONS: Kamau Brathwaite and Nathaniel Mackey November 18
Passwords: Robert Bertholf on Robert Duncan December 2
Passwords: Grace Schulman on May Swenson December 15
1992
Passwords: Ted Joans on Langston Hughes and André Breton February 27
Passwords: Sam Hamill on Thomas McGrath March 5
Passwords: Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman April 16
Children’s Program: The Magic Word: Language and the Poetic Vision of the Child with Richard Lewis April 29
Passwords: Eavan Boland on Sylvia Plath May 7
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Keats and Birdsong with Stanley Plumly May 14
First Annual Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase June 6-13
Passwords: Harriet Zinnes on Jacques Prévert with the French read by Marcel Lidji September 24
Passwords: Julio Marzán on Strange Courage: The Puerto Rican Roots of William Carlos Williams. Introduced by Amy Clampitt October 15
Passwords: William Jay Smith on Walter de la Mare. Introduced by Helen Handley Houghton October 29
Passwords: Arthur Gregor on Jean Garrigue. Introduced by Aileen Ward December 3
1991
Kenneth Rexroth Retrospective with Sam Hamill, Eliot Weinberger, Bradford Morrow, and Linda Hamalian March 7
Passwords: Edward Butscher on Conrad Aiken March 28
Passwords: Nina Zivancevic on Serbian Women Poets April 4
Epic Voices: A Reading and Discussion of Epic Poetry with Edouard Glissant and Derek Walcott April 11
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: Some Notes on Content with Denise Levertov April 25
Children’s Program: The Magic Word: A Workshop on Children’s Writing and My Tree Has a Way of Speaking: A Performance for Children Based on Children’s Writing About Nature with Richard Lewis May 11
Passwords: Seamus Heaney on Keith Douglas May 16
Native American Oral Traditions with Alanis Obomsawim and Maurice Kenny May 31
Passwords: Mark Rudman on Hart Crane and Malcolm Lowry in Mexico September 26
Passwords: Clayton Eshleman on César Vallejo with Spanish read by Cecilia Vicuña October 3
1990
Children’s Program: The World of Something: A Theater Piece for Children Based on Childrens’ Writings About the Imagination with Richard Lewis and The Touchtone Center January 6
Passwords: Murat Nemet-Nejat on Ohran Veli and Modern Turkish Poetry January 25
Passwords: Hank Heifetz on Sanskrit and Tamil Erotic Verse February 8
African-American Oral Traditions with Amiri Baraka and Bilal Addullah March 8
Passwords: Charles Bernstein on Charles Reznikoff March 22
Passwords: Diane Middlebrook on Anne Sexton April 27
A Panel Discussion on George Oppen with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Michael Heller and Harvey Shapiro May 4
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Changing Face of Common Intercourse: Talk Poetry, Talk Show, and the Scene of Writing with Marjorie Perloff May 10
Passwords: Susan Howe on Emily Dickinson September 24
Passwords: Rosmarie Waldrop on Edmond Jabès September 27
Passwords: Serge Gavronsky on Francis Ponge October 18
A Panel Discussion on Muriel Rukeyser with Jane Cooper, Sharon Olds and Galway Kinnell November 7
A Bilingual Reading with Bella Akhmadulina and translations by F.D. Reeve November 27
Passwords: Michael Harper on Robert Hayden November 29
1989
Passwords: Stanley Kunitz on Gerard Manley Hopkins January 5
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Music of Poetry and the Music of Mind with C.K. Williams February 2
Passwords: Jackson Mac Low on Kurt Schwitters April 6
Passwords: Julio Marzán on Fernando Pessoa April 13
An Evening of Verse Plays with FD Reeve and Delmore Schwartz May 11
Passwords: Jonathan Galassi on Eugenio Montale May 25
Native American Oral Traditions with John Bierhorst, David Guss and Howard Norman September 25
Passwords: Quincy Troupe on Three African Poets: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Christopher Okigbo and Tchicaya U Tam’si October 5
Passwords: Barbara Guest on Jean Arp’s Wolkenpumpe (Cloud-pump) Poetry November 30
Passwords: Ruth Whitman on Abraham Sutskever and Living Yiddish Poetry December 7
1988
New Poetry From the United Kingdom with Michael Hoffman, Paul Muldoon, Craig Raine and Carol Rumens February 24
Edgar Allen Poe with Richard Howard April 8
Paul Zweig Memorial Lecture: The Form of Free Verse with Galway Kinnell May 12
Passwords: Grace Schulman on Leonie Adams June 2
Passwords: David Ignatow on Walt Whitman November 3
Passwords: Jayne Cortez on Nicolás Guillén December 1
1987
Irini Spanidou and Rachel Hadas with William Kistler January 29
Poetry and the Audience with Michael Ryan February 28
William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens: Two of a Kind with David Ignatow March 3
Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) with FD Reeve and William Jay Smith March 10
Reception for Bella Akhmadulina (USSR) April 8
Gavin Ewart Reading April 25
Writers from Australia with Laurie Duggan, Helen Garner and Michael Heyward October 20
Spanish Poets in New York with Carlos Edmundo de Ory and José Ramón Ripoll November 3
Viktor Sosnora (USSR) with Allen Ginsberg and FD Reeve December 4
1986
Poets House Opening with Tomas Tranströmer April 16
New Zealand Poets Reading with Lauris Edmond, Keri Hulme and Bill Manhire May 13
Yves Bonnefoy with Richard Pevear and Paul Schmidt November 15