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March 2020
POSTPONED: Bookfair at CUNY Chapbook Festival
This event has been postponed due to health concerns, please check back in later for an announcement of the new date. The CUNY Chapbook Festival at Queens College, March 26-28, features Matvei Yankelevich, Alicia Ostriker, the Cornelius Eady Trio, & an all-day bookfair.
Find out more »Exhibition Opening: Participating Witness: The Poetics Of Granary Books with Steve Clay and Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Mary Catherine Kinniburgh and Steve Clay
Join us for a conversation between publisher Steve Clay and archivist Mary Catherine Kinniburgh that celebrates the opening of Participating Witness.
Find out more »November 2019
Gay New York Gallery Walk with Artist Nicholas Buffon
Join artist Nicholas Buffon for the second onsite tour of his exhibition of LGBTQ literary, community & protest sites, Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present.
Find out more »October 2019
Gay New York Gallery Walk with Artist Nicholas Buffon
Join artist Nicholas Buffon for the first onsite tour of his exhibition of LGBTQ literary, community & protest sites, Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present.
Find out more »June 2019
Opening Reading: Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present
Bethesda Fountain-Nicholas Buffon
The opening night of Gay New York, with poets Michael Klein, Joey De Jesus, ray ferreira, Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Chrysanthemum Tran + artist Nicholas Buffon.
Find out more »Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present
An exhibition of sculptor and painter Nicholas Buffon’s recent work documenting iconic LGBTQ landmarks, venues, and bars of New York City.
Find out more »April 2019
A Celebration of Bettissima with Merrill Oliver Douglas, Kathy Engel, Lawrence Joseph & Quincy Troupe
In conjunction with Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive, poets read from Kray’s correspondence, including words from June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, George Oppen & more.
Find out more »December 2018
Exhibition Opening: Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive
The opening night of Poets House’s exhibition celebrating visionary arts administrator and Poets House co-founder Elizabeth Kray.
Find out more »Bettissima: Treasures from the Elizabeth Kray Archive
Over 100 of Poets House co-founder Elizabeth Kray’s letters to & from acclaimed poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, June Jordan, Denise Levertov, Clarence Major, Adrienne Rich & more.
Find out more »May 2018
Exhibition Opening: The Little Magazine
Exhibition Opening: 6PM
Talk with exhibition curator Sophie Seita: 7PM
This exhibition celebrates the contributions small press magazines have made to the development of poets, as well as to national and international literary, cultural, and political movements. Emphasizing the material richness and collaborative spirit of experimental publications and publishing communities, the exhibition includes magazines associated with Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Mimeograph Revolution, Conceptual Art, Language Writing, and New Narrative, as well as feminist, queer, and…
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