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January 2022
Hard Hat Reading with Cornelius Eady
Interim Director Cornelius Eady performs Lucille Clifton's "blessing the boats" and his poem "The Ghost, The Mountain."
Find out more »December 2021
Hard Hat Reading with Monica Youn
Kick off the Hard Hat Reading series with Monica Youn as she reads from ‘A Woman’s Mourning Song’ by bell hooks and her own book ‘Blackacre.’
Find out more »January 2021
*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Poet, artist and filmmaker Dan Taulapapa McMullin reads from Coconut Milk (The University of Arizona Press, 2013), from Hudson, NY.
Find out more »December 2020
*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: Aditi Machado
Poet, translator, and essayist Aditi Machado reads from her upcoming collection Emporium (Nightboat Books, 2020), from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Find out more »*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: North of Invention with Rita Wong
Poet and environmental activist Rita Wong reads from “Current, Climate,” and “beholden,” from the Coast Salish Watch House on unceded Coast Salish Territory (BC, Canada).
Find out more »Master Class with Rae Armantrout: In Brief
Master Class with Rae Armantrout: In Brief: The Pleasures and Perils of The Short Poem.
Find out more »*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: North of Invention with Fred Wah
Poet and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah reads from “Music at the Heart of Thinking,” from Kootenay Lake, BC, Canada.
Find out more »November 2020
*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: Metta Sáma
Poet Metta Sáma reads from “Swing at your own risk” (Kelsey Street Press), and “Le Animal & Other Creatures” (MIEL Press), from Winston-Salem, NC.
Find out more »*POSTPONED* Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Joy Harjo
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reads from the title poem of Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton), featured on the Poetry Path in Battery Park City.
Find out more »*CANCELED* Craft Talk: Lyn Hejinian
Poet and scholar Lyn Hejinian joins us virtually from the Bay Area to discuss “Positions of the Sun” (Belladonna*, 2019).
Find out more »See the full list of all past PH programs, 1986 to the present