AWP: Poets Party with Nightboat at Missie B’s 

Missie B's 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO, United States

Join Nightboat Books at Missie B's, Friday, February 9th 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 5pm-7pm Readings by: Brian Teare Tiff dressen Dior J. Stephens Gillian Conoley Andrea Abi-Karam Laura Henriksen Nora Treatbaby Rosie Stockton Wo Chan

Nora Treatbaby reading at the Poetry Project with Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim

The Poetry Project 131 E 10th St, New York, NY, United States

Don't miss Nora Treatbaby & Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim at the Poetry Project March 1 at 8pm. In torqued sentences, detourned phrases, philosophical excavations and punishing satire, Nora Treatbaby and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim make war on the real world. Our Air, Treatbaby’s full-length debut (Nightboat, 2024), builds on the titular promise of her chapbook Hope Is Weird. Zenia’s […]

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Launches WATCHNIGHT at BGSQD

Bureau of General Services—Queer Division 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a reading/conversation with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Joselia Hughes, Zefyr Lisowski, and Danilo Machado to celebrate the release of WATCHNIGHT. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight—a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying—and steps through portals to render the […]

Launch of Boiled Owls at The Word Is Change

The Word Is Change 368 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Don't miss the launch of Boiled Owls at The Word Is Change in Brooklyn at 7pm on Sunday, March 31st! With readings by Azad Ashim Sharma, Kevin Holden, Emily Lee Luan and jason b. crawford

Brave, Unbodied Scheme—a McNally Jackson poetry reading series featuring Brian Teare, Mónica de la Torre, Shin Yu Pai, and Wayne Koestenbaum

McNally Jackson (Seaport) 4 Fulton Street, New York, NY, United States

Friday April 12th 7pm McNally Jackson Seaport REGISTER HERE Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport bar, manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene. The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have […]

Launch of Boiled Owls at Black Spring Books

Black Spring Books 672 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Don't miss Azad reading with Jimin Seo, Jay Gao, Megan Pinto, Asa Drake, and Rhoni Blankenhorn at Black Spring Books on April 13th at 7pm!

Joyelle McSweeney reading with Olga Ravn at Barnard

Barnard 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Don't miss Joyelle McSweeney reading with Olga Ravn at Barnard this Tuesday, April 16th at 6:30pm The Barnard Creative Writing Program presents Olga Ravn and Joyelle McSweeney discussing playful new works about motherhood as abjection, madness, and body horror. International Booker Finalist Ravn follows her anti-capitalist space opera The Employees with her new book, My Work, […]