Please join us Sunday, July 18, at 4pm EST for a conversation with Lauren K. Alleyne, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Kearney, avery r. young, and Nightboat author Rosamond S. King. The first event of Obsidian's new series, O|Sessions, Black Listening will investigate the role of listening and improvisation in performance, centering Black creative expression and […]

Please join us on Thursday, August 12, for a *virtual* salon-style reading series featuring Ruben Quesada, George Abraham, Nathan Hoks, and Nightboat author Divya Victor. Poetry & Biscuit's pandemic series, curated by Carrie Olivia Adams and Fred Schmalz in partnership with Black Ocean, features poets in dialogue, not only sharing their work, but their questions, ideas, and […]

Please join us on Friday, September 17, at 7:00pm PT in celebration of Honey Mine: Collected Stories! Presented by Small Press Traffic and guest hosted by Anne Walsh, the evening will consist of readings by Claudia La Rocco and Camille Roy and an exhibition + talk with ZH Leonard. RSVP here: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/sept-rsvp. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/honey-mine/.

Join us on Friday, September 17, at 7pm ET for a *virtual* reading by Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam, NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Their second book, Abi-Karam's Villainy answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be, at heart aiming to destroy […]

Please join us on September 29 at 8:00pm ET! In conjunction with the recent publication of CURB, Nightboat author Divya Victor joins Serena Rose Chopra, Kama La Mackerel, Aditi Machado, and Prageeta Sharma for a *virtual* evening of readings and conversation tracing breadths of South Asian diasporic experience. Across a range of inquiries, five poets consider the textual scaffoldings of […]

Please join us on Saturday, October 16, @ 7:30pm ET for a backyard reading with Hazem Fahmy, Zaina Arafat, Sahar Khraibani, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Nightboat author Andrea Abi-Karam. As a creative response to the ongoing political turmoil we keep finding ourselves in, this assemblage of NYC based SWANA writers will convene to deal with […]

Please join us on Sunday, October 17, @ 2pm ET to celebrate the publication of O.B.B. a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy, by Paolo Javier, and the debut of Lynne Sachs’ short video, Swerve, which adapts poems from the book. The reading will take place at the Moore Homestead Playground in Elmhurst, Queens—a neighborhood park and location of […]