@poetshouse.bsky.social - Poets House

03 Apr 2026 17:24 +0000

@hadeejasouffle.bsky.social will be instructing Writing With and Through Panic, a remote workshop for 4 Wednesdays | (Apr 8-29)! Panic, in its various forms—panic attacks, moral panics, a panicked crowd fleeing from the sound of a “gun’ that was a balloon popping—may be the opposite of poetry (1/2)

05 Mar 2026 18:54 +0000

Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025).

10 Jan 2026 20:33 +0000

- from Half-Life by Eleanor Tennyson (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2025) The Showcase is open now through February 28, stop by to browse or swing by our reading series!

19 Dec 2025 22:19 +0000

We are hosting a Poets House Tote Bag giveaway this Holiday season! <3 To enter the giveaway: 1. Follow @poetshouse.bsky.social 2. Live this post! 3. Comment for 1 entry (unlimited entries allowed!) 3 WINNERS will be announced January 2026. Tote can be picked up in-person or mailed within the US.

17 Dec 2025 23:09 +0000

"Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image, each housed in its own grid... They represent the double self. We are often an alternate version[s] of ourselves. The truth is often both things or multiple things." - (@photoworks-uk.bsky.social, 2025)

17 Dec 2025 00:36 +0000

Photos from our 30th Showcase Exhibition Opening this past week! Thank you all for the incredible turnout! Our next reading, 1/15 7-9 pm, features @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby, as part of our 30th Showcase Exhibition reading series 📚

05 Dec 2025 23:38 +0000

Some stories or moments in history may not have been documented, but they live on in our bones. @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social is teaching a workshop focusing on excavating those hidden stories. We will explore what hasn’t been said or what still demands to be seen through the form of the persona poem.

07 Nov 2025 19:29 +0000

A chapbook by award-winning Palestinian poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, featuring @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's English translations. "'I write now so that I do not die,' Nasrallah insists, 'and every time they try to erase us, we become clearer.'" (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, 2024)

06 Nov 2025 19:09 +0000

A collaboration between poet Mihret Kebede and Anna Moschovakis, "#evolutionarypoems features "rhythmic and direct reactions to contemporary political events...show[ing] how revolution is not linear and how a deep connection to homeland lives inside of critique." (@circumferencebooks.com, 2025)

06 Nov 2025 00:45 +0000

Announcing our official line-up for the 30th Poets House Showcase Reading Series! Join us in uplifting an array of voices crucial to this moment in poetry publishing on Saturday, December 13th, 6-8pm. Featuring Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

04 Nov 2025 18:13 +0000

Discover “the deep heart’s core” of a poem, and learn how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility within poetry with Neil Shepard. Join the "Vision And Revision: Seeing Into The Heart Of The Poem" workshop, every Wednesday from November 5 to December 17. Be present and sign up today. https://poetshouse.org/event/vision-and-revision/

01 Nov 2025 20:29 +0000

Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.

29 Oct 2025 16:32 +0000

@doyounoapoet.bsky.social is teaching an in person 3-hour workshop with us on November 22nd from 1:30-2:30PM on "a vowel's music."

16 Oct 2025 18:03 +0000

Join us on 10/30, 7 PM ET for a hybrid reading from Anna Malihon, Irina Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk, and their translators Olena Jennings, Nina Murray, and @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social. Moderated by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social.

08 Oct 2025 17:24 +0000

Join us on Tuesday, October 14th for an insightful evening with acclaimed writers Sarah Ruhl and James P. Lenfestey, who will be reading from their latest works - Time Remaining (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2025) and Lessons from My Teachers (Simon & Schuster, 2025).

04 Oct 2025 15:51 +0000

You are invited to celebrate the exhibit opening of Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway on Saturday October 11 6-9pm! Join us for performances with No Land and Anne Waldman accompanied by musicians Oliver Ray on guitar, Heru Shabaka-Ra on trumpet, and Georgia Wartel Collins on double bass.

02 Oct 2025 14:01 +0000

Starting Oct 15, Tony Towle will lead a remote 6-week workshop "FIRST PRINCIPLES: What You Say Is Inseparable from How You Say It" 🔲 In this workshop, students will step outside of their usual modes of writing a poem by writing in an unfamiliar styles, other modes, and new personas.

30 Sep 2025 19:53 +0000

Please join us for an illuminating sunset ferry voyage down the Hudson River with readings and musical performances by acclaimed musician and poet Haleh Liza Gafori of her newly published translations from the Farsi of Rumi, Water (New York Review Books, 2025) on Friday, October 10th!

11 Sep 2025 19:07 +0000

Dorothea Lasky and Elizabeth Metzger came to Emily Brooklyn to try out The Poet pizza, a special pizza made to benefit us, as we face the loss of federal funding this year 🍕

21 Aug 2025 22:20 +0000

Join us on Friday 9/12 at 7pm to experience the newest poetry collections from CAConrad and @goldenthem.bsky.social 📚

15 Aug 2025 18:27 +0000

Rob Macaisa Colgate will be leading a remote workshop on revising poetry and resisting the resentful urge to “fix” poems or “make them work”, starting August 28th!

07 Aug 2025 23:09 +0000

In advance of our upcoming Summer Nights: Poetry and Music series, Poets House spoke with poet and Speedy Ortiz guitarist, songwriter & singer @sad13.horse about responding to political horror, harm reduction, and balancing the tonal tensions between grotesquerie & glitter.

30 May 2025 19:40 +0000

"This is the skin they put me in, / my mum and dad. Remixed melanin" Editor-in-chief of The Poetry Foundation, @adrianmatejka.bsky.social chats with Poets House about navigating race and parenthood through poetry, seeing the world from a natural vantage, and his fascination with mushrooms!

29 May 2025 17:56 +0000

Tickets are available for our 27th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge! Hear readings from @gabbat.bsky.social, Rita Dove, @pksj51.bsky.social, @adrianmatejka.bsky.social, and @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social! The night will end with a feast at Dumbo. Check out our website for more details.