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Welcome to Poets House!

Welcome to Poets House, where everyone can find something in the wide and varied tradition of verse that speaks directly to them. Join us!

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Children's Room

Our Constance Laibe Hays Children's Room is a creative space filled with children's poetry books, old-fashioned typewriters and a card catalog filled with poetic objects to trigger young imaginations...

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Poets House Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Monday, June 10, 2013

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Toothpaste & Coffee House: Change and Continuity

Chronicling Coffee House Press and publisher Allan Kornblum’s forty-plus years in literary publishing
EXTENDED through June 15

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A Place for Poetry – Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry.

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Spring Booksale!

Looking for something wonderful to read? Or the perfect gift for someone special?

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Poets House offers a select group of great books, duplicates from our collection, for sale in our lobby for a limited time during our normal hours. All proceeds benefit the library. Books are very reasonably priced from $1 and up -- Don't miss it!

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poet Anselm Berrigan, Poetry NYC, Poetry Workshops

Listening as Practice

This class will take as given that listening is an inherent component of reading and writing poetry, that listening is a mode of performance (to read a poem to yourself is to perform that poem, however silently), and...

April 18, 2013 - 6:00PM to 8:30PM

Book cover of Dear Hero by Jason McCall

Literary Partners Program: Marsh Hawk Press Spring 2013 Book Launch & Party

Come celebrate the new publications of Marsh Hawk Press with three terrific poets and their books:

Dear Hero, by Jason McCall,...

May 24, 2013 - 6:00PM

poet Martha Rhodes, Poetry NYC, Poetry Workshops

Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop

This workshop will focus on revision and how we can continue to push the poem along the path we want to explore by investigating diction, structure and other craft elements, while driving poems into uncharted terrain...

April 20, 2013 - 11:00AM to 1:30PM

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Our Mission

A Home for All Who Read and Write Poetry

Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Our poetry resources and literary events document the wealth and diversity of poetry and stimulate public dialogue on issues of poetry in culture. We seek to document the wealth and diversity of poetry and to cultivate a wider audience for the art.

LEED certified green building houses comprehensive Poetry Library and poetry collection

Our Space

A Place for Poetry

Opened to the public in September 2009, the new home for Poets House is LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The 11,000-square-foot space designed by architect Louise Braverman is more than double the size of our former home in SoHo.

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    • Upcoming Programs & Events

    Fri May 24
    Literary Partners Program: Marsh Hawk Press Spring 2013 Book Launch & Party

    Come celebrate the new publications of Marsh Hawk Press with three terrific poets and their books:

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    Tue May 28
    May Swenson Centennial Tribute

    In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, this reading showcases the...

    Sat Jun 1
    Ships, Seas and Poetries!

    Dylan Gauthier, Kendra Sullivan, A'yen Tran and friends...

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    10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
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