For twenty years, in April, new young poets from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, students in their ongoing poetry workshop led by Marty Skoble, have presented their work at a variety of venues in New York, including the Poetry Project at Saint Marks, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and now at Poets House. Please join us to hear these young voices celebrate National Poetry Month.

This program is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners Program.

Celebrate the International Women's Writing Guild's 40th year at their new Spring Big Apple Regional Writing Conference venue, Poets House. A Crash Course on Queries and Pitches will prepare you to pitch your book at the Meet the Agents & Publishers session. Learn about the publishing process from your peers on the New Authors Panel. Get fresh insights into the publishing world from our Agents & Authors Panel. Not ready to pitch?

Projection: a multimedia reading series presents a book launch and reading for FAST, the new collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jorie Graham. Rescheduled from April 29!

This program is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners Program.

Both authors were born in the country, which no longer exists, in a year that mirrors the 67th Street sign in Central Park. One of the authors grew up in Chicago and is currently based in Miami. The other author came to New York as an adult, lived in Manhattan for a while, and now sees it in perspective from his windows in Jersey City. Since the early 2000's they occasionally meet in Central Park, right around that 67th street intersection, and talk about literature, poetry in particular.

What is attention? How do we create it? What does the language of your highest attention look like? What kinds of attention support, or obstruct, your process? In this one-day intensive, our class will function as an extended meditation; our work will be to create, combine and consider our attention, with the goal of seeing how this effort, rather than forced determination toward a particular outcome, can be the real work of writing.

Poets House will host the New York launch of David Eye’s debut collection of poems, Seed (The Word Works, 2017). Seed was selected by award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. The event will feature readings from David and Iain Haley Pollock, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and a performance by New York singer/songwriter Rebecca Hart. Book signing and wine reception to follow.

This event is made possible through Poets House’s Literary Partners Program.

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This program is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners Program.