An event to honor the late C.D.

Renowned poet Colleen J. McElroy examines the ways in which triggering operates in our poetic, personal, and racial selves. McElroy is the author of several poetry collections, including Queen of the Ebony Isles, winner of the American Book Award, and most recently Blood Memory.

Join poets from our 2016 Poets House Emerging Fellowship in celebrating Lit Crawl, a bar crawl transformed into a fast-paced scene of literary mayhem. Hop from bar to bar for readings from your favorite poets and fiction and non-fiction writers. Featuring Emily Brandt, Chialun Chang, Rico Frederick, Anne Lai, Cynthia Manick, and Nicole White.

Join us for a poetry reading and closing reception as we take one last look at the landmark exhibition, creative collaboration, and friendship between poet Barbara Guest and painter Fay Lansner. Contemporary poets Mel Elberg, Susan Gevirtz, Peter Gizzi, Paolo Javier, E. Tracy Grinnell, and erica kaufman, among others, will pay tribute to the life and work of the New York School poet and read from her Collected Poems.

Daniela Gioseffi, editor of www.eco-poetry.org will host Alicia Ostriker as featured reader. Other readers are Eliot Katz, Joanne Monte, Burt Kimmelman, George Held, Nina Tassi, and Peggy Anne Tartt. Poetry clips from the docu-drama: Author & Activist: The Daneila Gioseffi Story will be shown. There will be a short intermission with light refreshment. Admission free. Suggested contribution $3 or more.

Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins served two terms as the US Poet Laureate, from 2001-2003, and was New York State Poet Laureate from 2004-2006.