Please join The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women's Poetry in celebration of their second issue with a reading featuring: Elizabeth Lara , Morgan Parker, Bertha Rogers, Tamam Kahn, Cynthia Dewi Oka, and Lisa Wujnovich.

This event is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners Program

Steven Sher is the author of 14 books including, most recently, Grazing On Stars: Selected Poems (Presa Press, 2012) and The House of Washing Hands (Pecan Grove Press, 2014). He has taught writing for more than 35 years at many universities, workshops, festivals, writers in the schools programs and his poetry and prose have appeared in some 350 publications around the world.

Slam poet, author, and teacher Taylor Mali hosts our first-ever Members-only Open Mic! This special event will be open to the public, but you must be a current Poets House Member to read.

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Can meditation foster poetry? Can poetry foster meditation? This four-week workshop begins with basic instruction and exercises in meditation, and then examines whether certain types of poetry can bring about similar experiences. Topics will include:

– How meditation and poetry can spring from daily-life experiences, yet transcend them.
– Poetry as mantra.
– Prayer as poetry and mantra, and the differences between meditation and prayer.

In this generative writing workshop, students will explore the possibilities of poetry as play. We will read a wide range of contemporary poetry and work on developing figurative language and imagery. During each session students will write 3 or 4 poems, which they can develop and polish later. Topics we will explore include: odes, dream poems, self-portraits, centos, persona poems and poems of place. At the end of the session, we will publish an anthology and have a reading at Poets House.

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge on view June 12 through July 25; Walt Whitman & the Art of the Book on view June 12 - September 19

Join Poets House in celebrating the opening of two exhibitions that honor twenty years of our most iconic event, The Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Designed for lifelong lovers of poetry as well as those who have always feared the genre, this five- day intensive will lead middle- and high school teachers through a variety of hands-on exercises meant to inspire the teaching, writing, and reading of poetry. Drawing on the abundant resources of Poets House’s library, reading room and multimedia center, participants will compose, workshop, and share their own poems over the course of the week, all the while approaching poetry as a teaching tool capable of inspiring diverse student populations to read, write, and interpret complex texts.

Join us on Allen Ginsberg's birthday to celebrate the publication of The Essential Ginsberg, edited by Ginsberg biographer Michael Schumacher (Dharma Lion).

Please join agnès b for a reading in celebration of Franck André Jamme's latest book, To the Secret with a reading by:
Franck André Jamme
& Jen Bervin (Reading in English)

To the Secret is published by La Presse and translated by Norma Cole.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the reading.

A reading by participants in the four week Ritual Writing workshop, lead by Steven Sher at Greenwich House Senior Center.