Celebrate eight years of outstanding international literature with Archipelago Books!

with food, wine, and music

Tickets: $25 in advance/$35 at the door, first 100 ticketed guests will receive a gift bag!
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This event is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners Program

The 9th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem features readings by over 40 poets!

brevitas is a community of invited poets who email original poems (14 lines maximum) to the group on the first and the fifteenth of each month. Founded by Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin with a few poet-friends, brevitas now -- with 40+ poets -- has grown into a powerful incubator of poetry.

An additional short poem (14 lines max) open mic hosted by Bob Holman will follow.

Join us for a special reading by three poets currently in residence at the University of Iowa’s famed International Writing Program. Following the reading, the poets will take questions from the audience. A reception will follow.

Please join Toadlily Press and poets David Morse, Sierra Nelson, Eleanor Paynter and , Emily M. Stokes for the launch of the latest book in the Quartet Series, EMBARK

Reading + Book Signing + Refreshments

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the NY City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Arte Institute hosts a celebration and reading of the work of the great Portuguese poet and writer José Saramago (1922-2010), as part of Saramago Week in New York.

Pilar del Rio, Jorge Vaz Carvalho and guest actresses reading Women in Saramago

Photography Exhibition Saramago by João Francisco Vilhena

Jazz Concert Malus

Reception to follow.

Belladonna* presents:

A group/polyvocal performance from Anne Waldman's famous IOVIS trilogy, which won the Poetry Book of the Year from PEN USA Center this year, featuring her own reading and her son, Ambrose Bye, playing guitar.

Other readers include:
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Stacy Szymaszek
Ana Božičević
Amy King
Julie Patton

The Paris-American presents a reading with:

Mark Strand
Eduardo C. Corral
Camille Rankine
Malachi Black

Hosted by C. L. O'Dell

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