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.

Write what you know: This most common of writing advice can also be the most confining—but only when limited to your own personal experiences. Instead, this generative weekend workshop will invite you to take on other lives and voices in your poems, to write from perspectives, time periods, and even genders not your own.

Poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield begins this special event with a reading from her work that engage science and natural history, including poems from the newly published The Beauty.

Enjoy readings by poets Cedar Sigo, Juliana Spahr, and Tanya Sarmina in the Oakland section of the Gallery of California Natural Sciences. They will use poetry to explore the gallery as a site for creative expression, while inspiring and educating viewers about parts of the natural world we often take for granted.

Please join Marsh Hawk Press in celebrating their Spring 2015 publications.

Readers include:
Jane Augustine
Jon Curley
Basil King
Christina Olivares
Eileen R. Tabios

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

Please join Heller Levinson for a reading from Wrack Lariat, newly released from Black Widow Press.

Wrack Lariat, the third exfoliation of Hinge Poetics, further emboldens Hinge pioneering by launching four new modules and offering Fusionistic Intercoursing with visual artists past and present.

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