As the neighboring bookstore to our home in Battery Park, Barnes & Noble is hosting a weekend bookfair to benefit Poets House. Make a purchase with a Poets House bookfair voucher at Barnes & Noble Tribeca and a percentage of the sale will be donated to Poets House.

Join us for the opening of the 22nd annual Poets House Showcase, a free exhibit featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in a single year from over 650 commercial, university, and independent presses. There is no better way to get an overview of the art.

Opening Reading with Meena Alexander, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and David Lehman immediately follows.

NOTE: The Showcase will be CLOSED Tuesday, August 12

Showcase On View June 26 - August 16

There is no better way to get an overview of the art of poetry than at this free exhibit featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in a single year from over 650 commercial, university, and independent presses.

Please join poets reading from the new anthology The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival.

Q&A to follow.

Book signing and sale with a special 20% discount, day of event.

Featured Readers Include:

Please join the French Embassy In The United States for an evening of poetry and music.

This discussion centers on a citation chosen by Pierre Alferi: “a hedge between keeps friendship green.” Featured poets Pierre Alferi, Anne Portugal, Ben Lerner and Anna Moschovakis will recite their works. Charlie Burnham will provide musical accompaniment for the readings. SVA students will illustrate the performances.

Please join Tupelo Press for an evening of readings by poets CM Burroughs, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Amaud Jamaul Johnson.

About the poets:

Presented as part of Pessoa in New York, please join Arte Institute for a night featuring a lecture with Professor Ellen W. Sapega about "Signs of Disquiet—Imagining Fernando Pessoa in the 1980s” and a performance by the artist Beatriz Albuquerque.

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