A not-to-be-missed glimpse into the most exciting new poetry in New York City as the 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellows (Click names for bios and a sample of each poets work): Aziza Barnes, Rio Cortez,

Please join publisher Omnidawn for an evening filled with spectacular poetry readings.

Plus time to mingle and celebrate.

Omnidawn's books by these authors will be available at a 50% discount at this event.

Omnidawn will provide wine, sparkling water, appetizers, and sweets.

Featured Poets:

Mystical beasts, magical forests, lost treasure and more can be found in this island map-making workshop. Children will create their own maps with poetic descriptions of distant unexplored islands for those daring enough to venture there. Lead by Poets House Children’s Room Director Mike Romanos.

Come in costume and hear monstrous, spooky verse from poets such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Karla Kushkin, Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, read by Poets House Children’s Room Director Mike Romanos, who will also lead us in casting our own poetic spells to celebrate the day

A panel discussion and conversation about poems written by children – and poems written for children – with children’s literature scholar Jennifer Brown, educator and founder of The Touchstone Center Richard Lewis, historian and children’s literature critic Leonard Marcus, educator Annie Wright, widow and editor of poet James Wright, and members of The Touchstone Center Theatre Ensemble, Clea Rivera and Harry Mann.

A workshop exploring the magic and mystery of poetry. We’ll write poems inspired by the earth and sky. Then our poems will be celebrated through narration, music and mime. Each child will take their poems home in an earth/sky box.

Application deadline: EXTENDED TO Friday, October 3

This workshop will examine current trends in collage-style writing, or poetry that carries meaning, emotion, and sometimes stories within lines that are nearly cut and pasted leaps. We will study a few current poets, write new poems, and workshop each other's work.

Farrah Field is the author of the poetry collections Rising and Wolf and Pilot.

Saturday, January 10, 10:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, January 11, 12:00-4:00pm

Application Deadline: EXTENDED TO Friday December 12, 2014

Alison Hawthorne Deming’s books include Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, Rope, and Science and Other Poems. She teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona.

Saturday, January 17, 2015, 12:00-4:00pm
Sunday, January, 18, 2015, 12:00-4:00pm

Application Deadline: EXTENDED TO Friday December 19, 2014

Elaine Equi's recent books include Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, and Click and Clone. A new collection, Sentences and Rain, is forthcoming in 2015. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Program at The New School.