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

Red Hen Press presents a day of readings by:

Please join Finishing Line Press for a reading, celebrating poets and their chapbooks.

Reception to follow.

Readers include:

Rose Auslander
Mark Belair
Elizabeth Coleman
Sherri Felt Dratfield
Vivian Eyre
Kim Farrar
Margaret Barbour Gilbert
Michael J. Grabell
Anita Pulier
Alison Carb Sussman

Poets' Bios:

Join us for the opening celebration and a tour of the Poetic Voices of the Muslim World traveling exhibit as it arrives in Queens, featuring a talk by Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist Ayad Akhtar, followed by a tour of the exhibit by City Lore's Director of Poetry Programs Catherine Fletcher with Sara Goudarzi (reading Forugh Farrokhzad) and Ahmed Eissawi (reading Al-Mutanabbi).