A Reading and Conversation with Bei Dao, Sharmistha Mohanty, Daouda Ndiaye, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Zhai Yongming and Raúl Zurita.

A Reading with Mohammed Bennis, Bei Dao, Sharmistha Mohanty, Daouda Ndiaye, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Anne Waldman, Orlando White, Zhai Yongming and Raúl Zurita.

This special event will be open to the public, but you must be a current Poets House Member to read.

Readings by Aziza Barnes (i be, but i ain't, YesYes Books); Ching-In Chen (recombinant, Kelsey Street Press); Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

In 1883, the same year she was teaching immigrants at 92Y’s then-downtown branch, Emma Lazarus wrote her famous poem, “The New Colossus.”

Readings by Alex Dimitrov (Together and by Ourselves, Copper Canyon Press), t'ai freedom ford (how to get over, Red Hen Press), Lauren H

Readings by Cynthia Manick (Blue Hallelujahs, Black Lawrence Press); Jen Hyde (Hua Shi Hua: Drawings and Poems from China, Ahsahta); To

Readings by Elizabeth Arnold (Skeleton Coast, Flood Editions); Alan Felsenthal (Lowly, Ugly Duckling Press); Christine Shan Shan Hou

Readings by David Ferry (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, University of Chicago Press) and Gerald Stern (This Time: New and Selected Poems

Reception 6-7PM, Reading 7-8PM