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

Join us as we journey into the future of poetry. 2017 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellows read new work crafted during mentorship under their workshop leader, poet r. erica doyle.

Poet, teacher and author of 24 books, Hettie Jones will read a selection of her poems, from her bestselling memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, and from her latest book,

Poets Vahni Capildeo, Natalie Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo, and Shivanee Ramlochan examine intimacy, language, and

A founder and director of the Poetry Project and co-founder along with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, poet Anne Waldman, with Bessie Award-nomina

Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad, author of White Blight, appears with her translator Jennifer Hayashida, and Brazilian poet Noemi Jaffe, a