Poets House presents this legendary American poet reading from his body of work including his most recent book of poems Planisphere.

"Neither closed in one landscape
nor in one season
the mind moving in illimitable
recollection."

-- Basil Bunting, "Chomei at Toyama"

A reading by participants in the inaugural Poets House Emerging Poets Residency:

Join us for a celebration of the work of the life of Siv Cedering (1939-2007), the Swedish-born American poet and novelist.

Join us for a rare opportunity to experience poetry inspired by Mark di Suvero’s sculpture on Governors Island.

Often described as the greatest contemporary Romanian poet, Nichita Stănescu, “blasted open the prison gates of Socialist realism” (Andrei Codrescu) in Eastern Europe.

San Francisco poet Aaron Shurin considers the question “What is prosody?” in light of the current movement away from meter and traditional forms.

Help us celebrate the end of a joyous and program-packed 25th year with an event honoring our co-founders Stanley Kunitz

Born in Chicago in the 1980's and now a worldwide phenomenon, the poetry slam is at the center of a controversy between poetry on the page and poetry in performance.

Born in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya in 1931, the self-taught and beloved Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) wrote poems—direct, sometimes humorous, often devastating—that conflate