The zuihitsu, for which there is no Western counterpart, is a Japanese genre sometimes described as a prose miscellany or random notes.

Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.

Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.

Co-sponsored with The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.

Librettists, poets and scholars Ishmael Reed and Kenward Elmslie read from their work and discuss the connections between poetry and opera.

Acclaimed writer and author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series Walter Mosley joins Staten Island native and poet/novelist Donna Masini to read from their work and

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was revered during his lifetime as America's beloved national bard, and for generations afterwards he was a staple of the hearthside and the schoolroom.