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Thank you so much to all who joined us for our second edition of Summer Nights tonight! To keep this energy going, RSVP at the link in our bio for our next and final Summer Nights on Friday, Aug 21 from 7-9pm featuring poets Safia Elhillo @safiamafia author of The January Children, Jenny Xie author of Eye Level, and Sudanese rapper Nadine El Roubi @nadineelroubi whose music has been characterized as neo-soul and hip-hop.

Sunset hour poetry + live music at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park - 20 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280 hosted by Poets House, a place for poetry.

This program is presented with the generous support of the Battery Park City Authority. by @poets_house

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Join us JULY 14 7-9PM in celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Pierre Joris Notebooks, featuring remarks by Nicole Peyrafitte and Nathalie Jacoby (Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg), along with readings of Pierre’s poetry by Florent Toniello, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Urayoán Noel, Ariel Resnikoff, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, and Randall Horton with Jacob Crumel (2026-2027 Pierre Joris Fellow for Radical Reversal).

The occasion will is especially meaningful, as it falls on Pierre’s birthday and honors his enduring legacy following his passing in 2025.

This event would not be possible without the dedication of Nicole Peyrafitte and the generous support of the Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York and the Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg.

RSVP at the link in our bio! taken in Poets House by @poets_house

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18 days ago

“The Poet” pizza returns with an Emily X Poets House Pizza Fundraiser!

From July 24-November 9th, visit Emily Pizza’s Brooklyn location at 919 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 to order a limited edition "Poet” pizza.

“The Poet” is a vodka sauce pie with red onion, mozzarella, pecorino, havarti, banana peppers, and a drizzle of Emily’s famous green goddess ranch dressing. A portion of the proceeds will go to the library. Eat pizza, help Poets House!

On July 23rd, Emily Hyland from Pizza Loves Emily will be joined by prizewinning poet Lo Naylor for the launch of her new collection, My Wise Little Ghost. Join us at Poets House for a reading celebration with a reception, where Emily will provide pizza for all from her beloved Pizza Loves Emily to kick off the fundraiser. RSVP at the link in our bio! taken in Emily by @poets_house

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Riverside Poetry Writing Group- In Person | Saturday | July 25 | 12-1:30pm ET

This month, interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde @scsunde will lead a workshop exploring poetry, place, and long-term thinking in relation to local waters and sea-level rise. As part of her ongoing research for a new public artwork in Battery Park City that launches during Climate Week, we will explore what makes an evocative poetic question and write responses inspired by the waterfront. Together, we’ll consider how language can deepen our relationship to place, expand our sense of time, and help us imagine more resilient futures. RSVP at the link in our bio! taken in Poets House by @poets_house

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Join me Saturday, Sept. 26, 1-3 via Zoom! by @poets_house

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Desire, Myth, and the White‑Hot Center: A Two-Day Immersion in Poetic Craft and Critique

In this two-session seminar and workshop, we’ll gather at summer’s white‑hot center to think about how poems hold desire: urgent, unrequited, ecstatic, impossible. We’ll move from classical myth to contemporary work, reading poets who write into longing, desire, and the complicated layers of love and human connection.

The first meeting will be part close-reading, part generative lab. We’ll read poems together (mythic, lyric, and otherwise unruly) and respond to them through a series of prompts that invite you to write from your own sense of urgency, distance, fantasy, intimacy, heartbreak, and ecstasy, and so forth.

The second meeting will be a workshop devoted to your drafts. Together, we’ll talk about how to deepen emotional stakes, focus imagery, and make space on the page for contradictory feelings. By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with new poems, a set of prompts you can return to all summer, and renewed ways of thinking about desire, connection, and what it means to draw from the white‑hot center in your own work.

Saturday & Sunday (8 hours over 2 days) | July 25 – 26 | 12 – 4pm ET | $275 ($220 for Members)
(Jul 25, 26)

This workshop will take place in the Stanley Kunitz Conference Room at Poets House. by @poets_house

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On July 23rd, Emily Hyland from Pizza Loves Emily will be joined by prizewinning poet Lo Naylor @lonaylor for the launch of her new collection, My Wise Little Ghost. Join us at Poets House for a reading celebration with a reception, where Emily will provide pizza for all from her beloved Pizza Loves Emily to kick off the fundraiser. RSVP at the link in our bio!

“The Poet” pizza returns with an Emily X Poets House Pizza Fundraiser!
From July 24-November 9th, visit Emily Pizza’s Brooklyn location at 919 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 to order a limited edition "Poet” pizza.

“The Poet” is a vodka sauce pie with red onion, mozzarella, pecorino, havarti, banana peppers, and a drizzle of Emily’s famous green goddess ranch dressing. A portion of the proceeds will go to the library. Eat pizza, help Poets House! taken in Poets House by @poets_house

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Join us TUESDAY, JULY 14, 7-9PM in celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Pierre Joris Notebooks, featuring remarks by Nicole Peyrafitte and Nathalie Jacoby (Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg), along with readings of Pierre’s poetry by Florent Toniello, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Urayoán Noel, Ariel Resnikoff, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, and Randall Horton with Jacob Crumel (2026-2027 Pierre Joris Fellow for Radical Reversal).

The occasion will is especially meaningful, as it falls on Pierre’s birthday and honors his enduring legacy following his passing in 2025.

This event would not be possible without the dedication of Nicole Peyrafitte and the generous support of the Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York and the Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg.

RSVP at the link in our bio! taken in Poets House by @poets_house

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15 days ago

Craft Session: And I Eat Men Like Air: Horror as a Meaning-Making Device with Erika Walsh
Remote Craft Session | Thursday | Jul 23 | 7-9pm ET

Horror always means something. Horror movies serve to either subvert or uphold, implicitly or explicitly, tropes rooted in systemic racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, class disparity, and more. This pattern has become increasingly evident as real-life horrors such as the global rise of fascism have erupted and, simultaneously, horror movies and shows have become increasingly popular, perhaps in part as a way of pointing to, challenging, and attempting to make sense of these modern brutalities.

This class will examine, through a queer, feminist lens, how conventions of the horror genre such as body horror, ecological horror, and domestic terror reflect the historical, social, and political contexts of our lives. We will discuss the use of horror tropes and conventions in the work of contemporary poets such as Dorothea Lasky, Kiki Petrosino, Patricia Smith, torrin a. greathouse, and Natalie Eilbert, alongside horror films such as I Saw the TV Glow, Get Out, Obsession, Rosemary’s Baby, and Jennifer’s Body, as well as write and workshop our own horror-inspired pieces.

Remote 2-Hour Craft Session | Thursday | July 23 | 7-9pm ET | $60 ($55 for Members)

This remote class will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to you by a staff member in the week leading up to the class start date.

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement.

About the Educator:

Erika Walsh is a writer from New York living in Philadelphia. A 2026 recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Project Award in Nonfiction, her work can be found or is forthcoming in Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. A former poetry editor of Black Warrior Review and cofounder of A Velvet Giant, Erika is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama’s MFA in Creative Writing. by @poets_house

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Only two more events left in our Summer Nights series featuring live music and poetry in the parks! Each Friday night performance pairs electric readings from poets with a multi genre musical act, all staged in Wagner Park on the Hudson River.

RSVP at the link in our bio and join us from 7-9PM:
On July 17- EILEEN MYLES @eileen.myles YAISSA JIMENEZ @yaissa_jimenez and SAMANTHA CRAIN @sjcrain
On August 21- SAFIA ELHILLO @safiamafia JENNY XIE and NADINE EL ROUBI @nadineelroubi

Video by @dusan_harminc featuring @miriamelhajli
This program is presented with generous support from the Battery Park City Authority @bpcparks taken in Robert F Wagner Junior Park by @poets_house

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