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Bard of the Bowery
Founder of @bowerypoetry
Founder of Endangered Language Alliance @elalliance
Poet / Writer / Preserver of Languages

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12:00 pm - 2:30 pm — “Best of Brevitas: A Festival of the Short Poem,” Reading & Open Mic — Brevitas brings together poets of all kinds, sharing short-form poems of 14 lines or fewer. This year, we celebrate our new anthology, Best of Brevitas, with a reading, projected poems, and open mic.
Young poets writing short-form work are warmly invited to join us and explore becoming part of this generative poetry collective. — Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. Tickets: $15
(Accessibility: Bowery Poetry Club is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

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Praise Day for Sonia Sanchez!

The legendary group Sweet Honey in the Rock joins Tracy K. Smith, Danez Smith, Jessica Care Moore, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher to honor Poet Laureate of the Planet, Sonia Sanchez! October 23 @ The Great Hall @ Cooper Union, NYC. More information https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

@city_lore @bowerypoetry @poetshouse @sweethoneyrocks73 #poetry #poets #NewYork #poems #poet @thecooperunion

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Howl Tonight. ComeToberPoetry.
Dead or Alive we cannot deny à costumed reading. psst: Who’s behind da masque

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UK PREMIERE TONIGHT @docnrollfilms Barbican Cinema 1 @6:20 w/Director Chuck and then…
THIS SATURDAY @anthologyfilmarchives at 6PM with Special Q & A with @penny_arcade_forever and @bobholman
✌️🎸✌️
#thefugs
#anthologyfilmarchives
#docnrollfest

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Is Marisha Pessl’s horror mystery novel “Night Film” really about Stanley Kubrick?

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

#horror #booktok #horrortok #mystery #kubrick

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People's Poetry Gathering @anthologyfilmarchives screening @outridermovie Saturday October 24 8:30 pm! Here are a few more shots from the premiere...

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Photos @outridermovie original premiere home @anthologyfilmarchives calling the cultural activist community back in for the People's Poetry Gathering Outrider screening this weekend Saturday October 24, 2026 8:30!

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In the Lower East Side- NYC- capturing @smithsonianfolklife We Hold These Truths street interviews today with the People’s Poetry Gathering outside Bowery Poetry Club- @city_lore @poets_house @bowerypoetry with @bobholman
First two images credited to Michelle Banks.

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NUYORICAN BOWERY SLAM!

Weekly on Monday evenings, in-person. Slam takes place from 6:30 to 9:00 P.M.Tickets: $20 in advance/online or at the door. Bowery Poetry Club on 308 Bowery (between E. Houston & Bleecker Streets) in Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by JRose & Luna Rósa. https://www.bowerypoetry.com/slam

BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE:
https://boweryslam.eventbrite.com

During the Nuyorican Poets Café’s building’s reconstruction, the café brings their famous poetry slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club! Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, welcomes the Nuyorican Slam that he started 35 years ago!

@my_crumbled_thoughts @nyscouncilonthearts @nuyoricanpoetscafe @bowerypoetry @bobholman @heath_antonio @djlunarosa @labrujanyc

#nycpoets #poetrycommunity #Nuyo #poetry #poem poet poets slam slampoetry poetryforthepeople

Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Arts and Sciences, ltd. are supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of NY Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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Oct. 21 @ 8pm
Suminagashi and a Last Gasp Haiku with Bob Holman and Sono Kuwayama
@ City Lore
Sono teaches you how to make your own suminagashi, or “flowing ink paper,” and Bob will guide you to write your last breath haiku in the Japanese tradition

https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

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With a "Cabezudo" (papier-mâché head) of Miguel Algarín, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and four iconic pleneros, we processed from the Cafe to Teatro LATEA at The Clemente for a night of poetry backed by congas, and followed by bomba y plena by Kinto Zonó. The People's Poetry Gathering is off to a great start!

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Monday, October 19th
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm — “Committed to Heart, Committed to Memory” - A Poetry Memorization Workshop with Mattthew Stillman — Matthew will introduce games of listening to the group and use the principles there to build poetic response to each other using these games. Using shared nursery rhymes and snippets of poems from Yeats or Dickinson or Williams the group will voyage towards a silent horizon of the poetic ear. — City Lore, 56 E. First Street. FREE with RSVP
(Accessibility: City Lore is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

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