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Terrence Arjoon

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One of the highlights of this year has been publishing my first full length poetry collection with @uglyducklingpresse. It was so fun working with @simoneoftunis @anneysa.gaille @acoldgobot on the book, and with Milo, @duckduck.chuck and Serena on the design. Even more fun reading at my favorite bookstores with my favorite poets. by @terrencearjoon

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another season has arrived & with that another Real Lovers reading. Taking it back to the roof for another angelic evening. & you know what, this summer hasn't been bad yet weather wise. Not really. Not yet. If it's too hot, we'll go somewhere cooler, literally. In this house we say lcl instead of lol.

But yes, back again, this is the 5th one.

This time we have:

Terrence Arjoon (@terrencearjoon)
Mel Elberg (@uarenotaloan)
Reuben Dendinger (@reubendendinger)
Maggie Siebert (@mouths.agape)

You know what they say: "Don't make others suffer for your personal hatred." or "get in the fucking reading, Shinji!"

Please look forward to it. by @terrencearjoon

Thanks @muttartreview for publishing this poem. I wrote it in 2021, starting as a golden shovel of a James Schuyler poem, with some lines lifted from a poem by Tamas we published in YST in 2015, that I could never get out of my head. It never really cohered as a finished piece for me, until Patrick and Kara asked me for a Duchamp poem for this issue. Patrick loaned me Octavio Paz’s book on Duchamp, which I didn’t read but felt greatly inspired by. by @terrencearjoon

Another Trains bedroom reading.

April 23rd - 7pm
Beadel st / Vandervoort ave — write to @itstrains or a writer for address.

This one is a bit different. There will be poems, an excerpt from a longer ethnographic study, and the reading of a short play. I think it will be a little strange and very good.

Work by:
Terrence Arjoon @terrencearjoon
Forrest Gillespie
Joey Russo @joeyyyrussso
Barrett White @dmvwifi

Thank you everyone, thank you always. by @terrencearjoon

Small Press Traffic presents a spring reading with Terrence Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. Join us for an evening of crossings between lyric and performance, body and text, dream and dispossession. These three poets bend tradition toward stranger, unruly forms, where wit, excess, and pressure on the line open new possibilities of address.

Ebti, Jacob Kahn, and Kristen Nelson will offer introductions for the readers.

🎨 Matt Borruso, Arrangement #31 (detail) from the exhibition Pictures on view at Et al., 3/6–4/18, 2026 by @terrencearjoon

by @terrencearjoon

Due to the blizzard, we have decided to move tonight's reading with Terrence Arjoon + Marc Solomon to MONDAY 3/9. Stay safe and warm, we hope to see you then!

Whether through translation or poetry, Marc Solomon and Terrence Arjoon bend language toward the ecstatic—states of writing and being suffused with dread and melancholy, edging into the sublime. Please join us for our first reading of the season!

This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel. by @terrencearjoon

Hello, this is what I’ll be up to this month. I’m leading a workshop on editing strategies at UDP Studio next Saturday afternoon, then I’m zipping over to read at a secret location for the return of the Unnamed Reading Series. On Sunday I’ll read at Club Wonder, and the Friday after that I’ll read for The Mutt Art Review launch at Amant. I made a kale pasta and a pasta fagioli, and I’ve been listening to Celia Cruz and Lucha Reyes. I did not receive nor was i nominated for a National Book Award, but i enjoy the heft and feel of medals. I’m also rewatching Out 1, a film I’m completely obsessed with. by @terrencearjoon

Join us on Friday, January 30 at 7 pm for an evening of readings by poets Terrence Arjoon (@terrencearjoon), Aaron Fagan (@faganistic), and Peter Spagnuolo (@spagnuolo.nyc) 📚📖

The event is organized by the editors of Mutt Art Review (@mutt.nyc), with poems by Fagan and Spagnuolo having appeared in their latest issue (Issue #2, Winter 2025).

Mutt Art Review is a quarterly, print-only magazine featuring art criticism, essays, reviews, fiction, and artists’ writing. It covers art shown or made in NYC, is distributed locally and is available for delivery nationwide. Contributors to its first three issues (#0, #1 and #2) include: Barry Schwabsky, Kayode Ojo, Lucy Ives, Will Heinrich, John Yau, Darla Migan, Nikki Shaner-Bradford, Bob Nickas, Sunday Fall, Tif Sigfrids, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Martha Schwendener, and the late Walter Robinson.

🔗 Learn more about the program and RSVP by following the link in bio.

#AmantNY by @terrencearjoon

Join @terrencearjoon in the UDP studio for a one-day seminar exploring ways to hone and edit poems: "think of editing like musical arrangement." Saturday, January 24 from 3–6pm.

Link in bio. For sliding scale, get in touch with us at office at uglyducklingpresse dot org ☁ by @terrencearjoon

Today, join us online at 6:30pm EST to hear Terrence Arjoon and Judah Rubin read from their recent books as part of the Global Reading for in Solidarity with Palestine. Link in bio.

Thank you @pamenarpress and all the organizers for continuing this work every year 🧡

"On November 29-30, 2025, a coalition of independent presses, collaboratives, poets, writers, and translators will hold a 24-hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine.

Readers and attendees are convening online. The reading begins with Palestinian poets in Palestine and follow the sun across the world. As one region rests, another will rise. Participants will share poems in their own languages, affirming the shared power of words and the ongoing work of resistance and solidarity.

We remain committed to freedom of expression and stand with all who face violence and oppression. We invite friends, supporters, and allies to join the livestream at 15:00 Palestine time (EET) and renew the call for global solidarity through poetry, language, and collective witness.

Join us live and hear writers from Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, East Africa, Albania, Kosovo, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Wales, Brazil, Turtle Island, Chile, Mexico, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Kurdish regions, Lebanon and many others gathering in one continuous shared space of resistance and solidarity." by @terrencearjoon

Posting the CORRECT date for the final Disinherited reading, Friday 12/5 at @night_club_101 at 7pm. I’ll be reading with Mónica de la Torre, Tilghman Goldsborough, Aristilde Kirby, and Theadora Walsh, and there will be books for sale.

the images after the flyer are some of my inspirations for the visual interjections in the book. If you know me, you know I’m unhealthily obsessed with Michael Mann’s 2006 remake of Miami Vice. There’s something intoxicating about the grainy digital image in that film, specifically this nighttime raid scene right before the climax.

The other visual ear worm for me is the transmission from the future in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, which periodically punctuates the narrative of the film. This particular camera movement sometimes feels like it’s invaded my dreams, the future just off camera right.

Anyway, see you at Nightclub 101, and drinks after at Funny Bar. by @terrencearjoon