Poets House will be closed to the public from 4pm on Saturday, October 3, for a private event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

New Works: Tina Chang, Jill Bialosky, Adrian Matejka, and Maya C. Popa | In-Person & Streaming on Zoom | Sat | Sep 26 | 4-6pm | Join us to celebrate the release of these new works. Copies of the books will be available for purchase. RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/new-wor…

Workshop: Archive Everything with Kimberly Alidio | 4 Tues Sept 15-Oct 6 | 6:30-8:30pm | This workshop looks at the poem as an archive of personal, collective becoming, a storehouse of myriad subjective experience. poetshouse.org/event/worksho…

New Works: I.S. Jones, Funto Omojola, R.A. Villanueva, James Loop and Monica Ferrell Thurs, Sep 10 | 7-9pm poetshouse.org/event/reading… Join us for a night of poetry with readings exploring myth-making, inheritance, and the ways poetry revisits and transforms the stories we receive.

Check out some photos from our previous Summer Nights at Wagner Park with Eileen Myles, Samantha Crain, and Yaissa Jiménez. Our last Summer Nights event is Aug 21 7-9pm, featuring poets Safia Elhillo and Jenny Xie alongside musician Nadine El Roubi. RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/summer-…

Join us for the Poets House Book Sale, featuring a huge selection of contemporary and modern poetry books! Pick up bargain poetry selections (starting from $1), or buy a tote bag and fill it with books for $35. Rare and signed editions will be available. poetshouse.org/event/poets-h…

From July 24- Nov 9, order "The Poet" pizza at Emily Brooklyn, a delicious vodka sauce pie with red onion, mozzarella, pecorino, havarti, banana peppers, and green goddess ranch dressing, to donate a portion of the proceeds to Poets House.

Join us Friday, Aug 21 from 7-9pm for poets Safia Elhillo, Jenny Xie, and Sudanese rapper Nadine El Roubi. poetshouse.org/event/summer-…

Thank you so much to all who joined us for our second edition of Summer Nights tonight! To keep this energy going, RSVP for our final Summer Nights on Friday, Aug 21 7-9pm featuring Safia Elhillo, Jenny Xie, and Sudanese rapper Nadine El Roubi: poetshouse.org/event/summer-…

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. We'll provide pizza from Pizza Loves Emily to kick off the pizza fundraiser happening from Jul 24-Nov 9!

Join us in celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Pierre Joris Notebooks, with readings by Florent Toniello, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Urayoán Noel, Ariel Resnikoff, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, and Randall Horton with Jacob Crumel. RSVP: poetshouse.org/event/exhibit…

Visit Emily’s Brooklyn location at 919 Fulton Street to order a limited edition "Poet” pizza. “The Poet” is a vodka sauce pie with red onion, mozzarella, pecorino, havarti, banana peppers, and green goddess ranch dressing. A portion of the proceeds will go to the library!

Upcoming June events at Poets House! Every Poets House event is pay what you can- no one is turned away for lack of funds. RSVP for all events here: poetshouse.org/programs-even…

On Thursday, June 18, 7-9pm Poets House hosts a reading of poets Kaur Alia Ahmed, Gwen Aube, Cat Fitzpatrick, and Chariot Wish, whose new collections on gender, desire, and community, push the narrative, musical, and absurd to new heights. RSVP here: poetshouse.org/event/new-wor…

Check out our incredible upcoming events for the month of May! We have lectures on Rumi, Joy Harjo, open community reading and writing groups, a protest fundraiser, and much more. RSVP and get more information here: linktr.ee/poetshouse See you soon :)

Poet As Witness: Central American Counterpoetics. In-Person & Streaming on Zoom | Thursday | May 28 | 7-9pm For the latest installment in the Poet as Witness series, Join us for a night of Central American counterpoetics. Books will be available for sale. RSVP on our website!

Sahar Khraibani reads an excerpt from ONE THOUSAND GHOSTS IN THIS FEAST (@WendysSubway, 2025)

Michelle Peñaloza reads "Spawn" from All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems (@PerseaBooks, 2024)

Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@UChicagoPress, 2025)

In-Person & Streaming on Zoom | Thursday | February 19 | 7-9pm ET Sahar Khraibani, Farid Matuk, Michelle Peñaloza, and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s decolonial poetics linger on speech, sound, and names. RSVP here: poetshouse.org/event/sahar-k…