LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: The love poem—for many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, we'll endeavor toward a more vast & surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register by February 8! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...

In this five-week, online workshop with Keith S. Wilson, we'll discuss a new kind of visual poetry each week, break down what is happening in the poem and try out the forms ourselves. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...

In this six-week, online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll examine how contemporary poets today are redefining the sonnet and write our own sonnets, including the double sonnet, the triple sonnet and finally, our own crown of sonnets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Join us for the launch of @chiaradilello.bsky.social's debut collection, Childless Millennial, on Friday, February 20 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Ashna Ali will open for Di Lello. Book signing to follow. buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...

This two-session, generative online workshop with Emily Sernaker will be devoted to close-reading groundbreaking writers from the past—with generative writing prompts based on those readings tailored to help writers of the present. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...

I know of waterfalls, the long, golden tresses of little girls singing for men and death to thieves who dream of pillaging the treasures of a land — Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

Don’t miss your last chance to explore first books, the poetics of context and the love poem in these workshops with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social and @ds-waldman.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us in congratulating our Brooklyn Poets Fellows for the winter 2026 season! 🎉 Congrats as well to our finalists! 👏👏 mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

In this five-week, online workshop with b ferguson, we'll explore what revenge is, how it relates to systemic oppression and the planet and how it can be wielded as a craft tool on the page and in the world. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...

In this six-week, online workshop with I.S. Jones, we'll tackle the fundamentals of versification and explore how rhythms in our common speech can be placed into metrical patterns as we explore the basics of meter, sound, structure and surprise. Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...

LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with @lhiton.bsky.social! Sliding scale spots still available!

Explore the sonnet, blank verse, the apocalypse, interruption & the hometown with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @lara-atallah.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social & @geg2us.bsky.social! We also now have limited sliding scale seats. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us on Friday, Feb. 13 for our next Yawp workshop & open mic led by @lara-atallah.bsky.social! Atallah will lead a workshop on apocalyptic poetry drawn from her upcoming five-week workshop, "In the Beginning There Was the End." Get tickets: buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...

In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll navigate the synchronous orbit that both our grief and our gratitude follow, using essays from Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy to incite our own joy and harvest hope from our hardships. Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories can expand what your poems are able to hold. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Don’t miss your last chance to explore modernist poetry, the oracular, and the list poem in these workshops with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Lisa Hiton and dawn lonsinger that have deadlines this week ⏳ Learn more and register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...

Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

🔮 In this five-week, generative, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary, and the epigrammatic. 🔮 Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...

In this five-week, online workshop with Starr Davis, we’ll treat the poem as both declaration and discovery—a living document of voice, witness, and craft. We’ll study writers who transform testimony into art. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...

Join us online on Feb. 8 for our first Craft Lab of the year: “Prosody and Its Decolonization” with Jay Deshpande. In this craft lab, we’ll take a more personal approach to prosody, exploring what it can mean to us and why. Sliding scale options between $25-$150! brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Explore the risk of joy, writers from the past, the basics of verse, revenge & visual poetry with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Emily Sernaker, I.S. Jones, b ferguson & Keith S. Wilson in these workshops starting in February & March! Register by January 31st to save $15. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

The world doesn’t need more mango diaspora poetry, proclaims a viral tweet. I hit the block button. —Our #PoetofTheWeek, Ally Ang (@TheOceanisGay) Ally will be a featured reader for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on Friday, January 23rd! brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

The love poem. For many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with DS Waldman, we will endeavor toward a more vast and surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...

In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Explore first books, context, the love poem, writing your truth and revision with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social, DS Waldman, Starr Davis and @taraskurtu.bsky.social in these workshops starting in February! Register by January 18th to save $25. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...

I quench my thirst with libations, liquor spilled on club floors. An unknown offering. Pray to me at night, while other gods sleep. —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Ugochi Egonu brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

In this five-week, generative in-person workshop with @lhiton.bsky.social we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary and the epigrammatic to deepen the poet’s relationship to obsession, grief and longing. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...

In this five-week, in-person workshop w/ Kayla Schwab, we'll unpack our relationship "cringe culture" as we learn to embrace sincerity and break down the barriers that keep us from making our most sincere efforts to communicate both on and off the page. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...

Join us for our first Reading Series of the year at 144 Montague on Friday, January 23, featuring poets @theoceanisgay.bsky.social, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado & Emily Skillings! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Get tickets at buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...

In this six-week, online workshop w/ dawn lonsinger, we'll enlist listing to inventory our worlds, catalogue our past, imagine our future, explore sameness & difference, divulge how much we need or want & endeavor toward coherence in an otherwise incoherent world. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll become acquainted with the school of Modernist poetry and consider how it might inform and inspire our own poetic practice. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...

Explore modernist poetry, sincerity, the oracular, prose, list poems and more in our first workshops of the season with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Kayla Schwab, @lhiton.bsky.social, Sam Cha and dawn lonsinger! Register by January 18th to save $25. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

We’re open for winter workshop fellowship applications! Applications are due January 16 at 11:59 PM (US ET). We strongly encourage writers from historically underserved and marginalized communities to apply. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/fe...

Early registration is now open for our winter workshops, online and in-person, ft. @omotarajames.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social & more! Through January 18, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at

Join us on Friday, January 9, for our first Yawp of the year (and our first Friday Yawp), featuring poet Wendy Xu! Xu will lead a workshop on “Impossible Forms.” buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...

LAST CHANCE: Get tickets for our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith, Kenny Bradley, Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi, @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social, Cornelius Eady, @eugenialeigh.bsky.social, @milleroberman.bsky.social & @taraskurtu.bsky.social. brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...

LAST CHANCE: Get tickets for our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith, Kenny Bradley, Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi, @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social, Cornelius Eady, @eugenialeigh.bsky.social, @milleroberman.bsky.social & @taraskurtu.bsky.social. brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...

ONE WEEK until our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith as honoree alongside award winners Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi, @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social, Cornelius Eady, @eugenialeigh.bsky.social, @milleroberman.bsky.social & @taraskurtu.bsky.social. brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...

It’s the FINAL DAY of our fundraising auction ft. @gabriellebates.bsky.social, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Ross Gay, Ariana Reines, @cathylinhche.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @joseolivarez.bsky.social, Hala Alyan & more! Get your bids in by 10pm ET! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...

Sang. Her illness rewrote the glass of her house with its books flush with English, a language not hers by birth. When she was younger, and alive, she handed down her first Shakespeare to my child hands. —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Disha Trivedi brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

We're not saying we can predict the future, but we did plan on celebrating Patricia Smith long before @nationalbook.bsky.social crowned her this year’s poetry winner. Will you celebrate with us on December 7? Capacity is limited, get tickets at:

we were already in mourning cells bathed in fight or flight having lost everything to bits in battlefields of wind-rain clapping —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Dorsía Smith Silva brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

Join us on Monday, December 1, at 7 PM for the 2025 Yawp Poem of the Year Contest, featuring readings by the winners of Yawp Poem of the Month over the past year contending for our Yawp Poem of the Year Award—decided by audience vote! buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...

Our fundraising auction ft. poem feedback, consultations & more from poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Hala Alyan, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Ross Gay, @joseolivarez.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social & more is live! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...

“Poetry remakes the future…” – Alice Notley As we wrap up another year in a present insistent on being remade, we need your support to provide the tools poets need to take up their work. Donate to support our work today. brooklynpoets.org/support/donate

The Moon is my sister. All her light is second-handed. A letting scar, a cooing wound. My feet are ballrooms filled with gospel, my many organs conspiring to live. —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Jasmine Reid brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

It's the LAST DAY to apply for our 2026 Mentorship Program with Jay Deshpande! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/me...

Because the worst part of summer in New York City is the subway where the difference between hostility collected on the platform and barren cold in the car is so vicious —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Sullivan Summer brooklynpoets.org/community/po...