Join us on June 20 as we prepare to meet the longest day of the year with a chorus of poetry. We'll congregate in the breathtaking sanctuary of St. Ann's as over 50 poets remind us of the ability of language to transcend, resist, and most importantly, connect. brooklynpoets.org/events/celeb...

In this six-week, online workshop with Jaz Sufi (@calamityjaz), we'll explore a variety of different poetic forms and discuss strategies for approaching them, including when to use which form for what effect. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

In this generative five-week, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll explore how objects can evoke many emotions, memories and poetic modes to bring the speaker and reader to intimate and revelatory places. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/o...

Explore play through poetry, engage with working-class writing, ekphrasis, objections and form with Rachelle Toarmino, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Cindy Tran, Lisa HIton, and Jaz Sufi in these workshops starting in June and July! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us Friday June 12, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Tara Skurtu! Skurtu will lead a workshop on “One Surprising Sentence,” drawn from her upcoming two-session workshop for Brooklyn Poets this summer. events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

In this five-week, generative online workshop with Cindy Tran, we'll write and workshop ekphrastic poems inspired by film, painting, photography, sculpture and installation art. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

An incredible Friday evening spent listening to Zefyr Lisowski, Cortney Lamar Charleston & Rachel Camacho! Thank you for joining us, poets ❤️‍🔥

Join us at 144 Montague for our Winter & Spring Fellows Showcase on Friday, June 5, at 6:30 PM as fellowship winners from our winter and spring workshop seasons share their work. events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll explore and write poetry that engages in class discourse and centers the material reality of working-class life under capitalism as we consider how it may be brought to bear on the poetic line. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...

In this six-week, online workshop with Rachelle Toarmino, we'll read and write poems that tease, riff, goof around, game the system, break the rules and draw on aspects of comedy, satire, irony and camp to say what they need to say. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

We’re open for winter workshop fellowship applications! Applications are due June 5 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 summer workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb & more! Through June 14, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us on Saturday, June 20 as we prepare to meet the longest day of the year with a chorus of poetry. We'll congregate in the breathtaking sanctuary of St. Ann's as 60 poets remind us of the ability of language to transcend, resist, and most importantly, connect. brooklynpoets.org/events/celeb...

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll smoke out our own recognition scenes, learn how to become conscious of writing towards our own endings. Link to Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

LAST DAY TO REGISTER: In this five-week, generative online workshop with Anastacia-Renee, we'll peel apart our cultural, familial, spiritual and communal connections and disconnections to food and use the Haibun format as a container for our food driven poetry. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Join us for our next Reading Series on Friday, May 29, featuring poets Rachel Camacho, Cortney Lamar Charleston & Zefyr Lisowski! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Get tickets at events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook... @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social

Last day to register for this workshop with Alexis! Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t... In this five-week, generative online workshop with Alexis N. Garcia, we'll trace the history of the aubade, keep weekly light journals, read poems that exist in the space between night and day.

Last chance to register for this workshop with Kayla Schwab! In this five-week, in-person workshop with Kayla Schwab, we’ll assemble junk journals and write poems inspired by their contents. Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Don’t miss your last chance to explore the poetics of revelation, writing about food and approaching poetry one line at a time with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Anastacia-Renee and Robert Balun in these upcoming workshops! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us online on Sunday, May 31 for our next Craft Lab: “Water as Method: Image & Syntax” with Patrycja Humienik. In this craft lab, we’ll explore approaches that different bodies of water offer for considering image and syntax. brooklynpoets.org/events/all/w...

In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll smoke out our own recognition scenes, become conscious of writing towards our own endings, and stand awe-struck and fearless before the revelations that give our fates meaning. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Join us Friday, May 8th, for our next Yawp workshop & open mic, featuring poet Sam Cha! Sam will leading a workshop on writing what can't be written, inspired by his upcoming spring workshop, "Shouting Down the Whirlwind: Poetry and the Problem of Evil." events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

In this five-week, generative online workshop with Anastacia-Renee, we'll peel apart our cultural, familial, spiritual and communal connections and disconnections to food and use the Haibun format as a container for our food driven poetry. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Don't miss your last chance to explore the poetics of grief, Experimental poetry, meter and more in these workshops with Wo Chan, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb and @anniefinch.com! Limited space, including sliding scale seats, remaining ⏳. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

In this six-week, in-person workshop w/ Sam Cha, we'll think through poetry's potential to explain, expose, excoriate the workings and the evils of power. We'll consider poetry's potential to imagine other, better worlds—to lend a better myth to god(s) and humans. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER for this five-week, generative online workshop with @monostich.bsky.social, where we’ll explore the different ways a wide range of poets have used persona—what Yeats described as “speaking through a mask”—to posit questions of identity. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...

In this five-week, generative online workshop with Alexis N. Garcia, we'll trace the history of the aubade, keep weekly light journals, read poems that exist in the liminal space between night and day, and greet the dawn with our own language. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Don't miss your last chance to explore persona & dramatic monologue, the power of voice, personal poetry, cities & more in these workshops with @monostich.bsky.social, Christopher Rey Pérez, Emma Sheinbaum and dawn lonsinger—sliding scale seats available! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: In this five-week, generative online workshop with I.S. Jones, we’ll look at four ways to engage with revision: vocabulary, syntax, structure and urgency, to see our poems in new and invigorating ways. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...

In this five-week, in-person workshop w/ Kayla Schwab, we’ll assemble junk journals & write poems inspired by their contents. By the end, we’ll each walk away with the beginnings of a personal archive that can serve as a window into the lives that inspire our art. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

In this six-week, online workshop w/ @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll explore the different facets of writing about sensory perceptions, movement, and of course, the body. We'll work to re-center our narratives, draw new inspiration & find autonomy in our voices. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: In this five-week, online workshop w/ @starrdavispoet.bsky.social, we'll return to the ars poetica as a living, confessional form. Students will explore poems that question, argue, praise and revive the act of writing. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

We're one week into our Prompt-A-Day and today's prompt is "Unknowing" by Wendy Xu! For the rest of the month, our Wednesday prompts will be free to the public so anyone can write along (or you can register to get access to all 30 prompts)! brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

This intensive two-session, online workshop w/ @anniefinch.com will open the gates of five core poetic meters with clear, subtle techniques to make them your own. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: In this five-week online workshop w/ Ashunda Norris, we will write toward place and prayer while experimenting to expand our world view with an eye towards the future as we explore works by Octavia Butler, Tracy K. Smith & more. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...

Don't miss your last chance to explore dimension jumping, plot, ars poetica and revision with Ashunda Norris, Shira Erlichman, @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and I.S. Jones in the first workshops of our spring season! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

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

In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll become acquainted with the landscape of contemporary Experimentalism—work that resists conventional rules in order to create a poetry of the future. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...

How do we give container to the grief that pervades our lives? In this five-week, generative online workshop with Wo Chan, we'll explore using received forms to write on grief. Visit brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/g... to register!

Explore betrayal, evil, revelation, and more with Joan Kwon Glass, Sam Cha, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Anastacia-Renee and Robert Balun in these upcoming workshops! Visit the link in our bio or bit.ly/bkpworkshops to register! ❣️

Our first prompt this April is the “Little Letter” by Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social) and we're opening this one to the public to kick off National Poetry Month! brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

Join us Friday, April 10th, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Wo Chan! Our Yawp is a monthly generative workshop & open mic held on the second Friday of every month. Get tickets at the link in our bio! events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

How might cities divulge the multilayered complexity of human convergence? In this six-week, online workshop with dawn lonsinger, we'll explore the city as confession, storehouse of cultural memory, sanctuary for difference, experiment, conundrum and more. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Today is your last chance to save $15 on all spring workshops! Through Sunday, March 29th — use code EARLYBIRD at checkout to save on any of our spring offerings. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

It's almost National Poetry Month, which means it's almost time for our Prompt-A-Day! Challenge yourself to write this April with a new prompt every day from poets in our community. All registrations help support our programs & operations. brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

In this six-week, generative in-person workshop with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, we'll endeavor toward a more complete understanding of the New York School of poetry, its evolution over time and its most contemporary iterations. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

Explore contemporary Experimentalism, meter, the aubade, the senses, the surreal and the personal archive with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, @anniefinch.com, Alexis N. Garcia, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social & Kayla Schwab in these upcoming workshops! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Join us THIS SUNDAY for our next Craft Lab with @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social! events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...

In this generative two-session, in-person workshop with Christopher Rey Pérez, we'll think about the power of voice and the different technologies we might harness, hijack, and hatch to sing in the present tense. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...

In this five-week, generative online workshop with Gregory Crosby (@monostich.bsky.social), we’ll explore the different ways a wide range of poets have used persona and dramatic monologue in their work. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...