Dorothea Lasky and Elizabeth Metzger came to Emily Brooklyn to try out The Poet pizza, a special pizza made to benefit us, as we face the loss of federal funding this year 🍕

From Mary Ruefle, Erasures, at @poetshouse.bsky.social

Join us on Friday 9/12 at 7pm to experience the newest poetry collections from CAConrad and @goldenthem.bsky.social 📚

Rob Macaisa Colgate will be leading a remote workshop on revising poetry and resisting the resentful urge to “fix” poems or “make them work”, starting August 28th!

In advance of our upcoming Summer Nights: Poetry and Music series, Poets House spoke with poet and Speedy Ortiz guitarist, songwriter & singer @sad13.horse about responding to political horror, harm reduction, and balancing the tonal tensions between grotesquerie & glitter.

"This is the skin they put me in, / my mum and dad. Remixed melanin" Editor-in-chief of The Poetry Foundation, @adrianmatejka.bsky.social chats with Poets House about navigating race and parenthood through poetry, seeing the world from a natural vantage, and his fascination with mushrooms!

Tickets are available for our 27th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge! Hear readings from @gabbat.bsky.social, Rita Dove, @pksj51.bsky.social, @adrianmatejka.bsky.social, and @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social! The night will end with a feast at Dumbo. Check out our website for more details.

"Listen for / The hard crunch fun of fighting back / Hear her lash the brute with verbs." Poets House spoke with @pksj51.bsky.social about poetry’s role in confronting authoritarianism, resisting erasure, and the ethics and power of community.

"Just as any of you is one note purring into the street-hum of the city, I was also one of you singing, pouring my descant into the earthly chorus." We spoke with Rita Dove about Hattie McDaniel's ebullient existence, walking while the soul is feathery, and joining a chorus of voices through poetry

Join us on Wednesday, 4/29 at 7 PM ET to celebrate the run of Parnassus: Poetry In Review! Join Herbert Leibowitz and friends in-person or online to remember, rejoice, and explore this unparalleled literary journal and the unique contribution to the literary community!

Join us for an evening honoring two new collections about indigeneity, survivance, and inheritance! Celebrate the release of Cloud Missives (@tinhouse.bsky.social, 2024) and Blood Wolf Moon @redhenpress.bsky.social, 2025) with an In-Person reading and discussion from Kenzie Allen and Elise Paschen!

Join us on 4/10 at 7 PM ET for an evening of poetry and conversation celebrating Carlie Hoffman, Rodney Terich Leonard, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, and @mayacpopa.bsky.social 😄 Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Reading Room! (1/2)

Join us on Wednesday, 4/9 at 7 PM ET for a special evening with poet, artist and activist Cecilia Vicuña! Vicuña will discuss three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. (1/2)

March and April workshop sign-ups are available! ☀️ Our online and in-person workshops with established and accomplished poets will stretch and inspire your poetry skills! ✨ Featuring @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @stillmansays.bsky.social, and @ds-waldman.bsky.social!

'Play as Resistance' says, 'Yes, life feels unbearable but–I am here. I am valuable. I will maintain my peace and part of my self-care will be to play! I deserve to laugh and smile as much as I am angry or cry. Joy is my birthright.' (1/2)