We are hosting a Poets House Tote Bag giveaway this Holiday season! <3 To enter the giveaway: 1. Follow @poetshouse.bsky.social 2. Live this post! 3. Comment for 1 entry (unlimited entries allowed!) 3 WINNERS will be announced January 2026. Tote can be picked up in-person or mailed within the US.

"Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image, each housed in its own grid... They represent the double self. We are often an alternate version[s] of ourselves. The truth is often both things or multiple things." - (@photoworks-uk.bsky.social, 2025)

Photos from our 30th Showcase Exhibition Opening this past week! Thank you all for the incredible turnout! Our next reading, 1/15 7-9 pm, features @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby, as part of our 30th Showcase Exhibition reading series 📚

Some stories or moments in history may not have been documented, but they live on in our bones. @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social is teaching a workshop focusing on excavating those hidden stories. We will explore what hasn’t been said or what still demands to be seen through the form of the persona poem.

Tenderly packed & shipped #today for Leo @poetshouse.bsky.social #poetrywellserved "tenderness" #billymavreas #tenderness #KFB

A chapbook by award-winning Palestinian poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, featuring @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's English translations. "'I write now so that I do not die,' Nasrallah insists, 'and every time they try to erase us, we become clearer.'" (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, 2024)

A collaboration between poet Mihret Kebede and Anna Moschovakis, "#evolutionarypoems features "rhythmic and direct reactions to contemporary political events...show[ing] how revolution is not linear and how a deep connection to homeland lives inside of critique." (@circumferencebooks.com, 2025)

Announcing our official line-up for the 30th Poets House Showcase Reading Series! Join us in uplifting an array of voices crucial to this moment in poetry publishing on Saturday, December 13th, 6-8pm. Featuring Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

Discover “the deep heart’s core” of a poem, and learn how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility within poetry with Neil Shepard. Join the "Vision And Revision: Seeing Into The Heart Of The Poem" workshop, every Wednesday from November 5 to December 17. Be present and sign up today.

Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.

@doyounoapoet.bsky.social is teaching an in person 3-hour workshop with us on November 22nd from 1:30-2:30PM on "a vowel's music."

Join us on 10/30, 7 PM ET for a hybrid reading from Anna Malihon, Irina Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk, and their translators Olena Jennings, Nina Murray, and @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social. Moderated by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social.

Join us on Tuesday, October 14th for an insightful evening with acclaimed writers Sarah Ruhl and James P. Lenfestey, who will be reading from their latest works - Time Remaining (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2025) and Lessons from My Teachers (Simon & Schuster, 2025).

You are invited to celebrate the exhibit opening of Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway on Saturday October 11 6-9pm! Join us for performances with No Land and Anne Waldman accompanied by musicians Oliver Ray on guitar, Heru Shabaka-Ra on trumpet, and Georgia Wartel Collins on double bass.

Starting Oct 15, Tony Towle will lead a remote 6-week workshop "FIRST PRINCIPLES: What You Say Is Inseparable from How You Say It" 🔲 In this workshop, students will step outside of their usual modes of writing a poem by writing in an unfamiliar styles, other modes, and new personas.

Please join us for an illuminating sunset ferry voyage down the Hudson River with readings and musical performances by acclaimed musician and poet Haleh Liza Gafori of her newly published translations from the Farsi of Rumi, Water (New York Review Books, 2025) on Friday, October 10th!

—Rumi tr. Haleh Liza Gafori (2022) #poetry #poems #poem

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)