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A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. //

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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@hadeejasouffle.bsky.social will be instructing Writing With and Through Panic, a remote workshop for 4 Wednesdays | (Apr 8-29)! Panic, in its various forms—panic attacks, moral panics, a panicked crowd fleeing from the sound of a “gun’ that was a balloon popping—may be the opposite of poetry (1/2)
writing with & through panic
photo of Philippe Petit's Twin Towers Tightrope Walk in 1974Description of the workshopGabriel Ojeda-Sague's face shot
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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I'm teaching a course on 'creativity' this June at @poetshouse.bsky.social online! Won't you join me? Anyone can be creative; it's also an antidote for these dark times! poetshouse.org/event/worksh...
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Remote 6-Week Workshop: Leah Umansky: How to Live a Creative Life - Poets House
Participants will journal, write poems, and think about what the creative life can look like. There is no one way to live a creative life!
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025).
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Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I’m so so pumped to be teaching this class, online via @poetshouse.bsky.social, a syllabus of poets fundamental not just to my poetics but my personhood. Come read with me! poetshouse.org/event/semina...
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thanks so much to @poetshouse.bsky.social for featuring Piżama Press in their 30th annual poetry showcase! If you live in NYC, they’re a nonprofit poetry library. Free & open to the public. Stop in & check it out! This showcase (with Kiik’s book) will be on display until February 28 📚❤️
Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, on display at Poet's House (close up version)Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, on display at Poet's House (zoomed out version)
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
- from Half-Life by Eleanor Tennyson (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2025) The Showcase is open now through February 28, stop by to browse or swing by our reading series!
Climbing the stairs
clasping an axe. Climbing

the stairs clasping the axe.
This is my last thought

before my head bounces
on the landing. You got me first.

Classic us. Classic you.
Cinematic classic.

My body stays upright afterwards,

something for you to hold,
which you do.

- from Half-Life by Eleanor Tennyson
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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.
Tote Bag Giveaway AnnouncementInstructions to enter in the giveawayA picture of the Poets House Tote Bag
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"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)
Photo of Vik Shirley's new book, Persona DigitaliaInside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, containing 81 smaller squares, fitted in to a massive square shapeInside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, fitted in to a massive square shape. Each maroon box, has smaller maroon boxes within it, with detailed images in each box
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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 📚
A woman reading a bookA woman grabbing a book off a shelfA view of people seated in the showcase roomA room of people seated in the showcase room
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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.
Sit Here For a Word Workshop flierThe course costs $360Photo and bio for Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Tenderly packed & shipped #today for Leo @poetshouse.bsky.social #poetrywellserved "tenderness" #billymavreas #tenderness #KFB
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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)
Picture of Palestinian by Ibrahim NasrallahArabic text from the poem Palestinian by Ibrahim NasrallahA page containing the english translation of the full poem for "Palestinian"Flier for the 30th Poets House Showcase
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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)
Picture of #evolutionarypoems by Mihret Kebede
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
30th Poets House Showcase FlierPhoto of Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, Carl Phillips, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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.
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In-Person 6-Week Workshop: Neil Shepard: Vision And Revision: Seeing Into The Heart Of The Poem
Nov 5 - Dec 17: Discover "the deep heart's core" of a poem, and learn how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility within poetry.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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.
The Nature of Our TimesEvent details for The Nature of Our Times event
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@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."
A Vowel's Music
Noa Micaela Fields
Voyage into the secret lives of vowels, the subtle and sensual building blocks of poetry's music.Guided by mouthfeel and playful ear-sense, we will attune to the power of vowels as vessels for sonic improvisation and rhetorical structure.Noa Micaela Fields  is an echodeviant* (trans poet with hearing aids) in search of the hypervivid in her one and only captionless life. Her debut poetry collection E, a trans remix of Louis Zukofsky's "A", is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She is currently based in Chicago.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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.
Poet As Witness
A Hybrid Reading from Ukrainian poets and their translatorsPhoto collage of Anna Malihon, Iryna Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk and their translators Olena Jennings, Nina Murray, and Ilya Kaminsky.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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).
Collage-style poster announcing an in-person art event titled 'new works' featuring James Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl on October 14 from 7-9PM.Biography of Sarah Ruhl, highlighting her Pulitzer finalist plays, multiple awards, and role as a Yale drama professor living in Brooklyn.Biography of James P Lenfestey
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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.
Remote 
6-Week 
Workshop

First 
Principles

What You Say
Is inseparable from
How You Say It

Tony TowleRemote
6-Week 
Workshop

Oct 15 - Nov 19
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET

$360
($320 for members)

Six
Wednesdays

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left." - Alexander Pope

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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!
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Epic Voices
A Voyage on the Hudson
with
Haleh Liza Gafori
Nick Flynn & Laleh Javaheri Saatchi
Friday, October 10th at 5:45 PM ET
Brookfield Place Ferry TerminalHaleh Liza Gafori

Book Image of "Water" by Rumi
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
—Rumi tr. Haleh Liza Gafori (2022) #poetry #poems #poem
When I leave this body,
People will ask—
What did he do with his life?

I knew you, Beloved.
That was enough.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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 🍕
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
From Mary Ruefle, Erasures, at @poetshouse.bsky.social
A spread from a Mary Ruefle book featuring a 19 century illustration of two men and collage text; on the right hand butterfly stamps A display case featuring spreads of books that incorporate tipped in papers and LettersA display case featuring books that incorporate, lace, string, and various objectsThe opening spread from an idyll in London, with a circuitous diagram on the left hand page
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Join us on Friday 9/12 at 7pm to experience the newest poetry collections from CAConrad and @goldenthem.bsky.social 📚
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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!
Disabling the Poem: Access As Revision
Remote 6-Week Workshop
August 28-October 2
6-8PM Eastern Time
Rob Macaisa ColgateThis is a workshop on revising poetry. Together, we will resist the resentful urge to "fix" our poems or "make them work." Instead, we will learn to serve as care attendants to our poems, to listen to what they are asking of us, to meet those needs so that they might best say what they need to say.Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2025 NEA and 2024 Ruth Lilly Fellow, he is the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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.
Sadie Dupuis on writing and responding to horror. a conversation with Poets HouseIf something terrible happens to the city's harm reduction resources, I'm going to be thinking about it, talking about it, obsessing about it, and if there's the space in the day to express that through poetry, I'll begin to draft that. ...Creative work, I think, feels secondary to and in response to what we're doing with our day-to-days as members of our communities. - Sadie Dupuis...My cigarettes are sequin, my cigarettes are swen. My demeanor is that of a smoker of candy sticks. - from "Black and White Thinking" by Sadie DupuisSadie Dupuis Picks
- Good Girl by Aria Aber
- Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
- See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon
- BLUFF by Danez Smith
- Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss
- Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd
- Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok
- i'm the POTE (+ 1 sad song) by Audrey Zee Whitesides
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"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!
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"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.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"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
Rita Dove on Ebullience: A Conversation with Poets House
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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!
Celebrating Parnassus poetry in review. Hybrid. Wednesday, April 30. 7-9 PM.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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!
Kenzie Allen and Elise Paschen
Thurs May 8
7PM at Poets House
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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)
New Works Read Series, April 10 7 PM at Poets House, 10 River TerraceHoffman’s third collection of poetry is a lyrical study of contemporary life—its lines echo amidst the imbalanced interdependence of globalization, in the wake of third-wave feminism, and from the active collapse of our American empire
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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)
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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!
Big Bird (YOU) running in an open field while being chased by an air plane (POETS HOUSE's forthcoming workshops!) Poets House March Workshops! Featuring Neil Shepard, Beatrix Gates, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Sarah ArvioPoets House April Workshops! Featuring Matthew Stillman, DS Waldman, Tina Cane, and Ravi ShankarPoets House April Workshops! Featuring Radha Marcum, Dorothea Lasky, and Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
'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)
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