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Poets House
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A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. // poetshouse.org/event/rumi-water-on-the-hudson/
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 11h
RSVP for our upcoming New Works event here: poetshouse.org/event/new-wo...
New Works: James Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl
10/14: Please join us on October 14 at 7pm to celebrate the newest publications from James P. Lenfestey and Sarah Ruhl.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 11h
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 · 4d
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 · 6d
All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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Remote 6-Week Workshop: Tony Towle: FIRST PRINCIPLES: What You Say Is Inseparable from How You Say It - Poets House
10/15: Students will step outside of their usual modes of writing a poem by writing in an unfamiliar styles, other modes, and new personas.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 6d
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 Towle Remote 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 · 8d
The ferry leaves at 5:45pm from the Brookfield Place Terminal. Reception to follow at Poets House ⛴️

All proceeds support Poets House! Be apart of this special evening of poetry 🌃

Tickets can be purchased here:
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Epic Voices: A Voyage on the Hudson - Poets House
Join us for a ferry voyage down the Hudson River with readings and performances illuminating Rumi's Water translated by Haleh Liza Gafori.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 8d
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!
Poets House 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 Terminal Haleh Liza Gafori Book Image of "Water" by Rumi
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · Aug 8

—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 · 27d
Get your ticket here:
The Poets Table at Emily
9/24: Join us for a smorgasbord of fine food and poetry at EMILY, with readings from Mark Doty and Marie Howe. Reservations are required.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 27d
There are also just a handful of tickets left for our Poets House fundraising party at Emily Brooklyn on 9/24 with readings from 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Marie Howe and Emily co-founder Emily Hyland’s beloved teacher Mark Doty - as well as plenty of pizza, of course! Get your ticket today!
EAT PIZZA, HELP POETS HOUSE! ASK FOR "THE POET" PROMOTION NOW AVAILABLE AT EMILY, 919 FULTON STREET
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 27d
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 · Aug 22
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 Letters A display case featuring books that incorporate, lace, string, and various objects The 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 · Aug 23
Thank you so much for visiting, Shannon!
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 21
RSVP for our "New Works: CAConrad and Golden" event here!
New Works: CAConrad and Golden
9/12: Celebrate the release of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return and Reprise, with a reading and discussion from CAConrad and Golden.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 21
CAConrad engages with extinction and regeneration within the Anthropocene in Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024). Golden's second collection Reprise @haymarketbooks.org, 2025) documents the realities of being Black and trans in America with subtle lyricism and vulnerability
New Works CAConrad Golden September 12 7-9 pm Poets House
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 21
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 · Aug 15
Register for the upcoming workshop here. All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Rob Macaisa Colgate: Disabling the Poem: Access as Revision
Aug 28 – Oct 2: Write towards your poems’ fullest embodiments, towards poems whose bodies are given their due access.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 15
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 Colgate This 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 · Aug 7
Join us for the grand finale of Summer Nights with m.s. RedCherries, Danez Smith, and Speedy Ortiz, where poetry meets music outdoors with @bpca.bsky.social!
In-Person at Wagner Park | Friday | Aug 8 | 7-9pm Join us for the grand finale of Summer Nights with m.s. RedCherries, Danez Smith, and Speedy Ortiz, where poetry meets music outdoors in Battery Park City. Under the sun in Wagner Park, dance along to musical performances intertwining Speedy’s indie rock riffs with readings from acclaimed poet Danez Smith and National Book Award finalist m.s. RedCherries—the ultimate catharsis in rhythm and rhyme. Poet, author, and performance artist Brad Walrond will be the MC for this event.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
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Sadie Dupuis on Writing & Responding to Horror
In advance of Speedy Ortiz' August 8 Summer Nights performance, Poets House spoke with Sadie Dupuis about writing & responding to horror.
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
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 House If 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 Dupuis Sadie 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 · May 30
We will gather for our 27th Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge with @gabbat.bsky.social, Rita Dove, @pksj51.bsky.social, @adrianmatejka.bsky.social, and @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social! Please join us this coming Monday!
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · May 30
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Interview: Adrian Matejka on Skin (27th Bridge Walk Poets)
Adrian Matejka speaks 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 · May 30
"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 · May 29
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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