We’re delighted to launch the fall season with a reading by our summer workshop participants. Please join us in celebrating the work of the poets and writers who make this exceptional community so vibrant and irresistible!
Featuring readings from Anna Moschovakis and Lou Cornum's workshop participants.
Monday, September 16, 7pm ET. This reading will take place virtually over Zoom.
Within the first few weeks of our Spring 2024 season—beautifully, potently, and thoughtfully curated by Laura Henriksen, Program Director at the Project—we have already witnessed the connective and energizing ways gathering to engage with and support the work of poets and poetry makes possible more expansive conversations and exchange around language, community-building, and the present moment. These moments of confluence, deep listening, learning, interconnection—the gift of being present in space and time with one another to radically support and organize around poetry—is at the heart of our work.
Poetry Project Membership is a crucial way of creating and deepening these connections, and of intentionally supporting the poets, writers, performers, thinkers, and educators who make our work and this Project of poetry possible. Whether you’ve been a long time member and supporter of The Poetry Project, have only attended one or two events, or have been returning to our events, programming, and publications over the past few years, we’d be honored if you might consider deepening your participation in The Poetry Project’s community by becoming a Poetry Project Member this spring.
Membership benefits range from discounted/free admissions to Poetry Projects events, early access to workshop registrations, an annual subscription to our publications, and more. Beyond these perks, Poetry Project Membership provides essential material support that directly impacts our community and programming, helping us to pay poets, presenters, performers, and publication contributors equitably; provide workshop scholarships and free learning programs; and expand the accessibility of our events through offering live streaming, CART captioning, ASL, and other language accessibility services.
The Poetry Project now offers monthly payment options for all our Membership levels, starting at $5/month for an Individual Membership, which includes discounted admissions to our eve
“To name it now so as not to repeat history in oblivion. To extract each fragment from the word from the image another word another image the reply that will not repeat history in oblivion,” writes Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, whom The Poetry Project will celebrate this spring, alongside Wendy's Subway. Each poet, writer, artist, teacher, and performer we'll welcome as part our Spring 2024 Season demonstrates in different ways this work of fragmentation and excavation, of remembering and divining, of learning the lessons of history outside the bright cold of oblivion. Against that emptiness, we offer this abundance of word and image, song and sound, we offer these evenings together in our poetry church.
February
Wednesday 2/14: Cecilia Gentili & Macy Rodman
Friday 2/16: Ahmad Almallah & India Lena González
Wednesday 2/21: Imogen Binnie & Evan Kennedy
Wednesday 2/28: Joris/Peyrafitte — Domopoetics: Karstic Actions/Works
March
Friday 3/1: Nora Treatbaby & Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim
Friday 3/8: stefa marin alarcon and OHYUNG
Wednesday 3/13: Book Launch for Martin Wong's Footprints, Poems, and Leaves and Das Puke Book
Thursday 3/14: Redistributive Art: A Dis/Course Workshop with Diya Vij
Monday 3/18: Samuel Espíndola Hernández & Jimin Seo
Wednesday 3/20: She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
Friday 3/22: Zaina Alsous & Dana Ysabel Dela Cruz
April
Monday 4/1: Launch of Ann Rower’s If You're A Girl (Revised & Expanded Edition)
Wednesday 4/3: Chris Kraus & Kim Rosenfield
Monday 4/8: New York Arab Festival at Poetry Project
Wednesday 4/10: Alice Notley & Anne Waldman
Friday 4/12: Tara Aisha Willis & Damon Locks
Thursday 4/18: Nuar Alsadir and Claire Donato: Psychoanalysis and Poetry
Friday 4/19: Joshua Garcia & charles theonia
Wednesday 4/24: Saretta Morgan & Jared Stanley
Friday 4/26: Cody-Rose Clevidence & Sahar Khraibani
May
Wednesday 5/1: Launch of Breathlehem: The Selected Poetry of Jim Brodey
Monday 5/6: Fulla Abdul-Jabbar
Dear Poets,
This spring at the Poetry Project, we are thinking about correspondence. Colors can correspond and shapes can correspond, words and events can correspond to each other, as can names and people and things. Correspondence is a relationship, or rather many kinds of relationships, and so when we think about correspondence, we of course are thinking about you, our community of poets and people who love poets, or at least poetry. What does it mean to respond to something, in language or in feeling? How might we describe the experience of relaying a message and awaiting a reply? Fred Moten begins his new book — “we’re walking / an open diary. / Inconstancy, / which seems / like exercise / in parting, / is really / overlap / and incline, / a velvet / soundmap / of approach”
We're pleased to share with you our Spring 2023 Season. All in-person events will also be livestreamed unless otherwise noted. Stay tuned for more events and workshops this spring!
We eagerly anticipate your approach,
The Poetry Project
poetryproject.org/events
Thank you so much to poet, photographer, and the Poetry Project's very own Creative Communications Coordinator, Ivanna Baranova, for sharing her beautiful photographs with us for this season's flyers.
Announcing Fall 2022 at The Poetry Project!
Following our spring 2022 inquiry into listening as a form of poetic echolocation, in the fall of 2022 we’ll extend our exploration of the ways we locate ourselves relationally by considering the haptic’s mysteries of proprioception, by considering touch.
We are interested in what it means to hold and to be held, to trace and to catch, what it takes to build a container of openings, not organized around limitation but possibility, temporary and movable, a kind of lively devotion, communal. We’re thinking about the local and localism, and how those scales have shifted over time, both in the specific geography we inhabit and through communities that, while located geographically elsewhere, are nevertheless present. We’re reflecting on the many complexities and intricacies of touch, the ways it can harm as well as heal, exclude as well as include. We’re remembering that touch is something that happens both in community and in solitude, across distances and histories. We're curious about the temporality of touch, the way a moment of contact can transform its players in ways both fleeting and permanent, how it can literally enable survival. As Dolores Dorantes writes, “You live because the moon touched the stone jutting out of the pond to show you, copiously, its edges.”
Our events this season are noted as either happening virtually or in-person, with details on our event pages for registration, access, and safety practices. As we continue to update capacity and conditions for in-person gathering, please note that registration for our in-person events will open three weeks in advance of the event.
poetryproject.org/events
House Party is a new digital performance and publication series out of The Poetry Project with readings, songs, dances, writings and prompts from the past, present, and future. Within each issue, we'll also be sharing a living list of resources, emergency grants, and other recommendations.
We know that sociality and home are shifting through this uncertain moment. We also know that poets are impresarios of constraint, looting and improvising from all the means available. From the hearts and living rooms and bathtubs of our collective digital church, we're very pleased to welcome you to this first issue. Our house party is your house party.
Miguel Gutierrez, 4.25.18
Kayla Farrish, Pierre Guilbault, Sarah Haarmann, and Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin, John Ashbery's Litany, 11.16.16
