Master Classes offer advanced writers of poetry an opportunity to work intensively with some of the most respected poets of our time. Catherine Barnett, the teacher of this class, is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, winner of …
Master Classes offer advanced writers of poetry an opportunity to work intensively with some of the most respected poets of our time. Catherine Barnett, the teacher of this class, is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, winner of …
Mahogany Browne, Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry Program Director and Cave Canem and Poets House Fellowship Alumna, teaches an open-enrollment poetry workshop for the first 15 interested NYC students to sign up. Lunch and Metrocards provided. Free event. To sign up, …
Irish poet Harry Clifton, author of Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 and winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and poet and translator Alissa Valles, author of Orphan Fire and recipient of a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, …
Ten poets from our Emerging Poets Fellowship read breathtaking new work that promises an exciting future for poetry. The fellowship, now in its fifth year, assists poets by providing writing instruction, mentorship, and access to Poets House’s world class poetry …
Robin Coste Lewis takes us on the incredible journey behind The Voyage of the Sable Venus, winner of the 2015 National Book Award Winner for Poetry. A triptych of poems, The Voyage of the Sable Venusinvestigates historical portrayals of the black female body …
Beginning in the 1960s and continuing through the 1990s, this exhibition charts the creative collaboration and friendship between the New York School Poet Barbara Guest (1920-2006) and painter Fay Lansner (1921-2010). Included in the exhibit are drawings, paintings, collages and …
A tour of the exhibition Metamorphosis: The Collaboration of Poet Barbara Guest & Artist Fay Lansner followed by a conversation with Erica Lansner, Gabrielle Lansner, and exhibition curator Raphael Rubinstein. Click here for additional information.
Drop in throughout the day and mix together cool art materials with poetic fragments inside clear-sided diorama boxes. Watch as a literary terrarium forms before your eyes. All ages welcome!
Reassessing the book's potential as poetic form, Lynn Emanuel considers her own compositional choices -- why she places a letter addressed to Baudelaire here and a lyric or persona poem there -- as well as examples for developing a book's architecture set …