the Poetry Project Podcast

Lily Jue Sheng with Nyle Genevieve - January 10, 2020 by

Harmony Holiday - January 10, 2020 by

Nicole Fleetwood & 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin - October 21, 2019 by

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary - June 12, 2019 by

Anselm Berrigan - March 20, 2019 by

Diana Khoi Nguyen - March 20, 2019 by

Camonghne Felix, Denice Frohman, & Porsha Olayiwola - February 13, 2019 by

Trickster Feminism with Anne Waldman & Friends - November 14, 2018 by

Khadijah Queen & Divya Victor - October 3, 2018 by

Pamela Sneed's Sweet Dreams Book Launch - September 19, 2018 by

John Godfrey & Camille Rankine - February 28, 2018 by

Terrance Hayes & Asiya Wadud - November 15, 2017 by

Youmna Chlala & Anna Moschovakis - October 4, 2017 by

Monday Reading Series Tommy “Teebs” Pico is a poet from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation. He authored the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk, & myriad keen Tweets including “Love in the time of climate change.” He is co-curator of the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, and co-host of the podcast Food 4 Thot. His Myers-Briggs is IDGAF. @heyteebs Sasha Smi...

This event is a part of the “GIANT NIGHT: The Poetry Project at 50” platform series. In honor of our 50th Anniversary, and as part of our fundraising efforts, the Project teamed up with The Song Cave to print a limited edition portfolio of prints from five artists whose work is important to us: Jonas Mekas, Simone Forti, Cecilia Vicuña, Mary Manning, and Amy Sillman. All of the images were drawn f...

Monday Reading Series Lauren Levin grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond, CA with her family. Her first full-length book The Braid is forthcoming with Krupskaya Books in October 2016. Recent work can be found in the chapbook Only the Dead Are Never Anxious (Mondo Bummer), in the journal Open House, and forthcoming in the journal Hold. Eric Sneathen splits his time between Oakland and UC San...

This event is a part of the “GIANT NIGHT: The Poetry Project at 50” platform series. Participants will answer some or none of the following half-questions: What’s it mean for The Poetry Project to be The Poetry Project right now, in the East Village, in 2016, which is or was considered “downtown” at points? Is “downtown” a sign, a sigh, a thing, an active nothing, or a something else? Can we have...

Wednesday Reading Series Keith Waldrop is the author of Selected Poems (Omnidawn 2016), Transcendental Studies (U of California Press, National Book Award 2009), and more than a dozen other books of poems. He has also published a novel, Light While There Is Light (Dalkey Archive), a book of collages, Several Gravities (Siglio), and translated Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil and Poems in Prose as well...

Friday Reading Series Vi Khi Nao holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. Her stories, drawings, and poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals, including Glimmer Train, NOON, and Ploughshares. S...

Wednesday Reading Series Myung Mi Kim’s books include Penury (Omnidawn), Commons (University of California Press), DURA (Sun & Moon and Nightboat Books), The Bounty (Chax Press), and Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press), winner of The Multicultural Publisher’s Exchange Award of Merit. Her fellowships and honors include awards from the Fund for Poetry, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Gertrude St...

Monday Reading Series It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet?: Writing in the Shadow of Human Extinction This evening, consisting of readings, screenings and discussion will focus on the question of writing in the late anthropocene. With the question of major shifts in global climate, foodways and migration patterns, and the potential for major political and economic upheaval, th...

Wednesday Reading Series Garrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). He has also written a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave, 2014), and a pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016...

Monday Reading Series Anaïs Duplan is the author of Take This Stallion. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in/on: Hyperallergic, Boston Review, The Journal, FENCE, PBS Newshour, the Ploughshares blog, Asymptote Journal’s blog, and other places. She directs the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program in Iowa City where she is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writ...

Friday Reading Series Join us in the Parish Hall for bilingual readings in Spanish and English with authors and translators from the Señal Series, featuring: Luis Felipe Fabre (with translation by John Pluecker), Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (reading Sor Juana), Pablo Katchadjian (with Rebekah Smith), and Florencia Castellano (with translation by Alexis Almeida). Señal Series (founded in 2015) is...

Wednesday Reading Series Todd Colby has published six books of poetry. His latest book, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave in 2014. Todd’s most recent poetry and art have appeared in Poetry, Columbia: a journal of literature and art, Denver Quarterly, and Brooklyn Rail. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Adam Fitzgerald is a poet, editor, essayist and educator. In 2013, his first book of po...