Poetry
Conversation & Reading
Celebrating Elias Khoury and Mahmoud Darwish with Ammiel Alcalay and Sinan Antoon

Fri, Mar 14, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Conversation
<em>You See What You See</em>: Book Launch & Archival Conversation for Lois Elaine Griffith

Fri, Mar 7, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Many Poems: New Poetics of South America in Translation

Thu, Feb 27, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Conversation
A New Classic: <em>ABORTION STORIES</em>, Launch Event & Conversation

Tue, Mar 4, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Presentation
2025 Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects

Thu, Feb 6, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
LIVING ROOM: June Jordan’s legacy in a time of genocide, policing, & Trump’s return

Thu, Dec 12, 2024
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Reading
Book Launch for Anna Gréki’s <em>Algeria, Capital: Algiers</em> translated by Marine Cornuet

Fri, Nov 8, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Book Launch & Reading
Joint book launch of Kendra Sullivan’s <em>Reps</em> and Alan Felsenthal’s <em>Hereafter</em>

Tue, Oct 22, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Translating Islands: A Reading and Conversation

Wed, Nov 13, 2024
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Reading
UDP Spring Studio Party: Readings by Cuff, Hsiung, Shams, Sullivan

Sat, May 11, 2024
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet

Thu, May 2, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Book Launch, Panel Discussion & Reading
Poetry and Climate: A Book Launch, Reading, and Panel

Tue, Apr 16, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Presentation
Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects

Fri, Dec 8, 2023
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change with Uche Nduka, Celina Su, Allia Abdullah-Matta, and Kealoha

Thu, Oct 19, 2023
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
The Perhaps Unexpected with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Rosamond S. King

Thu, Nov 9, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Boat People: A Conversation with Mayra Santos-Febres and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario

Tue, Oct 10, 2023
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Book Launch, Conversation & Reading
Book Launch: Jumping into the American River New and Selected Poems, Vol 1 by Mary Norbert Korte with Iris Cushing, Jason Weiss, & M.C. Kinniburgh

Sun, Jun 4, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Black and Latinx Studies Afro-Latinidades Symposium Presents: Lois Elaine Griffith

Thu, Apr 20, 2023
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Book Launch & Reading
Book Launch for TROPICAL SACRIFICE with Lucas de Lima, Ana Božičević, Catherine Chen, & Levani

Fri, Mar 24, 2023
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Book Launch & Conversation
Book Launch: The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980

Thu, Oct 27, 2022
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century—A Conversation with Rowena Kennedy-Epstein & Francesca Wade

Thu, Oct 27, 2022
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance

Tue, Nov 2, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
John Wieners’ Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles

Wed, Apr 14, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Panel Discussion
The Craft We Didn’t Learn: Retroactive Writing Advice from the Archives

Fri, Mar 5, 2021
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Community Gathering & Reading
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of 250 Years of African American Poetry

Tue, Feb 2, 2021 –
Fri, Feb 26, 2021
Conversation & Screening
The School of Toni Cade Bambara with Makeba Lavan, Linda J. Holmes, Thabiti Lewis, & Louis Massiah

Tue, Dec 15, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Workshop & Conversation
Activating June Jordan’s “Life Studies”: Notes, Conversation, and Workshop with Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed

Thu, Nov 12, 2020
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Ensemble Time: An Improvised Reading and Listening Session with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten

Thu, Aug 20, 2020
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
A Reading and Conversation with Joyelle McSweeney

Fri, May 8, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
A Reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

Wed, Apr 22, 2020
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
POSTPONED: Frost Medal Celebration: Toi Derricotte in conversation with Tracy K. Smith

Thu, Apr 16, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
GC Poetics Presents Show n’ Tell: poetry & other works in progress

Wed, Dec 11, 2019
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten Reading and Book Celebration

Fri, Nov 1, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library

Thu, Nov 7, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Poetry Listening Session with Brent Hayes Edwards and Fred Moten

Wed, Oct 23, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lecture
Cedar Sigo Presents “Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation”

Thu, Sep 26, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
“I teach myself in outline”: Audre Lorde’s Pedagogy

Tue, Apr 9, 2019
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett

Wed, Feb 20, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Life/Signs in the Clamoring Mouth: Memory, Politics, & Poetries of Ghostly Mattering

Thu, Apr 4, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
QueensEnglish International 2018 at Queens Museum

Sat, Dec 8, 2018
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Conversation & Reading
Radical Writing, Feminism and Black Futures: with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Hunt, Dawn Lundy Martin and Claudia Rankine

Thu, Dec 6, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lecture
Writing the Women’s Movement, 1963 – 1991: Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman

Mon, Oct 15, 2018
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM