Fairfield poetry events

Ships, Seas and Poetries!

Saturday, Jun 1 11:00a

Kendra Sullivan, Dylan Gauthier and friends of the boat-building collaborative Mare Liberum lead a workshop on how to sing shanties like a sailor, write poetry like a pirate, and build model boats ...

Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading

Tuesday, Jun 4 7:00p

Kray Hall - Poets House, New York

A reading by the 10 poets in Poets House’s second annual Emerging Poets Fellowship program...

Line Break There, or Maybe Not

Tuesday, Jun 11 6:00p

Poets House - Conference Room, New York

In this workshop, we will experiment with the line break and how using it in new ways, or not at all, can lead to poems you would not have come to write otherwise...

Nyack Summer Poetry Festival

Friday, Jun 21 7:30p

Nyack Village Theatre, Nyack

Poetry rising with Cherie Raglin. Feature includes NYC National Slam Poet Jeanann Verlee. Followed by an open mic. Open mic sign-up begins 7:30 p.m. Featured poets at 8 p.m...

Lorca's Route in New York (Walking Tour)

Wednesday, Jun 5 4:00p

Low Rotunda: Columbia University, New York

LORCA’S ROUTE IN NEW YORK (Walking Tour)...

SpokenMeta4: Poetry, Music & Laughter

Saturday, Jun 29 7:00p

Katra Lounge (Lower Level), New York

Join Ms. Reign as she takes over the stage @ Katra Lounge NYC. Indulge in a night full of inspiring poetry, music and laughter...

Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop

Saturday, May 25 11:00a

Poets House - Conference Room, New York

This workshop will focus on revision and how we can, as poets, continue to push the poem along the path we think we want to explore by investigating diction, structure and other craft elements, whi...

The Old In and Out, a play about sex, love and the cure for "happily ever after"

Friday, Jun 14 7:30p

Stage Left Studio, New York

A new play by Madeline Artenberg and Karen Hildebrand, directed by Kat Georges, tells the stories of four free-spirited women who, while looking for love, discover their true independent selves...

2013 Spoken Word Poetry Slam

Tuesday, Jun 11 9:30a

New York Law School, New York

Teaching Matters is making its Common Core- aligned Writing Poetry Unit free to schools for the month of May...

iSessions, poetry event (session 2)

Friday, May 31 7:00p

The Drilling Company Theatre, New York

iSessions featuring Poets Lanika Mabrey & Anton Nimblett Intimate Sessions : engaging audiences with meaningful art to enlighten your thoughts...

May Swenson Centennial Tribute

Tuesday, May 28 7:00p

Poets House, New York

In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, this reading will showcase the breadth of her poetic output, from nature poems displaying her keen observation of wildlife to exuberant and e...

A Reading with Naomi Shihab Nye

Saturday, Jun 1 5:30p

Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site And Interpretive Center, Huntington Station

Reception and poetry reading featuring renown poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

Winning Hearts & Minds Celebration

Saturday, Jul 13 7:00p

Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck

Postponed by Hurricane Sandy and Blizzard Nemo, the 40th anniversary celebration of Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans...

Moira Egan & Joel Allegretti read in the Lunar Walk Poetry Series

Sunday, Jun 9 4:00p

Two Moon Art House & Cafe, Brooklyn

Coming all the way from Rome, Italy, Moira Egan’s Bar Napkin Sonnets (2009) won the Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition...

Rimes of The Ancient Mariner Monthly Spoken Word And Open Mic

Thursday, Jun 6 7:00p

Identity Bar & Lounge, New York

A new monthly “Spoken Word” Open Mic venue for Performance Poets, Writers, Monologists Memoirists, Barroom Bards, and Storytellers. First Thursday of every month...

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