Jennifer Moxley reads "After Turning the Clocks Back" from THE MIDNIGHT WORK (Wesleyan University Press, 2025) for the December '25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
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Elizabeth Willis reads "Both Roads" from her collection LIONTAMING IN AMERICA (New Directions, 2024) for the April '26 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
“How does a poem use its time with us to create a feeling? Through reading, conversation, and generative exercises, we’ll explore books that activate and engage the reader with sound & rhythm to communicate beyond language.” Fall seminars start 10/12 with “Music & Motion”. https://ow.ly/5yNX50ZT9MJ
Dobby Gibson reads from his book-long sequence HOLD EVERYTHING (Graywolf Press, 2024) winner of the PSA's 2025 Four Quartets Prize.
Bianca Rae Messinger reads an excerpt of "pleasureis" from PLEASUREIS AMIRACLE (Nightboat Books, 2025) for the November ’25 installment of Make Room: A New Voices Salon at the PSA Storefront.
This Friday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m., the Poetry Society’s fall ’26 public programs commence with readings from Diana Keren Lee, Susanna Plotts-Pineda, and D.S. Waldman. 7:00 p.m. | 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn Free with RSVP at link in bio
“Night Train” by Graham Foust is now up as part of the Poetry Society of America’s Poem District. Design: Other Means Vinyl: Nela Visual Location: 550 Court Street, Brooklyn
Enrollment is open for our next season of seminars & workshops, featuring an Advanced Poetry Workshop with Kazim Ali (applications close October 6); Crash Course seminars with Camille Rankine and Natalie Shapero; and a workshop with Alan Felsenthal. Learn more and join: https://ow.ly/gwtV50ZLxie.
Tickets are on sale now for the Poetry Society’s fall 2026 events. https://ow.ly/Wh1O50ZKZHK Upcoming programs feature the nation's leading poets and thinkers, including Dara Barrois/Dixon, John Yau, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Paisley Rekdal, Dawn Lundy Martin, A. O. Scott, and many more.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads "Big Night" from her collection NIGHT OWL (@eccobooks.bsky.social, 2026) for the May '26 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Matthew Rohrer reads "Grace" from ARMY OF GIANTS (Wave Books, 2024) for the March '26 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Gregory Pardlo reads his poem "Do Not Resuscitate" for the November '25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Ariana Reines on Paradise Lost by John Milton, from the May '26 installment of the PSA Talks series.
Adrian Matejka reads "Somebody Else Sold the World" from his collection of new and selected poems, BE EASY (Liveright, 2026) for the May '26 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
D. A. Powell reads his poem "Trigger Warning" for the October '25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Dong Li reads an excerpt of "The Maple Bridge" from THE ORANGE TREE (The University of Chicago Press, 2023) for the November '25 installment of Make Room: A New Voices Salon at the PSA Storefront.
Monica Ferrell reads "I Appreciate Your Visibility" from THE FUTURE (Four Way Books, 2026) for the March '26 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Morgan Võ reads an excerpt of "Other Things Laying in an Ice Trough" from THE SELKIE (The Song Cave, 2024) for the November '25 installment of Make Room: A New Voices Salon at the PSA Storefront.
Mónica de la Torre reads "Priority was Handwritten" from PAUSE THE DOCUMENT (Nightboat Books, 2025) for the May '25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Philip Metres reads "From Thy Face Shall I Be Hid" from FUGITIVE / REFUGE (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) for the November '25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Next Thursday, May 28, the Poetry Society will welcome poet, playwright, performing artist, and translator Ariana Reines for a lecture on Paradise Lost, John Milton's landmark seventeenth-century biblical epic. A fifteen-minute Q&A will follow Reines’s lecture. Tickets: https://ow.ly/ej5c50Z2jHY
Next Wednesday, May 13, the Poetry Society will welcome Adrian Matejka & Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the next installment of the spring ’26 PSA Reading Series. 7:00 p.m. $10 in-person / $5 streaming Free for members Link in bio to register.
Harryette Mullen reads “Thanks To” from REGAINING UNCONSCIOUSNESS 2025 for the September ’25 installment of the PSA Reading Series.
Next Friday, May 8, at 7:00 p.m., the Poetry Society hosts readings by Asha Futterman, Sara Gilmore, and Jimin Seo. 7:00 p.m. | 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn Free with RSVP: https://ow.ly/oKjS50YTf6I
Submissions open Friday! The Poetry Society invites poets to submit a single, previously unpublished poem (up to 10 lines) to be featured for a month, along with up to four other poems, in the window of our storefront office in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more: https://ow.ly/mesg50YRiUU
On Thursday, April 23, the Poetry Society will welcome Farid Matuk & Elizabeth Willis for the next installment in the spring ’26 PSA Reading Series. Thursday, April 23 7:00 p.m. $10 in-person / $5 streaming Free for members Register: https://ow.ly/oIW150YGLwt
Congrats to the inaugural class of Summer Fellows: S. Erin Batiste, Adriana Beltrano, Mitchell Bradford III, Cynthia Clifford, Isabella DeSendi, Cicely Grace, Eve Kenneally, Miguel Martin Perez, Kimberly Ramos, Timothy Ree, Lina Stoyanovich, and Dujie Tahat. Read More: https://ow.ly/nIjw50YEwcC
Rachel Mannheimer reads her poem “New Haven” for the February ’26 installment of Make Room: A New Voices Salon at the PSA Storefront.
Congratulations to A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, winner of the Lyric Poetry Award, selected by José Olivarez. And congrats to this year’s finalists, Nina C. Peláez and Malcolm Tariq.
