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Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!

Early registration is now open for our winter workshops, online and in-person, ft. @omotarajames.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social & more! Through January 18, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at

2025 Awards Gala | Honoring Patricia Smith — Brooklyn Poets Help us raise funds for our operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming while celebrating our honoree, award winners, and community members including Patricia Smith,…

Join us for our Awards Gala on December 7, ft. the inimitable @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social alongside award winners Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, faculty Sam Cha, fellow Disha Trivedi, Mandana Chaffa, Cornelius Eady, Eugenia Leigh, Miller Oberman & Tara Skurtu.

Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions!

Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...

Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!

Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & more! Through August 17, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Don’t miss our final July workshops exploring the personal & political stakes of writing, possibilities of dreaming, activism & love, multimedia poetry & the poetic toolbox w/ @imogenxtian.bsky.social, alma valdez-garcia, Starr Davis, Emma Sheinbaum & Kyle Liang! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

no this isn’t from being cool like y’all at awp my partner just works in healthcare

i’ve learned the body is capable of truly miraculous things, like coming down with both strep & covid in the same week

If you’re feeling stuck today, try this prompt from @storiesandnoise.bsky.social & don’t forget to ask for everything <3.

In this prompt helps you feel a little less stuck, consider signing up for their online workshop "Prompt Queen: A Generative Ball" at brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Brooklyn Poets FINAL DAYS TO REGISTER REGISTER BY FEBRUARY 26TH The Five Universal Rhythms w/ DS Waldman In Person • Sundays, 2-5pm March 2- April 6 REGISTER BY MARCH 2ND Breaking Form with Purpose w/ Seth Leeper Online • Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm March 5- April 2 REGISTER BY MARCH 5TH Prompt Queen: A Generative Ball w/ C. (Constantine Jones) Online • Sundays, 2-5pm March 9- April 6 REGISTER REGISTER BY MARCH 7TH Dreaming Against the Colonial Imaginary w/ Alexis Aceves Garcia Online • Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm March 11-April 8 BIT.LY/BKPWORKSHOPS

Don't miss your last chance to register for these upcoming workshops with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, @sethwleeper.bsky.social, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social and Alexis Aceves Garcia! Learn more about each at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

i love poets i love reading lil poems together in community, thank you @tinhouse.bsky.social & especially this group of brilliant folks & @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for your generosity & time over the last week #thww

yeah, i made a valiant effort to clear it before it started sleeting and turned to ice but then it started raining and i gave up after getting the driveway just clear enough for my partner to park after work without slipping 😂 it was relentless!

❤️❤️❤️

ignoring the eight inches of snow i need to finish shoveling from my driveway to hang with the lgbtqia2s-writers squad at @tinhouse.bsky.social & i have no regrets bc this writing is the 🔥 my frozen self needs

(don't follow up on this when i'm dealing with the aftermath in two days)

got misgendered as a performance/slam poet in workshop today & as someone whose actual gender is most awkward nerd of the page that ever lived—i'm flattered

WRITE AN ODE TO YOURSELF (or someone else if you want, you do you) Save $20 on any workshop through Feb. 17 using code ODETOMYSELF. Register @bit.ly/ bkpworkshops Brooklyn Poets

Maybe you want to write a love poem. Maybe all you want to write about is rage. Either way, you deserve to spend some time with your own words this season. If you were looking for a push, here it is: Save $20 on any workshop using code ODETOMYSELF. mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

look at all these poets 🔥

i need more than small acts of kindness i need BIG OVERTHROWINGS OF GOVERNMENT

“2nd book!!” —me, waiting (sometimes) patiently to read the first one

If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this.

REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

this was accidentally my first post here but it feels right no regrets

i guess i have to submit a proposal to pay poets to steal the declaration of independence, metaphorically

(donate to your local arts nonprofit pls we need you)

DeeSoul Carson | /build god, then we’ll talk

(encoded in hexadecimal, but I’m being nice and including the decoded text)

Published in Seventh Wave Mag

Brooklyn Poets LAST WEEK TO REGISTER Online • Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm ET • February 11-March 25 The Conversation: Eras with Omotara James In this seven-week, generative online workshop we'll respond to the curated art and literature of a decade by writing ekphrastic poetry. We'll learn the delicate balance of recording personal narrative while interrogating the cultural conversation of the eras spanning the 1960s to the 2000s. Online • Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm ET • February 13-March 13 Writing the Backdrop with Rama Ramana What does a single blade of grass signify in the open expanse of a suburban lawn? How does that shift when viewed against the rugged sweep of mountains or in the deep boroughs of a city? In this five-week, generative online workshop we'll look at poems, prose texts and short videos that illuminate landscape, environment and background and use these to consider the possibilities of world-building inside a poem. Online • Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm ET • February 12-March 12 Black Fire: Finding Our Duende with Matthew Gellman In this five-week, generative online workshop, we'll explore the roots of the concept of duende, using Lorcas "Play and Theory of the Duende " as our foundational text. We will write poems that release the wild, dark, animalistic energy of the duende that lives inside us. In Person • Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm ET • February 13-March 13 Aubades & Ballads & Odes, Oh My! with Gregory Crosby In this five-week, generative in-person workshop, we'll explore how three longstanding poetic forms- -the aubade, the ballad, and the ode--have, over time, evolved from received forms into invented forms. Register @ bit.ly/ bkpworkshops

It’s also your final chance to register for workshops starting next week with @omotarajames.bsky.social, Matthew Gellman, Gregory Crosby and Ramya Ramana! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all