Poets House

Poets House

@poetshouse.bsky.social

A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. //

381 Followers 615 Following 69 Posts Joined Feb 2025
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Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025).

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1 month ago

We are so excited to have you @patriphobe.bsky.social! <3

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2 months ago
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I’m so so pumped to be teaching this class, online via @poetshouse.bsky.social, a syllabus of poets fundamental not just to my poetics but my personhood. Come read with me! poetshouse.org/event/semina...

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1 month ago

We are absolutely thrilled to have y'all in our Showcase Exhibition! 🫶

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1 month ago
Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, on display at Poet's House (close up version) Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, on display at Poet's House (zoomed out version)

Thanks so much to @poetshouse.bsky.social for featuring Piżama Press in their 30th annual poetry showcase! If you live in NYC, they’re a nonprofit poetry library. Free & open to the public. Stop in & check it out! This showcase (with Kiik’s book) will be on display until February 28 📚❤️

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2 months ago
Climbing the stairs
clasping an axe. Climbing

the stairs clasping the axe.
This is my last thought

before my head bounces
on the landing. You got me first.

Classic us. Classic you.
Cinematic classic.

My body stays upright afterwards,

something for you to hold,
which you do.

- from Half-Life by Eleanor Tennyson

- from Half-Life by Eleanor Tennyson (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2025)

The Showcase is open now through February 28, stop by to browse or swing by our reading series!

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2 months ago
Tote Bag Giveaway Announcement Instructions to enter in the giveaway A picture of the Poets House Tote Bag

We are hosting a Poets House Tote Bag giveaway this Holiday season! <3

To enter the giveaway:
1. Follow @poetshouse.bsky.social
2. Live this post!
3. Comment for 1 entry (unlimited entries allowed!)

3 WINNERS will be announced January 2026. Tote can be picked up in-person or mailed within the US.

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2 months ago
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Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

View @vikshirley.bsky.social's new collection as well as many others in the Poets House 30th Showcase Exhibition, currently open!

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2 months ago
Photo of Vik Shirley's new book, Persona Digitalia Inside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, containing 81 smaller squares, fitted in to a massive square shape Inside the book, turned to a page with art. It is titled Ribbon Plexus. It is a page with 9 maroon boxes, fitted in to a massive square shape. Each maroon box, has smaller maroon boxes within it, with detailed images in each box

"Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image, each housed in its own grid... They represent the double self. We are often an alternate version[s] of ourselves. The truth is often both things or multiple things." - (@photoworks-uk.bsky.social, 2025)

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More photos of the Showcase Exhibition below!

RSVP for our next event here: poetshouse.org/event/30th-s...

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2 months ago
A woman reading a book A woman grabbing a book off a shelf A view of people seated in the showcase room A room of people seated in the showcase room

Photos from our 30th Showcase Exhibition Opening this past week! Thank you all for the incredible turnout!

Our next reading, 1/15 7-9 pm, features @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby, as part of our 30th Showcase Exhibition reading series 📚

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3 months ago
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Hybrid 6-Week Workshop: Keisha-Gaye Anderson: Sit Here for a Word - Poets House This workshop focuses on excavating family stories. We will explore what hasn’t been said or what demands to be seen through persona poetry.

Sign up for this upcoming workshop today! All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement.

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3 months ago
Sit Here For a Word Workshop flier The course costs $360 Photo and bio for Keisha-Gaye Anderson

Some stories or moments in history may not have been documented, but they live on in our bones. @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social is teaching a workshop focusing on excavating those hidden stories. We will explore what hasn’t been said or what still demands to be seen through the form of the persona poem.

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4 months ago

thank you <3

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4 months ago
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Tenderly packed & shipped #today for Leo @poetshouse.bsky.social #poetrywellserved

"tenderness" #billymavreas #tenderness #KFB

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4 months ago
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Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

Mark your calendars for the Showcase opening on December 13! With hundreds of collections and publishers represented, you'll find poetry works from new and established authors, small presses and major publishers. RSVP to a 30th Poets House Showcase event today.

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4 months ago
Picture of Palestinian by Ibrahim Nasrallah Arabic text from the poem Palestinian by Ibrahim Nasrallah A page containing the english translation of the full poem for "Palestinian" Flier for the 30th Poets House Showcase

A chapbook by award-winning Palestinian poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, featuring @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's English translations. "'I write now so that I do not die,' Nasrallah insists, 'and every time they try to erase us, we become clearer.'" (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, 2024)

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4 months ago
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Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

Mark your calendars for the Showcase opening on December 13! With hundreds of collections and publishers represented, you'll find a panoramic view of new poetry works from new and established authors, small presses and major publishers. RSVP to a 30th Poets House Showcase event today.

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4 months ago
Picture of #evolutionarypoems by Mihret Kebede

A collaboration between poet Mihret Kebede and Anna Moschovakis, "#evolutionarypoems features "rhythmic and direct reactions to contemporary political events...show[ing] how revolution is not linear and how a deep connection to homeland lives inside of critique." (@circumferencebooks.com, 2025)

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4 months ago
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Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

Learn more about and RSVP to our upcoming 30th Poets House Showcase here!

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4 months ago
Photo of Sahar Khraibani, Farid Matuk, Michelle Peñaloza, and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera. Photo of Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jennifer Espinoza, Chet’la Sebree, and Annie Wenstrup.

February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading

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4 months ago
Photo of Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Photo of Ching-In Chen, jason b. crawford, charles theonia, Nora Treatbaby.

January 15, 2026 | 7-9pm @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby
January 22, 2026 | 7-9pm Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and @lenakt.bsky.social

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4 months ago
30th Poets House Showcase Flier Photo of Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, Carl Phillips, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

Announcing our official line-up for the 30th Poets House Showcase Reading Series! Join us in uplifting an array of voices crucial to this moment in poetry publishing on Saturday, December 13th, 6-8pm. Featuring Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

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4 months ago

Sucha lovely wormy poem!

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4 months ago
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In-Person 6-Week Workshop: Neil Shepard: Vision And Revision: Seeing Into The Heart Of The Poem Nov 5 - Dec 17: Discover "the deep heart's core" of a poem, and learn how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility within poetry.

Discover “the deep heart’s core” of a poem, and learn how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility within poetry with Neil Shepard. Join the "Vision And Revision: Seeing Into The Heart Of The Poem" workshop, every Wednesday from November 5 to December 17. Be present and sign up today.

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"The Nature of Our Times" Hybrid Poetry Reading & Exhibit Launch Join us for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times."

Readings from Kimberly Blaeser, Aileen Cassinetto, chingin.bsky.social, kinsaledrake.bsky.social, David Hassler, Jane Hirshfield, thepoetslizard.bsky.social, philipmetres.bsky.social, hyffeinated.bsky.social, Dorsía Smith Silva, Arthur Sze, Joanna Solfrian, and leahumansky.bsky.social. RSVP today!

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4 months ago
The Nature of Our Times Event details for The Nature of Our Times event

Join us Thursday, November 13th at 7 PM ET for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times", edited by @thepoetslizard.bsky.social, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler. Foreword by phillevin.bsky.social.

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4 months ago
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In-Person 3-Hour Workshop: Noa Micaela Fields: A VOWEL'S MUSIC Guided by mouthfeel and ear-sense, we will attune to the power of vowels as vessels for sonic improvisation and rhetorical structure.

Be apart of this workshop! Sign up here today:

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A Vowel's Music
Noa Micaela Fields
Voyage into the secret lives of vowels, the subtle and sensual building blocks of poetry's music. Guided by mouthfeel and playful ear-sense, we will attune to the power of vowels as vessels for sonic improvisation and rhetorical structure. Noa Micaela Fields  is an echodeviant* (trans poet with hearing aids) in search of the hypervivid in her one and only captionless life. Her debut poetry collection E, a trans remix of Louis Zukofsky's "A", is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She is currently based in Chicago.

@doyounoapoet.bsky.social is teaching an in person 3-hour workshop with us on November 22nd from 1:30-2:30PM on "a vowel's music."

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4 months ago
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Poet as Witness - Poets House 10/30: When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Readings from Anna Malihon, Iryna Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk and their translators.

When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Ukrainian poets speak in words that refuse silence, tracing the lines between loss and resilience, grief and human dignity.

Presented in partnership with @razomforukraine.org and the Ukrainian Cultural Festival.

RSVP to the event today!

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