Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY (2026)

10/20/2026

Sin traiciones: taller de traducción con Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Without Betrayals: Translation Workshop with Ezequiel Zaidenwerg) | In-Person | Thurs | Oct 29 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Traducir no es traicionar: es escribir. En este taller de traducción de dos horas, con ejercicios de improvisación y de técnica, aprenderemos los rudimentos de un oficio que es, sobre todo, una manera de leer el mundo para reescribirlo.

Este taller será impartido en español, en la sala de conferencias de Kunitz en Poets House.

Translating isn’t betraying: it’s writing. In this two-hour translation workshop, with technical and improvisational activities, we’ll learn the foundations of a craft that is, above all, a way to read the world and rewrite it.

Please note that this workshop will be facilitated in Spanish in the Kunitz Conference Room at Poets House.

RSVP: https://poetshouse.org/event/sin-traiciones-taller-de-traduccion-con-ezequiel-zaidenwerg-in-spanish/

10/20/2026

Indigenous Futures: The James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets: Readings with Alexis Clifton, Casandra López, and Santee Frazier | In-Person & Zoom | Tuesday | October 27 | 7pm-8:30pm

Join us in celebrating the winners of the sixth edition of the James Welch Prize, an initiative established by Poetry Northwest to recognize two outstanding poems by Indigenous U.S. poets. With readings from this year’s judge, Santee Frazier, and winning poets Casandra López and Alexis Clifton.

Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets is named for Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer James Welch, whose early poems were featured in Poetry Northwest and who went on to become one of the region’s most important writers, credited with helping to lead the Native American Renaissance in the ’60s and ’70s.

Presented in partnership with Poetry Northwest, In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets), and People’s Poetry Gathering partners.

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10/20/2026

Last chance! If you haven't already sent a copy of your works published in 2026 for the exhibition, please send one (1) copy of each publication to Poets House by November 9, 2026.

The only event of its kind, the annual Poets House Showcase is a free exhibition featuring thousands of new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the US and a selection of poetry published abroad. Our upcoming exhibition aims to collect all poetry published in 2026, and opens on December 12.

We'd love to include your poetry books, chapbooks, broadsides, literary criticism, biographies pamphlets, artists’ books, and zines! Please visit the link below for our full guidelines and email [email protected] with any questions. https://poetshouse.org/programs-events/poets-house-showcase/

10/15/2026

Seminar: Listening to Emily Dickinson with Annie Finch
Remote Seminar | 5 Wednesdays | Nov 4 - Dec 9 | 7-8:30pm ET
Nov 4, 2026 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$200.00 – $225.00

To fully hear a great poem requires a triple alertness of body, mind, and the connection between them. That is the spirit in which we will invite Emily Dickinson’s poems into this seminar. Listening to Dickinson’s meter, stanza, imagery, diction, grammar, tone, capitalization, rhyme and more, we will discover the synapses where her meaning and form meet—places where the poem comes to life again over and over, as if re-created in that instant. By treating each syllable and stress as part of the sacred temple of the poem’s body, we will find secrets that can never be put into words—not only about Dickinson—and about poetry—but also about ourselves. No previous experience with Dickinson or poetry is required.

Required Text(s):
Emily Dickinson’s Poems As She Preserved Them, Ed. Cristianne Miller
and/or
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Reading Edition, Ed. R.W. Franklin

Please note that this class will not meet on Wednesday, November 25.

This remote class will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to you by a staff member in the week leading up to the class start date.

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email [email protected] with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement.

About the Educator:

Annie Finch’s twenty books of award-winning poetry and poetics include Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan U. Press) and the epic poem on abortion Among the Goddesses, as well as A Poet’s Craft and the anthology Villanelles from Everyman’s Library. Her poetry has been featured at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

10/14/2026

Poets House not only houses a collection of 100K poetry works, but has on display in our library the writing desks of legendary poets such as e. e. cummings and founder Stanley Kunitz alongside art including paintings by Philip Guston that are publicly available to view for the public!

10/14/2026

Join us Thursday, October 22 from 7-9pm at Poets House for "Celebrating Ed Roberson: A Poetry Reading with Rosamond S. King, Dante Micheaux, Evie Shockley, and Ed Roberson." You don't want to miss this lineup of incredibly acclaimed poets.

10/10/2026

Workshop: Cut, Paint, Stitch: Writing Poetry Through Collage with Katya Borkov
In-Person Workshop | Saturday | Oct 17 | 12 - 3pm ET
Oct 17, 2026 | 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$90.00 – $105.00

In this workshop, poets are invited to make use of a variety of visual tools to craft a poem through multimedia collage.

We’ll explore the visual qualities of text, drawing inspiration from illuminated manuscripts, calligrams, photo-poetry, calligraphy, and other examples of sewn, etched, printed, painted, multimedia poems across centuries and continents.

While you’re welcome to bring your own source materials and ephemera to work with, you’ll be provided with all the tools and guidance you need to compose your own visual poem, including:

Text and images repurposed from magazines and damaged/discarded books
Watercolor paints
Colored pens, pencils, and wax pastels
Thread and needles
Functional tools such as paper, glue, scissors, etc.
Your final work will take the form of a finished poem-on-paper or a small art book. This workshop is suited for beginners seeking an accessible window into the world of writing poetry, as well as experienced poets eager to incorporate visual structures into their practice.

In-Person 3-Hour Workshop | Saturday | October 17 | 12-3pm ET | $105 ($90 for Members)

This in-person workshop will take place at Poets House in the Kunitz Conference Room on the second floor; elevator access is available.

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email [email protected] with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement.

About the Educator:

Katya Borkov is a poet, multimedia artist and facilitator leading interdisciplinary arts workshops as Everything Spills Studio. Her poetry has been featured by Poets House, La Bouche, Discount Guillotine, Temptations Salon, Experimental Creations, Secret Pete’s, At The Well and Auteurism. She has authored the photo-poetry chapbook Flamingo Heights (Tiny Cutlery Press, March 2025), as well as collage-poetry zine “V. The Vision”, and arts criticism in Impulse Magazine and AN Interior.
https://poetshouse.org/event/workshop-poetry-collage-katya-borkov/

10/09/2026

Poetry in the Space of the Notebook: A Panel With Anselm Berrigan, Emily Skillings, and Lynn Xu Moderated by Poets House Library Director, John Vincler Oct 17, 2026 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This panel explores Pierre Joris’ notebooks as sites of poetic composition, experimentation, and visual thinking. Anselm Berrigan, Emily Skillings, and Lynn Xu will consider the notebook as a creative and conceptual space within their own poetic practice.

This event would not be possible without the dedication of Nicole Peyrafitte and the generous support of the Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York and the Centre National de Littérature Luxembourg.

Join us before this event for a free guided tour of Pierre Joris Notebooks Exhibition which will run from July 14, 2026 – October 31, 2026.

10/09/2026

Read a poem as part of the exhibition of record for new poetry! Poets with work in the 2026 Showcase are eligible to participate in one of our Showcase Community Readings.

January 9, 2027 from 2-5pm
February 28, 2027 from 2-5pm

These signature events offer a chance for dozens of poets represented in the annual Poets House Showcase to read their work over the course of an afternoon, bringing to life the full scope of poetry published in 2026. In addition to our February 28 reading to close out the Showcase, we've added a second date to include even more readers.

A limited number of spots are available and readers will be randomly selected from those who sign up by the deadline. Readings will take place in-person at Poets House, but with a small number of remote slots for readers who would like to participate on Zoom.

To sign up as a reader, please complete the form here: https://bit.ly/showcase-community-readings-2026. Sign-ups will be open until November 13, 2026 and readers will be notified on December 1, 2026.

If you haven't yet submitted your book to the Showcase, the deadline is October 31!
https://poetshouse.org/programs-events/poets-house-showcase/

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