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Events

 

 

2024

 

Saturday, February 17

  1:23 p.m. Rebecca Weiner Tompkins (poet)

  1:30 p.m. Angela Carr  (poet)

  1:37 p.m. Martine Bellen (poet)

  1:44 p.m. Sarah Sarai (poet)

  1:51 p.m. Ron Horning (poet)

  1:58 p.m. Fatima Velez (poet)

Welcome to Boog City 17.5

Block Hill Station (formally Bar 718)

718 5th Ave.

Park Slope, Brooklyn
Directions: R to 28th Street

Venue is between 22nd and 23rd sts.

 

Sunday, February 18

2:30-5:00

A Poetry Reading in Response to Anti-Semitism

The Museum of Jewish Heritage

Battery Park City, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place

Keynote: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Poets will include: Rosebud Ben-Oni, Sharon Dolin, Joanna Fuhrman, Stephen Massimilla, Adeena Karasick, Vinvent Katz, Burt Kimmelman, Basil King, Susan Lewis, Pierre Joris, Sean Singer, Yerra Sugerman, Mercedes Roffe, Edwin Torres and others.

 

Thursday, February 22

6:30-8:30

Writers and Artists in Solidarity Against Antisemitism

Caffe Aronne

976a Lexington Ave., NYC

 

April 18-21

New Orleans Poetry Festival

Saturday, April 20

3:00

A MadHat Press / White Pine Press reading

Ping Wang
Dennis Maloney
Martine Bellen
Paul Hoover
Robert Archambeau
Timothy Mark Fitts
Lea Graham
Mark Scroggins
F. J. Bergmann
Michael Anania
Sarah Stickney
Joshua Corey
Maxine Chernoff
Indran Amirthanayagam

 

Sunday, June 16

5:00

Unnamable Books: 615 Vanderbilt Ave.

Brooklyn NY

with Ann Lauterbach and Ruth Danon

 

Thursday, August 8

5:30 pm

Amagansett Library 

with Taylor Barton

215 Main Street, Amaganett, NY

 

 

Tuesday, October 1

First Tuesdays Series 

Espresso 77 Cafe in Jackson Heights, Queens.

35-57 77 Street. 7 to 8:30

Open mic begins at 7:00. Open-mic sign-up at 6:30.

Bring fiction, poetry, or plays and read for 3 minutes.

My reading begins around 8:00.

 

2025

 

Sunday, March 16

Wordshed series NYC with

Jeffrey Wright and Mike DeCapite

6:00 PM at The Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St @ Bowery, NYC

 

Saturday, April 16

A mega remote reading curated by Larissa Shmailo.

Writers Speak Out: Words of Resilience

1:00-5:00

More info TK

 

Sunday, May 4

Book party for Barbara Henning's GIRLFRIEND (Hanging Loose Press)

3pm at Young Ethyl's 

503 5th Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Barbara Henning reading with friends:

Martine Bellen

Anele Rubin

Sally Young

Sylvia Rascon

Miranda Maher

 

Monday, May 12

KGB with

Elaine Equi and Patricia Spears Jones

More info TK

 

Wednesday, June 4

The Red Room, above KGB

A celebration reading for Poetry Is Bread anthology

edited bt Tina Cane (Nirala, 2025): https://niralapublications.com/product/poetry-is-bread/

More info TK