Past Events

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore syntax, the structure poet Ellen Bryant Voigt argues is “the...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Standing Outside Myself: The Black Ecstatic,” created and led by Kameryn Alexa Carter. Ecstasy is a rapture of the senses....

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore ekphrastic poetry, verse that describes and responds to other works of...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In December, we will read and discuss Tripas by Brandon Som. Registration is required for this event. To register,...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore poetry of trauma, and practice using poetics to address, incorporate,...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Fertile Borders: Generative Experiments with Literary Constraints,” created and led by Gabriela Denise Frank. In this session, we’ll draw on...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the catalog poem, which borrows form from the list, “the...

Join us for a reading in memory of kari edwards, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, torrin a. greathouse, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Trace Peterson, and TC Tolbert. 

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this Process session, we will explore how our lineages, poetic and otherwise, shape our...

Join us for a virtual reading celebrating the Forms & Features poets.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we will read and discuss Brain Fever by Kimiko Hahn, winner of the 2023 Ruth Lilly...

Join us for a reading and conversation with Temye Tesfu and Kemi Alabi.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry,” created and led by Naoko Fujimoto. In this session, we will focus on the...

VS Live! At the Guggenheim: Poetic Freedom will feature a live taping of the VS podcast with VS co-hosts Ajanaé Dawkins and Brittany Rogers and special guests LaTasha N. Nevada...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the glosa, a form that Kimiko Hahn, winner of the...

Join us for an Open Door reading featuring KB Brookins with Faylita Hicks, and imani elizabeth jackson with S*an D. Henry-Smith.

Join us for a performance of David Antonio Cruz’s green,howiwantyougreen, an experimental opera based on the last eleven poems by the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

Join us for a reading in memory of Assotto Saint, with Pamela Sneed, Danez Smith, John Keene, Saeed Jones, and Luther Hughes.

Join us for a reading with Native poets Mark Turcotte, Elise Paschen, River Ian Kerstetter, Dominique Daye Hunter, and Aaron Golding at the Center for Native Futures, in partnership with...

Join us for the first public reading by the 2023 cohort of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellows.