Remote 4-Week Poetry Workshop: Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué We'll experiment with what the forms of panic and poetry do to each other and generate our own experiments in the friction of these two forms.

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If poetry is slow, thoughtful, inspired, and nuanced, then panic is sudden, unthinking, repetitive, and unidimensional. In this workshop, we’ll experiment with what the forms of panic and poetry do to each other, read examples, & generate our own experiments in the friction of these two forms (2/2)

writing with & through panic photo of Philippe Petit's Twin Towers Tightrope Walk in 1974

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@hadeejasouffle.bsky.social will be instructing Writing With and Through Panic, a remote workshop for 4 Wednesdays | (Apr 8-29)!

Panic, in its various forms—panic attacks, moral panics, a panicked crowd fleeing from the sound of a “gun’ that was a balloon popping—may be the opposite of poetry (1/2)

Remote 6-Week Workshop: Leah Umansky: How to Live a Creative Life - Poets House Participants will journal, write poems, and think about what the creative life can look like. There is no one way to live a creative life!

I'm teaching a course on 'creativity' this June at @poetshouse.bsky.social online! Won't you join me? Anyone can be creative; it's also an antidote for these dark times!

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Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025).

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

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...

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

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 📚❤️

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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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!

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)

More photos of the Showcase Exhibition below!

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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 📚

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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The course costs $360

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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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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.

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)

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.

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)

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!

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

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

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.

Sucha lovely wormy poem!

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.

"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!