Past Events

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    A poetry reading featuring Martín Espada alongside Carlos Cumpián, Faylita Hicks, and Allison Joseph. 
    Black and white photo of the poet Martín Espada.
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    A public reading featuring the recipients of the 2025 Pegasus Awards: Rigoberto González, Amy Stolls, and Kazim Ali. 
    Headshot of Amy Stolls
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     A generative writing workshop, “The Algebra of the Aha Moment,” created and led by Olga Maslova
    Olga Maslova, a white woman with long blond hair stand in front of Kyoto Zen garden
  • Celebrations
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    A Rapbrary-curated evening of poetry and music performances by Wallace, J Bambii, Darius Caffey, and Mason Pippenger.
    a yellow painting of rapbrarian Roy Kinsey reading a book.
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    This generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney explores hybrid poetry, liminal forms that trouble, cross, and blur literary genre boundaries.
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    A discussion of To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New by Rigoberto González
    Headshot of Rigoberto González
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    This generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney dwells on repetition and recurrence, what Theodore Roethke named “the very essence of poetry.”
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    A poetry reading with Taylor Byas, Bryan Byrdlong, jason crawford, Shanekia McIntosh, and Keith S. Wilson.
    Taylor Byas, a Black woman with black braids, wears a black, sleeveless shirt and gold necklace, stands in front of a grey background.
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    A multilingual celebration of European Day of Languages and a new Black British Poetry folio in Poetry magazine. 
    A black and white photo of the poet's head and shoulders, in a white t-shirt, one hand on his head, looking out of the frame
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    A generative poetry workshop on the ballad
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    A generative writing workshop, “The Space Between: Psychic Distance in Poetry,” created and led by Charlene Pierce
    Charlene Pierce
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    A discussion of Hope and the Sea by Magda Portal
    Black & white portrait of Magda Portal
  • Celebrations
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    Join us for the last ever live taping of the VS podcast featuring poets Cornelius Eady and Major Jackson!
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    A generative writing workshop, “Writing the Grotesque,” created and led by Hannah V Warren
    Hannah V Warren, a white woman with red hair, smiles in front of a brick wall.
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    A generative poetry workshop on punctuation
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