Brooklyn Poets
@brooklynpoets
Honoring the literary heritage of Bklyn by celebrating & cultivating community & craft through a wide range of educational programs & events accessible to all
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Nearly everything–homes, food, relationships, wars, bodies–is touched by technology. In this six-week, online workshop w/ dawn lonsinger we’ll write poems about living in a technological world & time, grappling with what “advancements” give & take away. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/med…
Rivers at once ground and destabilize questions of time, movement, scale, interiority and collectivity. In this single-session, in-person workshop w/ Patrycja Humienik (Patrycja) we'll explore what rivers can teach us about poetic image and write new work. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/on-…
Join us this week for our virtual workshop showcase, free community groups & our annual Poetry Festival ft. 兔兒神, Edgar Kunz, Hala Alyan, Cornelius Eady, Mahogany L. Browne, Cathy Linh Che, Brittany Rogers (she/her) & more! Learn more at mailchi.mp/brooklynpoets/…
In this five-week, generative online workshop with grace (ge) gilbert (grace (ge) gilbert), we'll write prose poems that capture, preserve, twist and sputter memory, in an effort to unlock new ways of writing the fragments you keep returning to. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a-j…
so when i saw you telling me a book lets you zoom through time & space i became a meteorite —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Anastacia-Renee. This Sunday, 5/25, she'll teach a workshop at our 3rd annual Poetry Festival on constructing new forms! brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…
really looking forward to this reading alongside such brilliant poets. i'll also be teaching a generative workshop with Brooklyn Poets that Sun morning 6/15, On Rivers <3 hope to see you in NYC next month✨
Back at Brooklyn Poets this summer & teaching my Humor & Poetry workshop: utilizing satire, absurdism, surrealism; we’ll dedicate a week to the idea of “poetry improv" to free your spontaneous, comedic lyrical self: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/hum…
mr. rogers gifts me a red cardigan. it odors like missing daddy & saltine crackers a white man who can putty all my cracks —#PoetoftheWeek Anastacia-Renee reads their feature poem "Get Home Before the PBS Street Lights Go Out." soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…
funny how life needs death for it to happen, be compared to. Valued. But you knew this —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Eduardo MartĂnez-Leyva (Eduardo Martinez-Leyva). This Friday, 5/30, he will be a featured poet at our Friday Night Open alongside Vaughn M. Watson. brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…
Our featured #mentors this week are Kayleb Rae Candrilli & Abigail Welhouse (Abigail Welhouse)! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques
Join us on Monday, June 9, for our next Yawp, our monthly workshop and open mic, featuring poet I.S. Jones 🦌🌑! Jones will lead a workshop on “The Connective Tissue of the Image.” Learn more and register at: tickettailor.com/events/brookly…
funny how life needs death for it to happen, be compared to. Valued. But you knew this —Our #PoetoftheWeek Eduardo MartĂnez-Leyva (Eduardo Martinez-Leyva) reads his feature poem, "After the Shooting, You Have a Panic Attack in the Supermarket" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…
Final days to register for this five-week, in-person workshop w/ Lisa Hiton, where we'll apply the poetics of portraiture in a myriad of ways incl. self-portrait, the confessional, ekphrasis, litany, the elegiac, mythology—as a means of explicating the self. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/poe…
How can we, as writers & as human beings, reject the hollowing violence of neutrality? In this six-week, in-person workshop w/ Chase Berggrun, we'll explore poetics as a vehicle of change, as a call to action & as part & parcel of the work of opposing empire. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/poe…
