Past Events

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In January, we will read and discuss 100 Notes on Violence by Julie Carr. Registration is required for this...

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...