Past Events

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Spatial Poetry Workshop,” created and led by Hua Xi. The Spatial Poetry workshop will teach participants about the historical context...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In April, we will read and discuss Ask the Brindled by No‘u Revilla.  Registration is required for this event....

Join us for a reading celebrating new book releases by Poetry Foundation staff and friends: Adrian Matejka, Maggie Queeney, Charif Shanahan, and Patricia Smith.

To complement Chicago’s collective reading of Blacks, there will be several free events and opportunities to learn about Ms. Brooks’s life and legacy. 

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this special process session, we will explore the role of questions and questioning in...

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

Join us for a reading and conversation with Renee Gladman, Eileen Myles, and Simone White, celebrating their new book releases.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the pantoum, a form born of Malaysian oral poetry that...

Join us at the Poetry Foundation during EXPO for a panel on art writing.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In March, we will read and discuss A God at the Door by Tishani Doshi.  Registration is required for...

Join us at the Poetry Foundation for a reading on Poetry & Grief with Raquel Salas Rivera and Angel Dominguez.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Critique & Nostalgia: Digital Explorations of Visual Poetics and Collage,” created and led by grace (ge) gilbert. In this session,...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore assonance, the audible repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words....

Join us at the Poetry Foundation for a celebration of Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary.

Join us at the Poetry Foundation for a celebration of Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary.

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

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the sestina, a highly complex verse form created by French...

Join us for an off-site AWP reception and reading with Cave Canem at Town Hall Seattle.

Join us for an Open Door event featuring Ari Banias, Joss Barton, Alex Jane Cope and KOKUMO.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In February, we will read and discuss Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman.  Registration is required for this event. To...