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  • Word Up: Emerging Poet Voices – Identity, Memory, and Digital Life

    Word Up Community Bookshop 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St., New York, NY, United States

    Join poets Rayne Alarcio, AJ DiBetta, Leelah Holmes, Colleen Bąk, and spencer jude perez at Word Up for an evening of contemporary poetry exploring identity, intimacy, memory, digital culture, and coming-of-age in the twenty-first century. Through lyric, narrative, and spoken word traditions, these emerging writers offer work that reflects on relationships, belonging, self-discovery, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

    Free – $5

  • Five Flies Coffee & BMA: Washington Heights Community Poetry Reading

    Five Flies Coffee 554 W 158th St., New York

    Broadway Mall Association (BMA)in collaboration with Five Flies Coffee proudly announces a community poetry reading in connection with the art exhibition, Pablo Caviedes: The Unknown Way. This exhibition showcases 20 of the artist’s original works from his CRANIUM series, displayed along the Broadway malls from 150th  to 158th Street last year to commemorate the Day of the Dead.

    FREE

  • Inwood Art Works: Harvest of the Heart – An Uptown Poetry Social

    Inwood Art Works Studio 112 Seaman Ave. (@ 204th Street), NEW YORK, NY, United States

    Join Inwood Art Works as we celebrate Fall with a curated poetry and open social to connect with fellow poets and community members. Harvest of the Heart: An Uptown Poetry Social, featuring the poetry and prose of Tabs, Bryon Gordon, Deadpan Lizzie, and J-Nix. Curated by R.M. Thomson. Followed by a social hour and a limited open mic, in which the audience is invited to read a short poem or story on stage! (3 to 4 minutes per reader

    Pay what you wish

  • Inwood Art Works: HOWL! — Allen Ginsberg at 100

    Inwood Art Works Studio 112 Seaman Ave. (@ 204th Street), NEW YORK, NY, United States

    Inwood Art Works presents HOWL! — Allen Ginsberg at 100. Composer/Reader Jerome Kitzke will honor the American poet Allen Ginsberg in his Centennial Year by eading his seminal poems Howl and Footnote to Howl as well as reading other Ginsberg poems Kitzke set to music over the last 38 years, including Hum Bom!, Sunflower Sutra, and Song. Each of those readings will be followed by audio recordings of the compositions Kitzke made.

    $22.96

  • Hudson View Gardens: Two Authors, One Poet, One Spoken Word Artist

    Hudson View Gardens Lounge 116 Pinehurst Ave. (@ 183rd Street), New York, United States

    Two Authors, Poet Constantine Contogenis and Spoken Word Artist Tracy Jones will share an evening of their work and of each other's work.  Contongenis will read from his recently published translations of the great Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy.  Jones will perform work that made his name in Spoken Work circles.

    FREE

  • Inwood Art Works: Stories Between Keys

    Church of The Good Shepherd 4967 Broadway (@ Isham Street), New York, NY

    Inwood Art Works presents Stories Between Keys: A Community Concert featuring Poetry and Piano. Richard Strauss’s music played on piano, underscoring the recitation of Lord Tennyson’s poem, Enoch Arden. Performed by Christopher Douglaston Ryan and Victoria Schwartzman. Second Act: Chopin Ballade no.1 for piano solo, followed by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Aphorismsplayed on piano, juxtaposed with short poems written by Daniil Kharms. Performed by Lori Funk and Victoria Schwartzman.

    $10 – $25