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Wednesday, October 28th — 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm — “Se Buscan Poetas Multilingual Open Mic” with host Galician poet Marcos de...
10/26/2026

Wednesday, October 28th — 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm — “Se Buscan Poetas Multilingual Open Mic” with host Galician poet Marcos de la Fuente and featuring eaturing Tony and Grammy nominee Reg E. Gaines reading poetry in Jazz and Hip Hop, as well as poets Ana Paula and Diego Solar from Mexico — Here’s your chance to read a poem in your Mother Tongue to the World of Poetry! Se Buscan is looking for poets — in all languages. Come hear America singing, the varied carols we hear! Walt Whitman in the house! Hosted in Spanish and English. — Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. Tickets: $10
(Accessibility: Bowery Poetry Club is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

Tuesday, October 27th7:00 pm - 9:00 pm — “Flying Words: American Sign Language Poetry” with Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner — ...
10/26/2026

Tuesday, October 27th
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm — “Flying Words: American Sign Language Poetry” with Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner — Deaf Poet Peter Cook and hearing coauthor Kenny Lerner have been the FLYING WORDS PROJECT since 1984. From rhyming hand shapes to sound effect duets, they juxtapose sign and sound into imagery you can see, a moving tapestry uniquely accessible to both hearing and deaf audiences. Theirs is a new poetry that has showcased around the world – Flying Words land on time and you have to be there to understand everything! — Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. Tickets: $20
(Accessibility: Bowery Poetry Club is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

NUYORICAN BOWERY SLAM!Weekly on Monday evenings, in-person. Slam takes place from 6:30 to 9:00 P.M.Tickets: $20 in advan...
10/26/2026

NUYORICAN BOWERY SLAM!

Weekly on Monday evenings, in-person. Slam takes place from 6:30 to 9:00 P.M.Tickets: $20 in advance/online or at the door. Bowery Poetry Club on 308 Bowery (between E. Houston & Bleecker Streets) in Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by JRose & Luna Rósa. https://www.bowerypoetry.com/slam

BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE:
https://boweryslam.eventbrite.com

During the Nuyorican Poets Café’s building’s reconstruction, the café brings their famous poetry slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club! Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, welcomes the Nuyorican Slam that he started 35 years ago!

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Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Arts and Sciences, ltd. are supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of NY Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Edward Hirsch & Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Poetry and PrayerThursday, October 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM at Stella Adler Center fo...
10/26/2026

Edward Hirsch & Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Poetry and Prayer
Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM at Stella Adler Center for the Arts, NYC.

The fall series concludes with Edward Hirsch and Rachel Eliza Griffiths in Poetry and Prayer, an evening exploring the intersections of poetry, spirituality, memory, and human experience. All events are free and open to the public. RSVP is highly encouraged at https://stellaadler.ludus.com/

Sunday, October 25th10:00 am - 11:00 am — The Cat in the Hat and Other Poems with Bob Holman + Kids’ Open Mic! — This on...
10/25/2026

Sunday, October 25th
10:00 am - 11:00 am — The Cat in the Hat and Other Poems with Bob Holman + Kids’ Open Mic! — This one’s for the younguns! Bring your strollers, snugglies, and baby backpacks as the Cat in the Hat is conjured out of Dr. Seuss’s beloved poem and cavorts all round the Bowery Poetry Club. Afterward, all the young folks are invited to bring their oral arts - poetry, jokes, songs — to the stage. It’ll last about an hour, or until the last child wakes up. Appropriate for all ages but geared toward the littles and the elementary school crowd. — Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. FREE with RSVP
(Accessibility: Bowery Poetry Club is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

The Joy Harjo Band & the Cornelius Eady GroupIndigenous Jazz Rock of the Joy Harjo Band & Contemporary Blues w/ the Corn...
10/24/2026

The Joy Harjo Band & the Cornelius Eady Group

Indigenous Jazz Rock of the Joy Harjo Band & Contemporary Blues w/ the Cornelius Eady Group. A rare musical appearance with Joy on poetry and sax! Inaugural poet Cornelius Eady fronts his avant blues trio. October 25 @ St. Mark’s Church, NYC. More information https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

City Lore Bowery Poetry Club poets house Cornelius Eady Joy Harjo

PEOPLE’S POETRY GATHERING FILM FESTIVALOctober 24 & 25, 2026, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10...
10/24/2026

PEOPLE’S POETRY GATHERING FILM FESTIVAL
October 24 & 25, 2026, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003

As part of the Festival, Anthology hosts a weekend of programs featuring films about poetry, including an encore screening of Alystyre Julian’s portrait of Anne Waldman, OUTRIDER (which we premiered in the spring of 2025); Chuck Smith’s FUGS FILM! (which has not been shown in NYC since its premiere at the DOC NYC); Steven Zeitlin and Amanda Dargan’s IN THE MOMENT: WORLD POETRY DUELS AND IMPROVISATIONS; and Roland Legiardi-Laura’s AZUL (1988), a meditation on the legacy of Nicaraguan modernist poetry, shot on the battlefront with the Sandinista forces. Proceeding some of the films is AFTER BASHŌ, a series of animated poems by Bob Holman and Richard Levine.

https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/61998

Supported by Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution and by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of NY Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Saturday, October 24th6:00 pm - 7:00 pm — “Haiku Slam and Open Mic” hosted by Lisa Ann Markuson — Experience the collect...
10/23/2026

Saturday, October 24th
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm — “Haiku Slam and Open Mic” hosted by Lisa Ann Markuson — Experience the collective effervescence of radical poetic co-creation at the HAIKU SLAM! Every audience member will get to participate and have their moment to SHINE, seventeen syllables at a time.— City Lore, 56 E. First Street FREE with RSVP
(Accessibility: Located on the ground floor with a wheelchair accessible ramp inside)

https://citylore.org/peoples-poetry-gathering-2026/

12:00 pm - 2:30 pm — “Best of Brevitas: A Festival of the Short Poem,” Reading & Open Mic — Brevitas brings together poe...
10/23/2026

12:00 pm - 2:30 pm — “Best of Brevitas: A Festival of the Short Poem,” Reading & Open Mic — Brevitas brings together poets of all kinds, sharing short-form poems of 14 lines or fewer. This year, we celebrate our new anthology, Best of Brevitas, with a reading, projected poems, and open mic.
Young poets writing short-form work are warmly invited to join us and explore becoming part of this generative poetry collective. — Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. Tickets: $15
(Accessibility: Bowery Poetry Club is wheelchair accessible via a ramp)

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