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And for NYC folks, I'd love to see you next week to celebrate this book at Brooklyn Poets! Friday 2/20, 7pm
@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social will be there, along with Ashna Ali! @brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Tickets here: brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social will be there, along with Ashna Ali! @brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Tickets here: brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
February 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM
And for NYC folks, I'd love to see you next week to celebrate this book at Brooklyn Poets! Friday 2/20, 7pm
@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social will be there, along with Ashna Ali! @brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Tickets here: brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social will be there, along with Ashna Ali! @brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Tickets here: brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
Reposted by Brooklyn Poets
My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!
In this five-week, in-person generative workshop with Lara Atallah, we'll reflect on and write about the apocalypse: how the end of one life or world opens space to imagine the next, and how we contend with destruction & renewal through poetry.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets
Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!
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February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In this five-week, in-person generative workshop with Lara Atallah, we'll reflect on and write about the apocalypse: how the end of one life or world opens space to imagine the next, and how we contend with destruction & renewal through poetry.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: The love poem—for many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, we'll endeavor toward a more vast & surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register by February 8! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: The love poem—for many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, we'll endeavor toward a more vast & surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register by February 8! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...
In this five-week, online workshop with Keith S. Wilson, we'll discuss a new kind of visual poetry each week, break down what is happening in the poem and try out the forms ourselves. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...
February 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
In this five-week, online workshop with Keith S. Wilson, we'll discuss a new kind of visual poetry each week, break down what is happening in the poem and try out the forms ourselves. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...
In this six-week, online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll examine how contemporary poets today are redefining the sonnet and write our own sonnets, including the double sonnet, the triple sonnet and finally, our own crown of sonnets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
February 6, 2026 at 12:15 AM
In this six-week, online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll examine how contemporary poets today are redefining the sonnet and write our own sonnets, including the double sonnet, the triple sonnet and finally, our own crown of sonnets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
Join us for the launch of @chiaradilello.bsky.social's debut collection, Childless Millennial, on Friday, February 20 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Ashna Ali will open for Di Lello. Book signing to follow. buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Join us for the launch of @chiaradilello.bsky.social's debut collection, Childless Millennial, on Friday, February 20 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Ashna Ali will open for Di Lello. Book signing to follow. buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
This two-session, generative online workshop with Emily Sernaker will be devoted to close-reading groundbreaking writers from the past—with generative writing prompts based on those readings tailored to help writers of the present. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This two-session, generative online workshop with Emily Sernaker will be devoted to close-reading groundbreaking writers from the past—with generative writing prompts based on those readings tailored to help writers of the present. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...
I know of waterfalls, the long, golden
tresses of little girls singing for men
and death to thieves who dream
of pillaging the treasures of a land
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
brooklynpoets.org/community/po...
tresses of little girls singing for men
and death to thieves who dream
of pillaging the treasures of a land
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
brooklynpoets.org/community/po...
Magdalena Arias Vásquez — Brooklyn Poets
Brooklyn Poets Fellow
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February 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I know of waterfalls, the long, golden
tresses of little girls singing for men
and death to thieves who dream
of pillaging the treasures of a land
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
brooklynpoets.org/community/po...
tresses of little girls singing for men
and death to thieves who dream
of pillaging the treasures of a land
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
brooklynpoets.org/community/po...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore first books, the poetics of context and the love poem in these workshops with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social and @ds-waldman.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
February 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Don’t miss your last chance to explore first books, the poetics of context and the love poem in these workshops with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social and @ds-waldman.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Join us in congratulating our Brooklyn Poets Fellows for the winter 2026 season! 🎉 Congrats as well to our finalists! 👏👏 mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Join us in congratulating our Brooklyn Poets Fellows for the winter 2026 season! 🎉 Congrats as well to our finalists! 👏👏 mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...
In this five-week, online workshop with b ferguson, we'll explore what revenge is, how it relates to systemic oppression and the planet and how it can be wielded as a craft tool on the page and in the world.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In this five-week, online workshop with b ferguson, we'll explore what revenge is, how it relates to systemic oppression and the planet and how it can be wielded as a craft tool on the page and in the world.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
In this six-week, online workshop with I.S. Jones, we'll tackle the fundamentals of versification and explore how rhythms in our common speech can be placed into metrical patterns as we explore the basics of meter, sound, structure and surprise.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
In this six-week, online workshop with I.S. Jones, we'll tackle the fundamentals of versification and explore how rhythms in our common speech can be placed into metrical patterns as we explore the basics of meter, sound, structure and surprise.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with @lhiton.bsky.social! Sliding scale spots still available!
🔮 In this five-week, generative, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary, and the epigrammatic. 🔮
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with @lhiton.bsky.social! Sliding scale spots still available!
Explore the sonnet, blank verse, the apocalypse, interruption & the hometown with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @lara-atallah.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social & @geg2us.bsky.social! We also now have limited sliding scale seats. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Explore the sonnet, blank verse, the apocalypse, interruption & the hometown with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @lara-atallah.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social & @geg2us.bsky.social! We also now have limited sliding scale seats. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Join us on Friday, Feb. 13 for our next Yawp workshop & open mic led by @lara-atallah.bsky.social! Atallah will lead a workshop on apocalyptic poetry drawn from her upcoming five-week workshop, "In the Beginning There Was the End." Get tickets: buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Join us on Friday, Feb. 13 for our next Yawp workshop & open mic led by @lara-atallah.bsky.social! Atallah will lead a workshop on apocalyptic poetry drawn from her upcoming five-week workshop, "In the Beginning There Was the End." Get tickets: buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll navigate the synchronous orbit that both our grief and our gratitude follow, using essays from Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy to incite our own joy and harvest hope from our hardships.
Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll navigate the synchronous orbit that both our grief and our gratitude follow, using essays from Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy to incite our own joy and harvest hope from our hardships.
Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories can expand what your poems are able to hold.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories can expand what your poems are able to hold.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore modernist poetry, the oracular, and the list poem in these workshops with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Lisa Hiton and dawn lonsinger that have deadlines this week ⏳ Learn more and register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
January 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Don’t miss your last chance to explore modernist poetry, the oracular, and the list poem in these workshops with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Lisa Hiton and dawn lonsinger that have deadlines this week ⏳ Learn more and register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
The First Book Project — Brooklyn Poets
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so…
brooklynpoets.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets
Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
🔮 In this five-week, generative, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary, and the epigrammatic. 🔮
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🔮 In this five-week, generative, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary, and the epigrammatic. 🔮
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
In this five-week, online workshop with Starr Davis, we’ll treat the poem as both declaration and discovery—a living document of voice, witness, and craft. We’ll study writers who transform testimony into art.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...
January 22, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In this five-week, online workshop with Starr Davis, we’ll treat the poem as both declaration and discovery—a living document of voice, witness, and craft. We’ll study writers who transform testimony into art.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...
Join us online on Feb. 8 for our first Craft Lab of the year: “Prosody and Its Decolonization” with Jay Deshpande. In this craft lab, we’ll take a more personal approach to prosody, exploring what it can mean to us and why. Sliding scale options between $25-$150! brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Join us online on Feb. 8 for our first Craft Lab of the year: “Prosody and Its Decolonization” with Jay Deshpande. In this craft lab, we’ll take a more personal approach to prosody, exploring what it can mean to us and why. Sliding scale options between $25-$150! brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...