Our five stages—The Brinkley, The White Horse, The Algonquin, The Blackbird, and The Beckett—will feature continuous readings from 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. the full schedule will be listed below soon, but here is 2025’s schedule in case you’re curious!
THE BRINKLEY STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
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A collective of disabled queer and trans artists trying to make access-oriented events of all kinds (drag, poetry, music) for disabled queers who have been left out because of lack of access-centered events -
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The dozen Thursday Morning Poets (TMP) members first met at a virtual workshop with Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella in January 2021. Writers in the group continue to meet weekly. They have varied styles and themes in their poetry, but there is a strong emphasis on social justice issues, the environment, and stories that spin out of their personal life histories. Members who are multilingual often include other languages in their writing. -
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Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a 50 year old institution dedicated to providing artistic opportunities to poets of all nationalities and persuasions. It is widely acknowledged as New York’s birthplace for Slam Poetry, and many famous artists began their career performing with us.
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HVWC fosters a vibrant literary arts community that supports and empowers writers and readers of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds at every stage of their creative development. SHP is now one of the oldest chapbook presses in the United States and was founded to advance the national and international conversation of poetry and poetics, principally by publishing and supporting the work of new poets.
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IAWA was founded in 1991 to promote Italian American writing. Its members include writers, readers, editors, publishers, agents, translators, teachers, scholars, and all who are interested in the progress of Italian American writing. IAWA aims to promote Italian American literature by encouraging the writing, reading, publication, distribution, translation, and study of Italian American writing. To promote the production, publication, reception, and study of Italian American writing, IAWA has established three basic ground rules to effect change and raise the level of awareness in the Italian American writing and reading community: Write or be written – IAWA provides a forum to encourage and educate Italian Americans to write their own realities, rather than waiting for others to do it for them. Read one another – IAWA expands and promotes the visibility and reading of Italian American authors. We must begin with ourselves if we are to expect others to read the books of Italian American writers. Buy our books – IAWA works actively to create a market for the sale of books by Italian American authors, and to demonstrate to publishers that a market for those books exists.
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Queer creative arts collective - we are the parade.
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As a not-for-profit literary press serving art and community, CavanKerry is committed to expanding the reach of poetry and other fine literature to a general readership by publishing works that explore the emotional and psychological landscapes of everyday life, and to bring that art to the underserved where they live, work and receive services.
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Scientists and Poets is a micro press located in Brooklyn, NY. Our mission is to support creative writers whose talents have yet to be recognized. We are looking for work that explores the edges of the imagination, where we believe the wonders of science and art are likely to meet.
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Poets of Queens celebrates poetry in Queens and beyond by hosting readings and publishing collections.
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Poetry in Poetry (in Brief) is a poetry community focused on conversations and short readings with some of the most fabulous poets of our time! The live online readings are open to the public.
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
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VONA provides community, programming, and support for writers of the global majority.
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Poets Network & Exchange, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and Bronx-based community hub founded in 2012 by Lorraine Currelley, serving as a supportive, intergenerational space for poets and writers. It fosters literary and social engagement through workshops, spoken word events, the Bronx Book Fair aka The People’s Book Fair. Poets Network & Exchange advocacy centers on literacy, social, environmental, and health justice and equity.
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RA OPEN MIC is a fundraiser for Arts & Agriculture. We travel the five boroughs to spread the arts.
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The Adroit Journal (ISSN 2577-9427) is a registered literary and arts nonprofit organization that was founded in 2010 by poet Peter LaBerge. At its foundation, the journal has its eyes focused ahead, seeking to showcase what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the future of poetry, prose, and art.
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Founded as a feminist press, Alice James Books is committed to collaborating with literary artists of excellence whose voices have been historically marginalized. Since 1973, AJB has been publishing books that matter by poets who inspire. You can learn more at alicejamesbooks.org.
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Brooklyn Poets honors the literary heritage of Brooklyn by celebrating and cultivating community and craft through a wide range of educational programs and events accessible to all—especially those marginalized by traditional literary and academic structures. We offer workshops, readings, open mics and other programs that foster a more homegrown, close-knit, diverse community of poets and readers than what is traditionally offered by graduate writing programs and the American literary community at large.
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The Brooklyn Writers Foundry is an intimate program that specializes in fiction, nonfiction and poetry out of St. Joseph's University on the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
https://www.sjny.edu/brooklyn/academics/graduate/graduate-degrees/creative-writing
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Tech forward poetry publisher and promoter with a leaning towards spoken word and forward thinking work.
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'The Written Word is Dead' is a monthly reading series in Brooklyn, prioritising poetry but inclusive of fiction, nonfiction, and spoken-word performers as well. This reading hosts both established poets in the New York poetry scene while also giving opportunities to new voices in the community. Having an eclectic mix of both professional poets and first-time readers is an intentional structure of this reading, which is meant to exemplify that everyone can be a poet, everyone can write poetry, and poetry is everywhere if we allow ourselves to see it. This reading has always been free to attend, and always will be. 'The Written Word is Dead' is the titular cry for keeping written artforms alive that have warped and shifted in relevance and availability as technology and media have transformed how our society consumes art and culture. This monthly gathering also provides a place for writers to gather, network, and be inspired, and has served to also introduce people in the community to literary readings, which are less and less prevalent in the digital age.
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Season Reflections is a quarterly poetry and music group which pays tribute to the dawning of each season.
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Hot People Read Poetry is a poetry show and open mic experience dedicated to celebrating the voices of our community.
THE ALGONQUIN STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
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Searching for Home Collective is a literary community founded by poet Elizabeth Mateer. The collective explores themes of belonging, identity, displacement, resilience, and the interior landscapes that shape how we move through the world. Bridging art and psychology, Searching for Home features writers whose work interrogates memory, migration, heartbreak, reinvention, and the evolving self. The collective centers voices that are both intimate and expansive, grounded in lived experience yet reaching toward universal meaning. Through readings, collaborative events, and published works, Searching for Home cultivates spaces where vulnerability, intellectual rigor, and emotional depth coexist.
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A literary journal and poetry press dedicated to the poetry & spirit of the northeast coast.
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An open mic and livestream reading series.
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Stanchion is an award-winning quarterly literary magazine and book press established in 2020 in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Founder Jeff Bogle is also the author of the cat lover's travel book, Street Cats & Where to Find Them.
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Troublemakers is an art collective created by three multitalented friends who wanted to provide a voice for artists who do not feel heard.
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Poets House is a comfortable, accessible place for poetry—a library and meeting place which invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Poets House seeks to document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, to stimulate dialogue on issues of poetry in culture, and to cultivate a wider audience for the art.
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A beautiful zine published by award winning poet Dorothy Friedman. I have been working with her for a few years now hosting readings in NYC and Brooklyn
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The {Poetry} Unfold is one of Hudson County’s oldest running weekly / twice-weekly poetry series. We offer a signature Open Mic + Open Forum model, with regular feature poets, and program of collaboration to empower local poets onto diverse stages, and foster broader poetic community. The Unfold promotes the healing power of poetry intersected with informed, safe-space facilitation. Inspired by NYC PoFest, Unfold members also spearheaded the Hudson County Poetry Festival in 2025, which we hope to keep annual! :)
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Mictastic! holds open mics and showcases for the artist, by the artist.
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We're a dandy, queer poetry and art collective that platforms artists brings them work and community puts on events in NYC
SUNDAY, JULY 13TH
Hosted by Jose Rios
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Community Reinvestment & Retail
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The SOMA Network is a community arts organization local to South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding area in New Jersey. The network aims to amplify and strengthen the local arts community by sharing artist calls and opportunities, as well as hosting events programming for local artists across all disciplines and stages.
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Darklight Publishing LLC, was created in 2016 in New York City to disseminate the poetic work of Latin American and American authors. Translation and editing are made by a team of artists in Mexico and the United States. The “Bridges” series of bilingual poetry books was conceived for readers at our geographic hemisphere, where there is a broad exchange between English and Spanish languages. Our books are distributed in bookstores located in Mexico and New York City, as well as worldwide through amazon.com in printed and digital formats. Lately, we have published poetry in other languages, as well as poets from Europe and Middle East countries.
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Where dreams come out of hiding, sharing poetry and stories. Dreams In Hiding has been run by Fin Rose Aborizk and has accumulated through her own poems and through anthologies that showcase numerous other authors!
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Storytelling On Orchard Street debuted on September 25, 2022 and has over 65 episodes available to stream on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and other podcast platforms. Host Pete Solomita interviews poets, fiction writers, storytellers, film and theater directors, musicians, artists, who tell stories through their art.
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Hybrido is a cultural project for latino arts, literature and cultures founded in 1997.
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A queer group of poets who gather twice a month to write and share poetry
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The NYC Climate Writers Collective (CWC) is an active part of the Governor’s Island arts community. Founded by a group of storytellers spanning NYC, the CWC started with member workshops to steward new projects and has grown to include public programs that engage our environment through the arts. You can find the NYC Climate Writers Collective at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island and across New York City. From the mission-statement-in-progress: We’re creative collaborators with a shared mission: To build a just and resilient future, we must begin by imagining it. We believe that expressing our thoughts and emotions around the climate crisis through words can be informative, cathartic, and motivating. We write poetry, creative nonfiction, novels, and short stories that respond to the climate crisis by imagining transformative and regenerative futures of hope, justice, and collective liberation. In our workshops, we invite the public to join in writing activities that imagine a just and resilient future. Our current culture is saturated with stories that imagine dystopian futures. We want to posit a different future. In this reality, we move away from excessive consumption, extraction, and inequality, and work together to find plausible, science-based, community-inspired, and even playful solutions. We follow the guidance of Indigenous, Black, people of color, queer, people with disabilities, and communities on the frontlines fighting climate change. In our re-imagined futures, we can, if we choose to put the work in, reconnect with our natural environment, plant seeds, let our oceans flourish, let our birds breathe. If we fill our shelves and hearts with new stories, we can motivate a culture shift that will ignite powerful, hope-fueled action. —NYC Climate Writers Collective
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We are a publishing house specializing in poetry. Our team works in synergy to publish and manage the works of poets from Latin America and Spain. All our collections aim to honor the legacy of great women in our vast poetic tradition. Our goal is to facilitate multidirectional and rhizomatic readings that reimagine the processes of literary enactment. We believe in our poets and trust in the readers’ journey through our human-centered vision. Lyrical language and aesthetic sensibility are the cornerstone of each of our publications.
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Rizoma Literario is a series of virtual and in-person interviews with poets, hosted by the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College since 2018. These interviews provide a space for students to engage directly with poets through discussions and interactive poetry readings.
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NYU MFA EN ESPAÑOL ALUMNI
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Poetry Fighters is a community-driven poetry movement dedicated to making poetry visible, public, and alive — creating spaces where voices meet, stories circulate, and words become action.
THE BECKETT STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
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The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, now in its 29th year, brings together nationally recognized, award winning, established and emerging poets to New York and gives them a mic in the legendary KGB Bar. We aim to provide New York audiences with the best, most compelling, accomplished, diverse, and original poets representative of the current American climate. Originally created by David Lehman and Star Black, the series is now hosted by Tyler Allen Penny, John Deming, Jada Gordon, Selena Spier, and Susan Lewis.
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Transcontinental platform for poetry and culture. We publish, we produce, we connect.
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Poetry society of New Yorks poetry camp
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Art Inn Heaven is a faith-centered creative community where Scripture, art, and fellowship come together. Through gatherings, worship experiences, and digital content, we create space for believers and creatives to grow spiritually, express their God-given gifts, and build meaningful community.
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The Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group is a space for members to work on their own projects in a focused, supportive environment, in the company of other writers. The group began in 2017 as an in-person Meetup that gathered every Sunday for drop-in writing sessions at the historic central branch of the Brooklyn Library at Grand Army Plaza. Members are no longer constrained by geography, though most of our members live in New York. The BWWG has always been and will always be welcoming, inclusive and absolutely free. The BWWG uses an inclusive definition of the term “women”; we offer space and value the creative energy of all female-identified people--trans, cis, genderqueer, and gender-nonconforming--as well as non-binary people who feel aligned with myriad women's experiences, especially in the context of writing and creative practices. Check out out literary magazine, Wild Garlic wildgarlicwriting.com, join our meetups at meetup.com/bkwomenswritinggroup, and follow us on Instagram at @bkwomenswritinggroup.
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Poetry & Art Magazine that highlights the Open Mic Scene all across NYC & LI
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For over 30 years, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop has been dedicated to publishing and amplifying Asian diasporic literary culture. Grounded in an inclusive approach, AAWW broadens the definitions of who is a writer and who is Asian. Through a wide range of programming and its award-winning magazine, The Margins, AAWW provides a generative space for writers and readers alike. By cultivating and curating the next generation of storytellers, AAWW contributes to the continued growth and vitality of the literary community
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Turrialba Literaria is a literary community founded on August 9, 2015, in Turrialba, Costa Rica. Its primary goal is to promote and disseminate local literature, providing a platform for both emerging and established writers in the region. The organization comprises various literary collectives, facilitating an evolving understanding of the canton's literary landscape. Additionally, Turrialba Literaria annually organizes notable events such as the International Poetry Festival of Turrialba in August, the International Presagio de Fuego Festival in January, and the Youth Poetry Festival in April, fostering cultural exchange and appreciation of poetry within the community.
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The Sanctuary is a 501c3 nonprofit based in northern New Jersey. Our organization started in April 2023 and became a nonprofit in February 2024. We are a group of professional helpers, artists, and business folk who have come together with a shared mission:cultivate a thriving third space where individuals of all backgrounds can come together to connect, learn, and grow.
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An independent publisher that values books and printed ephemera that pulsate life and never-ending experimentation. Where conventional 'decency' finds its counter in the pursuit of creation, where grace is not just sought but is the interplay of all we've encountered.
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A community of poets and artists dedicated to appreciate and value each other's creativity and work.
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The Queens Reading series features writers from or based in the world's borough. It is a quarterly reading series housed at the World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights.
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
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Too Much & Extra is an open mic dedicated to giving artist their flower figuratively and physically. We are dedicated to growing community.
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We are a publishing house full of dynamic poets and story tellers.
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We celebrate narrative poetry that captures the everyday exigencies of living in the world today
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Publishing house for spanish poetry books
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Poets Out Loud is an LGBTQ+ community that reads, writes, and celebrates queer poetry.
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Info poetry publisher
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This magazine is an extension of Nueva York Poetry Press, a publishing house specializing in poetry in Spanish and in translation, sharing the mission of promoting the essential voices of world poetry in the United States. In this way, Nueva York Poetry Review, both in its digital and print editions, aims not only to serve as a platform for the dissemination of poetry but also as a space for reflection on the craft of composition.
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The "Encuentro de Poetas Iberoamericanos: Poeta en Nueva York" is an extension of the prestigious literary gathering founded and directed by Alfredo Pérez Alencart, which has been held for over 28 years by the Ayuntamiento de Salamanca, in a city recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For the first time, the Encuentro expanded its reach across the Atlantic, finding a new home at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City. This historic edition, coordinated by Marisa Russo, paid tribute to the legacy of Federico García Lorca and his profound connection to New York, as reflected in his seminal work Poeta en Nueva York. The event reaffirmed its commitment to poetic dialogue across cultures, uniting voices from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds while embracing the rich linguistic and artistic diversity of the Ibero-American tradition. Through poetry readings, discussions, and multilingual literary exchanges, the Encuentro in New York strengthened its mission of fostering artistic and intellectual bridges beyond borders. By bringing together poets, translators, and scholars in a city that has long been a hub for global literary currents, this edition marked a new chapter in the Encuentro’s legacy, honoring its origins while expanding its reach to new audiences and creative landscapes.
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The Sakura Series is a New York City-based nonprofit arts organization with a focus on uplifting femme, queer, and BIPOC voices through poetry, performance, and education. Our mission is to create spaces where underrepresented communities can share their stories, grow as artists, and connect through collective expression. Through poetry slams, writing workshops, cultural programming, and professional development opportunities, we empower emerging creatives to explore identity, build artistic careers, and challenge systems of oppression through their work.
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An organization of creatives and story tellers who tell stories through art, media, writing, and poetry.
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At energetic investments we use art as means to facilitate education and healing while stimulating the local economy.
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Small Press
THE WHITE HORSE STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
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Langston’s Parlor is a monthly writing workshop and collective originating in Langston Hughes’ House in Harlem, NY and expanding across NYC. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Langston’s Parlor provides a haven for Black and Brown writers.
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Souletri was born from a vision of fostering community connections and providing a safe haven for artists to express themselves freely. With support from Power Street Theatre, we curate a range of events — from Open Mics to artist showcases to digital series — spanning from Philadelphia to New York and beyond.
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Online Anthology
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A weekly open mic series for poets and musicians, two featured readers per week as well.
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A website and quarterly literary journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse
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Located in Purchase, NY, Manhattanville University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program helps students hone their craft, find their voice, and connect with a nurturing literary community.
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An elective multidisciplinary collaboration
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First Tuesdays is an open mic/featured reader literary gathering where writers who wrestle with the issues of our day—from racism and sexual violence to climate change and economic inequality—can find an audience willing to embrace the risk and discomfort that come with sharing politically engaged, satirical, or otherwise edgy material; where those writers can coexist, in an atmosphere of mutual respect and camaraderie, with writers whose work is more traditional and conservative; where anyone who comes only to listen, even if they just happen to walk in off the street, can sit down with a cup of tea or glass of wine and feel not just welcomed, but challenged, engaged, comforted, seen, maybe even inspired. At the heart of First Tuesdays, in other words, is an ongoing, proactive commitment to diversity and inclusivity, in both the kinds of literary work we welcome into our community and the people who come to share it. Nothing will erode that sense of community more surely, however, than the mistrust and hatred borne of sexism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, or any of the other far-too-many ways that human beings have learned to target each other for who they or what they believe. So I will state this plainly: Neither work nor behavior that bespeaks any of those “isms” or“phobias” is welcome at First Tuesdays, and I will, as host, confront and hold accountable anyone who brings either into our midst.
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open mic & literary magazine out of nyc
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FPP is a safe space for expression. We host poetry open mics, writing workshops, and events in Brooklyn every 4-6 weeks.
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
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The WildStory podcast brings poets, environmental activists, and scientists together for important conversations about nature, ecology, and the environment. Produced and created by Ann E. Wallace, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Jersey City, and master gardener Kim Correro for the Native Plant Society of New Jersey, each episode features an in-depth interview with a poet whose work engages with and reflects on the natural world, biodiversity, and the environment. These conversations are followed by segments featuring environmental advocates, horticulturists, ecology experts, historians, biologists, landscape designers, conservationists, or native plant enthusiasts. Now in its fourth season, the show has hosted poets that include Camille T. Dungy, Adrie Rose, Ross Gay, Lauren Camp, Tess Taylor, J. Drew Lanham, Kai Coggin, January Gill O'Neil, James Crews, Emily Hockaday, Theta Pavis, Lynne Shapiro, Lisbeth White, and many others. The WildStory makes space for conversations that bring a socially, environmentally, historically, and racially informed lens to the natural world. In this socially complex anthropocene moment, we are all challenged to think beyond idyllic images of nature, and, indeed, the voices invited onto the podcast help us to examine the layers of meaning–grief, loss, devastation, but also potential, healing, and hope–so often held within the American landscape.
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We Learn, Share, and Make things. NYC Resistor is a 503(c)(3) hacker collective with a shared space located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. We meet regularly to share knowledge, hack on projects together, and build community.
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Trans* Poetics Research Group is an interdisciplinary collective that brings together trans thinkers in NYC to study poetry written by trans authors.
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Poetry Series
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An arts society that focuses on literary and performance arts, hosting open mics, theatre productions, and entertainment showcases.
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We seek to promote, develop, and foster the arts related to the entire process of creating, editing, and producing books, notebooks, and paper, and more broadly everything connected to the written word and language. We also aim to encourage and generate interaction among diverse artistic expressions. We offer experiences designed to explore different activities related to books, language, and literature as an art form through concrete actions, including: editorial and text revision services; artisanal bookbinding (book repair, creation of notebooks, planners, albums, and more); readings; book presentations; literary workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative writing; the sale of related items; and more.
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Jersey City Writers (JCW) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in Hudson County, NJ. We are dedicated to building a community for writers to develop and explore their craft by interacting with other writers. We inspire and support each other through dozens of monthly events, including workshops, writing prompts, marathons, and special events. All genres are welcome. Our diverse meetings cater to writers of novels, plays, poems, memoirs, short stories, and more. Stop by and bond with other people who understand the complicated yet satisfying process of creating something from nothing.
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To be human is to be creative. We embrace the tools of wellbeing, art, play, and storytelling to deepen connection, foster growth, and amplify authentic self-expression.
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NeuroNautic Institute began in 1987 as an off-the-cuff international art and performance collective. Based in New York City, the Institute was initially formed in Kathmandu producing live digital video performance, as well as psychedelic art. It included artists from New York, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, and London. . Today, NeuroNautic Institute’s focus is hosting both writing workshops and reading series. In 2012 our annual Night in the Naked City Series began, showcasing the voices of those rarest of birds, Native New Yorkers. In 2018, we expanded to our on-going monthly readings both in-person and via Zoom. . Having taken a hiatus from running our weekly writer’s workshop, future engagements are currently being planned and scheduled. . NeuroNautic Press is our newest endeavor. We aim to produce, promote, and distribute innovative work from a variety of voices. Turn the personal into the universal.
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Shabdaguchha is an International Poetry Magazine, celebrating 28 years of publication
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Abstract Voices is a creative movement Founded by Taikeya J, originally launched as a student Poetry organization. It evolved into a dynamic community that bridges artistry, healing, and empowerment through written and spoken expression. Guided by Taikeya's motto - "If you learn to take action of your Voice, then you will learn to take action of your life." Abstract Voices unites poets, and writers to awaken purpose through storytelling.
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SPEAK Open Mic (Sharing Poetic Expressions, Artistry, and Knowledge) is a monthly poetry and arts gathering housed at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, New Jersey. For several years, SPEAK has served as both an open mic and a writer’s workshop space, cultivating a community where artists not only share their work, but also engage in meaningful dialogue about it. A defining feature of SPEAK is our commitment to reflection and feedback, performers are invited not just to be heard, but to hear how their words have resonated, sparked questions, or created connection. Each event begins with a Writer’s Circle workshop designed to nurture craft, encourage experimentation, and build trust among participants. Rooted in the belief that poetry is both expression and exchange, SPEAK exists to amplify voices, deepen understanding, and serve the broader community through artistry, conversation, and collective growth.
THE BLACKBIRD STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
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Mocha Mic with Millie is an open mic platform founded in Jersey City three years ago to amplify black artists and emerging artists. -
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WAYE, short for "We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm," is a poetry reading series and open mic that happens every last Wednesday of the month at Sure Things Vintage, located in Jersey City Heights. WAYE is also a small press that publishes By the WAYE, a magazine of poetry and visual art twice per year.
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Poets With Purpose is a community for poets & poetry lovers that was established in 2018 by Noel A. Figueroa to provide an environment for creativity, inspiration, encouraging an individuals growth & development in the poetic arts. Here you can connect with other Poets & Poetry Lovers of all experience levels, backgrounds & locations. All Open Mics are conducted either in person or virtually via Zoom.
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House of Khaos is a creative platform offering community events, self publishing guidance, and individual support services
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Spoken Moon is a sanctuary for creative expression. A space where poetry, movement, visual art, and music live side by side. As one of the first open mics to intentionally introduce and feature dance in poetry spaces, we expand the power of the mic and who it can honor. Spoken Moon exists to make room for every phase that creatives and multidisciplinary artists move through. Here, community thrives and creativity becomes a shared pulse.
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Geshu Sugandh is a mom, children’s book author and the creative behind BROOKLYNBIHARN, a Brooklyn-based storytelling-led bilingual indie publisher in English and Hindi, that sparks curiosity, supports choice, and builds connections across languages and cultures.
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Pen + Brush is a 132-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to creating equitable opportunities for women and gender-expansive visual and literary artists. Since 1894, Pen + Brush has been a vital space maker for the arts in New York City while actively working to dismantle exclusionary systems within the art world. Over the past decade, Pen + Brush has revitalized its mission through bold, strategic programming designed to incubate and elevate underrepresented artists. Deeply ingrained in the creative community it serves and informed by contemporary artistic practice, Pen + Brush offers far more than a high-quality exhibition platform—it provides the mentorship, resources, and holistic support artists need to thrive. By meeting artists where they are and championing their advancement, Pen + Brush helps build pathways to sustainable, long-term careers in a professional landscape that too often remains out of reach.
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Named from the Old Dutch for Sleepy Hollow and founded in 1990 by Margo Taft Stever to advance the national and international conversation of poetry and poetics, principally by publishing and supporting the work of new poets, Slapering Hol Press (SHP) is now one of the oldest chapbook presses in the United States.
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Crowe’s Nest is a Seasonal Themed Open Mic collective series and showcase primarily showcasing Poetry and Music founded, curated and hosted by 2 time Off Broadway Spoken Word Poet Alex Crowe in the summer of 2024 in the backyard of his home in Woodhaven, Queens NY. Crowe’s Nest artistic D.I.Y. vision is to bring creatives of different backgrounds, culture and every walks of life to encourage them to settle in the nest and embrace their differences.
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featuring poets TBA.
Poetry & Potions Open Mic is a Bronx and East Harlem/Uptown-based literary series curated by Nicco Diaz under iconicco. productions. Rooted in the rich spoken word legacies of both communities, the series blends curated featured artists with an open mic, creating an intergenerational space for poets, storytellers, musicians, and visual artists to share new work. Poetry & Potions prioritizes accessibility, intentional hospitality, and partnerships with local venues while uplifting emerging and established voices alike. With a growing audience base and a strong track record of community-centered programming, the series serves as both a performance platform and creative incubator within Uptown’s vibrant literary ecosystem.
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featuring poets TBA.
Hibrido Literario features poetry in Spanish
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featuring poets TBA.
Smut nite is a erotic poetry open mic! and a party! and a space to step out of your comfort zone and into something spicy!
SUNDAY, JULY 18TH
Hosted by TBA.
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featuring poets TBA.
Trio house press is a nonprofit literary press
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featuring poets TBA.
No, Dear aims to bring together the voices of New York City poets who might not otherwise be in dialogue: both emerging and established poets from diverse backgrounds who are living and writing in New York City’s five boroughs. We aspire to disrupt a field that has historically privileged white patriarchal perspectives by building a publication and communal/critical dialogue that strives to be largely representative of women-identified poets, and poets of color and of all gender expressions.
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featuring poets TBA.
The Rose Garden Events offers a curated assortment of open mic nights, spoken word showcases, talk shows, art exhibitions, and educational programs. We're a one-stop-shop for all forms of creative expression. Our diverse ventures seamlessly unite the realms of creativity and business, providing a harmonious space for individuals to explore their artistic gifts as a career.
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featuring poets TBA.
An open mic to share the lit you love. In a glut of open mics for sharing what we've written, QU is a place to share what we've read instead. Hosted by Nick Bardos at Hive Mind Books.
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featuring poets TBA.
PINK TREES PRESS is a nonprofit press publishing the work of diverse, living writers, sharing voices that expand the familiar and cultivate imagination and resilience. The authors of Pink Trees Press reflect the heterogeneity of our country. Art spreads compassion and unites people.
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featuring poets TBA.
Pen Pal Poets was established in New York City in 2013 . Pen Pal Poets is a group of diverse poets, artists, storytellers, and musicians that curates poetry readings throughout the city. Readings have been held at the Playhouse Theater, 6BC Community Garden and the NYC Poetry Festival.
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featuring poets TBA.
Graywolf Press is a nonprofit literary publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and work in translation.
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featuring poets TBA.
The Why Collective is a multi-disciplinary artists’ collective exploring non-traditional storytelling and performance practices. Poetry is generated through intentional workshops and developed into interdisciplinary performances in a roundtable, “creative laboratory” setting. We host creative writing workshops, poetry open mics, monthly salons, and annual showcases.
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featuring poets Maria Rubio, Zury Lowell, Valium Housewife, Iridescence, and Kitty Bailey
Hot People Read Poetry is an open mic experience and small zine press that strives to uplift vulnerability and authenticity. Read a poem=be hot!
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featuring poets TBA.
Intersections Mag is a creative community of artists in NYC especially involved in the promotion of the arts through 1) participating in city and neighbourhood initiatives; and 2) organizing events and activities (readings, cultural conferences, gallery openings). Intersections Mag members are multicultural, both men and women, highly engaged in human(ism) and social values.
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featuring poets TBA.
Poetry for All is a cultural, artistic project strongly engaged in social activism. Its mission is to spread poetry among citizens and to create social change through verse, spoken word and performance. Poetry for All has been involved in poetic action. Its members have organized bilingual monthly readings in New York -La Nacional, D´ Antigua, Barco de Papel- poetry festivals and fairs, and have participated in round-tables, workshops, talks and creative gatherings.
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featuring poets TBA.
bi/Coa: Base Intercultural / Community of the Americas was founded in 2012. Is a organization that was created and run to promotes Hispano-American culture and interrelation with other cultures through art: exhibitions, cinema, theater and literature. The series of programs that will be presented, express concepts of justice, social service, and freedom of expression. This exciting program will include workshops, conferences and panel discussions with the artists plus the exhibition of large collections that normally reside in museums and private collections around the world.
THE YOUTH FESTIVAL STAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH
Hosted by TBA.
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featuring poets TBA.
Poets House is a comfortable, accessible place for poetry—a library and meeting place which invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Poets House seeks to document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, to stimulate dialogue on issues of poetry in culture, and to cultivate a wider audience for the art. The Lionfish is the youth magazine of Poets House.
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featuring poets TBA.
The Rose Garden Events offers a curated assortment of open mic nights, spoken word showcases, talk shows, art exhibitions, and educational programs. We're a one-stop-shop for all forms of creative expression. Our diverse ventures seamlessly unite the realms of creativity and business, providing a harmonious space for individuals to explore their artistic gifts as a career.
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featuring poets TBA.
The Little Bookshop is a Black woman and Hispanic led, family-owned bookshop, café, and community hub built around stories, creativity, and care. Rooted in our lived experiences and cultural traditions, we are known for bringing people together through soups and books, poetry events, intimate jazz nights, screenings, workshops, and reflective gatherings. We intentionally curate inclusive literature, nourishing food, and welcoming programming that reflects the diversity of our community. As a multigenerational, family-run space, we lead with warmth, accessibility, and belonging and create a neighborhood living room where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to slow down, connect, and grow together.
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featuring poets TBA.
Our Arts & Literacy Program builds literacy in the widest sense of the word through creative writing, the visual & performing arts, martial arts, media literacy, gardening, fashion design, sports and yoga. The interdisciplinary curriculum builds upon the children's interests and strengths, using the same effective, holistic, multicultural approach which is the hallmark of all of the Coalition's programs. The program also offers art therapy, monthly Family Arts Nights with family literacy workshops, support for families, family educational trips, and apprenticeships for neighborhood high school students.
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
Hosted by TBA.
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featuring poets TBA.
The SOMA Network is a community arts organization local to South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding area in New Jersey. The network aims to amplify and strengthen the local arts community by sharing artist calls and opportunities, as well as hosting events programming for local artists across all disciplines and stages.
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featuring poets TBA.
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featuring poets TBA.
Writopia Lab is a non-profit whose mission is to foster joy, literacy, and critical thinking through creative writing
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featuring poets TBA.
Girls Write Now is a nonprofit organization serving girls and gender-expansive youth who attend New York City public schools and are from historically and systemically underserved communities.
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Iago Macknik-Conde is a rising freshman at Macaulay Honors College. He is a two-time Bill of Rights Institute Student Fellow and an Intern with the John Locke Institute. He received First Prize in the 2019 National Essay Contest hosted by the National World War II Museum, the 2020 Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize for Poetry, the 2023 Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Prize, and the 2023 George Watt Essay Prize. Iago’s historical plays for National History Day won First Place in New York State in 2023 and 2024, and the Captain Ken Coskey Naval History Prize in 2024. Iago is also a recipient of The Congressional Award’s Gold Medal and the President’s Volunteer Service Award.
Nova Macknik-Conde is a rising 9th grader in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Carson Scholar and a Caroline D. Bradley Scholar. Nova’s writing has been recognized by The Betty Award, the Sarah Mook Poetry Contest, the Engineer Girl Writing Contest, The National World War II Museum’s Student Writing Contest, the Inklings Book Contest, the Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Contest, and Writopia’s Worldwide Plays Festival. Her poetry has appeared in print in Stone Soup magazine, Stepping Stones magazine, and Cricket magazine.
Kassidy Khuu is a rising junior attending high school in NYC. Her work has been previously recognized by The New York Times, The Poetry Society of New York, The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and more. Most recently, she was a New York State Poet Laureate Finalist.
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featuring poets TBA.
Harlem Bomb Shelter is a 14 year old Harlem-based spoke word poetry & literary arts organization. Harlem Bomb Shelter produces open mics, showcase, waorkshops, and more, including an anuall Youth Poerry Slam, a monthly Youth Poetry Night, and 12 months of workshops and opportunities for our Harlem Youth Poetry Ambassador.
