Thursday Morning Poets

featuring poets TBD.

Strangers before the pandemic, Thursday Morning Poets (TMP) first met at a Queens Public Library virtual workshop led by Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella, whose prompt-based workshop inspired them to continue on their own, forming TMP. Meeting each other in-person for the first time in this, their debut public appearance, these 10 women of TMP whose faces reflect NYC's cultural & ethnic diversity will read their original works in a variety of poetic styles, lifting their voices as first-time poets or as award-winning poets to tell stories of women's lived experiences.