—EMDASH MID SEPTEMBER UPDATE
—emdash is the ONLY calendar for new york city poetry. simi says it's still summer, let's party rock in (mid)september !!
Poetry Events for September
note - this is a working calendar. check events before you go, we will have flyers collected under the monthly highlights on our instagram @emdashnyc !
Sunday, September 14, 7 PM — Sadie Dupuis, Asher White, August Thompson, and Ada Lea with Weird Fucks — Reading series at Night Club 101 — 15
Sunday, September 14, 9 PM — Sarah Chin, Dylan Tran, Vicki Xu, JoAnna Mak, Emma Wang, Sui Wang, Chelsea Zhu, Zixuan (Angel) Xin, and Juliana Chang with Sine Theta Magazine — Digital reading — free
Sunday, September 14, 4 PM — Ashna Ali, Cat Fitzpatrick, Charles Theonia, and Emily Zhou with Dirt Child — Reading series at Bar Freda — $3-5 suggested donation
Sunday, September 14, 5 PM — Poetry Reading at the Garden with McNally Jackson — Reading series at Elizabeth Street Garden — free
Monday, September 15, 6:30 PM — Writing City Nature, Writing the City Self with Rajiv Mohabir — Workshop at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop — free
Monday, September 15, 7 PM — Paula Cisewski, Jason Schneiderman, and Sylvia Jones — Reading series at KGB Monday Night Poetry — free
Monday, September 15, 7 PM — Amie Barrodale, Zefyr Lisowski, Chet'la Sebree, and Emily Zhou with Franklin Park Lit Night — Reading at Franklin Park — free
Tuesday, September 16, 7 PM — Kimberly Alidio, Courtney Bush, Natalie Shapero, and Emily Skillings with New Works — Reading series at Poets House — free
Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 PM — Rajiv Mohabir, Megan Pinto, Ashna Ali, and Rosamond King — Book launch at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop — free
Wednesday, September 17, 7PM — Writing Club — Writing workshop at River Office 47 Thames St — free
Thursday, September 18, 7 PM — The Ghost Shepherds, Eddie Berrigan, Sal Randolph, and Filip Marinovich with Bathtub Nebula — Reading at Unnameable Books — free
Thursday, September 18, 7 PM — Yahya Ashour — Book launch at The Word is Change — free
Friday, September 19, 7 PM — Veena Dinavahi, Arianna Rebolini, Jamie Hood, Elissa Bassist, and Ashley D. Escobar with Scrappy Reading Series — Reading series at Compere Collective — free
Friday, September 19, 7:30 PM — No/Pen Mic — Open mic at Yu & Me Books — free
Friday, September 19, 7:30 — Emerging Writers NYU Students — Reading at KGB Bar — free with RSVP
Friday, September 19, 7:30 PM — Claire Star Finch, Andrea Torres, Charlotte Strange, and Monica Weltyk — Book launch at Wendy's Subway — free
Saturday, September 20, 2 PM — Elizabeth Knapp and Pamela Hughes — Book launch at Poets House — free with RSVP
Saturday, September 20, 8 PM — Chloe Pingeon, Chris Bray, and Adeline Swartzendruber with Antireality Zine — Zine launch at Thayer — free
Saturday, September 20, 7 PM — Daniel Lassell, Colby Cotton and jason b. crawford — Reading at Unnameable Books — free
Sunday, September 21, 7 PM — Aurora O, Syd Westley, David Ehmcke, Lily Hoagland, Asha Futterman, and Temperance Aghamohammadi with Discount Guillotine — Reading series and book launch at Talon Bar — free
Sunday, September 21, 7:30 PM — Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lilith Assadi, and Seema Jilani with Voices for Gaza — Reading at The Town Hall — Tickets
Sunday, September 21, 5 PM — Benjamin Brooks, Roohi Choudhry, Francisco Delgado, and Tracy O’Neill with Sunday Salon — Reading series at Von Bar — free
Sunday, September 21, 7 PM — Verse 4 Verse Drag + Poetry — Reading series at Dada Bar — free
Monday, September 22, 7 PM — Rosanna Warren, Maureen McLane, and Catherine Barnett — Reading series at KGB Monday Night Poetry — free
Tuesday, September 23, 7 PM — Isabel Sobral Campos and N/A Oparah with Futurepoem — Book launch at Poets House — free with RSVP
Wednesday, September 24, 8 PM — Mohammed El-Kurd and Juliana Huxtable — Reading at St. Mark's Church — $15 advance, $20 doors
Wednesday, September 24, 8 PM — TBA with Ditmas Lit — Reading series at Urbane Arts Club — free
Thursday, September 25, 7 PM — Heather Maria Ács, Emily Elkind, Deena ElGenaidi, Margot Atwell, Jon Meharg, and Drae Campbell with Joy in the Soft Apocalypse — Reading series at The Word is Change — free
Friday, September 26, 7 PM — Laura Albert, Patrick McGraw, Alissa Bennett, and Meg Superstar Princess with Heavy Traffic — Reading at Earth — free
Friday, September 26, 5 PM — Anthony Joseph & Jive Poetic with Terrance Hayes — Reading at Lilian Vernon Creative Writing House — free with RSVP
Friday, September 26, 7 PM — Cathy Linh Che, Jemimah Wei, Jenevieve Ting, Jenny Xie, Vt Hung, and Yasmin Adele Majeed — Reading at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop — free
Friday, September 26, 6:30 PM — Edwin Torres, Heather Christle, James Sherry, Joey de Jesus, and Wendy Xu — Reading at McNally Jackson Books Seaport — $5 with RSVP
Saturday, September 27, 7 PM — River — Reading series at Unnameable Books — free
Sunday, September 28, 5 PM — Poetry Reading at the Garden with McNally Jackson — Reading series at Elizabeth Street Garden — free
Monday, September 29, 7 PM — Brendan Lorber, Joe Elliot, and Edwin Torres — Reading series at KGB Monday Night Poetry — free
Monday, September 29, 7 PM — Emily Wilson and Luke Soucy — Reading at Brooklyn Central Library — free
Monday, September 29, 7 PM — Caroline Mcdonald, Arley Sakai, Ernesto Hernandez, and Talia Rosenthal — Reading at Unnameable Books — free
Tuesday, September 30, 7 PM — Angel Landing with The Goose Egg — Reading at The Windjammer — free
Tuesday, September 30, 7 PM — Alpha Beta Blah — Open mic at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop — free
Tuesday, September 30, 8 PM — Most Hated Poets — Reading series at Dada Bar — free
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Where we’ve been
these are caconrad’s magic hands at poets house reading with golden. i get why pros are pros. while standing in line for death. reprise. was insane.
—subin
i had the opportunity to see an amazing curated night by wonder press at seventh heaven (nee the end, nee heaven, nee heaven or las vegas, nee…) to celebrate the new printing of mucus in my pineal gland by juliana huxtable. she was, of course, spectacular (catch her at poetry project on the 24th) but i wanted to give a special shoutout to benjamin krusling who absolutely tore it up. the “political poem” has been so hopelessly consumed and reconsumed in the last ten years, but benjamin’s poem is genuinely riveting and shaking. “ski mask over my skull” better synthesizes twenty years of biopolitics and black studies than any other art piece i’ve heard and krusling has this amazing talent for writing where you can never tell which lines “belong” to each other.
—jacob