Brooklyn Poets

06/06/2026

Join us on Saturday, June 20 as we prepare to meet the longest day of the year with a chorus of poetry including 6 hours of readings. We'll congregate in the breathtaking sanctuary of St. Ann's as over 50 poets remind us of the ability of language to transcend, resist, and most importantly, connect. View the full lineup and get tickets: https://brooklynpoets.org/events/celebration

06/05/2026

In this six-week, online workshop with Jaz Sufi (), we'll explore a variety of different poetic forms and discuss strategies for approaching them, including when to use which form for what effect.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a-little-class-on-form

06/04/2026

In this generative five-week, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll explore how objects can evoke many emotions, memories and poetic modes to bring the speaker and reader to intimate and revelatory places.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/objects-and-objections

06/02/2026

Explore play through poetry, engage with working-class writing, ekphrasis, objections and form with Rachelle Toarmino, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Cindy Tran, Lisa HIton, and Jaz Sufi in these workshops starting in June and July!
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

06/02/2026

Join us Friday June 12, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Tara Skurtu! Skurtu will lead a workshop on “One Surprising Sentence,” drawn from her upcoming two-session workshop for Brooklyn Poets this summer. https://events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brooklynpoets/2073342

06/02/2026

In this five-week, generative online workshop with Cindy Tran, we'll write and workshop ekphrastic poems inspired by film, painting, photography, sculpture and installation art.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/the-visual-art-poem

06/01/2026

On the steamed-up mirror (after the shower, your finger tracing the & between us), on the back of a Polaroid (you drew a crooked heart, I wrote the wrong year),

— Our , Sui Wang!

Brooklyn Poets Fellow

06/01/2026

An incredible Friday evening spent listening to Zefyr Lisowski, Cortney Lamar Charleston & Rachel Camacho! Thank you for joining us, poets ❤️‍🔥

05/29/2026

Join us at 144 Montague for our Winter & Spring Fellows Showcase on Friday, June 5, at 6:30 PM as fellowship winners from our winter and spring workshop seasons share their work. https://events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brooklynpoets/2237989

05/29/2026

In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll explore and write poetry that engages in class discourse, centering the material reality of working-class life under capitalism as we consider how it may be brought to the poetic line.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/intro-to-working-class-poetry