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Now in its 54th year of bringing poetry to schools, and bringing the poetry of students to the community.

05/02/2026

Keep on writing!

04/30/2026

Tomorrow!!!

Please join us for CCNY Poetry Outreach Center's 54th annual Spring Poetry Festival, with our special guest poet Kay Poema !

Kay Poema is an interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose work bridges language and image to explore themes of memory, identity, and transformation. The author of Diary of Intercessor (Finishing Line Press, 2021), she served as the Bronx Poet Laureate from 2023 to 2025, and was recently the Artist in Residence at the Bx Arts Factory, where she presented an exhibition based on her forthcoming memoir, Where the Sun Splits Open. Kay believes the poetic voice is responsible for blessing and bruising the inquiring reader and her digital art carries this same pulse, extending the poem into image, where layers gather holding rupture and return in the same breath. When Kay isn't teaching or creating she can be found nurturing her plants and her two sons, in the heart of the South Bronx.

04/24/2026

Please join us next Friday, May 1st, for CCNY Poetry Outreach Center's 54th annual Spring Poetry Festival, with our special guest poet Kay Poema !

Kay Poema is an interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose work bridges language and image to explore themes of memory, identity, and transformation. The author of Diary of Intercessor (Finishing Line Press, 2021), she served as the Bronx Poet Laureate from 2023 to 2025, and was recently the Artist in Residence at the Bx Arts Factory, where she presented an exhibition based on her forthcoming memoir, Where the Sun Splits Open. Kay believes the poetic voice is responsible for blessing and bruising the inquiring reader and her digital art carries this same pulse, extending the poem into image, where layers gather holding rupture and return in the same breath. When Kay isn't teaching or creating she can be found nurturing her plants and her two sons, in the heart of the South Bronx.

04/02/2026

Save the date: Friday, May 1st is the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center's 54th Annual Spring Poetry Festival!
Our featured reader, who we're proud to say has been part of the family for a long time, is Kay Poema!
Whether you're a poet, or a lover of poetry, please come and celebrate poetry with us.

12/02/2025

It's ! Please consider giving to the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, bringing FREE poetry workshops into NYC public schools for 54 years!

To donate electronically please visit the following link and follow the steps below.
ccny.cuny.edu/foundation-city-college

1. At the bottom of the page click Donate Here

2. Add your donation amount

3. Designation: Department of Humanities & Arts

4. Mention Poetry Outreach Center in the comments
*This is EXTREMELY important so that your donation reaches the Poetry Outreach Center

To donate via check, send a DM or email [email protected].

No donation is too big or too small!

10/28/2025

Check out our latest anthology: Poetry In Performance 53. Lots of great poems; there's something for everyone!

10/08/2025

Fifty-four years of Poetry Outreach!

High schoolers, send us your best poems.

Mark your calendars. Our annual festival is Friday, May 1st!

05/03/2025

Special thanks to our special guests and featured readers, our friends at in Oaxaca, our undergrad Outreach assistants, and most importantly, our young poets. Keep using your voices.

03/12/2025

For your reading pleasure, may we present Poetry In Performance 52!

01/09/2025

The CCNY high school poetry contest is open and we are accepting poems until Friday, March 7. Please share this with any NYC high school teachers/administrators/students you know! Submissions should be emailed to: [email protected]

Address

West 129th Street & Convent Ave
New York, NY
10031

Website

http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/poetry/index.cfm

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