During the Nuyorican Poets Café's building's reconstruction, the café brings their famous poetry slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club on 308 Bowery (between E. Houston & Bleecker Streets) in Manhattan, NYC. Weekly on Monday evenings, in-person. Doors open at 6:30 P.M. Slam takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Tickets: $20 in advance/online or at the door. Hosted by JRose. [ more info ]
Spanish/Gallician/English/Multilingual series. Open Mic with guest poets. A meeting point for poets and musicians from all over the world and in all languages. [ more info ]
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe brings their famous slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club. Monday night at 7pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. GET TICKETS.
JUPITER INVINCIBLE is a live performance of a new radio play and comic book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa in collaboration with Stella Adler Center for the Arts. Audience members will see JUPITER INVINCIBLE come to life through a dynamic radio play performed by the cast and directed by Melissa Maxwell. Monday, June 24, 2024 from 7 - 9pm EST. La MaMa Shares, 74A East 4th Street (btw Bowery & 2nd Ave), NYC. [ more info ]
New multilingual poetry series hosted by Dima Pevzner, Igor Satanovsky, and Anton Yakovlev aims to present innovative and adventurous poetic voices across the full spectrum of international cultural influences. On first Tuesdays of the month + open-mic. [ more info ]
May 21, 2024 at 7:30pm. $10 -- Olena Boryshpolets launches her poetry book Orpheus and Eurydice in NY with friends Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko, Olga Livshin, and Lesya Verba. Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Eight poets at their favorite eight restaurants in New York City during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The “Poetry Is Like Bread” Ghazal is a collaborative poem created by a world of poets to nourish us all through the Pandemic and to envision the world After.
Watch the extraordinary reading and group poem responding to the death of George Floyd and tackling issues of race in America.
“On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.” That was Pablo Neruda, I’m Bob Holman, and this is the “Poetry Is Bread” podcast, where poetry challenges us, makes us think, and, with imagination and courage, changes the world. Subscribe to our podcast to get notifications of new episodes or check us out at https://bowerypoetry.podbean.com/.
Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Arts and Sciences, ltd. are supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of NY Governor and the New York State Legislature.
