Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival

Our annual poetry festival features three days of workshops, panels, craft talks, readings, and more! In the mornings, we’ll explore the creative process and write new material in generative workshops. In the afternoons, we’ll listen to panels on a variety of topics and engage in craft talks with acclaimed poets. We’ll end the day with readings featuring that days teachers, panelists, and other poets in our community.

Featured poets include leena aboutaleb, Fatimah Asghar, Tina Chang, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Cornelius Eady, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Shira Erlichman, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Ahana Ganguly, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Joan Kwon Glass, Heather Gluck, K. Iver, Eugenia Leigh, Francisco Márquez, Hannah Matheson, Angel Nafis, Kwame Opoku-Duku, Megan Pinto, Carey Salerno, Jon Sands, Jayson Smith, and Mary Sutton.

Event Type
In person
Extra Notes
This event takes place from October 2–4. Daily lineups are below. Three-day and individual day passes are available, along with virtual options. Admission price listed is for an in-person day pass. Sunday, October 4, Workshop I: Writing Poems of Love & Loathing with Joan Kwon Glass; Workshop II: Mapping Your Artistic Voice with Fatimah Asghar; Panel: “Being a Poet in the World,” ft. Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Joan Kwon Glass, Megan Pinto, and Kwame Opoku-Duku; Craft talk: Cornelius Eady; Readings: Cornelius Eady, Fatimah Asghar, Joan Kwon Glass, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Megan Pinto, Kwame Opoku-Duku, and leena aboutaleb