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, Kwame Opoku-Duku, Megan Pinto, Angel Nafis, Carey Salerno, Jayson Smith, Jon Sands, 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. Friday, October 2, Workshop I: Emotional Historians with Jon Sands; Workshop II: Swapping Eyes: Persona and Self-Expression Through Inhabiting Varied Voices with K. Iver; Panel: “The Debut,” ft. Ahana Ganguly (Futurepoem), Roberto Carlos Garcia (Get Fresh Books), Hannah Matheson (Four Way Books), and Carey Salerno (Alice James Books); Craft talk: Shapeshifter: Hybrid Poetry and the Future of Form with Tina Chang; Readings: Tina Chang, K. Iver, Jon Sands, Ahana Ganguly, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Hannah Matheson, Carey Salerno, and Francisco Márquez