Join Brooklyn Poets for their next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event at 144 Montague on Friday, November 8th, featuring poets Christopher Rey Pérez, Ruth Awad and Danez Smith! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Wine reception for in-person attendees will begin at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.
Advance online ticketing for in-person guests will end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that, in-person guests will be admitted at the door until we reach capacity. In-person guests are encouraged to get a ticket in advance, as space is limited. Virtual tickets will be available until start time at 7 PM (ET). A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders.
Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us at [email protected].
Featured Poets
Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. His first book gauguin’s notebook (Northwestern University Press, 2017) received the 2015 Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize from Lake Forest College. He is also the author of Fayuca, a book on markets and movement, with diSONARE Editorial in Mexico City, and Future Tourism, a chapbook with Sputnik & Fizzle on love, travel, and class.
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024), and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work appears in the Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, the Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Missouri Review, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie and, most recently, Bluff. They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. Danez has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and they have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Danez lives in the Twin Cities with their people and teaches at the Randolph College MFA program and the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul, MN.