Poetry
An Evening with Buddy Wakefield
Secret Loft 137 W 14th Street, New York, NY, United StatesCome out and enjoy 3-time world champion performance poet Buddy Wakefield’s only NYC tour stop this year. The first author released on Write Bloody Publishing and the most toured spoken word artist in history, Wakefield delivers raw rounded, disarming performances of humor and heart. Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s […]
Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz | Rumi: Unseen Poems
192 Books 192 Tenth Ave., New York, NY, United StatesJoin 192 Books to celebrate the release of a collection of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. Rumi (1207-1273) was trained in Sufism–a mystic tradition within Islam–and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi’s poetry […]
Walking Tour: Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village
Merchant's House Museum 29 E. 4th St., New York, NY, United StatesJoin the Merchant's House Museum on a two-hour literary and historical walking tour that traces a path into Edgar Allan Poe’s life in Greenwich Village in the 1840s, where the author lived and worked at the height of his fame — before plunging irrevocably into the final, abysmal chapter of his short life. On this […]
Persian Night of Love Songs and Poetry
The People's Forum 320 W. 37th St., New York, NY, United StatesAmir Vahab's repertoire is grounded in traditional Persian poetry and music that he believes is part of the global heritage, and needs to be both taught and preserved. Performed in multiple languages, the evening will weave together spoken word and songs set to 13th-14th century poetry from Rumi, Hafiz and Yunus Emre.
Artist Talk with Sinan Antoon and Hadieh Shafie
Center For Book Arts Inc 28 West 27th St, New York, NY, United StatesCurator for “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.” , Lila Nazemian will be in conversation with poet Sinan Antoon and artist Hadieh Shafie to discuss the themes in the exhibition, relative to narrative-making practices of language, translation, and the mechanics of the written word. “I open […]