Archive of Past Events
Aug 9, 2026
Dirt Child Reading Series at Bar Freda, Queens, NY
June 20, 2026
Brooklyn Poets Solstice Fundraiser at St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn NY
June 15, 2026
Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference Reading, Middlebury, VT
April 17, 2026
Imogen Smith’s Raw & Zero Launch at Word is Change Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
April 18, 2026
Poets House 40th Anniversary Celebration, Manhattan, NY (featured in The Broadsheet)
March 26, 2026
Jodie’s Rent Party organized by the Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY
March 27, 2026
KGB Bar Emerging Writers Series w/ Grace M. Cho & more, Manhattan, NY
January 17, 2026
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, Manhattan, NY
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December 3, 2025
Harvest Reading Series at Accent Sisters w/Grace MacNair, Rennie Ament, & Ariel Yelen, Manhattan, NY
November 22, 2025
Reading at White Columns Gallery, Manhattan, NY
October 31, 2025
McNally Jackson Seaport Reading w/ E.R. Pulgar, Aditi Kini, & Tangie Mitchell, Manhattan, NY
October 18, 2025
Tamaas Poetry Translation Seminar, Online, via Zoom
September 20, 2025
River Reading Series at Unnameable Books w/ Leigh Sugar & Ashna Ali, Brooklyn, NY
September 17, 2025
Rajiv Mohabir’s Seabeast Launch at Asian American Writers Workshop, Manhattan, NY
September 12, 2025
Mizna 26.1: Kindred Launch Reading at Asian American Writers Workshop w/ Sara Deniz Akant, Farah Barqawi, & more, Manhattan, NY
September 5, 2025
Kan Yama Kan at Blinky’s Bar w/ Carlos Andrés Gómez & Janay Kelly , Brooklyn, NY
April 16, 2025
Sonic Artifact Ep 79: Poetry Artifact (Special Poetry Month Episode) hosted by Kiril Bolotnikov and broadcast live on Psyched! Radio San Francisco
March 27, 2025
Brooklyn Raga Massive: The Rāginī Festival at Joe’s Pub w/ Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Roshni Samlal, & others, Manhattan, NY
January 31, 2025
Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open w/ Alisha Mascarenhas, Brooklyn, NY
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December 20, 2024
A Night of Ghazals at Poets House w/ Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Ustad Salamat Ali, & Saboor Aziz, Manhattan, NY
June 28, 2024
Naropa University ‘Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics’ 50th Anniversary Reading, Boulder, CO
June 12, 2024
Poets Afloat Reading Aboard the Mary Whelan (historic oil tanker), Pier 11, Red Hook, NY
May 19, 2024
5th Annual NYC Poets Afloat Reading at the South Street Seaport Museum, Manhattan, NY
April 28, 2024
Drop the Mic(ro) Reading hosted by Myna Chang, Online, via Zoom
April 17, 2024
Belladonna* Annual Reading at Queens College w/ Cynthia Manick, Queens, NY
April 15, 2024
Me Upside Down is We curated by Miriam Elhajli at Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY
March 21, 2024
Spring Equinox Reading w/ Prince Shakur, & more, Brooklyn, NY
March 20, 2024
Ivy Raff’s Rooted and Reduced to Dust Launch at Cafe con Libros, Brooklyn, NY
February 25, 2024
Lactose Intolerant Reading at WORD Bookstore w/ Elisa M. Gonzalez & Emily Lee Luan, Brooklyn, NY
February 22, 2024
The Transcontinental Ghazal [Virtual Workshop] for Poetry Society of New York, Online, via Zoom
February 16, 2024
New Third World Reading & Fundraiser for Palestine at Asian American Writers Workshop, Manhattan, NY
January 27, 2024
Fiesta de Poesía at Museo Ex Convento de Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
January 19, 2024
Under the Volcano Reading at Ombú Tepoztlán w/ Nyree Abramanian, Quinton Okoro, & more, Morelos, Mexico
January 7, 2024
Tamaas Poetry Translation Seminar, Online, via Zoom
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December 16, 2023
To Water Another Tree: A Poetry Reading for Palestine, hosted by Topaz Winters & the Spiral Bookcase, w/ Paige Lewis, Taylor Byas, & more, Online, via Zoom
December 9, 2023
Eleonore Weill and Fada Friends at Barbès, w/ Ali Dineen & Farah Barqawi, Brooklyn, NY
November 25, 2023
The International 24 Hour Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine, Online, via Zoom
November 5, 2023
Pure Nowhere x VERCI NYC: The Gift of Words, w/ No Land, musical accompaniment by Mike Haldman, Darian Thomas, Cleo Reed, Eden Bareket, & Mia Garcia, Manhattan, NY
October 28, 2023
Third World Poetics [Panel], Radius of Arab American Writers Conference, Online, via Zoom
October 27, 2023
Mizna x New Third World Reading, Radius of Arab American Writers Conference at Loft Literary Center, w/ Danez Smith, Noor Hindi, & more, Minneapolis, MN
July 29, 2023
The Commonwealth of Immigrant Daughters at the New York City Poetry Festival w/ Ghinwa Jawhari & Kamelya Youssef, Governor’s Island, NYC
July 20, 2023
Reading w/ Kamelya Youssef & E.R. Pulgar at KGB Bar, Manhattan, NY
June 10, 2023
New Zealand Festival of Flash, Online, via Zoom
April 27, 2023
The Ins and Outs of Running a Reading Series [Virtual Panel], New York Foundation for the Arts, Online, via Zoom
March 11, 2023
Mehfil: An Evening of South Asian Poetry w/ Sarah Ghazal Ali, Serena Chopra, Nanya Jhingran, & Jasmine Khaliq, AWP Offsite at Underbelly, Seattle, WA
January 28, 2023
Crush #32 at Woodbine, w/ Imogen Smith, Queens, NY
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September 16, 2022
Melody S. Gee’s The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat Launch at The Rosewater, w/ Helene Achanzar & Danni Quintos, Louisville, KY
September 11, 2022
Second Sunday Readings w/ Addie Tsai & Shannon Wolf, Online, via Zoom (also available as a podcast episode)
September 10, 2022
The Commonwealth of Immigrant Daughters at the New York City Poetry Festival w/ Sarah Ghazal Ali & I.S. Jones, Governor’s Island, NYC (featured in the essay/review Sweat Line)
August 29, 2022
Brooklyn Poets Virtual Showcase, Online, via Zoom
August 22, 2022
Topaz Winters’ So, Stranger Launch at Toadstool Bookshop, Keene, NH
August 20, 2022
Mizna 23.1 Virtual Launch Reading w/ Nathalie Khankan, Hannah Sassoon, & more, Online, on Zoom
August 13, 2022
Topaz Winters’ So, Stranger Launch at Nook, Brooklyn, NY (featured in The Village Sun)
June 9, 2022
Eight Bombay Poets at Method Gallery, Zahra Amiruddin: A Summer Slumber, Bandra West, Mumbai, India
May 31, 2022
Tree Reading Series w/ DeShara Suggs-Joe, Online, via Zoom
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November 14, 2021
The New Third World Reading Series w/ Sarah Ghazal Ali, Gabrielle Bates, Patrycja Humienik, Ghinwa Jawhari, & I.S. Jones at Barbès Brooklyn, NY
August 21, 2021
Watershed Reading Series, Online, via Zoom