Programming
Reading and Conversation
Thu, May 2, 2024,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet
book launch, reading and panel
Tue, Apr 16, 2024,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Poetry and Climate: A Book Launch, Reading, and Panel
L&F Fellows Showcase
Fri, Dec 8, 2023,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Nov 9, 2023,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
The Perhaps Unexpected with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Rosamond S. King
Poetry Reading
Thu, Oct 19, 2023,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change with Uche Nduka, Celina Su, Allia Abdullah-Matta, and Kealoha
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Oct 10, 2023,
06:30 PM –
07:30 PM
Boat People: A Conversation with Mayra Santos-Febres and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Book Launch, Reading and Discussion
Sun, Jun 4, 2023,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Book Launch: Jumping into the American River New and Selected Poems, Vol 1 by Mary Norbert Korte with Iris Cushing, Jason Weiss, & M.C. Kinniburgh
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Apr 20, 2023,
04:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Black and Latinx Studies Afro-Latinidades Symposium Presents: Lois Elaine Griffith
Book Launch & Reading
Fri, Mar 24, 2023,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Book Launch for TROPICAL SACRIFICE with Lucas de Lima, Ana Božičević, Catherine Chen, & Levani
Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Oct 27, 2022,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Book Launch: The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Oct 27, 2022,
05:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century—A Conversation with Rowena Kennedy-Epstein & Francesca Wade
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 2, 2021,
07:00 PM –
08:00 PM
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
Conversation
Wed, Apr 14, 2021,
03:00 PM –
04:30 PM
John Wieners' Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles
Editors Panel Discussion
Fri, Mar 5, 2021,
11:00 AM –
12:00 PM
The Craft We Didn't Learn: Retroactive Writing Advice from the Archives
Reading Group and Event Series
Tue, Feb 2, 2021 –
Fri, Feb 26, 2021,
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of 250 Years of African American Poetry
Conversation
Wed, Jan 20, 2021,
06:00 PM –
08:15 PM
Transforming CUNY Admissions, Studies, Movements
Conversation and Film Screening
Tue, Dec 15, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
The School of Toni Cade Bambara with Makeba Lavan, Linda J. Holmes, Thabiti Lewis, & Louis Massiah
Conversation and Workshop
Thu, Nov 12, 2020,
03:30 PM –
05:30 PM
Activating June Jordan’s "Life Studies": Notes, Conversation, and Workshop with Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
Reading and Listening Session
Thu, Aug 20, 2020,
07:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Ensemble Time: An Improvised Reading and Listening Session with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten
Opportunity
Wed, May 20, 2020 –
Mon, Jun 1, 2020,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
For the Time Being: Writing in the Pause with Sara Jane Stoner
Reading and Conversation
Fri, May 8, 2020,
12:00 PM –
01:00 PM
A Reading and Conversation with Joyelle McSweeney
Reading and Conversation
Wed, Apr 22, 2020,
08:30 PM –
10:00 PM
A Reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Apr 16, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
POSTPONED: Frost Medal Celebration: Toi Derricotte in conversation with Tracy K. Smith
Screening and Conversation
Wed, Feb 5, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Yonia Fain's Map of Refugee Modernism
Reading
Wed, Dec 11, 2019,
04:30 PM –
06:30 PM
GC Poetics Presents Show n' Tell: poetry & other works in progress
Conversation
Thu, Nov 7, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library
Reading and Conversation
Fri, Nov 1, 2019,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten Reading and Book Celebration
Performance and Conversation
Wed, Oct 23, 2019,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Poetry Listening Session with Brent Hayes Edwards and Fred Moten
Lecture
Thu, Sep 26, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Cedar Sigo Presents “Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation”
Conversation
Tue, Apr 9, 2019,
08:00 PM –
10:00 PM
"I teach myself in outline": Audre Lorde's Pedagogy
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Apr 4, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Life/Signs in the Clamoring Mouth: Memory, Politics, & Poetries of Ghostly Mattering
Reading
Wed, Feb 20, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett
Opportunity
Tue, Apr 16, 2024 –
Fri, Feb 8, 2019,
03:31 PM – 11:59 PM
03:31 PM – 11:59 PM
2019 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Reading and Conversation
Sat, Dec 8, 2018,
03:00 PM –
04:45 PM
QueensEnglish International 2018 at Queens Museum
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Dec 6, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Radical Writing, Feminism and Black Futures: with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Hunt, Dawn Lundy Martin and Claudia Rankine
Lecture
Mon, Oct 15, 2018,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Writing the Women’s Movement, 1963 - 1991: Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Sep 13, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Publishing American Sign Language Poetry
Working Groups
Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe
This Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe working group is looking to document the influence of artists who have emerged from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, from its inception in 1973 and onward.