Tickets are no longer available for purchase online. Remaining tickets for all events may be purchased at the door.

ALL-EVENTS PASS: $120

SATURDAY-ONLY DISCUSSIONS PASS
(Sat., Oct. 22): $60 /
$35 student tickets (with ID)

FRIDAY-ONLY DISCUSSIONS PASS
(Fri., Oct. 21): $30

CHANCELLORS READING
(Thurs., Oct. 20): $10

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: October 20-22, 2011

Chancellors Reading
Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an unforgettable evening as some of the most acclaimed poets of our day come together on one stage to read from their latest work.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University
566 LaGuardia Place

Poetry Walking Tours
Friday, October 21, 10:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.
Take a trip down the same streets traversed by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes and countless other poets. Walking tours will explore the literary history of Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art, the West Village, and SoHo. Past tour guides have included poets Kazim Ali, Anselm Berrigan, Jordan Davis, Bob Holman, Katy Lederer, Cate Marvin, Greg Pardlo, Tracy K. Smith, Tom Thompson, Mónica de la Torre, among others.
All-Events Passholders only
Various meeting locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.

NEW: Make It New: Vision & Innovation in Contemporary Poetry
Friday, October 21, 12:30 p.m.
Cathy Park Hong, Ilya Kaminsky, and Evie Shockley discuss innovative and experimental uses of language in their own poems and the work of other poets who have influenced them.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only
New York University School of Law
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South

NEW: From City to Country: Regional Aesthetics and Sensibility in American Poems
Friday, October 21, 2:00 p.m.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Matthew Dickman, and Cate Marvin discuss how ideas of place and travel operate in their own poems and other American poems.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only
New York University School of Law
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South

Blaney Lecture
Friday, October 21, 3:30 p.m.
Winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in poetry, Susan Howe presents a lecture on poetry and telepathy.
All-Events & Friday-Passholders only
New York University School of Law
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South
Annual lecture series in honor of Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney

Poets Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
Celebrate contemporary poetry and recipients of the premier collection of awards for poetry in the United States; a reception will follow.
Tishman Auditorium
The New School
66 West 12th Street
Co-sponsored by The New School Creative Writing Program

American Poet Launch Party
Saturday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Reading and reception for the new fall issue of American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets. Carol Muske-Dukes, Matthew Rohrer, and Tracy K. Smith will read from their work.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street
Co-sponsored by the New York University Creative Writing Program

Events take place at venues throughout Manhattan; all times are subject to change.

This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state arts agency; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York University Creative Writing Program; The New School Creative Writing Program; and the New York Council for the Humanities.

 

 

The first of a series of public events, the sold out Poets Forum Reading on October 18, 2007 provided the rare opportunity to hear some of the most acclaimed poets of our day, reading together on one stage. Featuring the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, the reading celebrated the range of outstanding poetry being written in America.

Download selections from the evening's performance, including new and representative poems by thirteen of the Forum particiapants. More >