192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue
(at 21st Street)
New York, NY

Community Bookstore
143 7th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 783-3075

Battenkill Books
30-B West Main St.
Cambridge, NY
(518)677-2515

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
(212) 777-6028

Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
New York, NY
(212) 865-1588

Book Culture - Broadway
2915 Broadway
New York, NY
(646) 403-3000

Book Revue
313 New York Avenue
Huntington, NY
(631) 271-1442

Books & Books Westhampton Beach
130 Main Street
Westhampton Beach, NY
(631) 998-3260

Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY
(212)989-3270

Buffalo Street Books
215 North Cayuga St.
Ithaca, NY
(607) 273-8246

Corner Bookstore
1313 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
(212) 813-3554

Crawford Doyle Booksellers
1082 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
(212) 288-6300

East Village Books
99 St. Mark's Place
New York, NY
(212) 477-8647

Housing Works Used Books
126 Crosby Street
New York City, NY

Lift Bridge Bookshop
45 Main St.
Brockport, NY

Locus Solus
584 Broadway
Ste. 912
New York, NY
(917) 541-1848

Mast Books
66 Avenue A
New York, NY
(646) 370-1114

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street
New York, NY
(212) 274-1160

Mercer Street Books & Records
206 Mercer Street
New York, NY
(212) 505-8615

Oblong Books & Music
26 Main St.
Millerton, NY

Shakespeare & Co.
various locations in New York City, NY

St. Mark's Bookshop
31 Third Ave.
New York City, NY

Talking Leaves
3158 Main St.
Buffalo, NY

Talking Leaves - Elmwood
951 Elmood Avenue
Buffalo, NY

Three Lives & Co.
154 W. 10th St.
New York City, NY

I honor this city. There's lots of glitter here, but there's also more real life than anywhere else I have ever known.

Asian American Writers' Workshop
The Workshop publishes The Asian Pacific American Journal, the literary magazine Ten and various anthologies on underrepresented Asian American experiences. They sponsor readings, book parties and panel discussions, and offer creative writing workshops; and each fall present The Annual Asian American Literary Awards Ceremony to recognize outstanding literary works by Americans of Asian descent.

Bowery Poetry Club
"Through the front door, a small coffee shop serving great coffee and Yonah Shimmel Knish Noshes. Clothespinned to the clothesline above the cash register are homemade chapbooks--under the counter are spoken word CDs--Poetry Served Here. Behind the curtain, a performance space that seats over 100, a state-of-the-art sound system with digital recording and cybercast facilities and a full bar." A permanent home for poetry events in NYC on the Bowery.

Cave Canem
Begun in 1996 by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat designed to counter the under-representation of African American poets in literary programs, Cave Canem remains a safe haven for black poets. What was once an all-volunteer effort in 1996 has moved swiftly to become a non-profit organization with a full-time staff and an active Board. Programs include regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, readings and events in major cities around the United States.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, or CLMP, is a service organization for independent literary presses and magazines. CLMP presents an email newsletter, grants, New Readers for New Writers, workshops and roundtables, and an online directory of literary journals.

New York Foundation for the Arts
NYFA provides more than $11 million in grants and services and offers fellowships to as many as 170 New York State originating artists, as well as their financial and programmatic investments in small and mid-sized arts organizations.

PEN American Center
The PEN American Center sponsors Freedom to Write, a program defending writers' freedom of speech, Readers & Writers which promotes literacy, public readings and performances, literary awards, the literary journal PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, and the Prison Writing Program.

Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
The Poetry Project offers three weekly reading series, writing workshops, a bimonthly Newsletter, an annual literary magazine, The World, an Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading, tape and document archives, and general support for poets, and hosts the Tiny Press Center.

Poetry Society of America
A membership-based organization, the PSA supports poets and poetry through twelve annual awards contests, chapbook fellowships, and national events. In addition, the PSA inaugurated POETRY IN MOTION in New York in 1992 and has since expanded the program to numerous cities from coast to coast. The program, which places poems in buses and subways, currently reaches over 10 million Americans on a daily basis.

Poets House
Hosts the most comprehensive open-access collection of poetry books in the U.S. Founder of the People's Poetry Gathering, the annual Poets House Showcase of new poetry volumes, and Poetry in the Branches, a partnership with New York Public Library.

Walt Whitman Birthplace
Now a State Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places, the Walt Whitman Birthplace was named an “American Treasure” by the Millennium Council. Restored in 2001, the Birthplace Museum depicts a typical day of country life in the 1820’s. The site also includes a modern Interpretive Center with Walt’s school desk and his voice on tape, an 8’ bronze statue of Walt, and picnic tables around the grand lawn.

African Voices
African Voices is the quarterly literary magazine produced by African Voices Communications, Inc., a non-profit arts organization committed to furthering the literature, art and history of people of color.

American Letters & Commentary
American Letters & Commentary features an eclectic variety of innovative writing in all forms. This annual magazine includes diverse selections of fiction, poetry, essays, translations and critical opinions.

Barrow Street
Barrow Street, Inc. is a non-profit organization which publishes a literary journal and hosts a reading series in New York City's West Village.

Bright Hill Press & Center
Bright Hill Press is a not-for-profit literary organization and press in Treadwell dedicated to literary excellence through its programs—Word Thursdays, the Catskill reading series, now in its 13th year; Share the Words High-School Poetry Competition and Mentoring Program, 10 years; Radio by Writers, 11 years; the all-new Bright Hill Library and Internet Wing, featuring literary prose and poetry, art, and children's books

Blueline
A literary magazine dedicated to the spirit of the Adirondacks published in Potsdam. They run a program for high school students, Blueline in the Schools and have an anthology featuring the best fiction and poetry published in Blueline since 1979.

BOA Editions Ltd
BOA Editions, Ltd. is an independent, not-for-profit poetry publishing house in Rochester. It offers several different series: American Poets Continuum Series, A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series, New American Translations Series, BOA Pamphlets Series, and a new prose by poets series, The American Reader Series.

Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art
Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art is an annual literary journal edited and produced by MFA students in the Writing Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts. The journal publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction from both established and emerging writers.

Confrontation
The prize-winning literary journal published at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, Confrontation features original stories and poems in addition to special supplements.

The Cortland Review
An online magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and exclusive voice-recordings of the poets reading their own poems. The magazine publishes monthly, but issues are quarterly.

EPOCH
EPOCH, Cornell University's triannual literary journal, publishes fiction, poetry, essays, graphic art, and on occasion, cartoons and screenplays.

Fence
A biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art and criticism, Fence has a mission to publish challenging writing and art distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. Fence Books is an extension of that mission, offering the annual Alberta Prize and the Fence Modern Poets Series.

Four Way Books
Four Way Books is a not-for-profit literary press that publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors.

A Gathering of the Tribes
Through its public programs and publications, A Gathering of the Tribes creates a performance venue and meeting place for artists and audiences to come together across all artistic disciplines, all levels of complexity, and all definitions of difference. A Gathering of the Tribes has publishes a magazine, sponsors a Sunday night reading series, an art gallery with monthly shows, and Fly by Night Press.

Hanging Loose
The name "Hanging Loose" came from the format of the first issue of the magazine, in 1966, which was loose paper in an envelope. Now Hanging Loose is bound and also has its own press.

Inkwell
Published semiannually in the spring and fall by the M.A. writing students of Manhattanville College, Inkwell aims to provide a forum for emerging writers and publishes high quality poems and short stories, as well as essays and interviews. The journal also sponsors an annual competition in poetry.

The New York Quarterly
Since its foundation in 1969, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of the best cross-section of contemporary American poetry. Every issue of NYQ includes a Craft Interview with an outstanding poet on the general subject of style, prosody and technique, as well as informational articles on poets and poetry.

North Atlantic Review
The North Atlantic Review is an annual literary journal of prose and poetry, featuring special sections on cultural and social issues. Published in Stony Brook.

Open City
Open City Magazine & Books are dedicated to publishing daring and cutting-edge poetry, fiction, and essays. Open City also hosts frequent readings and literary events.

The Paris Review
The Paris Review was founded by Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes in 1953 with the idea of featuring the best new fiction and poetry writing. William Styron said of The Paris Review that it "hopes to emphasize creative work--fiction and poetry--not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book."

Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Parnassus: Poetry in Review was founded in 1973 by Herbert Leibowitz (editor) and Stanley Lewis (publisher) to provide a space for the complex art of review writing and recently began publishing original poetry, mostly by poet-reviewers.

Rattapallax
Each issue of Rattapallax, a journal devoted to fiction and poetry, comes with a CD containing selected poets and world music. Ram They also organize the Rattapallax reading series and Rattapallax Press (again, each book is accompanied by a CD).

Seneca Review
Founded in 1970 by James Crenner and Ira Sadoff and edited since 1982 by Deborah Tall, Seneca Review is published twice yearly and emphasizes poetry.

Sheep Meadow Press
Sheep Meadow Press publishes books on poetry, criticism and translation. They accept unsolicited manuscripts.

Spinning Jenny
Founded in 1994, the literary journal Spinning Jenny is an open forum for poetry, fiction, and drama.

Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press publishes everything from political nonfiction to pop culture, intrepid fiction to innovative new poetry. Based in downtown Brooklyn, they also sponsors Soft Skull Shortwave, the bookstore division of Soft Skull Press, and the Frequency reading series.

Turtle Point Press
From Chappaqua, Turtle Point Press publishes a wide range of work, including poetry, short fiction, novels, and memoirs.

White Pine Press
White Pine Press is a non-profit literary publisher based in Buffalo, established in 1973, which publishes poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation.

Michael A. Mart
Port Jefferson, New York

Together with my wife, Mary, I ran an antiquarian bookshop on Long Island, New York for 34 years. . . . We did what we could to carry books of local poets, even though we were not a shop selling new books.
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High School Poetry Workshop
Every year, since the 1970s, the Academy of American Poets has held a summer creative writing workshop for high school students in New York City. Students attend six seminars on the subject of poetry; produce and critique original work in a classroom of their peers; and give a public reading of the work produced in the workshop. Academy interns who are currently enrolled in Columbia University's School of the Arts Graduate Creative Writing Program teach the workshops. Learn more >

City College (CUNY)
For more than three decades City College has offered serious writing students a chance to meet one another and to work under the guidance of legendary writers. Marilyn Hacker and Wayne Koestenbaum are permanent faculty members, and Elaine Equi was a recent visiting professor.

Columbia University MFA Program
The Columbia MFA curriculum consists of workshops, master classes, seminars and lectures created for writers by writers. The courses operate under the ethic of examining literature from a practitioner's perspective, not as a theorist or scholar. The program takes advantage of the wide resources of both Columbia and New York City. The Writing Division also offers its students the chance to edit and publish their own journal, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art.

Cornell University
The four-semester MFA program at Cornell admits eight students each year, four in poetry and four in fiction. In addition to workshops, students take two courses each semester in English or American literature, comparative literature or cultural studies. The department also publishes the periodical Epoch.

Downtown Writers Center
The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse hosts a comprehensive series of literary classes and workshops, a high-quality series of literary readings and lectures featuring the best local and national voices, and a browsing library for use by patrons.

Edward F. Albee Foundation
The Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") in Montauk, on Long Island in New York, as a residence for writers, painters, sculptors and composers. The Center is open from June 1st to October 1st, and can accommodate comfortably up to five persons at a time. Residencies are for one month periods of time.

Gotham Writers' Workshop
Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City offers ten-week classes in various genres of creative writing. Each class is limited to fourteen students and consists of lectures, in-class and take-home exercises, and submissions of longer works that are critiqued by the instructor and the rest of the class.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center
The Hudson Valley Writers' Center offers classes for professional and amateur writers, presents public readings, does outreach work in several community sites, and publishes at least one book of poetry each year under the name Slapering Hol Press (Slapering Hol is Old Dutch for Sleepy Hollow).

Manhattanville College
The Master of Arts in Writing Program at Manhattanville College boasts an impressive faculty, reading series, and the Summer Writers' Week, a comprehensive week-long program that consists of writing workshops. The students and faculty also work together to produce the literary journal Inkwell.

Millay Colony for the Arts
The Millay Colony provides one month residencies to talented writers, composers and visual artists. The Colony has hosted well over one thousand artists since it welcomed its first artist-in-residence in l974.

The New School
The New School Graduate Writing Program offers students the opportunity to study the craft of writing under the direction of master teachers. Their approach focuses on literature as model rather than subject for analysis. Graduate students also participate in a Writer's Life Colloquium with visiting faculty.

New York State Writers Institute
Based in Albany, the New York State Writers Institute sponsors the acclaimed Visiting Writers Series, the NYS Author-Poet Awards, workshops throughout the year, and the NYS Summer Writers Institute and Summer Young Writers Institute.

New York University MFA
NYU's Creative Writing program provides a stimulating environment for students in which they can develop their craft. The program attempts to not only teach through courses but also through innovative literary outreach programs, special literary seminars, a public student reading series and the production of a high-quality literary journal, Washington Square.

Sarah Lawrence College
The MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College stands apart form other programs in its distinctive bi-weekly faculty/student conferences. The department hosts a reading series featuring visiting well-known poets and writers in addition to published alumnae. Students also edit and publish their own journal, Lumina.

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Presents the Saltonstall Arts Colony, which provides New York state artists with month-long retreats; the Individual Artist Grants, providing financial assistance to artists in the Finger Lakes region of New York; and the Comunity Arts Funds, providing financial assistance to organizations with arts programs in Tompkins County.

Southampton College of Long Island University
Openness to all forms of written expression, from poetry and fiction to business and science writing, is the cornerstone of the MFA program at Southampton College. The program also features a low-residency option.

Syracuse University
The small class size, only six students admitted each year in each genre, and the large faculty, four professors in each genre, combines to make the MFA at Syracuse a very personal experience. Students also gain experience through interacting with the well known poets and authors brought to the university through the Raymond Carver Reading Series. Students also edit and publish their own literary journal, Salt Hill.

University of Buffalo, The Poetics Program
The Poetics Program at the University of Buffalo takes an interdisciplinary approach to literary, cultural, and textual studies through a variety of programs. Some of their programs include: visiting writer residencies, a poetry/rare book collection, seminars, publications and the Electronic Poetry Center.

The Writers Studio
The Writers Studio welcomes beginning and advanced students to a unique workshop environment whose sole purpose is to help fiction writers and poets discover and nurture their own voices through craft exercises. Students may take either one ten-week session or continue through a series of progressively more demanding classes.

Yaddo Colony
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of two or three persons. They are selected by panels of other professional artists without regard to financial means. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.

92nd St. Y
The 92nd St. Y sponsors a prestigious Monday night reading series.

Cornelia Street Café
The Cornelia Street Cafe is owned and operated by founder Robin Hirsch, together with Judith Kallas and Bob Siegler. It is open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch--and more than three hundred cultural events a year.

Hofstra University Summer Writers' Conference
The Hofstra University Summer Writers' Conference each July provides aspiring writers the chance to work with established authors who have extended the borders of the conventional genres of fiction, poetry, playwriting, nonfiction, and children's writing. Within each of the workshops the student has the opportunity for more than 25 hours of contact with a practicing professional writer.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Famous for their Friday night slams, Nuyorican Poets Cafe is home to slam, hip-hop, theater, film, and music and the publishers of two anthologies, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival.

Meet the Writers
Sponsored by the Masters of Arts Writing Program at Manhattanville College, the Meet the Writers series is open to the public and features various literary readings, a variety of one-day workshops and craft seminars for aspiring writers.

Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
The Poetry Project offers three weekly reading series, writing workshops, a bimonthly Newsletter, an annual literary magazine, The World, an Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading, tape and document archives, and general support for poets, and hosts the Tiny Press Center.

Southampton Writers Conference
The Southampton Writers Conference offers workshops, lectures, readings, and and small-group discussions, for both new and established writers.

Spring Poetry Festival at City College of New York
Each May, for the past 30 years, City College hosts an Annual Spring Poetry Festival, an event that over the years has attracted approximately 10,000 elementary school children, an equal number of high school students, and thousands from the college and neighboring community. This Festival is the celebratory event of City College's Poetry Outreach Center.