Poets House: a place for poetry—library, literary center, locus of poetic inspiration. Tweeting poetic fragments and things-to-know.
Joined February 2009
- Tweets 14,842
- Following 798
- Followers 394,180
- Likes 2,078
856 Photos and videos
Jun 2
Upcoming June events at Poets House! Every Poets House event is pay what you can- no one is turned away for lack of funds. RSVP for all events here: poetshouse.org/programs-even…
1
1
658
May 27
On Thursday, June 18, 7-9pm Poets House hosts a reading of poets Kaur Alia Ahmed, Gwen Aube, Cat Fitzpatrick, and Chariot Wish, whose new collections on gender, desire, and community, push the narrative, musical, and absurd to new heights.
RSVP here: poetshouse.org/event/new-wor…
1
1
546
May 1
Check out our incredible upcoming events for the month of May! We have lectures on Rumi, Joy Harjo, open community reading and writing groups, a protest fundraiser, and much more. RSVP and get more information here: linktr.ee/poetshouse See you soon :)
1
4
904
May 1
Poet As Witness: Central American Counterpoetics. In-Person & Streaming on Zoom | Thursday | May 28 | 7-9pm
For the latest installment in the Poet as Witness series, Join us for a night of Central American counterpoetics.
Books will be available for sale. RSVP on our website!
2
6
659
Mar 7
Sahar Khraibani reads an excerpt from ONE THOUSAND GHOSTS IN THIS FEAST (@WendysSubway, 2025)
1
5
1,315
Mar 6
Michelle Peñaloza reads "Spawn" from All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems (@PerseaBooks, 2024)
4
1,056
Mar 5
Farid Matuk reads "Glistering" from Moon Mirrored Indivisible (@UChicagoPress, 2025)
4
4
1,530
Feb 7
In-Person & Streaming on Zoom | Thursday | February 19 | 7-9pm ET
Sahar Khraibani, Farid Matuk, Michelle Peñaloza, and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s decolonial poetics linger on speech, sound, and names.
RSVP here: poetshouse.org/event/sahar-k…
1
6
1,038
31 Dec 2025
We are proud to celebrate Poets House Board Vice President, Cornelius Eady, as the inaugural poet at Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral swearing-in. This image is from a 2015 PBS NewsHour segment on Poets House in which Cornelius Eady reads his poem “Emmett Till’s Glass-Top Casket."
2
2
17
1,777
19 Dec 2025
TOTE BAG GIVEAWAY! Poets House is hosting a giveaway! Our tote bags are extremely durable, high quality, and feature a large inner pocket that is the perfect size for a book <3
To enter the giveaway:
1. Follow us
2. Like this post
3. Reply for one entry-unlimited entries allowed
17
13
1,436
29 Nov 2025
wait this is so classy
28 Nov 2025
This limited-edition knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of issue no. 56 (Spring 1973), featuring Meditation on the Theorem of Pythagoras by Mel Bochner (1940–2025). buff.ly/eGd15zY
1
5
2,195
Poets House retweeted
28 Nov 2025
“When you add a comma or add or subtract a word, and the thing reacts and changes, it’s so exciting that you forget how absolutely terrible writing feels a lot of the time.” —Deborah Eisenberg buff.ly/QRGgsTT
6
34
4,379
29 Nov 2025
I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us as with a match, which is lit, and bright, but does not hurt in the common way, but delightfully, as if delight were the most serious thing you ever felt.
- Mary Oliver "Snow Geese"
1
7
817
Poets House retweeted
27 Nov 2025
... Walk
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
—Ross Gay
ALT Thank You by Ross Gay If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth’s great, sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now and gone, that says all you love will turn to dust, and will meet you there, do not raise your fist. Do not raise your small voice against it. And do not take cover. Instead, curl your toes into the grass, watch the cloud ascending from your lips. Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you.
2
106
451
12,191
28 Nov 2025
Poets House
27 Nov 2025
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
4
1,450
20 Nov 2025
Our 30th Showcase starts soon! December 13, 2025 through February 28, 2026. There is no fee to visit the library or view the exhibition.
1
3
628