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Are you looking for literary events like book readings, book signings, poetry readings? Then you came to the right place. Start using these unique New York City opportunities today!
Are you looking for literary events like book readings, book signings, poetry readings? Then you came to the right place. Start using these unique New York City opportunities today!
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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
12 free poetry readings, book signings, author readings in New York City (NYC) Sun, 02/23/2025 - and on...
Not a day goes by in New York City (NYC) without a free poetry reading or a book signing or a book reading by a famous or not yet famous author. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Poetry Reading | A Calligraphy of Days: Award-Winning Poems
Award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk and translator Piotr Fiorczyk discuss a new book which gathers sixty-four poems spanning his career. Born in 1977, Siwczyk has lived most of his life in the Silesian city of Gliwice. In 1995, he became a wunderkind of the Polish poetry scene with his debut volume Wild Kids, an edgy and unsentimental narrative of youthful tribulations and urban malaise during Poland’s transition from communism to capitalism. Siwczyk’s poems careen down the page at great speed, relying on clever turns of phrase or an idea that illuminates a larger meaning. As in calligraphy, a meandering subterranean process connects meaning and memory, thought and verse. Teased to the surface, words and images emerge in rapid, terse, and precise bursts. Throughout his career, Siwczyk has never ceased to challenge our sense of who we are—changing course multiple times in the process. Following several volumes full of expansive lines, his most recent works offer spare meditations on illness and grief. Clipped and understated, these post-Holocaust poems address our inability to speak of death and tragedy.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 27
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | Poetry Reading: Forrest Gander
A poetry reading by Forrest Gander followed by a reception/signing. Forrest Gander is a writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Mojave Ghost, Twice Alive; Be With, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; and Core Samples from the World, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Feb 27
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Reading | No Name Super Storyteller Party
No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York’s best established and emerging authors and storytellers for their monthly series “No Name At Word Up Super Storyteller Party."
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Mar 4
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Author Reading | Nonfiction New Salon: McKenzie Wark
A reading by McKenzie Wark, hosted by Hari Kunzu, followed by a reception/signing. McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer, critical theorist, and Professor of Culture and Media at The New School. She is the author A Hacker Manifesto (2004)—a foundational text of digital media studies—Gamer Theory (2007), The Beach Beneath the Street (2011), Molecular Red (2015), Capital is Dead (2019), Reverse Cowgirl (2019), Philosophy for Spiders (2021), and Raving (2023), in which Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Reverse Cowgirl, Wark’s self-described “auto-ethnography of the opacity of self,” traces her failed attempts at living as a gay man during the 1970s and ’80s and her subsequent journey towards life as a trans woman in the 2010s, employing a blend of low theory, personal recollection, and sex writing as tools for rethinking the narrative boundaries of trans life and literature. Wark further expands upon Reverse Cowgirl’s autotheoretical approach in her most recent book, Philosophy for Spiders (2021), which recounts Wark’s short-lived romance with the novelist Kathy Acker.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 6
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | 3 Poets Read Their Work
A poetry reading by Farnoosh Fathi, Sally Keith, and Amanda Nadelberg, hosted by Matthew Rohrer, followed by a reception/signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Mar 7
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | The Secret Door: The Poetry of Emotional Repair
A poetry book launch by Cynthia Ross and a multi-media exhibition of readings, paintings, embroideries, and collage; highlighting collaborations connected to and inspired by the poetry of Cynthia Ross.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 13
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Author Reading | Fiction New Salon: Nell Freudenberger and Tony Tulathimutte
A reading by Nell Freudenberger and Tony Tulathimutte, hosted by Darin Strauss, followed by a reception/signing. Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels The Limits, Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds, and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” in 2010, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and son. Tony Tulathimutte is the author of the novels Private Citizens and Rejection. The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Playboy, and elsewhere. He has received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award and Rejection was longlisted for the National Book Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 13
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | Poetry Reading: Elaine Equi & Geoffrey Nutter
Elaine Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1953. She received a BA and an MA in English from Columbia College, where she taught a poetry workshop for several years after graduating. Along with her husband, Jerome Sala, she was active in Chicago’s performance poetry scene. Equi’s first book, Federal Woman, was published in 1978 by Danaides Press. She has written nearly a dozen books of poetry, including Out of the Blank (Coffee House Press, 2025); The Intangibles (Coffee House Press, 2019); Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2007), which was short-listed for the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize; and Voice-Over (Coffee House Press, 1999), chosen by Thom Gunn for the San Francisco State Poetry Award. In 2024, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.Equi lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program at New York University and in the Master of Fine Arts program at The New School. Geoffrey Nutter is the author of A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award), The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), and Cities at Dawn (Wave Books, 2016), and Giant Moth Perishes (Wave Books, 2021). He recently traveled in China, giving lectures, workshops, and readings as a participant in the Sun Yat-sen University Writers’ Residency. Geoffrey’s poems have been translated into Spanish, French, and Mandarin. Soir d’été, a bilingual edition of his poems translated into French by poets Molly Lou Freeman and Julien Marcland, was recently published in France, and a German translation of his book Water’s Leaves & Other Poems will appear in 2021. He has taught poetry at Princeton, Columbia, University of Iowa, NYU, the New School, and 92nd Street Y. He currently teaches Greek and Latin Classics at Queens College. He runs the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars in New York City.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Mar 14
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | 3 Poets Read Their Work
Poetry Reading with Lisa Wells, Gabriel Fried, and Carlie Hoffman.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 17
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Author Reading | National Book Critics Circle Reading (in-person and online)
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. In addition, NBCC awards the John Leonard Prize for the best first book in any genre, voted on by NBCC membership; the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which recognizes outstanding work by a member of the NBCC; and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and the Toni Morrison Achievement Award, which are given respectively to individuals and literary institutions for transformative contributions to book culture. The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, for the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States, will also be awarded.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Mar 19
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Author Reading | Nonfiction Reading: Kristine S. Ervin & Alissa Wilkinson
Kristine Ervin grew up in a small suburb of Oklahoma City and is now an associate professor at West Chester University, outside Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, with a focus in nonfiction, from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Crimereads, Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, Passages North, and Silk Road. Her essay "Cleaving To," was named a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2013. Ervin's debut memoir Rabbit Heart: Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story is currently available from Counterpoint Press. Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at the New York Times. Her book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion, will be published by Liveright on March 11, 2025. She's been writing criticism since 2005, and her work has appeared in Vox, the NYT Book Review, Vulture, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Review of Books, RogerEbert.com, Books & Culture, and many more. Her previous book, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking and Living from Revolutionary Women, was published by Broadleaf in 2022. She earned an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction writing from Seattle Pacific University and an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University. She teaches writing at NYU in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Thought.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Mar 20
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Poetry Reading | Seen, Sound, Scribe: Spoken Word and Conversation
Brooklyn's own Mahogany L. Browne, a prolific writer and avid advocate for public art, is the inaugural poet-in-residence. Browne has written works of fiction, stage plays and critical essays, edited six anthologies, and authored another half-dozen poetry collections. For her Seen, Sound, Scribe series now in its third season, Browne curates thought-provoking evenings of spoken word, spirited conversation, and presentations of new work.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Mar 22
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
Free
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