Brooklyn Poets | Celebrating and cultivating the poets, poetry and literary heritage of Brooklyn

Celebrating and cultivating the poets, poetry and literary heritage of Brooklyn, the birthplace of American poetry.

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Workshops

Brooklyn Poets offers small, intensive poetry workshops taught by award-winning poets in their own homes to foster closer mentoring, peer feedback and attention to craft than traditional graduate workshops offer--at a fraction of the price.
Poet Of The Week
Events

The Brooklyn Poets Reading Series returns on Friday, May 24, at 7 PM, featuring Lynn Melnick, Taije Silverman and Vijay Seshadri.

Join us for the first Brooklyn Poets Retreat in Hampton Bays from May 31 to June 2 as we celebrate Walt Whitman's birthday and our first anniversary!

The next Brooklyn Poets Yawp, our monthly poetry open mic & writing class, comes your way on Monday, June 10, at 7 PM.
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Swag

Sound your barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world in our new organic Yawp tee. Members take 20% off swag.
Newsletter
B.I.G.

Take a tour through our Brooklyn IG blog, which captures the poetry of Brooklyn one B.I.G. shot at a time.

Shot of the Week by Julie Salles-Felciano @jsfinnyc: Under the Williamsburg Bridge, Williamsburg