We’d love to hear from you. If you have feedback, questions, concerns, ideas, proposals, please get in touch with us by using this form.
If you’d like to be considered as a featured reader for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series, submit a PDF copy of a book to bkp@brooklynpoets.org or mail a copy to 144 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Please note that our reading series only features poets with published books and is typically by invitation only, so we cannot respond to each submission or query; if we think your work would be a good fit, we will contact you within three months. If you don’t hear from us or don’t want to wait or don’t yet have a book published, we encourage you to participate in one of our two monthly open mics, the Yawp and the Friday Night Open, where the audiences are just as big (and often bigger) than for our reading series. We often select as one of two featured readers for the Friday Night Open a poet without a book who has participated regularly at our open mics.
If you are a Brooklyn-based poet who would like to be considered for a Poet of the Week feature, please send a third-person bio and poetry sample to Justin Maki at maki@brooklynpoets.org. Previous residents of Brooklyn who currently live elsewhere are welcome to get in touch. Poets who have never lived in the borough are featured only when reading for one of our events or as one of the winners of our fellowships or awards.
Questions about the Bridge may be answered by our Help page.
If you have a code of conduct issue to report, you can use this form or email Board President Isaac Myers III (myersiii@brooklynpoets.org), Executive Director Jason Koo (koo@brooklynpoets.org) or Deputy Director renée kay (kay@brooklynpoets.org), and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
We’re located at 144 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights on the second floor. We’re open for regular business hours Tues–Sat, 11 AM–6 PM, and for events and workshops at other times. You can reach us during regular business hours by phone at 718-374-1953.