NUYORICAN BOWERY SLAM

During the Nuyorican Poets Café's building's reconstruction, the café brings their famous poetry slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club on 308 Bowery (between E. Houston & Bleecker Streets) in Manhattan, NYC. Weekly on Monday evenings, in-person. Doors open and signup to perform start at 6:30 P.M. Slam takes place from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. Tickets: $20 in advance/online or at the door. Hosted by JRose and Luna Rosa. [ more info ]

 

SERIES

 

Se Buscan Poetas

Spanish/Gallician/English/Multilingual series. Open Mic with guest poets. A meeting point for poets and musicians from all over the world and in all languages. [ more info ]

ASL Slam

ASL Slam is a monthly event that offers the stage to audience members to come up and rap, rhapsodize and rehash or just relate in sign language. [ more info ]

NUYORICAN BOWERY SLAM

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe brings their famous slam series to the Bowery Poetry Club. Monday night at 6:30pm. GET TICKETS.

OUT OF THE BOX

New multilingual poetry series hosted by Dima Pevzner, Igor Satanovsky, and Anton Yakovlev aims to present innovative and adventurous poetic voices across the full spectrum of international cultural influences.  On first Tuesdays of the month + open-mic. [ more info ]

FOOD IS LIKE POETRY

Eight poets at their favorite eight restaurants in New York City during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

poetry is like bread ghazal

The “Poetry Is Like Bread” Ghazal is a collaborative poem created by a world of poets to nourish us all through the Pandemic and to envision the world After.

resilience poetry

Watch the extraordinary reading and group poem responding to the death of George Floyd and tackling issues of race in America. ⁠

POETRY IS BREAD PODCAST

“On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.” That was Pablo Neruda, I’m Bob Holman, and this is the “Poetry Is Bread” podcast, where poetry challenges us, makes us think, and, with imagination and courage, changes the world. Subscribe to our podcast to get notifications of new episodes or check us out at https://bowerypoetry.podbean.com/.

Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Arts and Sciences, ltd. are supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of NY Governor and the New York State Legislature.