have a good time national Poetry Month with MashReads and Strand ebook keep - Mashable

headquartered in 1996, countrywide Poetry Month is a monthlong social gathering of — you guessed it — all issues verse.

To rejoice the month, MashReads and Strand ebook shop are proud to host Writing and Resistance, a night of poetry readings and conversation that includes a bevy of talented manhattan poets. The adventure is April 25 in new york metropolis at 7:30pm ET on the Strand bookstall in Strand's third floor infrequent ebook Room. (instructions here). it's supported by way of The Academy of yankee Poets and country wide Poetry Month.

all over the evening, poets will examine poems and discuss subject matters of resistance, struggle, and the forces both internal and external that could evade poetry. 

For entry to the event, buy a $15 reward card to the Strand, which can also be used towards any booklet of your selecting. Please note that charge is required for all on-line adventure orders on the time of checkout. 

try our featured poets below and we can not wait to have fun poetry with you on April 25!

photo: Courtesy of Hafizah Geter

Hafizah Geter is a 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Boston overview, la overview of Books, and Narrative magazine, among others. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the board of VIDA: ladies within the Literary Arts and is a poetry editor for Phantom Books. that you may discover extra of her work here.

picture: Courtesy of Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visible artist. Her most contemporary assortment of poetry, lighting fixtures the Shadow, became posted with the aid of 4 method Books in 2015. Griffiths' literary and visible work has looked in the long island times, Poets & Writers, Callaloo, American Poetry assessment, Guernica, Lit Hub, and many others. She is the recipient of fellowships together with Yaddo, Provincetown fine Arts Work center, and Cave Canem groundwork. Griffiths teaches artistic writing on the Institute of yank Indian Arts and Sarah Lawrence faculty. that you can find a samples of her work here.

Matt Petronzio is a poet, journalist, and editor based mostly in long island city. His poems have appeared in PANK, InDigest, Day One, Ghost Ocean, and in different places. He earned his MFA in poetry from Hunter school of the city school of new york, where he acquired the Academy of american Poets Prize, among different awards. Matt daylights because the Social decent Editor at Mashable. you can locate more of his work right here.

graphic: Courtesy of Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan is the creator of Into every Room We Enter devoid of understanding, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Poetry series First book Prize and approaching from Southern Illinois school Press. His poems have looked in a large number of publications, includingBoston review, Callaloo, the brand new Republic, and Prairie Schooner. formerly classes Director of the Poetry Society of the us, he's the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of yankee Poets, Cave Canem, the Fulbright program, the Starworks basis, and Stanford school, the place he might be a 2016-18 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. that you could find a sample of his work here.

Danniel Schoonebeek is the writer of yankee Barricade (YesYes Books, 2014), the travelogue C'est la guerre (terrible Claudia, 2016), and the coming near near assortment of poems Trébuchet, which changed into a 2015 country wide Poetry sequence option and may be posted through college of Georgia Press in 2016. contemporary work appears in the New Yorker, Fence, Kenyon evaluate, and in other places. that you can locate more of his work here.

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