{"title": "A Celebration of the Sonnet, with Phillis Levin and special guests", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=302", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry celebrating the sonnet, one of the most enduring lyric forms in English, held in the Members' Room of a historic New York library and open to the public. It marks the 25th anniversary of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, whose anthologist, poet Phillis Levin, appears with Jonathan Galassi, Shane McCrae, Diane Mehta, Jason Schneiderman, and Tom Sleigh. The poets will read favorite sonnets from across the centuries and draw connections between the classic form and their own work, with remarks on the tradition by Jonathan Galassi. Audience questions and sonnet requests are welcomed, and light refreshments will be served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-celebration-of-the-sonnet-with-phillis-levin-and-special-g-79654/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/celebration-sonnet-levin-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f34ae19953ab92b166c0b46c918e532d270bddf9ee11fad3d5cb7aae63d94973-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "An Evening With World Poetry featuring a reading by poets Paul Muldoon, Haris Vlavianos and his translator Patricia Barbeito, with a discussion moderated by Mark Mazower", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Von", "address": "Bleecker Street 3, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry readings by Paul Muldoon, Haris Vlavianos and Patricia Barbeito, the translator of Vlavianos. 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After popular engagements during the last two seasons of I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long at BAM, this marks its tenth performance of inspiring poetic expression. Year after year, the profoundly intimate offering creates a space for artists and audiences to see how care, camaraderie, and mutual regard can fortify and amplify artistic practices.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stones-in-the-water-51200/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/poetry/2026/stones-in-the-water", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a5b734329a3fc67f419dd0d81a4e18fa6eec650abd250820b6133b3fd925a142-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Latine Queer Studies Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A public evening of queer Latine poetry, at which the Brooklyn-born poet Emanuel Xavier reads from his new book of poems, \"Still, We Are Sacred.\" It is a CC CLUE event hosted by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the English Department of the College of Staten Island, and refreshments will be served. 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The collection opens with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leads back through selections from her ten previous volumes, tracing a writer's journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Hahn reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments with traditional Western ones, with photos braided in to create a hybrid autobiography. She will be in conversation with Sally Wen Mao, author of Ninetails: Nine Tales.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-ghost-forest-by-kimiko-hahn-57603/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0861d40d2cac94ab382435351fe129d42fbf2014a358b38286c40884f28e97d-2000.webp"}]}