{"title": "Camonghne Felix Craft Talk: Let The Poets Govern", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "Suggested donation $10", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/politics"], "description": "An hour-long Craft Talk in which poet Camonghne Felix reflects on the poetic principles that shape radical political moments, departing from her book Let the Poets Govern. Felix, a National Book Award Finalist, poet, essayist and former political communications strategist, has spent the past decade at the center of American politics in strategy, communications and speechwriting. Her book argues that Black radical poetic traditions model an ethical code and overcome entrenched structures of patriarchy and paternalism. The talk takes place in Kray Hall and is also streamed on Zoom; a suggested donation of $10 benefits Poets House, with all welcome and no one turned away for lack of funds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/camonghne-felix-craft-talk-let-the-poets-govern-86666/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Poetry Reading | Youmna Chlala, Megan Fernandes, and Christian Campbell | Organized by Omar Berrada", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW)", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A poetry reading with three poets whose work draws on multiple poetic traditions and resonates with visual expression. Youmna Chlala, born in Beirut and based in New York, is the author of the poetry collection The Paper Camera and a recipient of an O. Henry Award. Christian Campbell is a Trinidadian Bahamian poet, essayist and cultural critic and the author of Running the Dusk. The reading is organized by Omar Berrada and takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco, honoring the Asilah Cultural Moussem, which since 1978 has advocated for art's role in civic life and awards two poetry prizes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poetry-reading-youmna-chlala-megan-fernandes-and-christian-c-56867/", "official_url": "https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/11/8/poetry-reading-youmna-chlala-and-megan-fernandes-organized-by-omar-berrada", "image": ""}, {"title": "Gregory Sholette, The Radical Unpresent — event with Sholette at Printed Matter", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter Inc.", "address": "11th Avenue 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "Printed Matter hosts the New York launch of 'The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World' (MIT Press) by artist, writer, and activist Gregory Sholette. 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Zhao, and Aurora Huiza", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading evening of the Rally Reading Series with writers Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza. The series is themed \"Overtly Political Literature\" and gives a platform to underrepresented voices. After live readings, writers talk with the audience, who can ask questions and share thoughts. Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Radical Permanence: Artists Cultural Producers and The Interconnection of Struggles", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "P.I.T. Records and Books", "address": "South 5th Street 411, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism", "society/politics"], "description": "A talk with Marco Baravalle (Sale Docks, Venice), Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain (Decolonize This Place), and Kazembe Balagun (Maysles Documentary Center), with further guests to be announced. Baravalle presents his book 'The Battleground of Art: Radical Curating in the Crisis of Neoliberalism' and his concept of 'radical permanence', drawn from two decades of art activism with Sale Docks, an autonomous collective in Venice. It opposes the neoliberal regime of mobility of artists and art workers through self-management, social rootedness and resistance, linking struggles against artwashing, gentrification and labour precarisation. The speakers discuss activist practices in Venice, New York and Palestine and the role of artists and cultural producers in the global interconnection of struggles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/radical-permanence-artists-cultural-producers-and-the-interc-54885/", "official_url": "https://www.propertyistheft.org/events/kp5imszmm09yfp4g9umdbu6e9mb0gv", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92238af6021126d570becfa05f089e1935b51430b5eca1f9bcb4cc344c39bbd7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Radical Unpresent — Gregory Sholette in conversation with Naeem Mohaiemen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/criticism", "society/politics"], "description": "An evening talk at Printed Matter, Inc. celebrating the New York launch of Gregory Sholette's new book, The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World, published by MIT Press. The book argues that a rupture in historical time runs through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, casting MAGA as a new \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past, and proposes the \"phantom archive\" as a space where artists resist this dislocation through repair and reenactment. Sholette will be joined in conversation by Naeem Mohaiemen, an artist and writer whose work, also featured in the book, excavates institutional memory including the buried archives of the nonaligned movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-radical-unpresent-gregory-sholette-in-conversation-with-89359/", "official_url": "https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Triple Canopy Symposium 2026 (Day 1)", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "Free w/ RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "literature"], "description": "An evening of performances and readings titled Every A-Side Has a B-Side, opening the Triple Canopy Symposium 2026. The magazine Triple Canopy presents its annual symposium together with Roulette, in partnership with Critical Minded. Artists and writers including Sol Cabrini, Jonathan González, Nile Harris, Taja Cheek (L'Rain), T. Lax, and yuniya edi kwon draw on the book On Value, edited by Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon, to consider the value of liveness and the ideology of ownership. Lemon will introduce the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1-55465/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1/", "image": ""}, {"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", "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. Xavier's work bridges spoken word, literary poetry, and queer cultural history, and he has written several collections including Love(ly) Child, Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, and Radiance. The reading takes place in the Green Dolphin Lounge in building 1C on the college's campus at 2800 Victory Boulevard, admission is free, and it is made possible by funding from the New York City Council to the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Institute with support from the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/latine-queer-studies-reading-52069/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/latine-queer-studies-reading", "image": ""}]}