{"title": "Ghost Forest by Kimiko Hahn", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Yu & Me Books", "address": "Mulberry Street 44, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A book launch at Yu & Me Books celebrating Kimiko Hahn's The Ghost Forest: New & Selected Poems. 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. 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Mills", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hive Mind Books", "address": "Irving Avenue 219, 11385", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An author event at Hive Mind Books celebrating the launch of two poetry books. Poets John Bonanni and Stephen S. 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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"}, {"title": "Brenda Ijima Shelter Is Necessary for Existence", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Word Is Change", "address": "Tompkins Avenue 368, 11216", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening with poet Brenda Ijima presenting her book \"Shelter Is Necessary for Existence,\" published by Two Dollar Radio, at the bookstore The Word Is Change in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/brenda-ijima-shelter-is-necessary-for-existence-103410/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Nathan A. Gray launches The Human Remains, in conversation with Benjamin Schwartz", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lofty Pigeon Books", "address": "Church Avenue 743, 11218 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Nathan A. Gray launches his book The Human Remains at the bookstore Lofty Pigeon Books. He will appear in conversation with Benjamin Schwartz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nathan-a-gray-launches-the-human-remains-in-conversation-wit-106755/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ebdeee763685b06a0098bb3ff4887632598836bc86a591f1e6dc161666ba8ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. The artist sonia louise davis talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. The program includes a special performance by davis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-sonia-louise-davis-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-53014/", "official_url": "https://hesseflatow.com/events/113/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07dd06ba189ea4110533b2518ec6de4fb9ae2ed5b97f9e02ca588e1fc4c20f2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chapbook Release: Drift by Matilda Young (after-hours)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Nonbinarian", "address": "President Street 1130, 11225", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "The Nonbinarian hosts the New York release of Drift by Matilda Young. Drift is the first collection of poems by Young, a gender...", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/chapbook-release-drift-by-matilda-young-after-hours-81554/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Schneider K. Rancy: Beyond the Baths of Stars w/ Julia Kornberg", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books"], "description": "An author event at the Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic. Schneider K. Rancy presents \"Beyond the Baths of Stars\" in conversation with Julia Kornberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/schneider-k-rancy-beyond-the-baths-of-stars-w-julia-kornberg-51404/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "J. Vanessa Lyon: Blackness Thirteen Ways w/ Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book event at the bookstore Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. J. Vanessa Lyon presents her book Blackness Thirteen Ways in conversation with Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/j-vanessa-lyon-blackness-thirteen-ways-w-margo-jefferson-eli-79166/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "One Bleecker Series #7: John Godfrey + Jennifer Soong", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Codex", "address": "Bleecker Street 1", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A poetry reading at Codex on Bleecker Street, part of the One Bleecker Series. Poets John Godfrey and Jennifer Soong will read, with the series curated by Chris Hosea. Godfrey is a New York poet with more than a dozen collections of poetry who also worked for 17 years as a nurse clinician specializing in HIV/AIDS. Soong is a poet based in New Jersey and New York whose first full-length book, Near At, is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/one-bleecker-series-7-john-godfrey-jennifer-soong-112297/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}