{"title": "Guest Program: In Memoriam Stephen Dobyns", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A gathering at Poets House to celebrate the life and work of Stephen Dobyns (1941-2026). Family, friends, fellow writers, and former students come together in his memory. Dobyns wrote more than thirty-five novels and poetry collections, including The Burn Palace, The Church of Dead Girls, Cold Dog Soup, Cemetery Nights, and Velocities. His honors included a Melville Cane Award, Pushcart Prizes, a National Poetry Series selection, and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guest-program-in-memoriam-stephen-dobyns-86665/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Poetry Double Feature: John Bonanni and Stephen S. Mills", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hive Mind Books", "address": "Irving Avenue 219, 11385", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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 takes place at Von in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-with-world-poetry-featuring-a-reading-by-poets-pa-57361/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Halloween Special: Channeling Edgar Allen Poe in the Historic Marble Cemetery” with Toni Blackman, Bob Holman, and Denize Lauture.", "start": "2026-10-31T22:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "New York City Marble Cemetery", "address": "52-74 East 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/channeling-edgar-allen-poe-in-the-historic-new-york-city-marble-cemetery-tickets-2001421974001", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween evening of ghost tales and poems built around Edgar Allan Poe, staged in the historic NYC Marble Cemetery. 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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": "Skirball Salon: Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://forms.gle/R23Ysyoa8RieQkdu6", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Skirball Salon: Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris is an evening of poetry at NYU Skirball's Lower Lobby, free and open to the public. 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Farris is a poet, writer of hybrid forms, and translator whose recent book Standing in the Forest of Being Alive was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris-71791/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d93002e45bba2ab2f8d513cf0ab7938e5fe3bdd68541a0ebbc75cecc3bc592e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Every Story is a Love Story (Book Launch with Imbolo Mbue)", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Judson Meeting Room", "address": "243 Thompson Street, New York, NY, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": "29.00", "price_to": "29.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A book launch for \"Every Story is a Love Story,\" the new book by Imbolo Mbue, held in the Judson Meeting Room. 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Light appetizers and a cash bar are offered, and pre-ordered tickets are required for all guests.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-original-art-2026-awards-ceremony-reception-55956/", "official_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/event/oa-2026-ceremony/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e99f88a9b2c228068ad70a5ee7417abec3c4d2b37ccec5a599e9b966cc2690db-600.webp"}, {"title": "Fantastic Fiction", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "KGB Bar", "address": "East 4th Street 85, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "Fantastic Fiction is a reading evening at KGB Bar. It features James Patrick Kelly, a Hugo Award-winning writer presenting his new robotics collection The Book of Bots, and Stephanie Feldman, author of the novels The Angel of Losses and Saturnalia and the new story collection The Night Parade and Other Stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fantastic-fiction-79246/", "official_url": "https://kgbbar.com/event/fantastic-fiction-80/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd4e0c2d8881bf91e51da9b4ef822972269f9bc768d7ca6c1d58c75b54b1de7a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch | 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", "tickets_url": "", "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. 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"}, {"title": "Yawp 11.13.26", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Brooklyn Poets", "address": "144 Montague St, Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "9.68", "price_to": "15.68", "tickets_url": "https://events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brooklynpoets/2073358", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Yawp 11.13.26 is a poetry workshop with a featured reading at Brooklyn Poets. It is led by Jaz Sufi, a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator who wrote Catalog of Shadows and is a National Poetry Slam finalist. The workshop is about turning a poem into a time machine, traveling backward into memory, forward into possibility and sideways into imagined worlds. Participants will discuss ways of revisiting past experiences and imagine different endings to their stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yawp-111326-51665/", "official_url": "https://brooklynpoets.org/events/all/yawp-111326", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14a2d6a78dfdd8f62beeeb71fd2ff468e49afc72e8cb6f0aabecc02e25db5ed4-1200.webp"}]}