{"title": "Poets Out Loud: An LGBTQ+ Writing Group", "start": "2026-11-21T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-21T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Poets Out Loud is a monthly LGBTQ+ writing group that reads, writes, and celebrates queer poetry. It is run by Sean Glatch, a queer poet and educator in New York City who runs Writers.com. This meeting spends the first half writing new work and the second half sharing it. 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The group is free and open to the public, with donations welcome to support the programming.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poetry-aloud-71104/", "official_url": "https://brooklynpoets.org/events/all/poetry-aloud-103126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0e519ec0157736afbb6eca197ff8beb99e843c651a9b9766a5ba83e9ee8485d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Writing Group", "start": "2026-11-13T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Poets", "address": "144 Montague St, Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing"], "description": "Writing Group is an hour of structured writing time with prompts followed by an optional 30-minute share out at the end. It is run by Brooklyn Poets, whose faculty staff create the prompts, which vary week to week and explore various themes and forms. 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It is hosted by the Brooklyn YAS (Youth Against Substance Misuse) Coalition, a nonprofit focused on substance use prevention, initiation, and harm reduction. The workshop explores all creative writing genres, with poetry, community, and substance use prevention for the LGBTQIA+ community. 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The event brings together authors in conversation with the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-lgbtq-author-panel-with-antoni-porowski-at-housing-works-81250/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Margin Scribes: A QTBIPOC Writers' Collective", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Hive Mind Books", "address": "Irving Avenue 219, 11385", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "Margin Scribes is a writers' collective held at Hive Mind Books on Irving Avenue in Queens, New York. It offers a supportive space for queer and trans writers of color at all levels. The gathering centers on cultivating creativity, accountability, and community through shared storytelling. 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Participants read startling poems in translation by poets such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Anna Akhmatova, Constantin Cavafy, Jorge Luis Borges, Zbigniew Herbert and Wislawa Szymborska, then write their own responses in poetry or prose as a form of responsive reading, becoming both better writers and better readers. All are welcome, though space is limited, and a limited number of need-based scholarships is available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/intensive-some-people-like-poetry-writing-like-a-reader-with-86662/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}