{"title": "Stones in the Water", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Strong", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $28", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/57930", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Stones in the Water is a night of poetry with Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani, Clint Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib. Propelled by their deep and abiding friendship, the four have performed a reading together annually for the past nine years. 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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Strong", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. 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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": "https://noky.io/images/b634acec6fffd823b74bd88ee2ad001fccfe2aca8cb2acb7a7160bba49f300e3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Poetry Aloud", "start": "2026-10-31T15:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Brooklyn Poets", "address": "144 Montague St, Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Poetry Aloud is a weekly gathering where participants read poetry aloud from collections in the bookstore and discuss them informally. 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The New York Society for Ethical Culture invites poetry lovers to bring a favorite poem or two, with no expertise required, and to share a few sentences about the poet if they wish. Poems to be shared can be sent to Elinore by the evening of the previous Sunday so they appear on-screen during the session. Those unsure whether it suits them are welcome to join as observers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poetry-circle-online-54354/", "official_url": "https://ethical.nyc/events/poetry-circle/2026-11-03/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e14c0930e54333e6ded085e40a010e55af4aba30145a9c5d7134045acb91e0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PAGE BREAK Presents: STAGE BREAK", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$11.79", "price_from": "11.79", "price_to": "11.79", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "STAGE BREAK is a live reading event where four writers read their original short stories with audience members joining them on stage. It is a new edition of the reading series by PAGE BREAK, the only reading series where everyone reads. Three randomly chosen audience members read each story on stage together with its author, one page at a time, alternating between the four readers, and every attendee receives an exclusive zine with the stories printed in it. 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Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet, educator, and organizer, the author of R E D and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull. Gia Gonzales is a New York City poet whose self-titled book won the 2024 Carolyn Bush Award. Rachelle Rahmé, born in Lebanon, published her first collection of poems, Mercurial, or Is that Liberty?, in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/make-room-a-new-voices-salon-with-chase-berggrun-gia-gonzale-56834/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org/events/psa-reading-series-gonzales-okeke-rahmé", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b72783070cf7fb0150879b65da4efee97d03afd1f3b777d8185d931363d9062-600.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": "", "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. It features poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, held ahead of the opening of Dead Centre's adaptation of Kaminsky's Deaf Republic. Kaminsky will read a selection of poems from Deaf Republic, and the two will also read poetry in translation from Ukraine. 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"}]}