{"title": "Verge Books Book Launch: The Tablets: Selected Poems and Translations by Armand Schwerner", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Verge Books holds a celebration of the life and work of the poet Armand Schwerner at Poets House, marking a new volume of his selected poems and translations. Speakers including Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Nicole Peyrafitte, Charles Bernstein, Ellen Zweig, Adam Schwerner, and Charlie Morrow offer tributes in music, film, and poetry. The centerpiece, The Tablets, is a work written over decades imagining a trove of Assyriological texts that explores translation, interpretation, and how language generates meaning, with the poet inhabiting a scholar-translator offering tentative, often contradictory readings in an ersatz archaeology both comic and spiritual. The volume also gathers a generous selection of Schwerner's translations and shorter poems.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/verge-books-book-launch-the-tablets-selected-poems-and-trans-86669/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "An Evening With World Poetry featuring a reading by poets Paul Muldoon, Haris Vlavianos and his translator Patricia Barbeito, with a discussion moderated by Mark Mazower", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Von", "address": "Bleecker Street 3, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry readings by Paul Muldoon, Haris Vlavianos and Patricia Barbeito, the translator of Vlavianos. It is called An Evening With World Poetry. A discussion moderated by Mark Mazower follows the reading. 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": "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", "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"}, {"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, "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. Mills share the stage, presenting retrovirology and Final Slash Boy respectively.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poetry-double-feature-john-bonanni-and-stephen-s-mills-79222/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2b0a13a1b039f4483902c560b080aadc611ec707fc55dd30a44a67cc3d54342-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Intensive: Some People Like Poetry: Writing Like a Reader with Edward Hirsch", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poets House", "address": "River Terrace 10, 10282", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A two-day in-person craft class and generative workshop on reading and writing poetry. It is led by Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow and prize-winning poet, and held in the Kunitz Conference Room on Poets House's second floor, with elevator access. 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": ""}, {"title": "Book Launch: Phrased and Confused by Eli Burnstein", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/humor"], "description": "A book launch celebrating the publication of a new work of humor writing. The author is Eli Burnstein, a humor writer who contributes to The New Yorker and McSweeney's Internet Tendency and hosts the popular event Spelling Bee. His book, Phrased & Confused: The Curious Meanings of Timeless Quotations, unpacks commonly misunderstood and enigmatic quotations, revealing what they really mean and why they still matter. Written for curious readers, it is a witty, light-footed tour through philosophy, literature, and language, from 'In the beginning was the Word' to 'A rose is a rose is a rose'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-phrased-and-confused-by-eli-burnstein-54913/", "official_url": "https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-phrased-and-confused-by-eli-burnstein/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1298c73a0b3ce30aa7a7c6dbcad7089a1b2af9e4f2d2d1062842e6585279bfbd-600.webp"}, {"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": "Careers in Languages, Languages in Careers", "start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T15:30:00-05:00", "place": "Manhattan College", "address": "Manhattan College Parkway 4513, 10471 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation", "society/languages"], "description": "A talk titled Careers in Languages, Languages in Careers: Professional Pathways for Speakers of One or Multiple Languages. Dr. Regina Galasso of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Director of the Edwin C. Gentzler Translation Center, presents the range of careers in the language services industry beyond translation, interpreting, and teaching, and how language skills can set candidates apart. It is held at Manhattan University.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/careers-in-languages-languages-in-careers-81310/", "official_url": "", "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": ""}]}