readings, events, CLASSES
Poetry Reading with Kim Farrar and others
Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY
Sunday, September 27, 2026, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m - $5 admission at the door,
qedastoria.com/?srsltid=AfmBOookBS7ub0kTBiZuH9yWKcZWmQeXOvaFIeWtlPkGmK0AGnJ9BF-D
Writers Studio Fantasy in Poetry-Writing: Fall 2026
Six-week live, unrecorded Google Meet Writers Studio method class starting September 16. Class meets 7:30 - 9:30 pm Eastern time. Open to all levels of experience -- beginners warmly welcomed. Seven places available.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-fantasy-in-poetry-writing-bellamy-fall-2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Fall 2026
Three eight-week sections starting October. Please review prerequisites and application method on Writers Studio website for fall term classes.
Class starting Wednesday, October 14, 1:00 - 3:30 pm., five places available.
Class starting Thursday, October 15, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., two places availble.
Class starting Monday, October 19, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., three places available.
www.writerstudio.com/courses/all-courses/
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone: Summer 2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Summer 2026
Poetry Reading
April 11, 2026, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Reading new poetry, with other Writers Studio members.
Writers Studio Craft Class
April 7, 2026, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
Writers Studio Poetry and Spirituality: Spring 2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Spring 2026
Writers Studio Craft Class
February 17, 2026, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Winter 2026
Writers Studio Craft Class
December 16, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Alabama by Rodney Jones
Poetry Reading
Supporting reader for Kim Farrar's The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird (Unsolicited Press) Book Launch.
December 7, 2025, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY
Writers Studio Prose Poetry Fall 2025 - Closed
Writers Studio Craft Class
October 21, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Floaters by Martin Espada
Sheila-Na-Gig Summer Reading
Friday, August 15, 2005, 7 p.m.
Reading from The Northway and new manuscript.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wFAyLWeUTPuEGFHMRRDfhQ#/registration
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Fall 2025
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone Class: Summer 2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
May 14, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry: Summer 2025
Writers Studio Live Remote Maintaining Your Creative Spirit: Spring 2025 (Closed)
Writers Studio Craft Class
March 17, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry: Spring 2025 (Closed)
Writers Studio Reading
January 12, 2025, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
With other Writers Studio fellows; reading new poems from manuscript-in-proress
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
December 3, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Winter 2025 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Prose Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser
October 8, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry for Everyone Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Deluge by Leila Chatti
April 16, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
February 27, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Pushcart Prize XLVIII Best of the Small Presses Reading - Zoom
January 21, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAD188-iGKg
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry and Spirituality - CLOSED
May 9, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Co-teaching (with Writers Studio director Philip Schultz) Blessed as We Were by Gerald Stern
April 4, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Hello I Must Be Going by David Hernandez
December 20, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
October 18, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer
March 13, 2022
Writers Studio Faculty Reading, 7 p.m.
January 24, 2021, 7 p.m.
Writers Studio Faculty Reading
Recording accessed here. Reading starts at 35 minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXv_41OWc_c
November 14, 2019
Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Reading
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, New York City
7:00 p.m.
October 14, 2018
The Northway Writers Studio book launch
Reading and book signing
With Master Class students Judy Gerber and Hani Omar Khalil
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
www.zincbar.com/
September 29, 2018
The Northway
Reading and book signing
With poet Aimee Baker
www.aimeebaker.com/
Upper Jay Art Center
Upper Jay, NY
12198 Route 9N
7:00 p.m.
upperjayartcenter.org/calendar/?mc_id=296
September 27, 2018
Writers Studio Hudson Reading
The Northway reading and book signing
Reading with Writers Studio faculty and students
Spotty Dog Books and Ale
440 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
www.thespottydog.com/
September 8, 2018
St. Bart's 100 Celebration
Writers Studio writing workshop
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
325 Park Avenue, New York
Pre-registration necessary - contact St. Bart's at stbarts.org/
July 28, 2018
The New York City Poetry Festival
Writers Studio Reading
Governors Island
Chumley's Stage, 2:30 p.m.
www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/
March 25, 2018
The Writers Studio Reading
Faculty and Master Class Students
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY
Sunday, September 27, 2026, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m - $5 admission at the door,
qedastoria.com/?srsltid=AfmBOookBS7ub0kTBiZuH9yWKcZWmQeXOvaFIeWtlPkGmK0AGnJ9BF-D
Writers Studio Fantasy in Poetry-Writing: Fall 2026
Six-week live, unrecorded Google Meet Writers Studio method class starting September 16. Class meets 7:30 - 9:30 pm Eastern time. Open to all levels of experience -- beginners warmly welcomed. Seven places available.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-fantasy-in-poetry-writing-bellamy-fall-2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Fall 2026
Three eight-week sections starting October. Please review prerequisites and application method on Writers Studio website for fall term classes.
Class starting Wednesday, October 14, 1:00 - 3:30 pm., five places available.
Class starting Thursday, October 15, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., two places availble.
Class starting Monday, October 19, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m., three places available.
www.writerstudio.com/courses/all-courses/
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone: Summer 2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Summer 2026
Poetry Reading
April 11, 2026, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Reading new poetry, with other Writers Studio members.
Writers Studio Craft Class
April 7, 2026, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
Writers Studio Poetry and Spirituality: Spring 2026
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Spring 2026
Writers Studio Craft Class
February 17, 2026, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Winter 2026
Writers Studio Craft Class
December 16, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Alabama by Rodney Jones
Poetry Reading
Supporting reader for Kim Farrar's The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird (Unsolicited Press) Book Launch.
December 7, 2025, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY
Writers Studio Prose Poetry Fall 2025 - Closed
Writers Studio Craft Class
October 21, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Floaters by Martin Espada
Sheila-Na-Gig Summer Reading
Friday, August 15, 2005, 7 p.m.
Reading from The Northway and new manuscript.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wFAyLWeUTPuEGFHMRRDfhQ#/registration
Writers Studio Advanced Poetry: Fall 2025
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone Class: Summer 2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
May 14, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry: Summer 2025
Writers Studio Live Remote Maintaining Your Creative Spirit: Spring 2025 (Closed)
Writers Studio Craft Class
March 17, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry: Spring 2025 (Closed)
Writers Studio Reading
January 12, 2025, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
With other Writers Studio fellows; reading new poems from manuscript-in-proress
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
December 3, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Winter 2025 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Prose Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser
October 8, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry for Everyone Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Deluge by Leila Chatti
April 16, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2024 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
February 27, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Pushcart Prize XLVIII Best of the Small Presses Reading - Zoom
January 21, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAD188-iGKg
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry and Spirituality - CLOSED
May 9, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Co-teaching (with Writers Studio director Philip Schultz) Blessed as We Were by Gerald Stern
April 4, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Hello I Must Be Going by David Hernandez
December 20, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
October 18, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer
March 13, 2022
Writers Studio Faculty Reading, 7 p.m.
January 24, 2021, 7 p.m.
Writers Studio Faculty Reading
Recording accessed here. Reading starts at 35 minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXv_41OWc_c
November 14, 2019
Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Reading
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, New York City
7:00 p.m.
October 14, 2018
The Northway Writers Studio book launch
Reading and book signing
With Master Class students Judy Gerber and Hani Omar Khalil
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
www.zincbar.com/
September 29, 2018
The Northway
Reading and book signing
With poet Aimee Baker
www.aimeebaker.com/
Upper Jay Art Center
Upper Jay, NY
12198 Route 9N
7:00 p.m.
upperjayartcenter.org/calendar/?mc_id=296
September 27, 2018
Writers Studio Hudson Reading
The Northway reading and book signing
Reading with Writers Studio faculty and students
Spotty Dog Books and Ale
440 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
www.thespottydog.com/
September 8, 2018
St. Bart's 100 Celebration
Writers Studio writing workshop
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
325 Park Avenue, New York
Pre-registration necessary - contact St. Bart's at stbarts.org/
July 28, 2018
The New York City Poetry Festival
Writers Studio Reading
Governors Island
Chumley's Stage, 2:30 p.m.
www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/
March 25, 2018
The Writers Studio Reading
Faculty and Master Class Students
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.