Past Events

Join us for a virtual reading celebrating the Forms & Features poets.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we will read and discuss Brain Fever by Kimiko Hahn, winner of the 2023 Ruth Lilly...

Join us for a reading and conversation with Temye Tesfu and Kemi Alabi.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry,” created and led by Naoko Fujimoto. In this session, we will focus on the...

VS Live! At the Guggenheim: Poetic Freedom will feature a live taping of the VS podcast with VS co-hosts Ajanaé Dawkins and Brittany Rogers and special guests LaTasha N. Nevada...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the glosa, a form that Kimiko Hahn, winner of the...

Join us for an Open Door reading featuring KB Brookins with Faylita Hicks, and imani elizabeth jackson with S*an D. Henry-Smith.

Join us for a performance of David Antonio Cruz’s green,howiwantyougreen, an experimental opera based on the last eleven poems by the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

Join us for a reading in memory of Assotto Saint, with Pamela Sneed, Danez Smith, John Keene, Saeed Jones, and Luther Hughes.

Join us for a reading with Native poets Mark Turcotte, Elise Paschen, River Ian Kerstetter, Dominique Daye Hunter, and Aaron Golding at the Center for Native Futures, in partnership with...

Join us for the first public reading by the 2023 cohort of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellows.

Join us for a screening and conversation about Journey(s), an in-person installment of VS Presents with Saaret E Yoseph.

Join us for a virtual reading celebrating the Forms & Features poets.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on metaphor, a comparative device that makes meaning through the...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In October, we will read and discuss suddenly we by Evie Shockley.

Join us for an Open Door reading featuring Chris Aldana with Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, and Dior J. Stephens with jason b. crawford.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Doorways: Demystifying Poetic Turns”, created and led by Oliver Brickman.

Join us for a Crip Talk performance and discussion with JJJerome Ellis.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore hybrid poetry, liminal forms that trouble, cross, and blur literary...

Join us for a workshop production of Benji Hart’s World After This One.