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1:00 pm EST

September 29, 2026

North Stage, Cadman Plaza East

Korean War Veterans Park Brooklyn NY 11201 United States

Poetry

Playing with Form

Poets Timothy Donnelly (Chariot), Terrance Hayes (So To Speak), Diana Khoi Nguyen (Root Fractures), and Nicole Sealey (The Ferguson Report: An Erasure) read from their work and discuss how their use or form, the page, and procedural restraint opens new possibilities in their poetry. Moderated by Hafizah Augustus Geter

Participating authors

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NYU

Poetry Society Of America

St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture