Karmela Waldman is an eighty-something psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son, Joel Waldman, is a successful broadcast journalist. After a discontented Joel chooses to leave his network news job, he […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, […]

In considering why humans get cancer, it is useful to ask an alternative question, “Why have humans been so good at not getting cancer in the first 4-5 decades of […]

Award-winning author of The Plaza, Julie Satow looks south on Fifth Avenue and back through the 20th century to examine the golden age of American department stores and of three […]

The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth […]

Poets John Keene and Pamela Sneed read their work.

B Hills – A Queens native whose diverse music selections reflect his eclectic upbringing in NYC. Selections for the evening will be a hypnotic blend of deep, jazzy, and soulful […]

Jesse McCarthy presents The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, in conversation with Vinson Cunningham. From the author of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, a […]

In Jewish Life in Medieval Spain, Jonathan Ray explores the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. […]

In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in the summertime […]

Do you regret not talking to the hot person on the train reading a book you like? Did your last Hinge date reveal that they haven't read a book since […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, […]

Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we […]

Based in Seattle, architect Susan Jones is a national leader in the Mass Timber community. Established in 2003, her firm, atelierjones, completed four of the earliest mass timber buildings permitted […]

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past.

The fates of lesbian women in Nazi Germany have long been contested. When the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism opened in Berlin in 2008 it was an occasion for protest. Lesbian activists were frustrated that the monument focused exclusively on the fates of gay men, insinuating that women had not also faced persecution. This […]

This program will delve into the challenges confronting China’s economy, examining how the nation is confronting risks associated with trade, technology, and geopolitical tensions. We’ll analyze the implications of these strategies on both domestic and international fronts, focusing on China’s economic difficulties and forecasting its future trajectory.

Yung Wing (1828–1912) was a transformative figure in China’s modernization. Often hailed as the first Chinese graduate of an American university, his life and work transcended this singular achievement. While Yung Wing is rightfully recognized as the “Father of Chinese Students Studying Abroad,” his impact extended far beyond education. China’s modern history was a period […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, please email: [email protected].

Antisemitism flourished in early twentieth-century America. The Great Wave of Immigration from 1881 to 1914 brought 2.2 million eastern European Jews to America, fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity. They were often met with suspicion, and even violence. One such person who is emblematic of the antisemitism of this time is Henry Ford, founder of the […]

Skyscrapers today are controversial – especially in New York – but globally they are getting taller and more numerous. This evening features two authors, an economist, Jason M. Barr, and […]

A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it.

Hear poetry hailing from every corner of NYC. Share your poems on our open-mic stage.

This Flag Day Parade will kick off at noon from City Hall Park, march down Broadway, and end at the grandstand in front of Fraunces Tavern at about 12:30pm. An open house will be underway at Fraunces Tavern Museum, where a ceremony will include student essay contest winners reading their essays on “What the American […]

Come-as-you-are poetry writing meetup that is free and open to all ages. There will be moments to write poetry, recite poetry, and enjoy the summer sun with new friends. Don’t forget to bring a blanket/seat for your lounging preference! Registration is required; attendees will receive a Poets House pamphlet of writing prompts with RSVP.

Inspired by the often overlooked experiences of African-American maritime workers - Love for NY’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop is a Moth-style storytelling and open mic event that celebrates the legacy of the African-American water stewards of New York.

In The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat recounts America’s most significant and consequential negotiations over the past fifty years. Eizenstat discusses the events that led up to the negotiations, the drama that took place around the table, and draws lessons from […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, please email: [email protected].

Join scholar James Shapiro and playwright Ayad Akhtar for a conversation on theater and democracy, art and citizenship—an interrogation of the American cultural and political landscape then and now as presented in The Playbook, Shapiro’s new history of the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre Project.

The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout history, making our own pride flags, and creating friendship bracelets! Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

Opening preview reception, lecture, and optional dinner for upcoming special exhibition, Lafayette: A Hero’s Return, opening to the public on June 25. Marquis de Lafayette, a young, wealthy French aristocrat, volunteered for and later led the Continental Army to victory with General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Before his death in 1834, Lafayette […]

A decade ago, concerns about energy consumption in the building sector focused on operational carbon – particularly, emissions associated with heating and cooling. Today, though, the discussion has shifted in part to embodied carbon, which can also be called “upfront carbon,” because it is carbon released into the atmosphere before the building even opens its […]

Author, essayist, poet, and literary scholar Joy Ladin will be joined by poet and Yetzirah founder Jessica Jacobs for a conversation about Jewish poetry. Sharing poems from their recent and past works, including Ladin’s forthcoming book Family and Jacob’s recent unalone, Ladin and Jacobs will discuss how Jewish tradition can inspire new poetic approaches, and […]

Andrew Waugh is a founding director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, a British firm established in 1997 alongside Anthony Thistleton. In 2009, they completed Murray Grove, the world’s first nine-story mass timber building, located in London. As a pioneer and advocate for sustainable, engineered wood in architecture, Waugh has dedicated his practice to developing efficient, aesthetically […]

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout history, making our own pride flags, and creating friendship bracelets! Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

Perhaps no single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington. This unique moment might have significantly altered the nation's path forward, but the event and the reasons why it happened are often forgotten. In this lecture, Dr. Robert Watson explores […]

Legacy Russell presents Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, in conversation with J Wortham.

From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created; one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness.

The Third Reich was one of the bloodiest regimes in history, but are the atrocities committed during World War II being lost to modern memory? Through the framing of the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness testimony of American journalist William L. Shirer, this six-part documentary series from filmmaker Joe Berlinger explores the shocking rise and fall […]

A beloved memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature—whose graphic, funny, and caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments.

Read­ings, work­shops, open mics, instal­la­tions, per­for­mances, writ­ing activ­i­ties, book­selling, chil­dren’s pro­gram­ming, a beer gar­den, deli­cious food, and a whole lot of lying around in the grass lis­ten­ing to poetry. By unit­ing the largest com­mu­ni­ty of poets in the coun­try and offer­ing a unique set­ting for lit­er­ary activ­i­ty, the New York City Poet­ry Fes­ti­val elec­tri­fies arts […]

We don't always consider the powerful impact that the War of Independence had on the physical landscape of 18th century America – much less how those impacts might still be […]

Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing […]

Join Sibling Rivalry Press founding publisher Bryan Borland, editor-in-chief Seth Pennington, and a spectrum of SRP-published writers from a decade of defiance that changed the face of American poetry. SRP, […]

Join author Claudia de Rham and the Academy’s Chief Scientific Officer Brooke Grindlinger as they delve into the hidden facets of gravity’s true nature—and de Rham’s new book, The Beauty […]

Join author Arturo Casadevall and the Academy’s Chief Scientific Officer Brooke Grindlinger as they dive into the dual nature of fungi—beneficial allies and deadly foes——and Casadevall’s new book, What if […]

A panel of experts will cap our lecture series The Short History and Promising Future of Tall Mass Timber Buildings with a discussion of Height & Hybrids. Our speakers include […]

Hannah Regel presents The Last Sane Woman, in conversation with Fiona Alison Duncan. A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure.

Final round of the second annual Teen Poetry Slam series, a program empowering teen performing artists. The Parlé Endeavors Teen Poetry Slam Series is a New York City-wide poetry exhibition […]

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout […]

Unique poetry reading and book talk with author Steve Mentz who has reimagined Herman Melville's great American classic Moby-Dick, without the monomaniacal quest of Captain Ahab. In this event, we […]

Maritime-themed book club.

In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of antisemitic iconography in the Middle Ages. The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, the […]

Sarah Manguso presents Liars, in conversation with Lyz Lenz. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live […]

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. Protected by the […]