Kick off the neighborhood Holi celebration at the Seaport Museum with a family-friendly Holi Literary Festival in the first-floor gallery of the newly opened Maritime City exhibition. Enjoy featured book […]

Read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. Bring your authentic selves, your best (or worst!) poems, and a love for the written word. Open to all experience levels.

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

More than 3 years passed between the last battle in the North and the British surrender at Yorktown. In this lecture, Alan Pell Crawford tells what actually happened in those […]

Book reading and signing by Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough, authors of Black Tunnel White Magic.

Book reading. A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling […]

Join the South Street Seaport Museum and the New York Ship Lore and Model Club for an evening celebrating the history and restoration of the monumental 22-foot-long builder model of […]

Book reading and signing by Clea Simon, author of The Butterfly Trap.

Launch of McNally Jackson's Publishing 101 series! This series aims to demystify the publishing process through conversations with industry professionals who have done it all, and seen it all. For […]

Join the editors, contributors, and special guests to celebrate the launch of Amulet — a new literary magazine of religion, spirituality and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike. In an […]

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Book reading. A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and […]

Book reading. From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost […]

For overseas Chinese, ancient jade is more than just a collectible—it is a bridge to their ancestral heritage, carrying deep family memories and cultural connections to their homeland. The appreciation, […]

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Maritime-themed book club.

Book reading and signing by Jeffrey Siger, author of Not Dead Yet.

Reading. Amity Gaige presents Heartwood, in conversation with Jennifer Egan.

Discuss Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Repeated April 10 at 2pm.

This month, read and discuss We Do Not Part by Han Kang.

Jamieson Webster presents On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe in conversation with Alissa Bennett.

Cecilia Vicuña discusses three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. In this performance talk, Vicuña illustrates how oral traditions in Chile, Paraguay, and Arizona […]

Since 1985, the Whiting Awards have been given annually to ten of the most promising emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Hear the 2025 winners read from their […]

The story of trans life under Nazism is anticipated as tragic. Following the hard-won recognitions of gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust and in the maelstrom of contemporary global […]

Late night legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence, and sincere curiosity back to PAC NYC for a conversation with his long-time friend and former music director, Paul […]

The Orchid Pavilion Gathering series, hosted annually by China Institute Gallery, celebrates the spirit of the renowned congregation organized by the scholar-artist Wang Xizhi in the spring of 353 BC. […]

Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York is a volume of essays that commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, which established the Landmarks […]

McNally Jackson's Publishing 101 series aims to demystify the publishing process through conversations with industry professionals who have seen it all. For our second event, we welcome Laura McGrath, Randy […]

Celebrate the extraordinary Brenda Hillman and her friends in poetry—Evelyn Reilly, Patricia Spears Jones, Major Jackson, Donna Masini, and Ama Codjoe—reading poems written by or inspired by her work. The […]

Celebrate the release of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, Haymarket Books’ anthology of writers speaking on the United States prison-industrial complex. Contributors Randall Horton, Angel Nafis, and Evie […]

Poets Out Loud meets the third Saturday of every month to read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. We spend the first half of this meeting writing new work, and sharing […]

Writer and educator Sam Sax explores the life and work of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg. Drawing from their research into Stanford University’s Allen Ginsberg papers, sax’s consultation of primary […]

Book reading and signing by Bailey Seybolt, author of Coram House.

Book reading. For fans of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: "devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual […]

Just ten blocks from the World Trade Center, Chinatown was the largest residential area affected by 9/11. Much of the impact was strikingly visible as the collapse of the Twin […]

20th anniversary celebration of the book The Seas. Following a teenage girl who believes she's a mermaid, The Seas "blurred the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, […]

Poets Christopher Brunt and Timothy Liu will be reading from their latest work.

Join author Kostya Kennedy for this lecture exploring the dramatic events of April 18 and 19, 1775—the night of Paul Revere’s famous ride. With new insights from archives, family documents, […]

Join poet and educator Rigoberto González for a talk on the foundational yet overlooked Chicano poet Leo Romero, whose new and selected volume Trees Dream of Water (University of Arizona […]