The 15th annual Poets Walk across Brooklyn Bridge to benefit the newly relocated Poets House took place this past Monday. Well over a hundred people gathered outside of One Centre Street in Manhattan in the late afternoon for the event; the crowd then ambled across the Brooklyn Bridge bearing banners and flags, with stops along with way for readings by poets such as Thomas Lux, Anne Carson, Tina Chang (the Brooklyn Poet Laureate), and Galway Kinnell, who read Walt Whitman's masterful "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" at the Fulton Ferry Landing. more ›

What is it about Bill Murray that makes him so mystically, eternally cool? What other 59-year-old crashes hipster house parties with MGMT? Well here are two more reasons to love him: he likes to walk the streets of Williamsburg late at night, and he's a "frustrated" poet, just like us! He even dropped by Poet's House last year as it was being constructed to read to the construction workers (you can see the video below). The only thing that could match that would be re-imaging Groundhog's Day as an epic poem. more ›

EVENT: The spot of the future Poets House, at Two River Terrace in Battery Park City, hosts an outdoor evening extravaganza. Show up early for a walking tour of the area, featuring an introduction to some of its literary and artistic niches. After that, bunker down for readings from Cornelius Eady, Matthea Harvey, Hettie Jones, Li-Young Lee, and Kay Ryan, and a musical performances by Jill Sobule! more ›