About this Event
Join us to this holiday season to find the perfect poetry collection to gift your loved ones, and hear warm and inspiring poetry from five incredible poets:
Carey Salerno, author of
Nicole Sealey, author of
Rosebud Ben-Oni, author of
Andrés Cerpa, author of the forthcoming collection
Joan Larkin, author of
About the poets:
Carey Salerno is the author of The Hungriest Stars (2025) and two previous books of poetry, Tributary and Shelter. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and other publications. She is Executive Director and Publisher of Alice James Books and recipient of a 2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. With poet John Murillo, she edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa. Her honors include the Princeton Arts and Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, the Poetry International Prize, an Amy Clampitt Residency, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections, including the forthcoming The Last Great Adventure is You (Alice James Books, 2027), a sequel to If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Holocaust Memorial. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, Cafe Royal Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, APR, The Writer's Chronicle, Academy of American Poets, among others.
Andrés Cerpa is the author of two previous books of poetry, Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (2019) and The Vault (2021), which was longlisted for a National Book Award and celebrated as one of the best poetry books of 2021 by The New York Times. A recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is an educator and faculty member of the Randolph MFA Program.
Joan Larkin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Old Stranger: Poems, as well as Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems. She has received the Audre Lorde Award, the Lambda Literary Award. She co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion, co-edited four anthologies, including Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, and has been a lifelong teacher. Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Housekeeping notes:
- This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
- Doors open at 6:30pm, with the reading starting around 7:00pm.
- Books will be available for purchase at the event.
- Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase.
- The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
- If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts, 180 Orchard Street, New York, United States
USD 7.18
