Reading
mace dent johnson + Noa Micaela Fields
The Poetry Project will turn 60 in September 2026. We’re turning towards our history as we approach this milestone, and thinking about the traditions of culture worker organizing and internationalism that generations of people have made meaningful through the Project. To open the spring 2026 season, we’re celebrating the launch of The Device, a new publication focused on the archives and history of the Project. The first issue, which comprises primary documents and interviews with Patricia Spears Jones, Bob Holman, and Ammiel Alcalay, focuses specifically on anti-war and internationalist organizing at the Project. Poets and scholars Lois Elaine Griffith, Maru Pabón, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts present their responses to this history in an evening where we’ll collectively think about how we make our cultural institutions meaningful and effective over time.
We hope you can join us at 7:30pm for a reception before the event.
