A chorus of powerful contemporary voices in U.S. poetry comes together for the New York City celebration of a seminal anthology of political poems, published by Northwestern University Press.

In January 2020 Kathy will be leading a three day writers' retreat at Lalela Retreat Center in the Magaliesberg, South Africa.

Join presentations, conversations, and a book signing by and about women artists and their profound and turbulent experiences of migration through the lenses of politics and war, love, and family. With Kathy Engel, Chair and Associate Arts Professor Tisch School of the Arts Department of Art and Public Policy and Master’s Program in Arts Politics, … Continue reading "Talk and book signing for “Women and Migration” at Parish Art Museum"

This event is postponed due to Covid-19 safety precautions. The new date will be confirmed shortly.

Gail Langstroth (author of / --) and Kathy Engel (author of ) will be reading from their books this Friday, May 1, at 7pm, live from the Get Fresh Instagram account @gfbpublishing.  

Launch and celebration at Poet’s House, New York. Kathy will be joined in reading by Grace Aneiza Ali, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Nathalie Handal & Yesenia Montilla.

Sister Poets read and converse about their new books that tread the fine line between grief, hope and love.  Jill Bialosky is the author of Asylum:  A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric sections and Kathy Engel is the author of The Lost Brother Alphabet. Thursday, August 13, 7PM $30 per Lawn Circle (seats group of 1 … Continue reading "Sister Poets: Reading by Kathy Engel and Jill Bialosky"

Join Kathy Engel reading from her latest collection of poems, The Lost Brother Alphabet (Get Fresh Books, 2020), called by Aracelis Girmay “a deeply elegiac and formally inventive work that I will return to for how it carries, among other things, the tenacity to love another, again, again, through the years and even in deaths, … Continue reading "Reading at Writers & Books [Online]"

How can the writing and sharing of poems help us build community or invite a group to explore language, voice, and place? We will play with Haiku/Renga, Zuihitsu, Cento, and other forms, or make up a form. We’ll create something that we both leave in the writing space and take with us. We will think … Continue reading "Collaborative Poetics Workshop at Writers & Books [Online]"