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]"

An online reading with Kathy Engel, hosted by One Breath Rising. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Looking forward to reading in person with GetFresh Books poets on Governors Island for the New York City poetry festival!

Presented by NYU Arts and Culture Network (ACN) with Kathy Engel, Sherylynne  Sealy, and Stephen Duncombe What Now? Community Organizing & the Arts in a Post-2020 Landscape This panel aims to explore how arts, cultural and creative work can serve as a catalyst for community organizing and activism in light of the many devastating events … Continue reading "What Now? Community Organizing & the Arts in a Post-2020 Landscape"