https://deesoulpoetry.com/events daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/family-meal-a-poetry-reading-with-gabrielle-calvocoressi monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/415958c6-b52e-4b71-95a8-b0708efaef9d/OMPF+%281%29.png Events & Readings - Family Meal: A Poetry Reading with Gabrielle Calvocoressi - In Miami, we don’t just say, “I love you.” We say, “Did you eat yet?” O, Miami and Dunn’s Overtown Farm invite you to grab a meal and a seat at Family Meal, a community-based poetry reading and dinner experience featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi and this year’s Poetry Foundation Fellows, Miami Freedom Project, and potluck-style meal contributions from local chefs. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/dr-carl-calendar-visiting-writers-series-deesoul-carson-jeanann-verlee monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/cc6ea73a-13ac-4ade-931e-5bdacdbecf93/Brookdale.png Events & Readings - Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series: DeeSoul Carson & Jeanann Verlee - Two award-winning poets will read and discuss their work. Join DeeSoul Carson and Jeanann Verlee on March 31 as they reading for the Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ. The poets will both read and discuss their work. The reading is free and open to the public; refreshments will be offered. No reservations/tickets are needed. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/humorhorror-after-douglas-kearney monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/4fc43c51-911a-44bd-84c2-fb0ce480f48d/NOPF+-+IG+Post+%281%29.png Events & Readings - Humor/Horror: after Douglas Kearney - Featuring DeeSoul Carson, CD Eskilson, Leah Mensch, and MaKshya Tolbert, moderated by Alexa Luborsky In Optic Subwoof, Douglas Kearney writes: “Humor and horror, there is no or.” This panel will examine how invoking the laughable in poetry not only recognizes the ridiculous, but also links a reader with their power in relation to the inciting horror. “It is better to say, ‘I am suffering,’ than to say, ‘This landscape is ugly,’” says Simone Weil. This panel will speak to why it might be better to say “this is what I can’t endure alone” than to say “this is what I can’t endure.” We’ll be discussing how humor influences our ways of writing towards not only diagnosing, but also imagining alternatives to the everyday horrors that are deeply entangled in the business of living. This is an under-examined area of craft that acts as a mode of resistance against hegemonic norms necessary for empire-making. This discussion will center on humor as a method of disorientation that lends itself towards an invitation for mutual care. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/awp2026-off-site monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/dc5fbe94-f226-494b-a176-524bafd44cfb/Offsite+-+Instagram+Post+%281%29.jpg Events & Readings - Tyger Quarterly · dialogist · The Year present: OFF-SITE! - An AWP 2026 Off-Site Reading Tyger Quarterly, dialogist, and The Year are collaborating to bring you this AWP off-site reading, featuring Emily Pittinos, DeeSoul Carson, Sophia Terazawa, James Garwood-Cole, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Emily Bark Brown. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/the-fire-in-our-throats-a-night-of-poetry-vulnerability-voice monthly 0.5 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/89ec7e18-9261-4aeb-8fd2-4931f46ab780/IMG_8938.PNG Events & Readings - The Fire In Our Throats: A Night of Poetry, Vulnerability, & Voice - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/poets-in-print-deesoul-carson-saba-keramati monthly 0.5 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/b59679f5-2762-4a79-ba84-849d9990117f/Poets+in+Print.png Events & Readings - Poets in Print: DeeSoul Carson & Saba Keramati https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/club-wonder monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/2d5fbf54-d4a7-43dc-bd04-4faa86ebe2b4/IMG_0630.PNG Events & Readings - Club Wonder, a Wonder Press Reading - Club Wonder, Hosted by Annie Lou Martin On Tuesday, June 29, join Wonder Press for a very special mid summer Club Wonder, with readings from Alisha Mascarenhas, DeeSoul Carson, Tangie Mitchell, Susi Plotts-Pineda https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/book-launch-anthony-thomas-lombardi monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/9988c894-736c-4ea9-9c68-11764298a3e6/IMG_0405.jpg Events & Readings - Book Launch: Anthony Thomas Lombardi - fundraising for New York Immigrant Family Unity Project Join us for the launch of Anthony Thomas Lombardi's debut book of poetry, murmurations, on Monday, June 30th at 144 Montague Street & via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Rhoni Blankenhorn, DeeSoul Carson, John Murillo & Megan Pinto will open for Lombardi. Amina Iro will emcee. Book signing to follow. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/speak-light monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/97385445-8441-4881-91b8-46ca5ea9b9bc/IMG_0403.jpg Events & Readings - Speak, Light Speak, Light is a free summer reading series held at Accent Sisters and curated by Publishing Fellow Heather Kim. For our very first chapter, we are featuring DeeSoul Carson, Dylan Gilbert, Laetitia Keok, and Tianyi. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/brooklyn-poetry-festival-a-language-that-could-produce-this monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/a104d98d-5135-4913-af85-258f8b3b3323/BKP+Festival.png Events & Readings - Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival: "A Language That Could Produce This" Is language the box we find ourselves locked in or the key to its escape? What does it mean to write against oppression, against trauma, against empire, against our own histories—using the same language that created them? What tension do we hold when we write for our survival using the same words that form legislation that renders us at best unimportant, and at worst, nonexistent. In this panel, we’ll explore a question “What does it mean to be a poet working in a language, a medium, a nation, that can produce this?” raised by Kaveh Akbar with poets that poke and pry at the edge of language. We’ll learn from poets working in translation, found materials, multiple languages and more what it means to work in a language that could produce this and what opportunities and responsibilities we have in doing so. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/la-bronx-fire-benefit-reading monthly 0.5 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/fedd8ab3-0d54-497c-98fd-33e30e496c7e/IMG_9809.PNG Events & Readings - LA & Bronx Fire Benefit Reading - In-Person & Via Zoom Cindy Tran, Dante Clark, Robert Wood Lynn & DeeSoul Carson Join us at 144 Montague or online via Zoom for a reading to support those displaced by wildfires in LA and the recent apartment fire in the Bronx. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/poetry-for-gaza monthly 0.5 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/4052e3d3-c1db-446f-97cf-94f4d03fd584/BAD87F3B-13E0-4ED1-8861-A4A7E6CF8FC9.jpg Events & Readings - Poetry for Gaza Join poets Maya Salameh, DeeSoul Carson, Lara Atallah, and Ghinwa Jawhari for a night of poetry to fundraise for the Sameer Project, A donations based aid initiative, led by Palestinians in the diaspora, working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/book-launch-victoria-mbabazi monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/00636cff-09c3-4add-ad27-56c6271be741/BROOKLYN_NOV1_POSTER.jpg Events & Readings - Book Launch: Victoria Mbabazi Join Unnameable Books to celebrate the launch of Victoria Mbabazi’s poetry collection, The Siren in the Twelfth House, featuring readings and performances by special guests Majelia & Alberto, Tariq Thompson, DeeSoul Carson, Azia Armstead, and Yaz Lancaster. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/book-launch-juliana-chang monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/977d6494-6ea3-48fb-8ed5-0271bc27fdc0/1.jpg Events & Readings - Book Launch: Juliana Chang Join Brooklyn Poets to celebrate the launch of Juliana Chang’s new book, So Long This Wound Stayed Open, featuring guest readings by DeeSoul Carson and Katie Mansfield https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/embracingeveryhue monthly 0.5 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/fa2ff9eb-0452-449d-9b22-6857e12a1360/IMG_8486.jpg Events & Readings - Embracing Every Hue Reading Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/cli-poetryfest-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/65cb8b74-6f78-42bc-9d62-f073d1f2b922/PoetryFestival_Poster.jpg Events & Readings - The Completed Life Initiative Poetry Festival: “Something True Has Been Spoken” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/poets-in-pajamas monthly 0.5 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1709491707053-8FBYNIKAXBEEH8C7913Z/PiP+Templates.png Events & Readings - Poets In Pajamas w/ Jim Whiteside & DeeSoul Carson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/mlk-spoken-word-contest monthly 0.5 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1706029600255-BLIM7RXCTOVSSVQ6EERF/SWC.png Events & Readings - MLK Spoken Word Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/sundress-reading-series-w-deesoul-carson-aline-mello monthly 0.5 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1701961149950-N2UZ8ETY8AGCW7ZL8QFA/NOV+RS+FB+Promo.png Events & Readings - Sundress Reading Series w/ DeeSoul Carson & Aline Mello - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/italic-10th-year-anniversary-performance monthly 0.5 2023-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/d74cb8e1-2476-418f-8f1f-4874016226e1/unnamed.png Events & Readings - ITALIC 10th Year Anniversary Performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/brooklyn-poets-staff-picks monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/7217020f-a853-466f-b635-55d0497c9d7c/BPSP-9.20.23+%281%29.png Events & Readings - Brooklyn Poets Staff Picks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/from-the-scraps-a-queer-night-of-writing-reading-community monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1f853b1d-b228-4373-a624-3579394ad0c0/1+%281%29.jpg Events & Readings - From the Scraps: A Queer Night of Writing, Reading & Community - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/black-sunshine-poetry-night-w-ac-x-be-reel monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/e66ab50c-4536-470b-aa7e-9279fc01375d/IMG_9380+%281%29.jpg Events & Readings - "Black Sunshine" Poetry Night w/ AC X Be Reel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/no-tokens-issue-10-launch-party monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/cb367f91-88c9-4b29-beb5-378764f47b1a/Screenshot+2023-05-01+at+1.46.54+PM.png Events & Readings - No Tokens Issue 10 Launch Party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/kgb-emerging-writers-reading-series-morgan-parker monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/8826c5ee-3236-41f7-a968-d046cbbb4d7d/Morgan+Parker.jpeg Events & Readings - KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series: Morgan Parker - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/lactose-intolerant monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/e1877973-7352-4123-adbd-5fc4ddd15da2/IMG_5504.jpg Events & Readings - Lactose Intolerant - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/we-killed-the-moon-a-poetry-podcast-event monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1697345767575-6T574BO6EK8LEB7S81VE/We-Killed-the-Moon.jpg Events & Readings - WE KILLED THE MOON: A POETRY PODCAST EVENT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/haydens-ferry-review-issue-71-virtual-launch monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://deesoulpoetry.com/events/dgn-oct-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1697345156062-GQ88RGHA6YINT91AGBOV/386579183_647868540773994_1096281927161355846_n.jpg Events & Readings - DGN Reading Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://deesoulpoetry.com/classes daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://deesoulpoetry.com/classes/better-readers-better-writers monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/209039c6-e855-47b3-b2dd-df110bc87a74/IMG_1895.PNG Classes/Workshops - Poets House | Better Readers, Better Writers - Remote | 6 Thursdays | Jan 15 - Feb 19 | 6:30 - 8:30pm ET | $360 ($320 for members) As poets, we know that to become better writers, we must also become better readers of poetic work. But how does one do that? Where do we begin? By this point, you may be familiar with examining a text and asking: What does this poem mean? We will move from asking “what” an author is doing or what their work means and towards “how” their craft choices lead us to create meaning from a text. We will give language to the rhetorical devices used in poems and how poets pattern their language, and then use this knowledge to generate our own work. If we want to break the rules of poetry successfully, we first have to know what they are. Think of the workshop not as a place for us to “rehabilitate” your writing, but instead as a place to experiment, take risks, and learn from your peers. Remote Workshops will take place on Zoom. https://deesoulpoetry.com/classes/psny-virtual-workshop-the-afterparty monthly 0.5 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/827dd6eb-9df8-4892-9983-2daac8399f27/2_26_VW+The+Afterparty.png Classes/Workshops - PSNY Virtual Workshop: The Afterparty - Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series. An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet DeeSoul Carson! As artists, there is always a concern with the originality of our work and how we stand out without biting off someone else's style. However, as the old adage goes, no man is an island. We are constantly inspired and influence by the various mediums we encounter in the world. How can we use these influences to jumpstart our own writing without creating parody? In this workshop, we'll read work by Nate Marshall, Summer Farah, Shara McCallum, and others as we consider how we borrow from, take inspiration from, reinvent, and recontextualize the texts and media we consume on a daily basis while maintain our own poetic voices. https://deesoulpoetry.com/classes/game-mechanics-form-function-and-expanding-what-poetry-can-be monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1749238865458-RJ66SG7T8OGYPRG42JZU/3.jpg Classes/Workshops - Game Mechanics: Form, Function, and Expanding What Poetry Can Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1749238865521-Z6YUJ2WMRZPC6FLROWWD/4.jpg Classes/Workshops - Game Mechanics: Form, Function, and Expanding What Poetry Can Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/1749238866517-EUJ3NVZF1I6W1SIHWXF2/SWM+Workshops+%282%29.png Classes/Workshops - Game Mechanics: Form, Function, and Expanding What Poetry Can Be https://deesoulpoetry.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-27 https://deesoulpoetry.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://deesoulpoetry.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/70f60873-ee49-46a1-b0d0-a967051a4609/IMG_0076.jpg https://deesoulpoetry.com/calendar daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://deesoulpoetry.com/features daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://deesoulpoetry.com/cvdeesoul daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/44598d38-c015-4338-be57-fa21d155d421/IMG_0016.jpg https://deesoulpoetry.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://deesoulpoetry.com/under-construction daily 0.75 2024-01-10 https://deesoulpoetry.com/books daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://deesoulpoetry.com/books/running-from-streetlights monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/4dbdfd50-4e51-47b0-bff4-293a24333e43/61gia18G4DL._SL1499_.jpg https://deesoulpoetry.com/books/the-laughing-barrel monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Books - The Laughing Barrel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6528ce417a4a0b11eba6227f/db1158e1-b4e5-4362-810d-3a1f65d81509/TLB_PLaceholder.jpg https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances daily 0.75 2023-10-25 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/contest monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/reading monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/speechpresentation monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/spoken-word monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/deesoul-carson-threesis-2024-first-place-winner- monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/hood-proverbs monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/dream-journal-after-danez-smith monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/captains-log monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/elegy-for-black-boys-still-breathing monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/black-matter monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/hfr-71-launch monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://deesoulpoetry.com/performances/v/joan-margarit-international-poetry-prize-ceremony monthly 0.5 2023-10-26