| Date: | Thu, Feb 26, 2026 |
| Time: | 7 PM |
| Location: | Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
| Find out more: | Poetry Society of America |
Join Cole Swensen and Matthew Rohrer in Brooklyn for the next installment of the Poetry Society of America Reading Series.
Non-member tickets are $10 for in-person and $5 for the livestream. Free for members.
Cole Swensen is the author of twenty books of poetry; a collection of hybrid poetic essays, Art in Time; and a volume of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A former Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, she also translates art criticism and poetry from the French, including Emmanuel Hocquard's Elegies (NYRB Poets, 2026). She has won the PEN USA Award in Translation, the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award, and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize. Author photo by Anthony Hayward.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of 11 books of poems, most recently Army of Giants, published by Wave Books. He has received a Hopwood Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Believer Book Award for his book The Others, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Author photo by Gary Kenney.