Arts & Theater

Poetry at Bryant Park Reading Room

When

Tue, Jul 7 · 6:00 PM (+1 more date)

Where

Bryant ParkReading Room (in Bryant Park), Manhattan · Map ↗Midtown

Price

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Please join us for a tribute to poet Robert Hayden in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (2011), Ghost, Like a Place , and All the Possible Bodies (Alice James, September 2025). He has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. His poems have appeared in many literary outlets, including African American Review , Poem-a-Day , American Poetry Review , The Kenyon Review , The New York Times Magazine , PoetrySociety.org and The Progressive . Pollock directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY and lives in the Lower Hudson Valley. Nathan McClain (he/him) is the author of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale (Four Way Books, 2017). He is a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a Cave Canem fellow. He earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His poems and prose have appeared in The Hopkins Review, The Common, Guesthouse, Poetry Northwest , and Zócalo Public Square , among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review .