Brooklyn Poets Reading Series

Join us for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series at 144 Montague on Friday, August 15th, featuring poets Morgan Võ, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Natalie Diaz! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.

Advance online ticketing for in-person guests will end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that, in-person guests will be admitted at the door until we reach capacity. In-person guests are encouraged to get a ticket in advance, as space is limited. Virtual tickets will be available until start time at 7 PM (ET). A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders.

Note that by attending the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy below. All in-person attendees for events are currently required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage. We will have masks available. Our full policy can be found at the end of the event description. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community.

Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us at bkp@brooklynpoets.org.

Featured Poets

Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding and the presence of the dead among the living. They are the author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024). Their poems were anthologized in Pathetic Literature (Grove Atlantic, 2023), and have recently appeared in A Perfect Vacuum, Makhzin and Changes Review. Originally from coastal Virginia, they live now in Brooklyn, New York.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist, and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025).

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). She has received many honors—including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, a New School Fellowship and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She also was the Rosenkranz Visiting Writer at Yale. Her work has been widely translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Polish and Slovenian. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn a Master of Fine Arts. She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she directs ASU’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.

COVID-19 Policy

All event attendees are required to wear masks due to the current prevalence of cases in NYC. Masks will be available at the door.

The current metrics available, including NYC wastewater data and the CDC’s Respiratory Virus Activity Levels, both indicate high levels of COVID and other illnesses. While your personal risk tolerance may vary, the unmitigated spread of COVID and other respiratory illnesses disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our community—including those who are immunocompromised or don’t have the privilege of paid sick days to heal and recover. We hope you’ll join us in taking the actions we can to make our space welcoming to all and to keep each other safe. Please stay home if you are experiencing symptoms, have a positive COVID test or someone close to you has recently tested positive.

We strongly encourage daytime visitors and workshop attendees to wear masks. Workshop instructors may choose to enforce a more stringent policy at their own discretion. Additionally, workshop participants may be required to wear masks as an accessibility accommodation for other participants.

While we do our best, Brooklyn Poets cannot guarantee zero risk. A risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in all public settings. By entering the building, students, teachers and other attendees accept the risk of exposure and knowingly waive and release Brooklyn Poets from any liability related to COVID-19.

Brooklyn Poets Code of Conduct

Brooklyn Poets will not tolerate any instances of discrimination, harassment or abuse in conjunction with any of our programs. Respect and consideration for others, both within and outside our programs, are core values to be upheld by all participants. Discrimination against and/or harassment of community members on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran status or any other factor is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Program participants are expected to adhere to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Should a board or staff member, independent contractor, volunteer or program participant be found to violate any aspect of the organization’s code of conduct, Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss them from the program. Consequences may include, but not be limited to, dismissal from the current activity, suspension, ineligibility for all future activities, and/or loss of payment or fees. If you have any issues to report, please do not hesitate to email feedback@brooklynpoets.org, which will send your message to everyone on the Conduct Committee noted below, or if you’d prefer you can contact anyone listed individually here and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.