Poet Brad Vogel opens for the premiere of the rock opera The Last Summer by Christoph Whitbeck at Principles GI Coffee House. Produced by Sofia Pipolo and Eel Pit.

Join poets Ricardo Maldonado, Sarah Sala, Brad Vogel, Madeleine Mori, and Rebecca Suzuki for a summer evening of poetry at Brooklyn’s Established Gallery amidst the sculptural works of the Xylophagous exhibition by artist Jos Prol.

Curated by Brad Vogel.

Join a handful of poets at Principles GI Coffee House for the latest installment of the occasional series curated and hosted by poet Brad Vogel:

Miranda Dennis

Nilton Maa

Laura Salvatore

Julia Lu

Brad Vogel

NYC Poets Afloat - Brooklyn Reading - Waterfront Museum aboard Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn (near Sunny’s Bar).

Ticketing (proceeds split amongst the poets): NYC Poets Afloat - Brooklyn Reading 2025 Tickets, Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

6th annual NYC Poets Afloat harborwide reading aboard tall ship Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum.

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A Persistence of Cormorants Reading - Season Opener - at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn

Reading at L’Wren in Sunset Park, Brooklyn at 4004 5th Avenue.

Featuring Poets: Indian Amirthanayagam and Brad Vogel

+ Open Mic

4518 Skillman Avenue, Queens, NYC

Join Gowanus poet Brad Vogel and friends at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse at 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn, for BEHEMOTH, a poetry reading after dark wrapped in the coils of Leviathan, a giant driftwood sculptural installation by artist Jos Prol (both leviathan and behemoth are primordial monsters mentioned in the ancient Book of Job). We’ll meditate on unstoppable fell forces, vaguely defined powers that impact our lives, and things monstrous, seemingly undeniable.

Poets include:

Darius Phelps
Reuben Gelley Newman
Benjamin Heim Shepard
DL Newton
Brad Vogel

Reading poem “Euphemisms”

Brad Vogel reads a number of poems in the musical The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal by composer Wes Braver at Principles GI Coffee House on October 4 and 5th, 2024 (he’s also co-producing the show!).

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Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski's "gowanus atropolis" in canoes on the Gowanus Canal! 

Readers: 7:00 am report time at Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club’s Bunker Launch Site at 2 19th St, Brooklyn. Request spot as a canoe reader from Brad.Vogel[@]gmail.com

Audience: 7:45 am arrival at 9th Street Bridge - check @gowanusdredgers and www.gowanuscanal.org to be sure amidst superfund work - watch and listen from a bridge over the Gowanus Canal.

Dredgers Captain Emeritus and poet Brad Vogel and performer and vocalist Melody Bates lead the crew as they get medieval on Brolaski's sludgy verse. This is an official Brooklyn Book Festival Book End Event. 

"How does individual identity intersect with that of a larger community, and of a nation? Poet & critic Jerome Ellison Murphy introduces a one-hour reading featuring four gay male poets, Sebastian Doherty, Joseph Legaspi, David Groff, and Brad Vogel, to reckon with the multivalence of gay male identity in our fraught national moment."

Tickets here.

Sign up here to learn the reading location at 6:30 pm on Monday 9.9.24....before a special reading at 7 pm in Gowanus...it might just be in an actual feral pocket. I'll tackle some of my more difficult, dense, lengthy poems, including some I have not yet read in full to any audience. Like the 5-page poem "Extremophiles" - this is gloopy, tortuous, Gowanusy stuff! 

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Brad Vogel in conversation with fellow Gowanus resident Lillian Ruiz

Books Are Magic, Smith Street Location - 7 pm

Poet Brad Vogel paddles through pollution, relationships, environmental concerns, accreted layers of history, and even humor as he distills Gowanus into a collection of unique, sometimes bracing poems. The collection captures the values of "the unplanned place" in the urban landscape and the individual mind of a city dweller. A quirky, flood-prone realm on the brink, Gowanus comes to life through an array of lenses, from floating condoms to street-end weeds, from resilient fish to unknown organisms in the polluted muck, a weird world is found to be worth noticing, worth loving.

Join poets Omotara James, Billy Cancel, Brad Vogel, and Terence Degnan for a reading as Principles GI Coffee House celebrates two years as a rabblerousing community coffeeshop.