Upcoming Readings – Spring 2026
March 15, 2026: Iain Haley Pollock
Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (2011), Ghost, Like a Place, and, the most recent, 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, American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine, PoetrySociety.org and The Progressive. more info>>
May 17, 2026: Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2024), which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. More info>>
Our Poet Interviews
Read more about our most recent poet, Mark Wunderlich, in our exclusive KPS interview by Ann van Buren who read for us on Sunday, May 4 at 4PM in the Katonah Village Library.
And check out our other archived Poet Interviews for fascinating insights into other KPS poets over the years.
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