Good Neighbors
Honoring Poetry and Place - Reading and Workshop
The world is mad and we go on making. For reasons too thorny to mention, I have drafted a dozen posts and scrapped them since I came back from Spain. Now here we are on the edge of April, and I’m popping in to tell you about a reading and workshop happening this Sunday in Jackson Heights.
For the past week, WNYC has been doing promo spots during Morning Edition about their National Poetry Month programming. Each year, they come up with a theme for the month of April and invite listeners to respond. This year, WNYC, the Queens Public Library, and my QUEEENSBOUND project are joining forces to present a reading, workshop, and recording space in Jackson Heights on the 2026 theme “Good Neighbors.”
If you’re in the area, please stop by the Jackson Heights branch of the QPL (35-51 81st St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372) this Sunday, March 29, 2026 between 2-4 PM and hear from QUEENSBOUND Ed Board Members Pichchenda Bao, Jared Harél, Sherese Francis, and me about the project and for a workshop on writing about place. We’ll be sharing some of our favorite poems from across all four editions and will offer writing prompts to those who want to draft a poem on site. WNYC will be joining us and will have a recording booth set up between 2-4 PM to record poems.
The event is free and open to the public; RSVPs are recommended.
I hope to see you there. If we’ve learned nothing else from the lessons of the past while, it’s that we’re only as good as the people we keep close. Come by and say hello.
If you’re not in the area but want to submit a poem about the theme, tune into WNYC from 4/1 on to hear the poems already submitted and listen for submission instructions.
In the meantime, take good care of yourselves,
KC