Sluts for Sonnets

​Join us for our first edition of Sluts for Sonnets, our new poetry book club and workshop presented by Hoes For Prose. For our first meeting, we will be reading The Best American Poetry 2024 collection curated by David Lehman and Mary Jo Salter. Following the discussion there will be writing exercises and opportunities to read our works to one another. We will be meeting at Selva, a bar, cafe, and gallery in Bushwick, offering a cozy and intimate setting for us to dive into poetry with one another. Whether you're a seasoned poet or have always wanted to get into a good collection of poetry, we invite all appreciators of verse to join us for Sluts for Sonnet on Tuesday April 15!

​About The Best American Poetry 2024:

​"Mary Jo Salter's 2024 volume fizzes with the potential of debut poets, the sprezzatura of journeyman accomplishment, and the depth of old masters. Intriguingly, Salter singles out a number of longer poems for inclusion, I think putting her finger on a recent trend. As the series initially intended, we get a generous survey of what is happening in American poetry today, and a sense of whence (journals) and by whom (poets) the best work is coming. Unlike some prominent American poetry magazines, we also have a sense of the editor's (Salter's) idiosyncratic taste and aesthetic, which is wide ranging, but focused on craft rather than, say, identity or political orthodoxy."

​— A. E. Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry