Terrence Arjoon

One of the highlights of this year has been publishing my first full length poetry collection with @uglyducklingpresse . It was so fun working with @simoneoftunis @anneysa.gaille @acoldgobot on the book, and with Milo, @duckduck.chuck and Serena on the design. Even more fun reading at my favorite bookstores with my favorite poets.

Another Trains bedroom reading. April 23rd - 7pm Beadel st / Vandervoort ave — write to @itstrains or a writer for address. This one is a bit different. There will be poems, an excerpt from a longer ethnographic study, and the reading of a short play. I think it will be a little strange and very good. Work by: Terrence Arjoon @terrencearjoon Forrest Gillespie Joey Russo @joeyyyrussso Barrett White @dmvwifi Thank you everyone, thank you always.

Small Press Traffic presents a spring reading with Terrence Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. Join us for an evening of crossings between lyric and performance, body and text, dream and dispossession. These three poets bend tradition toward stranger, unruly forms, where wit, excess, and pressure on the line open new possibilities of address. Ebti, Jacob Kahn, and Kristen Nelson will offer introductions for the readers. 🎨 Matt Borruso, Arrangement #31 (detail) from the exhibition Pictures on view at Et al., 3/6–4/18, 2026

Due to the blizzard, we have decided to move tonight's reading with Terrence Arjoon + Marc Solomon to MONDAY 3/9. Stay safe and warm, we hope to see you then! Whether through translation or poetry, Marc Solomon and Terrence Arjoon bend language toward the ecstatic—states of writing and being suffused with dread and melancholy, edging into the sublime. Please join us for our first reading of the season! This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.

Hello, this is what I’ll be up to this month. I’m leading a workshop on editing strategies at UDP Studio next Saturday afternoon, then I’m zipping over to read at a secret location for the return of the Unnamed Reading Series. On Sunday I’ll read at Club Wonder, and the Friday after that I’ll read for The Mutt Art Review launch at Amant. I made a kale pasta and a pasta fagioli, and I’ve been listening to Celia Cruz and Lucha Reyes. I did not receive nor was i nominated for a National Book Award, but i enjoy the heft and feel of medals. I’m also rewatching Out 1, a film I’m completely obsessed with.

Join us on Friday, January 30 at 7 pm for an evening of readings by poets Terrence Arjoon (@terrencearjoon ), Aaron Fagan (@faganistic ), and Peter Spagnuolo (@spagnuolo.nyc ) 📚📖 The event is organized by the editors of Mutt Art Review (@mutt.nyc ), with poems by Fagan and Spagnuolo having appeared in their latest issue (Issue #2, Winter 2025). Mutt Art Review is a quarterly, print-only magazine featuring art criticism, essays, reviews, fiction, and artists’ writing. It covers art shown or made in NYC, is distributed locally and is available for delivery nationwide. Contributors to its first three issues (#0, #1 and #2) include: Barry Schwabsky, Kayode Ojo, Lucy Ives, Will Heinrich, John Yau, Darla Migan, Nikki Shaner-Bradford, Bob Nickas, Sunday Fall, Tif Sigfrids, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Martha Schwendener, and the late Walter Robinson. 🔗 Learn more about the program and RSVP by following the link in bio. #AmantNY

Join @terrencearjoon in the UDP studio for a one-day seminar exploring ways to hone and edit poems: "think of editing like musical arrangement." Saturday, January 24 from 3–6pm. Link in bio. For sliding scale, get in touch with us at office at uglyducklingpresse dot org ☁

Introducing UDP’s new and expanded workshops & seminars program! Each season, we’ll offer online and in-person workshops in our Brooklyn studio taught by UDP authors, editors, and staff. This winter, topics range from poetic eros to poetic editing to letterpress printing to sentence-crafting to fine-tuning book-length manuscripts. Correction: Rebekah Smith’s Eros ≥ Poetry is now January 31 – February 21, 11–1 ET ! Link in bio. Some are free, all are sliding scale—email office at uglyducklingpresse dot org to get a discount code.

Today, join us online at 6:30pm EST to hear Terrence Arjoon and Judah Rubin read from their recent books as part of the Global Reading for in Solidarity with Palestine. Link in bio. Thank you @pamenarpress and all the organizers for continuing this work every year 🧡 "On November 29-30, 2025, a coalition of independent presses, collaboratives, poets, writers, and translators will hold a 24-hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine. Readers and attendees are convening online. The reading begins with Palestinian poets in Palestine and follow the sun across the world. As one region rests, another will rise. Participants will share poems in their own languages, affirming the shared power of words and the ongoing work of resistance and solidarity. We remain committed to freedom of expression and stand with all who face violence and oppression. We invite friends, supporters, and allies to join the livestream at 15:00 Palestine time (EET) and renew the call for global solidarity through poetry, language, and collective witness. Join us live and hear writers from Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, East Africa, Albania, Kosovo, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Wales, Brazil, Turtle Island, Chile, Mexico, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Kurdish regions, Lebanon and many others gathering in one continuous shared space of resistance and solidarity."

Posting the CORRECT date for the final Disinherited reading, Friday 12/5 at @night_club_101 at 7pm. I’ll be reading with Mónica de la Torre, Tilghman Goldsborough, Aristilde Kirby, and Theadora Walsh, and there will be books for sale. the images after the flyer are some of my inspirations for the visual interjections in the book. If you know me, you know I’m unhealthily obsessed with Michael Mann’s 2006 remake of Miami Vice. There’s something intoxicating about the grainy digital image in that film, specifically this nighttime raid scene right before the climax. The other visual ear worm for me is the transmission from the future in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, which periodically punctuates the narrative of the film. This particular camera movement sometimes feels like it’s invaded my dreams, the future just off camera right. Anyway, see you at Nightclub 101, and drinks after at Funny Bar.

Mark yr calendars! The next Overflowing Poetry reading will be on November 22nd at Brickbat with @terrencearjoon , @d_o_u_g_l_a_s_d_o_u_g_l_a_s , and @glowing2ndvirginity . Very excited about it!!