Our Services
Please peruse our services below and contact us for pricing. If you have an idea for a piece of writing, an event, installation, activation, workshop, performance, campaign, film, or other poetic media or activity that doesn’t quite fit into the categories below, we would also LOVE to discuss bringing your idea to life! Please contact us with your vision for a full quote.
Hire A Poet
The Poetry Society of New York specializes in bringing poets to public events, private parties, and commercial environments. Wielding vintage typewriters, our professional Typewriter Poets write spontaneous, customized poems for clients, employees, & guests to take home as meaningful mementos, personalized gifts, or party favors.
Looking for an immersive installation or activation at your event that’s a little outside the box? From art openings to corporate events, weddings to holiday parties, and birthdays to baby showers, there’s no event that isn’t enhanced by a Typewriter Poet!
PSNY’s Typewriter Poetry clients have included businesses like Free People, Opening Ceremony, Rag & Bone, The Macallan, and many more. As each of these companies have found, experiential marketing and interactive advertising help businesses truly connect with their clients. What better way to connect than through poetry?
For more information, or to book a Typewriter Poet, contact us below.
Poetry Performers
Looking to book entertainment for your public, private, digital, and/or corporate event? Our poets, performers, and other poetic practitioners are natural entertainers—always the most brilliant, gracious, and beguiling at the party. These poets incorporate character-driven elements into their performances, including costumes, props, improvised poems, divination, ceremonial offerings, sleight of hand, and other party tricks.
PSNY also works with a variety of artists, entertainers, and creatives—all working in different disciplines. If you are thinking of hiring an actor, musician, dancer, burlesque performer, aerialist, magician, visual artist, calligrapher, tarot reader, or other variety artist to perform at your private party, public performance, or corporate event, we know the best—and most literary—in the business.
To inquire about hiring one of our performers for your experience, please contact us below.
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Team Building
These workshops, virtual get-togethers, and outings are great for school groups; after-school programs; corporate outings; company retreats; office parties; community events; tourist groups; family get-togethers; and communities of all sorts looking to create tighter bonds and meaningful memories.
Our Most Popular: Emoji Poetry Workshop
Emoji Poetry may initially sound “like a post-ironic gimmick,” but PSNY’s Emoji Poetry Workshop remains one of its most popular services—and not just for the kitsch of those adorable hieroglyphs! Emojis are a unique cultural touchstone because they are a global language designed to convey emotion. That’s why Emojis make for such fantastic icebreakers—even between team members from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Emojis also provide a light-hearted, low-pressure entry point into writing poetry, an art form that many find intimidating.
PSNY’s Emoji Poetry Workshop asks participants to write collaborative emoji poems, to translate those poems individually into English, and to share their translations with the group. Cooperating to write emoji poems as a team requires creativity, spontaneity, and compromise—the ultimate group bonding exercise. Translating those emoji poems on one’s own creates a space for vulnerability and personal expression. Sharing individual translations inevitably leads to thoughtful conversations about language, culture, friends, family, process, bias, choice, and values.
Sample Workshops
“Tarot Poetics” with Stephanie Berger
“Poetry as Dream Mapping” with Jackie Braje
“Poetry as Connective Groundwork” with Jackie Braje
Sample Educational Presentations (Available for All Ages)
“Poetry in Motion in New York City” with Tova Greene
“The Poetic is Political” with Tova Greene
“How to Read (& Consequently Fall in Love with) a Poem” with Tova Greene
Private Events
A full service entertainment and event production company for both live and virtual events, The Poetry Society of New York specializes in art direction, design, and production of immersive, poetic performances, festivals, conferences, installations, parties, gatherings, outings, dates, virtual get-togethers, and other unique experiences. Our creative team has more than a decade of experience planning, designing, producing, staffing, and programming these sorts of happenings. Our company has hired and worked with hundreds of venues, poets, burlesque entertainers, circus performers, event vendors, and service providers over the years and can take those logistics off your hands in a matter of seconds. Contact us with your ideas, and we will bring them to life!
Commission A Poem
Are you wracking your brain for a unique and impactful gift idea for that writer or literature lover in your life this Valentine’s Day? Is your company launching a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day campaign that could use a little assonance or consonance?
If you have a poem you'd like written or edited, we've worked with dozens of corporate clients, including Adidas, Gilette, A&E Network, & Manhattan Mini Storage, to create the perfect poems for their commercials, ad campaigns, employee gifts bags, and product launches.
We have also worked with men, women, and everyone in between to craft meaningful, personalized poems for loved ones’ birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, weddings, proposals, graduations, memorials, and more!
If you’re looking for a handcrafted gift, PSNY can produce customized hard copies & ship them directly to the recipient. Would you like your poem typewritten & wax-sealed in a linen envelope? Of course you would! Delicately detailed packaging is our specialty.
