Brooklyn Poets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization celebrating and cultivating the poets, poetry and literary heritage of Brooklyn, the birthplace of American poetry. Since our inception in 2012, our core program of small, intensive poetry workshops taught by award-winning poets in their own homes has served over 1000 students and employed over 40 teachers, and we’ve grown to host 22 regular events per year attracting over 1400 attendees annually, fostering a more homegrown, close-knit, diverse community of poets and readers than what we see traditionally offered by graduate writing programs and the American literary community at large. In 2015 we launched the Bridge (poetsbridge.org), the world’s first poetry network designed to connect poets and mentors, and in 2017 we published the landmark Brooklyn Poets Anthology, the first comprehensive anthology celebrating Brooklyn’s contemporary poets.