TYPEWRITER POETRY
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.
Immersive Installations for Every Occasion
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! Our poets create a unique and memorable experience, captivating your guests with the art of spontaneous poetry.
Services Offered
Event Typewriter Poetry: Perfect for weddings, corporate events, parties, and more.
Commission-a-Poem: Personalized poems for special occasions, gifts, or keepsakes.
Poetry Installations: Unique poetic experiences tailored to your event theme.
How It Works
Our poets arrive at your event with vintage typewriters, ready to create on-the-spot, personalized poems based on prompts from your guests. The process is engaging and interactive, allowing guests to see their thoughts and feelings transformed into beautiful, tangible poetry.
Trusted by Top Brands
PSNY’s Typewriter Poetry clients have included businesses like Free People, Opening Ceremony, Rag & Bone, The Macallan, and many more. As these companies have discovered, experiential marketing and interactive advertising help businesses truly connect with their clients. What better way to connect than through poetry? Each poem is a personal touch that leaves a lasting impression.
Client Testimonials
PSNY's team is WONDERFUL! For the second year, everyone was lovely to work with and a pleasure to have onsite... I will absolutely be in touch for any opportunities for us to work together again. — Melissa Mullaney, RRD
“PSNY's creativity and warmth with our tenants was incredible. Everyone absolutely loved their poems.” — Aysia Centeno, Industrious
“PSNY's Typewriter Poet was amazing! Everyone was really thrilled with [their] work. [They] are very talented and were so warm and fun to work with.” — Kari Mulholland, Pioneer Works
"[PSNY's Typewriter Poet] was a complete treasure! Everyone loved her and her beautiful poems. As you may have expected, people got very excited to have their chance for a poem, and she stayed until about 11pm to accommodate them all... We will surely do this again!” — Laura Desmarais
Sample Typewriter Poems
Meet Our Typewriter Poets
Cierra Martin is a Brooklyn based poet and producer. As the host of the poetry interview series There's A Lot to Unpack Here, Cierra facilitates live honest and educational discussion of all things poetry and writing practice. Her writing is rooted in what it means to hold and let go of memories and how to leave things better than you found them. She loves tattoos and thinks that everyone should spend a day on Staten Island.
Cierra Martin
Kindall Gant is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation through themes of home, heritage and history, bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem and Ma's House among other arts institutions. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in TORCH, the 1619 Speaks anthology, Brooklyn Poets, Milk Press, Obsidian, and Polemical Zine. You can find more of their work at kindallgant.com.
Kindall Gant
Fi (F.M Papaz) is a Greek-Australian poet who moved to New York for love and has loved staying to build a life here. Her chapbook Distance Makes the Heart Grow (Feb, 2024) is about conquering the 10,000 mile long-distance relationship that brought her here. Her poems have been published in literary magazines in the United States and Australia and she currently serves as the Managing Editor of PSNY's journal Milk Press. She takes joy in crafting typewriter poems that are timeless and pure, speaking to the heart of their addressee in a way that can be cherished for years to come. Find her @fmpapaz on social media or her website fmpapaz.com.
Fi (F.M Papaz)
Anna Genevieve Winham writes at the crossroads of science and the sublime, cyborgs and the surreal. Anna serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Passengers Journal and the Development Director for the Poetry Society of New York. She was formerly the Journal Coordinator for Oxford Public Philosophy, and she won Ninth Letter's 2020 literary award in Literary Nonfiction for a "notable" essay in Best American Essays 2021. Anna writes and performs with PSNY, moonlighting as Velvet Envy in The Poetry Brothel. Her prose appears or is forthcoming in We'll Have to Pass, Brooklyn Magazine, The Oxford Review of Books, Grist Journal, Meetinghouse Magazine online, and others. You can find her poetry in New York Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, High Shelf Press, Cathexis Northwest Press, and others. While attending Dartmouth College (which was the pits), she won the Stanley Prize for experimental essay and the Kaminsky Family Fund Award.
Anna Genevieve Winham
Pierce Logan is a poet and teacher based in NJ. He has been serving the public typewriter poetry via QWERT Poetry since 2015. Besides custom on-demand poetry, Pierce also offers Type-Ins regularly at public libraries, creating an opportunity for others to use his collection of machines.
Pierce Logan
Jacqueline Farrara is a poet of image and form, weaving language and light into sculptural dreams. Based in Kingston, NY, with a satellite studio in Castown, OH, she moves between worlds—photography, film, poetry, sculpture, and letterpress storytelling—blurring their edges into something intimate and timeless. Born in 1990 to a lineage of celebrated artists, Jacqueline penned her first poem at the age of eight, a spark that has since ignited a life devoted to artistic alchemy. Her work transforms photographs into immersive, tactile landscapes—greatly enlarged, abstracted prints that evolve into installations, sculptures, and living stories. In the warm months, she can be found busking poetry in Woodstock, NY, offering verses to strangers like love letters to the fleeting moment. Deeply inspired by her grandmother, a renowned Ukrainian artist, Jacqueline’s work is a love affair with tradition and raw reality. She speaks in the language of impermanence, where longing, beauty, and the certainty of loss entwine. Nature and architecture become her co-conspirators, as her installations breathe, shift, and invite the world to step inside the poetry of the ephemeral.
Jacqueline Farrara
Emi Bergquist (she/her) is a Brooklyn based poet, performer, and content creator. Emi has been a poet with the Poetry Society of New York since 2015. Her has work published in literary journals including What Rough Beast, Oxford Public Philosophy, Oroboro, Passengers Journal, For Women Who Roar, Noctua Review, In Parentheses, and others. When not reading or writing poetry, she prefers to spend most of her time at the park with her dog.
Emi Bergquist
Tova Greene (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based producer and poet-person. As Programs Director of The Poetry Society of New York, Creative Director of The New York City Poetry Festival, and an Editorial Director of Milk Press, they create immersive spaces that prioritize accessibility, collaboration, and artistic experimentation. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, their work is rooted in anticapitalist thought and deeply engaged with both ancient and contemporary poetic traditions. Their writing—often examining power, desire, and identity—has been featured in Eunoia Review, Midway Journal, West Trade Review, and others. Their debut collection, lilac on the damned's breath (Bottlecap Press, 2022), grapples with the cyclical nature of grief.
Tova Greene
Danielle Lisa Bero is a poet, educator, and storyteller whose life is a tapestry of creativity, activism, and transformation. A Fulbright Scholar, Posse Foundation graduate, and MFA recipient from the University of San Francisco, Danielle has built her career around blending education with artistry. From co-founding a school for foster youth to serving as principal of a Brooklyn high school, she has dedicated herself to uplifting marginalized voices and fostering spaces where students thrive. Her writing, published in Highlights, Juked, Lavender Review, and Ghost City Press weaves together themes of identity, elasticity, and social justice. Danielle is also the screenwriter and director of Fruit Loops, her debut short film. When she's not coaching school leaders or crafting new curricula, you'll find her running poetry workshops, leading empowerment programs for young girls, or dreaming up ways to bring art and education to the forefront of everyday life. Follow her journey at @BeroQueensPoet or visit www.DanielleBero.com
Danielle Lisa Bero
Kennedy Garza Brown published their poetry in Impostor Lit, Livina Press, and others. They are active within the Poetry Society of New York as a workshop leader and member. Kennedy received their BFA in creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and relentlessly pursues the expansion of their craft. Their work focuses on capturing the minute experiences that have rustled their soul. Born and raised in Texas, Kennedy is currently based out of New York City.
Kennedy Garza Brown
Allison Sylvia is a poet, artist, dancer, and special education teacher. Allison has performed - from Hypatia Rose Wonderland to all:OM labia - and helped to produce the set since 2016 - from the Backroom and the House of Yes, to helping to build a hotel and blackbox theater at Electric Forest. The Poetry Brothel and Poetry Society of New York have given Allison wings and continue to provide the grounds to explore identity and self. It is an honor to get to set the sacred space.
Allison Sylvia
Madi Zins (she/they) is from Catonsville, Maryland and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Madi is interested in intersectional, ecofeminist poetics. Her poems have been published in Quail Bell Magazine, MUSE Literary Journal, and Antigravity Magazine. This year she received an honorable mention for the Holden Vaughn Spangler Award and was a semifinalist for the Poetry Broadside Contest with lmnl lit.
Madi Zins
Dylan Gilbert (she/her) is a poet, editor, and educator from Michigan. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Maine Review, So to Speak Journal, Black Warrior Review, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere.
Dylan Gilbert
Ahmed Elguindi is a New York based poet and writer. He is currently studying at the City College of New York where he will obtain his Masters Degree in Creative Writing. Many of Ahmed's influences are poets of the 20th century such as Frank O'Hara and Elizabeth Bishop. He is drawn to their analysis of their environments and of themselves. Something Ahmed writes about frequently. Aside from poetry, he offers his musings on his blog, The Barista Chronicles on Substack where he writes about traveling, food and sometimes a dissection of the self.
Ahmed Elguindi
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations, and she loves a celebration involving on-the-spot poetry. Her own poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife, and her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. http://www.christinamrau.com
Christina M. Rau
Jackie Braje is a Brooklyn based poet, a friend of poets, educator, and arts administrator. She serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Poetry Society of New York, a 501(c)-3 non-profit that produces a number of initiatives to make poetry culturally relevant, fun, and inclusive. She also serves as the Managing Director of the New York City Poetry Festival, a free, annual event on Governors Island that attracts upwards of 14,000 poets & poetry lovers each year. With Stephanie Berger, she co-founded Milk Press—the publishing arm of PSNY— and serves as the Editorial Director. She teaches workshops at Poets House, and she received her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, where she also teaches as an adjunct poetry & creative writing professor.
Jackie Braje
Chelsea Rae Mize (she/her) is a poet and screenwriter living in New York. She wrote her first story when she was six, called “My World: The Life of a Cat.” It was a tragedy. Then a bunch of other stuff happened, she went to Duke, moved to LA, then eventually to New York. That whole time, she’s kept writing, and she’s also done many other odd jobs too. Like what, you ask? Oh you know, interviewing plastic surgeons, working as an online matchmaker, teaching yoga to children, that kinda thing. She’s sold scripts to CBS, Nickelodeon, Sony, and some other places. She spent two years writing a poem every day based on her Wordle guesses (and getting other people to do it too!) because poetry can be funny and weird and everyone has at least one poem in them, even if they don’t think they so. She also makes poetry and art zines and leaves them around the city in surprising places… maybe you’ll find one.
Chelsea Rae Mize