Poetry
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REAMS OF RHYMES
The Poets House Showcase, now in its 15th year, is a display of nearly every new book of poetry published in America. This year’s exhibit includes approximately 2,000 titles. Through Saturday, today-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Poets House, 72 Spring St., between Lafayette and Crosby streets, second floor, 212-431-7920, free.
GRASSY NIGHT
Poets and writers take place in a marathon reading of the complete 1855 edition of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” now in its sesquicentennial year. Readers include Frank Bidart, Wayne Koestenbaum, Marie Ponsot, and Jean Valentine.The editor of a new Oxford University Press reissue of the 1855 edition, David Reynolds, introduces the reading. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, 212-817-8215, $10 general, $5 seniors, members, teachers, and students.
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