The Poetry Society of New York is a non-profit dedicated to promoting poetry within our culture. The society accomplishes its mission by creating engaging, one-of-a-kind experiences of poetry; by building meaningful partnerships in the worlds of art, literature, & business; & by fostering healthy & progressive poetry communities in cities across the globe. A few of our many projects include The New York City Poetry Festival, The Poetry Brothel, The Typewriter Project, Micro-Residencies, Typewriter Poets, and so on.

Launched in 2018 with Stephanie Berger, Milk Press merges the poetry and visual art worlds by cultivating and presenting exclusively collaborative works. We publish poems and visual art both in print and online, and host multi-disciplinary Happenings as well as weekly virtual workshops. Our projects are fluid, nourishing, embodied; spilt and split-open.

To get a sense of who we are and what we do, check out our blog Spilt Milk, sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Instagram, and submit your work.

Since 2016, she’s been performing with The Poetry Brothel— an immersive literary cabaret that fuses poetry, activism, vaudeville, burlesque, live music, visual art, magic, mysticism, and crosses the threshold of poetic intimacy.

When New York City shutdown in March 2020 due to Covid-19 and we were all isolating in our apartments, Kate Belew began writing poems with Emi Bergquist and Jackie Braje via e-mail. They went line for line every morning and sent it back and forth, sharing their work online. Suddenly, strangers from all across the city, then the country, and then the world began reaching out and asking to write email poems with them, too. It all culminated into a project colloquially called “Pandemic Poems.”

Outside the Orb of Poetry Jackie is also a freelance editor, arts educator, adjunct English professor, and Kate Bush enthusiast.