Labeled “the best poetry venue” by such trendy publications as New York Magazine and Time Out New York, the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series has hosted over 500 poets in more than 200 readings since its inception in 1997. The list of past readers includes some of contemporary poetry’s foremost bards: John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Donald Hall, Rachel Hadas, Richard Howard, Marie Howe, Carolyn Kizer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Paul Muldoon, Sharon Olds, Alicia Ostriker, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, C. K. Williams, Molly Peacock, plus many others.