Copper Canyon Press at AWP 2026

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***Visit Copper Canyon Press at Booths 1038 and 1040***

 

Wednesday, March 4th

 

Leila Chatti, Victoria Chang, and Paisley Rekdal

7:00 pm | Baltimore National Aquarium 

The Moon Jelly Reading

 

Thursday, March 5th

 

Geoffrey Brock

9:00–10:15 am | Room 326, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

The Anthony Hecht Prize: A Twentieth-Anniversary Reading

 

***Leila Chatti***

10:30–11:30 am | Copper Canyon Press Booth, #1038 and #1040

Author Signing: Wildness Before Something Sublime

 

Niki Herd

10:35–11:50 am | Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Born-Digital Poetry: Planning for the Future of Literary Archives

 

Patricia Spears Jones

5:30–7:00 pm | The Walters Art Museum

Women of a Certain Rage: Poems for People and the Planet

 

Leila Chatti

6:00–9:00 pm | Pratt Street Ale House

Reading and Happy Hour from SMU English’s Project Poëtica and Deep Vellum Publishing

 

Michael Bazzett

7:00 pm | Checkerspot Brewing 

Blair Publisher, Bull City Press, Greensboro Review, and Thirdhand Books Reading

 

Friday, March 6th

 

Philip Metres

9:0010:15 am | Room 328, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Poetry & the Sacred

 

Geoff Bouvier

10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Black Lawrence Press Booth, #650 and #652

Individual poem consultations

 

***Kelli Russell Agodon***

10:30–11:30 am | Copper Canyon Press Booth, #1038 and #1040

Author Signing: Accidental Devotions

 

Natalie Eilbert and Jennifer Chang

10:3511:50 am | Room 326, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

The Third Book of Poetry

 

Randall Mann

10:3511:50 am | Room 302, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Said & Unsaid: Crafting Silence in Poetry

 

***Christopher Kondrich***

1:30–2:30 pm | Copper Canyon Press Booth, #1038 and #1040

Author Signing: Tread Upon

 

Jennifer Chang

1:45–3:00 pm | Room 316, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Hard to Get: How Queer & BIPOC Poets Use Allusions to (Re)write the Culture

 

Philip Metres

1:453:00 pm | Room 328, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Slow Down: Patience, Poetry & Poets

 

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Richard Siken, and Michael Wiegers

Lit Partner Event

3:20–4:35 pm | Ballroom II, Level 400, Baltimore Convention Center

Half of the Birdsong: Poetry Working Toward Personal Truth, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press

 

Kelli Russell Agodon

3:204:35 pm | Room 326, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Widening the Bridge of Ekphrasis: Writing the Saturation Poem

 

 

Saturday, March 7th

 

***Natalie Scenters-Zapico***

10:30–11:30 am | Copper Canyon Press Booth, #1038 and #1040

Author Signing: My Perfect Cognate

 

Randall Mann

10:35–11:50 am | Room 301, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Poetry at the Intersection of Science, Ethics & Care

 

***Michael Bazzett***

1:30–2:30 pm | Copper Canyon Press Booth, #1038 and #1040

Author Signing: Cloudwatcher

 

Victoria Chang

1:45–3:00 pm | Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

Poetics, Politics, and Ethics of Memory, Imagination, and Mourning in the Elegy

 

Geoffrey Brock

5:30 pm | 2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

The Hopkins Review and Writing Seminars Reading and Reception

 

Diannely Antigua

5:30–7:00 pm | Charm City Books 

Critical Poetics of Suicide for Queer and Trans People of Color

 

Michael Bazzett

7:00 pm |  Fadensonnen Wine Bar

A Milkweed Offsite Reading and Celebration