Copper Canyon Press at AWP 2025

Copper Canyon Press looks forward to attending the in-person 2025 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference March 26-29. Here’s how to find the Press, our booth at #AWP25, and your favorite poets.

Copper Canyon Press Events at AWP 2025 Conference

Thursday (March 27)

 

Jericho Brown, Camille Rankine

9:00am–10:15pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Predictable Unpredictability: Celebrating the Poetry of Reginald Shepherd.

 

Paisley Rekdal

10:35am–11:50pm. Room 406AB, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.

Breaking Walls: Heirs of Angel Island Write Against the Anti-Chinese West.

 

Michael Wasson

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. 

 

Traci Brimhall

12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Not Cue Cards or Assignments: The Magic of Prompts in Poetry Workshops. 

 

Geoffrey Brock

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Twenty Years of Reimagining Place: An Ecotone Anniversary Reading.

 

Victoria Chang

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

When Words Are Not Enough: Graphic Literature & Diasporic Histories.

 

Patricia Spears Jones

12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Crowned with Laurels: The Role of the Poet Laureate in a Contemporary Age.

 

Geoff Bouvier

7:00pm–10:00pm. The Los Angeles Makery, 260 S Los Angeles St.

Black Lawrence Reading.

 

Friday (March 28)

 

Victoria Chang, Tyree Daye, Dean Rader

9:00am–10:15am. Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Eyes Wide: Exploring the Extended Ekphrastic.

 

Maurya Simon

10:00am–11:00am. Red Hen Press Booth.

Book Signing.

 

Camille Rankine

10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision.

 

Paisley Rekdal

10:35am–11:50pm. Room 503, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.

Can I Write That? At the Crossroads of Social Change & Conscious Language.

 

Kerry James Evans

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way. 

 

Patricia Spears Jones

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Sisterhood: Friendship, Feminism, Lineage & Perseverance.

 

Paisley Rekdal

12:30–1:30pm. W.W. Norton Booth.

Signing for Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens.

 

Diannely Antigua

1:45pm–3:00pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

How Do You Know When You’re Done? Poets on Revision. 

 

Michael Wasson

3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Excuse My Beauty: Queer Indigenous Poetics, Story & Time.

 

Christopher Soto

3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Literary Production During Authoritarian Governments. 

 

Tishani Doshi, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Michael Wiegers, and Shangyang Fang

3:20pm–4:35pm. Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Vacancies We Name: Poetry of Global Perspectives, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press.

 

Terry Ehret

5:00pm–7:oopm. Catcher in the Rye 10550 Riverside Drive Toluca Lake, CA 91602.

Celebrate 2025 Poetry Books from Sixteen Rivers Press.

 

Randall Mann

5:00pm–7:30pm. Precinct, 357 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013.

Unbound @ Precinct – a Queer Offsite Reading.

 

Diannely Antigua

6:00pm–7:30pm. Heavy Manners Library.

Luz y Carbón: an AWP Offsite Reading. 

 

Pádraig Ó Tuama

7:00pm–8:30pm. The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena.

The Slowdown Live.

 

Amanda Gunn

8:00pm–10:00pm. Sybilline Records, Pasadena.

Off-site reading with Dialogist.

 

Saturday (March 29)

 

Amanda Gunn

9:00am–10:15am. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.

Forms of Grief: The Craft of Writing Elegiac Poetry.

 

Dean Rader 

10:ooam–11:00am. Only Poems Table.

Book Signing of Beyond the Borderless.

 

Philip Metres and Pádraig Ó Tuama 

10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.

Spirit Work: Talking (with) Sacred Texts Through Poetry.

 

Forrest Gander, Shangyang Fang

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 407, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.

“Traduttore, Traditore!”: Poets on Translation.

 

Jennifer Chang

12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.

No Excerpts: On the Long Poem.

 

Pádraig Ó Tuama

12:30pm–1:30pm. Norton Booth 646.

Book Signing.

 

Maria Hummel

1:45pm–3:00pm. Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Middle March: Novel Writing’s Toughest Mile.

 

Sophie Cabot Black 

3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.

Resistance, Refusal, Silence & Life: When We Don’t Write.

 

Natalie Shapero, Jennifer Chang, Tyree Daye, Christopher Kondrich

5:00pm–6:00pm. R Bar in K Town. 

Off-site Reading with Southern Indiana Review.

 

Sunday (March 30)

 

Tishani Doshi

4:00pm–5:00pm. Wonzimer Gallery.

Windswept Artist Talk with Susan Ossman.

 

You can view the full conference schedule here.

Bookfair Booth

Copper Canyon Press’s booth will be located at Booth 418.