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March 2021
Iowa State University presents Monday Monologue with Jennifer Knox
Iowa State University presents Monday Monologue, March 1 at 12 PM - 1 PM EST, with Jennifer Knox From the organizers: ISU’s Monday Monologue series presents a livestream reading with Jennifer L. Knox. This reading will be accessible on Zoom; it’s free and open to the public. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoUfZ4bSstnfkw4LF2R5-Q/featured
Find out more »The 2021 Tomás Rivera Conference presents A Reading & Conversation with Javier Zamora
From the organizers: Our theme for the Fall 2020 conference seeks to explore, challenge, and interrogate the myriad ways in which activism—in all its forms—influences the production and consumption of art from various mediums (writing, visual art, film, music, performance). We hope to open up dialogues and lines of communication between a cross-section of artists of various disciplines in order to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which art and activism continually intersect and overlap, challenge and inspire. …
Find out more »The New School presents Poetry Forum with Erin Belieu
The New School presents Poetry Forum with Erin Belieu From the organizers: The New School's Creative Writing Program curates a series of forums and special events throughout the academic year, featuring new and established writers. The forums in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Writing for Children & YA, explore work from a writerly perspective, featuring a reading, a moderated discussion, and a Q&A with the audience. The program also hosts a variety of literary events in partnership with organizations like The…
Find out more »TYR presents Writing in an Age of Crisis with Jericho Brown
TYR presents Writing in an Age of Crisis, March 4 at 7 PM EST with Jericho Brown From the organizers: As part of a new series on craft, “TYR Talks,” the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner will read and talk about the craft of writing poetry—and his current work—with Meghan O’Rourke and Roger Reeves of The Yale Review. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15QtYsqGmR8JvMwkmG4lak7DyzL7zek0PiIaUxFF4_VQ/viewform?edit_requested=true&gxids=7628
Find out more »Bootleg Reading Series presents Leila Chatti & others
Bootleg Reading Series presents, March 4 at 8 PM ET, Leila Chatti & others From the organizers: Autumn House Press + Bull City Press + Four Way Books present Michael Bazzett, Susan Buttenweiser, Leila Chatti, Cynthia Cruz, John Foy, Matthew Lippman, T..J. McLemore, Hadley Moore, John Murillo, M. Randal O’Wain, Ed Pavlic, Abigail Wender, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Lori Wilson Register here: https://bootlegreadingseries.com/zoom-links/
Find out more »Hugo House presents Writing the Duplex with Jericho Brown
From the organizers: In this 90-minute class, Jericho Brown will lead students through an exercise for writing a duplex poem — a form he invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. Each student should bring 14 disparate lines of 9–11 syllables to class. Lines may be from sentences of the student’s own prose or lines from poems that haven’t worked. No two lines have to be from the same source or time. Each student should come to…
Find out more »Shyft presents Stubborn Praise: An Evening Celebrating Here and Now with Ellen Bass
Shyft presents Stubborn Praise: An Evening Celebrating Here and Now, March 9th at 6 PM MT, with Ellen Bass From the organizers: Join us for a special edition of Stubborn Praise! Invite yourself to an evening of poetry that wholly meets the moment, its losses and fears, and helps us also to see small kindnesses, stubborn blessings, and renegade beauty. After the readings will be conversation harvested from questions and comments in Zoom chat. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_InhO9UERRQyv3HLmITTChw?timezone_id=America%2FDenver
Find out more »Loyola University Chicago presents War, Peace, and the Catholic Imagination with Philip Metres & Phil Klay
Loyola University Chicago presents War, Peace, and the Catholic Imagination, March 11 from 4 PM - 5:30 PM CST, with Philip Metres & Phil Klay From the organizers: Featuring national book award winning novelist Phil Klay and multiple award winning poet Philip Metres discussing how violence, warfare, and oppression are mediated through an imagination that knows the profound failure of such human endeavors. Register here: https://luc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlce2vrDgsHNzKpFR5WTYzGBWbfiAPGiIE
Find out more »HOME: Poetry Reading and Open Mic Series presents Monica Sok
From the organizers: The theme, HOME, is born out of our current space, time, crisis, and future-shaping. What does home mean? What isn’t home? Who is lacking home? Now that we are all home so much, how do we like our homes? Ourselves? Our families? What is home, in the literal and figurative sense? Is the body a type of home? How so? Is a poem a type of home? How do we integrate this into content and craft? Register…
Find out more »Poetry Center San Jose presents Virtual – Third Thursdays with Ellen Bass and Barbara Ras
Poetry Center San Jose presents Virtual - Third Thursdays, March 18, 7 PM - 9 PM PST, with Ellen Bass and Barbara Ras From the organizers: Poetry Center San José's mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience. This event will be happening live through Zoom. Registered participants will receive an email with the Zoom log-in information on the day of the event before the…
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