Upcoming Events

Left Bank Books presents Alice Quinn & Contributors - Together in a Sudden Strangeness, April 19 at 7 PM CDT, feat. Traci Brimhall & Dana Levin From the organizers: In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z—Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder—with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe,…

Diesel, A Bookstore presents Arthur Sze From the organizers: Join us on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:30 pm for a virtual event with with Arthur Sze in conversation with John Evans as they discuss The Glass Constellation:  New and Collected Poems.   Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/arthur-sze-in/register  

Lift Every Voice presents Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation, April 20 at 7 PM EDT, with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jones From the organizers: Join New York-based poets Mariposa Fernández (Bronx), LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Harlem) and Patricia Spears Jones (Brooklyn) to celebrate the publication of the Library of America’s history-making anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by Kevin Young, and their place within the Black poetic tradition. Register here: https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nHtK1zCtSOmmzkDd-Qxe8w

Cuirt International Festival of Literature presents Conversations on Craft, April 21 at 5 PM GMT, with Tishani Doshi From the organizers: Cúirt presents Conversations on Craft, a series of events to exercise the formal muscles of new and emerging writers at every stage of their development. A series of webinars with live Q&As, these events will see contemporary Irish writers take a forensic look at how some of the world’s best writers make their craft sing. These focused, illuminating discussions…

Lift Every Voice presents, April 21 at 6:30 PM EDT, The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes, with Kevin Young, Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James From the organizers: It was 100 years ago, in June 1921, that a young Langston Hughes published what would become one of his best-known poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” He moved that fall into New York’s predominantly African American Harlem neighborhood and became a towering figure in the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement,…

Bloodaxe Books presents Poetry Online, April 22 at 7 PM, with Tishani Doshi From the organizers: 7pm Free launch event on YouTube Live with Dom Bury and Jenna Clake. Hosted by Neil Astley, editor of Bloodaxe Books.   Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBrXaZ0wUw7JwdfrAvAbTUg

Pangyrus presents What Tells You Ripeness: Black Poets on Nature with Nikki Wallschlaeger From the organizers: Pangyrus is proud to present a collection of Black writing on nature, What Tells You Ripeness. Soliciting and selecting poets for the collection, guest poetry editor Nikki Wallschlaeger aims to continue the work of Camille T. Dungy’s anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, published in 2009. In Nikki’s words, “I think it’s important to highlight, during this time, that white supremacy and trauma are not the only…

From the organizers: "Panelists: Jericho Brown and Tracy K. Smith Join us for an unforgettable evening when we welcome these two beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poets in conversation to conclude Unbound's sixth festival." Access link will appear here: http://www.unboundbookfestival.com/keynote-event