Copper Canyon Press

Bennington Writers Reading Series: Summer 2025
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-13 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
From the organizers: Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program’s summer residency.
This series is open to the public and will be available to stream virtually. The complete schedule of readings can be found at the link below, along with streaming links.
https://www.bennington.edu/events/event-series/writers-reading-series-summer-2025

Jennifer Chang, Rachel Cohen, and Rebecca Makkai
Thursday, Jun 5
Tishman Lecture Hall

Peter Cameron, Bianca Stone, and De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Friday, Jun 6
Tishman Lecture Hall

Monica Ferrell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA ’23
Saturday, Jun 7
Tishman Lecture Hall

Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D’Erasmo, and Craig Morgan Teicher
Sunday, Jun 8
Tishman Lecture Hall

Alumni Fellows Reading: Davin Malasarn MFA ’20 and Nina Peláez MFA ’24
Monday, Jun 9
Tishman Lecture Hall

‘Pemi Aguda and Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Monday, Jun 9
Tishman Lecture Hall

Brian Dillon, Hugh Ryan MFA ’09, and Taymour Soomro
Wednesday, Jun 11
Tishman Lecture Hall

Garrard Conley, Thomas Grattan, and Lance Richardson
Thursday, Jun 12
Tishman Lecture Hall

Randall Mann and Dinaw Mengestu
Friday, Jun 13
Tishman Lecture Hall

Poetry & Sex in Public Places: A Celebration of Mutsuo Takahashi’s “Ode”
2025-08-10 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kerouac Alley, Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA, United States
From the organizer:
This event will be held in Kerouac Alley, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe. Admision is Free. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.

A tribute to Mutsuo Takahashi, one of Japan’s most prominent living poets. With Randall Mann and D. A. Powell – This event will be held in Kerouac Alley, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe. Admision is Free. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis.

San Francisco poets Randall Mann and D. A. Powell will be reading selections from contemporary Japanese poet Mutsuo Takahashi, whose one-thousand line “Ode” is an erotic and devotional masterpiece of queer literature that has been furtively shared among gay poets for decades. The poem takes as its central occasion felatio in liminal spaces where the possibility of discovery quickens the heart. Powell and Mann will read selections from the long poem in Jack Kerouac Alley (and invite guest readers to participate in the divine verses.)
D.A. Powell’s books include Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys and Repast, both from Graywolf Press. He teaches at University of San Francisco.
Randall Mann is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Deal: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2023). He lives in San Francisco.
Mutsuo Takahashi is one of Japan’s most prominent living poets, having won almost every major poetry prize in the nation. Takahashi has published forty-eight books of poetry and countless volumes of poetry, essays, and literary criticism. Five collections of his poetry are available in English translation: Poem of a Penisist (Chicago Review Press, 1975, reprinted University of Minnesota Press, 2012), A Bunch of Keys (The Crossing Press, 1984), Sleeping, Sinning, Falling (City Lights, 1992), Two Shores (Dedalus, 2006), and We of Zipangu (Arc Publication, 2007). His memoir Twelve Views from the Distance (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), translated by Jeffrey Angles, was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Takahashi presently lives in the seaside city of Zushi, ten kilometers to the south of Yokohama.
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation

A Poetry Reading with Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Smith College
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall (Smith College)
In honor of her new book, The New Economy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi will be reading poetry on the Smith College campus Tuesday, September 30th from 7pm-8:30pm in Weinstein Auditorium. This event us free and open to the public. A livestream also available on the BDPC YouTube page.

The 2025 Pegasus Awards Reading
2025-10-24 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
The Poetry Foundation hosts this special reading as an opportunity to hear from the recipients of the 2025 Pegasus Awards, a set of prizes established by the Poetry Foundation. The reading, and winners of this years prizes, feature Rigoberto González (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize), Amy Stolls (Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry), and Kazim Ali (Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism for the book Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton).

The event will be held in person, October 24, 2025 from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM at Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654.
The venue is ADA accessible with ASL interpreters.

U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE'S Inaugural Reading at the Library of Congress
2025-12-11 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, 10 First Street, SE Washington, DC, 20540, United States
RESCHEDULED: U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will open his tenure on December 11, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET with an inaugural reading at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
To register for your FREE tickets, click here.

Words Bridging Worlds: Community Workshop on Translating Poetry with U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE and Collected Works Bookstore
2026-01-07 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix) | Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United Kingdom
Join us for a workshop on translation hosted by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and Collected Works Bookstore!
This event will take place at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Event capacity is 15 registrants, so please reserve your FREE spot today! Click here to register.

Michael Bazzett in Conversation With Maggie Smith
2026-03-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Queermunity, 3036 Hennepin Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Join Stern Prize winner Michael Bazzett and Maggie Smith for an evening conversation and celebration of Smith’s brand new poetry collection, A Suit or a Suitcase!
Tickets are selling quickly! To reserve your spot, click here.
