John Freeman Reading & Conversation with Su Hwang & Michael Kleber-Diggs
2023-03-06 07:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
From the Organizers:
“Please join us on Monday, March 6th at 7:00pm for a free, in-person, masked event at Moon Palace Books to welcome poet, essayist, editor, and literary critic John Freeman, who will be reading from his recent third poetry collection, WIND, TREES, published with Copper Canyon Press in October 2022.
He will be joined by Twin Cities-based poets Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs for a reading and conversation about poetry and literary activism. There will also be time for audience Q&A with John Freeman.
Formerly the Executive Editor of Literary Hub, John Freeman co-edited with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith the anthology THERE’S A REVOLUTION OUTSIDE, MY LOVE, which included essays by Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs, following the murder of George Floyd.”
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store. Social Distancing is encouraged.**

Reading with John Freeman and Stuart Dybek at Volumes Bookstore
2023-03-07 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Volumes Bookstore, 900 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us at Volumes Bookstore on March 7th as we welcome back poet, critic, and writer John Freeman to read from his new collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press, Wind, Trees. John will be joined in conversation with one of Chicago’s most beloved writers/poets/educators, Stuart Dybek.”

Victoria Chang at Pacific Lutheran University Visiting Writers Series
2023-03-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC, Anderson University Center, Room #100, Tacoma, WA, 98447, United States
Pacific Lutheran University’s 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series will host poet Victoria Chang at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Room #100. This live reading is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.

Orion Magazine Presents: A Reading with John Freeman
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, OH, 44120, United States
From the organizers:
“Orion Magazine contributing writer, John Freeman, author, poet, executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and founder of the literary journal Freeman’s will be making a stop in Cleveland on his tour of independent books stores.
Join us at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes on Wednesday, March 8th at 7 pm for a refreshing and invigorating conversation between John Freeman and Literary Cleveland’s executive director, Matt Weinkam. Books will be available at the event courtesy of Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry or stop by the store to pick up a copy of Freeman’s poetry collection, Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon 2022), Tales of Two Planets, a collection of essays focusing on inequality and the climate crisis, and the recent Freeman’s anthology, Animals. Mac’s Backs will be donating a portion of profits to the Nature Center. This event is sponsored by Orion Magazine in partnership with the Nature Center. This is a free public program and donations to the Nature Center are welcome. Registration is required.”
Register here: https://shakerlakes.doubleknot.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-matt-weinkam/2964999

Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Celebration at Elliott Bay Book Company
2023-03-11 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Poetry is vital to language and living. Based in Port Townsend, Washington, Copper Canyon Press is a nationally recognized publisher dedicated to advancing the art, practice, and reading of poetry from around the world. 2023 marks a half century of its efforts in doing so—to celebrate this 50th anniversary, Copper Canyon will host a reading of poets who stand at the crossroads of poetry’s past and future. Coinciding with the AWP conference in Seattle, this reading takes advantage of a rare consortium of extraordinary poets, many of whom are convening for the first time since the pandemic, and all of whom will be presenting new or recent work.
Deborah Landau’s newest collection of poems, Skeletons, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Landau is the author of four other poetry collections: Soft Targets—winner of the Believer Book Award—The Uses of the Body, The Last Usable Hour, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and a Spanish edition of the collection, Los Usos Del Cuerpo, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. Landau is a professor at New York University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.
Dana Levin’s latest collection of poems, Now Do You Know Where You Are, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022, and was named a New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2022.” Levin is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently Banana Palace (2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Levin’s fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives.
Jaswinder Bolina’s newest collection of poems, English as a Second Language and Other Poems, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2023. His previous books include his debut essay collection Of Color and three other full-length poetry collections, The 44th of July (Omnidawn 2019), Phantom Camera (New Issues Press 2013, winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry), and Carrier Wave (CLP 2007, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry). His essays have been featured at the Washington Post, Paris Review, Shenandoah, The Believer, the Poetry Foundation, and others. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Miami.
Marianne Boruch’s latest poetry collection, Bestiary Dark, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Her ten previous collections include Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (2016), Cadaver, Speak (2014), The Book of Hours (2011), a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, and The Anti-Grief (2019). She has also published a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana, 2011) and three books of essays–In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005) and in the Michigan Poets on Poetry series, Poetry’s Old Air (1995) and The Little Death of Self (2016). Her works have appeared in numerous places, including The New Yorker and The Best American Poetry, and has received Pushcart Prizes. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, she has had residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, the American Academy in Rome, Djerassi, the Anderson Center, and two national parks, Denali and Isle Royale. A 2019 Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra, Australia, and a 2012 Fulbright Professor at the University of Edinburgh, she founded Purdue University’s MFA in 1987. Having taught at Purdue for over three decades, Boruch has gone emeritus, though she continues on faculty (since 1988) in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College. She and her husband, David Dunlap, live in West Lafayette, Indiana where they raised their son.
Dean Rader’s newest book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. His previous book, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (2017), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Rader is also the author of Works & Days, which won the 2010 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bush Memorial Prize, and won the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Often engaging in collaborative projects, Rader is the co-author of a book of collaborative sonnets entitled Suture with the poet Simone Muench, and he co-edited Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence with Brian Clements and Alexandra Teague.
Randall Mann’s newest book, Deal: New and Selected Poems, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Mann is the author of five previous books of poetry: Complaint of the Garden, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Straight Razor, Proprietary, and A Better Life. Recipient of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize awarded by Poetry magazine, Mann is also author of The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, a book of literary criticism. Three-time finalists for the Lambda Literary Award, Mann’s poetry collections have been shortlisted for the California Book Award and Northern California Book Award, and longlisted for the Golden Poppy Awards’ Martin Cruz Diversity and Inclusion Award.
Taneum Bambrick’s latest collection of poems, Intimacies, Received, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Bambrick is also the author of Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (APR 2019). Her chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her essay, “Sturgeon,” was named a notable essay of 2019. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Nation, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, PEN, and elsewhere. She has received a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Environmental Writers’ Conferences. A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, and Co-Book Reviews Editor for Pleiades Magazine.
Natalie Eilbert’s newest collection of poems, Overland, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Eilbert is the author of two previous poetry collections, Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018), winner of the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of the prize-winning chapbooks And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (2014) and Conversations with the Stone Wife (2014). Her works engage with systemic power imbalances, social and environmental justice, and climate change, and a selection of her poems was granted the 2021 George Bogin Memorial Award. Founding editor of The Atlas Review, she is the recipient of a 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She lives in Wisconsin where she contributes to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA TODAY as a local government and mental health reporter.
Cate Marvin’s latest collection of poems, Event Horizon, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022. Her first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, for which she received a Whiting Award, was published by Sarabande in 2007. Her third book of poems, Oracle, published by W.W. Norton & Co., was named one of the best poetry books of 2015 by The New York Times. Marvin teaches poetry writing in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Scarborough, Maine.

Reading and Conversation with John Freeman and Wil Weitzel
2023-03-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Avenue, New York, 11217
From the organizers:
“The Center for Fiction is pleased to welcome John Freeman and our Emerging Writer Fellowship alum, Wil Weitzel, for the launch of Nights from This Galaxy, Weitzel’s debut set of deep, lush short stories that are full of wonder; the collection’s tales range from a couple that cares for a starving lion to a boy held captive by a dangerous old man who hunts dogs for sport. The literary duo will explore the craft of fiction, the work’s fierce characters, and our shared human fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.”
Register here: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story-wil-weitzel-on-nights-from-this-galaxy-with-john-freeman/

Austin Peay State University Presents an Evening with Victoria Chang
2023-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Heydel Hall at Austin Peay State University, 730 Joseph St (Jackson Alley), Clarksville, TN, 37040, United States
From the organizers:
“The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Victoria Chang on March 22, from 7:00 pm–9:00 pm in Heydel Hall, located inside the APSU Art + Design building.
As funded by the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence, the evening will feature Chang in a live reading, followed by a public Question & Answer session and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments served. Copies of her books will be available for purchase.”

Poetry Foundation Presents Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Reading with Chris Abani, Tishani Doshi, Alison C. Rollins, Arthur Sze, and Javier Zamora
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us for the Chicago celebration of Copper Canyon Press’s 50th Anniversary with readings by Copper Canyon authors Chris Abani, Tishani Doshi, Alison C. Rollins, Arthur Sze, and Javier Zamora.
This is a hybrid event, which will be offered in-person and via livestream. It will take place onThursday, March 23, 2023, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM.
In-Person Attendance
All guests over the age of two must wear a mask inside the Poetry Foundation building. Guests over the age of five must show proof of vaccination and booster up to the level to which they are eligible for their age group. Guests over the age of 18 must show ID alongside their proof of vaccination. If you cannot meet these requirements, you will not be granted entry to the event. Please note that some performers may choose to perform without a mask. Guests are encouraged to register in advance.
Livestream Attendance
The livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details, please register in advance here.
Poetry Foundation’s events are completely FREE of charge and open to the public. This event will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.”

Natalie Eilbert and Amy Dennis at The Factory Reading Series
2023-03-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2L7, Canada
From the organizers:
“As part of the thirteenth annual VERSeFest poetry festival presents: The Factory Reading Series Lecture Series; two talks/readings by Natalie Eilbert and Amy Dennis, lovingly hosted by Rob McLennan.
This event will take place at Knox Presbyterian Church from 1-2pm EST on March 25th. It will also be streamed free online. Tickets for the in-person event will cost $15 and can be purchased here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/performer/neilbert
Access the full schedule of readers and events here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest”

Albertine Bookstore Presents A Reading with John Freeman, Alex Dimitrov, and Stéphane Bouquet
2023-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Albertine Bookstore, 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10075, United States
From the organizers:
“Join poets Alex Dimitrov, John Freeman, and Stéphane Bouquet for a night of poetry readings of their respective work, Love and Other Poems (Copper Canyon), Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon), and Common Life (trans. by Lindsay Turner, Nightboat). This event will be moderated by Lindsay Turner.
At a moment at which the fabric of everyday social life is increasingly threatened across the globe, Dimitrov, Freeman, and Boquet’s poetry invites us to join a two-way conversation with the world. On one hand, their poetry acknowledges the world’s past and present existence by way of its natural and mineral elements, by way of encounters, sensations and a multitude of unspectacular events. And on the other hand, their poems orient us toward the future, helping us welcome it and question it. It is at this junction of different times that they, as poets, stand as focal points that absorb our world, give it a shape and invite us to ponder: what does it mean to inhabit the world together today?
In English. Free with RSVP.”
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-there-is-left-to-say-stephane-bouquet-alex-dimitrov-john-freeman-tickets-565663955117

Lovecrumbs Readings presents A Night of Poetry featuring Randall Mann
2023-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Lovecrumbs Café, 155 West Port, Edinburgh, EH3 9DP, United Kingdom
From the organizers:
“On Friday March 31st, we’re back for another chilled night of poetry, wine, and cake at Lovecrumbs Café in Edinburgh. Featuring readings from: Randall Mann, Rosa Campbell, Helena Fornells Nadal, Caleb Nichols, and Nasim Rebecca Asl.
Doors open at 6.30pm (ish). Readings starting around 7.00pm (ish).”

Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents Chris Abani
2023-04-03 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S. Alaska St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Seattle Arts & Lectures will host a reading with Chris Abani at Rainier Arts Center on Monday April 3rd at 7:30pm PST. This reading will also be streamed live online.
To purchase tickets, please visit https://seattle-arts-and-lectures.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S5G00000QmfohUAB

Eckerd College Presents National Poetry Month Reading with Victoria Chang
2023-04-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater, 1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg, FL, 33701, United States
From the organizers:
“In collaboration with the Dalí Museum’s monthly Poetry at the Dalí Series, Eckerd College will welcome Victoria Chang to read from her forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, in the Dalí Museum Will Raymund Theater at 6:30 pm EST April 12.
This event is free to the public—please arrive early to secure your preferred seat. To stream this reading, visit the Dalí Museum’s YouTube channel at the date and time of the event.”

Victoria Chang at The Los Angeles Festival of Books
2023-04-23 12:30 - 13:20 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
On Sunday April 23rd, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and David L. Ulin will host “Doing the Work: Talking with Chowdhury Prize Recipient Victoria Chang.”
This event will take 12:30–1:20pm PST on The Poetry Stage at the University of Southern California campus. It is free to the general public.

Before the Borderless Release Party with Dean Rader
2023-04-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Firehouse, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, 94123
From the organizers:
“Join Guggenheim award-winning author Dean Rader for a celebration of the release of his most recent book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, in the Firehouse at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. Before the Borderless is a groundbreaking collection of poems featuring Rader’s original poems in conversation with paintings and drawings by the American artist, Cy Twombly—the first time the estate of a major American artist has partnered with a poet and a publisher to produce a book such as this.
The evening features a short reading and discussion by the author followed by a reception of wine and hors d’oeuvres and a book signing. Copies of Before the Borderless are on sale at a discount.”

Poetry and the Archives of History with Paisley Rekdal
2023-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marsh Cabaret Bar, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
From The Bay Area Book Festival:
“In this session, we’ll hear from those who instead look at archives and envision poetry. In West: A Translation, poet Paisley Rekdal vividly documents how the heroic narrative of the transcontinental railroad is intertwined with the history of Chinese exclusion. We’ll also hear from poet Anthony Cody whose collection Borderland Apocrypha, longlisted for PEN America’s Jean Stein Book Award, blends centers on the ongoing legacy of trauma along the US–Mexico border after the end of the Mexican–American War.
Leading this conversation through past and present is poet Tess Taylor, whose own Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange collages Lange’s photographs and journals with Taylor’s poetry.”
This event will take place Saturday May 6th from 1:00–2:00pm PDT and is free to the public.

Echoes of Exclusion with Paisley Rekdal
2023-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720-6300, United States
Join poets Paisley Rekdal, Fae Myenne Ng, and Ava Chin and novelist Kathryn Ma for a timely discussion about the Chinese Exclusion Act and its echoes in contemporary America. This panel discussion will take place on Sunday May 7th from 2:00–3:00pm PDT.
The Bay Area Book Festival is free and open to the public.

Green Apple Books presents Randall Mann with D.A. Powell
2023-05-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94122, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us on Tuesday May 9th at 7:00pm PST when Randall Mann celebrates the release of his book, Deal: New and Selected Poems, with D.A. Powell at 9th Ave.
Masks are encouraged for in-person attendance. Or, watch the livestream here.”

An Afternoon with Dean Rader, Timothy Donnelly, and Shanta Lee Gander
2023-05-21 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us in person or via Zoom as we welcome Dean Rader, Timothy Donnelly, and Shanta Lee Gander. They will read from their latest works and engage in a lively Q&A.
This event will take place on May 21 from 4:00 – 6:30pm EST at the Hudson Valley Writers Center and live on Zoom.”
To register, visit: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/donnelly-gander-rader/

Natalie Diaz and Adam Falk at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
2023-05-23 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
From the organizers:
“THE POET AND ORATOR at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Natalie Diaz and Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91. They are scheduled to appear on Tuesday morning, May 23, in Sanders Theatre.
The Literary Exercises (this will be the 231st iteration) celebrate undergraduate academic excellence, recognize outstanding students’ nominees for formative teaching, and typically nod toward the arts (the poet) and the wider society (the orator). They thus bridge the academic labors leading up to graduation, and the celebratory hoopla to follow two days later, in Tercentenary Theatre.”

Community of Writers Poetry Program taught by Victoria Chang, Kazim Ali, Forrest Gander, Carmen Giménez, Brenda Hillman, and Evie Shockley
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-25 | Palisades Tahoe, CA, 96146, United States
From the organizers:
“The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences. Director: Brenda Hillman.
Tuition for the Poetry Program is $1450 and includes six evening meals. Financial aid is available; requests for our limited financial aid can be made in the Application Form. Admissions are based on submitted manuscripts. Please Note: Tuition does not include housing costs. See Housing and Meals. See Fees & Deadlines, below.
Note: We make no admissions decisions before all the submissions have been read and evaluated. The Application Form link is at the bottom of the page.
Deadline for receipt of application/submission is March 28, 2023.”
Apply here: https://communityofwriters.org/workshops/poetry-application/

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Award Ceremony and Reception with keynote speaker, Chris Abani
2023-06-24 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | American Writers Museum, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
From the organizers:
“Celebrate the winners of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction during a special award ceremony at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. Presented by Booklist and RUSA and generously supported by NoveList and a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, this year’s show will honor winners Julie Otsuka and Ed Yong and will feature acclaimed novelist and poet, Chris Abani, as the keynote speaker. The event will kick off with a cocktail hour and close with a reception and book signing.”
This event will take place on Saturday, June 24 from 7:00pm – 10:00pm CST. Register for the ALA Conference here: https://idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e1s2
Include the Andrew Carnegie Medals Award Ceremony with your initial registration, or add it later using the unique link in your email confirmation.

UMass English MFA Presents Lisa Olstein, Visiting Writers Series
2023-09-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01002, United States
UMass English MFA for Poets & Writers Presents Lisa Olstein, Visiting Writers Series on Thursday September 28th 6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Celebrating 60 Years of the UMass English MFA for Poets & Writers
Visiting Writers Series no. 1 // Fall 2023
Join us for the first installment of the Visiting Writers Series (VWS) with UMass MFA alum, LISA OLSTEIN.
Free & open to the public. Reading with Q&A to follow.”
For more information: https://www.umass.edu/englishmfa/event/visiting-writers-series-lisa-olstein

Open Books Presents Christopher Soto & Claudia Castro Luna, Latinx Poetry Writing Workshop
2023-09-30 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Books: A Poem Emporium, 108 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Open Books Presents Christopher Soto & Claudia Castro Luna, Latinx Poetry Writing Workshop on Saturday September 30th at 2pm – 3:30pm Pacific Time
From the Organizers:
“This poetry workshop is free, but space is limited! To RSVP, email instructor Christopher Soto directly at cs3625@nyu.edu and send 1-3 poems. Class will begin at 2pm and will run for 1.5 hours in the Open Books Parlor.
If you have any additional questions about the workshop, please contact Christopher Soto at cs3625@nyu.edu!”
For more information visit: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/pages/9-30-2-3-30pm-latinx-poetry-writing-workshop-with-christopher-soto-claudia-castro-luna

Cambridge Center Presents Cate Marvin and Marcus Wicker, Blacksmith House Poetry Series
2023-10-02 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Cambridge Center for Adult Education Presents Cate Marvin and Marcus Wicker, Blacksmith House Poetry Series on Monday October 2nd 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Cate Marvin, whose most recent collection is Event Horizon, reads with Marcus Wicker, author of Silencer.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. All readings take place in person at 56 Brattle Street on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5 and tickets are available at the door.”
For more information visit: https://ccae.org/happenings/events/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-cate-marvin-and-dana-levin

NYU Presents Cate Marvin and Vievee Francis, Poetry Reading
2023-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Lilliann Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St., New York,, NY, 10011
NYU Presents Cate Marvin and Vievee Francis for a poetry reading on Friday, October 6th 5:00pm-7:00pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Poetry readings by Vievee Francis and Cate Marvin, followed by a reception/signing.
Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance.
While NYU has ended COVID-19 related restrictions and policies, we continue to remind and recommend to members of the NYU community that they stay up-to-date on their boosters, they stay home if they feel sick, and masks are always welcome.
The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair accessible.”
To register visit: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/cwp/reading-series/fall-2023/poetry-reading–vievee-francis–dana-levin-and-cate-marvin.html

Litquake presents Dean Rader, Randall Mann, and more for Poetry World Series
2023-10-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Litquake presents Dean Rader, Randall Mann, and more for the Poetry World Series on Thursday, October 12 · 7:30pm PDT
From the organizers:
“Two teams of award-winning poets, including Kim Addonizio, Zeina Hashem Beck, Lee Herrick, Randall Mann, Christell Victoria Roach, and Dean Rader, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and stunning work guaranteed. Eminently qualified umpires will score each batter’s reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Emceed by Litquake’s Jack Boulware. Book sales/signing follows the reading. Doors open at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. $10 adv / door”
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-world-series-litquake-edition-tickets-709824493167

50th Anniversary Reading with Jericho Brown, Paisley Rekdal, and Arthur Sze
2023-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Presented by Copper Canyon Press and Lannan Foundation
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W. San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

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Some of the most important poets writing today come together at the Lensic and via Livestream to celebrate two institutions that have had an outsized role in sustaining the artform for more than half a century: Copper Canyon Press and Lannan Foundation. Marking Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary as an independent publisher dedicated to poetry, this reading by Pulitzer Prize winners and Poets Laureate testifies to poetry’s remarkable adaptability. Jericho Brown will deliver innovative poetic forms that express the pain—and beauty—of Black and queer life. And Paisley Rekdal will present hybrid text-and-media works that reexamine the history of the West through the stories of the laborers who built it.
National Book Award winner and longtime Santa Fe resident Arthur Sze will open the event with a discussion of the history of Lannan Foundation and Copper Canyon Press and their importance to American literature. Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers will then introduce the readers, joining all the participants afterward in a closing conversation about poetry’s continued importance as we face the future.
This event will also be livestreamed.
Participant Bios:
“By some literary magic―no, it’s precision, and Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes.”—NPR
Jericho Brown is the author of three collections of poems, most recently The Tradition, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of several fellowships from institutions such as the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing.
“Rekdal is a poet of observation and history. . . . She revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries. . . . These are some of the best lyric poems being written today.”—Los Angeles Times
Paisley Rekdal is the author of three works of nonfiction and several collections of poetry, most recently a poetry and multimedia work called West: A Translation, which was recently longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. She is Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she directs the American West Center, and she has served as Utah’s state Poet Laureate.
“Sze is simultaneously the microscope and telescope of the poetry world. And more. To truly attend to these poems is to begin to feel like you have been opened to a kaleidoscopic experience of the cosmos, a multisensual one whose kinetic foci gather moments across time and space, word and world.”—Terrain
Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including Sight Lines, which won the National Book Award, Compass Rose, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and, most recently, The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems. Sze is the recipient of many honors, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, a Lannan Literary Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. A Chancellor Emeritus at the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. His latest work, The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, will be published by Copper Canyon in 2024.
“Copper Canyon Press may be a little nonprofit publisher far from New York, but over the last 50 years, its editors in Port Townsend, Washington, have shaped and elevated American poetry.”—Washington Post
Michael Wiegers has been editing books for Copper Canyon Press since 1993, and currently serves as the Press’s Executive Editor/Editor in Chief. Most recently, he edited two anthologies of Copper Canyon Press poetry, both published this year: A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry and Come Shining: More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative magazine and edited What About This: The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Essential W.S. Merwin. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin and serves as a trustee for the Merwin Conservancy.
Register for the livestream here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G3l0TwKcSPeTse-Up6eg7w#/registration

*UPDATE (October 05)*: We regret that Jorie Graham is no longer able to participate in this event, as originally listed.

Elliott Bay Book Company Presents FREEMAN’S Launch with John Freeman, Deborah Landau, and Sasha LaPointe
2023-10-23 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliot Bay Book Company
Elliott Bay Book Company Presents FREEMAN’S Launch with John Freeman, Deborah Landau, and Sasha LaPointe on Monday October 23rd, 2023 @ 6:00PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Time. Additionally followed by readings with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Sasha LaPointe, and Deborah Landau from their recently released collections.
From the organizers:
“Editor John Freeman launches the latest issue of Freeman’s, this time with the theme Conclusions. Poet Deborah Landau and local author Sasha LaPointe will join him onstage for a reading.
The tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman’s explores all the ways of coming to an end.
Over the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion.
With new writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad, and Mieko Kawakami, Freeman’s: Conclusions is a testament to the startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty, fear, and promise.”
At 7:30pm, join poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Sasha LaPointe, and Deborah Landau for readings from their recently released collections.
For more information: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20231023

Cambridge Center Presents Randall Mann and Daniel Brock Johnson, Blacksmith House Poetry Series
2023-10-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Cambridge Center Presents Randall Mann and Daniel Brock Johnson, Blacksmith House Poetry Series on Monday, October 23rd 8-9pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Randall Mann reads from his new book, DEAL: New and Selected Poems, with Daniel Johnson, author of Shadow Act.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. All readings take place in person at 56 Brattle Street on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5 and tickets are available at the door.”
