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Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry" with Paisley Rekdal
2021-08-12 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Paisley Rekdal on Aug. 12 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” with Paisley Rekdal.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

Brooklyn Poets presents Craft Lab: Nonsense and Senselessness with Jericho Brown
2021-08-15 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Brooklyn Poets presents Nonsense and Senselessness, a Craft Lab with Jericho Brown, on August 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT online via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove says that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Yet many readers still struggle to understand the meanings of poems. In this craft lab, we’ll dive into what’s going on when we read a poem and think, “That doesn’t make sense.” Looking at examples of sense and nonsense in the work of several poets, we’ll explore the different techniques poets use to balance meaning and mystery, and we’ll generate new work together through a set of unconventional exercises, drawing on the themes of sense and nonsense, engendering new ideas about writing. As there is a profound relationship between reading poetry and writing it, together we’ll read, discuss, and even recite the work of several poets whose examples might lead us to a further honing of our craft.
All participants will have access to a cloud recording of the craft lab for one month afterward.
Craft Lab Details

Professor: Jericho Brown
Date: Sunday, August 15
Time: 4–7 PM (EDT)
Location: online via Zoom
Cost: $125
Earlybird discount: $15 off through SUN, AUGUST 8
Deadline for financial aid: FRI, AUGUST 13

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed, the Nation, New York Times, New Yorker, New Republic, Time, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of the Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
Register here: https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/craft-labs/nonsense-and-senselessness/

North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson
2021-08-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson, on August 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
What happens when a southern poet and historian meet? This event features the 2021 North Carolina Humanities selected Route 1 Reads poet Tyree Daye and UNC Greensboro professor Dr. Torren Gatson. They will explore how Tyree’s new work Cardinal, a poetic “Green Book,” connects to the themes of travel, migration ideas of home, and sense of belonging in the context of American history. This event will be moderated by Executive Director of Action Greensboro and NC Humanities Board Trustee Cecelia Thompson.
The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This conversation is part of North Carolina Humanities Route 1 Reads Program. Route 1 Reads is a road trip-inspired reading list that annually explores various genres and is compiled by the network of 16 affiliate Centers for the Book in the Library of Congress located along Route 1. North Carolina Humanities Center for the Book is an affiliate of the National Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uWdPcELeQ9-ck__mKkeGyw

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry" with Victoria Chang
2021-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Victoria Chang on Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
What is a poem of joy? Or a line of poetry that evokes joy? In this talk, we’ll think through what joy means, what a poem of joy might look like, and how a poem of joy might affect its readers. In the process, we’ll look at poems by various poets such as Frank O’Hara, Robert Hass, Li-Young Lee, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Chang/register

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian
2021-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian on August 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. EDT via Zoom.
From the organizers:
This reading will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed at the time of registration and again on the day of the reading. (Please check spam / promotions folder for this email and email admin@writerscenter.org with any questions.)
Donations toward the readers’ honoraria are greatly appreciated.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. was published by University of Georgia Press in 2017. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. She was the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.
Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’ Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Carol Edgarian is an award-winning novelist, essayist, teacher, and editor. Her novels include the newly-released Vera, the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement, and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, hailed by The Washington Post as a book “whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today.” Rise the Euphrates was awarded the ANC Freedom Prize, and a twentieth-anniversary revised edition of the novel was released to mark the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Carol’s articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many other places, and she coedited The Writer’s life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and schools on topics such as “Why Stories Matter,” “The Art of Fiction” and publishing today.
In 2003 Carol and her husband, Tom Jenks, founded the nonprofit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, essays, and art. Dedicated to encouraging reading without paywalls, and to supporting writers by paying them fairly for their work, Narrative publishes hundreds of artists each year and is widely read across generations, in schools, and around the globe. Its entire digital library of thousands of works of literature by celebrated authors and by the best emerging writers is available for free. Six years ago, Carol launched Narrative in the Schools, programs that augment Narrative’s library of literature with free video tutorials, lesson plans, a writing contest for high schoolers, and other essential tools for teachers and students in underserved communities around the world. She is a proud mentor to some amazing young writers. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, to first-generation American parents, Carol is a graduate of Phillips Andover and Stanford University.
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/rekdaledgarian/

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself" with Brenda Shaughnessy
2021-08-20 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself,” a virtual lecture by Brenda Shaughnessy on Aug. 20 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
You’ve immersed in flow, process, form, revision, workshop, submissions, and now—what will/could all that creative and administrative energy add up to? What are the hallmarks, conventions, and pitfalls of the debut collection? How can a book “sound like” its author? This talk explores the elements of and issues around the debut poetry collection, both in contemporary literary history and in current publishing practices—and is meant to inform, inspire, and challenge those poets working on their first manuscripts.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

The San Diego Union Tribune presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
2021-08-21 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The San Diego Union Tribune, August 21 at 10 AM – 5 PM PDT, presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
The single-day virtual festival brings together book lovers of all ages, independent book sellers, authors, poets, illustrators and local businesses to celebrate the written word. Enjoy the event virtually — or in person at a location yet to be announced.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-san-diego-union-tribune-5th-annual-festival-of-books-tickets-144685631619

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson" with Jericho Brown
2021-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” a virtual lecture by Jericho Brown on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” with Jericho Brown.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

AAWW x Cosmos Book Club: Celebrating AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen
2021-08-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Cosmos Book Club will celebrate Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen, on August 23 at 8 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Anthony Veasna So’s debut collection Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family. Dive into Anthony’s vibrant collection of stories centering Cambodian-American life alongside profound insights into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.

Cosmos Book Club and Asian American Writers’ Workshop have partnered together to host a celebration of Anthony’s life and the release of his book, Afterparties. Joining us will be Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen.
Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton, California, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California. For more about Monica, visit http://www.monicasok.com/about.
Danny Thanh Nguyen (they/he/she equally) has published stories and personal essays in The Offing, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have been awarded fellowships and grants from Ragdale Foundation, Lambda Literary, Kundiman, and Djerassi Artist Program. Her column on BDSM/fetish culture appears in the international social network platform Recon and is translated into five languages. For more information about Danny, you can find them found across social media as @engrishlessons and visit https://www.lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/danny-thanh-nguyen/.
Cosmos Book Club is a monthly gathering of self-identifying women of Asian descent to read, discuss, and support Asian diaspora literature by women & nonbinary authors. In 2021, we hosted K-Ming Chang and C. Pam Zhang. In 2020, we hosted authors Cathy Park Hong, Mary H.K. Choi, and Laila Lalami. In the past, we’ve hosted authors such as Jia Tolentino, Lisa Ko and Crystal Hana Kim at our book clubs before. Read about us in the New York Times and Guardian! Please sign up for our email newsletters for updates and to RSVP for future events!
The Asian American American Writers’ Workshop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting Asian diasporic literature and storytelling. You can sign up for newsletter, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit us at aaww.org.
Register here: https://aaww.org/curation/aaww-x-cosmos-book-club-celebrating-afterparties-by-anthony-veasna-so/

Falcon Takes Flight Theatre presents a dramatic adaptation of Maurice Manning's Railsplitter
2021-08-26 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Campbell County Library Newport branch, 901 E. Sixth Street, Newport, KY, 41071, United States
Falcon Takes Flight Theatre presents, August 26 at 7 PM EDT, a dramatic adaptation of Maurice Manning‘s Railsplitter
Link for event will appear here: https://falcontheater.net/

Berkeley Lunch Poems presents Noah Warren
2021-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Berkeley Lunch Poems, a noontime poetry reading series hosted by UC Berkeley, presents Noah Warren on September 2, 2021 at noon EDT.
From the organizers:
Readings will take place remotely for the 2021-2022 academic year. All readings will be recorded and posted to YouTube. To keep up to date, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu and follow us on Twitter at @PoemsLunch.
Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and educated in the United States. He is the author of The Complete Stories, published by Copper Canyon in 2021, and The Destroyer in the Glass, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His work appears in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Yale, Stanford, the Simpson Literary Project, and the Arts Research Center. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where he coordinates the Lunch Poems Reading Series.
No registration required.
Watch here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97996871314

Poets on the Coast presents Poets on the Coast: Weekend Retreat for Women
2021-09-10 12:00 - 2021-09-12 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Poets on the Coast presents Poets on the Coast: Weekend Retreat for Women, September 10th – 12th, with Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich
From the organizers:
Join Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich for the 11h Annual Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women
September 10-12th via ZOOM!
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Be part of the Poets on the Coast family. Join us to write, read, and share your work in a positive creative community. ​ This retreat has been designed for women writers of all levels, from beginning poets to well published.
Register here: http://poetsonthecoast.weebly.com/register.html

Books Are Magic presents Red Ink Series with Marie-Helene Bertino, Victoria Chang, Julie Klam, Denne Michele Norris, and Qian Julie Wang and moderated by Michele Filgate
2021-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Books Are Magic presents Red Ink Series with Marie-Helene Bertino, Victoria Chang, Julie Klam, Denne Michele Norris, and Qian Julie Wang and moderated by Michele Filgate at 7 pm to 8 pm EST.
From the organizers:
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate, and co-sponsored by Literary Hub. Red Ink makes one think of vitality, blood, the monthly cycle, correcting history, and making a mark on the world. This dynamic series focuses on women writers, past and present. The next discussion, “Family,” will feature Victoria Chang (Dear Memory), Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet), Qian Julie Wang (Beautiful Country), Julie Klam (The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters), and Denne Michele Norris (Electric Literature).
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-ink-series-family-registration-169393467421

Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon
2021-09-25 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon at 10 am – 3 PM PST
From the organizers:
In this 5-hour online Zoom class, we will swan-dive into the strange through techniques and games used by surrealist writers and artists. The poems we will write will have less to do with “making sense” and more to do with the mystery and mindfulness of our subconscious and dreams. Here we will allow our imaginations to run wild. We will discover new unexpected ways to create new work and to explore new and imagined worlds.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHBqKQTRpc_hHJWWW5dRpUzyj8k3oNVVt0gBugj-B-kITD0w/viewform

The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses 2021: A Virtual Benefit for The Merwin Conservancy on the Occasion of W.S. Merwin’s Birthday with Jorie Graham and Matthew Zapruder
2021-09-30 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses 2021: A Virtual Benefit for The Merwin Conservancy on the Occasion of W.S. Merwin’s Birthday with Jorie Graham and Matthew Zapruder
From the organizers:
On Thursday, September 30th at 12:00 pm Hawai‘i (3:00 pm Pacific, 6:00 pm Eastern), The Merwin Conservancy will gather virtually with friends around the world to celebrate the poetry of W.S. Merwin on the occasion of his birthday, and share our vision for stewarding his legacy.
Puanani Burgess, Forrest Gander, Jorie Graham, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Paul Holdengräber, Ada Limón, Christopher Merrill, Kevin Young, and Matthew Zapruder will read selections of William’s poetry along with several other special guests yet to be announced.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/garden-of-verses-2021/register

Brooklyn Book Festival presents Poetry in Times of Crisis with Kendra Allen, Jorie Graham, Donika Kelly, and Mai Der Vang
2021-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Brooklyn Book Festival presents Poetry in Times of Crisis with Kendra Allen, Jorie Graham, Donika Kelly, and Mai Der Vang at 6 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“Poets Kendra Allen (The Collection Plate), Jorie Graham (Runaway), Donika Kelly (The Renunciations), and Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain) discuss their explorations of survival and human resilience in the face of political and personal trauma/struggle. Moderated by Jamia Wilson (This Book is Feminist).”
Register here: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/poetry-in-times-of-crisis/

Green Apple Books presents 9th Ave with Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren
2021-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94122, United States
Green Apple Books presents 9th Ave with Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren at 6 pm PST both in person and online.
From the organizers:
“JOIN US ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANDRA LIM, NATALIE SHAPERO, AND NOAH WARREN JOIN US FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING THEIR LATEST POETRY COLLECTIONS AT 9TH AVE!”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vHSYhcpURdaNKQ_wr42E1g

Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts presents First Books Conversation (Stadler Center Writers Series) with Leila Chatti and Nana Nkweti
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University presents Poet Leila Chatti & Fiction Writer Nana Nkweti First Books Conversation (Stadler Center Writers Series) at 7 pm – 8 pm EST.
Register here: https://calendar.bucknell.edu/stadler-center/view/event/event_id/29909

Windham-Campbell Prizes presents 2021 Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival with Natalie Scenters-Zapico
2021-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Windham Campbell Prizes presents 2021 Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival with Natalie Scenters-Zapico at 12 pm EST.
Register here: https://windhamcampbell.matchboxvirtualspaces.com/create-account

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom
2021-10-10 10:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom at 10:30 am – 2:30 pm.
From the organizers:
“The poet Vievee Francis introduced the concept of entering “the cave of one’s self” during my grad school years at North Carolina State University,” Tyree explains. “Vievee encouraged me to explore my narrative, to investigate my symbols, and to break them open and to look inside of them. My narrative is that I’m black, southern, raised by a single mother. Knowing my narrative helps me understand why tobacco fields and dirt roads show up in my poems. By identifying and exploring my symbols, I can begin to telescope inside them, making the language I use to speak about them fresh, and discover why these symbols were given to me. I believe our images come from God and are our egoless souls trying to make us see our connection to the world. In our workshop, I will ask students to enter “the cave of one’s self” through several writing exercises.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/tyreedaye/

Green Apple Books presents Virtual Event with Victoria Chang and Ari Banias
2021-10-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Green Apple Books presents Virtual Event with Victoria Chang and Ari Banias at 6:00 pm PST.
From the organizers:
“JOIN US ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN VICTORIA CHANG AND ARI BANIAS TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOKS DEAR MEMORY: LETTERS ON WRITING, SILENCE, AND GRIEF AND A SYMMETRY ON ZOOM!”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4bdGtBITT8CY4Dch_81cHg

Elliott Bay Book Company presents Victoria Chang with Rick Barot
2021-10-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elliott Bay Book Company presents Victoria Chang with Rick Barot at 6:00 pm PST.
From the organizers:
“One of our favorite poets at work today, Victoria Chang, author of the multiple-prize-winning OBIT, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle, virtually visits with her much-anticipated first adult prose book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (Milkweed Editions).”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poet-victoria-chang-author-of-dear-memory-with-with-rick-barot-tickets-172382981137

Women and Children First presents Virtual Reading: DEAR MEMORY with Victoria Chang and Dana Levin
2021-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Women and Children First presents Virtual Reading: DEAR MEMORY with Victoria Chang and Dana Levin at 7:00 pm CDT.
From the organizers:
“Join us for a virtual event on our Crowdcast Channel celebrating the release of Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang. For this event, Chang will be in conversation with Dana Levin.”
Register here: https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/virtual-reading-dear-memory-victoria-chang

Skylight Books presents Susan Nguyen and Victoria Chang in conversation
2021-10-20 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Skylight Books presents Susan Nguyen and Victoria Chang in conversation at 5 pm PST.
More information here: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-susan-nguyen-discusses-dear-diaspora-victoria-chang

Strand Book Store presents Dear Memory with Victoria Chang and Kat Chow
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Strand Book Store presents Dear Memory with Victoria Chang and Kat Chow at 7 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“Join us for a virtual event with author Victoria Chang for the launch of her new book Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Joining Victoria in conversation will be journalist and author Kat Chow.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/victoria-chang-kat-chow-dear-memory-tickets-173925805767

The Well Review presents “Halloween,” a workshop session with guest poetry tutor Matthew Dickman
2021-10-21 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Dublin)
In Cycle 2: Childhood, a 2021 Poetry Cycle offered by The Well Review, Matthew Dickman will be a guest poetry tutor during Session 3: “Halloween” on October 21 from 8 to 10 p.m. (Irish Standard Time) via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Cycle 2: Childhood (October)
€300.00

Session One: “Are we there yet?” Poetry Workshop Tutor: Sarah Byrne
Session Two: “Roots, Shoots and Boots”: The Beara Rainforest, Guest Speaker: Eoghan Daltun
Session Three: “Halloween” Guest Poetry Tutor: Matthew Dickman
Session Four: Reflections and Group Reading
All sessions will take place live on Zoom Thursdays 8pm-10pm (Irish Standard Time)
Cycle Two: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th October 2021
All cycles also include one 1:1 poetry surgery appointment with Sarah over Zoom

Our new poetry cycles bring together professional poets, scientists and practitioners and connect them with writers who are at any stage of their creative development.
The introductory and reflection sessions are led by Sarah Byrne and will include close readings, writing exercises and craft conversations. Materials will be provided to all participants ahead of sessions.
Each cycle (Sleep, Childhood, The First Person) will have two guests, usually during the middle weeks.
Sleep: Dr. Robert Stickgold (Lecture & Q&A) and Mary-Jane Holmes (Interactive Poetry Workshop)
Childhood: Eoghan Dalton (Lecture & Q&A) and Matthew Dickman (Interactive Poetry Workshop)
The First Person: Dr. Anil Seth (Lecture & Q&A) and Ellen Bass (Interactive Poetry Workshop)
All sessions will happen on Zoom. Places are limited to eight participants per cycle. You are welcome to register for more than one cycle. In addition to the four Zoom meetings, you will also receive a 1:1 editorial session with Sarah Byrne during the course.
COURSE REGISTRATION & BREAKDOWN OF SESSIONS:
www.thewellreview.com/well-review-poetry-cycles-2021-1
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@thewellreview.com

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review, 2008), the recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College. His publications include Mayakovsky’s Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012); and Wonderland (W.W. Norton & Co., 2017). His newest book, Husbandry, is forthcoming in 2022. Matthew’s work was published in Issue One of The Well Review.
Register here: https://www.thewellreview.com/well-review-poetry-cycles-2021-1/donate-35-m84yg

Harvard Divinity School presents The Weather Report Series: The Climate of Grief with Victoria Chang and Terry Tempest Williams
2021-10-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Harvard Divinity School presents The Weather Report Series: The Climate of Grief with Victoria Chang and Terry Tempest Williams at 7 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“Victoria Chang writes in her New York Times Notable Book of 2020, Obit, “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.” After the deaths of her parents, she refused to write elegies; instead, Chang wrote poetic obituaries of the beautiful, broken world that surrounds her (many see them as love letters). How does poetry illuminate this time of uncertainty? How do we embrace grief and not look away from all that is breaking our hearts? What we thought was a pause is now a place, and grief is part of this place.”
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BdGi-JXVSDe8RpzNonMLqQ

Montana Book Festival presents Untrammeled Renegade Genius: Jim Harrison As Poet
2021-10-26 18:00 (America/Denver)
Montana Book Festival presents Untrammeled Renegade Genius: Jim Harrison As Poet at 6 pm MDT.
From the organizers:
“Note: you can attend this event free of charge; you also have the option of purchasing a ticket that includes the price of Jim Harrison: Complete Poems and a complimentary copy of the Whitefish Review. Books will ship after the event on October 26th from Fact & Fiction Books.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/untrammeled-renegade-genius-jim-harrison-as-poet-tickets-186309565927

Fall for the Book Festival presents Maggie Smith & Victoria Chang in Conversation
2021-10-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Fall for the Book Festival presents Maggie Smith & Victoria Chang in conversation on October 26 at 7 p.m. EDT via Crowdcast.
From the organizers:
Award-winning poets Maggie Smith and Victoria Chang discuss the objects of everyday life and family history — a hallway mirror, a marriage license, a photograph — and how we come to terms and know ourselves through them. Smith’s new collection, Goldenrod uses what Slate calls Smith’s “superpower”: brilliant metaphors that celebrate human emotions to explore everyday life with empathy and honesty. Time says, “To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief spans generations as Chang shapes her own identity through the trauma and loss of her family, and of being American and Chinese. Politics & Prose says, “While the papers left behind by Chang’s mother are a record of past events, Chang’s letters demonstrate how their effects continue to resonate―across time, oceans, and through generations… Imaginatively creating a conversation between past and present.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fftb_smithchang

White Whale Bookstore presents Reading & Conversation: "Dear Memory" with Victoria Chang and Kao Kalia Yang
2021-10-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
White Whale Bookstore presents Reading & Conversation: “Dear Memory” with Victoria Chang and Kao Kalia Yang at 7 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“We’re looking forward to virtually welcoming Victoria Chang to Pittsburgh in celebration of her most recent book: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She’ll be joined in conversation by Kao Kalia Yang, who’s the author of TheLatehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.
You can order Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief and TheLatehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir on our website! Check out our site here to view all of our upcoming events and local partnerships, purchase books directly from our inventory, and place orders for books we don’t currently have in stock.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You’ll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm ET on 10/27. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket. For questions, check out our FAQ for events here.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-conversation-dear-memory-victoria-chang-w-kao-kalia-yang-registration-173661445057
