The Writers Studio presents a Craft Class with Ellen Bass
2022-03-01 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Writers Studio presents a Craft Class with Ellen Bass
From the organizers:
Join The Writers Studio on March 1st from 6:30 – 8:00pm EST for a virtual discussion with Ellen Bass and Gail Ford. Receive a link to the weekly Google Meet or stream the recording.
Register here: https://courses.writerstudio.com/courses/craft-class-taken-with-a-workshop-spring-2022

The New School presents Nonfiction Forum with Victoria Chang
2022-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
The New School presents Nonfiction Forum with Victoria Chang
From the organizers:
Join us for a reading with author Victoria Chang as she sits down with Robert Polito, to discuss her new work.
Register here: https://event.newschool.edu/nonfiction-forum-victoria-chang

Amherst College presents Poetry Reading featuring Philip Metres
2022-03-07 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Amherst College presents Poetry Reading featuring Philip Metres
Join Amherst College for a reading and conversation with Philip Metres on March 7, 2022. For the Five College community, this is an in-person event. Everyone else should please register in advance for the Zoom event.
Register here: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/…/WN_Gazi6AZ9QSSSDZxHS080GQ

All About Women Opening Night Gala with Tishani Doshi
2022-03-12 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney Opera House
All About Women Opening Night Gala with Tishani Doshi, Amani Haydar, and Eliza Hull
From the organizers:
Writer and poet Tishani Doshi will perform her haunting poem “Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods” through words and dance. With a vocal performance by musician Eliza Hull, illustrated story-telling by Amani Haydar, author of The Mother Wound and more to be announced. Presented by Sydney Opera House.
Register here: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/festivals/all-about-women/livestreams.html#singletickets

Copper Canyon Press's Spring 2022 Launch Party Livestream
2022-03-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Copper Canyon Press’s Spring 2022 Launch Party Livestream
Register for our online poetry reading, benefit, and celebration of three new books from our spring season, featuring Chris Abani, Victoria Chang, and Dana Levin. Each will read from their new Copper Canyon Press collection, and participate in a discussion about the creative process moderated by Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers.
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fDFREkqdRjuT0sOEbYRXTQ

Akwaeke Emezi's "Content Warning: Everything" Book Launch
2022-04-05 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Akwaeke Emezi’s Content Warning: Everything Book Launch
Elliott Bay Book Company, Cave Canem, and Copper Canyon Press present Akwaeke Emezi‘s debut poetry collection with Evie Shockley. The book launch will be virtually hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022, 5:30 PM PT

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/akwaeke-emezi-content-warning-everything-with-evie-shockley-tickets-292788908507

Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
2022-04-12 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto for an online book launch in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist. Hosted by Caits Meissner of PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing.
More info coming soon.

The Shipman Agency presents a Craft Seminar with Nikki Wallschlaeger
2022-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Shipman Agency presents a Craft Seminar with Nikki Wallschlaeger
Join Nikki Wallschlaeger for a craft seminar titled “Cosmic Poetics: Writing with the Poetry of Sun Ra” on Wednesday, April 13 + 20 from 6:00-8:00pm ET.
Register here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craft-seminar-cosmic-poetics-writing-with-the-poetry-of-sun-ra-with-nikki-wallschlaeger

Dana Levin Book Launch w/ Diane Seuss and Jane Huffman
2022-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dana Levin Book Launch w/ Diane Seuss and Jane Huffman
Join Dana Levin and the fantabulous Diane Seuss & Jane Huffman to celebrate the publication of her new book, Now Do You Know Where You Are.
Streaming here: https://www.left-bank.com/event/dana-levin-diane-seuss-jane-huffman-now-do-you-know-where-you-are

Dana Levin Santa Fe Book Launch
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dana Levin Santa Fe Book Launch
Join Dana Levin for a reading and conversation with Copper Canyon Press Publicist, Ryo Yamaguchi.

The Merwin Conservancy presents Poems for the Planet featuring Tishani Doshi
2022-04-27 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Merwin Conservancy
The Merwin Conservancy presents Poems for the Planet featuring Tishani Doshi
From the organizer:
In honor of National Poetry Month, The Merwin Conservancy hosts a virtual poetry reading with Kwame Dawes, Tishani Doshi, Robert Hass, and Brenda Hillman, poets featured in the anthology Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Through the lens of poetry, this book looks at our fellow humans and animals, the beauty around us, and the problems we face, and asks for a renewed sense of courage, in place of the fear that so often leads to indifference and cynicism. The book’s editor Elizabeth J. Coleman will also be present to share the inspiration behind the book.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/PoemsForThePlanet/register

Dana Levin Reading Presented by Mercy Street Readings
2022-05-01 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dana Levin Reading Presented by Mercy Street Reading Series
Join Mercy Street Reading Series on Sunday, May 1st for a live broadcast with Dana Levin.
More info here: http://www.danalevinpoet.com/events

LOGOS presents Victoria Chang and Elisa Gabbert
2022-05-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
LOGOS presents Victoria Chang and Elisa Gabbert
From the organizer:
LOGOS Collective Collective Gatherings are ‘liturgically-inflected’ reading events, which engage audience participation. Join us on Zoom or stream via FacebookLIVE (LOGOS Collective). All are welcome!
Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87499590882

Climate Conversation Corps with Ellen Bass
2022-05-10 20:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Climate Conversation Corps with Ellen Bass
A conversation on climate change with an interview with Ellen Bass sponsored by THIS! Is What We Did.

Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bennington College, Tishman Lecture Hall
Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
Bennington College presents poetry reading and book signing with Paisley Rekdal on May 11th at 7:00 PM ET.

Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass
2022-05-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass
Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass sponsored by InStill Mindfulness.

Prairie Lights presents Jennifer L. Knox and Ada Limón
2022-05-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights, 15 South Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Prairie Lights presents Jennifer L. Knox and Ada Limón
From the organizer:
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Ada Limón to celebrate the release of her new book of poems The Hurting Kind. Limón will be joined in conversation with Jennifer L. Knox.
Register here: https://www.prairielights.com/live/ada-lim%C3%B3n-conversation-jennifer-l-knox

Dana Levin Book Launch Reading with Logos Collective
2022-06-07 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dana Levin Book Launch Reading with Logos Collective
Dana joins Sumita Chakraborty for a liturgically-inflected reading with a goal of evoking transcendence through poetry, ritual, and conversation.
More info here: http://www.danalevinpoet.com/events

Scrag Mountain Music presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music
2022-06-15 19:00 - 2022-06-18 23:30 (America/New_York)
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music. More information about this multi-day event can be found here: http://www.scragmountainmusic.org/sutras.html
From the organizers:
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents “Sutras for a Suffering World: The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music” for a multi-day event.
Register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/405026871368320/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A716578879535427%7D%7D]%22%7D

Unsolicited Press presents Launching JOY with Francis Daulerio, in Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
2022-06-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Unsolicited Press presents Launching JOY with Francis Daulerio, in Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
From the organizers: “Unsolicited Press is inviting you to a reading and conversation with Francis Daulerio and Kelli Russell Agodon.
This virtual event is to celebrate the launch of JOY by Francis Daulerio. Joy is the new full-length collection of poetry by Francis Daulerio, author of If & When We Wake, Please Plant This Book, and With a Difference.
Join READING:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85388321279?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 853 8832 1279
Passcode: [REDACTED]″

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Poetry Reading with Jennifer L. Knox & Nynke Passi
2022-08-22 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Poetry Reading with Jennifer L. Knox & Nynke Passi
From the organizers:
“We kick off the festival with a poetry reading featuring Jennifer L. Knox and Nynke Passi, MIU’s MFA in Creative Writing program director.

About this event

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of Crushing It (Copper Canyon, 2020), as well as the collections Days of Shame and Failure (2015), The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway (2010), Drunk by Noon (2007), and A Gringo Like Me (2007), all published by Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared four times in the Best American Poetry series. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and McSweeney’s.
Nynke Salverda Passi is the director of this MFA program and co-chair of the English dept. She was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Life & Legends, and more. Her poetry has been anthologized in Pandemic Puzzle Pieces and River of Earth & Sky (Blue Light Press), Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press). Together with Rustin Larson and Christine Schrum, she edited the poetry collection Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day.”

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Two Sylvias Press with Press Co-Founder Kelli Russell Agodon
2022-08-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Two Sylvias Press with Press Co-Founder Kelli Russell Agodon.
From the organizers:
“Kelli Russell Agodon, co-founder of Two Sylvias (one of our favorite presses), will be your host in this session.

About Two Sylvias: ‘Created with the belief that great writing is good for the world, Two Sylvias Press mixes modern technology, classic style, and literary intellect with an eco-friendly heart. We draw our inspiration from the poetic literary talent of Sylvia Plath and the editorial business sense of Sylvia Beach. Located in the Seattle area, Two Sylvias is an independent press which publishes the best-selling The Daily Poet and has created The Poet Tarot, featured in O, The Oprah Magazine. Two Sylvias Press also released the first eBook anthology of women’s poetry in 2011: Fire On Her Tongue. Publishing poetry, memoir, essays, anthologies, and creativity tools for writers and artists, we offer a Chapbook Prize in the spring. The Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize is open to women over 50 years of age and is held annually in the fall. Two Sylvias Press also offers online poetry retreats for writers who would like to generate new work with daily poetry prompts and creative inspiration.'”

New Dominion Bookshop presents Selected Books of the Beloved with Gregory Orr
2022-08-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
New Dominion Bookshop presents Selected Books of the Beloved with Gregory Orr
From the organizers:
Join us as we celebrate the release of Gregory Orr’s new poetry collection, Selected Books of the Beloved. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.
More information will appear here: https://ndbookshop.com/events/gregory-orr-selected-books-of-the-beloved/

The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
2022-08-31 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
From the organizers:
“After a hiatus of more than two years, The Merwin Conservancyʻs beloved arts and ecology series The Green Room returned to in-person gatherings on Maui with two very special guests, our poets-in-residence Carol Moldaw and Arthur Sze.

These two extraordinary poets have spent a month in residence in the former home of W.S. and Paula Merwin, and earlier this month Carol and Arthur shared the stage for a very special reading at the Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center on Maui.
This intimate event was captured on video and will be broadcast on Crowdcast on Wednesday, August 31st, at 2:00pm Hawaiʻi / 5:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Mountain / 8:00pm Eastern.
The event is free, and donations are welcome at the virtual “door” to support this beloved arts and ecology salon series, now in its ninth year.
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ABOUT CAROL MOLDAW:
Carol Moldaw’s eighth book, Go Figure, will be published by Four Way Books in 2024. Her most recent books are Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018), So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems and The Widening, a short novel. She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River. Through the Window was translated into Turkish and published in a bilingual edition in Istanbul as Penceredon/Through the Window; her work also has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian. Moldaw is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, and her work is published widely in journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Yale Review. It has also been anthologized in many venues, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets. As noted in The New Yorker, Moldaw’s work “repeatedly achieves lyric junctures of shivering beauty.” About The Lightning Field, Frieda Gardner wrote in The Women’s Review of Books: “She courts revelation . . . in a voice variously curious, passionate, surprised, meditative, and sensual. On the surface of her work are rich sound and variation of rhythm and line. A few steps deeper in lie wells of feeling and complexities of thought.” From 2005-2008 Moldaw was on the faculty of Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency M.F.A. program, and she has been a recurrent Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University. In the spring of 2011, she served as the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University; currently she teaches privately in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.
ABOUT ARTHUR SZE:
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), Sight Lines (2019), for which he received the National Book Award for Poetry; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award; Quipu (2005); The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998 (1998), selected for the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Asian American Literary Award; and Archipelago (1995), selected for an American Book Award. He has also published one book of Chinese poetry translations, The Silk Dragon (2001), selected for the Western States Book Award, and edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). A recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the eighth annual ‘T’ Space Poetry Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, as well as five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 2012 to 2017, he was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and, in 2017, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.“

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
2022-08-31 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
From the organizers:
“Tonight our long-time mentor and frequent guest Mark Spragg is returning together with a close friend of his, Ellen Bass, a poet we deeply admire. We are so happy to have the two of them read together from their poetry and lyrical prose.
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Wyoming. Mark also has an extensive history as a screenwriter, writing the scripts for movies such as An Unfinished Life and Everything that Rises.“

Poets Corner presents Black Coffee: A Conversation with Ellen Bass
2022-09-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM ET
From the organizers:
“In conversation with The Poets Corner founder Meg Weston, Ellen Bass will talk about the craft of poetry, her creative process, influences, and recurring themes that appear in her poems and intrigue her in the poems of others. She’ll read from her various collections, including the most recent, Indigo. Join us on ZOOM for a lively conversation with one of America’s leading poets, starting at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.”
Register here: https://www.thepoetscorner.org/events/black-coffee-a-conversation-with-ellen-bass

Dana Levin, Alberto Ríos and Ishion Hutchinson for an Evening of Poetry at Georgia Tech
2022-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join Dana Levin, Alberto Ríos, and Ishion Hutchinson for the 21st Annual Bourne Poetry Reading on October 20th, 2022 at 7 PM ET.
From the organizers: As always, this reading is FREE and open to the public. and will take place virtually via Zoom.
To attend the reading on 20 October 2022, follow the instructions below. The reading will begin at 7 pm Eastern Time, but our (virtual) doors open at 6:45 pm Eastern Time.
Joining the reading is easy – just choose the platform that works best for you, and follow the instructions below:
https://gatech.zoom.us/j/99268967767
For more information, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu .

Santa Monica College presents Literary Talks & Readings with Paisley Rekdal
2022-10-25 11:15 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Santa Monica College presents Literary Talks & Readings, October 25 11:15 – 12:30 PM PT, with Paisley Rekdal
From the organizers:
“Welcome to SMC! Have you wanted to listen to intriguing stories? Meet and talk with fascinating, creative artists? Enjoy poetry and richness of language? It has been a regular feature of life at SMC—every semester for the last 22 years. We have the opportunity to listen to a wide variety of award-winning authors who want to share their art and experience with the students. ”
Register here: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91098314478

Publishing in Transit: Copper Canyon Press Featuring Michael Wiegers, Ryo Yamaguchi, and Christopher Soto
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi will join Cole Swensen for a virtual discussion which will be followed by a reading from Christopher Soto. This discussion is a part of The Brooklyn Rail’s Publishing in Transit series
From the Organizers:
Copper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Christopher Soto.
Copper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers has been acquiring and editing books for the Press since 1993. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, including What About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies The Poet’s Child and This Art, and translated poems for Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, which he co-edited with Mónica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative and regularly speaks about the art of publishing at universities and colleges around the world. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin.
Poet Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of The Refusal of Suitors (Noemi Press, 2015). He has worked in academic and literary publishing for presses such as Wave Books and the University of Chicago Press, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books. He is currently Publicist at Copper Canyon Press.
Poet Cole Swensen is the author of 17 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation.

Christopher Soto with André Naffis-Sahely and Jenny Xie at Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
2022-11-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Christopher Soto will read from his latest collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, and discuss poetry’s relationship to politics and the environment with Jenny Xie and André Naffis-Sahely.
Virtual event on Wednesday, November 2nd at 11 AM PT
From the Organizers: Join these three exciting poets as they discuss their latest collections, from André Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism in High Desert, to Jenny Xie’s explorations of public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in The Rupture Tense and Christopher Soto’s uncompromising call for the abolition of policing and human caging in Diaries of a Terrorist.
Online events (Zoom) are free but donations requested.
