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.

Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan, Nicholas Goodly, and Courtney Faye Taylor
2022-11-02 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan, Nicholas Goodly, and Courtney Faye Taylor
Wednesday, November 2 at 5:15 Pacific Daylight Time
You’re Invited to a virtual Poetry Reading and Book Discussion with rising, debut authors: Chelsea Harlan, Courtney Faye Taylor, and Nicholas Goodly
Featuring

The first ever collaboration event between two of the United States’s premiere independent presses, Copper Canyon Press and Graywolf Press
Winner of The American Poetry Review’s 2022 First book Prize selected by Jericho Brown, Chelsea Harlan
Winner of Cave Canem’s 2021 Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Courtney Faye Taylor
A conversation between all three authors led by Copper Canyon Press publicist, Ryo Yamaguchi
A celebration of poetry’s future

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lPmkollTuKUX5HX-hrShA

Randall Mann and Cate Marvin at Bennington College
2022-11-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College Rd System, North Bennington, VT, 05257
Randall Mann and Cate Marvin will read poems at Bennington College on Wednesday November 2 at 7 PM ET. This reading will also be accessible via Zoom.
From the organizers:
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer, multiracial poet, critic, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Proprietary (Persea, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, California Book Award, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco.
Cate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon, 2022) and Oracle (Norton), a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.

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Literature Programs
jessicalynn@bennington.edu
802-440-4376

Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass
2022-11-04 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass
From the Organizers: “The Modern Elegy. Guest Poet: Chris Abani

No one wants to write an elegy.
–Kevin Young
The elegy is a poem of necessity. It may have been the first poetic speech, originating when our hunter-gatherer ancestors refused to leave their dead behind. The traditional elegy ritualizes grief, gives it language, and offers at least the beginnings of consolation. The modern elegy may do this as well, but, along with sorrow, there are often more complicated feelings: anger, conflict, guilt, and a resistance to solace. Elegies remember and celebrate our dead and make a space for them to live on the page. We’ll reflect on poems that approach the elegy from a wide range of experience and emotion and I’ll offer structures you can turn to when loss asks us to find words for the inexpressible.”

Carolyn Forché, Ocean Vuong, and Marilyn Chin at the 21st Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
2022-11-10 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Ocean Vuong, Carolyn Forche, and Marilyn Chin for an evening of poetry from Georgia Tech at 7 PM ET on November 10th.
From the Organizers:
The reading is FREE and open to the public, and will take place virtually via Zoom. Livestream links and other information are on tabs below.
For more information, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu .

An EVening of Poetry with Leila Chatti (Deluge) and Mónica Gomery (Might Kindred)
2022-11-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A Virtual Reading with Leila Chatti and Mónica Gomery will read with Brookline Brooksmith, an independent bookstore in New England. The event will be held on Zoom and the authors’ books will be available for purchase.
Leila Chatti, a Tunisian-American dual citizen, has lived in the United States, Tunisia, and Southern France. She is the author of the debut full-length collection Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize, the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her poems have received prizes from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize, among others, and appear in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Rumpus, Best New Poets (2015 & 2017), and other journals and anthologies. She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College.
Mónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred, winner of the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, judged by Kwame Dawes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Hilda Raz. A Venezuelan-American Jewish poet, her work engages with queerness, loss, diaspora, theology, and cultivating courageous hearts. She has been a nominee for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and is the winner of Pallette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She is a graduate of the Tin House Winter Workshop. Her poems appear most recently in the Iowa Review, Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, and Poet Lore. She is also the author of Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018) and Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Read more at www.monicagomerywriting.com
About Brookline Booksmith
We are one of New England’s premier independent bookstores, family-owned and locally run since 1961. We offer an extensive selection of new, used, and bargain books; unique, beautiful gifts; award-winning events series; and specialty foods. Every day, we strive to foster community through the written word, represent a diverse range of voices and histories, and inspire conversations that enrich our lives. Find more at brooklinebooksmith.com!
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Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way To Heaven with Victoria Chang
2022-11-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Victoria Chang will discuss The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Nightboat Books) with poet Brian Teare for a book launch on Zoom. In the book, Teare engages with the work and writings of American painter Agnes Martin.

From the organizers:
We hope you will join us on Zoom on 11/30 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for the book launch of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven by Brian Teare, joined by Victoria Chang! RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfu-urDMqHND8xQcJNpJTRl1rVKQ4Ieml

Comet of Stillness: Taught By Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder
2023-01-22 16:00 - 2023-02-19 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will be teaching a class called Comet of Stillness: A five-week short course on the Poetry of W.S. Merwin. The course will meet on Sundays from January 22 – February 19, 2023.
Early Bird Tuition (before January 12, 2023): $270.
Standard Tuition (After January 12, 2023): $300.
Financial Aid is available
From the organizers:
W.S. Merwin’s poetry was visionary, ecological, anti-war, and humanist, and exhibits a clarity and strangeness that continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary American poetry. The goal of these five sessions is to dive deeply into this extraordinary poet and his body of work. Across five sessions, poets Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will facilitate close-readings of key poems, and will situate the poems, and the poet, in their historical contexts. The course will explore Merwin’s formal innovations, his thematic concerns, and his development as a poet from his earliest work to his final poems. Chang and Zapruder will introduce, and talk with, key figures from his literary life, including Merwin’s long-time editor at Copper Canyon Press, Michael Wiegers.

In addition to course meetings, Chang and Zapruder will provide additional reading materials. Each session will begin with an hour of discussion, including background and close readings, followed by a ten-minute break. The session will then reconvene for a second hour in which Chang and Zapruder will discuss thoughts from the chat, answer questions, and offer further insights. Each session will end with an optional poetry writing prompt based on Merwin’s poetry.

Dates/Times: Sundays, January 22 – February 19, 2023 4:00-6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom

Early Bird Tuition (before January 12, 2023): $270.
Standard Tuition (After January 12, 2023): $300.
Financial aid is available. Please contact us if needed.

What to Expect:
Five, two-hour weekly sessions online with assigned reading of poems and supplemental material.
In the first sixty or seventy minutes of each session, Victoria Chang and Mathew Zapruder will explore and supply background on the previously assigned poems.
In the second hour, we will reconvene in our large group for conversation and questions.
Participant questions and comments may be addressed using Vimeo’s chat feature during the second hour, though questions can be posted in the chat throughout the session.
Optional small (8-10 person) discussion groups will be available to those with the energy and interest after the formal session is over.
Optional writing prompts based on Merwin’s poems will be provided.
Each participant will be given a seat on a dedicated SLACK channel, where writing prompt responses and extracurricular discussion can occur.
This course will be presented live online on the Vimeo platform.
These sessions will be recorded, and will be available for later viewing by registered participants for 30 days following the final session.
TEXT:
For this course, our text will be The Essential W.S. Merwin; handouts for each session will be posted online.
Participants who don’t own the text are asked to purchase and explore it, if possible, before January 22.
The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
THE SHORT COURSE PLAN:
Session 1 (Jan. 22): Introduction and early forms
Session 2 (Jan. 29): The Lice: war and the environment
Session 3 (Feb 5): Middle Period: intellect, resistance, and formal innovation
Session 4 (Feb. 12): The Vixen: time and ghosts
Session 5 (Feb 19): Late poems and Merwin’s poetic legacy
Online, and year-round, The Writers’ Annex is composed of short courses, seminars, workshops, and more. Our vision is to bring the creative insight and experience of our staff poets and prose writers to our community in all seasons, not just in the summertime, and not just here in our Valley. Our online offerings will address such topics as eco-poetics, translation, and generative sessions. Some will be one or two days, some will be weekend intensives, and some will meet weekly for a month or two. In addition, we hope these offerings will help offset the tremendous expenses we incur each summer bringing excellent writers of poetry and prose to the Valley regardless of their ability to pay.

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry with Naomi Shihab Nye, Steve Spencer, and Joseph Bednarik
2023-01-31 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online event celebrating the 20th anniversary of Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fAKJbjneRvuW9WjB6-UrSQ

Craft Class and Reading with Dana Levin
2023-04-01 11:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin. Craft Class will run from 11:00AM-1:00PM EST, followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM.
Serious Play: This April Fool’s Day workshop will focus on play—the heart of any strong writing practice. We’ll start with Keats’ notion of negative capability, discuss associative logic, and start playing! My hope is that participants will come away refreshed and interested in generating new poems with zest. The workshop will end with a round of Japanese Renga.
You must register here in order to receive the Zoom link on Friday, March 31st (the day before the craft class).”

Paisley Rekdal Interviews Dean Rader
2023-04-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“On Thursday April 20th, join HCN editor Paisley Rekdal for a livestream discussion with poet Dean Rader about his new book Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly from 11:00-12:00pm PDT.
To join the livestream, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9iGMczPac

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/

Close Readings in a Virtual Space with Christopher Soto
2023-06-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | online
From the organizers:
“This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Christopher Soto, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “tercer poema de amor / Third Poem of Love” by Roque Dalton. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.
Whether already well-versed in the close reading of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been ‘getting it,’ Close Readings in a Virtual Space provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.
Actively participate or simply listen and learn!
The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.
To purchase your FREE ticket, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/close-readings-in-a-virtual-space-with-christopher-soto-tickets-588445364927“
