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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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“

Hudson Valley Writer's Center presents: An Afternoon to Celebrate New Poetry with Randall Mann and others
2023-07-16 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Hudson Valley Writer’s Center presents: An Afternoon to celebrate new poetry collections with Randall Mann, Glenis Redmond, Enzo Silon Surin, and Dustin Brookshire, & Courtney LeBlanc (via Zoom)
From the organizers: Join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director & Sophia Bannister, Programming Assistant & Social Media Director, as we welcome Randall Mann, Glenis Redmond, Enzo Silon Surrin, and Courtney LeBlanc to read and discuss their new poetry collections.
NB: This reading will take place on Zoom. The link will be sent to the email that you use to register as soon as you reserve a spot. (Please check your spam folder and save the link to your calendar.) It will also be sent to you the day of the reading for your convenience.
More information will appear here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/newpoetry/

The Community of Writers Presents A Short Course: C.D. Wright — An American Original
2023-08-31 16:00 - 2023-09-28 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of poet C.D. Wright taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander and Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman. Gander and Hillman will guide participants through an overview of Wright’s extraordinary writing. The course will be designed for those who know Wright’s work already, as well as for those encountering her poetry for the first time.
Classes will take place every Thursday from August 31st – September 28th at 4:00 – 6:00pm PDT. For those who are interested, intimate Zoom discussion groups (Virtual Houses) will meet after each session and on subsequent Saturdays at 10:00am.”
To register, visit: https://communityofwriters.org/register-for-the-short-course-on-c-d-wright/

I Love NY presents Book launch for Dream Apartment with Lisa Olstein featuring Diane Seuss
2023-09-13 19:00 (America/New_York)
I Love NY presents Book launch for Dream Apartment with Lisa Olstein featuring Diane Seuss on September 13 at 7 PM ET
From the organizers:
Please join Jennifer Franklin & Diane Seuss as they help Lisa Olstein launch her fifth poetry collection, Dream Apartment (September, 2023, Copper Canyon). NB: This reading will be on Zoom. The link will be sent to the email that you use to register. (Please check your spam folder). Our readings are free and open to the public. Please consider making a donation towards the poets’ honorarium and, if you like their work, buying their book. Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006), Lost Alphabet (2009), Little Stranger (2013), Late Empire (2017), and Dream Apartment (2023). Her nonfiction includes Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press 2020), a book-length lyric essay exploring the intersection of pain, perception, and language; and Climate (Essay Press 2022), an exchange of epistolary essays with the poet Julie Carr. Diane Seuss needs no introduction. She is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021), winner of the PEN/Voelcker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
More information will appear here: https://www.iloveny.com/event/lisa-olstein%E2%80%99s-book-launch-for-dream-apartment-with-special-guest-diane-seuss-(via-zoom)/64887/

Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Jorie Graham for The O. B. Hardison Season Opening Reading
2023-10-03 19:30 (America/New_York)
Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Jorie Graham for The O. B. Hardison Season Opening Reading on Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 7:30pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham opens the season reading from her new work. Congressman Jamie Raskin moderates the post-reading conversation.
Please note that this event will be presented via virtual platform in Eastern Time (ET). Access links will be included in a performance reminder email closer to the event.

Tickets are Pay What You Will, starting at $5, priced to make them accessible to all. Pay the price that you can afford, all of which goes toward supporting future programs.”
To register for the event go to: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/ob-hardison-season-opening-reading-jorie-graham/

An Evening of Poetry with Alison C. Rollins
2023-10-04 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Presented by Copper Canyon Press on Wednesday October 4th 5:15pm Pacific Time
You are invited to join us for an evening of poetry and conversation to celebrate the brilliant forthcoming collection Black Bell by Alison C. Rollins.
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Black Bell continues an exploration of cataloging individual experience and collective memory. Within its pages, Alison places history before us by integrating sonics, metalwork, and performance art practices until language becomes performance.
Co-hosted by Copper Canyon editors Michael Wiegers and Ashley E. Wynter, this virtual benefit will feature Alison performing poems from Black Bell and offers you an exclusive look into her creative process. Alison is a phenomenal reader and performer—you will not want to miss this early-access peek into Black Bell!
You will also be given the opportunity to make your gift in support of this stunning new collection. Please join us!
Register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wEGgCJ8kRLiK_o7eX8q4JA#/registration

Alta presents Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble
2023-10-11 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alta
Alta presents Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 11th
From the organizers:
“Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble may be separated by continents (and decades), but this pair of writers are connected by their mutual devotion to the poet’s life. Their individual bodies of work reflect an urgency and a desire to welcome readers into the intimate parts of their minds—or at least to get those parts on the page. Join us for their conversation about poetry’s intersections with embodiment and provocative emotions, and a deep dive into how translation and language play a role in their work, as part of Alta Live’s Writers on Writers series and our Issue 25, The Writers Issue.”
Register here: https://altaonline.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BkmoxswAR6GgP8Rin3MWFA#/registration

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

$8 Adult / $5 Senior and Student
More information at The Lensic

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

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

CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE featuring Deborah Landau
2023-10-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE featuring Deborah Landau on Friday October 20th 12-1pm PDT
From the organizers:
“This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Deborah Landau, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Curriculum Vitae” by Lisel Mueller. 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 get tickets go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/close-readings-in-a-virtual-space-with-deborah-landau-tickets-694164513747

Women & Children First Present Natalie Eilbert and Sally Wen Mao
2023-11-15 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Women & Children First Present Natalie Eilbert and Sally Wen Mao for a virtual reading Wednesday November 15th at 7pm CT
From the organizers:
“Please join us for a virtual poetry reading to celebrate the release of THE KINGDOM OF SURFACES by Sally Wen Mao and OVERLAND by Natalie Eilbert!
Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. Attendees will receive a link to join the Zoom webinar on the day of the event.
Accessibility: For ASL Interpretation to be made available or other access needs, please submit a request prior to the event by emailing events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-poetry-reading-with-sally-wen-mao-natalie-eilbert-tickets-745138769117

Copper Canyon Press 50th Anniversary Celebration: Poets on their Personal Bests Featuring: Jericho Brown, Mark Bibbins, and Cate Marvin
2023-11-17 19:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York, CA, 10011, United States
In partnership with The New School Creative Writing Program on November 17th 7pm ET
Featuring: Jericho Brown, Mark Bibbins, and Cate Marvin
Hosted by: Erin Belieu, Carl Phillips, Michael Wiegers, and John Reed
Poetry is vital to language and living. Since 1973, Copper Canyon Press has been publishing extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers. This 50th anniversary event celebrates the Press—and the many poets who have called it home—by way of a unique, new anthology: Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most. In tandem with its publication, this reading will feature award-winning poets (Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim, and New York Arts Foundation, among others) to read and discuss what they consider to be the best poems they’ve ever written. Offering an intimate portrait into the working mind of writers, this program will ask how writers manage the critic within, who or what they write for, and how we might rethink what literature gets remembered most.
Personal Best editors Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips will host the poets in their reading and conversation. Director of the New School Creative Writing Program, John Reed, will welcome guests, and Executive Editor at Copper Canyon Press, Michael Wiegers, will introduce the program with a survey of this fifty years of extraordinary poetry making.
Wollman Hall, The New School
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY 10011
November 17th, 7pm ET.
Register to join the livestream here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MzM71KSzQDeJ9aQHN5saTQ#/registration
Register for the in-person event here: https://event.newschool.edu/coppercanyonpress50th

Verse Virtual November Poetry Reading, featuring Dean Rader and Brian Teare
2023-11-19 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Verse Virtual November Poetry Reading, featuring Dean Rader and Brian Teare on Sunday November 19th at 11am PT
For more information from the organizers:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1374916263442205/
Register for the event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsf-iprjMrGdzlpDRCg2Gzdd0g8dDQl-2L

Jacar Press Presents a Reading with Kevin Prufer in Conversation with Molly Twomey
2023-12-06 14:00 (America/New_York)
Jacar Press Presents a Reading with Kevin Prufer on Wednesday, December 6, 2pm ET
From the organizers:
“Their conversation will be centered around Kevin’s amazing new book The Fears, Copper Canyon Press.
Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided together as Prufer manipulates white space to mimic the silence of minds at work on unsolvable problems, how time “unravels / endlessly.” Here, visions of classical Greece and the trials of ancient Romans coexist with the everyday—memories of a parent’s death or the loss of a pet. We bear witness as the poet writes “to preserve the intricacy of [his] own mind / against the eventual / certainty of [his] absence.” Exploring what it means to be forgotten and how legacy is preserved through poetry, history books, a mummy’s index finger, and love letters from the grave, The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter.
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
2pm East Coast time
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82814413801
Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford, and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork. She has been published in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She runs an online international poetry event, Just to Say, sponsored by Jacar Press. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series and awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Her debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in May 2022 with The Gallery Press.”

What The Universe Is Presents Kevin Prufer and Adrian Matejka
2023-12-13 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
What The Universe Is Presents Kevin Prufer and Adrian Matejka on December 13th 5:30pm PT
Register for this online event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-2srTkiEtdirvHf6znAdZIPqrWkXuZi

Danusha Laméris Presents the Nine Lenses of Poetry Workshop Series
2024-02-11 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Danusha Laméris Presents the Nine Lenses of Poetry Workshop Series from February 11th to March 10th, 5 Sundays at 5pm PT
From Danusha:
“Are you an Innovator? A Soul Keeper?
There are so many ways to write poems. And so many kinds of poems to read.
Sometimes, it’s easy to think there’s a right way to write, or a wrong way. Or just that we don’t–––and can’t–– relate to certain types of poems.
What if there were a way to hold all the different styles without judgment, to see what a poem has to offer and what it offers the same way we might study an animal in its own biome?
This is what coming up with the Nine Lenses of Poetry has done for me. It’s given me new ways to appreciate all kinds of poems, as well as a way to frame my own work.
My hope is that by spending time studying these Nine Lenses, you will be able to strengthen your own poems, and to deepen in your appreciation of poetry.
This will an online Zoom class. No prerequisites. You don’t even have to be a writer! Just a reader, and someone who is curious about poetry.
In five, one hour sessions, I will offer craft talks on the Nine Lenses, contemplations and prompts, and space at the end for a Q and A.”
Register for the class here: https://danusha-lameris.mykajabi.com/store

Green Linden Press: Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry featuring Randall Mann, Eduardo C. Corral, etc.
2024-02-20 21:30 - 22:30 (America/New_York)
In this third reading for Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, an anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced by Jack Halberstam, the writers Randall Mann, Brian Blanchfield, Dorothy Chan, Eduardo C. Corral, and Brian Teare will show how “poetry can reveal our shared humanity.”
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsd-CgqT0sHNWJ0IEiNR3QAJ7VtyizoKM1#/registration

Cecilia Woloch & Friends: Kevin Prufer and Naomi Shihab Nye
2024-02-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join the poet Cecilia Woloch’s online reading series, in which she features the acclaimed writers Kevin Prufer and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-6qpjIvHNUZb-gd1rJZJwqxGZ0AsWP8#/registration

Boutelle-Day Poetry Center: Javier Zamora and Rebecca Foust
2024-02-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall (Smith College)
Join the poets Javier Zamora and Rebecca Foust for an evening of activist poetry that transcends borders.
Watch the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IYXArYvK6A

Grolier Poetry Book Shop: Shangyang Fang, C. Francis Fisher, and Charles Kell
2024-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA, United States
From the presenters:
“Please join us for our reading with Shangyang Fang, C. Francis Fisher and Charles Kell with an introduction by Chris Hosea.”
Register here for the in-person reading: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ek8whi1k63f0c67d&llr=6hztvkcab
Register here to attend virtually: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ek8whi1r59ace29b&llr=6hztvkcab
