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

Jim Harrison: A Reading with Rebecca Solnit, Jamie Harrison, & Todd Goddard
2024-03-07 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Rebecca Solnit, Jamie Harrison, and author of Jim Harrison’s forthcoming biography, Todd Goddard, for a free livestream event in support of the forthcoming reissue of Jim’s beautiful book The Theory and Practice of Rivers. Hosted by Joseph Bednarik, this 70-minute event will feature stories, poems, musings on rivers, thoughts from Rebecca on her introduction to the book, and (with luck!) audio recordings—retrieved from archival tapes—of Jim reading from the long poem “Theory and Practice of Rivers.” Throughout the evening you will be given the opportunity to make your gift in support of the final phase of “The Heart’s Work: Jim Harrison’s Poetic Legacy.” Join us!
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZNay-_CTUi8jm74qNvfVw#/registration

Hudson Valley Writers Center: Poets' Conversation with Jane Huffman & Diane Seuss
2024-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Please join us on Zoom for an evening of poetry and conversation with Jane Huffman and Diane Seuss on Sunday, March 10, 4 PM ET.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/seuss/

The Community of Writers: Rediscovering Sylvia Plath with Victoria Chang & Matthew Zapruder
2024-04-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“When we think of Sylvia Plath, it’s easy to see the image of the electric confessional poet who took her own life. Her tragic personal history, including her marriage to Ted Hughes, can easily obscure her poetry. But when we return to the work itself, we see a poet of genius, who mapped her struggles to find a completely original poetic voice.
“In this Short Course, we’ll close-read Plath’s poetry, to learn from her singularity. We’ll begin with an overview of Plath’s poetry leading up to her creative breakthrough, then focus the remaining four sessions on close reading poems from her posthumous, best-known book Ariel. We’ll try to understand together where she came from, her essential innovations, and her effect on the poetry that came after her. Was she truly a “confessional” poet? How does she make meaning from the turmoil of her life, and the time in which she wrote? What were her poetic innovations? How can we understand her poems as something more than mere autobiography? What aspects of her poetry continue to influence poems today? In addition to the poems from Ariel and after, we’ll look at drafts of her poems from her archives, to explore her writing process, so that we can learn from her creative process.
“Each session will begin with an hour of discussion between Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder, including background and close readings, followed by a short break. We will then reconvene for our second hour in which we will discuss your thoughts from the chat, answer questions, and offer further insights. We will end each session with an optional poetry writing prompt based on Plath’s poetry.
“Dates & Times: Online Sundays from April 28 to May 19, 2024 with a Bonus Session on May 22. Main sessions run from 4 pm-6 pm (Pacific) with optional discussion groups to follow.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 5, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 12, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 19, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET (Bonus Session)

“Note: For those who are interested, intimate Zoom discussion groups (Virtual Houses) will meet after each session and on subsequent Saturdays at 10 AM.”
Register here: https://communityofwriters.org/register-for-rediscovering-sylvia-path/

August Wilson African American Cultural Center presents Nicholas Goodly for Lit Friday
2024-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Nicholas Goodly joins LIT Friday to discuss Black Swim.
LIT Friday is an August Wilson African American Cultural Center monthly virtual program. Hosted by poet and art journalist, Jessica Lanay, LIT Friday features in depth conversations on the final Friday of each month with writers and thinkers of the African Diaspora. The conversations focus on the intersection of the featured guests’ work and contemporary events affecting the global Black community. Previous guests include Man Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo (2021), music journalist Nelson George (2020), public scholar Dr. Yaba Blay (2022), journalist and author Danyel Smith (2023), and National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2024).”
Register here: https://awaacc.org/event/lit-friday-nicholas-goodly/

Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
2024-07-29 - 2024-08-02
Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
From the organizers:
“If you want to encounter more truth in your poems, to express it in the most beautiful way possible, to craft poems that reflect the inextricable marriage of truth and beauty, love and death, the luminous and the ordinary, please join us for this special workshop.
We will elude and distract the censors that silence or limit us. We’ll approach our experience from new angles to find the poem within the story. We’ll question the stories we think are true and experience the power of not-knowing and discovery.
We will write poems, share our writing, and hear what our work touches in others. We’ll also read model poems by contemporary poets and discuss aspects of the craft. But mainly this will be a writing retreat—time to explore and create in a supportive community. Though the focus is on poetry, prose writers who want to enrich their language will find it a fertile environment.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/truth-and-beauty-online-july-august-2024/

Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews present Ted Kooser Book Launch
2024-09-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews will share poems from Ted Kooser‘s latest book, RAFT, out from Copper Canyon Press in September, 2024. Please note: due to health reasons, Ted Kooser will not be participating in this reading, though he will be watching!”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-kooser-book-launch-tickets-935544367387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Preorder the book here. Include a note in the comments section at checkout for a personalized message from Ted Kooser: https://sewardchapters.com/book/9781556597015

The Essential C.D. Wright: A Reading with Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander
2024-10-08 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press and honored guests Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander for an evening of poetry and celebration in honor of legendary poet C.D. Wright.
Hosted by C.D. Wright’s longtime poetry editor and Copper Canyon Press’s Executive Editor, Michael Wiegers, this livestream benefit reading will launch The Essential C.D. Wright and feature rare poems, archival photographs and materials, as well as numerous personal stories from her life. Throughout the evening you will be given the opportunity to become a part of the poetry by donating to secure and advance C.D.’s poetic legacy for generations to come.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KPxG8BMoQQeyHFA7t3fbJw#/registration

Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Better Angels of Our Nature
2025-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cathedral Nave, University of Washington, 1410 NE Campus Pkwy, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
From the Organizer:
A Thursday evening Wisdom School event with acclaimed poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025, 7–8:30 P.M., in person in the cathedral nave and livestreamed; registration required
Due to the number of registrations, this event will be offered in the cathedral nave rather than Bloedel Hall. A livestream will be available to registrants as announced previously.
We live in fraught times when violence seems to be the common denominator in a calculus based in mistrust and misanthropic othering. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind… Drawing on inspiration from his work with language and religion, conflict and peacemaking, this truth-teller of our time will draw us into an orbit of soulful wisdom and poetic grace.
Fee: $15 (for in-person and livestream participation).
Register below or using this link.

Sophie Cabot Black and Elise Paschen at Grolier Poetry Book Shop
2025-04-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA, United States
Sophie Cabot Black, author of Geometry of the Restless Herd, will be reading at Grolier Poetry Book Shop with Elise Paschen on April 30th at 7PM.
Register in person here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/5pyq967/lp/33cf158d-15e4-461f-86b6-544a6b219cd0
Register virtually here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/rm8bs8p/lp/97d283fd-19b6-4b6e-a9e1-39414f37b887

Bennington Writers Reading Series: Summer 2025
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-13 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers: Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program’s summer residency.
This series is open to the public and will be available to stream virtually. The complete schedule of readings can be found at the link below, along with streaming links.
https://www.bennington.edu/events/event-series/writers-reading-series-summer-2025

Jennifer Chang, Rachel Cohen, and Rebecca Makkai
Thursday, Jun 5
Tishman Lecture Hall

Peter Cameron, Bianca Stone, and De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Friday, Jun 6
Tishman Lecture Hall

Monica Ferrell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA ’23
Saturday, Jun 7
Tishman Lecture Hall

Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D’Erasmo, and Craig Morgan Teicher
Sunday, Jun 8
Tishman Lecture Hall

Alumni Fellows Reading: Davin Malasarn MFA ’20 and Nina Peláez MFA ’24
Monday, Jun 9
Tishman Lecture Hall

‘Pemi Aguda and Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Monday, Jun 9
Tishman Lecture Hall

Brian Dillon, Hugh Ryan MFA ’09, and Taymour Soomro
Wednesday, Jun 11
Tishman Lecture Hall

Garrard Conley, Thomas Grattan, and Lance Richardson
Thursday, Jun 12
Tishman Lecture Hall

Randall Mann and Dinaw Mengestu
Friday, Jun 13
Tishman Lecture Hall

A Poetry Reading with Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Smith College
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall (Smith College)
In honor of her new book, The New Economy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi will be reading poetry on the Smith College campus Tuesday, September 30th from 7pm-8:30pm in Weinstein Auditorium. This event us free and open to the public. A livestream also available on the BDPC YouTube page.

The Unifying Power of Translation: A Virtual Reading and Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers
2025-11-11 17:15 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press and host Michael Wiegers for a free, livestreamed event to celebrate the unifying power of translation. Michael will be joined by honored guests Arthur Sze, 25th Poet Laureate of the United States, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers for an evening of poetry and conversation where you will be given the opportunity to make your gift in support of Copper Canyon Press.
Reserve your spot here.

Kwame Dawes and the African Poetry Book Distribution Project: Poetry Reading and Research
2025-11-15 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
Kwame Dawes and the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) team will present research findings from the African Poetry Book Distribution Project. Funded by a Poetry Foundation grant, the Project studied poetry book distribution in African countries to improve accessibility and foster sustainable partnerships with publishing and literary stakeholders throughout Africa. The event also features readings from Midwest poets connected to the project, including Chris Abani, Rabha Ashry, and Cheswayo Mphanza.
The event will take place virtually, November 15, 2025 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public, but you have to register in advance.

Words Like Blades: A Virtual Reading with SHANGYANG FANG, JANE MILLER, and LISA OLSTEIN
2025-11-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join Shangyang Fang, Jane Miller, and Lisa Olstein for the “Words Like Blades” reading series hosted by Jennifer Franklin, Jane Huffman, Nathan McClain, and Ren Wilding. This event will be held on Sunday, November 23, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. eastern time (ET). The poets will read on Zoom, followed by a virtual Q&A.
Admission is free, but registration is required. Registered guests will receive a Zoom link and password prior to the start of the event. Registered guests will have the opportunity to send donations directly to the readers (to be split three ways) before, during, and after the event via Venmo or PayPal.
