Copper Canyon Press

Wisconsin Book Festival presents Leila Chatti and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
2020-09-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Program in Creative Writing, this edition of Wisconsin Wednesdays features UW Alumnae Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for her new novel, Starling Days, and Leila Chatti for her new poetry collection, Deluge.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/starling-days–deluge/register

UA Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents Philip Metres
2020-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
The University of Arizona Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents an online reading with Philip Metres.
Register here: https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WC2fXUcmQDm7ZROLlZHU-Q

Academy of American Poets presents Books Noted Live: Tyree Daye & Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2020-09-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join the Academy of American Poets for Books Noted Live, a new, virtual reading and conversation series featuring poets with new or forthcoming books. The first of four events will take place Friday, September 25th at 7PM EDT.
The Academy is pleased to host Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Age of Phillis, which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, in conversation with Tyree Daye, whose collection Cardinal is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Purchase or pre order the books by the readers.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/books-noted-live-with/register

A Reading & Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay, moderated by Cathy Linh Che & Malcolm Tariq
2020-09-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“In celebration of the publication months of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments and Ross Gay’s Be Holding: A Poem, we’re co-hosting a virtual reading with Cave Canem and Milkweed Editions! Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay will read and join Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman and Malcolm Tariq of Cave Canem in conversation. This reading will be held over Zoom at 6:00 PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th. We’ll send out a Zoom link one week in advance to everyone registered. The first 100 participants can join the Zoom webinar. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook for everyone else. RSVP and be sure to order your copy of World of Wonders and Be Holding: A Poem from Bookshop.org!”
Register here: https://kundiman.formstack.com/forms/aimee_ross_reading

My Name Is My Own: Celebrating June Jordan & Ruth Stone | A Virtual Benefit
2020-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Featuring Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rio Cortez, Monica Sok, and Alison C. Rollins, plus editors Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers

Join Copper Canyon Press and an all-star lineup to celebrate the legacies of two iconic feminist poets, while raising crucial funds to support our spring season of phenomenal books. You’ll be treated to a first look at brand-new and forthcoming anthologies, The Essential Ruth Stone and The Essential June Jordan, and invited to help launch a Kickstarter project to lift up these extraordinary poets and their legacies.
Ruth Stone (1915–2011) and June Jordan (1936-2002), while distinct from each other in terms of aesthetics and identity, share a fierce sense of feminist poetics, a wonderful balance of candor and cleverness, and visionary understandings of power, violence, and solidarity. We are thrilled to honor these poets with you.
Guest readers will include: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, with a preview of his afterword for The Essential June Jordan; international bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert; and a host of other literary luminaries.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3515997557627/WN_bICiuBVBRtGjaJlrkgWK2A

Poets House presents Tyree Daye
2020-10-02 12:00 - 12:20 (America/New_York)
Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and the Poets House Archive on Fridays at noon. On October 2, poet and educator Tyree Daye reads from his forthcoming second collection Cardinal, from Raleigh, NC.
Watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/poetshouse
On IGTV here: https://www.instagram.com/poets_house/channel/
Or check the archive for footage after the event: https://poetshouse.org/digital-initiatives/poets-house-presents/

Fall 2020 Launch Party Livestream: Tyree Daye, Jennifer L. Knox, Alberto Ríos, & Lewis Hyde
2020-10-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press for a livestream launch party to celebrate four extraordinary books from our fall 2020 season! Tyree Daye, Jennifer L. Knox, Alberto Ríos, and Lewis Hyde will read from their new collections, followed by a Q&A with viewers. Access is free.
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and a link to the event recording will be available here on our website.
Our partnering bookseller for the Launch Party Livestream series is the Seattle-based Estelita’s Library—a Black/Brown-owned community bookstore and library. We encourage you to support Estelita’s by purchasing books by our Launch Party poets through their storefront on Bookshop.org. Start here, then search the titles you’d like to buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/estelitaslibrary
Register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2415990656132/WN_BNl0dYVoTQWhklPRFmGr6w

AAPI FORCE EF presents a Night of Cultural Resistance, feat. Monica Sok
2020-10-17 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
AAPIs are rising up in resistance! Join AAPI FORCE EF for a night of dynamic performances and artist conversations on civic engagement at our Night of Cultural Resistance. We’re inviting some outstanding community members to share why and how their creative practices advocate for a more equitable future. As we get closer to the last day to turn in our ballots, we know it is our responsibility to get out and vote if we have the privilege to. Our choices will shape the realities of California and the communities around us. Plug in October 17th, 5:30PST to get inspired, and get mobilized to make change for the AAPI community!
Line Up: Terisa Siagatonu (emcee), Ruby Ibarra, Jes Tom, Taz Ahmed, Monica Sok, Low Leaf

To Marvin: A Celebration of Marvin Bell in Poems
2020-11-01 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us for a reading and celebration of Marvin Bell’s poetry by his friends, colleagues, and former students, including John Irving, Tess Gallagher, Heather McHugh, David St. John, Naomi Shihab Nye, Kwame Dawes, Ellen Bass, Juan Felipe Herrera, Stephen Kuusisto, Dorianne Laux, Lia Purpura, Eric Pankey, and many more. Nathan Bell will sing, and we will raise a toast to the ways in which this extraordinary poet has shaped our literary landscape. “Your are not beautiful, exactly,” he writes in his famous poem for his wife, “To Dorothy.” “You are beautiful, inexactly.” Marvin’s precise understanding of what the inexact beauty surrounding us means has made all the difference in the lives writers and readers around the world.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4dsT1yN4QtuQ8PmToWgJ5A

92Y presents Young Writers Workshop: Poetry with Monica Sok
2020-11-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2020-11-15 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Online Class for high school students, ages 15-18
Our poems have the power to reflect us. We may look into the mirror to see ourselves in plain sight. But what about windows that invite our own reflections inside another space?

The self, looking into a room. The self, staring outside at a whole landscape. The self, catching its reflection inside a car window while turning around the corner. Depending on where you stand, poetry invites the hidden self. In this class we will read and write poems that go inward. We will address ourselves and focus on the unknowns that may be buried inside of us.
Class meets Sundays: November 8 and 15.”
Register here: https://www.92y.org/class/young-writers-workshop-monica-sok

Elliott Bay Book Company presents Ellen Bass and Derek Sheffield
2021-01-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organization:
“Derek Sheffield recently joined us for an exuberant post-election reading of the Terrain.org anthology Dear America, and returns to our virtual stage tonight to launch a new collection of poetry, Not For Luck (Wheelbarrow Books/Michigan State University Press). Reading with him tonight is the esteemed poet Ellen Bass, whom we had hoped to host last spring, when her most recent collection, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) was published.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/derek-sheffield-not-for-luck-and-ellen-bass-indigo-poetry-reading-tickets-130841696035

The Brooklyn Rail presents Radical Poetry Reading with Sharon Olds, Leila Chatti, Toi Derricotte, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Danez Smith
2021-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Poet Sharon Olds curates the 20th Radical Poetry Reading, featuring Toi Derricotte, Yusef Komunyakaa, Danez Smith, and Leila Chatti.
This event will be held over ZOOM. We’ll send you a link to join this event after you register.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-social-environment-211-radical-poetry-with-sharon-olds-tickets-135920246115

The Manderley Collective presents Leila Chatti and Elizabeth Powell
2021-01-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
The Manderley Collective presents an online reading and Q&A with Leila Chatti and Elizabeth Powell.
Register here: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtd-6tqj0jEtAw93LunZG70_ZQyOmtr9uu

The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming - Love, Love, Love, feat. Jericho Brown
2021-01-21 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join us this winter for a virtual series of public conversations entitled, The Black Matter is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming. In this series, we will explore and discuss the rich tradition and innovation found in African American poetry.

Poetry is a powerful art form, one that offers profound insights into what it means to be human. Through the creative, succinct, and melodious use of language, poets render into words their joys, their challenges, their vulnerabilities, and their discoveries, thus providing shape and meaning to the human connection and shared emotional experience.
In the wake of our nation’s current unrest, this program is designed to build bridges across the racial divide by introducing the audience to the writings of a number of African American poets whose work has shone a light on a rich cultural heritage that has often gone unexplored. This program asks the audience to consider how African American poetry provides tools for healing our nation’s deep racial wounds.

To begin this exploration of the vast diversity within African American poetic tradition, UNH professors Reginald Wilburn and Dennis Britton will facilitate three online conversations. Each discussion deconstructs four poems grouped by themes. Conversations will center these poems within the context of the African American literary tradition, their cultural heritage, the traditions they encompassed, and the relevance this tradition has to us today. The series will also explore the question, ‘Why does African American Poetry matter?'”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdu-vqz8oG9MzJH1DYmxo_GMc5qQrRn7c

Princeton University presents Jericho Brown and Danez Smith in Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
2021-01-22 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, as she discusses poetry, survival, and our pandemic reality with renowned poets Jericho Brown and Danez Smith.
This highlighted Wintersession event will feature poetry readings by Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and award-winning poet, performer, and current Princeton Arts Fellow Danez Smith. Professor Smith will moderate a conversation on art, America, and the feelings and determinations arising from this complicated moment. An interactive audience Q&A will conclude the evening.”
Register here: https://campusevents.princeton.edu/OWCE/rsvp_boot?id=904109

The Santa Cruz County Community Writers Series presents Ellen Bass
2021-01-23 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:

Ellen Bass’s most recent poetry book is Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the NEA, the California Arts Council, three Pushcart Prizes, and The Lambda Literary Award. In 1973, she coedited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction includes the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

OPEN MIC
The virtual doors will open at 2pm PT. You can sign up to read your own original work for up to five minutes then or by email: communitywritersscco@gmail.com.

Access information: We’ll be meeting virtually via Zoom. You may join us via computer, laptop, or smartphone.
Email us to get on the email reminder list and receive zoom link and password: [REDACTED]

The Adroit Journal Issue 36 Release Reading featuring Ellen Bass
2021-01-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“The editors of The Adroit Journal are excited to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our thirty-sixth issue. Readers include issue contributors Ellen Bass, Ethan Chatagnier, Martha Collins, Ghinwa Jawhari, Aurielle Marie, Nkosi Nkululeko, and Lydia Wei. The reading will be hosted on Zoom by Heidi Seaborn, executive editor of The Adroit Journal.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-adroit-journal-issue-36-release-reading-tickets-137030336425

Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters
2021-01-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“As part of Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles joins the nationwide celebration of 250 years of African American poetry, on the occasion of the release of Kevin Young’s anthology. This program will include a special reading of these poems that address questions of identity, race, place, voice and the richness and diversity of African American poetic imagination.”
Poets in the anthology in include Jericho Brown, Camille Rankine, Roger Reeves, Alison C. Rollins, among many others. The event will feature special guests Kevin Young, Amanda Gorman, Kris Bowers, Robin Coste Lewis, and Safiya Sinclair.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lift-every-voice-why-african-american-poetry-matters-today-tickets-133028637235

100 Boots Poetry Series presents Nathaniel Mackey and Natalie Shapero
2021-01-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“This free program will be hosted on Zoom; registration is required.

The 100 Boots Poetry Series presents readings by a range of emerging and established writers from St. Louis and across the United States. 100 Boots is organized by Ted Mathys, poet and educator at Saint Louis University. Mathys will host a virtual discussion and reading with poets Nathaniel Mackey and Natalie Shapero. A selection of their books are available courtesy of Left Bank Books at left-bank.com.

“Blue Fasa” by Nathaniel Mackey: bit.ly/3beSTQp
“Popular Longing” by Natalie Shapero: bit.ly/396oktM”

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3owhd8ZESOycDJ1qQvtXzw

Fresno MFA Chicanx Writers and Artists Association presents Monica Sok
2021-01-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:

“Join the Chicanx Writers and Artists Association in (re)welcoming Monica Sok, an acclaimed poet, for a reading and Q&A! Monica was previously slated to read with us last Spring and we’re fortunate she’s able to make space with us this upcoming January.”

Register here: https://fresnostate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsfuisrz8uHNYu1zqNcwlo8QW4YsNMsKQs

Lit Youngstown presents Philip Metres, Kevin Carey, & Kim Roberts
2021-01-31 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Lit Youngstown presents a celebration of three poets and their new books, streaming live on Lit Youngstown’s YouTube channel. Tune in for a reading and conversation with Philip Metres, Kevin Carey, and Kim Roberts.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSU2yQJz2gpHQWwdMAfrWzw

The Academy of American Poets presents All We Can Save: A Virtual Reading & Comprehension feat. Ellen Bass
2021-02-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Academy of American Poets presents All We Can Save: A Virtual Reading & Comprehension, February 4 at 7 PM EST, feat. Ellen Bass
From the organizers:
All We Can Save: A Virtual Reading & Conversation featuring women leaders who are at the forefront of the climate movement. This event will include Academy of American Poets Chancellor Ellen Bass and Camille T. Dungy, two poet contributors to the anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, co-edited by climate leaders Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, who will also participate in the event. Thursday, February 4 at 7 p.m. EST. Free with registration. Closed captioning will be available.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/all-we-can-save-a/register?mc_cid=efa8ee01bd&mc_eid=13f51d1abd

Home Poetry Workshop Series: A Poetry Reading & Open Mic with Rachel McKibbens
2021-02-05 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“HOME is a poetry reading, open mic, and workshop series led by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola. It consists of a featured reader and brief open mic every first Friday of the month, followed by a writing workshop the following Saturday morning. Anthony Febo will host the readings and open mics.”
This reading and open mic features Rachel McKibbens.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS1OcXWCfLt4hsXE8kGR-KI1OpQQGeO_sKyMWatxjbquqBEA/viewform

Home Poetry Workshop Series: The Magic and Uncertainty of Memory with Rachel McKibbens
2021-02-06 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“HOME is a poetry reading, open mic, and workshop series led by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola. It consists of a featured reader and brief open mic every first Friday of the month, followed by a writing workshop the following Saturday morning.”
This workshop is led by Rachel McKibbens.
“The magic and uncertainty of memory often gives way to the fantastic, allowing our stories to inherit the dreamlike qualities of the subconscious. In this discussion, we will explore how fragments and masks (in both language and persona) allow us to push art beyond the boundaries of truth, permitting the core depths of ourselves to be revealed in their darkest, most feral forms. By examining the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, we will learn the importance of allowing the many versions of truth to push back against oppressive realities.”
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZuKPSS5Whb95wyA0yX_O3yVNWG15uMQwngGRJeUS0jSagWw/viewform

Observable Reading Series presents Tyree Daye and Fatimah Asghar
2021-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
The St. Louis Poetry Center’s Observable reading series presents a livestreamed reading with Tyree Daye and Fatimah Asghar. The event is free, with a suggested $5 donation.
Enjoy the livestream here: https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/observable/
Or here: https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live

An Instagram Live Reading with Alex Dimitrov
2021-02-09 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
An Instagram Live Reading with Alex Dimitrov
Watch here:
https://www.instagram.com/wildeamericanboy/

Winter 2021 Launch Party Livestream: Natalie Shapero, Alex Dimitrov, & Erin Belieu
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press for a livestream launch party reading in celebration of our winter 2021 season of books! Natalie Shapero, Alex Dimitrov, and Erin Belieu will read from their new collections, followed by a Q&A with viewers. Access is free.
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and a link to the event recording will be available here on our website.
Our partnering bookseller for the Launch Party Livestream series is the Seattle-based Estelita’s Library—a Black/Brown-owned community bookstore and library. We encourage you to support Estelita’s by purchasing or pre-ordering books by our Launch Party poets through their storefront on Bookshop.org. Start here, then search the titles you’d like to buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/estelitaslibrary
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8915990663528/WN_DEWJlZY8Qku-e8wYQCjfOg

Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Victoria Chang
2021-02-11 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Georgia Poetry Circuit, February 11 at 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET, presents Victoria Chang
From the organizers:
The Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Department of Writing & Linguistics present poet Victoria Chang for two events. The schedule of events is as follows, and all events are free to the public and take place via Zoom:

2-3 p.m. : [email Prof. Christina Olson for class Zoom access]
6:30-7:30 p.m. : Reading

Register here: https://cah.georgiasouthern.edu/writling/2021/01/25/georgia-poetry-circuit-presents-victoria-chang/

Unbound Book Festival presents Poetry and Prayer, feat. Jericho Brown
2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Featuring Jericho Brown, Molly McCullly Brown, Alicia Jo Rabins, with moderator Rev. Molly Housh Gordon
If, as Mary Oliver declared, attention is the beginning of devotion, then many poems are akin to prayer. But for those poets steeped in liturgical traditions or marked by celestial yearnings, that connection is more direct. The poets on this panel will discuss poetry’s relationship to prayer, as well as to other religious vocalizing, such as chants, hymns, koans, and mantras. Moreover, they will consider poetry as a religion itself, an unorthodox source of holiness and redemption.”
Access link forthcoming here: http://www.unboundbookfestival.com/poetry-and-prayer
