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Green Apple Books presents Virtual Event with Victoria Chang and Ari Banias
2021-10-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Green Apple Books presents Virtual Event with Victoria Chang and Ari Banias at 6:00 pm PST.
From the organizers:
“JOIN US ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN VICTORIA CHANG AND ARI BANIAS TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOKS DEAR MEMORY: LETTERS ON WRITING, SILENCE, AND GRIEF AND A SYMMETRY ON ZOOM!”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4bdGtBITT8CY4Dch_81cHg

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom
2021-10-10 10:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom at 10:30 am – 2:30 pm.
From the organizers:
“The poet Vievee Francis introduced the concept of entering “the cave of one’s self” during my grad school years at North Carolina State University,” Tyree explains. “Vievee encouraged me to explore my narrative, to investigate my symbols, and to break them open and to look inside of them. My narrative is that I’m black, southern, raised by a single mother. Knowing my narrative helps me understand why tobacco fields and dirt roads show up in my poems. By identifying and exploring my symbols, I can begin to telescope inside them, making the language I use to speak about them fresh, and discover why these symbols were given to me. I believe our images come from God and are our egoless souls trying to make us see our connection to the world. In our workshop, I will ask students to enter “the cave of one’s self” through several writing exercises.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/tyreedaye/

International Literature Festival Berlin presents Poetry Night with Ana Luísa Amaral, Athena Farrokhzad, Olga Ravn, Arthur Sze, and Charlotte Van den Broeck
2021-10-09 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
The International Literature Festival Berlin presents Poetry Night with Ana Luísa Amaral, Athena Farrokhzad, Olga Ravn, Arthur Sze, and Charlotte Van den Broeck on October 9 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Central European Summer Time (10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific).
From the organizers:
Since her debut in 1990, Ana Luísa Amaral has published numerous volumes of poetry. Most recently, the volume »Was ist ein Name« [Eng. »What’s In a Name«, 2017; translated into German by Michael Kegler and Piero Salabè] was published to great acclaim in German. In 2021, she won the Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía, the most important prize for poetry in the Ibero-Romance language category. To kick off this year’s Poetry Night, Amaral will talk about the transformation process that her poetry undergoes when translated into other languages.
Athena Farrokhzad’s haunting long poem »White Blight« [translated by Jennifer Hayashida] is dedicated to the theme of the emigration experience. She alternately lends her voice to the individual members of her family, whose statements illustrate different perspectives on the new place of life and the memory of her native Iran. The daughter of the family, however, remains silent, linking the various voices into a polyphonic work of disorientation and speechlessness.
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most popular authors. Her poetry debut in 2009 was followed by three further volumes of poetry. The minimalist, unrelenting texts in the volume »den hvide rose« [tr: Becoming a Rose; translated into German by Alexander Sitzmann] repeat the classic image of the rose in a meditative rhythm and address love, illness, loss, and heartbreaking loneliness. The book was nominated for the Danish Readers’ Book Prize.
Charlotte Van den Broeck, who opened the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair with Arnon Grunberg, was awarded the Herman de Coninck Debut Prize for her poems, which have been translated into several languages. Her volume »Chameleon, Nachtroe« [translated into German by Stefan Wieczorek] has the theme of failed love running through it as the common thread of many »texts that express the endless feeling of travel, of nocturnal highways and hotel rooms, a world of breathlessness.« [Leipziger Zeitung]
Winner of the American Book Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and the National Book Award for Poetry, Arthur Sze is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and also a celebrated translator of Chinese. His texts show a condensed lyrical expression of that which often lies far apart in time and space. He reveals the ephemeral in nature and traces phenomena whose meaning and beauty sometimes go unnoticed. Arthur Sze will be joining via live stream.
Event language(s): English/ diverse
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Windham-Campbell Prizes presents 2021 Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival with Natalie Scenters-Zapico
2021-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Windham Campbell Prizes presents 2021 Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival with Natalie Scenters-Zapico at 12 pm EST.
Register here: https://windhamcampbell.matchboxvirtualspaces.com/create-account

Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts presents First Books Conversation (Stadler Center Writers Series) with Leila Chatti and Nana Nkweti
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University presents Poet Leila Chatti & Fiction Writer Nana Nkweti First Books Conversation (Stadler Center Writers Series) at 7 pm – 8 pm EST.
Register here: https://calendar.bucknell.edu/stadler-center/view/event/event_id/29909

Green Apple Books presents 9th Ave with Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren
2021-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94122, United States
Green Apple Books presents 9th Ave with Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren at 6 pm PST both in person and online.
From the organizers:
“JOIN US ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANDRA LIM, NATALIE SHAPERO, AND NOAH WARREN JOIN US FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING THEIR LATEST POETRY COLLECTIONS AT 9TH AVE!”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vHSYhcpURdaNKQ_wr42E1g

Brooklyn Book Festival presents Poetry in Times of Crisis with Kendra Allen, Jorie Graham, Donika Kelly, and Mai Der Vang
2021-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Brooklyn Book Festival presents Poetry in Times of Crisis with Kendra Allen, Jorie Graham, Donika Kelly, and Mai Der Vang at 6 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“Poets Kendra Allen (The Collection Plate), Jorie Graham (Runaway), Donika Kelly (The Renunciations), and Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain) discuss their explorations of survival and human resilience in the face of political and personal trauma/struggle. Moderated by Jamia Wilson (This Book is Feminist).”
Register here: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/poetry-in-times-of-crisis/

New Dominion Bookshop presents America with Fernando Valverde and Samuel Amago
2021-10-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New Dominion Bookshop, 404 East Main St, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
New Dominion Bookshop presents America with Fernando Valverde and Samuel Amago at 7 pm EST.
From the organizers:
“Join us as we celebrate the release of Fernando Valverde’s new poetry collection, America. Fernando Valverde will be reading his poems in Spanish, and UVA professor Samuel Amago will be reading the translations in English. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.”
More information here: https://ndbookshop.com/events/america-fernando-valverde/

The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses 2021: A Virtual Benefit for The Merwin Conservancy on the Occasion of W.S. Merwin’s Birthday with Jorie Graham and Matthew Zapruder
2021-09-30 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses 2021: A Virtual Benefit for The Merwin Conservancy on the Occasion of W.S. Merwin’s Birthday with Jorie Graham and Matthew Zapruder
From the organizers:
On Thursday, September 30th at 12:00 pm Hawai‘i (3:00 pm Pacific, 6:00 pm Eastern), The Merwin Conservancy will gather virtually with friends around the world to celebrate the poetry of W.S. Merwin on the occasion of his birthday, and share our vision for stewarding his legacy.
Puanani Burgess, Forrest Gander, Jorie Graham, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Paul Holdengräber, Ada Limón, Christopher Merrill, Kevin Young, and Matthew Zapruder will read selections of William’s poetry along with several other special guests yet to be announced.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/garden-of-verses-2021/register

The University of Arizona Poetry Center presents Engaged Poetry with Javier Zamora
2021-09-25 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix) | The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States
The University of Arizona Poetry Center presents Engagement in Poetry/Engaged Poetry with Javier Zamora, a workshop on September 25 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. MST.
From the organizers:

Saturday, September 25, 12pm-3pm
Meetings will take place in the Poetry Center Conference Room; limit 12 students.
What keeps us engaged? What drives us down the page to the end of the poem? We will explore “speed” or “momentum,” by analyzing poems that keep our attention. But also, we will explore how as writers, we can be engaged with our surrounding world, to the point that we must do something about it. We will look at poems that have been a “call to arms” of sorts. To inspire our creativity, we will look at the current headlines to draw poetry from the media. This workshop will be half generative and half revision.
Cost: $90

Register here: https://universityofarizonapoetrycenter.submittable.com/submit/199588/fa-21-engagement-in-poetry-engaged-poetry-with-javier-zamora

Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon
2021-09-25 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon at 10 am – 3 PM PST
From the organizers:
In this 5-hour online Zoom class, we will swan-dive into the strange through techniques and games used by surrealist writers and artists. The poems we will write will have less to do with “making sense” and more to do with the mystery and mindfulness of our subconscious and dreams. Here we will allow our imaginations to run wild. We will discover new unexpected ways to create new work and to explore new and imagined worlds.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHBqKQTRpc_hHJWWW5dRpUzyj8k3oNVVt0gBugj-B-kITD0w/viewform

VCU Visiting Writers Series presents the 2021 Levis Reading Prize with Leila Chatti
2021-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave, Richmond, VA, 23284, United States
Virigina Commonwealth University’s Visiting Writers Series presents the 2021 Levis Reading Prize with Leila Chatti at the James Branch Cabell Library from 7 pm – 8 pm EST.

Books Are Magic presents Red Ink Series with Marie-Helene Bertino, Victoria Chang, Julie Klam, Denne Michele Norris, and Qian Julie Wang and moderated by Michele Filgate
2021-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Books Are Magic presents Red Ink Series with Marie-Helene Bertino, Victoria Chang, Julie Klam, Denne Michele Norris, and Qian Julie Wang and moderated by Michele Filgate at 7 pm to 8 pm EST.
From the organizers:
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate, and co-sponsored by Literary Hub. Red Ink makes one think of vitality, blood, the monthly cycle, correcting history, and making a mark on the world. This dynamic series focuses on women writers, past and present. The next discussion, “Family,” will feature Victoria Chang (Dear Memory), Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet), Qian Julie Wang (Beautiful Country), Julie Klam (The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters), and Denne Michele Norris (Electric Literature).
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-ink-series-family-registration-169393467421

Poets on the Coast presents Poets on the Coast: Weekend Retreat for Women
2021-09-10 12:00 - 2021-09-12 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Poets on the Coast presents Poets on the Coast: Weekend Retreat for Women, September 10th – 12th, with Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich
From the organizers:
Join Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich for the 11h Annual Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women
September 10-12th via ZOOM!
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Be part of the Poets on the Coast family. Join us to write, read, and share your work in a positive creative community. ​ This retreat has been designed for women writers of all levels, from beginning poets to well published.
Register here: http://poetsonthecoast.weebly.com/register.html

Berkeley Lunch Poems presents Noah Warren
2021-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Berkeley Lunch Poems, a noontime poetry reading series hosted by UC Berkeley, presents Noah Warren on September 2, 2021 at noon EDT.
From the organizers:
Readings will take place remotely for the 2021-2022 academic year. All readings will be recorded and posted to YouTube. To keep up to date, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu and follow us on Twitter at @PoemsLunch.
Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and educated in the United States. He is the author of The Complete Stories, published by Copper Canyon in 2021, and The Destroyer in the Glass, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His work appears in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Yale, Stanford, the Simpson Literary Project, and the Arts Research Center. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where he coordinates the Lunch Poems Reading Series.
No registration required.
Watch here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97996871314

Falcon Takes Flight Theatre presents a dramatic adaptation of Maurice Manning's Railsplitter
2021-08-26 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Campbell County Library Newport branch, 901 E. Sixth Street, Newport, KY, 41071, United States
Falcon Takes Flight Theatre presents, August 26 at 7 PM EDT, a dramatic adaptation of Maurice Manning‘s Railsplitter
Link for event will appear here: https://falcontheater.net/

AAWW x Cosmos Book Club: Celebrating AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen
2021-08-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Cosmos Book Club will celebrate Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen, on August 23 at 8 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Anthony Veasna So’s debut collection Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family. Dive into Anthony’s vibrant collection of stories centering Cambodian-American life alongside profound insights into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.

Cosmos Book Club and Asian American Writers’ Workshop have partnered together to host a celebration of Anthony’s life and the release of his book, Afterparties. Joining us will be Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen.
Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton, California, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California. For more about Monica, visit http://www.monicasok.com/about.
Danny Thanh Nguyen (they/he/she equally) has published stories and personal essays in The Offing, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have been awarded fellowships and grants from Ragdale Foundation, Lambda Literary, Kundiman, and Djerassi Artist Program. Her column on BDSM/fetish culture appears in the international social network platform Recon and is translated into five languages. For more information about Danny, you can find them found across social media as @engrishlessons and visit https://www.lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/danny-thanh-nguyen/.
Cosmos Book Club is a monthly gathering of self-identifying women of Asian descent to read, discuss, and support Asian diaspora literature by women & nonbinary authors. In 2021, we hosted K-Ming Chang and C. Pam Zhang. In 2020, we hosted authors Cathy Park Hong, Mary H.K. Choi, and Laila Lalami. In the past, we’ve hosted authors such as Jia Tolentino, Lisa Ko and Crystal Hana Kim at our book clubs before. Read about us in the New York Times and Guardian! Please sign up for our email newsletters for updates and to RSVP for future events!
The Asian American American Writers’ Workshop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting Asian diasporic literature and storytelling. You can sign up for newsletter, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit us at aaww.org.
Register here: https://aaww.org/curation/aaww-x-cosmos-book-club-celebrating-afterparties-by-anthony-veasna-so/

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson" with Jericho Brown
2021-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” a virtual lecture by Jericho Brown on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” with Jericho Brown.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

The San Diego Union Tribune presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
2021-08-21 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The San Diego Union Tribune, August 21 at 10 AM – 5 PM PDT, presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
The single-day virtual festival brings together book lovers of all ages, independent book sellers, authors, poets, illustrators and local businesses to celebrate the written word. Enjoy the event virtually — or in person at a location yet to be announced.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-san-diego-union-tribune-5th-annual-festival-of-books-tickets-144685631619

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself" with Brenda Shaughnessy
2021-08-20 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself,” a virtual lecture by Brenda Shaughnessy on Aug. 20 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
You’ve immersed in flow, process, form, revision, workshop, submissions, and now—what will/could all that creative and administrative energy add up to? What are the hallmarks, conventions, and pitfalls of the debut collection? How can a book “sound like” its author? This talk explores the elements of and issues around the debut poetry collection, both in contemporary literary history and in current publishing practices—and is meant to inform, inspire, and challenge those poets working on their first manuscripts.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

Ruth Stone House presents Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat with Arisa White and Bianca Stone
2021-08-19 12:00 - 2021-08-23 12:00 (America/New_York) | Blueberry Hill Inn, 1245 Goshen Ripton Road, Goshen, VT, 05733, United States
The Ruth Stone House presents Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat with instructors Arisa White and Bianca Stone from August 19-23, hosted at the Blueberry Hill Inn.
From the organizers:

Next Galaxy Retreat will be 4 full days of rigorous, generative workshop programming limited to ten students in each class with our talented faculty, Arisa White and Bianca Stone (editor of The Essential Ruth Stone, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020). Workshops will involve craft discussion, group writing prompts, and supportive, critical discussion of each attendee’s work. Each day is scheduled to include ample time to write and enjoy the secluded Blueberry Hill Inn in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
You can learn more about the Inn itself, the instructors, the schedule (including additional activities), pricing and how to apply at the link below.
Register here: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/next-galaxy

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian
2021-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian on August 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. EDT via Zoom.
From the organizers:
This reading will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed at the time of registration and again on the day of the reading. (Please check spam / promotions folder for this email and email admin@writerscenter.org with any questions.)
Donations toward the readers’ honoraria are greatly appreciated.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. was published by University of Georgia Press in 2017. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. She was the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.
Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’ Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Carol Edgarian is an award-winning novelist, essayist, teacher, and editor. Her novels include the newly-released Vera, the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement, and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, hailed by The Washington Post as a book “whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today.” Rise the Euphrates was awarded the ANC Freedom Prize, and a twentieth-anniversary revised edition of the novel was released to mark the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Carol’s articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many other places, and she coedited The Writer’s life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and schools on topics such as “Why Stories Matter,” “The Art of Fiction” and publishing today.
In 2003 Carol and her husband, Tom Jenks, founded the nonprofit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, essays, and art. Dedicated to encouraging reading without paywalls, and to supporting writers by paying them fairly for their work, Narrative publishes hundreds of artists each year and is widely read across generations, in schools, and around the globe. Its entire digital library of thousands of works of literature by celebrated authors and by the best emerging writers is available for free. Six years ago, Carol launched Narrative in the Schools, programs that augment Narrative’s library of literature with free video tutorials, lesson plans, a writing contest for high schoolers, and other essential tools for teachers and students in underserved communities around the world. She is a proud mentor to some amazing young writers. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, to first-generation American parents, Carol is a graduate of Phillips Andover and Stanford University.
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/rekdaledgarian/

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry" with Victoria Chang
2021-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Victoria Chang on Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
What is a poem of joy? Or a line of poetry that evokes joy? In this talk, we’ll think through what joy means, what a poem of joy might look like, and how a poem of joy might affect its readers. In the process, we’ll look at poems by various poets such as Frank O’Hara, Robert Hass, Li-Young Lee, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Chang/register

North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson
2021-08-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson, on August 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
What happens when a southern poet and historian meet? This event features the 2021 North Carolina Humanities selected Route 1 Reads poet Tyree Daye and UNC Greensboro professor Dr. Torren Gatson. They will explore how Tyree’s new work Cardinal, a poetic “Green Book,” connects to the themes of travel, migration ideas of home, and sense of belonging in the context of American history. This event will be moderated by Executive Director of Action Greensboro and NC Humanities Board Trustee Cecelia Thompson.
The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This conversation is part of North Carolina Humanities Route 1 Reads Program. Route 1 Reads is a road trip-inspired reading list that annually explores various genres and is compiled by the network of 16 affiliate Centers for the Book in the Library of Congress located along Route 1. North Carolina Humanities Center for the Book is an affiliate of the National Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uWdPcELeQ9-ck__mKkeGyw

Brooklyn Poets presents Craft Lab: Nonsense and Senselessness with Jericho Brown
2021-08-15 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Brooklyn Poets presents Nonsense and Senselessness, a Craft Lab with Jericho Brown, on August 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT online via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove says that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Yet many readers still struggle to understand the meanings of poems. In this craft lab, we’ll dive into what’s going on when we read a poem and think, “That doesn’t make sense.” Looking at examples of sense and nonsense in the work of several poets, we’ll explore the different techniques poets use to balance meaning and mystery, and we’ll generate new work together through a set of unconventional exercises, drawing on the themes of sense and nonsense, engendering new ideas about writing. As there is a profound relationship between reading poetry and writing it, together we’ll read, discuss, and even recite the work of several poets whose examples might lead us to a further honing of our craft.
All participants will have access to a cloud recording of the craft lab for one month afterward.
Craft Lab Details

Professor: Jericho Brown
Date: Sunday, August 15
Time: 4–7 PM (EDT)
Location: online via Zoom
Cost: $125
Earlybird discount: $15 off through SUN, AUGUST 8
Deadline for financial aid: FRI, AUGUST 13

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed, the Nation, New York Times, New Yorker, New Republic, Time, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of the Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
Register here: https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/craft-labs/nonsense-and-senselessness/

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry" with Paisley Rekdal
2021-08-12 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Paisley Rekdal on Aug. 12 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” with Paisley Rekdal.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

Book Passage presents Anthony Veasna So's AFTERPARTIES: A Tribute Panel
2021-08-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Book Passage presents Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties: A Tribute Panel, an online event featuring panelists Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and Mira Jacob, on August 7 at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
From the organizers:
Sat., August 7, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online
Panelists include: Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and Mira Jacob
Moderated by Alex Torres
Excerpt of Afterparties read by Anthony Veasna So’s sister, Samantha So Lamb
This event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event on the event webpage, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.
A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.
The stories in Afterparties, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail, are like beams of wry, affectionate light, falling from different directions on a complicated, struggling, beloved American community” (George Saunders).
Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton, California, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Alex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed, The Millions, Poets & Writers Magazine, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Hobart, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco, he is currently working on a collection of essays and a collection of short stories.
Bryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree, NBCC Award Finalist, and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book, Lot, which was also a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and BuzzFeed, among other publications. His bestselling debut novel Memorial was a GMA Book Club pick, a New York Times Notable pick, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year, and a finalist for the NBCC Fiction Prize. He lives in Houston.
For more information: https://www.bookpassage.com/AnthonyVeasnaSo

Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown
2021-08-03 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown on August 3 at 5:30 p.m. Central time via Crowdcast.
From the organizers:
In her first book of new poems in twelve years, acclaimed poet Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Deftly connecting history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives—a trademark of the writer the Boston Globe has called “perhaps the best public poet we have”—and alternating poignant meditations on mortality with acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse (Norton) takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul. Join us as we celebrate the launch of this remarkable new book by one of the greatest poets of the era. Rita Dove will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
Free to attend, registration required. We hope to “see” you there!
About the Authors:
Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include 2010’s Sonata Mulattica and the National Book Award–shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974–2004. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, an NAACP Image Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; in 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon, 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. His previous books Please (New Issues, 2008) and The New Testament (Copper Canyon, 2014), won the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award respectively; in addition to the Pulitzer, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Brown’s poems have appeared in Fence, jubilat, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and many other places, including several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rita-dove

Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading
2021-08-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading, a virtual poetry reading, on August 2 at 7 p.m. EDT. Featured guests include Michael Klein, Kirun Kapur, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Kiki Petrosino, Adrienne Su, and Tyree Daye, with editor Kim Roberts.
From the organizers:
Poets from Maine to Florida, featured on the 2021 Route 1 Reads:Poetry list, participate in a virtual poetry reading.
Told in ancient caves around campfires, and recited from bunting-draped, white marble rostrums, Poetry is an ancient and evocative form of expression celebrated in every language and culture around the globe. Evolving into different types and genres, Poetry uses form and interpretation to elicit a response from the reader. Tales of heroism, songs of heartache, all have rhyme, meter, and other stylistic elements unique to their form of expression. Epic to elegy, song to Psalm, Poetry endures and inspires whether written introspectively in a journal, or slammed on a stage.

The Poetry selections on the 2021 Route 1 Reads reading list represent the great Poetry traditions from each of our states. History, homage, reflection, and revolution are distilled down to stanzas, couplets, lines, words.
Whether readers are at home or on the road this summer, we hope that this list of must-read books will keep everyone turning pages until Labor Day. The full list of featured books is listed here, in geographical order from North to South: Route1Reads.
About Route 1 Reads
Connecting the 2,369 miles of U.S. Route 1 from Ft. Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, the Route 1 Reads initiative is a partnership between 16 affiliate Centers for the Book to promote books that illuminate important aspects of their states or commonwealths for readers travelling this meandering highway. The initiative was launched at the 2015 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
About the Event
The East Coast Centers for the Book are pleased to present a poetry reading highlighting each state selection for the 2021 Route 1 Reads list. Poets will participate live on Zoom, or in pre-recorded readings to be shown at the event. A full list of participating poets will be available soon. Please check back for updates!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-route-1-reads-poetry-reading-tickets-162721116239

The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar
2021-08-02 12:00 - 2021-08-06 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop, August 2-6, with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar
From the organizers:
If you want to write images like that “glint of light on broken glass”—precise, clear, and immediately arresting—please join Ellen Bass and Frank X. Gaspar at the online The Life of Poetry Workshop. We’ll craft poems that combine compelling detail with complex thought to create work that is more powerful, authentic, courageous and memorable than you’ve ever written before.
We will take risks, summoning the courage to go over, under or around the censors that silence 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 explore 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.
