• Scripps College presents @Noon: 21st-Century Indigenous Poets feat. Sherwin Bitsui

    Scripps College presents @Noon: 21st-Century Indigenous Poets, April 20 at 12 PM PDT, feat. Sherwin Bitsui From the organizers: In celebration of National Poetry Month, join Sherwin Bitsui, Santee Frazier, and this spring’s Mary Routt Chair in Creative Writing, Joan Naviyuk Kane, for a reading and discussion of their work. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noon-21st-century-indigenous-poets-tickets-149179474825

    $5
  • Diesel, A Bookstore presents Arthur Sze

    Diesel, A Bookstore presents Arthur Sze From the organizers: Join us on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:30 pm for a virtual event with with Arthur Sze in conversation with John Evans as they discuss The Glass Constellation:  New and Collected Poems.   Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/arthur-sze-in/register  

  • Lift Every Voice presents Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jone

    Lift Every Voice presents Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation, April 20 at 7 PM EDT, with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jones From the organizers: Join New York-based poets Mariposa Fernández (Bronx), LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Harlem) and Patricia Spears Jones (Brooklyn) to celebrate the publication of the Library of America’s history-making anthology, African […]

  • Cuirt International Festival of Literature presents Conversations on Craft with Tishani Doshi

    Cuirt International Festival of Literature presents Conversations on Craft, April 21 at 5 PM GMT, with Tishani Doshi From the organizers: Cúirt presents Conversations on Craft, a series of events to exercise the formal muscles of new and emerging writers at every stage of their development. A series of webinars with live Q&As, these events […]

    €9.39
  • Lift Every Voice presents The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes, with Kevin Young, Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James

    Lift Every Voice presents, April 21 at 6:30 PM EDT, The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes, with Kevin Young, Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James From the organizers: It was 100 years ago, in June 1921, that a young Langston Hughes published what would become one of his best-known poems, “The Negro Speaks […]

  • Cave Canem presents New Works: Writing Grief feat. Nikki Wallschlaeger

    Cave Canem presents New Works: Writing Grief, April 21 at 7 PM - 7:30 PM EDT,  feat. Nikki Wallschlaeger From the organizers: Poets Saddiq Dzukogi (Your Crib, My Qibla), Natasha T. Miller (Butcher), and Nikki Wallschlaeger (Waterbaby) read poems from recent collections that grapple with grief.   Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_APUEXl-YSEGlpSzkSobySg

  • Friendly City Books presents Virtual Event with poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce

    Friendly City Books presents Virtual Event, April 22 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM CDT, with poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce From the organizers: RSVP below for our Earth Day virtual event with poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce on Thursday, April 22, at 6:30 pm Central. Register here: https://www.friendlycitybooks.com/events/earth-day-poetry

  • Bloodaxe Books presents Poetry Online with Tishani Doshi

    Bloodaxe Books presents Poetry Online, April 22 at 7 PM, with Tishani Doshi From the organizers: 7pm Free launch event on YouTube Live with Dom Bury and Jenna Clake. Hosted by Neil Astley, editor of Bloodaxe Books.   Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBrXaZ0wUw7JwdfrAvAbTUg

  • Wisconsin Union presents Ocean Vuong: Book Reading and Q&A

    Wisconsin Union presents, April 22 at 7 PM CDT, Ocean Vuong: Book Reading and Q&A From the organizers: The Wisconsin Union Theater and the Madison Public Library’s Wisconsin Book Festival are proud to present a memorable night with award-winning author Ocean Vuong.  Vuong will read from his powerful 2019 novel "On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" and then participate […]

  • Pangyrus presents What Tells You Ripeness: Black Poets on Nature with Nikki Wallschlaeger

    Pangyrus presents What Tells You Ripeness: Black Poets on Nature with Nikki Wallschlaeger From the organizers: Pangyrus is proud to present a collection of Black writing on nature, What Tells You Ripeness. Soliciting and selecting poets for the collection, guest poetry editor Nikki Wallschlaeger aims to continue the work of Camille T. Dungy’s anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature […]