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  • Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading

    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 […]

  • Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown

    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 […]

  • Book Passage presents Anthony Veasna So’s AFTERPARTIES: A Tribute Panel

    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 […]

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry” with Paisley Rekdal

    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 […]

    $25

  • Brooklyn Poets presents Craft Lab: Nonsense and Senselessness with Jericho Brown

    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. […]

    $125

  • North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson

    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 […]

  • Ruth Stone House presents Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat with Arisa White and Bianca Stone

    Blueberry Hill Inn 1245 Goshen Ripton Road, Goshen, VT, 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 […]

    $1550

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself” with Brenda Shaughnessy

    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 […]

    $25

  • The San Diego Union Tribune presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze

    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 […]

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson” with Jericho Brown

    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 […]

    $25

  • AAWW x Cosmos Book Club: Celebrating AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen

    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 […]