Paisley Rekdal with Seattle Arts & Lectures
2020-02-06 19:30 UTC | Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington, 98122
Please note the change in location: this event will now be held at Hugo House.

AWP 2020 | Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press
2020-03-05 12:10 - 13:25 (America/Chicago) | Room 008, Henry B. González Convention Center, Riverlevel, 900 E Market St., San Antonio, Texas, 78205
Updated March 3, 2020:
After much deliberation, the team at Copper Canyon Press has decided not to attend the 2020 AWP conference in San Antonio. We made this difficult call out of an abundance of caution after consulting with each staff member who was scheduled to attend the conference, as well as numerous Copper Canyon poets and fellow exhibitors. You can read our full statement here.
At this time, the event will move ahead with Leila Chatti and Traci Brimhall. We will update this event with details as we learn more.
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Reading from their own new and recent poetry collections while paying homage to a powerful lineage of female-identified poets, a diverse lineup of Copper Canyon Press authors will share poems of survival and love, desire and illness, of bodies that move with agency and voices that speak with complexity. Each reader will present, in addition to her own work, one poem by an influential woman author from Copper Canyon’s 45+ year catalog.

Victoria Chang (moderator)’s books are Obit, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, Circle, and Is Mommy? (picture book). She is the program chair of Antioch’s low-res MFA program in LA.

Leila Chatti is the author of Deluge, Tunsiya/Amrikiya, and Ebb. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Cleveland State University, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow.

Ellen Bass celebrates her latest book, Indigo, at this year’s AWP. Her poems have often appeared in the New Yorker and American Poetry Review. She is also coauthor of The Courage to Heal. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.

Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry: Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Saudade, Our Lady of the Ruins, and Rookery. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an associate professor at Kansas State University.

AWP 2020 | A Tribute to W.S. Merwin, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press & Write On, Door County
2020-03-05 15:20 - 16:35 (America/Chicago) | HemisFair Ballroom C3, Henry B. González Center, Ballroom Level, 900 E Market St., San Antonio, Texas, 78205
Updated March 3, 2020:
After much deliberation, the team at Copper Canyon Press has decided not to attend the 2020 AWP conference in San Antonio. We made this difficult call out of an abundance of caution after consulting with each staff member who was scheduled to attend the conference, as well as numerous Copper Canyon poets and fellow exhibitors. You can read our full statement here.
We will update this event with details as we learn more.
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W.S. Merwin was a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author, United States poet laureate, Academy of American Poets Chancellor, environmental activist, and translator. His impact on American literature was profound. One of the nation’s most decorated and prolific poets, Merwin published over fifty books, including The Shadow of Sirius (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009), Migration: New and Selected Poems (National Book Award, 2007), and The Carrier of Ladders (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1971). His poetry, as well as his life as a poet, was flavored with a moral and political imperative. Merwin passed away in March 2019, at his home in Hawaii. In this memorial event, his longtime poetry editor at Copper Canyon Press, Michael Wiegers, will be joined by Naomi Shihab Nye, Forrest Gander, and Matthew Zapruder to read and discuss poems by this tremendous friend, activist, and creative presence.

A veteran of independent publishing for nearly three decades, Michael Wiegers (moderator) is the executive editor / editor-in-chief of Copper Canyon Press. He additionally serves as poetry editor for Narrative magazine, and he edited The Essential Merwin and two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, including Hidden Water and What about This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and recipient of the Balcones Award in Poetry. A translator of Spanish language poetry, he co-edited with Monica de la Torre, Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry.

Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress). She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes.

Forrest Gander’s Be With won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Core Samples from the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gander’s translations include Alice Iris Red Horse, Poems by Gozo Yoshimasu and Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems.

Matthew Zapruder is editor at large for Wave Books, and teaches poetry in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA. His most recent book of poems is Sun Bear. Why Poetry, a book of prose, was published in summer 2017.

CANCELED: AWP 2020 | Copper Canyon Press & Lambda Literary Showcase
2020-03-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, TX, 78212, United States
Updated March 3, 2020: Please note that this event has been canceled.
After much deliberation, the team at Copper Canyon Press has decided not to attend the 2020 AWP conference in San Antonio. We made this difficult call out of an abundance of caution after consulting with each staff member who was scheduled to attend the conference, as well as numerous Copper Canyon poets and fellow exhibitors. You can read our full statement here.
Our friends at Lambda Literary will still be in attendance, and we encourage all conference-goers to support them by visiting them at bookfair booth #1420 and attending their other events.
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Copper Canyon Press and Lambda Literary present an AWP20 off-site reading and queer celebration featuring the launch of special guest Mark Bibbins’s new book 13th Balloon and Lambda Literary’s Emerge: A Collection of Literary Work from the 2019 Lambda Literary Fellows. Happy hour refreshments to follow the reading. Our line-up includes:

Mark Bibbins
Alison C. Rollins
Jericho Brown
Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Nicole Shawan Junior

Benjamin Garcia

Tahirah Alexander Green

Doors at 3:00pm
Reading at 3:30pm

CANCELED: AWP 2020 | Big Beautiful Copper Canyon Book Release
2020-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Holy Spirit Hall in the Healy Murphy Center, 618 Live Oak St., San Antonio, TX, 78202, United States
Updated March 3, 2020: Please note that this event has been canceled.
After much deliberation, the team at Copper Canyon Press has decided not to attend the 2020 AWP conference in San Antonio. We made this difficult call out of an abundance of caution after consulting with each staff member who was scheduled to attend the conference, as well as numerous Copper Canyon poets and fellow exhibitors. You can read our full statement here.
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Join us for an AWP20 off-site poetry reading and celebration of new titles by these extraordinary Copper Canyon poets:

Ellen Bass
Marianne Boruch
John Balaban
Ed Skoog
Philip Metres
Monica Sok
James Richardson
Leila Chatti
Mark Bibbins
John Freeman
Taneum Bambrick
Traci Brimhall
Victoria Chang

Don’t miss the chance to grab a copy of our AWP20 early edition books before they sell out!
Doors at 7:00pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Launch Party Livestream: Ellen Bass, Monica Sok, & Mark Bibbins
2020-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Every week in April, join Copper Canyon Press for a series of free livestreaming book launch readings!
Launch Party will introduce you to twelve brilliant new and forthcoming poetry collections—three every Thursday, plus our Tuesday finale. The guests for April 2, 3pm PT are Ellen Bass, Monica Sok, and Mark Bibbins.
Register at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3015852458168/WN_ZppjQY-gRGuwkx6-Fn_AEA
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page and on our YouTube channel, and we’ll provide a link to the recording afterward.
If you’re inclined and able to purchase our poets’ books, we encourage you to support independent booksellers during this difficult time. Our poets have suggested some of their favorites here.

Bowery Poetry Instagram Live Reading featuring Monica Sok
2020-04-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Bowery Poetry will host a live poetry reading featuring Monica Sok on their Instagram account: @bowerypoetry. Monica Sok will also stream the reading live on her Instagram account: @monicajuice.

Launch Party Livestream: Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, & John Freeman
2020-04-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Note: Event times listed are in Pacific Time (PT).
Every week in April, join Copper Canyon Press for a series of free livestreaming book launch readings!
Launch Party will introduce you to twelve brilliant new and forthcoming poetry collections—three every Thursday, plus our Tuesday finale. The guests for April 9, 11am PT are Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, and John Freeman.
Register at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7715852559969/WN_GT2TAC0CQSSagfi3yz5IdQ
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and we’ll provide a link to the recording afterward.
If you’re inclined and able to purchase our poets’ books, we encourage you to support independent booksellers during this difficult time. Our poets have suggested some of their favorites here.

Stegner Fellows National Poetry Month Reading featuring Monica Sok, Taneum Bambrick
2020-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Ruby will host an online National Poetry Month reading featuring Monica Sok, Safia Elfhillo, Claire Meuschke, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University.
This is a Virtual Ruby event, taking place over Zoom. Register here: https://zoom.us/j/285830870?pwd=[REDACTED] Password will be sent with registration.

Launch Party Livestream: Ed Skoog, Victoria Chang, & Philip Metres
2020-04-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Note: Event times listed are in Pacific Time (PT).
Every week in April, join Copper Canyon Press for a series of free livestreaming book launch readings!
Launch Party will introduce you to twelve brilliant new and forthcoming poetry collections—three every Thursday, plus our Tuesday finale. The guests for April 16, 3pm PT are Ed Skoog, Victoria Chang, and Philip Metres.
Register at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/1015852546862/WN_C3i6qnJ0SpGqqujVTkzZOA
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page (pending the resolution of a Zoom/Facebook issue that, as of April 9, prevents simultaneous broadcasting), and we’ll provide a link to the recording afterward on Facebook and on this page.
If you’re inclined and able to purchase our poets’ books, we encourage you to support independent booksellers during this difficult time. Our poets have suggested some of their favorites here.

The Sierra Poetry Festival "Un-Keynote" with Ellen Bass
2020-04-18 09:25 - 09:55 (America/Los_Angeles)
Times listed are in Pacific Time.
In her Sierra Poetry Festival “un-keynote” address, Ellen Bass will read from her new book, Indigo, and talk about poetry as a way to transmute suffering into beauty, to find the exquisite tenderness in pain, to make meaning in the face of our fragility. She will explore poetry as a path to be more fully rooted in our lives and in the world. The address will be streamed live online.
Register here: https://www.sierrapoetryfestival.org/2020-program

Launch Party Livestream: James Richardson, Sarah Ruhl, & Heather McHugh
2020-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Note: Event times listed are in Pacific Time (PT).
Every week in April, join Copper Canyon Press for a series of free livestreaming book launch readings!
Launch Party will introduce you to twelve brilliant new and forthcoming poetry collections—three every Thursday, plus our Tuesday finale. The guests for April 21, 11am PT are James Richardson, Sarah Ruhl, and Heather McHugh.
Register at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8115852565181/WN_H_TFZALKTr2v47wMmYJJPQ
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and we’ll provide a link to the recording afterward.
If you’re inclined and able to purchase our poets’ books, we encourage you to support independent booksellers during this difficult time. Our poets have suggested some of their favorites here.

Ellen Bass: An Online Reading with Bookshop Santa Cruz
2020-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Times listed are in Pacific Time.
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a live online reading with Ellen Bass, who will read from her brand new poetry collection, Indigo.
Sign up to receive a link to join via the form here: https://mailchi.mp/ellenbass/bookshopsantacruz

The Deluge Book Release Reading with Leila Chatti and Friends
2020-04-21 20:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Times listed are in Eastern Time (ET).
Leila Chatti launches her book Deluge with a live online poetry reading also featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Anita Skeen, Mary Szybist, and Dorianne Laux. Presented by Costura Creative.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_heuXYwvHRgKOb6xXDtEL1Q

RAWI Spring 2020 Release Reading & Fundraiser with Philip Metres, Leila Chatti, and More
2020-04-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
The Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) is organizing a spring release reading featuring 10 authors with March/April releases from our community, including Philip Metres and Leila Chatti. The reading will happen via Zoom (details forthcoming) at 6:00pm EST and there is a suggested $5 donation for the reading. All proceeds will go toward establishing a SWANA artist relief fund.
Donations for the relief fund will be accepted through RAWI’s GoFundMe campaign:https://www.gofundme.com/f/arabamerican-swana-writer-emergency-relief
RSVP to the reading here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cKYdOM-T5s7JygTXqBByS80Ar_xzolZ-5rit5ZEsKwY/viewform?edit_requested=true

A Digital Reading with Philip Metres and Erika Meitner
2020-04-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Times listed are in Central Time (CT).
The Paper Plains Literary Festival and Raven Book Store present a digital reading with Philip Metres and Erika Meitner.
Two writers steeped in the documentary poetry tradition, Philip Metres and Erika Meitner, present a joint reading of their urgent, political, and deeply felt poetry. Metres reads from his new collection Shrapnel Maps and Meitner reads from Holy Moly Carry Me.
Register to attend here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/erika-meitner–philip/register

An Online Reading with Ellen Bass, Victoria Chang, Nick Flynn, & Ben Purkert
2020-04-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
An online livestream reading with Ellen Bass, Victoria Chang, Nick Flynn, and Ben Purkert, presented by Poets & Writers. Find the access link here.

UCross Spotlight Presents Sherwin Bitsui and Musician Kate Schutt
2020-04-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Poet Sherwin Bitsui and musician Kate Schutt will be featured in a Ucross Spotlight Zoom event as part of a nationwide series of artist-centric events. The event is designed to highlight Ucross alumni, their work and their contribution to the nation’s arts and letters. Registration is required in advance.
Schutt is an award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist and producer. Bitsui, who is a visual artist as well as a poet, is originally from the Navajo Reservation at White Cone, Ariz.
Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-muqjgpGNAxFYwEOt3SoqNorjcJpuxs

Shelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading with the Academy of American Poets
2020-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
In this unprecedented time, as more and more of us are turning to poetry, the Academy of American Poets launched Shelter in Poems, an initiative that invites poets and poetry lovers to share poems on social media that give them comfort or courage.
Shelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading extends this idea with a special offering of poems read by poets laureate, actors, musicians, artists, and more.
The evening will include poems presented by:
Elizabeth Alexander
Sam Beam
Richard Blanco
Julia Bullock
Marilyn Chin
Rita Dove
Patrick Gaspard
Amanda Gorman
Joy Harjo
Juan Felipe Herrera
Edward Hirsch
Stephin Merritt
Maulik Pancholy
Alison Pill
Dan Rather
Alberto Ríos
Mustafa Shakir
Naomi Shihab Nye
Lorna Simpson
Amber Tamblyn
and other special guests.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shelter-in-poems-a-virtual-reading-tickets-103370060634

Greenlight Bookstore presents John Freeman and Julia Alvarez
2020-05-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Acclaimed authors and friends John Freeman and Julia Alvarez present their new books, both of which engages with questions of how we decide who to care for, which bodies matter, how we occupy space with strangers… and whose presences we don’t see. - Freeman’s poetry collection The Park is a series of meditations inspired by The Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, spanning four seasons, which asks the reader to consider what role exclusion plays, and what role tenderness, in our sense of public space. Alvarez’s novel Afterlife—her first in almost fifteen years—tells the story of an immigrant writer confronted by personal and political crises, and asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including—maybe especially—members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? Freeman and Alvarez read and discuss their work and engage with audience questions at this virtual event.
Register here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/john-freeman-julia-alvarez

Live with Victoria Chang and Monica Sok
2020-05-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
A reading with Victoria Chang and Monica Sok will be streamed live online as part of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore’s Virtual Event Series.
Register to attend here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/victoria-chang-and-monica-sok/register

A Virtual Reading with Michael McGriff and Robert Walicki
2020-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
White Whale Bookstore hosts an online evening of poetry with Michael McGriff and Robert Walicki. White Whale says “head to our Bookshop site’s list titled ‘Recent and Upcoming Events (Pre-order!)’ to order one of Bob’s books and several of Michael’s. You can also check out other curated lists and picks on our main site page, or use the search bar in the upper center-right to look for any book. (Using the book’s ISBN usually works best.)”
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You’ll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-poetry-reading-robert-walicki-michael-mcgriff-tickets-103746865668
Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm EDT on 5/8. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket.

HRC Fireside Chat With Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Jericho Brown
2020-05-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown joins Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David to discuss the resilience of the Black LGBTQ community and celebrate the power and importance of poetry as a vehicle for calling out injustice.
Watch here: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fireside-chat-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-jericho-brown

A Virtual Reading with James Richardson, Nancy Reddy, and Emily Van Duyne
2020-05-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Stockton University presents a virtual reading with James Richardson, Nancy Reddy, Emily Van Duyne, livestreamed using Zoom. You don’t need to create a Zoom account in order to “attend,” but you do need access to a computer, smart phone or other telephone.
You can tune in from your computer or smart phone by clicking this link: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/99598899950.
You can also call in to listen from a landline or cell phone. Dial 929-436-2866 and enter meeting ID: 995 9889 9950

SPEAK. EASY. // A Virtual Reading Series presents John Freeman, Mary-Kim Arnold, and Jenny Zhang
2020-05-16 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Twenty Stories LA presents SPEAK. EASY.—a virtual reading series with your favorite authors. On May 16, SPEAK. EASY. welcomes John Freeman, Mary-Kim Arnold, and Jenny Zhang to read from their latest works, followed by a conversation and audience Q&A, hosted by Emory and Alexa, owners of Twenty Stories. The event is free.
Join here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/speak–easy—a-virtual

Virtual Event: A Poetry Reading with Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor
2020-05-18 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
A virtual reading with Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, who says “Grab a drink and get ready for some poems. Settle in for some breath music. Join Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor to celebrate their new collections. Tess’s book Rift Zone offers poems for an apocalyptic California– the precarious places, the fault lines in whose midst we (all over America) already live. Her poems are also replete with valley girls, strip malls, ancient trees, new primates, upthrust soils. Ellen’s new book Indigo plumbs the miraculous from the stuff of life–the grit of oysters, taking an old dog out to pee in the night, shopping at Ross. Both of them will read new poems, and talk about how poetry lets us share breath in a way that is safe–and reminds us that our lives are fundamentally linked.”
RSVP here: https://mailchi.mp/ellenbass/tesstaylor

WNP Poetry through the Pandemic presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limón, Andrea Gibson, and Nickole Brown
2020-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Kollective Coffee+Tea’s long-standing Wednesday Night Poetry event continues its poetry open mic with a reading featuring poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limón, Andrea Gibson, and Nickole Brown.
The reading will stream live on WNP’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WednesdayNightPoetry/

Our Homes, Our Bodies, Our Imaginations: How Place Shapes Identity with Philip Metres, Lisa Olstein, and
2020-05-19 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Virtual Views and Brews presents Our Homes, Our Bodies, Our Imaginations: how place shapes identity. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy in conversation with poet Philip Metres, poet and memoirist Lisa Olstein, and anthropologist Meena Khandelwal, to talk about everything from how we experience pain collectively, to the fragmented memories that shape our imaginary, to the gendered aspects of space and time.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/our-homes-our-bodies-our/register

Columbia University presents HERD: A Reading feat. Bibbins, Fischer, Gilbert, Lasky, McCrae, & Paredez
2020-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Columbia University presents an online reading featuring Mark Bibbins, BK Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Dorthea Lasky, Shane McCrae, and Deborah Paredez.
Register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArduyppjMjE9IrXntPqBadkosGzg1EC4Bk

A Reading Series: Reading #1 featuring Dana Levin, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Michael Klein, and Carl Phillips
2020-05-20 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
This digital poetry reading series begins with a virtual reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Michael Klein (Curator), Dana Levin, and Carl Phillips.
Registration required. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-poetry-reading-series-1-tickets-105000643752
