Upcoming Events

Ellen Bass presents, June 7-11, Truth & Beauty: An Online Writing Workshop From the organizers: If you want to encounter more truth in your poems, to express it in the most beautiful way possible, to craft poems that reflect the inextricable marriage of truth and beauty, love and death, the luminous and the ordinary, please join us for this special workshop. We will elude and distract the censors that silence or limit us. We’ll approach our experience from new angles…

Seattle Arts & Lectures presents, June 9 at 6 PM PDT,  Ocean Vuong: Live & Online‑Only From the organizers: Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.” Q&A moderated by musician Perfume Genius. This event will be live and online only. Please note:…

The Merwin Conservancy presents, June 26 at 5 PM PDT,  Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Conversation From the organizers: Join us on Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 2:00PM Hawai‘i time as accliamed poets and writers Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil come together for readings and conversation about place, poetry, and the wonders of the  natural world. Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/GRLRossAimee/register

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…