Past Events

Join Copper Canyon Press and The Poetry Society of New York for a New York City Poetry Festival streaming event on Facebook Live. Enjoy readings, conversation, and Q&A with Copper Canyon Press authors Leila Chatti, Alberto Ríos, and Victoria Chang. This FREE event is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York as part of a streaming series designed to commemorate the New York City Poetry Festival. All are welcome to join our little community! If you can…

Brazos Bookstore presents John Freeman in conversation with Lacy Johnson. Register here: https://brazosbookstore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocuiuqDgpG9FEFidbod_4g8MqzM_8xLG7

From the organizers:  SURREAL POETICS: weekly generative writing workshops with Alison C. Rollins! Registration via Zoom is required for these workshops. A link to the Zoom registration will be sent to your email 2 days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Suggested donation of $20 per session.  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surreal-poetics-w-alison-c-rollins-tickets-109847938140

From the organizers:  PEN America is proud to present a reading with the rising stars from DREAMing Out Loud, our tuition-free workshop series for young undocumented writers in New York City. Since the program’s founding in 2016, DREAMing Out Loud has served over 125 emerging writers. Our students are primarily first-generation immigrants who came to the United States as children. As rhetoric flies, politics grind, and heat increases along all our borders, the experiences of these writers—who have risked their lives to…

From Ellen Bass: “If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, please join Ellen Bass for this craft talk series on Fridays: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. Ellen will be presenting practical teachings that you’ll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you’re at—whether you’re just beginning or…

From the organizers: THE EDGE OF THE SEA IS A STRANGE & BEAUTIFUL PLACE: HYBRID POETRY & PROSE EXPERIMENTS WITH AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL Building upon Rachel Carson’s famous maritime observations, this class will investigate and interrogate the “strange and beautiful place” of genre-blurring work—work that melds elements of creative nonfiction and poetry. The primary focus of this hybrid class will be generative. There will be plenty of time for in-class craft analysis, discussion, and writing prompts galore that will send students…

From the organizers:  In solidarity with our fellow indie booksellers, we are hosting a fundraiser for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation’s COVID-19 relief fund with special guests Jericho Brown (The Tradition), Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House), Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere), and Karen Russell (Orange World). This event is the season finale of The Antibody, a weekly reading and Q&A hosted by Brian Gresko. BINC is a nonprofit that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. Since March, BINC’s COVID-19 response has provided assistance to bookstore employees and…