Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents a Colloquium with Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet
2024-05-22 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Margaret Jacks Hall, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents a Colloquium with Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet on Wednesday May 22nd at 11am PT
From the organizers:
“Sze is this year’s Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers to teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Colloquium with Arthur Sze.”
For more information and to register go to: https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/events/colloquium-arthur-sze-mohr-visiting-poet

August Wilson African American Cultural Center presents Nicholas Goodly for Lit Friday
2024-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Nicholas Goodly joins LIT Friday to discuss Black Swim.
LIT Friday is an August Wilson African American Cultural Center monthly virtual program. Hosted by poet and art journalist, Jessica Lanay, LIT Friday features in depth conversations on the final Friday of each month with writers and thinkers of the African Diaspora. The conversations focus on the intersection of the featured guests’ work and contemporary events affecting the global Black community. Previous guests include Man Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo (2021), music journalist Nelson George (2020), public scholar Dr. Yaba Blay (2022), journalist and author Danyel Smith (2023), and National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2024).”
Register here: https://awaacc.org/event/lit-friday-nicholas-goodly/

The Keeler Tavern Museum presents Poetry in the Garden with Sophie Cabot Black and Patricia Spears Jones
2024-07-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center, 152 Main St, Ridgefield, CT, 06877, United States
From the organizers:
“Poetry in the Garden (formerly “A Garden of Verse”) is back for another summer season! The series, produced by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes, will feature some of the nation’s leading poets. Join us in KTM&HC’s beautiful historic walled garden for weekly readings throughout the month of July. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and readings begin at 7 p.m.
The first event of the season will feature Sophie Cabot Black and Patricia Spears Jones.”
View event here: https://keelertavernmuseum.org/events/483/poetry-in-the-garden/

The 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black
2024-07-13 11:00 - 2024-07-14 18:00 (America/New_York) | Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, NY, 10004
The 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black
From the organizers:
“A literary institution in its thirteenth year, funded by NYSCA, DCLA, and more, The New York City Poetry Festival is a progressive and transformative event that draws over 15,000 attendees. NYC PoFest is one of the most accessible large-scale events New York has to offer. It is free to attend, and its programming is designed to cater to audiences of all ages, regardless of their poetry background. The festival’s core comprises five mainstages: The Brinkley, The Algonquin, The White Horse, The Blackbird, and The Beckett. Over two days, more than a hundred literary organizations will share these stages, from established presses to community writing groups. Attendees of NYC PoFest can also expect an open-air artisan market, top-notch Smorgasburg-worthy food trucks, interactive installations, a visual arts gallery, a Youth Poetry Festival, an open mic, and more. At NYC PoFest, there’s truly a little something for everyone.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-13th-annual-new-york-city-poetry-festival-tickets-863989073577?_gl=1*12cdfol*_gcl_au*NzIxOTU4NjEzLjE3MTk0MzA4NTY.

Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
2024-07-29 - 2024-08-02
Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
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 to find the poem within the story. We’ll question the stories we think are true and experience the power of not-knowing and discovery.
We will write poems, share our writing, and hear what our work touches in others. We’ll also read model poems by contemporary poets and discuss aspects of the craft. But mainly this will be a writing retreat—time to explore and create in a supportive community. Though the focus is on poetry, prose writers who want to enrich their language will find it a fertile environment.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/truth-and-beauty-online-july-august-2024/

DIESEL, A Bookstore presents Noah Warren, Christian Gullette, and Dan O'Brien
2024-07-30 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th St, Santa monica, CA, 90402
From the organizers:
“Join us on Tuesday July 30th at 6:30 pm as we welcome Christian Gullette, Dan O’Brien and Noah Warren to the store to discuss and sign Coachella Elegy, Survivors’s Notebook and The Complete Stories.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood.
Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat.”
View here: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Christian-Gullette-Dan-O-Brien-Noah-Warren-Author-signing

Flyleaf Books presents their Second Sunday Poetry Series with John Balaban and Anna Lewis
2024-09-08 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Flyleaf Books, 752 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series presents readings with John Balaban and Anna Lewis
From the organizers:
“Join us for our Monthly Poetry series, an afternoon of poetic readings. Featured poets will each read for 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, then an open mic. Please sign up by 2:30 pm, and limit your reading to one poem, one page. Hope to see you there!”
View here: https://chapelboro.com/events/flyleaf-second-sunday-poetry-series-anna-lewis-and-john-balaban

Ted Kooser Book Release - Raft
2024-09-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Chapters Books & Gifts, 548 Seward St, Seward, NE, 68434, United States
From the organizers:
“Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life’s shared experiences and emotions–illness, aging, beauty, and love.
Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems maintain the open-handed and accessible style that thousands have come to love. Yet, deeply imagistic and metaphorically rich, Raft shows us that even the simplest of objects, the simplest of actions, can become a portal.”
View here: https://sewardchapters.com/event/2024-09-09/ted-kooser-release-raft

Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews present Ted Kooser Book Launch
2024-09-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews will share poems from Ted Kooser‘s latest book, RAFT, out from Copper Canyon Press in September, 2024. Please note: due to health reasons, Ted Kooser will not be participating in this reading, though he will be watching!”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-kooser-book-launch-tickets-935544367387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Preorder the book here. Include a note in the comments section at checkout for a personalized message from Ted Kooser: https://sewardchapters.com/book/9781556597015

2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading featuring Fady Joudah and Pádraig Ó Tuama
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St, New York, NY, 10014, United States
From the organizers:
The Jackson Poetry Prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent. It was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. Eligible poets must have published at least two books of acknowledged literary merit. The 2024 prize carries a monetary value of $100,000. Nominees are identified by a group of poets selected by Poets & Writers who remain anonymous; final selection is made by a panel of esteemed poets.
The 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize recipient is Fady Joudah. Esteemed poets Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo, and Diane Seuss served as judges.
Poets & Writers is hosting a reading with Fady Joudah on September 17 in New York City. Joudah will be joined in conversation by Pádraig Ó Tuama.
This event will also be live streamed.
For more information and registration, visit: https://www.pw.org/about-us/jackson_poetry_prize

CCP at Brooklyn Book Festival, Sunday, September 29
2024-09-29 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
From the organizers:
“The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.
The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers.
The Brooklyn Book Festival was launched in 2006 as a one-day event to address the need for a free, major literary event that embraced the diverse constituencies of New York City. It has since grown to include 8 days of city-wide Bookend events, its flagship Festival Day with 300 authors and a Literary Marketplace with 250 independent and major publishers, and the BKBF Children’s Day that celebrates childhood reading. The Festival’s credo is ‘hip, smart and diverse’.”
View here: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/

New Works: Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe
2024-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 10282, United States
From the organizers:
Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. In Cabot Black’s Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon, 2024), poems about sheep herding examine the connection between people, land, animals, and power. Howe’s New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024), collates poems from her four previous collections, creating a sweeping and intimate portrait of her body of work. The evening’s readings and conversation between the artists will reveal two extraordinary takes on the human and the spiritual.
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room.
For more information, visit: https://poetshouse.org/event/new-works-black-and-howe/

The Essential C.D. Wright: A Reading with Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander
2024-10-08 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press and honored guests Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander for an evening of poetry and celebration in honor of legendary poet C.D. Wright.
Hosted by C.D. Wright’s longtime poetry editor and Copper Canyon Press’s Executive Editor, Michael Wiegers, this livestream benefit reading will launch The Essential C.D. Wright and feature rare poems, archival photographs and materials, as well as numerous personal stories from her life. Throughout the evening you will be given the opportunity to become a part of the poetry by donating to secure and advance C.D.’s poetic legacy for generations to come.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KPxG8BMoQQeyHFA7t3fbJw#/registration

Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye
2024-10-09 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Let’s honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with poets Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. This gathering features Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye, two celebrated poets with new books to share and discuss. Our other featured guest is Marne Lucas: end-of-life doula, artist, and Reimagine community collaborator.
Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist. Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Orion. She was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and her second book, Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the Paterson Award, and the winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. As the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, Laméris co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective; a radio show, podcast, and event hub. She is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program and teaches The Path of Poetry workshops online. Her third book is Blade by Blade (Copper Canyon Press, September 2024).
Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Trinity University and continues to live. She has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, and The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, the Arab American National Museum, and the National Book Critics Circle. Her newest book is Grace Notes: Poems about Families (Harper Collins, May 2024)
Marne Lucas (she/her/they) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist, end of life doula (EOLD), and Reimagine community collaborator working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, mortality, and in social practice investigations. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by events and emotions of the community around her, and are inspired by the doula and palliative care movements. An infrared thermal video pioneer, Lucas uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the magic and fragility of human life cycles. The Bardo Project explores creativity as a form of spiritual and somatic care in collaborations with terminally ill artists nationwide to establish their legacy. Lucas received EOLD training at INELDA under Henry Fersko Weiss, a role that supports the dying and their families. Marne has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, sex workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. Lucas received Regional Arts & Culture Council project grants (2024, 2013, 2008), UMEZ Creative Engagement grants (2018, 2021) administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and an Oregon Arts Commission public art commission (2009). Lucas was formerly a harm-reduction activist for Danzine, and advisory board member to OUTsider, an LGBTQIA multi-arts festival (Austin, TX.)
About Reimagine: Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life’s biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
For more information and to RSVP, visit: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/reimagine-virtual-candlelight-vigil-with-danusha-lameris-and-naomi-shihab-nye

2024 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival with Sophie Cabot Black
2024-10-18 - 2024-10-19
From the organizers:
Poetry Reading – Friday night, October 18, at 7:30 PM (EDT): Each of our guest poets Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, and Maya C. Popa present a public reading in the auditorium of the Sharon Springs Central School. Afterward, you’ll be able to meet the poets in the lobby, purchase a copy of one of their books — which they will gladly sign — and meet your fellow poetry lovers.
Poetry Workshops – Saturday, October 19: Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, Maya C. Popa , and Festival founder Paul Muldoon will each conduct an in-person poetry workshop for adult members of the community. Workshops are free; anyone 18 or older may register:

Workshops are two hours (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM) and are strictly limited to 8 participants per workshop;
Advance registration is required (registration site coming soon);
Workshops will be conducted in person in Sharon Springs (locations to be announced).
Each participant must submit, in advance, a poem of their own composition to share and discuss with the group.
Limit one workshop per person; one ticket per person.

Panel Discussion – Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 2:00 PM (EDT) (Location To Come): “Poetry and Praise,” a panel discussion with Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, Maya C. Popa, and Paul Muldoon
For more information and registration updates, visit: https://klinkharthall.org/sharon-springs-poetry-festival-2024/

Live! at the Library: Bobbitt Prize Event with Arthur Sze
2024-12-05 18:30 (America/New_York) | Library of Congress: James Madison Memorial Building: Mumford Room, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540, United States
From the organizers:
The Library of Congress will award the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to National Book Award winner Arthur Sze for lifetime achievement in poetry.
Sze of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will receive the prize on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m. during an event in the Mumford Room of the Library’s Madison Building. The event is free, and registration is open to the public. Sze will also give a short talk on poetry, followed by a moderated discussion with Rob Casper, the Library’s head of poetry and literature.
Sze’s presentation is titled “Lines of Sight, and Beyond.” In it he will braid some of his poems with details about his evolution as a poet, insights about his creative process and ideas of exploration and freedom in context of the American experience.
The 2024 Bobbitt Prize was awarded for lifetime achievement in poetry by the Librarian of Congress, based on the recommendation of an internal committee.
“In 11 books and over more than 50 years, Arthur Sze has developed a signature lyricism of seeing. His poems focus on images and declarations – but they also move through breathtaking juxtapositions, create layers of fragments that open up rather than direct their readers. Sze’s imaginative capaciousness pulls in languages, traditions and systems from both East and West, and it can speak to the cosmos then turn to the smallest natural detail,” the committee wrote in its citation for Sze. “His latest collection, ‘The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems,’ captures the range and the commitment of his life’s work, to create ‘points of connection, reflection, and refraction . . . part of an organic growing whole.’”
To register for this event, visit: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/91097920/liveat-the-librarybobbitt-prize-event-with-arthur-sze-washington-events-from-the-library-of-congress__;!!EDx7F7x-0XSOB8YS_BQ!aWy5GpKF81XIsiehWaNwtQ7u6svwojAx4zn6-HplrjVbYAB8AeYirk2HB6Bt4V9sb7wDkif6p5K_AV0zgcQ19zw$
To read the full article, visit: https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-awards-bobbitt-poetry-prize-to-arthur-sze/s/a34cdce4-d123-4524-8447-528d9506fd93

Meet Me There: Featuring Niki Herd and Victoria Chang
2024-12-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“Meet Me There” is a monthly intergenerational poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction experience curated by trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist Samuel Ace. Writers exploring genre and gender boundaries will be a special focus of this series.
This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis’ virtual event platform.
December’s featured poets are Niki Herd and Victoria Chang in celebration of their collections, The Stuff of Hollywood and With My Back to the World: Poems.
The event is free and open to all people, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Donate on crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person the night of the event.
Please contact us at info@chariscircle.org or 404-524-0304 if you would like ASL interpretation at this event. If you would like to watch the event with live AI captions, you may do so by watching it in Google Chrome and enabling captions: Instructions here. If you have other accessibility needs or if you are someone who has skills in making digital events more accessible please don’t hesitate to reach out to info@chariscircle.org. We are actively learning the best practices for this technology and we welcome your feedback as we begin this new way of connecting across distances.
For more information and event registration, visit: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/meet-me-there-featuring-niki-herd-and-victoria-chang

Copper Canyon Press at AWP 2025
2025-03-26 - 2025-03-29 | AWP, Los Angeles Convention Center
Copper Canyon Press looks forward to attending the in-person 2025 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference March 26-29. Here’s how to find the Press, our booth at #AWP25, and your favorite poets.
Copper Canyon Press Events at AWP 2025 Conference
Thursday (March 27)

Jericho Brown, Camille Rankine
9:00am–10:15pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Predictable Unpredictability: Celebrating the Poetry of Reginald Shepherd.

Paisley Rekdal
10:35am–11:50pm. Room 406AB, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Breaking Walls: Heirs of Angel Island Write Against the Anti-Chinese West.

Michael Wasson
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal.

Traci Brimhall
12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Not Cue Cards or Assignments: The Magic of Prompts in Poetry Workshops.

Geoffrey Brock
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Twenty Years of Reimagining Place: An Ecotone Anniversary Reading.

Victoria Chang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
When Words Are Not Enough: Graphic Literature & Diasporic Histories.

Patricia Spears Jones
12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Crowned with Laurels: The Role of the Poet Laureate in a Contemporary Age.

Geoff Bouvier
7:00pm–10:00pm. The Los Angeles Makery, 260 S Los Angeles St.
Black Lawrence Reading.

Friday (March 28)

Victoria Chang, Tyree Daye, Dean Rader
9:00am–10:15am. Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Eyes Wide: Exploring the Extended Ekphrastic.

Maurya Simon
10:00am–11:00am. Red Hen Press Booth.
Book Signing.

Camille Rankine
10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision.

Paisley Rekdal
10:35am–11:50pm. Room 503, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Can I Write That? At the Crossroads of Social Change & Conscious Language.

Kerry James Evans
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way.

Patricia Spears Jones
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Sisterhood: Friendship, Feminism, Lineage & Perseverance.

Paisley Rekdal
12:30–1:30pm. W.W. Norton Booth.
Signing for Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens.

Diannely Antigua
1:45pm–3:00pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
How Do You Know When You’re Done? Poets on Revision.

Michael Wasson
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Excuse My Beauty: Queer Indigenous Poetics, Story & Time.

Christopher Soto
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Literary Production During Authoritarian Governments.

Tishani Doshi, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Michael Wiegers, and Shangyang Fang
3:20pm–4:35pm. Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Vacancies We Name: Poetry of Global Perspectives, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press.

Terry Ehret
5:00pm–7:oopm. Catcher in the Rye 10550 Riverside Drive Toluca Lake, CA 91602.
Celebrate 2025 Poetry Books from Sixteen Rivers Press.

Randall Mann
5:00pm–7:30pm. Precinct, 357 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013.
Unbound @ Precinct – a Queer Offsite Reading.

Diannely Antigua
6:00pm–7:30pm. Heavy Manners Library.
Luz y Carbón: an AWP Offsite Reading.

Pádraig Ó Tuama
7:00pm–8:30pm. The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena.
The Slowdown Live.

Amanda Gunn
8:00pm–10:00pm. Sybilline Records, Pasadena.
Off-site reading with Dialogist.

Saturday (March 29)

Amanda Gunn
9:00am–10:15am. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Forms of Grief: The Craft of Writing Elegiac Poetry.

Dean Rader
10:ooam–11:00am. Only Poems Table.
Book Signing of Beyond the Borderless.

Philip Metres and Pádraig Ó Tuama
10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Spirit Work: Talking (with) Sacred Texts Through Poetry.

Forrest Gander, Shangyang Fang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 407, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
“Traduttore, Traditore!”: Poets on Translation.

Jennifer Chang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
No Excerpts: On the Long Poem.

Pádraig Ó Tuama
12:30pm–1:30pm. Norton Booth 646.
Book Signing.

Maria Hummel
1:45pm–3:00pm. Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Middle March: Novel Writing’s Toughest Mile.

Sophie Cabot Black
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Resistance, Refusal, Silence & Life: When We Don’t Write.

Natalie Shapero, Jennifer Chang, Tyree Daye, Christopher Kondrich
5:00pm–6:00pm. R Bar in K Town.
Off-site Reading with Southern Indiana Review.

Sunday (March 30)

Tishani Doshi
4:00pm–5:00pm. Wonzimer Gallery.
Windswept Artist Talk with Susan Ossman.

You can view the full conference schedule here.
Bookfair Booth
Copper Canyon Press’s booth will be located at Booth 418.

Traci Brimhall Book Signing at AWP
2025-03-27 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CCP Booth #418
Stop by booth #418 at AWP for a book signing with Traci Brimhall, author of Love Prodigal!

Yuki Tanaka Book Signing at AWP
2025-03-28 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CCP Booth #418
Stop by booth #418 at AWP for a book signing with Yuki Tanaka, author of Chronicle of Drifting!

Jennifer Chang Book Signing at AWP
2025-03-28 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CCP Booth #418
Stop by booth #418 at AWP for a book signing with Jennifer Chang, author of An Authentic Life!

The Vacancies We Name: Poetry of Global Perspectives with Michael Wiegers, Tishani Doshi, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Shangyang Fang
2025-03-28 15:20 - 16:35 (America/Los_Angeles) | Petree Hall C, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level 1
From the Organizers:
When we leave home and move through the world, what vacancies get created inside us? What does it mean to be severed from belonging—and to find it again? And how does poetry give us a mouth with which to tune our empty spaces? In this reading, three celebrated, international poets explore the intersections between distance, home, and spirit, offering a window into the energies we use to make a place in which we can live, whether here, there, or both at once.

8th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics With Pádraig Ó Tuama
2025-04-02 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Husky Union Building, Room 334, University of Washington, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
From the organizers:
Poet and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. Working fluently on the page and in public, he is a compelling poet and skilled speaker, teacher and group worker. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. From 2014-2019 he was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation community. With undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in theology, multiple professional qualifications in conflict mediation (specialising in groups), he also holds a PhD (Poetry & Theology) from the University of Glasgow. For the Autumn terms of 2024-28, he is a visiting scholar at the centre for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University.
When BBC journalist William Crawley introduced Pádraig on the stage to deliver a TEDx talk on Story, Crawley said, “He’s probably the best public speaker I know.” Profiling Ó Tuama in The New Yorker, journalist and poet Eliza Grizwold wrote “Poetry, for him, is the language the heart speaks not when it reaches for some externalized divinity but when it seeks to understand itself.”

The Elliott Bay Book Company presents a Reading with Tishani Doshi and Kelli Russell Agodon
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
From the organizers:

“Award-winning poet, writer, and dancer Tishani Doshi and award-winning poet and editor Kelli Russell Agodon visit the store to discuss their poetry collections, A God at the Door and Dialogues with the Rising Tides.
Please help us prepare for audience size by RSVPing here.”
A God at the Door
“We are homesick everywhere,” writes Tishani Doshi, “even when we’re home.” With aching empathy, righteous anger, and rebellious humor, A God at the Door calls on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to redefine belonging and unveil injustice. In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, these poems make vital space for what must come next-the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Doshi interrupts the news cycle to pause in grief or delight, to restore power to language. A God at the Door invites the reader on a pilgrimage-one that leads us back to the sacred temple of ourselves. This is an exquisite, generous collection from a poet at the peak of her powers.
Dialogues with Rising Tides
In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.
Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, writer, and dancer. She has published six books of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in newspapers and journals such as the Guardian, the National, and the Hindu, and her essays, poems and short stories have been widely anthologized. Doshi lives in Tamil Nadu, India, and is currently Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi.
Kelli Russell Agodon (she/her) is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book is Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays & Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land. She also co-hosts the poetry series”Poems You Need” with Melissa Studdard. Her latest collection, Accidental Devotions, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2026.

Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Better Angels of Our Nature
2025-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cathedral Nave, University of Washington, 1410 NE Campus Pkwy, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
From the Organizer:
A Thursday evening Wisdom School event with acclaimed poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025, 7–8:30 P.M., in person in the cathedral nave and livestreamed; registration required
Due to the number of registrations, this event will be offered in the cathedral nave rather than Bloedel Hall. A livestream will be available to registrants as announced previously.
We live in fraught times when violence seems to be the common denominator in a calculus based in mistrust and misanthropic othering. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind… Drawing on inspiration from his work with language and religion, conflict and peacemaking, this truth-teller of our time will draw us into an orbit of soulful wisdom and poetic grace.
Fee: $15 (for in-person and livestream participation).
Register below or using this link.

O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Finale with Ellen Bass
2025-04-08 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Folger Theatre, 201 E Capitol St SE, Washington, 20003, United States
From the organizer:
The 2024-25 Poetry season concludes with a finale reading by Ellen Bass. Bass’s most recent poetry books include Indigo, Like a Beggar, and The Human Line. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction works include The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. Bass, chosen by a group of Folger Poetry supporters, will read from the work of other poets cited as a literary influence, as well as from her own work. A moderated conversation, bookselling, and signing will follow the reading.
Virtual access to a live streaming of the reading available upon purchase.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/mrxf359t

Ellen Bass: The Myra Berman Kurtz '66 Seminar
2025-04-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kraushaar Auditorium, 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, 21204, United States
From the organizer:
The Kurtz Seminar series was endowed by the late Myra Berman Kurtz ’66 and her husband, Dr. Stuart Kurtz, to present speakers at Goucher College who will inspire under- graduate students to pursue careers in a variety of fields. This year’s seminar features Goucher alumna and author Ellen Bass ’68.

Ellen Bass: The Myra Berman Kurtz '66 Seminar
2025-04-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kraushaar Auditorium, 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, 21204, United States
The Kurtz Seminar series was endowed by the late Myra Berman Kurtz ’66 and her husband, Dr. Stuart Kurtz, to present speakers at Goucher College who will inspire under- graduate students to pursue careers in a variety of fields. This year’s seminar features Goucher alumna and author Ellen Bass ’68.
See more at event site: https://events.goucher.edu/event/ellen-bass-the-myra-berman-kurtz-66-seminar

Sierra Poetry Festival (With Randall Mann)
2025-04-12 08:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Center for the Arts, 314 W Main St., Grass Valley, CA, 95945, United States
From the organizers:
Sierra Poetry Festival is a project of Nevada County Arts Council. We will host our 9th Annual SIERRA POETRY FESTIVAL on April 12, 2025 at The Center for the Arts, in Grass Valley, CA, attended by some of our most exciting local, national, and international poets and performers, in the midst of a month-long FRINGE POETRY FESTIVAL, taking place in venues across Nevada County and beyond.
Sierra Poetry Festival marks National Poetry Month from the rolling foothills of California’s Gold Country to the rugged High Sierra, bringing a rich literary community together to celebrate the spoken word and reach out to new audiences in fresh ways. Through Sierra Poetry Festival we also celebrate California Arts, Culture & Creativity Month and we draw attention to our two coveted California Cultural Districts.
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Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival 2025
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | Sarah Lawrence College, 1 Mead Way, Bronxville, NY, United States
From the organizer:
The Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival takes place in April each year and is the largest, open, student-run Poetry Festival in New York. Since 2003, we have been dedicated to the celebration of contemporary poetry and the creation of community around the art form. Previously, we have welcomed poets such as Tracy K. Smith, Anne Carson, Nicole Sealy, Jos Charles, Eduardo C. Corral, and many others. Our festival includes readings, panel discussions, generative sessions, craft talks, and more! We hope to see you there.
Free and open to the public, this year our festival will run from April 25 – 27th here on campus! For more information, please contact us at slcpoetryfest@gmail.com or follow our social media pages (@slcpoetryfest).
