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SUMMARY:Reading and Conversation with John Freeman and Wil Weitzel
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“The Center for Fiction is pleased to welcome John Freeman and our Emerging Writer Fellowship alum\, Wil Weitzel\, for the launch of Nights from This Galaxy\, Weitzel’s debut set of deep\, lush short stories that are full of wonder; the collection’s tales range from a couple that cares for a starving lion to a boy held captive by a dangerous old man who hunts dogs for sport. The literary duo will explore the craft of fiction\, the work’s fierce characters\, and our shared human fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.” \nRegister here: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story-wil-weitzel-on-nights-from-this-galaxy-with-john-freeman/ \n 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/reading-and-conversation-with-john-freeman-and-wil-weitzel/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Avenue\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Celebration at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Poetry is vital to language and living. Based in Port Townsend\, Washington\, Copper Canyon Press is a nationally recognized publisher dedicated to advancing the art\, practice\, and reading of poetry from around the world. 2023 marks a half century of its efforts in doing so—to celebrate this 50th anniversary\, Copper Canyon will host a reading of poets who stand at the crossroads of poetry’s past and future. Coinciding with the AWP conference in Seattle\, this reading takes advantage of a rare consortium of extraordinary poets\, many of whom are convening for the first time since the pandemic\, and all of whom will be presenting new or recent work.   \nDeborah Landau’s newest collection of poems\, Skeletons\, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Landau is the author of four other poetry collections: Soft Targets—winner of the Believer Book Award—The Uses of the Body\, The Last Usable Hour\, and Orchidelirium\, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, and a Spanish edition of the collection\, Los Usos Del Cuerpo\, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. Landau is a professor at New York University\, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. \nDana Levin’s latest collection of poems\, Now Do You Know Where You Are\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022\, and was named a New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2022.” Levin is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, most recently Banana Palace (2016). Her first book\, In the Surgical Theatre\, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors\, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book\, Wedding Day\, in 2005\, and in 2011 Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Levin’s fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Witter Bynner Foundation\, and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis\, where she lives. \nJaswinder Bolina’s newest collection of poems\, English as a Second Language and Other Poems\, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2023. His previous books include his debut essay collection Of Color and three other full-length poetry collections\, The 44th of July (Omnidawn 2019)\, Phantom Camera (New Issues Press 2013\, winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry)\, and Carrier Wave (CLP 2007\, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry). His essays have been featured at the Washington Post\, Paris Review\, Shenandoah\, The Believer\, the Poetry Foundation\, and others. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Miami. \nMarianne Boruch’s latest poetry collection\, Bestiary Dark\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Her ten previous collections include Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (2016)\, Cadaver\, Speak (2014)\, The Book of Hours (2011)\, a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner\, and The Anti-Grief (2019). She has also published a memoir\, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana\, 2011) and three books of essays–In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity\, 2005) and in the Michigan Poets on Poetry series\, Poetry’s Old Air (1995) and The Little Death of Self (2016). Her works have appeared in numerous places\, including The New Yorker and The Best American Poetry\, and has received Pushcart Prizes. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow\, she has had residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the American Academy in Rome\, Djerassi\, the Anderson Center\, and two national parks\, Denali and Isle Royale. A 2019 Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra\, Australia\, and a 2012 Fulbright Professor at the University of Edinburgh\, she founded Purdue University’s MFA in 1987. Having taught at Purdue for over three decades\, Boruch has gone emeritus\, though she continues on faculty (since 1988) in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College. She and her husband\, David Dunlap\, live in West Lafayette\, Indiana where they raised their son. \nDean Rader’s newest book\, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly\, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. His previous book\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (2017)\, was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Rader is also the author of Works & Days\, which won the 2010 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, was a finalist for the Bush Memorial Prize\, and won the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Often engaging in collaborative projects\, Rader is the co-author of a book of collaborative sonnets entitled Suture with the poet Simone Muench\, and he co-edited Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence with Brian Clements and Alexandra Teague.  \nRandall Mann’s newest book\, Deal: New and Selected Poems\, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Mann is the author of five previous books of poetry: Complaint of the Garden\, Breakfast with Thom Gunn\, Straight Razor\, Proprietary\, and A Better Life. Recipient of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize awarded by Poetry magazine\, Mann is also author of The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, a book of literary criticism. Three-time finalists for the Lambda Literary Award\, Mann’s poetry collections have been shortlisted for the California Book Award and Northern California Book Award\, and longlisted for the Golden Poppy Awards’ Martin Cruz Diversity and Inclusion Award. \nTaneum Bambrick’s latest collection of poems\, Intimacies\, Received\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Bambrick is also the author of Vantage\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (APR 2019). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program\, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize\, an  Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center\, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her essay\, “Sturgeon\,” was named a notable essay of 2019. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, PEN\, and elsewhere. She has received a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Environmental Writers’ Conferences. A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California\, and Co-Book Reviews Editor for Pleiades Magazine. \nNatalie Eilbert’s newest collection of poems\, Overland\, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Eilbert is the author of two previous poetry collections\, Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018)\, winner of the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of the prize-winning chapbooks And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (2014) and Conversations with the Stone Wife (2014). Her works engage with systemic power imbalances\, social and environmental justice\, and climate change\, and a selection of her poems was granted the 2021 George Bogin Memorial Award. Founding editor of The Atlas Review\, she is the recipient of a 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She lives in Wisconsin where she contributes to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA TODAY as a local government and mental health reporter. \nCate Marvin’s latest collection of poems\, Event Horizon\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022. Her first book\, World’s Tallest Disaster\, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002\, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books\, 2006). Her second book of poems\, Fragment of the Head of a Queen\, for which she received a Whiting Award\, was published by Sarabande in 2007. Her third book of poems\, Oracle\, published by W.W. Norton & Co.\, was named one of the best poetry books of 2015 by The New York Times. Marvin teaches poetry writing in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island\, City University of New York. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, she lives in Scarborough\, Maine. 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/copper-canyon-50th-anniversary-celebration-at-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Orion Magazine Presents: A Reading with John Freeman
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“Orion Magazine contributing writer\, John Freeman\, author\, poet\, executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, and founder of the literary journal Freeman’s will be making a stop in Cleveland on his tour of independent books stores. \nJoin us at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes on Wednesday\, March 8th at 7 pm for a refreshing and invigorating conversation between John Freeman and Literary Cleveland’s executive director\, Matt Weinkam. Books will be available at the event courtesy of Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry or stop by the store to pick up a copy of Freeman’s poetry collection\, Wind\, Trees (Copper Canyon 2022)\, Tales of Two Planets\, a collection of essays focusing on inequality and the climate crisis\, and the recent Freeman’s anthology\, Animals. Mac’s Backs will be donating a portion of profits to the Nature Center.  This event is sponsored by Orion Magazine in partnership with the Nature Center. This is a free public program and donations to the Nature Center are welcome. Registration is required.” \nRegister here: https://shakerlakes.doubleknot.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-matt-weinkam/2964999
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/orion-magazine-presents-a-reading-with-john-freeman/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44120\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Victoria Chang at Pacific Lutheran University Visiting Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Lutheran University’s 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series will host poet Victoria Chang at the Scandinavian Cultural Center\, Room #100.  This live reading is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/victoria-chang-at-pacific-lutheran-university-visiting-writers-series/
LOCATION:Scandinavian Cultural Center\, AUC\, Anderson University Center\, Room #100\, Tacoma\, WA\, 98447\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Reading with John Freeman and Stuart Dybek at Volumes Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“Join us at Volumes Bookstore on March 7th as we welcome back poet\, critic\, and writer John Freeman to read from his new collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press\, Wind\, Trees. John will be joined in conversation with one of Chicago’s most beloved writers/poets/educators\, Stuart Dybek.”
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/reading-with-john-freeman-and-stuart-dybek-at-volumes-bookstore/
LOCATION:Volumes Bookstore\, 900 N. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60611\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:John Freeman Reading & Conversation with Su Hwang & Michael Kleber-Diggs
DESCRIPTION:From the Organizers: \n“Please join us on Monday\, March 6th at 7:00pm for a free\, in-person\, masked event at Moon Palace Books to welcome poet\, essayist\, editor\, and literary critic John Freeman\, who will be reading from his recent third poetry collection\, WIND\, TREES\, published with Copper Canyon Press in October 2022. \nHe will be joined by Twin Cities-based poets Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs for a reading and conversation about poetry and literary activism. There will also be time for audience Q&A with John Freeman. \nFormerly the Executive Editor of Literary Hub\, John Freeman co-edited with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith the anthology THERE’S A REVOLUTION OUTSIDE\, MY LOVE\, which included essays by Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs\, following the murder of George Floyd.” \n**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store. Social Distancing is encouraged.**
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-reading-conversation-with-su-hwang-michael-kleber-diggs/
LOCATION:Moon Palace Books\, 3032 Minnehaha Ave.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Michael Wiegers Hosts Reading and Q&A with Shangyang Fang
DESCRIPTION:On February 18th at 6:30pm\, Michael Wiegers\, Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press\, will host a reading and Q&A with Shangyang Fang at The Royal Block Hotel. Fang will read from his collection “Burying the Mountain.” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/michael-wiegers-hosts-reading-and-qa-with-shangyang-fang/
LOCATION:The Royal Block\, 222 Main Street\, Waitsburg\, WA\, 99361\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:New Dominion Bookshop presents a Reading with Fernando Valverde and Wajahat Ali
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“Join us for a reading with poet Fernando Valverde (America) and writer Wajahat Ali (Go Back to Where You Came From). This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.”
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/new-dominion-bookshop-presents-a-reading-with-fernando-valverde-and-wajahat-ali/
LOCATION:New Dominion Bookshop\, 404 East Main St\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22902\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Harry Ransom Center presents Victoria Chang: Author Reading and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Harry Ransom Center presents Victoria Chang: Author Reading and Book Signing\, 6 PM CST \nFrom the organizers: \nPoet\, writer\, and editor Victoria Chang celebrates her most recent book of poetry\, The Trees Witness Everything\, published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022\, with this reading and a book signing at the Ransom Center. The book was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by The New Yorker and The Guardian. In the book\, Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration\, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas\,” each poem is shaped by pattern and count. \nThis highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin\, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text\, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth\, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name—with reverence\, economy\, and whimsy—the ache of wanting\, the hawk and its shadow\, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light. \nMore information will appear here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/victoria-chang-author-reading-and-book-signing-tickets-510908449927?fbclid=IwAR30oDL9yim6y6qFQ7IGanjVQq_4wPGQ7QztFazKljf7FBA2V66QYf4aIRY
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/harry-ransom-center-presents-victoria-chang-author-reading-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Harry Ransom Center\, 300 West 21st Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Poet Alberto Ríos Reading and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“The Zell Visiting Writers Series presents Alberto Ríos\, Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, is the author of twelve books and chapbooks of poetry\, including The Theater of Night—winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award—three collections of short stories\, and a memoir about growing up on the border\, Capirotada. \nAll events will be held in a hybrid format (i.e.\, both in person and over Zoom). Zoom attendees may login to all Zell Visiting Writers Series events via the usual link (with no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters  All events will include live\, automatic captioning for Zoom attendees. \nZVWS events are free and open to the public. For additional information\, questions\, or accommodations needs\, please contact Program Coordinator Michaela Kotziers at kotziers@umich.edu.”
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/zell-visiting-writers-series-poet-alberto-rios-reading-and-qa/
LOCATION:Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 25 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:The Paris Review and the Morgan Library & Museum Present: A Reading and Conversation with Victoria Chang\, C. S. Giscombe\, Timmy Straw\, and Srikanth Reddy
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n“Since 1953\, The Paris Review has shaped the canon of contemporary poetry\, publishing exciting new voices alongside household names. Contributors Victoria Chang\, C. S. Giscombe\, and Timmy Straw will be joined at the Morgan Library & Museum by the Review’s new poetry editor\, Srikanth Reddy\, to discuss their poems in the magazine’s new Winter issue\, no. 242\, as well as some of their favorite poems in the Review’s seventy-year-old archive—the first fifty years of which are housed at the Morgan. \nBy entering the museum\, you agree to our updated Visitor Guidelines and Policies. Masks are required for attending all public programs.” \nRegister here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/new-poetry-and-paris-review-victoria-chang-cs-giscombe-timmy-straw-and-srikanth-reddy \nGeneral admission tickets cost $20. Morgan members and subscribers to The Paris Review pay $15. Students with a valid school ID get in FREE. 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/the-paris-review-and-the-morgan-library-museum-present-a-reading-and-conversation-with-victoria-chang-c-s-giscombe-timmy-straw-and-srikanth-reddy/
LOCATION:The Morgan’s Gilder Lehrman Hall\, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry with Naomi Shihab Nye\, Steve Spencer\, and Joseph Bednarik
DESCRIPTION:Online event celebrating the 20th anniversary of Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison\n\n\nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fAKJbjneRvuW9WjB6-UrSQ
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/braided-creek-a-conversation-in-poetry-with-naomi-shihab-nye-steve-spencer-and-joseph-bednarik/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Comet of Stillness: Taught By Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will be teaching a class called Comet of Stillness: A five-week short course on the Poetry of W.S. Merwin. The course will meet on Sundays from January 22 – February 19\, 2023. \nEarly Bird Tuition (before January 12\, 2023): $270. \nStandard Tuition (After January 12\, 2023): $300. \nFinancial Aid is available \nFrom the organizers: \nW.S. Merwin’s poetry was visionary\, ecological\, anti-war\, and humanist\, and exhibits a clarity and strangeness that continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary American poetry. The goal of these five sessions is to dive deeply into this extraordinary poet and his body of work. Across five sessions\, poets Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will facilitate close-readings of key poems\, and will situate the poems\, and the poet\, in their historical contexts. The course will explore Merwin’s formal innovations\, his thematic concerns\, and his development as a poet from his earliest work to his final poems. Chang and Zapruder will introduce\, and talk with\, key figures from his literary life\, including Merwin’s long-time editor at Copper Canyon Press\, Michael Wiegers. \n \nIn addition to course meetings\, Chang and Zapruder will provide additional reading materials. Each session will begin with an hour of discussion\, including background and close readings\, followed by a ten-minute break. The session will then reconvene for a second hour in which Chang and Zapruder will discuss thoughts from the chat\, answer questions\, and offer further insights. Each session will end with an optional poetry writing prompt based on Merwin’s poetry. \n \nDates/Times:  Sundays\, January 22 – February 19\, 2023  4:00-6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom \n \nEarly Bird Tuition (before January 12\, 2023): $270. \nStandard Tuition (After January 12\, 2023):  $300. \nFinancial aid is available. Please contact us if needed. \n  \nWhat to Expect: \nFive\, two-hour weekly sessions online with assigned reading of poems and supplemental material.\nIn the first sixty or seventy minutes of each session\, Victoria Chang and Mathew Zapruder will explore and supply background on the previously assigned poems.\nIn the second hour\, we will reconvene in our large group for conversation and questions.\nParticipant questions and comments may be addressed using Vimeo’s chat feature during the second hour\, though questions can be posted in the chat throughout the session.\nOptional small (8-10 person) discussion groups will be available to those with the energy and interest after the formal session is over.\nOptional writing prompts based on Merwin’s poems will be provided.\nEach participant will be given a seat on a dedicated SLACK channel\, where writing prompt responses and extracurricular discussion can occur.\nThis course will be presented live online on the Vimeo platform.\nThese sessions will be recorded\, and will be available for later viewing by registered participants for 30 days following the final session.\nTEXT:\nFor this course\, our text will be The Essential W.S. Merwin; handouts for each session will be posted online. \nParticipants who don’t own the text are asked to purchase and explore it\, if possible\, before January 22. \nThe Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) \nTHE SHORT COURSE PLAN: \nSession 1 (Jan. 22): Introduction and early forms \nSession 2 (Jan. 29): The Lice: war and the environment \nSession 3 (Feb 5): Middle Period: intellect\, resistance\, and formal innovation \nSession 4 (Feb. 12): The Vixen: time and ghosts \nSession 5 (Feb 19): Late poems and Merwin’s poetic legacy \nOnline\, and year-round\, The Writers’ Annex is composed of short courses\, seminars\, workshops\, and more. Our vision is to bring the creative insight and experience of our staff poets and prose writers to our community in all seasons\, not just in the summertime\, and not just here in our Valley. Our online offerings will address such topics as eco-poetics\, translation\, and generative sessions. Some will be one or two days\, some will be weekend intensives\, and some will meet weekly for a month or two. In addition\, we hope these offerings will help offset the tremendous expenses we incur each summer bringing excellent writers of poetry and prose to the Valley regardless of their ability to pay. \n 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/comet-of-stillness-taught-by-victoria-chang-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:John Freeman and Ha Jin at Harvard Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman and Ha Jin will read at Harvard Bookstore on Tuesday December 13th at 7 PM ET.  \nFrom the organizers: \nHarvard Book Store welcomes JOHN FREEMAN—author and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf—and award-winning author HA JIN for an evening of poetry and eggnog\, featuring readings from Wind\, Trees and The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po). \nHarvard Book Store is excited to be back to in-person programming. To ensure the safety and comfort of everyone in attendance\, the following Covid-19 safety protocols will be in place at all of our Harvard Book Store events until further notice: \n\nFace coverings are required of all staff and attendees when inside the store. Masks must snugly cover nose and mouth.\n\nAbout Wind\, Trees\nIn Wind\, Trees\, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss\, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind\, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind\, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse\, meandering thought and punctuating quiet\, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. \nAbout The Banished Immortal\nIn his own time (701–762)\, Li Bai’s poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion\, romance\, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless\, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers\, tavern singers\, soldiers\, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty\, and his deep desire for a higher\, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname\, the Banished Immortal. Today\, Bai’s verses are still taught to China’s schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. \nWith the instincts of a master novelist\, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet’s life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man\, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon\, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet’s later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China’s history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death\, which are surrounded by legend. \nThe Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it\, and whose ability to live\, love\, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-and-ha-jin-at-harvard-bookstore/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Natalie Shapero Reading at Heavy Manners Library
DESCRIPTION:Join Heavy Manners Library for a night of poetry and music featuring poets Natalie Shapero and Meg Shevenock\, and musician Calvin Lee Reeder. The event will be held on Wednesday\, December 7th\, 2022 at 7pm PST at Heavy Manners Library in Los Angeles.  \nFrom the organizers:  \nNatalie Shapero is the author\, most recently\, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD\, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize\, and NO OBJECT\, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. She teaches at UC Irvine. \nMeg Shevenock’s debut poetry collection\, The Miraculous\, Sometimes\, won the 2019 Marystina Santiestevan first book prize\, judged by Bob Hicok for Conduit Books & Ephemera. Meg’s poems and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, Lana Turner\, Best New Poets\, Denver Quarterly\, Smartish Pace\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and the Kenyon Review blog. She is a 2021 recipient of a writer’s grant from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner in Poetry. Meg is frequently “the reader” and researcher for visual artist Ann Hamilton. She teaches writing to gifted youth. \nCalvin Lee Reeder is a filmmaker and musician originally from Seattle but has been marooned in Los Angeles for over a decade. His films have won awards at Sundance\, AFI\, and The Sarasota Film Festival. His music has done nothing like that. However\, he did waste a good part of his youth touring extensively with art punk bands The Intelligence (In the Red Records) and Popular Shapes (On/On switch). As a solo act\, he plays off-kilter folk songs that usually start in A minor- heck\, they usually end there\, too. \n  \n  \nFor more work by the performers\, visit… \nMeg Shevenock \nhttps://www.megshevenock.com/book \n  \nNatalie Shapero \nhttps://natalieshapero.com/ \n 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/natalie-shapero-reading-at-heavy-manners-library/
LOCATION:Heavy Manners Library\, 1200 North Alvarado Street\,\, Los Angeles\,\, CA\, 90026
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SUMMARY:Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way To Heaven with Victoria Chang
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Chang will discuss The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Nightboat Books) with poet Brian Teare for a book launch on Zoom. In the book\, Teare engages with the work and writings of American painter Agnes Martin.  \n  \nFrom the organizers: \nWe hope you will join us on Zoom on 11/30 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for the book launch of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven by Brian Teare\, joined by Victoria Chang! RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfu-urDMqHND8xQcJNpJTRl1rVKQ4Ieml
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/brian-teares-the-empty-form-goes-all-the-way-to-heaven-with-victoria-chang/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:An EVening of Poetry with Leila Chatti (Deluge) and Mónica Gomery (Might Kindred)
DESCRIPTION:A Virtual Reading with Leila Chatti and Mónica Gomery will read with Brookline Brooksmith\, an independent bookstore in New England. The event will be held on Zoom and the authors’ books will be available for purchase.  \nLeila Chatti\, a Tunisian-American dual citizen\, has lived in the United States\, Tunisia\, and Southern France. She is the author of the debut full-length collection Deluge (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize\, the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry\, and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award\, and the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya\, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her poems have received prizes from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest\, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize\, and the Pushcart Prize\, among others\, and appear in The New York Times Magazine\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, POETRY\, The Nation\, The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, Tin House\, American Poetry Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Georgia Review\, New England Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Narrative\, The Rumpus\, Best New Poets (2015 & 2017)\, and other journals and anthologies. She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College. \nMónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred\, winner of the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize\, judged by Kwame Dawes\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, and Hilda Raz. A Venezuelan-American Jewish poet\, her work engages with queerness\, loss\, diaspora\, theology\, and cultivating courageous hearts. She has been a nominee for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net\, and is the winner of Pallette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She is a graduate of the Tin House Winter Workshop. Her poems appear most recently in the Iowa Review\, Adroit Journal\, Black Warrior Review\, and Poet Lore. She is also the author of Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2018) and Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books\, 2017). Read more at www.monicagomerywriting.com \nAbout Brookline Booksmith\nWe are one of New England’s premier independent bookstores\, family-owned and locally run since 1961. We offer an extensive selection of new\, used\, and bargain books; unique\, beautiful gifts; award-winning events series; and specialty foods. Every day\, we strive to foster community through the written word\, represent a diverse range of voices and histories\, and inspire conversations that enrich our lives. Find more at brooklinebooksmith.com! \nEVENT ACCESSIBILITY \nBarring technical difficulty\, auto-transcription is enabled on all Brookline Booksmith Zoom Webinar events.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/an-evening-of-poetry-with-leila-chatti-deluge-and-monica-gomery-might-kindred/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:John Freeman\, Victoria Chang\, Peter Balakian\, and Victoria Redel on “Redemption\, Refuge\, and Release”
DESCRIPTION:Join John Freeman\, Victoria Chang\, Peter Balakian\, and Jennifer Redel for a panel discussion of “Redemption\, Refuge\, and Release\,” at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday November 19th at 12 PM ET.  \nFrom the Organizers:\nWhether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide\, James Baldwin in France\, or Arshile Gorky in New York City\, Peter Balakian‘s layered\, elliptical language\, wired phrases\, and shifting tempos in No Sign engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style. In The Trees Witness Everything\, Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas\,” powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? John Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love in Wind\, Trees. And drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge to rewrite Eden\, the poems in Victoria Redel‘s Paradise interweave religion and myth\, personal lore and nation-building\, borders actual and imagined\, asking: What if what we fell from was never\, actually\, grace?
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-victoria-chang-peter-balakian-and-victoria-redel-on-redemption-refuge-and-release/
LOCATION:Miami Dade College\, Room 6100 (Building 6\, 1st Floor) 300 NE Second Ave.\, Miami\, FL\, 33132
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:John Freeman and Deborah Landau
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press authors John Freeman and Deborah Landau will present from their new books at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn at 7:30 PM ET on Monday\, Novemeber 14th. \nFrom the organizers: John Freeman—poet\, editor\, and founder of the literary annual Freeman’s—joins us along with prizewinning poet Deborah Landau for an evening of all things Copper Canyon Press. Freeman presents his newest book Wind\, Trees: a meditation on power and loss\, change and adaptation\, offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything.” Landau will preview her next collection\, Skeletons\, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2023. Join us for an evening contemplating the liberties and limitations of the poetic line from two of its contemporary masters.  \nRegisterfor this inperson event here.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-and-deborah-landau/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore\, 632 Flatbush Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11225
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:John Freeman Reading with Samiya Bashir at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, NYU
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman will read with Samiya Bashir at 7 PM EST on Thursday\, November 10th. \nFrom the organizers: \nPoetry Reading: Samiya Bashir and John Freeman \nReadings by Samiya Bashir and John Freeman\, with a reception and book signing to follow. Please see below for more information about the authors. \nOpen to the public\nAll attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here \n***\nCOVID-19 Protocols (please read carefully)\nPer current NYU guidelines\, masks are optional. All NYU attendees will be required to show an NYU Violet Go pass at the door. Members of the public are required to adhere to the following: \nAge: Must be 5 years of age or older.\nIdentification: Must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).\nVaccination: Must provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and boosted (if eligible\, based on CDC criteria) with an FDA-authorized or WHO-listed vaccine. Documentation must include: \n\nName\nBirthdate\nDates of doses\nVaccine manufacturer\nDocumentation must be in English\n\nNote: If the documentation proof you provide does not meet these requirements\, you will not be admitted. \nHealth and Safety Protocols: All attendees must comply with all COVID-19 health and safety protocols\, University policies\, codes of conduct\, and building-specific protocols. \n*** \nThe Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is wheelchair accessible with at least two weeks advance notice; for this or any other accommodations\, please call the Creative Writing Program at 212.998.8816 or email creative.writing@nyu.edu.  \n  \nSamiya Bashir is a poet\, writer\, librettist\, performer\, and multi-media poetry maker whose work\, both solo and collaborative\, has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, experienced\, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf\, Amsterdam to Accra\, Florence to Rome and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently Field Theories\, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award’s Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her honors include the Rome Prize in Literature\, the Pushcart Prize\, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature\, and two Michigan’s Hopwood Poetry Awards among numerous other awards\, grants\, fellowships\, and residencies. In addition to her books\, Bashir has served as editor to national magazines and anthologies of literature and artwork. In 2002 she was co-founder of Fire & Ink\, an advocacy organization and writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent with whom she worked through 2015. An Associate Professor at Reed College in Portland\, Oregon\, Bashir works to create\, employ\, and teach—within and without traditional academic setting—a restorative poetics which can acknowledge the despair often bred by isolation and turn it toward a poetics of light and its potential for witness\, for healing\, and for change. Bashir lives in Harlem. \nJohn Freeman founded the literary annual Freeman’s\, the latest theme of which is animals. He’s also an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. The author and editor of eleven books\, he lives in New York City and hosts the California Book Club\, a monthly discussion of a great work of literature from the Golden State for Alta magazine. His new book is Wind\, Trees\, a collection of poems. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. 
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-reading-with-samiya-bashir-at-lillian-vernon-creative-writers-house-nyu/
LOCATION:Lilliann Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 10th St.\, New York\,\, NY\, 10011
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché\, Ocean Vuong\, and Marilyn Chin at the 21st Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Ocean Vuong\, Carolyn Forche\, and Marilyn Chin for an evening of poetry from Georgia Tech at 7 PM ET on November 10th.  \nFrom the Organizers: \nThe reading is FREE and open to the public\, and will take place virtually via Zoom. Livestream links and other information are on tabs below. \nFor more information\, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu .
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/carolyn-forche-ocean-vuong-and-marilyn-chin-at-the-21st-annual-bourne-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:John Freeman with Meng Jin at Portland Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman will read and be in conversation with Meng Jim on November 5th at 5 pm PST at the Brunish Theater in Portland.  \nFrom the Organizers: \nPoet John Freeman and short story writer Meng Jin explore the isolation and search for connection of the past few years\, through the quarantines of the pandemic and the political division of the previous administration. Moderated by Mindy Nettifee. \nIn Wind\, Trees\, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss\, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind\, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation\, Wind\, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse\, meandering thought and punctuating quiet\, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. \nWritten during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic\, Meng Jin’s stories explore intimacy and isolation\, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes\, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China\, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight\, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness\, seemingly endless access to knowledge\, and little actual power. \nPortland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under\, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come\, first-served. More info here.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-with-meng-jin-at-portland-book-festival/
LOCATION:Brunish Theater\, 4th Floor\, 1111 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass
DESCRIPTION:Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass \nFrom the Organizers: “The Modern Elegy. Guest Poet: Chris Abani\n \nNo one wants to write an elegy.\n            –Kevin Young \nThe elegy is a poem of necessity. It may have been the first poetic speech\, originating when our hunter-gatherer ancestors refused to leave their dead behind. The traditional elegy ritualizes grief\, gives it language\, and offers at least the beginnings of consolation. The modern elegy may do this as well\, but\, along with sorrow\, there are often more complicated feelings: anger\, conflict\, guilt\, and a resistance to solace. Elegies remember and celebrate our dead and make a space for them to live on the page. We’ll reflect on poems that approach the elegy from a wide range of experience and emotion and I’ll offer structures you can turn to when loss asks us to find words for the inexpressible.”
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/living-room-craft-talks-presents-the-fifth-series-with-chris-abani-and-ellen-bass/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Randall Mann and Cate Marvin at Bennington College
DESCRIPTION:Randall Mann and Cate Marvin will read poems at Bennington College on Wednesday November 2 at 7 PM ET. This reading will also be accessible via Zoom.  \nFrom the organizers: \nOPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer\, multiracial poet\, critic\, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems\, most recently Proprietary (Persea\, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea\, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism\, essays\, and interviews\, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review\, LitHub\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award\, California Book Award\, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco. \nCate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry\, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon\, 2022) and Oracle (Norton)\, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis\, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande\, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts\, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize\, and a Whiting Writers’ Award\, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough\, Maine.\n \nFacebook Event\n \nContact:  \n\nLiterature Programs \n jessicalynn@bennington.edu \n 802-440-4376
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/randall-mann-and-cate-marvin-at-bennington-college/
LOCATION:Tishman Lecture Hall\, Bennington College Rd System\, North Bennington\, VT\, 05257
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SUMMARY:John Freeman and Forrest Gander At City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion of John Freeman’s forthcoming collection Wind\, Trees. From the Organizers: \nCity Lights Foundation\, in partnership with Alta Journal\, presents John Freeman in a reading of new work and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander. This free event celebrates Freeman’s new collection of poetry\, Wind\, Trees\, published by Copper Canyon Press\, and will take place in Jack Kerouac Alley\, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco. Seating is on a first-come-first-served basis\, and face masks are recommended. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nIn Wind\, Trees\, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss\, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind\, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice\, by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse\, meandering thought and punctuating quiet\, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nJohn Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and an executive editor at Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality that he edited\, among them Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation and Tales of Two Planets\, which features dispatches from around the world\, where the climate crisis has unfolded at crucially different rates. His poetry collections include Maps and The Park. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Orion\, Zyzzyva\, and Alta Journal. He is a former editor of Granta and an artist in residence at New York University. \nForrest Gander is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet\, author\, translator\, and essayist. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, fiction\, and essays. Twice Alive is his latest collection of poetry. His translations include the work of Gozo Yoshimasu\, Pablo Neruda\, Alfonso D’Aquino\, and Raúl Zurita. He has received numerous honors for his work\, including the Pulitzer Prize for Be With and the Best Translated Book Award\, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists. He makes his home in Northern California.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/jogn-freeman-and-forrest-gander-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Foundation\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan\, Nicholas Goodly\, and Courtney Faye Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan\, Nicholas Goodly\, and Courtney Faye Taylor \nWednesday\, November 2 at 5:15 Pacific Daylight Time \nYou’re Invited to a virtual Poetry Reading and Book Discussion with rising\, debut authors: Chelsea Harlan\, Courtney Faye Taylor\, and Nicholas Goodly \nFeaturing \n\nThe first ever collaboration event between two of the United States’s premiere independent presses\, Copper Canyon Press and Graywolf Press\nWinner of The American Poetry Review’s 2022 First book Prize selected by Jericho Brown\, Chelsea Harlan\nWinner of Cave Canem’s 2021 Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths\, Courtney Faye Taylor\nA conversation between all three authors led by Copper Canyon Press publicist\, Ryo Yamaguchi\nA celebration of poetry’s future\n\n  \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lPmkollTuKUX5HX-hrShA
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/graywolf-press-and-copper-canyon-press-present-chelsea-harlan-nicholas-goodly-and-courtney-faye-taylor/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T110000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Soto with André Naffis-Sahely and Jenny Xie at Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Soto will read from his latest collection\, Diaries of a Terrorist\, and discuss poetry’s relationship to politics and the environment with Jenny Xie and André Naffis-Sahely. \nVirtual event on Wednesday\, November 2nd at 11 AM PT \nFrom the Organizers: Join these three exciting poets as they discuss their latest collections\, from André Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class\, race\, and nationalism in High Desert\, to Jenny Xie’s explorations of public secrecies\, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in The Rupture Tense and Christopher Soto’s uncompromising call for the abolition of policing and human caging in Diaries of a Terrorist. \nOnline events (Zoom) are free but donations requested.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/christopher-soto-with-andre-naffis-sahely-and-jenny-xie-at-poetry-in-aldeburgh-festival/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000
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SUMMARY:Publishing in Transit: Copper Canyon Press Featuring Michael Wiegers\, Ryo Yamaguchi\, and Christopher Soto
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi will join Cole Swensen for a virtual discussion which will be followed by a reading from Christopher Soto. This discussion is a part of The Brooklyn Rail’s Publishing in Transit series \nFrom the Organizers: \nCopper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Christopher Soto. \nCopper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers has been acquiring and editing books for the Press since 1993. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford\, including What About This\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies The Poet’s Child and This Art\, and translated poems for Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry\, which he co-edited with Mónica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative and regularly speaks about the art of publishing at universities and colleges around the world. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin. \nPoet Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of The Refusal of Suitors (Noemi Press\, 2015). He has worked in academic and literary publishing for presses such as Wave Books and the University of Chicago Press\, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books. He is currently Publicist at Copper Canyon Press. \nPoet Cole Swensen is the author of 17 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays\, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays\, Art in Time\, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow\, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize\, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award\, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry\, prose\, and art criticism from French and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/publishing-in-transit-copper-canyon-press-featuring-michael-wiegers-ryo-yamaguchi-and-christopher-soto/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Cate Marvin and Randall Mann in Conversation with Michael Dumanis
DESCRIPTION:Cate Marvin and Randall Mann will have a discussion with Michael Dumanis as part of Bennington College’s Poetry at Bennington programs on Thursday\, November 3 at 12 PM ET \nFrom the Organizers: \nOPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer\, multiracial poet\, critic\, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems\, most recently Proprietary (Persea\, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea\, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism\, essays\, and interviews\, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review\, LitHub\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award\, California Book Award\, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco. \nCate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry\, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon\, 2022) and Oracle (Norton)\, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis\, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande\, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts\, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize\, and a Whiting Writers’ Award\, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough\, Maine.  \nContact:  \n\nLiterature Programs \n jessicalynn@bennington.edu \n 802-440-4376
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/cate-marvin-and-randall-mann-in-conversation-with-michael-dumanis/
LOCATION:Commons 326\, North Bennington\, VT
CATEGORIES:In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T183000
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SUMMARY:John Freeman\, Natalie Shapero\, and Tayi Tibble Read at Diesel Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:From the Organizers: \nJoin us on Thursday October 27th at 6:30pm as we welcome John Freeman\, Tayi Tibble and Natalie Shapero to the store to read from and sign Wind\, Trees and other selected works. \nThis event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend.\n \n\nJohn Freeman is the founder of Freeman’s\, the literary annual of new writing\, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His work includes the poetry collections Maps and The Park\, the book-length essay Dictionary of the Undoing\, and several anthologies\, among them Tales of Two Americas\, a volume on inequality in America\, Tales of Two Planets\, which examines the climate crisis globally\, and There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love\, coedited by Tracy K. Smith\, a portrait of the United States on the cusp of revolution\, climate crisis\, and the upheavals of a pandemic. His work has been translated into over twenty languages\, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and ZYZZYVA. The former editor of Granta\, he teaches at NYU and hosts the California Book Club\, a monthly discussion of a book from California for Alta Journal. \nIn Wind\, Trees\, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss\, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind\, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind\, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse\, meandering thought and punctuating quiet\, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. \n  \nTayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington\, New Zealand. In 2017\, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters\, Victoria University of Wellington\, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Her second book of poetry\, Rangikura\, will be published in the United States in 2023. \nPoukahangatus\, the American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem\, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history\, of straddling modernity and ancestry\, desire and exploitation \n  \nNatalie Shapero is the author\, most recently\, of the poetry collection Popular Longing. Her previous collections are Hard Child\, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize\, and No Object\, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. She teaches at UC Irvine. \nThe poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection\, Popular Longing\, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp\, sardonic wit\, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars\, our inflated egos\, our constant deference to presumed higher powers―be they romantic partners\, employers\, institutions\, or gods. “Why even / look up\, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone\, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo\, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction.
URL:https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/event/john-freeman-natalie-shapero-and-tayi-tibble-read-at-diesel-bookstore/
LOCATION:Diesel\, A Bookstore\, 225 26th St\, Santa monica\, CA\, 90402
CATEGORIES:In Person
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