Copper Canyon Press

Portland Book Festival Presents Paisley Rekdal and Oliver de la Paz
2023-11-04 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland’s Brunish Theatre, 111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, CA, 97205, United States
Portland Book Festival Presents Paisley Rekdal and Oliver de la Paz on November 4th, 3:30pm-4:30pm PT
From the organizers:
“In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz uses the traditional sonnet to eloquently invoke the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America. Paisley Rekdal’s West: A Translation is an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943). Moderated by Eric Tran (Moth, Sugar, and Smoke).”
For more information and tickets to the Porland Book Festival go to: https://pdxbookfest.org/event/de-la-paz-rekdal/

Bookends & Beginnings Presents Kevin Prufer and Steven Cramer Poetry Book Launch
2023-11-04 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Alley #1, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Bookends & Beginnings Presents Kevin Prufer and Steven Cramer Poetry Book Launch on Saturday September 4th at 6pm CDT
From the organizers:
“Steven Cramer launches DEPARTURES FROM RILKE and Kevin Prufer launches THE FEARS at our MiniBar.”
To RSVP go to the event page here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-book-launch-steven-cramer-and-kevin-prufer-tickets-720591898767

Jake Adam York Memorial Reading Series Featuring Randall Mann & Stephen Sexton
2023-11-08 18:00 (America/Denver) | University of Colorado Denver, 1015 9th St Park, Denver, CO, 80204, United States
The University of Colorado Denver Creative Writing Reading Series Featuring Randall Mann & Stephen Sexton on Wednesday November 8th, 6pm MT
From the organizers:
“Founded to honor the memory of Jake Adam York, a poet and editor who taught at the University of Colorado Denver from 2000-2012, and passed away suddenly in December 2012. During his time at CU Denver, Jake helped start the creative writing program and founded the university’s award-winning national literary journal, Copper Nickel.
RANDALL MANN & STEPHEN SEXTON
Wednesday, November 8 / 6pm
Tivoli Building / Zenith Room 640 / Auraria Campus”
For more information go to: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/english/creative-writing-reading-series

Monsters of Poetry Presents Natalie Eilbert and more
2023-11-11 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Monsters of Poetry Presents Natalie Eilbert, Brett DeFries, Nicholas Gulig, and Sadia Hassan on Saturday November 11th at 7pm
From the organizers:
“monsters of poetry
11/11/23
7pm BYOB
402 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703
$3 suggested donation”
For more information go to: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyjy5FjLWqT/?hl=en

Women & Children First Present Natalie Eilbert and Sally Wen Mao
2023-11-15 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Women & Children First Present Natalie Eilbert and Sally Wen Mao for a virtual reading Wednesday November 15th at 7pm CT
From the organizers:
“Please join us for a virtual poetry reading to celebrate the release of THE KINGDOM OF SURFACES by Sally Wen Mao and OVERLAND by Natalie Eilbert!
Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. Attendees will receive a link to join the Zoom webinar on the day of the event.
Accessibility: For ASL Interpretation to be made available or other access needs, please submit a request prior to the event by emailing events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-poetry-reading-with-sally-wen-mao-natalie-eilbert-tickets-745138769117

Poetry Society of America Presents Deborah Landau & Ilya Kaminsky
2023-11-16 19:00 (America/New_York) | Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
Poetry Society of America Presents Deborah Landau & Ilya Kaminsky for the PSA Reading Series on Thursday November 16th at 7pm ET
From the organizers:
“Address:
Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Registration required:
Tickets $5/ Free for Members”
Register for this event here: https://poetrysociety.givecloud.co/product/57C27E3/reading-series

Seven Stories Press Presents Leila Chatti and Patrice Vecchione Reading at Two Dollar Radio
2023-11-16 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Two Dollar Radio HQ, 1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, OH, 43206, United States
Seven Stories Press Presents Leila Chatti and Patrice Vecchione Reading at Two Dollar Radio on November 16th at 7pm CST
From the organizers:
“An Evening of Poetry Celebrating the Power of Voice
November 16, 2023 at 7:00pm CST
Two Dollar Radio HQ
1124 Parsons Ave.
Columbus, OH 43206 United States
Join Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience editor and author of My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth, Patrice Vecchione and anthology contributor Leila Chatti, author of the collection of poems, Deluge, for a reading and discussion.”

The Bookstore Presents Patty Crane with The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtromer
2023-11-17 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Bookstore, 11 Housatonic St, Lenox, MA, United States
The Bookstore Presents Patty Crane with The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtromer on Friday, Nov. 17 @ 6pm
at
The Bookstore, 11 Housatonic St., Lenox, MA
For more information go to: https://www.bookstoreinlenox.com/events/

Copper Canyon Press 50th Anniversary Celebration: Poets on their Personal Bests Featuring: Jericho Brown, Mark Bibbins, and Cate Marvin
2023-11-17 19:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 65 West 11th Street, New York, CA, 10011, United States
In partnership with The New School Creative Writing Program on November 17th 7pm ET
Featuring: Jericho Brown, Mark Bibbins, and Cate Marvin
Hosted by: Erin Belieu, Carl Phillips, Michael Wiegers, and John Reed
Poetry is vital to language and living. Since 1973, Copper Canyon Press has been publishing extraordinary poetry from around the world to engage the imaginations and intellects of readers. This 50th anniversary event celebrates the Press—and the many poets who have called it home—by way of a unique, new anthology: Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most. In tandem with its publication, this reading will feature award-winning poets (Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim, and New York Arts Foundation, among others) to read and discuss what they consider to be the best poems they’ve ever written. Offering an intimate portrait into the working mind of writers, this program will ask how writers manage the critic within, who or what they write for, and how we might rethink what literature gets remembered most.
Personal Best editors Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips will host the poets in their reading and conversation. Director of the New School Creative Writing Program, John Reed, will welcome guests, and Executive Editor at Copper Canyon Press, Michael Wiegers, will introduce the program with a survey of this fifty years of extraordinary poetry making.
Wollman Hall, The New School
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY 10011
November 17th, 7pm ET.
Register to join the livestream here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MzM71KSzQDeJ9aQHN5saTQ#/registration
Register for the in-person event here: https://event.newschool.edu/coppercanyonpress50th

Verse Virtual November Poetry Reading, featuring Dean Rader and Brian Teare
2023-11-19 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Verse Virtual November Poetry Reading, featuring Dean Rader and Brian Teare on Sunday November 19th at 11am PT
For more information from the organizers:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1374916263442205/
Register for the event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsf-iprjMrGdzlpDRCg2Gzdd0g8dDQl-2L

Empty Bowl Presents Reading and Reception with Bill Porter (Red Pine) and John Brandi
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oberto Commons, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Empty Bowl Presents Reading and Reception with Bill Porter (Red Pine) and John Brandi on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM
From the organizers:
“Join us for a reading & reception with acclaimed translator Bill Porter (Red Pine) and Haiku poet, artist, and translator John Brandi.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 from 7 – 9 pm
Oberto Commons (second floor of the Sinegal Center)
On the Campus of Seattle University
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122″

Jacar Press Presents a Reading with Kevin Prufer in Conversation with Molly Twomey
2023-12-06 14:00 (America/New_York)
Jacar Press Presents a Reading with Kevin Prufer on Wednesday, December 6, 2pm ET
From the organizers:
“Their conversation will be centered around Kevin’s amazing new book The Fears, Copper Canyon Press.
Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided together as Prufer manipulates white space to mimic the silence of minds at work on unsolvable problems, how time “unravels / endlessly.” Here, visions of classical Greece and the trials of ancient Romans coexist with the everyday—memories of a parent’s death or the loss of a pet. We bear witness as the poet writes “to preserve the intricacy of [his] own mind / against the eventual / certainty of [his] absence.” Exploring what it means to be forgotten and how legacy is preserved through poetry, history books, a mummy’s index finger, and love letters from the grave, The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter.
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
2pm East Coast time
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82814413801
Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford, and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork. She has been published in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She runs an online international poetry event, Just to Say, sponsored by Jacar Press. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series and awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Her debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in May 2022 with The Gallery Press.”

Hudson Valley Writers Center Presents a Reading and Conversation about the work of Tomas Tranströmer, with translator Patty Crane
2023-12-06 19:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Hudson Valley Writers Center Presents a Reading and Conversation about the work of Tomas Tranströmer, with translator Patty Crane on December 6th at 7pm ET
From the organizers:
“Please join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, as she welcomes the translator of The Blue House: Complete Works of Tomas Tranströmer (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). This collection is the first American translation of the 2011 Nobel laureate’s complete works. His poetry, translated into dozens of languages, often speaks across cultures, generations and time itself.
This reading and discussion will be in person at HVWC. Please reserve your seat. Space is limited.”
Get tickets for this in-person event here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/transtromer/

Empty Bowl Presents Reading with Bill Porter (Red Pine) and John Brandi
2023-12-08 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Empty Bowl Presents Reading with Bill Porter (Red Pine) and John Brandi at Friday, December 8, 2023 4:30 PM 6:00 PM
From the organizers:
“Please join Empty Bowl Press for a reading with two acclaimed poets and translators: Red Pine and John Brandi.

Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend, WA.”

Lexington Public Library Open Mic Night featuring Maurice Manning
2023-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Farish Theatre, Downtown Public Library 140 E Main St, Lexington, KY, 40507, United States
Lexington Public Library Open Mic Night featuring Maurice Manning Dec 13, 2023 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
From the organizers:
“Farish Theatre – Downtown Public Library 140 E Main St, Lexington, Kentucky 40507
“Lexington Public Library’s next Open Mic Night will feature renowned poet Maurice Manning. Manning is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Yale Series of Younger Poets winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. His eighth book, “Snakedoctor,” is newly published by Copper Canyon Press. Manning’s first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Open Mic participants are invited to share 3-4 minutes of poetry, spoken word, etc. Content should be appropriate for teens and adults.”

What The Universe Is Presents Kevin Prufer and Adrian Matejka
2023-12-13 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
What The Universe Is Presents Kevin Prufer and Adrian Matejka on December 13th 5:30pm PT
Register for this online event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-2srTkiEtdirvHf6znAdZIPqrWkXuZi

Exhibit B: Black Archives of Mid-America with Niki Herd, Roger Reeves, & more
2024-02-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terrace, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
From the organizers:
“In collaboration with the Guild Literary Complex, Cave Canem, and the BLK+BRWN Bookstore, Exhibit B will be hosting a series of literary events, free and open to the public, at the Black Archives of Mid-America which will center Black artists and allies.”
The poets who will give the opening reading include Roger Reeves, Niki Herd, Patricia Smith, Dr. Taylor Byas, and jason b. crawford.
Register here: https://www.exhibitb312.com/event-details/poets-for-the-people/form

Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive featuring Tyree Daye, Niki Herd, Alison C. Rollins
2024-02-10 15:20 - 16:35 (America/Chicago) | Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City
Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive featuring Tyree Daye, Niki Herd, Alison C. Rollins at 3:20 pm to 4:35 pm, Saturday, February 10th
How do we think of ourselves in history, and when we do, what do we see? Three innovative poets consider how personal and public histories—Black histories in particular—are intertwined and how the combination of poetry and images can invigorate our exploration of their complexities. Examining the use of both archival materials and personal photographs alongside numerous poetic forms, this reading and conversation will encourage brave new ways of grappling with who we are and how we got here.
Register here: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/25897

Danusha Laméris Presents the Nine Lenses of Poetry Workshop Series
2024-02-11 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Danusha Laméris Presents the Nine Lenses of Poetry Workshop Series from February 11th to March 10th, 5 Sundays at 5pm PT
From Danusha:
“Are you an Innovator? A Soul Keeper?
There are so many ways to write poems. And so many kinds of poems to read.
Sometimes, it’s easy to think there’s a right way to write, or a wrong way. Or just that we don’t–––and can’t–– relate to certain types of poems.
What if there were a way to hold all the different styles without judgment, to see what a poem has to offer and what it offers the same way we might study an animal in its own biome?
This is what coming up with the Nine Lenses of Poetry has done for me. It’s given me new ways to appreciate all kinds of poems, as well as a way to frame my own work.
My hope is that by spending time studying these Nine Lenses, you will be able to strengthen your own poems, and to deepen in your appreciation of poetry.
This will an online Zoom class. No prerequisites. You don’t even have to be a writer! Just a reader, and someone who is curious about poetry.
In five, one hour sessions, I will offer craft talks on the Nine Lenses, contemplations and prompts, and space at the end for a Q and A.”
Register for the class here: https://danusha-lameris.mykajabi.com/store

Green Linden Press: Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry featuring Randall Mann, Eduardo C. Corral, etc.
2024-02-20 21:30 - 22:30 (America/New_York)
In this third reading for Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, an anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced by Jack Halberstam, the writers Randall Mann, Brian Blanchfield, Dorothy Chan, Eduardo C. Corral, and Brian Teare will show how “poetry can reveal our shared humanity.”
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsd-CgqT0sHNWJ0IEiNR3QAJ7VtyizoKM1#/registration

Kent Cultural Alliance: Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry
2024-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Raimond Cultural Center, 101 Spring Avenue, Chestertown, MD, 21620, United States
From the presenters:
“Readings from Pádraig’s forthcoming volume Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, October 2024).”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/padraig-o-tuama-poetry-reading-tickets-799983240407?aff=oddtdtcreator

Cecilia Woloch & Friends: Kevin Prufer and Naomi Shihab Nye
2024-02-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join the poet Cecilia Woloch’s online reading series, in which she features the acclaimed writers Kevin Prufer and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-6qpjIvHNUZb-gd1rJZJwqxGZ0AsWP8#/registration

Boutelle-Day Poetry Center: Javier Zamora and Rebecca Foust
2024-02-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall (Smith College)
Join the poets Javier Zamora and Rebecca Foust for an evening of activist poetry that transcends borders.
Watch the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IYXArYvK6A

Harvard Divinity School: Poetry & Craft Talk with Amanda Gunn
2024-02-29 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
From the presenters:
“Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine. Her debut collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body, is out now from Copper Canyon Press.”
Register here for either the in-person reading or the live stream: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/upcoming-events?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D172488746

Grolier Poetry Book Shop: Shangyang Fang, C. Francis Fisher, and Charles Kell
2024-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA, United States
From the presenters:
“Please join us for our reading with Shangyang Fang, C. Francis Fisher and Charles Kell with an introduction by Chris Hosea.”
Register here for the in-person reading: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ek8whi1k63f0c67d&llr=6hztvkcab
Register here to attend virtually: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ek8whi1r59ace29b&llr=6hztvkcab

Jim Harrison: A Reading with Rebecca Solnit, Jamie Harrison, & Todd Goddard
2024-03-07 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Rebecca Solnit, Jamie Harrison, and author of Jim Harrison’s forthcoming biography, Todd Goddard, for a free livestream event in support of the forthcoming reissue of Jim’s beautiful book The Theory and Practice of Rivers. Hosted by Joseph Bednarik, this 70-minute event will feature stories, poems, musings on rivers, thoughts from Rebecca on her introduction to the book, and (with luck!) audio recordings—retrieved from archival tapes—of Jim reading from the long poem “Theory and Practice of Rivers.” Throughout the evening you will be given the opportunity to make your gift in support of the final phase of “The Heart’s Work: Jim Harrison’s Poetic Legacy.” Join us!
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZNay-_CTUi8jm74qNvfVw#/registration

Hudson Valley Writers Center: Poets' Conversation with Jane Huffman & Diane Seuss
2024-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Please join us on Zoom for an evening of poetry and conversation with Jane Huffman and Diane Seuss on Sunday, March 10, 4 PM ET.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/seuss/

Hudson Valley Writers Center: Poetry & Conversation with Patricia Spears Jones, Peter Covino, & E.J. Antonio
2024-04-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us IN PERSON at HVWC on Sunday, April 14, at 4 PM ET to hear poetry and conversation with Patricia Spears Jones, Peter Covino, and E.J. Antonio.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/april14/

Portland Arts & Lectures Series Presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil and more
2024-04-18 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, CA, United States
Portland Arts & Lectures Series Presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil on April 18th, 2024 at 6:30pm
From the organizers:
“We are pleased to announce the lineup of our 39th annual Portland Arts & Lectures season.
All lectures take place in person at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, OR.
Subscriptions start at $110 for the five-part series.”
Read more and subscribe for the series here: https://literary-arts.org/2023/04/pal-2023-24-season-lineup-revealed/

Piper Distinguished Visiting Writers Series Presents Arthur Sze and Wang Jiaxin
2024-04-18 19:00 (America/Denver) | Piper Writer’s House, 450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, United States
Piper Distinguished Visiting Writers Series Presents Arthur Sze and Wang Jiaxin on Thurs April 18th 2024 at 7pm MST
From the organizers:
“In honor of National Poetry Month 2024, two distinguished poets read and talk about form, tradition, innovation and imitation. The conversation will be moderated by Lucas Klein, translator and ASU Professor of Chinese.”
Register for the event here: https://virginia-g-piper-center-for-creative-writing.ticketleap.com/piper-distinguished-visiting-writers-series-with-arthur-sze-and/
