Copper Canyon Press

NYU Presents Cate Marvin and Vievee Francis, Poetry Reading
2023-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Lilliann Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St., New York,, NY, 10011
NYU Presents Cate Marvin and Vievee Francis for a poetry reading on Friday, October 6th 5:00pm-7:00pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Poetry readings by Vievee Francis and Cate Marvin, followed by a reception/signing.
Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance.
While NYU has ended COVID-19 related restrictions and policies, we continue to remind and recommend to members of the NYU community that they stay up-to-date on their boosters, they stay home if they feel sick, and masks are always welcome.
The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair accessible.”
To register visit: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/cwp/reading-series/fall-2023/poetry-reading–vievee-francis–dana-levin-and-cate-marvin.html

Alta presents Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble
2023-10-11 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alta
Alta presents Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 11th
From the organizers:
“Forrest Gander and Tayi Tibble may be separated by continents (and decades), but this pair of writers are connected by their mutual devotion to the poet’s life. Their individual bodies of work reflect an urgency and a desire to welcome readers into the intimate parts of their minds—or at least to get those parts on the page. Join us for their conversation about poetry’s intersections with embodiment and provocative emotions, and a deep dive into how translation and language play a role in their work, as part of Alta Live’s Writers on Writers series and our Issue 25, The Writers Issue.”
Register here: https://altaonline.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BkmoxswAR6GgP8Rin3MWFA#/registration

Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference with Victoria Chang, Patricia Spears Jones, and Fady Joudah
2023-10-12 - 2023-10-14 | Old Main at Arizona State University, 400 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, United States
From the organizers:
Desert Nights, Rising Stars, DNRS, Writers Conference is a gathering of hearts and minds.
This three-day writing conference put on by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing focuses on the art and craft of writing and also offers practical advice for editing, getting published and navigating the literary marketplace. The conference offers over 60 presenters — all noted published writers and over 70 sessions, a mixture of workshops, panels and readings.
Conference early bird rate is $225. Deep discounts are offered for Arizona educators, seniors, military and people with disabilities. ASU students can attend for a discounted rate of only $35.00.
Our 2023 keynote speaker is internationally renowned poet, Joy Harjo, who served three terms at the Twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States.
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Copper Canyon Poets Victoria Chang, Patricia Spears Jones, and Fady Joudah will be presenting. Register at the website to attend.

Litquake presents Dean Rader, Randall Mann, and more for Poetry World Series
2023-10-12 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Litquake presents Dean Rader, Randall Mann, and more for the Poetry World Series on Thursday, October 12 · 7:30pm PDT
From the organizers:
“Two teams of award-winning poets, including Kim Addonizio, Zeina Hashem Beck, Lee Herrick, Randall Mann, Christell Victoria Roach, and Dean Rader, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and stunning work guaranteed. Eminently qualified umpires will score each batter’s reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Emceed by Litquake’s Jack Boulware. Book sales/signing follows the reading. Doors open at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. $10 adv / door”
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-world-series-litquake-edition-tickets-709824493167

50th Anniversary Reading with Jericho Brown, Paisley Rekdal, and Arthur Sze
2023-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Presented by Copper Canyon Press and Lannan Foundation
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W. San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

$8 Adult / $5 Senior and Student
More information at The Lensic

Some of the most important poets writing today come together at the Lensic and via Livestream to celebrate two institutions that have had an outsized role in sustaining the artform for more than half a century: Copper Canyon Press and Lannan Foundation. Marking Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary as an independent publisher dedicated to poetry, this reading by Pulitzer Prize winners and Poets Laureate testifies to poetry’s remarkable adaptability. Jericho Brown will deliver innovative poetic forms that express the pain—and beauty—of Black and queer life. And Paisley Rekdal will present hybrid text-and-media works that reexamine the history of the West through the stories of the laborers who built it.
National Book Award winner and longtime Santa Fe resident Arthur Sze will open the event with a discussion of the history of Lannan Foundation and Copper Canyon Press and their importance to American literature. Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers will then introduce the readers, joining all the participants afterward in a closing conversation about poetry’s continued importance as we face the future.
This event will also be livestreamed.
Participant Bios:
“By some literary magic―no, it’s precision, and Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes.”—NPR
Jericho Brown is the author of three collections of poems, most recently The Tradition, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of several fellowships from institutions such as the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing.
“Rekdal is a poet of observation and history. . . . She revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries. . . . These are some of the best lyric poems being written today.”—Los Angeles Times
Paisley Rekdal is the author of three works of nonfiction and several collections of poetry, most recently a poetry and multimedia work called West: A Translation, which was recently longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. She is Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she directs the American West Center, and she has served as Utah’s state Poet Laureate.
“Sze is simultaneously the microscope and telescope of the poetry world. And more. To truly attend to these poems is to begin to feel like you have been opened to a kaleidoscopic experience of the cosmos, a multisensual one whose kinetic foci gather moments across time and space, word and world.”—Terrain
Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including Sight Lines, which won the National Book Award, Compass Rose, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and, most recently, The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems. Sze is the recipient of many honors, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, a Lannan Literary Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. A Chancellor Emeritus at the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. His latest work, The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, will be published by Copper Canyon in 2024.
“Copper Canyon Press may be a little nonprofit publisher far from New York, but over the last 50 years, its editors in Port Townsend, Washington, have shaped and elevated American poetry.”—Washington Post
Michael Wiegers has been editing books for Copper Canyon Press since 1993, and currently serves as the Press’s Executive Editor/Editor in Chief. Most recently, he edited two anthologies of Copper Canyon Press poetry, both published this year: A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry and Come Shining: More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative magazine and edited What About This: The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Essential W.S. Merwin. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin and serves as a trustee for the Merwin Conservancy.
Register for the livestream here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G3l0TwKcSPeTse-Up6eg7w#/registration

*UPDATE (October 05)*: We regret that Jorie Graham is no longer able to participate in this event, as originally listed.

CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE featuring Deborah Landau
2023-10-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE featuring Deborah Landau on Friday October 20th 12-1pm PDT
From the organizers:
“This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Deborah Landau, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Curriculum Vitae” by Lisel Mueller. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.

Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been “getting it,” CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.
Actively participate or simply listen and learn!
The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.”
To get tickets go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/close-readings-in-a-virtual-space-with-deborah-landau-tickets-694164513747

Elliott Bay Book Company Presents FREEMAN’S Launch with John Freeman, Deborah Landau, and Sasha LaPointe
2023-10-23 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliot Bay Book Company
Elliott Bay Book Company Presents FREEMAN’S Launch with John Freeman, Deborah Landau, and Sasha LaPointe on Monday October 23rd, 2023 @ 6:00PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Time. Additionally followed by readings with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Sasha LaPointe, and Deborah Landau from their recently released collections.
From the organizers:
“Editor John Freeman launches the latest issue of Freeman’s, this time with the theme Conclusions. Poet Deborah Landau and local author Sasha LaPointe will join him onstage for a reading.
The tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman’s explores all the ways of coming to an end.
Over the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion.
With new writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad, and Mieko Kawakami, Freeman’s: Conclusions is a testament to the startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty, fear, and promise.”
At 7:30pm, join poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Sasha LaPointe, and Deborah Landau for readings from their recently released collections.
For more information: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20231023

Cambridge Center Presents Randall Mann and Daniel Brock Johnson, Blacksmith House Poetry Series
2023-10-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Cambridge Center Presents Randall Mann and Daniel Brock Johnson, Blacksmith House Poetry Series on Monday, October 23rd 8-9pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Randall Mann reads from his new book, DEAL: New and Selected Poems, with Daniel Johnson, author of Shadow Act.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. All readings take place in person at 56 Brattle Street on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5 and tickets are available at the door.”

Rose Theatre Presents Red Pine at Premiere of the Film "Dancing with the Dead"
2023-10-27 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor Street, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, United States
World Gala Premiere of Dancing with the Dead including Q&A with Director, Ward Serrill and a reading by Bill Porter (Red Pine) on Friday October 27th at 7pm PT
From the organizers:
“We are so excited to be hosting the World Premiere Gala of DANCING WITH THE DEAD and hope you will join us on October 27th for this special event. Tickets are $20 and will go on sale on Wednesday, October 11th at 3:30pm.
Includes Q&A with Ward, a reading by Bill Porter (Red Pine), a surprise guest and mini-posters of the film for all attendees.
Filmmakers Ward Serrill and Rocky Friedman (The Bowmakers) present DANCING WITH THE DEAD,on Port Townsend’s Bill Porter. Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, is a renowned translator of ancient Chinese poetry. He has published over thirty books, including Road to Heaven, his quest to find hermits in the Zhongnan Mountains that reignited a movement in modern China to seek enlightenment through poetry and mountain solitude. Bill is a living gateway to ancient Chinese history and culture. The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.”
Purchase tickets here: https://rosetheatre.com/film/dancing-with-the-dead

PSNY Features Deborah Landau, T﻿errance Hayes, Timothy Donnelly and more at First Annual Halloween Masquerade Ball
2023-10-28 20:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | The Strand’s Rare Book Room, 826 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, United States
PSNY’s First Annual Halloween Masquerade Ball features Deborah Landau, Terrance Hayes, Timothy Donnelly and more on Saturday October 28th 8pm-11pm ET
From the organizers:
“To all poets, poetry lovers, and poets-to-be: look no further for your dream spooky season soiree! Join The Poetry Society of New York for our first ever Masquerade Spectacular on October 28th, from 8:00-11:00pm at the historic Strand’s Rare Book Room!
This Halloweekend extravaganza will be the platonic ideal of a New York evening, complete with live jazz, literary legends, and cold champagne. This iconic landmark-in-the-making is a fundraiser to support The Poetry Society of New York, a 501(c)3 non-profit, in its mission to make poetry—and the arts as a whole—accessible. If you haunt our Halloween spectacular, you will certainly have a night to remember while simultaneously supporting the arts! What can we say: we put the fun in fundraising!
Hosted by the uproarious Dandy (@dandyandfriends), the ball will commence with an 8:00pm VIP entrance (open to those with VIP tickets and to Sestina and Epic PSNY members). Until GA admission opens at 8:30pm, VIPs will mingle to the musical stylings of Hot Club of Flatbush and pick up their signed copies of Seymour Licht’s Halloween Underground, all while talking rhythm and rhyme at our open bar with critically-acclaimed poets Terrance Hayes (National Book Award Winner), Deborah Landau (The Believer Book Award Winner), and Timothy Donnelly (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner).”
To get tickets go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psnys-first-annual-halloween-masquerade-ball-tickets-704915831227

Poetry@TECH Presents Victoria Chang, Vievee Francis, and James Davis May
2023-11-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 30332, United States
Poetry@TECH Presents Victoria Chang, Vievee Francis, and James Davis May at the 22nd Bourne Poetry Reading at Thursday, 02 November, 2023 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“The reading is FREE and open to the public.
Our doors open at 6:45 pm Eastern Time.
For more information, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu.”

Cascadia Field Guide Presents Paisley Rekdal, Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, and Derek Sheffield at Portland Book Fest
2023-11-04 11:30 - 11:50 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Cascadia Field Guide Presents Paisley Rekdal, Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, and Derek Sheffield at the Portland Book Festival on November 4th, 11:30am-11:50am PT
From the organizers:
“This pop-up reading features contributors to the mixed-genre anthology Cascadia Field Guide. Join Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, Paisley Rekdal, and Derek Sheffield pop-up with a reading in the Portland Art Galleries. They are paired with A Canyon River with Pines and Figures by Grafton Tyler Brown; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.”
For more information and to get tickets to the Portland Book Festival go to: https://pdxbookfest.org/event/pop-up-cascadia-field-guide/

National Book Foundation Presents Paisley Rekdal and Paul Harding at the Portland Book Festival
2023-11-04 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1126 SW Park Ave, Porland, OR, 97205, United States
National Book Foundation Presents Paisley Rekdal and Paul Harding at the Portland Book Festival November 4th 1:30-2:30pm PT
From the organizers:
“Join 2023 National Book Award–honored authors Paul Harding (This Other Eden, Fiction) and Paisley Rekdal (West: A Translation, Poetry) in a cross-genre conversation on how to bring historical voices to life, and how to translate US history for a contemporary literary landscape. Moderated by Anis Mojgani, Oregon’s current Poet Laureate and the author of five books of poetry. Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and Literary Arts’ Portland Book Festival.
This is a special conversation with newly-minted 2023 National Book Award honorees only 10 days ahead of the 74th National Book Awards on Wednesday, November 15—featuring special guest Oprah Winfrey and announcing this year’s Winners live! You can learn more about all of the 2023 honorees, and register for the broadcast at the National Book Foundation’s website: nationalbook.org/awards.”
For more information and to get Portland Book Festival tickets go to: https://pdxbookfest.org/event/nbf-pbf-2023/

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
