Elliot Bay Book Company presents Valzhyna Mort with Ilya Kaminsky
2021-02-22 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elliot Bay Book Company presents Valzhyna Mort with Ilya Kaminsky, Feb. 22 at 6 PM PST
From the organizers:
Published late in 2020 to universal high praise, Valzhyna Mort’s utterly powerful poetry collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is steeped in a tradition of poetic witness for her native Belarus in this day and time.
“Her memory is incurable, and her imagination is anguished, because the small country she comes from is beauty and sorrow. Boldly, Valzhyna Mort stands out in the Belarusian poetic tradition. Reading her work, one feels that she has come to us from the whole earth.” – Svetlana Alesievich.
“At the core of Valzhyna Mort’s lyric fusion of personal and collective history is the uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at Chernobyl, spreading the ‘radiation of the unknown tongue’ across her natal city of Minsk, Belarus … In the liminal space between language and silence, at dizzying imaginative speed, Mort transmutes her third language, English, into something resembling a fourth: the language of all that has been kept from consciousness concerning the past. Her lyric art in contemporary English is astonishing, and glimmering beneath it is something not often encountered: the sensibility of another world, arriving to inform our perilous present. Music for the Dead and Resurrected is fiercely original and a tour de force.” – Carolyn Forché.
Valzhyna Mort’s previous collections, Factory of Tears and Collected Body come from Copper Canyon Press.
Making this program even more special is that engaging in conversation with Valzhyna Mort will be award-winning poet Ilya Kaminsky, most recently author of the transcendent collection, Deaf Republic.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valzhyna-mort-music-for-the-dead-and-resurrected-with-ilya-kaminsky-tickets-137842311063

The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center presents Poetry Reading with Victoria Chang
2021-02-23 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center presents Poetry Reading , Feb 23. at 7:30 PM EST, with Victoria Chang
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ChangBDPC-Feb23

Brazos Bookstore presents VIRTUAL with Erin Belieu, Cate Marvin, and Mark Wunderlich
2021-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Brazos Bookstore presents VIRTUAL , Thursday, February 25 at 7 PM CST, with Erin Belieu, Cate Marvin, and Mark Wunderlich
From the organizers:

START:

Thursday, February 25, 2021 – 7:00pm

LOCATION:

This event will be presented on Zoom.

Register here: https://brazosbookstore.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ddf4FdM3SyGN7MODUgHwsQ?_x_zm_rtaid=–nUJ32pTW2Hw2psDBz5hQ.1612804047802.b7948ea1c961bd16e576906ac8d544c2&_x_zm_rhtaid=105

Iowa State University presents Monday Monologue with Jennifer Knox
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Iowa State University presents Monday Monologue, March 1 at 12 PM – 1 PM EST, with Jennifer Knox
From the organizers:
ISU’s Monday Monologue series presents a livestream reading with Jennifer L. Knox. This reading will be accessible on Zoom; it’s free and open to the public.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoUfZ4bSstnfkw4LF2R5-Q/featured

The 2021 Tomás Rivera Conference presents A Reading & Conversation with Javier Zamora
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
Our theme for the Fall 2020 conference seeks to explore, challenge, and interrogate the myriad ways in which activism—in all its forms—influences the production and consumption of art from various mediums (writing, visual art, film, music, performance). We hope to open up dialogues and lines of communication between a cross-section of artists of various disciplines in order to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which art and activism continually intersect and overlap, challenge and inspire.
Our events will be held virtually on Crowdcast. Everything is free and open to all.
Register here.

The New School presents Poetry Forum with Erin Belieu
2021-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
The New School presents Poetry Forum with Erin Belieu
From the organizers:
The New School’s Creative Writing Program curates a series of forums and special events throughout the academic year, featuring new and established writers. The forums in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Writing for Children & YA, explore work from a writerly perspective, featuring a reading, a moderated discussion, and a Q&A with the audience. The program also hosts a variety of literary events in partnership with organizations like The National Book Foundation, the National Book Critics Circle, Cave Canem, and Kundiman.
Register here: https://event.newschool.edu/erin-belieu

TYR presents Writing in an Age of Crisis with Jericho Brown
2021-03-04 19:00 (America/New_York)
TYR presents Writing in an Age of Crisis, March 4 at 7 PM EST with Jericho Brown
From the organizers:
As part of a new series on craft, “TYR Talks,” the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner will read and talk about the craft of writing poetry—and his current work—with Meghan O’Rourke and Roger Reeves of The Yale Review.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15QtYsqGmR8JvMwkmG4lak7DyzL7zek0PiIaUxFF4_VQ/viewform?edit_requested=true&gxids=7628

Bootleg Reading Series presents Leila Chatti & others
2021-03-04 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Bootleg Reading Series presents, March 4 at 8 PM ET, Leila Chatti & others
From the organizers:
Autumn House Press + Bull City Press + Four Way Books present Michael Bazzett, Susan Buttenweiser, Leila Chatti, Cynthia Cruz, John Foy, Matthew Lippman, T..J. McLemore, Hadley Moore, John Murillo, M. Randal O’Wain, Ed Pavlic, Abigail Wender, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Lori Wilson
Register here: https://bootlegreadingseries.com/zoom-links/

HOME Poetry Series presents Monica Sok
2021-03-05 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
HOME Poetry Series presents Monica Sok
From the organizers:
HOME is a poetry reading, open mic, and workshop series led by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola. It consists of a featured reader and brief open mic every first Friday of the month, followed by a writing workshop the following Saturday morning. Anthony Febo will host the readings and open mics, and the dates are listed below.
The theme, HOME, is born out of our current space, time, crisis, and future-shaping. What does home mean? What isn’t home? Who is lacking home? Now that we are all home so much, how do we like our homes? Ourselves? Our families? What is home, in the literal and figurative sense? Is the body a type of home? How so? Is a poem a type of home? How do we integrate this into content and craft?
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS1OcXWCfLt4hsXE8kGR-KI1OpQQGeO_sKyMWatxjbquqBEA/viewform

Hugo House presents Writing the Duplex with Jericho Brown
2021-03-07 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
In this 90-minute class, Jericho Brown will lead students through an exercise for writing a duplex poem — a form he invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. Each student should bring 14 disparate lines of 9–11 syllables to class. Lines may be from sentences of the student’s own prose or lines from poems that haven’t worked. No two lines have to be from the same source or time. Each student should come to workshop with each line on its own small sliver of paper. Students will leave class with a new process and a new poem.

Shyft presents Stubborn Praise: An Evening Celebrating Here and Now with Ellen Bass
2021-03-09 18:00 (America/Denver)
Shyft presents Stubborn Praise: An Evening Celebrating Here and Now, March 9th at 6 PM MT, with Ellen Bass

From the organizers:
Join us for a special edition of Stubborn Praise! Invite yourself to an evening of poetry that wholly meets the moment, its losses and fears, and helps us also to see small kindnesses, stubborn blessings, and renegade beauty. After the readings will be conversation harvested from questions and comments in Zoom chat.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_InhO9UERRQyv3HLmITTChw?timezone_id=America%2FDenver

Unbound Book Festival presents Poetry Reading with Tyree Daye, Jennifer Chang, and Rosanna Warren
2021-03-09 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Unbound Book Festival presents Poetry Reading with Tyree Daye, Jennifer Chang, and Rosanna Warren
From the organizers:
Join us for another poetry reading featuring three more exceptional poets. Tyree Daye is the author of two poetry collections, River Hymns, which was the APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal. Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Rosanna Warren is the author of six books of poetry, most recently So Forth and Ghost in a Red Hat.
Access link will appear here: http://www.unboundbookfestival.com/poetry-reading-march

The Adroit Journal presents Word is Bond Benefit Reading, feat. Victoria Chang
2021-03-09 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Adroit Journal presents Word is Bond Benefit Reading, March 9, 8 PM EST, feat. Victoria Chang
From the organizers:
Join us for Word is Bond #2! All proceeds will be donated to the Houston Area Women’s Center—addressing domestic violence & homelessness—& Lucilles 1913—a Black-run organization addressing food insecurity. Your support will go a long way toward getting our comrades currently experiencing hardship in Texas the help they need & deserve.
If you are unable to attend but still wish to contribute, please consider using the donation option & giving whatever you’re able to.
There will be an ASL interpreter for accessibility needs.
Featuring readings from Kaveh Akbar, Shira Erlichman, Victoria Chang, & Tarfia Faizullah. Hosted by Anthony Thomas Lombardi & Jonny Teklit. Sponsored by the Adroit Journal.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/word-is-bond-benefit-reading-2-tickets-144017372839?ref=eios

Loyola University Chicago presents War, Peace, and the Catholic Imagination with Philip Metres & Phil Klay
2021-03-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago)
Loyola University Chicago presents War, Peace, and the Catholic Imagination, March 11 from 4 PM – 5:30 PM CST, with Philip Metres & Phil Klay
From the organizers:
Featuring national book award winning novelist Phil Klay and multiple award winning poet Philip Metres discussing how violence, warfare, and oppression are mediated through an imagination that knows the profound failure of such human endeavors.
Register here: https://luc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlce2vrDgsHNzKpFR5WTYzGBWbfiAPGiIE

HOME: Poetry Reading and Open Mic Series presents Monica Sok
2021-03-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
The theme, HOME, is born out of our current space, time, crisis, and future-shaping. What does home mean? What isn’t home? Who is lacking home? Now that we are all home so much, how do we like our homes? Ourselves? Our families? What is home, in the literal and figurative sense? Is the body a type of home? How so? Is a poem a type of home? How do we integrate this into content and craft?
Register for Monica Sok‘s reading here.

SUNY Brockport presents The Writers Forum with Victoria Chang
2021-03-17 18:30 (America/New_York)
SUNY Brockport presents The Writers Forum, March 17 at 6:30 PM EDT, with Victoria Chang
From the organizers:
Please Note: The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced the Writers Forum reading series to move online. Our readings will be hosted on Zoom, and will be accessible to one and all, near and far. Zoom links will be posted one week prior to the particular reading. You may request a Zoom link by emailing Writers Forum Director, Ralph Black: rwblack@brockport.edu.
Link to access the event will appear here: https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/writers_forum/

George Mason University presents Visiting Writer Series with Arthur Sze
2021-03-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
George Mason University presents Visiting Writer Series, March 18 at 7 PM EDT, with Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Spring 2021 Visiting Writers Series, featuring two writers each in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/visiting-writers-series-5/register

Poetry Center San Jose presents Virtual - Third Thursdays with Ellen Bass and Barbara Ras
2021-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Poetry Center San Jose presents Virtual – Third Thursdays, March 18, 7 PM – 9 PM PST, with Ellen Bass and Barbara Ras
From the organizers:
Poetry Center San José’s mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience.
This event will be happening live through Zoom. Registered participants will receive an email with the Zoom log-in information on the day of the event before the event start. Online registration closes 1 day before the start of the event. Learn more about Zoom at zoom.us
Register here: https://sjpl.bibliocommons.com/events/5fa4a65d5e8c0f2400fa3e6d?mc_cid=6e2241bfa1&mc_eid=81a7ce6762

The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing presents An Evening with Michael Wiegers
2021-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing presents, March 19 at 6 PM MST, An Evening with Michael Wiegers
From the organizers:
Join us for an evening with Michael Wiegers, Editor in Chief of Copper Canyon Press, as he shares advice and insights on the world of publishing with independent presses. Hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-michael-wiegers-editor-in-chief-of-copper-canyon-press-tickets-131197935557

Literati Bookstore presents At Home With Literati ft. Erin Belieu
2021-03-23 19:00 (America/New_York)
Literati Bookstore presents At Home With Literati, March 23 at 7 PM EDT, ft. Erin Belieu
From the organizers:
We’re pleased to welcome Kim Addonizio and Erin Belieu to our At Home with Literati Series in support of Now We’re Getting Somewhere and Come-Hither Honeycomb.
Register here: https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-kim-addonizio-erin-belieu

Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival presents Two Poets with Tishani Doshi
2021-03-27 11:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival presents, March 27th at 11 AM GMT, Two Poets with Tishani Doshi
From the organizers:
We meet two poets at the height of their powers, former Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan for an exploration of her generous collection of selected poems As If By Magic and Tishani Doshi with her new collection A God at the Door. Paula is one of Ireland’s most distinctive poetic voices, her uncompromising engagement with the politics of gender and class, her love of the natural world and her grief at what threatens it, her holistic and visionary impulses to be grateful for her place in creation are hallmarks of her work. Tishani Doshi’s work likewise bestows power on the powerless, deploys beauty to bear trauma and enables the voices of the oppressed to be heard with piercing clarity. Tishani has been described as ‘a witty, wise and clear-eyed novelist, dancer and poet’ who ‘deploys both range and sharp analysis covering issues from the precarious state of the environment to the treatment of women’ in her new collection A God at the Door.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/two-poets/register

Eastwind Books presents Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok & Krysada Phounsiri
2021-03-27 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“Join us for a poetry reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri! Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri will be joined by SEA student poets from Stanford and UC Berkeley’s Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC) anthology group.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/southeast-asian-american-poetry-reading-with-monica-sok-krysada-phounsiri-tickets-139752677019

Georgia Tech presents Poetry @ Tech with Arthur Sze, Maggie Smith, and Bruce McEver
2021-04-07 19:00 (America/New_York)
Georgia Tech presents Poetry @ Tech, April 7 at 7 PM EDT, with Arthur Sze, Maggie Smith, and Bruce McEver
From the organizers:
Join us on Thursday, 7 April 2021 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time for The McEver Poetry Reading with Maggie Smith , Arthur Sze, and Bruce McEver. Our (virtual) doors open at 6:45 pm Eastern Time.
No registration required. Event Link: https://poetry.gatech.edu/node/129

Sarah Lawrence College presents 2021 SLC Poetry Festival with Tishani Doshi and Dana Levin
2021-04-08 13:00 - 2021-04-11 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sarah Lawrence College presents 2021 SLC Poetry Festival, April 8 – 11, with Tishani Doshi & Dana Levin
From the organizers:
The co-directors of the 18th annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival are thrilled to announce that the festival will be taking place April 8–11, 2021, and for the first time ever, virtually! This past year has brought a lot of changes to how we share and connect, but we are looking forward to using all we’ve learned to come together and celebrate contemporary poetry and poets as a community. Mark your calendars for a remarkable event you won’t want to miss!
The Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival is the largest open, student-run Poetry Festival in NY, and since 2003, we have been dedicated to the celebration of contemporary poetry and the creation of community around the art form. Previously, we have welcomed poets such as Anne Carson, Nicole Sealy, Jos Charles, Eduardo Corral, and many others. Our festival includes readings, panel discussions, generative sessions, craft talks, and more! We hope to see you there.
Access link will appear here: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/writing-mfa/poetry-festival.html

Asian American Writers' Workshop presents Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading feat. Victoria Chang, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paisley Rekdal, Brenda Shaughnessy, & Monica Sok
2021-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Asian American Writers’ Workshop presents Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading, April 8 at 4 PM PDT, feat. Victoria Chang, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paisley Rekdal, Brenda Shaughnessy, & Monica Sok
From the organizers:
Join us for a marathon reading featuring a powerhouse collective of Asian American women. In the aftermath of the horrific murders in Atlanta, GA, we offer this space as one for grieving, healing, and empowering. During a time marked by tragedy, anger, and loss, we look to our artistry to find and celebrate the resilience and brilliance of each and every woman warrior.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-warriors-a-solidarity-reading-tickets-148668071203

Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Craft Talk with Dana Levin
2021-04-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Craft Talk, April 9 at 10 AM – 11 AM PDT, with Dana Levin
From the organizers:
Join Dana Levin for a discussion of the craft of poetry.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/craft-talk-with-dana-levin-registration-146652907795?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Generative Session with Dana Levin
2021-04-10 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Generative Session, April 10 at 10 AM – 11 AM, with Dana Levin
From the organizers:
Join Dana Levin for an hour-long session of making, drafting, and trying new things.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generative-session-with-dana-levin-registration-146669772237?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Panel Discussion feat. Dana Levin
2021-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Panel Discussion, April 10 at 12 PM – 1 PM PDT, feat. Dana Levin
From the organizers:
Join us for a panel discussion with poets Dana Levin, Adrian Matejka, Kaveh Akbar, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-dana-levin-adrian-matejka-kaveh-akbar-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-registration-146674133281?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Poetry Reading feat. Javier Zamora
2021-04-11 14:15 - 17:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival presents Poetry Reading, April 11 at 2:15 pm – 5:45 pm PDT, feat. Javier Zamora
From the organizers:

Join us for the Sunday reading with Cynthia Cruz, Shira Erlichman, Shane McCrae, Jenny Xie & Javier Zamora.

There will be a five minute intermission half-way through the event, and the reading will feature two student readers, selected by our alumni judge Maya Pindyck.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/readcynthia-cruz-shira-erlichman-shane-mccrae-jenny-xie-javier-zamora-tickets-146855858827

St. Louis Poetry Center presents Observable Readings with Erin Belieu & Adrian Matejka
2021-04-11 15:00 (America/Chicago)
St. Louis Poetry Center presents Observable Readings, April 11 at 3 PM CDT, with Erin Belieu & Adrian Matejka
From the organizers:
The reading will be streamed live to this event page and to St. Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page.
Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter
