Copper Canyon Press

HOME: Poetry Reading and Open Mic Series presents Monica Sok
2021-03-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | KY
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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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/

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Emory University presents Faculty Showcase feat. Jericho Brown & others
2021-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Emory University presents Faculty Showcase feat. Jericho Brown & others
From the organizers:
Join the Office of the Provost in celebrating Black History Month through the extraordinary research, creativity, and diversity of Emory’s faculty. Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs, the event features the poetry of Professor Jericho Brown and offers interactive engagement with new faculty from across the campus and disciplines, ranging from the humanities to the social and natural sciences.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwXv67qKIyLih7kDVxNTd1Mu0fgU8E38Ezel2LmsoAqB4PzA/viewform

Lit Youngstown presents Kelli Russell Agodon, Erica Bodwell, & Jennifer Jean
2021-02-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Lit Youngstown will celebrate Kelli Russell Agodon, Erica Bodwell, and Jennifer Jean and the publication of their new books Sunday, February 21 at 7 PM EST. Join us on Lit Youngstown’s YouTube channel for a live reading and conversation.”
Event will stream at Lit Youngstown’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSU2yQJz2gpHQWwdMAfrWzw/

NYU Creative Writing Program presents Poetry Reading with Alex Dimitrov, Megan Fernandes, & Noah Warren
2021-02-18 19:00 - 2021-02-19 21:00 (America/New_York)
NYU Creative Writing Program presents Poetry Reading, Feb.18 at 7 PM EST, with Alex Dimitrov, Megan Fernandes, & Noah Warren
From the organizers:
This event is free and open to the public, though registration is required.
Register here: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-qspjMtGNHP6fWW62AXbOrVdFuc8HtI

NBF Presents: Secrets of the South, feat. Jericho Brown, Tayari Jones, and Deesha Philyaw
2021-02-16 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join National Book Award–honored authors Jericho Brown (The Tradition, 2019 Poetry Finalist), Tayari Jones (An American Marriage, 2018 Fiction Longlist), and Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, 2020 Fiction Finalist) for a conversation on Southern literature and how Black writers are redefining stereotypes of the South, one poem, story, and secret at a time. Moderated by Kiese Laymon, author of, most recently, Heavy: An American Memoir.”
Streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjAJDxQwyrObh-ph3OZtng

UCR Writers Week presents Alison C. Rollins, Kelli Jo Ford, and Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
2021-02-16 13:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
UCR Writers Week presents Alison C. Rollins, Kelli Jo Ford, and Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
From the organizers:
Entering its 44th year, UCR’s Writers Week is the longest-running free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. The week of events is open to the public and includes readings, conversations, panels, and social activities focused on the varied and exciting work of our participants, many of them among UCR’s powerhouse Creative Writing faculty.
ONLINE. Free and open to the public.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/session-1—tuesday

Raven Book Store presents Poetry with Jennifer L. Knox and Meg Johnson
2021-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Raven Book Store presents Poetry with Jennifer L. Knox and Meg Johnson
From the organizers:
Join two acclaimed Midwestern poets for a weird and wonderful night of poetry!
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/knoxjohnson/register

Poets on the Coast presents Demystifying the Poetry Manuscript with Kelli Agodon & others
2021-02-13 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Poets on the Coast presents Demystifying the Poetry Manuscript, Feb. 13 10 AM – 4 PM PST, with Kelli Agodon & others.
From the organizers:
How does a notebook full of poems transform into a published collection? How does one choose an enticing title, the right layout? Chapbook or full-length? Contest route or open reading periods? Come spend the day working on your poetry manuscript from the comfort of your own home and find out the answers to these questions.
This unique class includes: an intensive morning session with facts and figures, creation of your mission statement, and determining your own publication goals as a poet. The class will also include several ways to organize your manuscript, strategies to create your strongest manuscript, guest poets sharing their tips and stories to publication, a Q&A literary salon, and much more.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ39YSUBFgLTC3xRbNwzlA_gx7C9DTrwSesQuffxW1XYweEA/viewform

Folger Shakespeare Library presents O.B. Hardison Poetry with Tracy K. Smith & Maurice Manning
2021-02-11 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Folger Shakespeare Library presents O.B. Hardison Poetry, February 11th at 7:30 PM ET, with Tracy K. Smith & Maurice Manning
From the organizers:
Poet Maurice Manning will join with recent Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for a live reading that speaks to the words and actions of Abraham Lincoln. After a virtual tour of President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C., Manning and Smith will read from their work. Manning’s latest collection Railsplitter is in the posthumous voice of Lincoln. Smith’s most recent book, Wade in the Water takes an unflinching look at the ravages of slavery, the lives of Black Civil War soldiers and America’s history on race, gender, immigration and more.
Register here: https://events.folger.edu/7182/7193?_ga=2.81422551.1163987389.1612885769-535854862.1612885769

The Poetry Project presents Forms of Love: 10 Session Workshop with Nikki Wallschlaeger
2021-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The Poetry Project presents a 10-session workshop, Feb. 11—April 15, led by Nikki Wallschlaeger.
From the organizers:
“When we think of love poems, we think of the dominant form: the romantic. In this workshop we will be unpacking, examining and writing love poems from the platonic, familial, spiritual, to the romantic, to expand our horizons on what the love poem can be.”
Register here: https://poetryproject.z2systems.com/np/clients/poetryproject/eventRegistration.jsp?event=33&

Unbound Book Festival presents Poetry and Prayer, feat. Jericho Brown
2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Featuring Jericho Brown, Molly McCullly Brown, Alicia Jo Rabins, with moderator Rev. Molly Housh Gordon
If, as Mary Oliver declared, attention is the beginning of devotion, then many poems are akin to prayer. But for those poets steeped in liturgical traditions or marked by celestial yearnings, that connection is more direct. The poets on this panel will discuss poetry’s relationship to prayer, as well as to other religious vocalizing, such as chants, hymns, koans, and mantras. Moreover, they will consider poetry as a religion itself, an unorthodox source of holiness and redemption.”
Access link forthcoming here: http://www.unboundbookfestival.com/poetry-and-prayer

Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Victoria Chang
2021-02-11 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Georgia Poetry Circuit, February 11 at 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET, presents Victoria Chang
From the organizers:
The Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Department of Writing & Linguistics present poet Victoria Chang for two events. The schedule of events is as follows, and all events are free to the public and take place via Zoom:

2-3 p.m. : [email Prof. Christina Olson for class Zoom access]
6:30-7:30 p.m. : Reading

Register here: https://cah.georgiasouthern.edu/writling/2021/01/25/georgia-poetry-circuit-presents-victoria-chang/

Winter 2021 Launch Party Livestream: Natalie Shapero, Alex Dimitrov, & Erin Belieu
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press for a livestream launch party reading in celebration of our winter 2021 season of books! Natalie Shapero, Alex Dimitrov, and Erin Belieu will read from their new collections, followed by a Q&A with viewers. Access is free.
We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and a link to the event recording will be available here on our website.
Our partnering bookseller for the Launch Party Livestream series is the Seattle-based Estelita’s Library—a Black/Brown-owned community bookstore and library. We encourage you to support Estelita’s by purchasing or pre-ordering books by our Launch Party poets through their storefront on Bookshop.org. Start here, then search the titles you’d like to buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/estelitaslibrary
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8915990663528/WN_DEWJlZY8Qku-e8wYQCjfOg

An Instagram Live Reading with Alex Dimitrov
2021-02-09 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
An Instagram Live Reading with Alex Dimitrov
Watch here:
https://www.instagram.com/wildeamericanboy/

Observable Reading Series presents Tyree Daye and Fatimah Asghar
2021-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
The St. Louis Poetry Center’s Observable reading series presents a livestreamed reading with Tyree Daye and Fatimah Asghar. The event is free, with a suggested $5 donation.
Enjoy the livestream here: https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/observable/
Or here: https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live

Home Poetry Workshop Series: The Magic and Uncertainty of Memory with Rachel McKibbens
2021-02-06 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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.”
This workshop is led by Rachel McKibbens.
“The magic and uncertainty of memory often gives way to the fantastic, allowing our stories to inherit the dreamlike qualities of the subconscious. In this discussion, we will explore how fragments and masks (in both language and persona) allow us to push art beyond the boundaries of truth, permitting the core depths of ourselves to be revealed in their darkest, most feral forms. By examining the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, we will learn the importance of allowing the many versions of truth to push back against oppressive realities.”
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZuKPSS5Whb95wyA0yX_O3yVNWG15uMQwngGRJeUS0jSagWw/viewform
