Copper Canyon Press

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/

The Community of Writers: Rediscovering Sylvia Plath with Victoria Chang & Matthew Zapruder
2024-04-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“When we think of Sylvia Plath, it’s easy to see the image of the electric confessional poet who took her own life. Her tragic personal history, including her marriage to Ted Hughes, can easily obscure her poetry. But when we return to the work itself, we see a poet of genius, who mapped her struggles to find a completely original poetic voice.
“In this Short Course, we’ll close-read Plath’s poetry, to learn from her singularity. We’ll begin with an overview of Plath’s poetry leading up to her creative breakthrough, then focus the remaining four sessions on close reading poems from her posthumous, best-known book Ariel. We’ll try to understand together where she came from, her essential innovations, and her effect on the poetry that came after her. Was she truly a “confessional” poet? How does she make meaning from the turmoil of her life, and the time in which she wrote? What were her poetic innovations? How can we understand her poems as something more than mere autobiography? What aspects of her poetry continue to influence poems today? In addition to the poems from Ariel and after, we’ll look at drafts of her poems from her archives, to explore her writing process, so that we can learn from her creative process.
“Each session will begin with an hour of discussion between Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder, including background and close readings, followed by a short break. We will then reconvene for our second hour in which we will discuss your thoughts from the chat, answer questions, and offer further insights. We will end each session with an optional poetry writing prompt based on Plath’s poetry.
“Dates & Times: Online Sundays from April 28 to May 19, 2024 with a Bonus Session on May 22. Main sessions run from 4 pm-6 pm (Pacific) with optional discussion groups to follow.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 5, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 12, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Sunday, May 19, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 4:00-6:00 PT / 7:00-9:00 ET (Bonus Session)

“Note: For those who are interested, intimate Zoom discussion groups (Virtual Houses) will meet after each session and on subsequent Saturdays at 10 AM.”
Register here: https://communityofwriters.org/register-for-rediscovering-sylvia-path/

Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet
2024-05-08 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities Center at Stanford, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet on Wednesday May 8th, 2024 at 8pm PT
From the organizers:
“Sze is this year’s Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers to teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.”
For more information go to: https://events.stanford.edu/event/reading_with_arthur_sze_mohr_visiting_poet

Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents a Colloquium with Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet
2024-05-22 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Margaret Jacks Hall, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Stanford Creative Writing Program Presents a Colloquium with Arthur Sze, the Mohr Visiting Poet on Wednesday May 22nd at 11am PT
From the organizers:
“Sze is this year’s Mohr Visiting Poet. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers to teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These seminars are made possible with the generous support of Lawrence and Nancy Mohr.
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event with the Mohr Visiting Poet: A Colloquium with Arthur Sze.”
For more information and to register go to: https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/events/colloquium-arthur-sze-mohr-visiting-poet

August Wilson African American Cultural Center presents Nicholas Goodly for Lit Friday
2024-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Nicholas Goodly joins LIT Friday to discuss Black Swim.
LIT Friday is an August Wilson African American Cultural Center monthly virtual program. Hosted by poet and art journalist, Jessica Lanay, LIT Friday features in depth conversations on the final Friday of each month with writers and thinkers of the African Diaspora. The conversations focus on the intersection of the featured guests’ work and contemporary events affecting the global Black community. Previous guests include Man Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo (2021), music journalist Nelson George (2020), public scholar Dr. Yaba Blay (2022), journalist and author Danyel Smith (2023), and National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2024).”
Register here: https://awaacc.org/event/lit-friday-nicholas-goodly/

The Keeler Tavern Museum presents Poetry in the Garden with Sophie Cabot Black and Patricia Spears Jones
2024-07-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center, 152 Main St, Ridgefield, CT, 06877, United States
From the organizers:
“Poetry in the Garden (formerly “A Garden of Verse”) is back for another summer season! The series, produced by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes, will feature some of the nation’s leading poets. Join us in KTM&HC’s beautiful historic walled garden for weekly readings throughout the month of July. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and readings begin at 7 p.m.
The first event of the season will feature Sophie Cabot Black and Patricia Spears Jones.”
View event here: https://keelertavernmuseum.org/events/483/poetry-in-the-garden/

The 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black
2024-07-13 11:00 - 2024-07-14 18:00 (America/New_York) | Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, NY, 10004
The 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black
From the organizers:
“A literary institution in its thirteenth year, funded by NYSCA, DCLA, and more, The New York City Poetry Festival is a progressive and transformative event that draws over 15,000 attendees. NYC PoFest is one of the most accessible large-scale events New York has to offer. It is free to attend, and its programming is designed to cater to audiences of all ages, regardless of their poetry background. The festival’s core comprises five mainstages: The Brinkley, The Algonquin, The White Horse, The Blackbird, and The Beckett. Over two days, more than a hundred literary organizations will share these stages, from established presses to community writing groups. Attendees of NYC PoFest can also expect an open-air artisan market, top-notch Smorgasburg-worthy food trucks, interactive installations, a visual arts gallery, a Youth Poetry Festival, an open mic, and more. At NYC PoFest, there’s truly a little something for everyone.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-13th-annual-new-york-city-poetry-festival-tickets-863989073577?_gl=1*12cdfol*_gcl_au*NzIxOTU4NjEzLjE3MTk0MzA4NTY.

Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
2024-07-29 - 2024-08-02
Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
From the organizers:
“If you want to encounter more truth in your poems, to express it in the most beautiful way possible, to craft poems that reflect the inextricable marriage of truth and beauty, love and death, the luminous and the ordinary, please join us for this special workshop.
We will elude and distract the censors that silence or limit us. We’ll approach our experience from new angles to find the poem within the story. We’ll question the stories we think are true and experience the power of not-knowing and discovery.
We will write poems, share our writing, and hear what our work touches in others. We’ll also read model poems by contemporary poets and discuss aspects of the craft. But mainly this will be a writing retreat—time to explore and create in a supportive community. Though the focus is on poetry, prose writers who want to enrich their language will find it a fertile environment.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/truth-and-beauty-online-july-august-2024/

DIESEL, A Bookstore presents Noah Warren, Christian Gullette, and Dan O'Brien
2024-07-30 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th St, Santa monica, CA, 90402
From the organizers:
“Join us on Tuesday July 30th at 6:30 pm as we welcome Christian Gullette, Dan O’Brien and Noah Warren to the store to discuss and sign Coachella Elegy, Survivors’s Notebook and The Complete Stories.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood.
Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat.”
View here: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Christian-Gullette-Dan-O-Brien-Noah-Warren-Author-signing

Flyleaf Books presents their Second Sunday Poetry Series with John Balaban and Anna Lewis
2024-09-08 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Flyleaf Books, 752 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series presents readings with John Balaban and Anna Lewis
From the organizers:
“Join us for our Monthly Poetry series, an afternoon of poetic readings. Featured poets will each read for 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, then an open mic. Please sign up by 2:30 pm, and limit your reading to one poem, one page. Hope to see you there!”
View here: https://chapelboro.com/events/flyleaf-second-sunday-poetry-series-anna-lewis-and-john-balaban

Ted Kooser Book Release - Raft
2024-09-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Chapters Books & Gifts, 548 Seward St, Seward, NE, 68434, United States
From the organizers:
“Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life’s shared experiences and emotions–illness, aging, beauty, and love.
Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems maintain the open-handed and accessible style that thousands have come to love. Yet, deeply imagistic and metaphorically rich, Raft shows us that even the simplest of objects, the simplest of actions, can become a portal.”
View here: https://sewardchapters.com/event/2024-09-09/ted-kooser-release-raft

Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews present Ted Kooser Book Launch
2024-09-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews will share poems from Ted Kooser‘s latest book, RAFT, out from Copper Canyon Press in September, 2024. Please note: due to health reasons, Ted Kooser will not be participating in this reading, though he will be watching!”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-kooser-book-launch-tickets-935544367387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Preorder the book here. Include a note in the comments section at checkout for a personalized message from Ted Kooser: https://sewardchapters.com/book/9781556597015

2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading featuring Fady Joudah and Pádraig Ó Tuama
2024-09-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St, New York, NY, 10014, United States
From the organizers:
The Jackson Poetry Prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent. It was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. Eligible poets must have published at least two books of acknowledged literary merit. The 2024 prize carries a monetary value of $100,000. Nominees are identified by a group of poets selected by Poets & Writers who remain anonymous; final selection is made by a panel of esteemed poets.
The 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize recipient is Fady Joudah. Esteemed poets Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo, and Diane Seuss served as judges.
Poets & Writers is hosting a reading with Fady Joudah on September 17 in New York City. Joudah will be joined in conversation by Pádraig Ó Tuama.
This event will also be live streamed.
For more information and registration, visit: https://www.pw.org/about-us/jackson_poetry_prize

CCP at Brooklyn Book Festival, Sunday, September 29
2024-09-29 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
From the organizers:
“The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.
The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers.
The Brooklyn Book Festival was launched in 2006 as a one-day event to address the need for a free, major literary event that embraced the diverse constituencies of New York City. It has since grown to include 8 days of city-wide Bookend events, its flagship Festival Day with 300 authors and a Literary Marketplace with 250 independent and major publishers, and the BKBF Children’s Day that celebrates childhood reading. The Festival’s credo is ‘hip, smart and diverse’.”
View here: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/

New Works: Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe
2024-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 10282, United States
From the organizers:
Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. In Cabot Black’s Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon, 2024), poems about sheep herding examine the connection between people, land, animals, and power. Howe’s New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024), collates poems from her four previous collections, creating a sweeping and intimate portrait of her body of work. The evening’s readings and conversation between the artists will reveal two extraordinary takes on the human and the spiritual.
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room.
For more information, visit: https://poetshouse.org/event/new-works-black-and-howe/

The Essential C.D. Wright: A Reading with Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander
2024-10-08 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press and honored guests Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander for an evening of poetry and celebration in honor of legendary poet C.D. Wright.
Hosted by C.D. Wright’s longtime poetry editor and Copper Canyon Press’s Executive Editor, Michael Wiegers, this livestream benefit reading will launch The Essential C.D. Wright and feature rare poems, archival photographs and materials, as well as numerous personal stories from her life. Throughout the evening you will be given the opportunity to become a part of the poetry by donating to secure and advance C.D.’s poetic legacy for generations to come.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KPxG8BMoQQeyHFA7t3fbJw#/registration

Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye
2024-10-09 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Let’s honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with poets Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. This gathering features Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye, two celebrated poets with new books to share and discuss. Our other featured guest is Marne Lucas: end-of-life doula, artist, and Reimagine community collaborator.
Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist. Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Orion. She was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and her second book, Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the Paterson Award, and the winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. As the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, Laméris co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective; a radio show, podcast, and event hub. She is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program and teaches The Path of Poetry workshops online. Her third book is Blade by Blade (Copper Canyon Press, September 2024).
Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Trinity University and continues to live. She has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, and The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, the Arab American National Museum, and the National Book Critics Circle. Her newest book is Grace Notes: Poems about Families (Harper Collins, May 2024)
Marne Lucas (she/her/they) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist, end of life doula (EOLD), and Reimagine community collaborator working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, mortality, and in social practice investigations. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by events and emotions of the community around her, and are inspired by the doula and palliative care movements. An infrared thermal video pioneer, Lucas uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the magic and fragility of human life cycles. The Bardo Project explores creativity as a form of spiritual and somatic care in collaborations with terminally ill artists nationwide to establish their legacy. Lucas received EOLD training at INELDA under Henry Fersko Weiss, a role that supports the dying and their families. Marne has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, sex workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. Lucas received Regional Arts & Culture Council project grants (2024, 2013, 2008), UMEZ Creative Engagement grants (2018, 2021) administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and an Oregon Arts Commission public art commission (2009). Lucas was formerly a harm-reduction activist for Danzine, and advisory board member to OUTsider, an LGBTQIA multi-arts festival (Austin, TX.)
About Reimagine: Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life’s biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
For more information and to RSVP, visit: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/reimagine-virtual-candlelight-vigil-with-danusha-lameris-and-naomi-shihab-nye

2024 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival with Sophie Cabot Black
2024-10-18 - 2024-10-19
From the organizers:
Poetry Reading – Friday night, October 18, at 7:30 PM (EDT): Each of our guest poets Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, and Maya C. Popa present a public reading in the auditorium of the Sharon Springs Central School. Afterward, you’ll be able to meet the poets in the lobby, purchase a copy of one of their books — which they will gladly sign — and meet your fellow poetry lovers.
Poetry Workshops – Saturday, October 19: Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, Maya C. Popa , and Festival founder Paul Muldoon will each conduct an in-person poetry workshop for adult members of the community. Workshops are free; anyone 18 or older may register:

Workshops are two hours (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM) and are strictly limited to 8 participants per workshop;
Advance registration is required (registration site coming soon);
Workshops will be conducted in person in Sharon Springs (locations to be announced).
Each participant must submit, in advance, a poem of their own composition to share and discuss with the group.
Limit one workshop per person; one ticket per person.

Panel Discussion – Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 2:00 PM (EDT) (Location To Come): “Poetry and Praise,” a panel discussion with Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, Maya C. Popa, and Paul Muldoon
For more information and registration updates, visit: https://klinkharthall.org/sharon-springs-poetry-festival-2024/

Live! at the Library: Bobbitt Prize Event with Arthur Sze
2024-12-05 18:30 (America/New_York) | Library of Congress: James Madison Memorial Building: Mumford Room, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540, United States
From the organizers:
The Library of Congress will award the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to National Book Award winner Arthur Sze for lifetime achievement in poetry.
Sze of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will receive the prize on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m. during an event in the Mumford Room of the Library’s Madison Building. The event is free, and registration is open to the public. Sze will also give a short talk on poetry, followed by a moderated discussion with Rob Casper, the Library’s head of poetry and literature.
Sze’s presentation is titled “Lines of Sight, and Beyond.” In it he will braid some of his poems with details about his evolution as a poet, insights about his creative process and ideas of exploration and freedom in context of the American experience.
The 2024 Bobbitt Prize was awarded for lifetime achievement in poetry by the Librarian of Congress, based on the recommendation of an internal committee.
“In 11 books and over more than 50 years, Arthur Sze has developed a signature lyricism of seeing. His poems focus on images and declarations – but they also move through breathtaking juxtapositions, create layers of fragments that open up rather than direct their readers. Sze’s imaginative capaciousness pulls in languages, traditions and systems from both East and West, and it can speak to the cosmos then turn to the smallest natural detail,” the committee wrote in its citation for Sze. “His latest collection, ‘The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems,’ captures the range and the commitment of his life’s work, to create ‘points of connection, reflection, and refraction . . . part of an organic growing whole.’”
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