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The Manchester Literature Festival presents Jericho Brown, Rachel Long, Raymond Antrobus & Safiya Sinclair
2020-10-15 16:00 - 2020-10-30 17:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
MLF and Picador present four stunning, innovative poets whose work speaks to the times we are living in. Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition considers the normalisation of evil and explores masculinity, fatherhood and freedom. It also introduces the duplex, a new poetic form. Rachel Long’s superb debut My Darling from the Lions, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, examines relationships between a mother and her daughter, between friends, between lovers; considering the legacy of girlhood. Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair’s incredible debut Cannibal uses The Tempest to frame explorations of colonialism and its legacy, womanhood, otherness and exile. The collection won numerous awards on publication in the USA, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison M. Metcalf Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. British-Jamaican and D/deaf poet Raymond Antrobus’ first collection The Perseverance won The Ted Hughes Award, The Rathbones Folio Prize and the Young Writer of the Year Award. New to the Picador list, Raymond will showcase forthcoming material.
Presented in partnership with Picador and hosted by Scottish Makar and MLF Patron Jackie Kay.
Approximate running time 75 minutes
This event will be available for ticket holders to watch for 72 hours after the streamed broadcast.
Tickets for this event are available for FREE or on a Pay What You Can £6 / £12 / £20 basis.
Please pay £6 (low income / concessionary rate), £12 (standard ticket price) or £20 (if you are watching at home with another member of your household) if you are able to. Any ticket revenue we receive will help Manchester Literature Festival survive these challenging times and hopefully bounce back with a live festival in 2021. However, if you can’t afford to buy a ticket please do join us for free.

Brooklyn Public Library Presents Indigenous Peoples Day Poetry Celebration with Sherwin Bitsui
2020-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Join award-winning authors Sherwin Bitsui, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Tommy Pico for a poetry reading of new poems. Of Sherwin Bitsui’s poetry, Library Journal writes, “Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images,” and went on to call his work “serious and innovative.” “Through a rigorous, proximate gaze and precise linguistic hybridity,” writes Ploughshares, “[Joan Naviyuk] Kane unlocks moments of felt thought in which personal, cultural, and geologic experience converge.” And Dan Chiasson, in The New Yorker, writes of Pico’s work: “Sylvia Plath’s simplest line may be one of her most devastating: ‘I am only thirty.’ I feel the same shudder when I read Pico’s blunt report: ‘I am 34.’”
A celebration of three powerful, affecting and innovative writers, this event is also part of an ongoing series intended to encourage discussion around our country’s complicated history with land ownership. The reading will be followed by a short conversation and audience questions.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.

USF Humanities Institute Presents A Poetry Reading with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jericho Brown
2020-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Jericho Brown, will read from “The Tradition” and take questions from the audience. “The Tradition” details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. His poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery.
Brown is also the author of “Please” and “The New Testament.” He has won the Whiting Writer’s Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Register here.

FEMS2020 Presents Finals Showcase Featuring Charlotte Abotsi & Rachel McKibbens!
2020-10-04 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
As a part of our 4th Annual FEMS Festival, we will be hosting a Finals Showcase featuring Charlotte Abotsi and Rachel McKibbens!
We will be showcasing FEMS 2020 Festival participants alongside two features. Instead of a Finals stage of competition, we are creating space to celebrate the folks who have joined us to write, create community, and be together over the course of the weekend.

Register to attend the full festival or tune in for these incredible features!

Poets House presents Tyree Daye
2020-10-02 12:00 - 12:20 (America/New_York)
Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and the Poets House Archive on Fridays at noon. On October 2, poet and educator Tyree Daye reads from his forthcoming second collection Cardinal, from Raleigh, NC.
Watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/poetshouse
On IGTV here: https://www.instagram.com/poets_house/channel/
Or check the archive for footage after the event: https://poetshouse.org/digital-initiatives/poets-house-presents/

Hugo House Presents Book Launch: Rae Armantrout & Heather McHugh
2020-10-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
Join us for a virtual reading with celebrated writers Rae Armantrout and Heather McHugh, who will read from their new books, Conjure and Muddy Matterhorn (respectively).
RSVP for this free reading at the “Tickets” link.

My Name Is My Own: Celebrating June Jordan & Ruth Stone | A Virtual Benefit
2020-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Featuring Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rio Cortez, Monica Sok, and Alison C. Rollins, plus editors Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers

Join Copper Canyon Press and an all-star lineup to celebrate the legacies of two iconic feminist poets, while raising crucial funds to support our spring season of phenomenal books. You’ll be treated to a first look at brand-new and forthcoming anthologies, The Essential Ruth Stone and The Essential June Jordan, and invited to help launch a Kickstarter project to lift up these extraordinary poets and their legacies.
Ruth Stone (1915–2011) and June Jordan (1936-2002), while distinct from each other in terms of aesthetics and identity, share a fierce sense of feminist poetics, a wonderful balance of candor and cleverness, and visionary understandings of power, violence, and solidarity. We are thrilled to honor these poets with you.
Guest readers will include: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, with a preview of his afterword for The Essential June Jordan; international bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert; and a host of other literary luminaries.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3515997557627/WN_bICiuBVBRtGjaJlrkgWK2A

Bard Center for Civic Engagement Presents The Joy and Curse of Translation with Bill Porter / Red Pine
2020-10-01 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Bill Porter / Red Pine, Translator
No one ever plans to be a translator, and no artist is more poorly equipped or trained. Nor do translators ever find out exactly what they’re doing—or even how—but, except for the fact that there’s no money it, why would they ever want to stop?
Join via Zoom

Garden of Verses: A Celebration of W.S. Merwin's Poetry and Living Legacy in Support of The Merwin Conservancy
2020-09-30 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
We’re gathering virtually with friends around the world to remember W.S. Merwin on the occasion of his birthday, and to share a vision for stewarding his legacy.
Please join us on September 30 at 12:00pm 12:00pm Hawai‘i / 3:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Eastern.
We will invite you inside the Merwins’ home, along the trails of the palm forest, and into an extraordinary place that will continue to nurture a vibrant creative life through our collective stewardship.
Carrie Fountain, Roshi Joan Halifax, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kealoha, Elizabeth Kapu‘uwailani Lindsey, Howard Norman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Matthew Carlos Schwartz, and Cathy Song will join us remotely to read from Williamʻs poetry and share reflections.
Registration required.

A Reading & Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay, moderated by Cathy Linh Che & Malcolm Tariq
2020-09-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“In celebration of the publication months of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments and Ross Gay’s Be Holding: A Poem, we’re co-hosting a virtual reading with Cave Canem and Milkweed Editions! Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay will read and join Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman and Malcolm Tariq of Cave Canem in conversation. This reading will be held over Zoom at 6:00 PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th. We’ll send out a Zoom link one week in advance to everyone registered. The first 100 participants can join the Zoom webinar. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook for everyone else. RSVP and be sure to order your copy of World of Wonders and Be Holding: A Poem from Bookshop.org!”
Register here: https://kundiman.formstack.com/forms/aimee_ross_reading

Academy of American Poets presents Books Noted Live: Tyree Daye & Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2020-09-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join the Academy of American Poets for Books Noted Live, a new, virtual reading and conversation series featuring poets with new or forthcoming books. The first of four events will take place Friday, September 25th at 7PM EDT.
The Academy is pleased to host Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Age of Phillis, which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, in conversation with Tyree Daye, whose collection Cardinal is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Purchase or pre order the books by the readers.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/books-noted-live-with/register

UA Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents Philip Metres
2020-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
The University of Arizona Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents an online reading with Philip Metres.
Register here: https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WC2fXUcmQDm7ZROLlZHU-Q

Wisconsin Book Festival presents Leila Chatti and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
2020-09-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Program in Creative Writing, this edition of Wisconsin Wednesdays features UW Alumnae Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for her new novel, Starling Days, and Leila Chatti for her new poetry collection, Deluge.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/starling-days–deluge/register

Blue Flower Arts presents a Master Class with Jericho Brown
2020-09-20 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizer:
“In this 90-minute virtual master class, poet and educator Jericho Brown will lead you through a set of unconventional exercises he’s designed to keep your ears open and your fingers moving.
Brown believes there is a profound relationship between reading poetry and writing it. He will lead our virtual gathering through focused readings, discussions, and recitations of the work of several poets whose examples will help us hone our own writing.
This master class will also feature exercises for writing your own duplex poem—a form Brown invented that is featured in his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Tradition—that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues.
This event will feature closed captioning. Please contact blueflowerarts@mac.com with any questions.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/master-class-with-pulitzer-winning-author-jericho-brown-tickets-118179133971

Lift Every Voice: 250 Years of African American Poetry featuring Jericho Brown, Nikki Finney, Sonia Sanchez, Tyehimba Jess, and more
2020-09-17 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Library of America, in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, presents the launch of Lift Every Voice, a nationwide celebration of the 250-year-long African American poetic tradition. The celebration is anchored by the publication of the anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by poet and Schomburg Center Director Kevin Young.
The evening will feature poets Nikky Finney (Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry), Sonia Sanchez (Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems), Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Jericho Brown (The Tradition) and Tyehimba Jess (Olio), and many more.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lift-every-voice-250-years-of-african-american-poetry-registration-116260328773

Wild and Precious Life Series presents Alison C. Rollins, Jacqueline Balderrama, Dominique Christina, and C. Russell Price
2020-09-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Wild and Precious Life series presents an online reading with Alison C. Rollins, Jacqueline Balderrama, Dominique Christina, and C. Russell Price.
Watch here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837002743

The 39th Northern California Book Awards with finalist Matthew Zapruder
2020-09-13 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“Celebrate the Bay Area’s vibrant literary scene. This event will simultaneously broadcast on the SF Public Library YouTube. For accommodations, call 415-557-4557 or contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.”
Register to attend via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qhzjQX25R8-rd3C2QC7yTg

Cuyahoga County Public Library presents A Conversation with Philip Metres
2020-09-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“Join us on Facebook Live for a conversation with author Philip Metres and Karen Long of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. This event will be broadcast live at facebook.com/cuyahogalib/live. A Facebook account is not required to view the program.”
Watch here: facebook.com/cuyahogalib/live

Poems of Hope & Resilience featuring Ellen Bass, Tess Taylor, Nikia Chaney, Molly Fisk, Patricia Smith, and more.
2020-09-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A reading to benefit the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County Fire Response Fund, featuring Ellen Bass, Tess Taylor, Nikia Chaney, Molly Fisk, Patricia Smith, Janel Spencer, David A. Sullivan, and Gary Young. Suggested donation is $10.
Register here: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrduCprz0sGdP9ce098ydIkeL68W2oJCCa

Elliott Bay Book Company presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil and John Freeman
2020-09-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“If things go as we imagine this might, this evening’s program will feature Aimee Nezhukumatathil, one of the most vital poets of her generation, doing this virtual reading program with her first book of prose, the dazzling, animated book that is World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed). She, presumably at home in Mississippi, will be joined by John Freeman, whom we think will be linked in from London. Most known for extraordinary work as an editor and essayist, he is also becoming increasingly recognized as a poet of note. Copper Canyon Press, which now also publishes Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poetry (Oceanic), has just published John Freeman’s second collection, The Park, following his earlier Maps. This program should feature strong talk about the planet, and some excellent poetry.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aimee-nezukhumatathil-and-john-freeman-tickets-118411049637

Montana Book Festival presents A Conversation with Matthew Zapruder and Michael Earl Craig
2020-09-10 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Denver)
The Montana Book Festival presents a conversation between Matthew Zapruder and Michael Earl Craig. No registration required. This is a pre-recorded event and can be accessed via the Festival’s YouTube channel on September 10, 2020, at 12:30PM MDT.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSWTKdZoZOcD4pYx2TkbAzQ?view_as=subscriber

A Reading Series presents Matthew Zapruder and Atsuro Riley
2020-09-09 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
A Reading Series presents a virtual reading with Matthew Zapruder and Atsuro Riley.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdu6oqz4pEtfsHq46J9GwPTQGlSjeN-rh

McNally Jackson presents Sarah Ruhl and Jill Bialosky
2020-09-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Independent bookstore McNally Jackson presents a virtual reading with Sarah Ruhl and Jill Bialosky.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduqoqTkvG9TEXTeeFHC3P43O4lB0nbWu

The Center for Fiction presents The New Gen! Rising African Poets with Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
2020-09-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani started the New-Generation African Poet limited edition chapbook in 2014 with indie publisher Akashic Books. Every year, they showcase the verses and innovation of the best African poets working today with an emphasis on poets who have not yet published their first full-length collection.
A reading from ten poets included in this year’s edition, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), will open the event, followed by a conversation between Dawes and Abani on why they had to make this ambitious and poignant project. Tjawangwa Dema will moderate.
Featured Poets:

Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau
Afua Ansong
Fatima Camara
Sadia Hassan
Safia Jama
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
Nadra Mabrouk
Nkateko Masinga
Jamila Osman
Tryphena Yeboah

This event is presented in partnership with Poets House.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/yl8hkbue

Decatur Book Festival presents Jericho Brown
2020-09-04 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival presented by Emory University is proud to feature 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown as this year’s Keynote speaker. In conversation with festival board president, Mathwon Howard, Brown will discuss his most recent book, The Tradition, that details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. As in much of his poetry, Brown highlights both the broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human. Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Join us for a reading and discussion with one of the greatest poets of our time, and an integral member of the Emory community.
Register here: https://decaturbookfestival.com/session/keynote-jericho-brown/
Join here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ajc-dbf-2020-keynote-jericho-brown

Berkeley Lunch Poems presents Roger Reeves
2020-09-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems reading series presents a reading with Roger Reeves.
Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/94375567616

Wild and Precious Life Series presents Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, Angela Narciso Torres, & Allison Benis White
2020-09-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Wild and Precious Life Series presents a virtual reading with Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, Angela Narciso Torres, and Allison Benis White.
Doors at 7:00pm ET
Reading begins at 7:30pm ET
Tune in here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81051442049
Or join by using Meeting ID: 810 5144 2049

Red Hen Press presents The Poetics of Climate Change featuring Natalie Diaz and Paisley Rekdal
2020-08-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizer:
“Join Red Hen Press and The Broad Stage for the second episode of Red Hen Press Poetry Hour’s 2020 season. This esteemed panel of writers and poets will read from their work and discuss the intersections between nature, climate change, and poetry. You don’t want to miss this relevant conversation. Alanna Mitchell, Elizabeth Bradfield, Natalie Diaz, Luis Rodriguez, and Paisley Rekdal will host their conversation live on The Broad Stage’s Facebook live and The Broad Stage Website. We’d love for you to tune in!”
Watch here: https://thebroadstage.org/athome
Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebroadstage

MOCA LA and IN PLAIN SIGHT present Writing Diaspora: An Evening of Poetry with Javier Zamora and Raquel Gutierrez
2020-08-27 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“This program features an evening of readings and discussions with acclaimed poets Javier Zamora and Raquel Gutiérrez, two participants in the In Plain Sight artist intervention. Sharing roots in El Salvador, they will read selections from their writings that explore experiences of immigration and borderland politics. Following their presentation, they will be joined in conversation by Yansi Pérez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Carleton College and author of Más allá del duelo: Otras formas de imaginar, sentir, y pensar la memoria en Centroamérica. At the end of the program, viewers will learn about accessible actions they can take to join the movement against immigrant detention.”
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A-Z18pHATcyPNHXTOHsCWg

Wednesday Night Poetry presents Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Lauren Camp, and musical guests Bethlehem and Sad Patrick
2020-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Wednesday Night Poetry is the country’s longest running open mic reading series. During the pandemic, readings stream live on Facebook. Tune in Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00pm CT for a reading featuring Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Lauren Camp, with musical guests Bethlehem and Sad Patrick.
Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2053981048117043/
