Copper Canyon Press

LOGOS presents Victoria Chang and Elisa Gabbert
2022-05-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
LOGOS presents Victoria Chang and Elisa Gabbert
From the organizer:
LOGOS Collective Collective Gatherings are ‘liturgically-inflected’ reading events, which engage audience participation. Join us on Zoom or stream via FacebookLIVE (LOGOS Collective). All are welcome!
Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87499590882

Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Making Worlds Bookstore
Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Making Worlds Bookstore in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist. In person event.

Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
2022-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ace Hotel, 20 W 29th St, New York, NY, United States
Christopher Soto Virtual Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Ace Hotel, NY in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist.

Climate Conversation Corps with Ellen Bass
2022-05-10 20:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Climate Conversation Corps with Ellen Bass
A conversation on climate change with an interview with Ellen Bass sponsored by THIS! Is What We Did.

Lannan presents Arthur Sze with Forrest Gander
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Lannan presents Arthur Sze with Forrest Gander
Join Lannan for an in-person reading and conversation with Arthur Sze and Forrest Gander. This event will also be live-streamed.
More info here: https://lannan.org/events/arthur-sze-with-forrest-gander

Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bennington College, Tishman Lecture Hall
Bennington College presents Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal
Bennington College presents poetry reading and book signing with Paisley Rekdal on May 11th at 7:00 PM ET.

Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass
2022-05-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass
Write Mindfulness Workshop with Ellen Bass sponsored by InStill Mindfulness.

Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
2022-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Artbook at Hauser and Wirth, 917 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Christopher Soto Book Launch Tour
From the organizers:
Join Christopher Soto at Artbook at Hauser and Wirth in celebration of their debut collection, Diaries of a Terrorist. In person event.

Buddhist Film Festival presents Special Screening Event featuring Bill Porter (Red Pine)
2022-05-15 16:15 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA, 94901, United States
Buddhist Film Festival presents Special Screening Event featuring Bill Porter (Red Pine), Copresented with California Film Institute
Join the Buddhist Film Festival for a Special Screening of The Mountain Path at the Smith Rafael Film Center with Special Guests: Director Edward Burger, and Bill Porter, author of The Road to Heaven.
From the organizers:
This special event brings Edward Burger and Bill Porter together for a spirited in-person conversation after the screening. Porter rarely travels from his home in Port Townsend, WA these days, and we’re delighted to host him here. He will also be signing a number of his books in the lobby of the theater. In-person only, not to be missed! Come early for the best selection of books and meet Bill Porter.

More info here: https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/the-mountain-path/

Raven Book Store presents Poetry Night with Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Raven Book Store, 809 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, 66044, United States
Raven Book Store presents Poetry Night with Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore
From the organizers:
Join acclaimed poets Traci Brimhall and Amanda Moore for a wonderful night of poetry and magic at the Raven Book Store on Thursday, May 19, 2022 – 7:00pm CDT.

Prairie Lights presents Jennifer L. Knox and Ada Limón
2022-05-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights, 15 South Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Prairie Lights presents Jennifer L. Knox and Ada Limón
From the organizer:
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Ada Limón to celebrate the release of her new book of poems The Hurting Kind. Limón will be joined in conversation with Jennifer L. Knox.
Register here: https://www.prairielights.com/live/ada-lim%C3%B3n-conversation-jennifer-l-knox

New York Public Library presents Sarah Ruhl and Ada Limon
2022-05-27 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
New York Public Library presents Sarah Ruhl and Ada Limon
From the organizer:
In May, we are proud to partner with independent publishers Milkweed Editions and Copper Canyon press to present readings of new work by poet Ada Limón and playwright Sarah Ruhl.
Register here: https://www.showclix.com/event/mayhappyhour/tag/pub

McNally Jackson presents Sarah Ruhl in conversation with Paul Muldoon
2022-05-31 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | McNally Jackson Books, 4 Fulton St, New York, NY, 10038, United States
McNally Jackson presents Sarah Ruhl in conversation with Paul Muldoon
From the organizers:
Join two celebrated writers, Sarah Ruhl and Paul Muldoon, to celebrate the publication of their new books, both lyrical and ambitious works which grapple with pandemics, quarantine, and the crises of our times.
We ask that all guests show proof of vaccination and encourage masks on the night.
RSVP here: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/sarah-ruhl-conversation-paul-muldoon-rsvp-may-31st

Book Launch for Cate Marvin's Event Horizon
2022-06-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, United States
Book Launch for Cate Marvin‘s Event Horizon
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is sponsoring a Launch Party for Cate Marvin’s fourth book, Event Horizon, on June 2nd at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine.

Dana Levin Book Launch Reading with Logos Collective
2022-06-07 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dana Levin Book Launch Reading with Logos Collective
Dana joins Sumita Chakraborty for a liturgically-inflected reading with a goal of evoking transcendence through poetry, ritual, and conversation.
More info here: http://www.danalevinpoet.com/events

House of SpeakEasy presents Seriously Entertaining with Sarah Ruhl
2022-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
House of SpeakEasy presents Seriously Entertaining with Sarah Ruhl
From the organizer:
On June 7, Pulitzer-Prize and Tony Award-nominated playwright and writer Sarah Ruhl, author and essayist Zakiya Dalila Harris, writer and creative director Jen Winston, and debut novelist David Santos Donaldson will share engaging and entertaining stories tied to the evening’s theme “Being and Becoming.”
More info: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/h/house-of-speakeasy-winterspring-22/

Ojai Music Festival presents The Echoing of Tenses with Arthur Sze
2022-06-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Libbey Bowl
Ojai Music Festival presents The Echoing of Tenses with Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
A new song cycle, the echoing of tenses, commissioned from Anthony Cheung, sets poetry by Asian-American writers interconnected by the larger theme of memory, made complicated by the circumstances and tensions of cultural and personal identity, family, migration, loss, and reflection. The various poems by Arthur Sze, Monica Youn, Jenny Xie, Ocean Vuong, and others, will be sung, spoken, and interwoven throughout. The work features Paul Appleby, Miranda Cuckson, and Conor Hanick, and a score that mixes live performance with pre-recorded sound design, in collaboration with David Bird.
This is an in-person event.
More info here: https://www.ojaifestival.org/2022-festival-schedule/

Scrag Mountain Music presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music
2022-06-15 19:00 - 2022-06-18 23:30 (America/New_York)
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music. More information about this multi-day event can be found here: http://www.scragmountainmusic.org/sutras.html
From the organizers:
Scrag Mountain Music and The Literary Estate of David Budbill presents “Sutras for a Suffering World: The Poetry of David Budbill Set to Music” for a multi-day event.
Register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/405026871368320/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A716578879535427%7D%7D]%22%7D

Unsolicited Press presents Launching JOY with Francis Daulerio, in Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
2022-06-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Unsolicited Press presents Launching JOY with Francis Daulerio, in Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
From the organizers: “Unsolicited Press is inviting you to a reading and conversation with Francis Daulerio and Kelli Russell Agodon.
This virtual event is to celebrate the launch of JOY by Francis Daulerio. Joy is the new full-length collection of poetry by Francis Daulerio, author of If & When We Wake, Please Plant This Book, and With a Difference.
Join READING:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85388321279?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 853 8832 1279
Passcode: [REDACTED]″

Women & Children First presents An Evening with Sarah Ruhl
2022-06-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Women & Children First presents An Evening with Sarah Ruhl

From the organizer: “Join us for an in-person reading, audience Q&A, and book-signing with Sarah Ruhl in honor of her two recent releases, Love Poems in Quarantine and Smile: The Story of a Face.
Please note: all in-person events held at Women & Children First require masks and proof of vaccination.”

Bookends & Beginnings presents A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani
2022-06-29 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Alley #1, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Bookends & Beginnings presents A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani!

From the organizers: “Join us in the Bookends & Beginnings Courtyard for a conversation between Sarah Ruhl and Chris Abani about their new books of poetry, Love Poems in Quarantine and Smoking the Bible. We will have copies of both books for sale in the bookstore or you can pre-order your book and we’ll have it signed and ready to pick up at the event. If you want a personalized dedication, enter your desired inscription in the “Notes” field when you place the order.”

1053 Main Street Gallery presents P.O.I. / P.O.V. Poetry Reading featuring Elizabeth J. Coleman
2022-07-16 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 1053 Main Street Gallery, 1053 Main St, Fleischmanns, NY, 12430, United States
1053 Main Street Gallery presents P.O.I. / P.O.V. Poetry Reading featuring Elizabeth J. Coleman
From the organizers:
Join us for a reading with acclaimed writers:
Miriam Atkin, Jerrice J. Baptiste, Cheryl Clarke, Elizabeth J. Coleman, Robert Cucinotta, Sharon Israel

Just Buffalo Literary Center presents Silo Reading Series with Victoria Chang
2022-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Silo City, 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Just Buffalo Literary Center presents Silo Reading Series with Victoria Chang
From the organizers: “Silo City Reading Series: Victoria Chang, Joe Hall, Lizzi Bougatsos, Dara Friedman

Join us for the July 2022 SILO CITY READING SERIES featuring poetry from Victoria Chang & Joe Hall, a music performance by Lizzi Bougatsos, and an installation by Dara Friedman.
Doors at 7:00 p.m. | Reading begins at 7:30 p.m.
Books available for purchase from Fitz Books online & at the event.

Advance tickets required
Capacity is limited to 75 attendees
CDC and NY State guidelines will be followed”

San Francisco Main Library presents Victoria Chang on Exploring Grief
2022-08-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
San Francisco Main Library presents Victoria Chang on Exploring Grief
From the organizers:
“Writers Victoria Chang and Kristin Keane discuss Chang’s most recent, powerful, form-bending collection of work exploring longing, grief and memory, three books released in three years: Obit (2020), Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief (2021), and The Trees Witness Everything (2022).
This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning), call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.”

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Poetry Reading with Jennifer L. Knox & Nynke Passi
2022-08-22 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Poetry Reading with Jennifer L. Knox & Nynke Passi
From the organizers:
“We kick off the festival with a poetry reading featuring Jennifer L. Knox and Nynke Passi, MIU’s MFA in Creative Writing program director.

About this event

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of Crushing It (Copper Canyon, 2020), as well as the collections Days of Shame and Failure (2015), The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway (2010), Drunk by Noon (2007), and A Gringo Like Me (2007), all published by Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared four times in the Best American Poetry series. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and McSweeney’s.
Nynke Salverda Passi is the director of this MFA program and co-chair of the English dept. She was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Life & Legends, and more. Her poetry has been anthologized in Pandemic Puzzle Pieces and River of Earth & Sky (Blue Light Press), Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press). Together with Rustin Larson and Christine Schrum, she edited the poetry collection Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day.”

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Two Sylvias Press with Press Co-Founder Kelli Russell Agodon
2022-08-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Two Sylvias Press with Press Co-Founder Kelli Russell Agodon.
From the organizers:
“Kelli Russell Agodon, co-founder of Two Sylvias (one of our favorite presses), will be your host in this session.

About Two Sylvias: ‘Created with the belief that great writing is good for the world, Two Sylvias Press mixes modern technology, classic style, and literary intellect with an eco-friendly heart. We draw our inspiration from the poetic literary talent of Sylvia Plath and the editorial business sense of Sylvia Beach. Located in the Seattle area, Two Sylvias is an independent press which publishes the best-selling The Daily Poet and has created The Poet Tarot, featured in O, The Oprah Magazine. Two Sylvias Press also released the first eBook anthology of women’s poetry in 2011: Fire On Her Tongue. Publishing poetry, memoir, essays, anthologies, and creativity tools for writers and artists, we offer a Chapbook Prize in the spring. The Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize is open to women over 50 years of age and is held annually in the fall. Two Sylvias Press also offers online poetry retreats for writers who would like to generate new work with daily poetry prompts and creative inspiration.'”

New Dominion Bookshop presents Selected Books of the Beloved with Gregory Orr
2022-08-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
New Dominion Bookshop presents Selected Books of the Beloved with Gregory Orr
From the organizers:
Join us as we celebrate the release of Gregory Orr’s new poetry collection, Selected Books of the Beloved. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.
More information will appear here: https://ndbookshop.com/events/gregory-orr-selected-books-of-the-beloved/

Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
2022-08-27 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Silo City, 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
From the organizer:
Join us for the season finale of the 2022 SILO CITY READING SERIES featuring poetry from Jericho Brown and JBLC Poetry Fellow TBA, a musical performance by Florist, and an installation by Johann Diedrick.

The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
2022-08-31 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
From the organizers:
“After a hiatus of more than two years, The Merwin Conservancyʻs beloved arts and ecology series The Green Room returned to in-person gatherings on Maui with two very special guests, our poets-in-residence Carol Moldaw and Arthur Sze.

These two extraordinary poets have spent a month in residence in the former home of W.S. and Paula Merwin, and earlier this month Carol and Arthur shared the stage for a very special reading at the Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center on Maui.
This intimate event was captured on video and will be broadcast on Crowdcast on Wednesday, August 31st, at 2:00pm Hawaiʻi / 5:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Mountain / 8:00pm Eastern.
The event is free, and donations are welcome at the virtual “door” to support this beloved arts and ecology salon series, now in its ninth year.
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ABOUT CAROL MOLDAW:
Carol Moldaw’s eighth book, Go Figure, will be published by Four Way Books in 2024. Her most recent books are Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018), So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems and The Widening, a short novel. She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River. Through the Window was translated into Turkish and published in a bilingual edition in Istanbul as Penceredon/Through the Window; her work also has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian. Moldaw is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, and her work is published widely in journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Yale Review. It has also been anthologized in many venues, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets. As noted in The New Yorker, Moldaw’s work “repeatedly achieves lyric junctures of shivering beauty.” About The Lightning Field, Frieda Gardner wrote in The Women’s Review of Books: “She courts revelation . . . in a voice variously curious, passionate, surprised, meditative, and sensual. On the surface of her work are rich sound and variation of rhythm and line. A few steps deeper in lie wells of feeling and complexities of thought.” From 2005-2008 Moldaw was on the faculty of Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency M.F.A. program, and she has been a recurrent Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University. In the spring of 2011, she served as the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University; currently she teaches privately in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.
ABOUT ARTHUR SZE:
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), Sight Lines (2019), for which he received the National Book Award for Poetry; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award; Quipu (2005); The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998 (1998), selected for the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Asian American Literary Award; and Archipelago (1995), selected for an American Book Award. He has also published one book of Chinese poetry translations, The Silk Dragon (2001), selected for the Western States Book Award, and edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). A recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the eighth annual ‘T’ Space Poetry Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, as well as five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 2012 to 2017, he was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and, in 2017, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.“

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
2022-08-31 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
From the organizers:
“Tonight our long-time mentor and frequent guest Mark Spragg is returning together with a close friend of his, Ellen Bass, a poet we deeply admire. We are so happy to have the two of them read together from their poetry and lyrical prose.
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Wyoming. Mark also has an extensive history as a screenwriter, writing the scripts for movies such as An Unfinished Life and Everything that Rises.“
