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Ledbury Poetry Festival presents Jorie Graham hosted by Sarah Howe
2021-07-02 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
Ledbury Poetry Festival presents Jorie Graham hosted by Sarah Howe, on July 2, 2021 from 8 to 9 p.m. (BST); noon to 1 p.m. (PDT); 2 to 3 p.m. (CDT); 3 to 4 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Celebrated American poet Jorie Graham, will read from her latest collection Runaway and chat about her work with poet Sarah Howe. Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including PLACE, which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ‘For 30 years Jorie Graham has engaged the whole human contraption — intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic’ (New York Times).
Sarah Howe is a Hong Kong-born British poet, academic and editor. Co-founder, with Sandeep Parmar of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme. Her first collection of poems is Loop of Jade.
Register here: https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/events/jorie-graham-hosted-by-sarah-howe/

Costura Creative presents Sweetness Poetics with Alison C. Rollins
2021-07-04 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Costura Creative presents Sweetness Poetics, an online writing workshop led by Alison C. Rollins with sessions on Sundays in July (July 4, 11, 18 and 25) at 3:00 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Online writing workshops led by: Alison C. Rollins
SWEETNESS POETICS
Sundays in July
7/4 7/11 7/18 7/25
3:00 PM EDT
Suggested donation: $20 per session
Register here: http://www.costuracreative.com/workshops.html

EcoTheo Collective presents Wonder in Wyoming, a literary festival
2021-07-09 12:00 - 2021-07-11 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | St. John’s Episcopal Church (Jackson, WY), 170 North Glenwood Street, Jackson, WY, 83001, United States
EcoTheo Collective presents Wonder in Wyoming, a literary festival taking place July 9–11, hosted by St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jackson.
From the organizers:
Wonder in Wyoming: Three Days + Two Nights of LIVE Reading Events, Free and open to the public
Wonder in Wyoming is the brainchild of Board member Spencer Reece, acclaimed poet, memoirist, and Episcopal priest. While serving the Cathedral in Madrid, Spencer created the Unamuno Author Series that brought renowned poets such as Richard Blanco and Jericho Brown to read as part of a poetry festival in Spain. We envision a literary festival that connects participants with the sacred beauty of the Grand Tetons along with the power of literature and the arts to inspire, heal, and transform.
This festival is made possible through the generous support of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyoming, and the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming. Our first annual gathering will consist of LOGOS readings, workshops, and meditation services that incorporate poetry. Featured poets are Spencer Reece, Paisley Rekdal, Diane Glancy, Carrie Fountain, Mark Wunderlich, Joanna Klink, and Gregory Pardlo. In addition, the four recipients of the 2021 Starshine and Clay Fellowships will give readings.
As we look to 2022 we plan to include more writers and makers as Wonder in Wyoming continues to fulfill EcoTheo Collective’s mission to celebrate wonder, enliven conversations, and inspire commitments in ecology, spirituality, and art.
Generously hosted by St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jackson and co-hosted by Jackson Hole Writers.
The Poet-Organizers of Wonder in Wyoming 2021 are Travis Helms, Jason Myers, and Jeremy Voigt.
Register here: https://www.ecotheo.org/how-to-participate

Kenyon Review presents The Writers Workshops Online feat. Natalie Shapero
2021-07-11 12:00 - 2021-07-17 12:00 (America/New_York)
Kenyon Review presents, July 11 – 17, The Writers Workshops Online feat. Natalie Shapero
From the organizers:
Our summer 2021 workshops take on a new dimension this year. Entirely online, they are designed to fit more easily into writers’ daily lives, all while providing the stimulating and supportive experience that writers seek from Kenyon Review. Three different options are available for each genre, during both sessions (June and July):
The Rosse Event Series: The most flexible option, the Rosse Event Series provides enrichment and insights through readings and conversations with faculty (including Kaveh Akbar, David Baker, Angie Cruz, Geeta Kothari, Dinty W. Moore, Carl Phillips, Natalie Shapero, Nancy Zafris, and more). Participants can experience the events synchronously or access them asynchronously until September 1.
Register here: https://whova.com/portal/registration/hekrw_202106/

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening with Copper Canyon Poets Ellen Bass & Arthur Sze on Zoom
2021-07-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents, July 14 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM, An Evening with Copper Canyon Poets Ellen Bass & Arthur Sze on Zoom
From the organizers:
This reading will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed after registration. (Please check spam / promotions folder for this email and email admin@writerscenter.org with any questions.) Please note that the reading takes place from 7-8:30pm Eastern time.
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/szebass/

Literary Cleveland presents "Poetry and Basketball" with Philip Metres, Tomás Q. Morín and David Tomas Martinez
2021-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Literary Cleveland presents “Poetry and Basketball,” a panel featuring Philip Metres, Tomás Q. Morín and David Tomas Martinez, on July 15 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. (EDT). This panel is presented as part of The Inkubator, Literary Cleveland’s free annual festival for writers and readers.
From the organizers:
From the first Olympics in ancient Greece, where poets would gather to share their works and write poems for the victors, writers and athletes have competed with each other. Some modern writers, like panelists David Tomas Martinez, Philip Metres, and Tomas Q. Morin, sharpened their ball skills, their attention to detail, their verbal and non-verbal communication, and their team play, on the basketball court. This panel will explore the art of athletics and the athletics of art, calling a truce between the jocks and nerds once and for all.
PRESENTERS
Philip Metres has written numerous books, including Shrapnel Maps, Sand Opera, and The Sound of Listening. Awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, and three Arab American Book Awards, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. On basketball courts ranging from Chicago and Moscow, he was a gym rat, wing man, and slasher.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He is also a translator, editor, and essayist. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts where he is always open in the paint on a backdoor cut.
David Tomas Martinez’s work has been published or is forth coming in Poetry Magazine, Plough Shares, Tin House, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Forklift; Ohio, Poetry International, LitHub, Gulf Coast, Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, Poetry Foundation’s PoetryNow, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and others. Martinez has an MFA from San Diego State University, is the former reviews and interviews editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, and has been a Breadloaf and CantoMundo Fellow. His debut collection of poetry, Hustle, was released in 2014 by Sarabande Books, and his latest collection, Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, was published in 2018, also by Sarabande Books. He is a Pushcart Prize winner, NEA recipient, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Details: Poetry and Basketball takes place Thursday, July 15 from 7-8:30pm remotely through Zoom.
Zoom Info: Register for the talk and Lit Cleveland will send you an invitation and instructions on how to attend via Zoom.
Register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/_neKyd12h9hQrv3XxaFEXw

West Cork Literary Festival presents Experiments in Empathy: Ellen Bass & Tom Moore
2021-07-15 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin)
West Cork Literary Festival presents Experiments in Empathy: Ellen Bass & Tom Moore, on July 15 at 8 p.m. (GMT+1) (12 p.m. PDT).
From the organizers:
But sometimes it’s too much to ask a person to inhabit the strange region of a foreign heart
–‘Experiment in Empathy’ by Ellen Bass, from Indigo (2020)
Later that afternoon, lonely and bored, you thought you’d found the sweetness in humankind
—‘Lab Rat’ by Tom Moore, from Brother Adam (2020)
Poetry has long been the bedfellow of beauty, but how do the author and reader enter the world of the rat, the tumour, the criminal? In a society that has kept acutely separate this past year, how does poetry narrow the gap between what we know and what we don’t? What does death feel like to the oyster, desire to the celibate, teeth to the apple?
Join us for this exploration of empathy, nature and science with poets Ellen Bass, Tom Moore and editor and criminologist, Sarah Byrne. Ellen and Tom will read from their respective 2020 collections, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) and Brother Adam (Well Review Editions).
Register here: https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2021/experiments-in-empathy-ellen-bass-tom-moore/

Moberg Gallery presents Larassa Kabel's A Ghost at the Feast, with a reading by Jennifer L. Knox
2021-07-16 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Moberg Gallery, 2411 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50312, United States
Jennifer L. Knox will give a reading at Moberg Gallery in Des Moines on July 16, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. to celebrate A Ghost at the Feast, an art show by Larassa Kabel.
From the organizers:
In conjunction with Larassa Kabel’s exhibit, A Ghost at the Feast, and Mary Jones’ installation, The Map Room, Moberg Gallery will host an artists’ talks and poetry reading on Friday, July 16th, 4.30 – 6.30 pm. Kabel will discuss her new works, which focus on memento mori, and Jones will discuss her mixed media works and artists’ books, which originate from her walks and interest in why and how things are mapped.
Larassa Kabel received her BFA with honors in 1992 from Iowa State University with an emphasis in fibers. Exploring that which makes us most uncomfortable, Kabel regularly traverses the emotional and intellectual space between life and death, love and loss, the powerful and the powerless. Through the drawing, painting, performance and sculpture, she confronts our view of ourselves “outside of Nature” and our desire to distance ourselves from our mortality. She currently lives in Des Moines, IA, where she works as a fulltime artist and independent curator. She has received numerous grants and awards including an Iowa Arts Council Fellowship, and her work has been shown nationally and is in several corporate and private collections including the Des Moines Art Center, the White House and the World Food Prize.
Mary Jones makes mixed media artworks about urban walking. For 15 years, she was Professor of Art & Design at Grand View University in Des Moines, where she taught courses in printmaking, book arts, and graphic design. Prior to teaching, she worked as an illustrator with work published by The Chicago Tribune, Playboy Magazine, and the Philadelphia Enquirer, among others. She has work in the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Women in the Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and in the State Museum of Illinois in both Chicago and Springfield. She has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and at Anchor Graphics, Chicago. She is a 2018-19 Iowa Arts Council Fellow.
Michaela Mullin is a Pushcart-nominated poet, arts writer and editor living in Des Moines, Iowa. She is Associate Editor at Nomadic Press (Oakland, California). Mullin earned her BA in English from Drake University, an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Nebraska, and a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School. She is a recipient of the Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Thomas Dunn Scholarship in English. Her poetry collection, must, a collaboration with Argentine artist Mariela Yeregui, was published in 2016.
Jennifer L. Knox’s sixth book of poems, Crushing It, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, Great American Prose Poems, Best American Erotic Poems, and five times in The Best American Poetry series. She is an Iowa Arts Council Fellow and the proprietor of a small spice-blend company called Saltlickers.

Arcadia Books presents Nikki Wallschlaeger
2021-07-17 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Arcadia Books, 102 East Jefferson St., Spring Green, WI, 53588, United States
Arcadia Books presents Nikki Wallschlaeger for a poetry reading on July 17, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.
From the organizers:
Nikki Wallschlaeger, 2021-22 visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Group, reads from Waterbaby, her third collection of poetry.
Using the element of water to connect her poems, Nikki Wallschlaeger writes about family, memory, Blackness, motherhood, work and the toll taken on the body and spirit.
“How can you not be grateful, in such an ugly time, for a poet who so closely and wryly and wrenchingly and furiously observes a nation?” —Chicago Tribune
“She deploys a new vocabulary for talking about the legacies of slavery and white supremacy as they manifest in daily life—a vocabulary that is as damning as it is lush, as rich with sound as it is bright with image… The domestic scenes she makes in her poems complicate clichés of who black women in America are ‘supposed’ to be.” —Hyperallergic
“Permeated by animus towards racism and capitalism, Wallschlaeger’s latest collection is political, personal and timely.” —Publishers Weekly

The John Carroll Young Writers Workshop with Philip Metres and Lydia Munnell
2021-07-19 09:00 - 2021-07-23 12:00 (America/New_York) | John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Boulevard, University Heights, OH, 44118, United States
The John Carroll Young Writers Workshop is a writing workshop for students entering grades 8–12 hosted by John Carroll University from July 19–23, 2021, with award-winning faculty Philip Metres and Lydia Munnell.
From the organizers:
The John Carroll Young Writers Workshop (for students grades 8–12) will take place on July 19-July 23, 2021, on the campus of John Carroll University, directed by award-winning creative writing faculty from John Carroll University. This year, we’re offering both day camp and overnight options. Students participate in a rigorous and inspiring program that provides an introduction to the art and craft of poetry and short fiction. In morning and afternoon sessions, students study with acclaimed writers, engaging in writing-intensive exercises designed to address the elements of craft. They participate in lively workshop sessions in which they discuss each other’s work to spur revision. Over the week, students have individual conferences with Dr. Philip Metres about their
writing, and then submit writing for the YWW anthology, published on the final day of the camp. Families are welcome to attend the final reception and reading.
If we’re still dealing with the pandemic, we can offer the workshop fully online. All you need is access to a computer, wifi, a Zoom account, and a quiet space to write and talk with your cohort!
Applications can be submitted online at go.jcu.edu/yww. Applications are due by June 1st. Scholarships may be available.
Register here: https://jcu.edu/academics/english/undergraduate/special-programs/yww

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown presents Vision & Revision: A Poetry Workshop - LIVE with Erin Belieu
2021-07-19 10:00 - 2021-07-23 10:00 (America/New_York)
Fine Arts Work Center in Province Town, July 19 to July 23 at 10 AM – 12 PM EDT, presents Vision & Revision: A Poetry Workshop – LIVE with Erin Belieu
From the organizers:
In this workshop, you will decide if you’re more interested in generating new work or in sharing previously drafted work with the group (or some combination of both). I will bring in poems every day as models of various craft elements for our consideration, and I will conclude each class by offering you a generative exercise that you may wish to work on throughout your time at the conference. It’s entirely your choice. Because no one size fits all, my goal is to meet you where you’re presently at with your poetic process, and to offer you the craft skills to keep you generating and revising your poems on your own, outside of a workshop atmosphere.
Register here: https://fawc.org/24-pearlstreet-payment/?nid=4641

Boyce Thompson Arboretum presents Nature Authors: From NYT to BTA with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2021-07-22 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
Boyce Thompson Arboretum presents Nature Authors: From NYT to BTA with Aimee Nezhukumatathil on July 22 at 6 p.m. (MST) via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Boyce Thompson Arboretum welcomes bestselling nature authors Gary Nabhan, Doug Tallamy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Emma Marris in a special virtual series throughout the summer.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of a book of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments, which was named a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in non-fiction, and four award-winning poetry collections, most recently, Oceanic (2018). Awards for her writing include fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Council, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for poetry, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her writing has appeared in NYTimes Magazine, ESPN, and Best American Poetry. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. Join Aimee on Thursday, July 22nd at 6:00 pm for a 45-minute reading and presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A.
Nature Authors: From NYT to BTA is sponsored by Jim and Kally Reynolds with special thanks to the Gold Canyon Arts Council.
Zoom link is sent in a confirmation email following purchase.
Register here: https://www.btarboretum.org/nature-authors-from-nyt-to-bta

The New York City Poetry Festival presents Deborah Landau
2021-07-25 15:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Colonels Row, Hay Rd, Brooklyn, NY, 11231, United States
The New York City Poetry Festival presents Deborah Landau for a headliner reading on July 25 from 3:30 to 4 p.m. on Governors Island.
From the organizers:
Join us in celebrating 10 years of uniting New York City’s vast and diverse poetry community!
Every year on the last weekend in July, the New York City Poetry Festival unites the vast and diverse New York City poetry community on the idyllic summer paradise of Governors Island. The festival invites poetry organizations and collectives of all shapes and sizes to bring their unique formats, aesthetics, and personalities to the festival grounds, which are ringed with a collection of beautiful Victorian houses and tucked beneath the wide, green canopies of dozens of century old trees.
Fostering an approachable, engaging, diverse, progressive, lively, and culturally prominent literary community lies at the core of the festival’s mission. Poets bring to light issues of vital importance; they create avenues of intellect, introspection, political awareness, and artistic communication for anyone to enjoy. The purpose of the New York City Poetry Festival is to liberate New York’s poets and their work from the dark corners of bars, bookstores, and universities and to bring together as many poets as possible, in the bright light of day, to meet, read, teach, learn, listen, perform, and collaborate in the festival’s very own poetry village.
By uniting the largest community of poets in the country and offering a unique setting for literary activity, the New York City Poetry Festival electrifies arts and literature and brings poetry to new light in the public eye.
The 10th Annual New York City Poetry Festival will feature more poets than ever before, including our headliners: Terrance Hayes, Deborah Landau, Ariana Reines, and more! We are now accepting sponsor, vendor, art installation, and volunteer applications.
Become a PSNY Member today for free access to our VIP tent at the festival! You can learn about our different membership levels here.
For more details about the 2021 New York City Poetry Festival, visit newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com.
Deborah Landau is the author of four collections of poetry: Soft Targets (winner of the 2019 Believer Book Award), The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her other awards include a Jacob K Javits Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and included on “Best of 2015” lists by The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. A Spanish edition was published by Valparaiso Edicíones in 2017. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, and The Best American Poetry, and included in anthologies such as Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Not for Mothers Only, The Best American Erotic Poems, and Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English. She is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-10th-annual-new-york-city-poetry-festival-tickets-155862074661

Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present Maggie Smith with Dana Levin
2021-07-27 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present Maggie Smith in conversation with Dana Levin on Facebook Live on July 27 at 5:30 p.m. (central).
From the organizers:
Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center welcome award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, Maggie Smith, who will discuss and read from her new collection Goldenrod, on our Facebook Live Page at 5:30pm CT on July 27. Smith will be in conversation with award winning St. Louis poet Dana Levin. Join us on our Facebook Live Page and order a SIGNED copy of Goldenrod from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores.
About our Speakers
Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.
Dana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Previous books include In the Surgical Theatre, Wedding Day, and Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives. www.danalevinpoet.com
All you need to do to participate is log in to your personal Facebook account, go to Left Bank Books’ Facebook Live Page, and wait for the livestream to begin on the page (you may need to refresh the page periodically until the stream begins). You may also watch the simulcast on Left Bank’s YouTube channel.
For more information: https://www.left-bank.com/event/maggie-smith-goldenrod

Poetry Battles presents Jericho Brown
2021-07-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Poetry Battles presents an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition, on July 29 at 7 p.m. EDT via Instagram Live.
From the organizers:
We couldn’t be more excited for this week’s episode of “Poetry Battles Live!” We have the honor of sitting down with the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet, professor, and scholar Dr. @jerichobrown1. Bring your questions, your notebook/pen, and your excitement because this is going to be a treat you definitely don’t want to miss. We hope to see you there! 😊
Hosted by our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Kahari (@therebelpoet_).
For more information: https://www.instagram.com/poetrybattles/

The Frost Place presents Formalist Track: Freedom and Form, a Poetry Seminar directed by Patrick Donnelly
2021-08-01 12:00 - 2021-08-06 12:00 (America/New_York)
The Frost Place presents Formalist Track: Freedom and Form, a 2021 Poetry Seminar directed by Patrick Donnelly, from August 1-6, 2021 online via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Now Accepting Applications!
As always, you’ll have access to instruction from our world-class faculty, focused attention on your work, and the vital exchanges of peers in workshop. Our goal is to support, refresh, and inspire you.

Spend five days with a select community of poets exploring your artistic work in the context of a rich variety of poetry ancestors and contemporaries.
Discover how poetic lineages and community can provide models, provocations and correctives to widen your thinking about your own efforts.
Learn from a distinguished and accomplished faculty how poets choose, imitate, enter into dialogue with, and sometimes argue with the work of our poetic ancestors and contemporaries.

The Seminar schedule features a daily presentation/discussion exploring aspects of craft and technique, an afternoon workshop of participants’ poems or individual, virtual meetings with faculty, and an evening reading, some by faculty poets and others featuring participants
Formalist Track: Freedom and Form
Form is enjoying a robust comeback, with poets writing now not just in received forms like sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, ghazals, haiku, tanka (as well as free verse, itself a form), but also in a broad array of exciting new forms including golden shovels, bops, duplexes, syncopated sonnets, and more.
At the Poetry Seminar, we’re interested in form as a way to connect contemporary poets with the most ancient tools of our art, and especially with form’s flexibility to be adapted in ways that only the future can imagine. Learn more about the Formalist Track.
The opportunity to discuss a full-length manuscript is also available.
Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. The translations in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013) were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award, and a 2019 residency at the Gloucester Writers Center. Donnelly was 2015 – 2017 poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.
Register here: https://frostplace.org/index.php/programs/poetry-seminar/

The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar
2021-08-02 12:00 - 2021-08-06 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop, August 2-6, with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar
From the organizers:
If you want to write images like that “glint of light on broken glass”—precise, clear, and immediately arresting—please join Ellen Bass and Frank X. Gaspar at the online The Life of Poetry Workshop. We’ll craft poems that combine compelling detail with complex thought to create work that is more powerful, authentic, courageous and memorable than you’ve ever written before.
We will take risks, summoning the courage to go over, under or around the censors that silence 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 explore 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.

Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading
2021-08-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading, a virtual poetry reading, on August 2 at 7 p.m. EDT. Featured guests include Michael Klein, Kirun Kapur, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Kiki Petrosino, Adrienne Su, and Tyree Daye, with editor Kim Roberts.
From the organizers:
Poets from Maine to Florida, featured on the 2021 Route 1 Reads:Poetry list, participate in a virtual poetry reading.
Told in ancient caves around campfires, and recited from bunting-draped, white marble rostrums, Poetry is an ancient and evocative form of expression celebrated in every language and culture around the globe. Evolving into different types and genres, Poetry uses form and interpretation to elicit a response from the reader. Tales of heroism, songs of heartache, all have rhyme, meter, and other stylistic elements unique to their form of expression. Epic to elegy, song to Psalm, Poetry endures and inspires whether written introspectively in a journal, or slammed on a stage.

The Poetry selections on the 2021 Route 1 Reads reading list represent the great Poetry traditions from each of our states. History, homage, reflection, and revolution are distilled down to stanzas, couplets, lines, words.
Whether readers are at home or on the road this summer, we hope that this list of must-read books will keep everyone turning pages until Labor Day. The full list of featured books is listed here, in geographical order from North to South: Route1Reads.
About Route 1 Reads
Connecting the 2,369 miles of U.S. Route 1 from Ft. Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, the Route 1 Reads initiative is a partnership between 16 affiliate Centers for the Book to promote books that illuminate important aspects of their states or commonwealths for readers travelling this meandering highway. The initiative was launched at the 2015 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
About the Event
The East Coast Centers for the Book are pleased to present a poetry reading highlighting each state selection for the 2021 Route 1 Reads list. Poets will participate live on Zoom, or in pre-recorded readings to be shown at the event. A full list of participating poets will be available soon. Please check back for updates!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-route-1-reads-poetry-reading-tickets-162721116239

Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown
2021-08-03 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown on August 3 at 5:30 p.m. Central time via Crowdcast.
From the organizers:
In her first book of new poems in twelve years, acclaimed poet Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Deftly connecting history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives—a trademark of the writer the Boston Globe has called “perhaps the best public poet we have”—and alternating poignant meditations on mortality with acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse (Norton) takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul. Join us as we celebrate the launch of this remarkable new book by one of the greatest poets of the era. Rita Dove will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
Free to attend, registration required. We hope to “see” you there!
About the Authors:
Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include 2010’s Sonata Mulattica and the National Book Award–shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974–2004. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, an NAACP Image Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; in 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon, 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. His previous books Please (New Issues, 2008) and The New Testament (Copper Canyon, 2014), won the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award respectively; in addition to the Pulitzer, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Brown’s poems have appeared in Fence, jubilat, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and many other places, including several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rita-dove

Book Passage presents Anthony Veasna So's AFTERPARTIES: A Tribute Panel
2021-08-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Book Passage presents Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties: A Tribute Panel, an online event featuring panelists Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and Mira Jacob, on August 7 at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
From the organizers:
Sat., August 7, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online
Panelists include: Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and Mira Jacob
Moderated by Alex Torres
Excerpt of Afterparties read by Anthony Veasna So’s sister, Samantha So Lamb
This event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event on the event webpage, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.
A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.
The stories in Afterparties, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail, are like beams of wry, affectionate light, falling from different directions on a complicated, struggling, beloved American community” (George Saunders).
Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton, California, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Alex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed, The Millions, Poets & Writers Magazine, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Hobart, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco, he is currently working on a collection of essays and a collection of short stories.
Bryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree, NBCC Award Finalist, and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book, Lot, which was also a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and BuzzFeed, among other publications. His bestselling debut novel Memorial was a GMA Book Club pick, a New York Times Notable pick, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year, and a finalist for the NBCC Fiction Prize. He lives in Houston.
For more information: https://www.bookpassage.com/AnthonyVeasnaSo

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry" with Paisley Rekdal
2021-08-12 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Paisley Rekdal on Aug. 12 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry,” with Paisley Rekdal.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

Brooklyn Poets presents Craft Lab: Nonsense and Senselessness with Jericho Brown
2021-08-15 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Brooklyn Poets presents Nonsense and Senselessness, a Craft Lab with Jericho Brown, on August 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT online via Zoom.
From the organizers:
Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove says that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Yet many readers still struggle to understand the meanings of poems. In this craft lab, we’ll dive into what’s going on when we read a poem and think, “That doesn’t make sense.” Looking at examples of sense and nonsense in the work of several poets, we’ll explore the different techniques poets use to balance meaning and mystery, and we’ll generate new work together through a set of unconventional exercises, drawing on the themes of sense and nonsense, engendering new ideas about writing. As there is a profound relationship between reading poetry and writing it, together we’ll read, discuss, and even recite the work of several poets whose examples might lead us to a further honing of our craft.
All participants will have access to a cloud recording of the craft lab for one month afterward.
Craft Lab Details

Professor: Jericho Brown
Date: Sunday, August 15
Time: 4–7 PM (EDT)
Location: online via Zoom
Cost: $125
Earlybird discount: $15 off through SUN, AUGUST 8
Deadline for financial aid: FRI, AUGUST 13

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed, the Nation, New York Times, New Yorker, New Republic, Time, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of the Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
Register here: https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/craft-labs/nonsense-and-senselessness/

North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson
2021-08-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson, on August 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
What happens when a southern poet and historian meet? This event features the 2021 North Carolina Humanities selected Route 1 Reads poet Tyree Daye and UNC Greensboro professor Dr. Torren Gatson. They will explore how Tyree’s new work Cardinal, a poetic “Green Book,” connects to the themes of travel, migration ideas of home, and sense of belonging in the context of American history. This event will be moderated by Executive Director of Action Greensboro and NC Humanities Board Trustee Cecelia Thompson.
The event will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This conversation is part of North Carolina Humanities Route 1 Reads Program. Route 1 Reads is a road trip-inspired reading list that annually explores various genres and is compiled by the network of 16 affiliate Centers for the Book in the Library of Congress located along Route 1. North Carolina Humanities Center for the Book is an affiliate of the National Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uWdPcELeQ9-ck__mKkeGyw

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry" with Victoria Chang
2021-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “A Belief in Angels: Joy in Poetry,” a virtual lecture by Victoria Chang on Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
What is a poem of joy? Or a line of poetry that evokes joy? In this talk, we’ll think through what joy means, what a poem of joy might look like, and how a poem of joy might affect its readers. In the process, we’ll look at poems by various poets such as Frank O’Hara, Robert Hass, Li-Young Lee, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Chang/register

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian
2021-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Hudson Valley Writers Center presents An Evening of Prose with Paisley Rekdal & Carol Edgarian on August 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. EDT via Zoom.
From the organizers:
This reading will take place via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed at the time of registration and again on the day of the reading. (Please check spam / promotions folder for this email and email admin@writerscenter.org with any questions.)
Donations toward the readers’ honoraria are greatly appreciated.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. was published by University of Georgia Press in 2017. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. She was the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.
Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’ Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Carol Edgarian is an award-winning novelist, essayist, teacher, and editor. Her novels include the newly-released Vera, the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement, and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, hailed by The Washington Post as a book “whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today.” Rise the Euphrates was awarded the ANC Freedom Prize, and a twentieth-anniversary revised edition of the novel was released to mark the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Carol’s articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many other places, and she coedited The Writer’s life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and schools on topics such as “Why Stories Matter,” “The Art of Fiction” and publishing today.
In 2003 Carol and her husband, Tom Jenks, founded the nonprofit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, essays, and art. Dedicated to encouraging reading without paywalls, and to supporting writers by paying them fairly for their work, Narrative publishes hundreds of artists each year and is widely read across generations, in schools, and around the globe. Its entire digital library of thousands of works of literature by celebrated authors and by the best emerging writers is available for free. Six years ago, Carol launched Narrative in the Schools, programs that augment Narrative’s library of literature with free video tutorials, lesson plans, a writing contest for high schoolers, and other essential tools for teachers and students in underserved communities around the world. She is a proud mentor to some amazing young writers. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, to first-generation American parents, Carol is a graduate of Phillips Andover and Stanford University.
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/rekdaledgarian/

Ruth Stone House presents Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat with Arisa White and Bianca Stone
2021-08-19 12:00 - 2021-08-23 12:00 (America/New_York) | Blueberry Hill Inn, 1245 Goshen Ripton Road, Goshen, VT, 05733, United States
The Ruth Stone House presents Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat with instructors Arisa White and Bianca Stone from August 19-23, hosted at the Blueberry Hill Inn.
From the organizers:

Next Galaxy Retreat will be 4 full days of rigorous, generative workshop programming limited to ten students in each class with our talented faculty, Arisa White and Bianca Stone (editor of The Essential Ruth Stone, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020). Workshops will involve craft discussion, group writing prompts, and supportive, critical discussion of each attendee’s work. Each day is scheduled to include ample time to write and enjoy the secluded Blueberry Hill Inn in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
You can learn more about the Inn itself, the instructors, the schedule (including additional activities), pricing and how to apply at the link below.
Register here: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/next-galaxy

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself" with Brenda Shaughnessy
2021-08-20 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself,” a virtual lecture by Brenda Shaughnessy on Aug. 20 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
You’ve immersed in flow, process, form, revision, workshop, submissions, and now—what will/could all that creative and administrative energy add up to? What are the hallmarks, conventions, and pitfalls of the debut collection? How can a book “sound like” its author? This talk explores the elements of and issues around the debut poetry collection, both in contemporary literary history and in current publishing practices—and is meant to inform, inspire, and challenge those poets working on their first manuscripts.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

The San Diego Union Tribune presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
2021-08-21 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The San Diego Union Tribune, August 21 at 10 AM – 5 PM PDT, presents Festival of Books feat. Arthur Sze
From the organizers:
The single-day virtual festival brings together book lovers of all ages, independent book sellers, authors, poets, illustrators and local businesses to celebrate the written word. Enjoy the event virtually — or in person at a location yet to be announced.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-san-diego-union-tribune-5th-annual-festival-of-books-tickets-144685631619

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents "The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson" with Jericho Brown
2021-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” a virtual lecture by Jericho Brown on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
Join us for “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson,” with Jericho Brown.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/BLWC_Rekdal/register

AAWW x Cosmos Book Club: Celebrating AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen
2021-08-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Cosmos Book Club will celebrate Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, with Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen, on August 23 at 8 p.m. EDT.
From the organizers:
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Anthony Veasna So’s debut collection Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family. Dive into Anthony’s vibrant collection of stories centering Cambodian-American life alongside profound insights into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.

Cosmos Book Club and Asian American Writers’ Workshop have partnered together to host a celebration of Anthony’s life and the release of his book, Afterparties. Joining us will be Monica Sok and Danny Thanh Nguyen.
Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton, California, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California. For more about Monica, visit http://www.monicasok.com/about.
Danny Thanh Nguyen (they/he/she equally) has published stories and personal essays in The Offing, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have been awarded fellowships and grants from Ragdale Foundation, Lambda Literary, Kundiman, and Djerassi Artist Program. Her column on BDSM/fetish culture appears in the international social network platform Recon and is translated into five languages. For more information about Danny, you can find them found across social media as @engrishlessons and visit https://www.lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/danny-thanh-nguyen/.
Cosmos Book Club is a monthly gathering of self-identifying women of Asian descent to read, discuss, and support Asian diaspora literature by women & nonbinary authors. In 2021, we hosted K-Ming Chang and C. Pam Zhang. In 2020, we hosted authors Cathy Park Hong, Mary H.K. Choi, and Laila Lalami. In the past, we’ve hosted authors such as Jia Tolentino, Lisa Ko and Crystal Hana Kim at our book clubs before. Read about us in the New York Times and Guardian! Please sign up for our email newsletters for updates and to RSVP for future events!
The Asian American American Writers’ Workshop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting Asian diasporic literature and storytelling. You can sign up for newsletter, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit us at aaww.org.
Register here: https://aaww.org/curation/aaww-x-cosmos-book-club-celebrating-afterparties-by-anthony-veasna-so/
