Copper Canyon Press

John Freeman, Victoria Chang, Peter Balakian, and Victoria Redel on “Redemption, Refuge, and Release”
2022-11-19 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Miami Dade College, Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL, 33132
Join John Freeman, Victoria Chang, Peter Balakian, and Jennifer Redel for a panel discussion of “Redemption, Refuge, and Release,” at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday November 19th at 12 PM ET.
From the Organizers:
Whether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables, the COVID-19 pandemic, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide, James Baldwin in France, or Arshile Gorky in New York City, Peter Balakian‘s layered, elliptical language, wired phrases, and shifting tempos in No Sign engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas,” powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? John Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love in Wind, Trees. And drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge to rewrite Eden, the poems in Victoria Redel‘s Paradise interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and imagined, asking: What if what we fell from was never, actually, grace?

An EVening of Poetry with Leila Chatti (Deluge) and Mónica Gomery (Might Kindred)
2022-11-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CT
A Virtual Reading with Leila Chatti and Mónica Gomery will read with Brookline Brooksmith, an independent bookstore in New England. The event will be held on Zoom and the authors’ books will be available for purchase.
Leila Chatti, a Tunisian-American dual citizen, has lived in the United States, Tunisia, and Southern France. She is the author of the debut full-length collection Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize, the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her poems have received prizes from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize, among others, and appear in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Rumpus, Best New Poets (2015 & 2017), and other journals and anthologies. She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College.
Mónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred, winner of the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, judged by Kwame Dawes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Hilda Raz. A Venezuelan-American Jewish poet, her work engages with queerness, loss, diaspora, theology, and cultivating courageous hearts. She has been a nominee for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and is the winner of Pallette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She is a graduate of the Tin House Winter Workshop. Her poems appear most recently in the Iowa Review, Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, and Poet Lore. She is also the author of Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018) and Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Read more at www.monicagomerywriting.com
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Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way To Heaven with Victoria Chang
2022-11-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CT
Victoria Chang will discuss The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Nightboat Books) with poet Brian Teare for a book launch on Zoom. In the book, Teare engages with the work and writings of American painter Agnes Martin.

From the organizers:
We hope you will join us on Zoom on 11/30 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for the book launch of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven by Brian Teare, joined by Victoria Chang! RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfu-urDMqHND8xQcJNpJTRl1rVKQ4Ieml

Natalie Shapero Reading at Heavy Manners Library
2022-12-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Heavy Manners Library, 1200 North Alvarado Street,, Los Angeles,, CA, 90026
Join Heavy Manners Library for a night of poetry and music featuring poets Natalie Shapero and Meg Shevenock, and musician Calvin Lee Reeder. The event will be held on Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 7pm PST at Heavy Manners Library in Los Angeles.
From the organizers:
Natalie Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. She teaches at UC Irvine.
Meg Shevenock’s debut poetry collection, The Miraculous, Sometimes, won the 2019 Marystina Santiestevan first book prize, judged by Bob Hicok for Conduit Books & Ephemera. Meg’s poems and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Lana Turner, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Smartish Pace, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Kenyon Review blog. She is a 2021 recipient of a writer’s grant from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner in Poetry. Meg is frequently “the reader” and researcher for visual artist Ann Hamilton. She teaches writing to gifted youth.
Calvin Lee Reeder is a filmmaker and musician originally from Seattle but has been marooned in Los Angeles for over a decade. His films have won awards at Sundance, AFI, and The Sarasota Film Festival. His music has done nothing like that. However, he did waste a good part of his youth touring extensively with art punk bands The Intelligence (In the Red Records) and Popular Shapes (On/On switch). As a solo act, he plays off-kilter folk songs that usually start in A minor- heck, they usually end there, too.

For more work by the performers, visit…
Meg Shevenock
https://www.megshevenock.com/book

Natalie Shapero
https://natalieshapero.com/

John Freeman and Ha Jin at Harvard Bookstore
2022-12-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02138
John Freeman and Ha Jin will read at Harvard Bookstore on Tuesday December 13th at 7 PM ET.
From the organizers:
Harvard Book Store welcomes JOHN FREEMAN—author and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf—and award-winning author HA JIN for an evening of poetry and eggnog, featuring readings from Wind, Trees and The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po).
Harvard Book Store is excited to be back to in-person programming. To ensure the safety and comfort of everyone in attendance, the following Covid-19 safety protocols will be in place at all of our Harvard Book Store events until further notice:

Face coverings are required of all staff and attendees when inside the store. Masks must snugly cover nose and mouth.

About Wind, Trees
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
About The Banished Immortal
In his own time (701–762), Li Bai’s poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai’s verses are still taught to China’s schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language.
With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet’s life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet’s later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China’s history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend.
The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.

Comet of Stillness: Taught By Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder
2023-01-22 16:00 - 2023-02-19 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CT
Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will be teaching a class called Comet of Stillness: A five-week short course on the Poetry of W.S. Merwin. The course will meet on Sundays from January 22 – February 19, 2023.
Early Bird Tuition (before January 12, 2023): $270.
Standard Tuition (After January 12, 2023): $300.
Financial Aid is available
From the organizers:
W.S. Merwin’s poetry was visionary, ecological, anti-war, and humanist, and exhibits a clarity and strangeness that continues to exert a profound influence on contemporary American poetry. The goal of these five sessions is to dive deeply into this extraordinary poet and his body of work. Across five sessions, poets Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will facilitate close-readings of key poems, and will situate the poems, and the poet, in their historical contexts. The course will explore Merwin’s formal innovations, his thematic concerns, and his development as a poet from his earliest work to his final poems. Chang and Zapruder will introduce, and talk with, key figures from his literary life, including Merwin’s long-time editor at Copper Canyon Press, Michael Wiegers.

In addition to course meetings, Chang and Zapruder will provide additional reading materials. Each session will begin with an hour of discussion, including background and close readings, followed by a ten-minute break. The session will then reconvene for a second hour in which Chang and Zapruder will discuss thoughts from the chat, answer questions, and offer further insights. Each session will end with an optional poetry writing prompt based on Merwin’s poetry.

Dates/Times: Sundays, January 22 – February 19, 2023 4:00-6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom

Early Bird Tuition (before January 12, 2023): $270.
Standard Tuition (After January 12, 2023): $300.
Financial aid is available. Please contact us if needed.

What to Expect:
Five, two-hour weekly sessions online with assigned reading of poems and supplemental material.
In the first sixty or seventy minutes of each session, Victoria Chang and Mathew Zapruder will explore and supply background on the previously assigned poems.
In the second hour, we will reconvene in our large group for conversation and questions.
Participant questions and comments may be addressed using Vimeo’s chat feature during the second hour, though questions can be posted in the chat throughout the session.
Optional small (8-10 person) discussion groups will be available to those with the energy and interest after the formal session is over.
Optional writing prompts based on Merwin’s poems will be provided.
Each participant will be given a seat on a dedicated SLACK channel, where writing prompt responses and extracurricular discussion can occur.
This course will be presented live online on the Vimeo platform.
These sessions will be recorded, and will be available for later viewing by registered participants for 30 days following the final session.
TEXT:
For this course, our text will be The Essential W.S. Merwin; handouts for each session will be posted online.
Participants who don’t own the text are asked to purchase and explore it, if possible, before January 22.
The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
THE SHORT COURSE PLAN:
Session 1 (Jan. 22): Introduction and early forms
Session 2 (Jan. 29): The Lice: war and the environment
Session 3 (Feb 5): Middle Period: intellect, resistance, and formal innovation
Session 4 (Feb. 12): The Vixen: time and ghosts
Session 5 (Feb 19): Late poems and Merwin’s poetic legacy
Online, and year-round, The Writers’ Annex is composed of short courses, seminars, workshops, and more. Our vision is to bring the creative insight and experience of our staff poets and prose writers to our community in all seasons, not just in the summertime, and not just here in our Valley. Our online offerings will address such topics as eco-poetics, translation, and generative sessions. Some will be one or two days, some will be weekend intensives, and some will meet weekly for a month or two. In addition, we hope these offerings will help offset the tremendous expenses we incur each summer bringing excellent writers of poetry and prose to the Valley regardless of their ability to pay.

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry with Naomi Shihab Nye, Steve Spencer, and Joseph Bednarik
2023-01-31 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | CT
Online event celebrating the 20th anniversary of Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fAKJbjneRvuW9WjB6-UrSQ

The Paris Review and the Morgan Library & Museum Present: A Reading and Conversation with Victoria Chang, C. S. Giscombe, Timmy Straw, and Srikanth Reddy
2023-02-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Morgan’s Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY, 10016, United States
From the organizers:
“Since 1953, The Paris Review has shaped the canon of contemporary poetry, publishing exciting new voices alongside household names. Contributors Victoria Chang, C. S. Giscombe, and Timmy Straw will be joined at the Morgan Library & Museum by the Review’s new poetry editor, Srikanth Reddy, to discuss their poems in the magazine’s new Winter issue, no. 242, as well as some of their favorite poems in the Review’s seventy-year-old archive—the first fifty years of which are housed at the Morgan.
By entering the museum, you agree to our updated Visitor Guidelines and Policies. Masks are required for attending all public programs.”
Register here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/new-poetry-and-paris-review-victoria-chang-cs-giscombe-timmy-straw-and-srikanth-reddy
General admission tickets cost $20. Morgan members and subscribers to The Paris Review pay $15. Students with a valid school ID get in FREE.

Zell Visiting Writers Series: Poet Alberto Ríos Reading and Q&A
2023-02-16 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, 25 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States
From the organizers:
“The Zell Visiting Writers Series presents Alberto Ríos, Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is the author of twelve books and chapbooks of poetry, including The Theater of Night—winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award—three collections of short stories, and a memoir about growing up on the border, Capirotada.
All events will be held in a hybrid format (i.e., both in person and over Zoom). Zoom attendees may login to all Zell Visiting Writers Series events via the usual link (with no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters All events will include live, automatic captioning for Zoom attendees.
ZVWS events are free and open to the public. For additional information, questions, or accommodations needs, please contact Program Coordinator Michaela Kotziers at kotziers@umich.edu.”

Harry Ransom Center presents Victoria Chang: Author Reading and Book Signing
2023-02-16 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, TX, 78712, United States
Harry Ransom Center presents Victoria Chang: Author Reading and Book Signing, 6 PM CST
From the organizers:
Poet, writer, and editor Victoria Chang celebrates her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything, published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, with this reading and a book signing at the Ransom Center. The book was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by The New Yorker and The Guardian. In the book, Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas,” each poem is shaped by pattern and count.
This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name—with reverence, economy, and whimsy—the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.
More information will appear here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/victoria-chang-author-reading-and-book-signing-tickets-510908449927?fbclid=IwAR30oDL9yim6y6qFQ7IGanjVQq_4wPGQ7QztFazKljf7FBA2V66QYf4aIRY

New Dominion Bookshop presents a Reading with Fernando Valverde and Wajahat Ali
2023-02-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | New Dominion Bookshop, 404 East Main St, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us for a reading with poet Fernando Valverde (America) and writer Wajahat Ali (Go Back to Where You Came From). This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.”

Michael Wiegers Hosts Reading and Q&A with Shangyang Fang
2023-02-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Royal Block, 222 Main Street, Waitsburg, WA, 99361, United States
On February 18th at 6:30pm, Michael Wiegers, Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press, will host a reading and Q&A with Shangyang Fang at The Royal Block Hotel. Fang will read from his collection “Burying the Mountain.”
This event is FREE and open to the public.

John Freeman Reading & Conversation with Su Hwang & Michael Kleber-Diggs
2023-03-06 07:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
From the Organizers:
“Please join us on Monday, March 6th at 7:00pm for a free, in-person, masked event at Moon Palace Books to welcome poet, essayist, editor, and literary critic John Freeman, who will be reading from his recent third poetry collection, WIND, TREES, published with Copper Canyon Press in October 2022.
He will be joined by Twin Cities-based poets Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs for a reading and conversation about poetry and literary activism. There will also be time for audience Q&A with John Freeman.
Formerly the Executive Editor of Literary Hub, John Freeman co-edited with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith the anthology THERE’S A REVOLUTION OUTSIDE, MY LOVE, which included essays by Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs, following the murder of George Floyd.”
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store. Social Distancing is encouraged.**

Reading with John Freeman and Stuart Dybek at Volumes Bookstore
2023-03-07 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Volumes Bookstore, 900 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us at Volumes Bookstore on March 7th as we welcome back poet, critic, and writer John Freeman to read from his new collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press, Wind, Trees. John will be joined in conversation with one of Chicago’s most beloved writers/poets/educators, Stuart Dybek.”

Victoria Chang at Pacific Lutheran University Visiting Writers Series
2023-03-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC, Anderson University Center, Room #100, Tacoma, WA, 98447, United States
Pacific Lutheran University’s 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series will host poet Victoria Chang at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Room #100. This live reading is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.

Orion Magazine Presents: A Reading with John Freeman
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, OH, 44120, United States
From the organizers:
“Orion Magazine contributing writer, John Freeman, author, poet, executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and founder of the literary journal Freeman’s will be making a stop in Cleveland on his tour of independent books stores.
Join us at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes on Wednesday, March 8th at 7 pm for a refreshing and invigorating conversation between John Freeman and Literary Cleveland’s executive director, Matt Weinkam. Books will be available at the event courtesy of Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry or stop by the store to pick up a copy of Freeman’s poetry collection, Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon 2022), Tales of Two Planets, a collection of essays focusing on inequality and the climate crisis, and the recent Freeman’s anthology, Animals. Mac’s Backs will be donating a portion of profits to the Nature Center. This event is sponsored by Orion Magazine in partnership with the Nature Center. This is a free public program and donations to the Nature Center are welcome. Registration is required.”
Register here: https://shakerlakes.doubleknot.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-matt-weinkam/2964999

Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Celebration at Elliott Bay Book Company
2023-03-11 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Poetry is vital to language and living. Based in Port Townsend, Washington, Copper Canyon Press is a nationally recognized publisher dedicated to advancing the art, practice, and reading of poetry from around the world. 2023 marks a half century of its efforts in doing so—to celebrate this 50th anniversary, Copper Canyon will host a reading of poets who stand at the crossroads of poetry’s past and future. Coinciding with the AWP conference in Seattle, this reading takes advantage of a rare consortium of extraordinary poets, many of whom are convening for the first time since the pandemic, and all of whom will be presenting new or recent work.
Deborah Landau’s newest collection of poems, Skeletons, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Landau is the author of four other poetry collections: Soft Targets—winner of the Believer Book Award—The Uses of the Body, The Last Usable Hour, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and a Spanish edition of the collection, Los Usos Del Cuerpo, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. Landau is a professor at New York University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.
Dana Levin’s latest collection of poems, Now Do You Know Where You Are, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022, and was named a New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2022.” Levin is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently Banana Palace (2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Levin’s fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives.
Jaswinder Bolina’s newest collection of poems, English as a Second Language and Other Poems, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2023. His previous books include his debut essay collection Of Color and three other full-length poetry collections, The 44th of July (Omnidawn 2019), Phantom Camera (New Issues Press 2013, winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry), and Carrier Wave (CLP 2007, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry). His essays have been featured at the Washington Post, Paris Review, Shenandoah, The Believer, the Poetry Foundation, and others. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Miami.
Marianne Boruch’s latest poetry collection, Bestiary Dark, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Her ten previous collections include Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (2016), Cadaver, Speak (2014), The Book of Hours (2011), a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, and The Anti-Grief (2019). She has also published a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana, 2011) and three books of essays–In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005) and in the Michigan Poets on Poetry series, Poetry’s Old Air (1995) and The Little Death of Self (2016). Her works have appeared in numerous places, including The New Yorker and The Best American Poetry, and has received Pushcart Prizes. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, she has had residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, the American Academy in Rome, Djerassi, the Anderson Center, and two national parks, Denali and Isle Royale. A 2019 Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra, Australia, and a 2012 Fulbright Professor at the University of Edinburgh, she founded Purdue University’s MFA in 1987. Having taught at Purdue for over three decades, Boruch has gone emeritus, though she continues on faculty (since 1988) in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College. She and her husband, David Dunlap, live in West Lafayette, Indiana where they raised their son.
Dean Rader’s newest book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. His previous book, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (2017), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Rader is also the author of Works & Days, which won the 2010 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bush Memorial Prize, and won the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Often engaging in collaborative projects, Rader is the co-author of a book of collaborative sonnets entitled Suture with the poet Simone Muench, and he co-edited Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence with Brian Clements and Alexandra Teague.
Randall Mann’s newest book, Deal: New and Selected Poems, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Mann is the author of five previous books of poetry: Complaint of the Garden, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Straight Razor, Proprietary, and A Better Life. Recipient of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize awarded by Poetry magazine, Mann is also author of The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, a book of literary criticism. Three-time finalists for the Lambda Literary Award, Mann’s poetry collections have been shortlisted for the California Book Award and Northern California Book Award, and longlisted for the Golden Poppy Awards’ Martin Cruz Diversity and Inclusion Award.
Taneum Bambrick’s latest collection of poems, Intimacies, Received, was published by Copper Canyon Press in fall 2022. Bambrick is also the author of Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (APR 2019). Her chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her essay, “Sturgeon,” was named a notable essay of 2019. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Nation, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, PEN, and elsewhere. She has received a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Environmental Writers’ Conferences. A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, and Co-Book Reviews Editor for Pleiades Magazine.
Natalie Eilbert’s newest collection of poems, Overland, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2023. Eilbert is the author of two previous poetry collections, Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018), winner of the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of the prize-winning chapbooks And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (2014) and Conversations with the Stone Wife (2014). Her works engage with systemic power imbalances, social and environmental justice, and climate change, and a selection of her poems was granted the 2021 George Bogin Memorial Award. Founding editor of The Atlas Review, she is the recipient of a 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She lives in Wisconsin where she contributes to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA TODAY as a local government and mental health reporter.
Cate Marvin’s latest collection of poems, Event Horizon, was published by Copper Canyon Press in spring 2022. Her first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, for which she received a Whiting Award, was published by Sarabande in 2007. Her third book of poems, Oracle, published by W.W. Norton & Co., was named one of the best poetry books of 2015 by The New York Times. Marvin teaches poetry writing in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Scarborough, Maine.

Reading and Conversation with John Freeman and Wil Weitzel
2023-03-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Avenue, New York, 11217
From the organizers:
“The Center for Fiction is pleased to welcome John Freeman and our Emerging Writer Fellowship alum, Wil Weitzel, for the launch of Nights from This Galaxy, Weitzel’s debut set of deep, lush short stories that are full of wonder; the collection’s tales range from a couple that cares for a starving lion to a boy held captive by a dangerous old man who hunts dogs for sport. The literary duo will explore the craft of fiction, the work’s fierce characters, and our shared human fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.”
Register here: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story-wil-weitzel-on-nights-from-this-galaxy-with-john-freeman/

Austin Peay State University Presents an Evening with Victoria Chang
2023-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Heydel Hall at Austin Peay State University, 730 Joseph St (Jackson Alley), Clarksville, TN, 37040, United States
From the organizers:
“The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Victoria Chang on March 22, from 7:00 pm–9:00 pm in Heydel Hall, located inside the APSU Art + Design building.
As funded by the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence, the evening will feature Chang in a live reading, followed by a public Question & Answer session and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments served. Copies of her books will be available for purchase.”

Poetry Foundation Presents Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Reading with Chris Abani, Tishani Doshi, Alison C. Rollins, Arthur Sze, and Javier Zamora
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us for the Chicago celebration of Copper Canyon Press’s 50th Anniversary with readings by Copper Canyon authors Chris Abani, Tishani Doshi, Alison C. Rollins, Arthur Sze, and Javier Zamora.
This is a hybrid event, which will be offered in-person and via livestream. It will take place onThursday, March 23, 2023, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM.
In-Person Attendance
All guests over the age of two must wear a mask inside the Poetry Foundation building. Guests over the age of five must show proof of vaccination and booster up to the level to which they are eligible for their age group. Guests over the age of 18 must show ID alongside their proof of vaccination. If you cannot meet these requirements, you will not be granted entry to the event. Please note that some performers may choose to perform without a mask. Guests are encouraged to register in advance.
Livestream Attendance
The livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details, please register in advance here.
Poetry Foundation’s events are completely FREE of charge and open to the public. This event will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.”

Natalie Eilbert and Amy Dennis at The Factory Reading Series
2023-03-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2L7, Canada
From the organizers:
“As part of the thirteenth annual VERSeFest poetry festival presents: The Factory Reading Series Lecture Series; two talks/readings by Natalie Eilbert and Amy Dennis, lovingly hosted by Rob McLennan.
This event will take place at Knox Presbyterian Church from 1-2pm EST on March 25th. It will also be streamed free online. Tickets for the in-person event will cost $15 and can be purchased here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/performer/neilbert
Access the full schedule of readers and events here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest”

Albertine Bookstore Presents A Reading with John Freeman, Alex Dimitrov, and Stéphane Bouquet
2023-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Albertine Bookstore, 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10075, United States
From the organizers:
“Join poets Alex Dimitrov, John Freeman, and Stéphane Bouquet for a night of poetry readings of their respective work, Love and Other Poems (Copper Canyon), Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon), and Common Life (trans. by Lindsay Turner, Nightboat). This event will be moderated by Lindsay Turner.
At a moment at which the fabric of everyday social life is increasingly threatened across the globe, Dimitrov, Freeman, and Boquet’s poetry invites us to join a two-way conversation with the world. On one hand, their poetry acknowledges the world’s past and present existence by way of its natural and mineral elements, by way of encounters, sensations and a multitude of unspectacular events. And on the other hand, their poems orient us toward the future, helping us welcome it and question it. It is at this junction of different times that they, as poets, stand as focal points that absorb our world, give it a shape and invite us to ponder: what does it mean to inhabit the world together today?
In English. Free with RSVP.”
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-there-is-left-to-say-stephane-bouquet-alex-dimitrov-john-freeman-tickets-565663955117

Lovecrumbs Readings presents A Night of Poetry featuring Randall Mann
2023-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Lovecrumbs Café, 155 West Port, Edinburgh, EH3 9DP, United Kingdom
From the organizers:
“On Friday March 31st, we’re back for another chilled night of poetry, wine, and cake at Lovecrumbs Café in Edinburgh. Featuring readings from: Randall Mann, Rosa Campbell, Helena Fornells Nadal, Caleb Nichols, and Nasim Rebecca Asl.
Doors open at 6.30pm (ish). Readings starting around 7.00pm (ish).”

Craft Class and Reading with Dana Levin
2023-04-01 11:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | CT
From the organizers:
“Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin. Craft Class will run from 11:00AM-1:00PM EST, followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM.
Serious Play: This April Fool’s Day workshop will focus on play—the heart of any strong writing practice. We’ll start with Keats’ notion of negative capability, discuss associative logic, and start playing! My hope is that participants will come away refreshed and interested in generating new poems with zest. The workshop will end with a round of Japanese Renga.
You must register here in order to receive the Zoom link on Friday, March 31st (the day before the craft class).”

Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents Chris Abani
2023-04-03 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S. Alaska St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Seattle Arts & Lectures will host a reading with Chris Abani at Rainier Arts Center on Monday April 3rd at 7:30pm PST. This reading will also be streamed live online.
To purchase tickets, please visit https://seattle-arts-and-lectures.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S5G00000QmfohUAB

Whitman College Visiting Writers Series: Jane Miller
2023-04-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory, 324 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
From the organizers:
“The Visiting Writers Reading Series brings established and emerging writers to share work with the community. Jane Miller has written twelve books, most recently the poetry collection Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions, and From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry. She has performed her creative work and lectured on literature and the fine arts at universities, colleges, libraries, community centers, and arts venues for over thirty years. Miller is the recipient of a Wallace Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Western States Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award. She served as a professor for many years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona—including a stint as its director—and as a visiting poet at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers in Austin.”

Eckerd College Presents National Poetry Month Reading with Victoria Chang
2023-04-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater, 1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg, FL, 33701, United States
From the organizers:
“In collaboration with the Dalí Museum’s monthly Poetry at the Dalí Series, Eckerd College will welcome Victoria Chang to read from her forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, in the Dalí Museum Will Raymund Theater at 6:30 pm EST April 12.
This event is free to the public—please arrive early to secure your preferred seat. To stream this reading, visit the Dalí Museum’s YouTube channel at the date and time of the event.”

Paisley Rekdal Interviews Dean Rader
2023-04-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CT
From the organizers:
“On Thursday April 20th, join HCN editor Paisley Rekdal for a livestream discussion with poet Dean Rader about his new book Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly from 11:00-12:00pm PDT.
To join the livestream, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9iGMczPac

Victoria Chang at The Los Angeles Festival of Books
2023-04-23 12:30 - 13:20 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
On Sunday April 23rd, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and David L. Ulin will host “Doing the Work: Talking with Chowdhury Prize Recipient Victoria Chang.”
This event will take 12:30–1:20pm PST on The Poetry Stage at the University of Southern California campus. It is free to the general public.

Before the Borderless Release Party with Dean Rader
2023-04-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Firehouse, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, 94123
From the organizers:
“Join Guggenheim award-winning author Dean Rader for a celebration of the release of his most recent book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, in the Firehouse at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. Before the Borderless is a groundbreaking collection of poems featuring Rader’s original poems in conversation with paintings and drawings by the American artist, Cy Twombly—the first time the estate of a major American artist has partnered with a poet and a publisher to produce a book such as this.
The evening features a short reading and discussion by the author followed by a reception of wine and hors d’oeuvres and a book signing. Copies of Before the Borderless are on sale at a discount.”
