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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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/

Ledbury Poetry Festival presents Valzhyna Mort and Victoria Chang, chaired by Neil Astley
2021-07-02 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Ledbury Poetry Festival presents Valzhyna Mort and Victoria Chang, chaired by Neil Astley, on July 2, 2021 from 6 to 7 p.m. (BST); 10 to 11 a.m. (PDT); noon to 1 p.m. (CDT); 1 to 2 p.m. (EDT).
From the organizers:
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, Chang writes of “the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.” These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (“civility,” “language,” “the future,” “Mother’s blue dress”) and the cultural impact of death on the living.
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?
Register here: https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/events/valzhyna-mort-and-victoria-chang/

City of Asylum presents Poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Michael Simms, & Friends
2021-07-01 19:00 (America/New_York)
City of Asylum virtually presents Poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Michael Simms, & Friends on July 1 at 7:00 p.m. (EDT), in partnership with Vox Populi.
From the organizers:
This is a virtual-only event streamed on City of Asylum’s virtual platform, City of Asylum @ Home.
Run time: 90 minutes
Naomi Shihab Nye, the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, and poet Michael Simms gather international poets to share works that navigate themes of identity, displacement, and home in Gaza.
About the poets:
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist, and is theYoung People’s Poet Laureate through the Poetry Foundation, has recently published Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Cast Away, and Voices in the Air – Poems for Listeners.

Michael Simms’smost recent book of poetry is American Ash. As the founding editor of Vox Populi and the founding editor emeritus of Autumn House Press and Coal Hill Review, Simms was recognized in 2011 by the Pennsylvania State Legislature for his contribution to the arts.
Philip Metres is a poet, professor, and author of Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and Sand Opera, among other books, has recently been working with We Are Not Numbers, an organization dedicated to mentoring Palestinian youth from Gaza as they write their stories for English-reading audiences.
Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist, whose chapbook Bayna Bayna In-Between was published in 2021.
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, fiction writer, essayist from Gaza, is the Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza and was a visiting poet/scholar at Harvard in 2019-2020.
Californian Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House Press, 2014), and Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), teaches poetry independently, and is on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program.
Kathy Engel, poet & cultural worker, teaches in Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, recently published The Lost Brother Alphabet, and, in 2007, co-edited with Kamal Boullata, We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her first book of poems, WATER & SALT, won the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize and Letters from the Interior, finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Award.
The son of Arab immigrants, born in Detroit, Hayan Charara is a poet, children’s book author, essayist and editor who lives in Houston.
Nour Al Ghraowi, a Syrian writer, activist, and educator, writes about social justice, and migrant identity with works appearing in Poetry magazine and others.
This program is in proud partnership with Vox Populi, a public sphere for poetry, politics, and nature.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/poets-gaza/register

Skylight Books presents Live on Crowdcast: Heidi Seaborn with Kelli Russell Agodon
2021-07-01 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Skylight Books presents Live on Crowdcast: Heidi Seaborn discusses An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe with Kelli Russell Agodon on July 1, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. (PDT).
From the organizers:
Heidi Seaborn’s astonishing second collection of poems, An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a middle-of-the-night poetic conversation with Marilyn Monroe that explores obsessions, addictions, abuse, objectification, marriage, work, children, childlessness and death. Pressing on the themes of her acclaimed debut, Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}, Seaborn illuminates the biographical and emotional journey of Marilyn as intimacies whispered between two women. These are women who have lived “on the glittering edge” and know that when a third husband “draws a blank page from his typewriter,” it means she needs to go to work in a world dominated by men. In An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn is a resilient, intelligent feminist who understands how to accumulate and wield power in the 1950’s. She is also vulnerable, exploited, and broken in so many ways. We see the speaker discover Marilyn until “then she is everywhere,” a haunting presence that becomes both muse and reflection. Seaborn invites us into the poetic soul of the world’s most famous woman with poems that celebrate and mourn. An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe is a sequined meditation on what keeps us up at night and what fills our dreams.
Heidi Seaborn is the author of [PANK] 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press, 2019) and the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks, as well as chapbooks, Finding My Way Home and Once a Diva. Since Heidi started writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU.
Kelli Russell Agodon’s newest book is Dialogues with Rising Tides from Copper Canyon Press. She is the author of four collections of poems, two books of poetry prompts, and she co-edited the first eBook anthology of women’s poetry, Fire on Her Tongue. Kelli is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer as well as the Co-Director of Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women. She lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S’Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop.
Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)
In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life―including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide―are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.

The Merwin Conservancy presents Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Conversation
2021-06-26 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Merwin Conservancy presents, June 26 at 5 PM PDT, Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Conversation
From the organizers:
Join us on Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 2:00PM Hawai‘i time as accliamed poets and writers Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil come together for readings and conversation about place, poetry, and the wonders of the natural world.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/GRLRossAimee/register

Rain Taxi presents Arthur Sze in conversation with Eric Lorberer
2021-06-17 17:30 (America/Chicago)
Rain Taxi presents, June 17 at 5:30 PM CDT, Arthur Sze in conversation with Eric Lorberer
From the organizers:
Join us for a conversation and reading with Arthur Sze to celebrate his latest publication, a monumental New and Collected Poems called The Glass Constellation (Copper Canyon Press)—a triumph spanning five decades of work that ranges from compressed lyrical poems influenced by classical Chinese poetry to structurally complex sequences that present contemporary experience in all its multiplicity. At this special event, Sze—the poet Rain Taxi chose to inaugurate its event series 23 years ago—will be in conversation with Rain Taxi director and poetry lover Eric Lorberer. Free to attend, registration required. We hope to “see” you there!
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/arthur-sze/register

Arts for Art presents William Parker Tribute to David Budbill
2021-06-13 20:00 (America/New_York)
Arts for Art presents, June 13 at 8 PM EDT, William Parker Tribute to David Budbill
From the organizers:
William Parker’s Tribute to David Budbill in Performance & Discussion. Suggested minimum donation is $5. Donations go towards funding artist fees. Arts for Art’s On_Line Salon series features live streaming FreeJazz performances and conversations every Tuesday and Thursday. These events are co-produced by The Clemente.
Sunday June 13, 2021, 8PM ET
Video is available to view through Sunday June 20, 6PM ET
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Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-parker-tribute-to-david-budbill-afa-on-line-salon-tickets-157088037549

Hugo House presents RESCHEDULED: Word Works | Jericho Brown: Nonsense and Senselessness
2021-06-11 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hugo House presents, June 11 at 6 PM PDT, RESCHEDULED: Word Works | Jericho Brown: Nonsense and Senselessness
From the organizers:
This event has been rescheduled from March 5, 2021.
Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove has said that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Yet many readers still struggle to understand the meanings of poems. In his Word Works lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will 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 his and others’ work, Brown will explore the different techniques poets use to balance meaning and mystery.
After the talk, Brown will be interviewed by Anastacia-Reneé.
All Word Works events this season will take place online. Tickets cost $15 general admission, $12 for members. We also have a $5 option for students or anyone who is financially disadvantaged. Tickets can be purchased at the bottom of the page.
This event will take place via CrowdCast, Pacific Time.
Register here: https://hugohouse.org/events/word-works-jericho-brown-nonsense-senselessness/

Cafe con Libros presents Author Talk: Akwaeke Emezi, "Dear Senthuran"
2021-06-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Cafe con Libros presents, June 10 at 6 PM – 7 PM EDT, Author Talk: Akwaeke Emezi, “Dear Senthuran”
From the organizers:
Akwaeke Emezi in dialogue with Lisa-Kaindé Diaz of Ibeyi. A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire).
Register here: https://www.cafeconlibrosbk.com/event-info/author-talk-akwaeke-emezi-dear-senthuran/form

One Book, One Philadelphia presents Re-Creating a New World: One Book Finale with Jericho Brown
2021-06-09 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
One Book, One Philadelphia presents, June 9 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT, Re-Creating a New World: One Book Finale with Jericho Brown
From the organizers:
Join us to celebrate a season of discussing The Tradition. Following a reading and conversation with One Book, One Philadelphia 2021 author, Jericho Brown, and Philadelphia poet Ursula Rucker, we’ll listen to an intergenerational panel discuss what it means to re-create our world.
Panelists include Sonia Sanchez and Yolanda Wisher, both former Philadelphia Poet Laureates; Sheyla Street, a Central High School student, activist, varsity athlete, and co-founder of the Philly Black Students Alliance; and Kemar Jewel, an Afro-Queer international director and choreographer.
Panelists will discuss how knowledge of our history informs how we collectively reimagine our society, and how we organize around the issues we see today combined with all the lessons we have inherited from the past. The conversation will address how we effectively create new traditions together for a new world.
Registrants will receive a Zoom event link.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-creating-a-new-world-one-book-finale-with-jericho-brown-tickets-141923285367?aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Ocean Vuong
2021-06-09 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents a reading and conversation with Ocean Vuong. Tickets are available for in-person attendance and online viewing, or online viewing only.
Tickets here: https://lectures.org/event/ocean-vuong/

Loyalty Bookstores presents Akwaeke Emezi with Senthuran Varatharajah and Ann Daramola for DEAR SENTHURAN
2021-06-09 18:00 (America/New_York)
Loyalty Bookstores presents, June 9 at 6 PM EDT, Akwaeke Emezi with Senthuran Varatharajah and Ann Daramola for DEAR SENTHURAN
From the organizers:
Loyalty is incredibly excited to welcome back Akwaeke Emezi in conversation with Senthuran Varatharajah and Ann Daramola to celebrate Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice or you can order the book below to be added to the event’s registration list. Donations will go to BLM DC. There will also be an option to snag the book during the event.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/akwaeke-emezi-with/register

Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Ocean Vuong: Live & Online‑Only
2021-06-09 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents, June 9 at 6 PM PDT, Ocean Vuong: Live & Online‑Only
From the organizers:
Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.” Q&A moderated by musician Perfume Genius.
This event will be live and online only. Please note: this event begins at 6:00 p.m. (PDT).
Register here: https://lectures.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0Ff400000Gnu2rEAB

New York Public Library presents Spiritfirst: Akwaeke Emezi with Saidiya Hartman
2021-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
New York Public Library presents, June 8 at 7 PM – 8 PM EDT, Spiritfirst: Akwaeke Emezi with Saidiya Hartman
From the organizers:
The bestselling author shares their debut work of nonfiction, Dear Senthuran, a memoir that “deeply engages with the metaphysics of Black spirit and singularly faces the Black reader.”
Register here: https://www.showclix.com/event/akwaekeemezi/tag/nyplwebsite

Hennepin Avenue UMC presents An Evening with Jericho Brown
2021-06-08 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
Hennepin Avenue UMC presents, June 19 at 6 PM – 8 PM CDT, An Evening with Jericho Brown
From the organizers:
There are two ways to attend. This is a hybrid event, with registered tickets available for in-person or virtual attendance.
In-person Attendance ($20)
Experience Jericho in person, with reserved, socially-distanced seating for 150 in the beautiful HAUMC building. *Face masks required. Doors open at 5:30pm. For more information about Hennepin Avenue UMC’s COVID-19 in-person event protocols and procedures visit: haumc.org/covid-19
Virtual Attendance ($10)
Virtual attendees will receive a Zoom link and instructions on the day of the event via email. Please be sure to check your email and spam folders regularly.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-jericho-brown-tickets-154294158983

Hudson Valley Writers presents Monday Night Poetry with Alex Dimitrov (via Zoom)
2021-06-07 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Hudson Valley Writers presents, June 7, 14, 21, & 28 at 6:30 PM – 9 PM EDT, Monday Night Poetry with Alex Dimitrov (via Zoom)
From the organizers:
This is a 4-week class, occurring on 4 consecutive Mondays beginning June 7 ending on June 28 via Zoom. 6:30-9:00pm EST.
HVWC is lucky to have award-winning Copper Canyon poet and editor, Alex Dimitrov, teaching our students again this summer. Don’t miss the opportunity to study with one of the best set of eyes in the poetry world! This class is not generative. It’s a workshop. This will be a rigorous class but you will also have fun.
This class is capped at 10 students. It will be taught via Zoom and the Zoom link will be emailed at the time of workshop registration. (Please check spam / promotions folder to ensure the link is received.) Please write to admin@writerscenter.org with any questions about this process.
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/dimitrovjune/

Ellen Bass presents Truth & Beauty: An Online Writing Workshop
2021-06-07 14:00 - 2021-06-11 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Ellen Bass presents, June 7-11, Truth & Beauty: An Online Writing Workshop
From the organizers:
If you want to encounter more truth in your poems, to express it in the most beautiful way possible, to craft poems that reflect the inextricable marriage of truth and beauty, love and death, the luminous and the ordinary, please join us for this special workshop.
We will elude and distract the censors that silence or limit us. We’ll approach our experience from new angles to find the poem within the story. We’ll question the stories we think are true and experience the power of not-knowing and discovery.
We will write poems, share our writing, and hear what our work touches in others. We’ll also read model poems by contemporary poets and discuss aspects of the craft. But mainly this will be a writing retreat—time to explore and create in a supportive community. Though the focus is on poetry, prose writers who want to enrich their language will find it a fertile environment.
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/product/truth-and-beauty-2021-online/
