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Brooklyn Public Library Presents Indigenous Peoples Day Poetry Celebration with Sherwin Bitsui
From the organizers: Join award-winning authors Sherwin Bitsui, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Tommy Pico for a poetry reading of new poems. Of Sherwin Bitsui's poetry, Library Journal writes, “Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images," and went on to call his work "serious and innovative.” "Through a […]
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The Manchester Literature Festival presents Jericho Brown, Rachel Long, Raymond Antrobus & Safiya Sinclair
From the organizers: MLF and Picador present four stunning, innovative poets whose work speaks to the times we are living in. Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition considers the normalisation of evil and explores masculinity, fatherhood and freedom. It also introduces the duplex, a new poetic form. Rachel Long’s superb debut My Darling from the […]
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Fall 2020 Launch Party Livestream: Tyree Daye, Jennifer L. Knox, Alberto Ríos, & Lewis Hyde
Join Copper Canyon Press for a livestream launch party to celebrate four extraordinary books from our fall 2020 season! Tyree Daye, Jennifer L. Knox, Alberto Ríos, and Lewis Hyde will read from their new collections, followed by a Q&A with viewers. Access is free. We’ll also share the livestream from our Facebook Page, and a link […]
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UNC Chapel Hill presents Tyree Daye’s Cardinal: A Virtual Book Launch with Special Guest Nabila Lovelace
From the organizers: Please join us in a virtual book launch for Tyree Daye’s second collection Cardinal, from Copper Canyon Press, featuring the poet Nabila Lovelace. Tyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”—the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images […]
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New York University’s Creative Writing Program presents Writing Into a Crisis: A Virtual Reading and Conversation with John Freeman and Khaled Mattawa
From the organizers: Writing into a Crisis: a virtual reading, conversation, and Q&A with John Freeman and Khaled Mattawa. Reading is free and open to the public, though registration is required. Please register here to receive Zoom link.
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AAPI FORCE EF presents a Night of Cultural Resistance, feat. Monica Sok
From the organizers: AAPIs are rising up in resistance! Join AAPI FORCE EF for a night of dynamic performances and artist conversations on civic engagement at our Night of Cultural Resistance. We’re inviting some outstanding community members to share why and how their creative practices advocate for a more equitable future. As we get closer […]
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Hosfelt Gallery presents Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett
Join the Hosfelt Gallery for a presentation by Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett about their new collaborative work "The Disappearing Ox." Register here.
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Colorado College presents Alison C. Rollins
From the organizers: Join us for an evening with Alison Rollins, author of “Library of Small Catastrophes” a nominee for the 2020 Hurston Wright Legacy Award. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow and a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, Rollins’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, […]
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Chessy Normile and Marie Howe present a Reading and Celebration for GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY
Join Chessy Normile and Marie Howe as they celebrate the publication of Normile's "Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party," winner of the 2020 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize selected by Li Young Lee. Tune in October 20th at 7 p.m. ET here.
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Left Bank Books presents ONLINE: Pandemic Poets – Tess Taylor and Dana Levin, in conversation with “The Common.” Hope, resiliency, and poetry in the time of lockdown.
From the organizers: Join Left Bank Books and The Common for a conversation about poetics in the time of pandemic and the ecology of lockdown on October 21 at 7pm CDT/ 5pm PST/ 8pm EST. Acclaimed poets Dana Levin and Tess Taylor will read new work and discuss the importance of place, hope, and resilience in their […]
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