White Whale Bookstore presents Leila Chatti, Marlin M. Jenkins, Steffan Triplett, and J. Bailey Hutchinson
2020-06-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | WA
White Whale Bookstore presents a virtual reading with Leila Chatti, Marlin M. Jenkins, Steffan Triplett, and J. Bailey Hutchinson.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You’ll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm EDT on 6/10. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket.
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-poetry-reading-jenkins-chatti-triplett-hutchinson-tickets-106834057542

LOGOS presents Jericho Brown and Jorie Graham
2020-06-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizer:
A very special digital LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review and Blue Flower Arts featuring Jericho Brown and Jorie Graham.
LOGOS Gatherings are ‘liturgically-inflected’ reading events, which engage audience participation.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logos-presents-jericho-brown-jorie-graham-tickets-108039503062
A confirmation email will be sent with Zoom link and password.
You can also tune-in and watch the event live on the LOGOS page via Facebook (@logospoetrycollective).
Digital book-sales made possible by Bookwoman, Austin’s premiere feminist bookstore, and Bookshop.

City Lights Live with John Freeman and D.A. Powell
2020-06-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
City Lights Live presents a virtual reading and book celebration for John Freeman‘s The Park. Freeman is joined by renowned Bay Area poet D.A. Powell.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-freeman-with-da-powell-tickets-106505528904

Patricia Smith's Birthday Poetry Marathon featuring Jericho Brown, Rachel McKibbens, Ellen Bass, and more
2020-06-25 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Bowery Poetry presents two nights of online poetry readings in celebration of poet Patricia Smith’s birthday, featuring readings from Jericho Brown, Rachel McKibbens, Ellen Bass, Kwame Dawes, Cyrus Cassells, Nicole Sealey, Saeed Jones, Fatimah Asghar, and many more.
Event will be livestreamed here: https://www.facebook.com/bowerypoetryclub

Saad éí Na'iiłná with Sareya Taylor, Rowie Shebala, & Sherwin Bitsui
2020-06-26 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“The Saad éí Na’iiłná COVID-19 Relief Fundraiser is a gathering of Diné writers and poets to support Navajo and White Mountain Apace communities impacted by COVID-19. Saad éí Na’iiłná translates loosely into “language moves us” and we are moved by the heroism and leadership of our communities that are braving this pandemic.
The event will be divided four different reading blocks spread over two days. The reading will highlight the Navajo & Hopi Families Relief Fund and the White Mountain Apache COVID-19 Relief Fund. Once reserved, participants will be asked to donate to one or both of the organizations. For more information, contact info@saadbeehozho.org.”
The event on July 26 features Sareya Taylor, Rowie Shebala, and Sherwin Bitsui.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saad-ei-naiina-with-sareya-taylor-rowie-shebala-sherwin-bitsui-tickets-110213250800

Patricia Smith’s Birthday Poetry Marathon featuring Jericho Brown, Rachel McKibbens, Ellen Bass, and more
2020-06-26 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)

Bookshop.org presents Ellen Bass and Toi Derricotte
2020-06-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizer:
Please join us for a poetry reading with Toi Derricotte and Ellen Bass. Toi and Ellen are dear friends and have shared their poetry for many years. They are now coming together for this special reading of work from their new books. Of Toi Derricotte’s most recent book, “I”:New and Selected Poems, Terrance Hayes writes: “What song do you sing when you sing ‘so low we can’t hear you?’ Toi Derricotte makes poetry of that song. It rises from ‘the houses where you hear the least squealing,’ it is ‘quieter than blossoms & near invisible.’ It is filled with witness and love for our literal and literary families. The tough and tender intimacies of human bonds bind these marvelous new and selected poems.” Of Ellen Bass’ new book, Indigo, Mark Doty writes: “’You may have to break/ your heart,’ writes Ellen Bass, ‘but it isn’t nothing/ to know even one moment alive.’ That complex tenant of faith underlies every poem in this superb book, an inquiry into what it is to be present in the physical world, in time, a body in the world of bodies. Bass’s poems are surprising, tender, hungry and wide awake, fearless in their attention to every nuance of feeling. I love this book wholeheartedly.”
Register here: https://mailchi.mp/ellenbass/toiderricotte

LOGOS presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Camille Dungy
2020-06-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizer:
A very special digital LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review and Blue Flower Arts featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Camille Dungy.
LOGOS Gatherings are ‘liturgically-inflected’ reading events, which engage audience participation.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logos-presents-camille-dungy-aimee-nezhukumatathil-tickets-108039655518
A confirmation email will be sent with ZOOM link and PW to access.
You can also tune-in and watch the event on the LOGOS page via Facebook (@logospoetrycollective).
Digital book-sales made possible by Bookwoman, Austin’s premiere feminist bookstore, and Bookshop.

For the Future of Poetry: A Virtual Benefit featuring Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, and Arthur Sze
2020-06-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Copper Canyon Press for a virtual benefit reading featuring Lambda Literary Award winner Ellen Bass, National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, with a conversation moderated by Editor-in-Chief Michael Wiegers.
Learn more about our summer fund drive and how you can help safeguard a future for poetry and independent publishing: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/for-the-future-of-poetry/
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5115926008199/WN_znzSc_8lRf2UNwJLx5vjyg

Further Notice presents Philip Metres and Bruce Snider
2020-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
From the organizers:
“Friends! Please join us for the fourteenth reading in the Further Notice Virtual Reading Series, featuring Bruce Snider and Philip Metres. Imagine listening to all this magic from the comfort of your bed or couch or wherever suits you! 8PM CST/ 9PM EST
Further Notice aims to promote and feature poets with recent or soon-to-be released titles whose tours and release events were affected by recent events. In a time of social distancing, let’s get close on Zoom and enjoy some poems.”
Join here:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/96789068419?pwd=[REDACTED]

Debut Revue presents Leila Chatti, George Abraham, Jessica Q. Stark, and Lucia LoTempio
2020-07-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Debut Revue is a reading series which features and celebrates debut poets of 2020 and beyond whose launches have been disrupted due to the pandemic. On July 8, Debut Revue presents a reading with Leila Chatti, George Abraham, Jessica Q. Stark, and Lucia LoTempio.
Watch live on Debut Revue’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBFe1c40CxA

Living Room Craft Talk with Ellen Bass I
2020-07-10 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Ellen Bass:
“If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, please join Ellen Bass for this craft talk series on Fridays: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Ellen will be presenting practical teachings that you’ll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you’re at—whether you’re just beginning or are an experienced and published poet. Though these talks are focused on poetry, prose writers are welcome too. If you write memoir or fiction, you will find that this precise attention to language will enrich your work as well.
This week’s topic will be The Art of Metaphor: What Is It Like?
Each talk will be an hour to hour and a half long and will include a discussion of exemplary poems that illustrate these aspects of the craft, as well as practical guidance for how you might bring these elements into your own poems. The talk will be followed by a half an hour for questions.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks/

Hugo House presents: From Detail to Discovery with Ellen Bass
2020-07-11 10:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Hugo House and Ellen Bass:
“Tolstoy said, ‘Art is transferring feeling from one heart to another. And E.L. Doctorow said, ‘Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.’ But how do we go about this work of transferring feeling? We create a physical and emotional impact through vivid detail, precise description, metaphor, and image. By describing what we see, we understand more, we feel more. And that process of seeing, understanding, feeling, and epiphany then takes place in the reader as well. In this workshop we’ll look at exemplary poems and learn (and try out) practical strategies for including these elements in our own writing.”
Includes a writing break from 11:30 am–2 pm.

Costura Creative presents Surreal Poetics with Alison C. Rollins III
2020-07-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers: Surreal Poetics is a weekly writing workshop series led by Alison C. Rollins! Registration via Zoom is required for these workshops. A link to the Zoom registration will be sent to your email 2 days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Registration cost is donation-based (suggested $20 per session), and separate registration is required for each weekly session.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surreal-poetics-w-alison-c-rollins-tickets-109847934128

The Autry presents Saad Nizhóní (Beautiful Words) with Sherwin Bitsui and Tacey M. Atstitty
2020-07-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
“Join the Autry and Navajo multimedia documentarian Pamela J. Peters as she introduces two evenings featuring remarkable Navajo poets whose beautiful words integrate Diné history, language and culture. This Zoom event will showcase the talents of Sherwin Bitsui and Tacey M. Atstitty on July 16, and will conclude with readings from Jake Skeet and Rowie Shebala on July 23.
Navajos have all been deeply impacted, either directly or indirectly through our kinship ties, by COVID-19. Most news reporting reveals the tragic impact of COVID-19 on the Navajo reservation, yet we rarely hear from the people directly impacted. These readings offers an opportunity to hear from Navajo people who have been affected by the virus. Their distinctive poetry illustrates the perseverance of the People, the strong connections individuals have to their homeland, and the language and traditional life of the Diné.
This Zoom event will not only showcase four Navajo poets, but will also provide an opportunity to donate to the Utah Navajo COVID-19 Relief Program. This program was created under the Utah Navajo Health system to provide food and supplies to elders. Program coordinator Sahar Khadjenoury will describe the organization’s efforts, provide information on making donations, and explain how each donation helps the surrounding tribal communities.”
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdO6tpjMrE9cDt-6Up5www-5m3LHYVSN2

For You, I Make This Offering: Monica Sok, Jennifer S. Cheng, and Muriel Leung in Conversation
2020-07-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:

“In this participatory ritual, you are invited to join in offerings of language, letters, food, and kinship between poets Jennifer S. Cheng, Monica Sok, and Muriel Leung. In invoking a communal space of poetry and care, we hope to acknowledge the connection between making art, politics, and the intimacies of Asian American friendships. You are welcome to share space and, if you wish, to participate alongside as we offer up these blended rituals as a version of a hybrid art practice.

This event is made possible through an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.”

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/for-you-i-make-this-offering-tickets-111233688958

Literary Cleveland presents Poetry and Protest with Jericho Brown, Philip Metres, and Barbara Jane Reyes
2020-07-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
“As part of the Inkubator Conference, Literary Cleveland presents Poetry and Protest, a panel discussion with Jericho Brown, Philip Metres, and Barbara Jane Reyes.
We’re living through a sudden resurgence of the power of protest—from Black Lives Matter marches to the pandemic statehouse protests. The word ‘protest’ comes from the Latin, meaning to testify to something publicly. Usually, protests occur as a way of raising a voice against injustice, or to support those unjustly treated. How do poets and writers approach the question of testifying publicly, standing with the unjustly treated? Poets Jericho Brown, Philip Metres, and Barbara Jane Reyes will read poems (their own and others’) and talk about the role of poetry in social movements for change, and poetry as protest.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Inkubator-Poetry-and-Protest/register

Living Room Craft Talk with Ellen Bass II
2020-07-17 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Ellen Bass:
“If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, please join Ellen Bass for this craft talk series on Fridays: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Ellen will be presenting practical teachings that you’ll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you’re at—whether you’re just beginning or are an experienced and published poet. Though these talks are focused on poetry, prose writers are welcome too. If you write memoir or fiction, you will find that this precise attention to language will enrich your work as well.
This week’s topic will be Detail and Description: The Workhorses that Carry Emotion
Each talk will be an hour to hour and a half long and will include a discussion of exemplary poems that illustrate these aspects of the craft, as well as practical guidance for how you might bring these elements into your own poems. The talk will be followed by a half an hour for questions.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks/

Costura Creative presents Surreal Poetics with Alison C. Rollins IV
2020-07-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers: Surreal Poetics is a weekly writing workshop series led by Alison C. Rollins! Registration via Zoom is required for these workshops. A link to the Zoom registration will be sent to your email 2 days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Registration cost is donation-based (suggested $20 per session), and separate registration is required for each weekly session.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surreal-poetics-w-alison-c-rollins-tickets-109847735534

A Wild and Precious Life Series: A Reading with Victoria Chang, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Marilyn Nelson, and Ruben Quesada
2020-07-22 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join Victoria Chang, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Marilyn Nelson, and Ruben Quesada for a reading on July 22. From the organizer of Wild and Precious Life Series, Dustin Brookshire:
Sipping a beverage at your local coffee shop. Eating a slice a pizza at your favorite pizzeria. Happy hour with friends. Going to the gym. Reading poetry in the park. Sitting in the audience of a poetry reading. High-fives. Handshakes. Hugs. COVID-19 has drastically changed how we live our lives, forcing us to forego what was second nature. In these uncertain times, the words of Mary Oliver demand that we answer the question:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
– “The Summer Day”
Poetry comforts, inspires, heals, is a catalyst for change, and so much more. Now, maybe more than ever, poets need a space to share their art, and poetry lovers need a space to receive the poet’s art. A Wild & Precious Life Series is a virtual poetry reading series created to be that space.
Readings will take place via Zoom with “doors” opening at 7pm EST and readings starting at 7:30pm EST.
Join here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89325735262

Reading with Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, and Adrian Matejka
2020-07-22 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for a virtual poetry reading on Wednesday July 22 at 8pm EDT. The featured readers will be Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, and Adrian Matejka. The event is free. Please register in advance at the link.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-series-7-erin-belieu-mark-bibbins-adrian-matejka-tickets-113858158818

Living Room Craft Talk with Ellen Bass III
2020-07-24 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Ellen Bass:
“If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, please join Ellen Bass for this craft talk series on Fridays: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Ellen will be presenting practical teachings that you’ll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you’re at—whether you’re just beginning or are an experienced and published poet. Though these talks are focused on poetry, prose writers are welcome too. If you write memoir or fiction, you will find that this precise attention to language will enrich your work as well.
This week’s topic will be: Creating Tension through Multiple Pressures
Each talk will be an hour to hour and a half long and will include a discussion of exemplary poems that illustrate these aspects of the craft, as well as practical guidance for how you might bring these elements into your own poems. The talk will be followed by a half an hour for questions.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks/

[Rescheduled] Bookshop.org presents Ellen Bass and Toi Derricotte
2020-07-26 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

[Rescheduled] Reading with Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, and Adrian Matejka
2020-07-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for a virtual poetry reading on Sunday July 26 at 7pm EDT. The featured readers will be Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, and Adrian Matejka. The event is free. Please register in advance at the link.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-series-7-erin-belieu-mark-bibbins-adrian-matejka-tickets-113858158818

Copper Canyon Press + PSNY: Leila Chatti, Alberto Ríos, Victoria Chang
2020-07-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join Copper Canyon Press and The Poetry Society of New York for a New York City Poetry Festival streaming event on Facebook Live. Enjoy readings, conversation, and Q&A with Copper Canyon Press authors Leila Chatti, Alberto Ríos, and Victoria Chang.
This FREE event is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York as part of a streaming series designed to commemorate the New York City Poetry Festival. All are welcome to join our little community!
If you can afford to give, however, donations are very much encouraged, appreciated, and also tax-deductible. 100% of your donations will be put toward the 10th New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island, which has been postponed to July 2021 due to COVID-19. Thank you from the bottom of our collective heart for your support!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/copper-canyon-psny-leila-chatti-alberto-rios-victoria-chang-registration-112838643420

Brazos Bookstore presents John Freeman in conversation with Lacy Johnson
2020-07-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Brazos Bookstore presents John Freeman in conversation with Lacy Johnson.
Register here: https://brazosbookstore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocuiuqDgpG9FEFidbod_4g8MqzM_8xLG7

Costura Creative presents Surreal Poetics with Alison C. Rollins V
2020-07-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
SURREAL POETICS: weekly generative writing workshops with Alison C. Rollins!
Registration via Zoom is required for these workshops. A link to the Zoom registration will be sent to your email 2 days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins.
Suggested donation of $20 per session.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surreal-poetics-w-alison-c-rollins-tickets-109847938140

A Reading Series presents Ellen Bass, Matthew Lippman, & Barbara Ras
2020-07-29 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join a virtual reading featuring Ellen Bass, Matthew Lippman, and Barbara Ras.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtc-itqjkjHNSs-hPbZWnjE5cYu3f2zZLd

PEN America presents DREAMing Out Loud: Reading featuring Javier Zamora, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Sonia Guiñansaca, Martyna Majok, and Jenny Zhang
2020-07-30 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
PEN America is proud to present a reading with the rising stars from DREAMing Out Loud, our tuition-free workshop series for young undocumented writers in New York City.
Since the program’s founding in 2016, DREAMing Out Loud has served over 125 emerging writers. Our students are primarily first-generation immigrants who came to the United States as children. As rhetoric flies, politics grind, and heat increases along all our borders, the experiences of these writers—who have risked their lives to cross land and oceans into the United States—must be heard.
Join us to celebrate the courageous new voices in this year’s anthology release with readings from our students and stories from our teaching artists Álvaro Enrigue, Cherry Lou Sy, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma, and special guests Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (The Undocumented Americans, 2020), Sonia Guiñansaca (Nostalgia & Borders, 2016), Martyna Majok (Sanctuary City, 2020), Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied, 2017), and Jenny Zhang (My Baby First Birthday, 2020).
We would love your help to make DREAMing Out Loud possible in 2021. To date, the program has primarily been funded by a time-limited grant that ends this year. Public support is crucial for the program to continue offering workshops in 2021.
The suggested donation for entry is $5 for the general public, and additional generosity is deeply appreciated. Students and their families receive free admission. Any donations are considered 100 percent tax-deductible and support DREAMing Out Loud’s mission to defend young undocumented writers and immigrants’ free expression at a time of unprecedented need. Here are some of features of the program that your donation could help us fund:

$10 – a free anthology for a student writer
$50 – a paid volunteer copyeditor
$100 – lunch or dinner for students in one of our workshop sessions
$150 – a guest speaker’s honorarium
$200 – an hour of workshop facilitation
$400 – a student stipend to offset costs of living while participating in the program
$2,000 – a teaching assistant’s stipend
$3,200 – a teaching artist’s stipend

Following your registration, you will be sent a link to the virtual reading via email within 24 hours of the event. If you are a student, family member, friend, or institutional partner of DREAMing Out Loud, please ignore the button below and sign up for your free ticket here.
Please contact Nicole Gervasio at ngervasio@pen.org for any additional questions or concerns.
Register here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/31525/alldonations/34031

Living Room Craft Talk with Ellen Bass IV
2020-07-31 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Ellen Bass:
“If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, please join Ellen Bass for this craft talk series on Fridays: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
Ellen will be presenting practical teachings that you’ll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you’re at—whether you’re just beginning or are an experienced and published poet. Though these talks are focused on poetry, prose writers are welcome too. If you write memoir or fiction, you will find that this precise attention to language will enrich your work as well.
This week’s topic will be Controlled Chaos: The Long-Armed Poem
Each talk will be an hour to hour and a half long and will include a discussion of exemplary poems that illustrate these aspects of the craft, as well as practical guidance for how you might bring these elements into your own poems. The talk will be followed by a half an hour for questions.”
Register here: https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks/
