Copper Canyon Press

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) | CA
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) | CA
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.”

Book Launch Reading with Paisley Rekdal
2023-04-26 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
From the organizers:
“Paisley Rekdal will read from her forthcoming collection, West: A Translation at the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on April 26th at 5:00 pm PDT.
Admission to the event is free. The launch is in connection with UMFA’s exhibition ‘Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea,’ running through June 11.”

Poetry and the Archives of History with Paisley Rekdal
2023-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marsh Cabaret Bar, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
From The Bay Area Book Festival:
“In this session, we’ll hear from those who instead look at archives and envision poetry. In West: A Translation, poet Paisley Rekdal vividly documents how the heroic narrative of the transcontinental railroad is intertwined with the history of Chinese exclusion. We’ll also hear from poet Anthony Cody whose collection Borderland Apocrypha, longlisted for PEN America’s Jean Stein Book Award, blends centers on the ongoing legacy of trauma along the US–Mexico border after the end of the Mexican–American War.
Leading this conversation through past and present is poet Tess Taylor, whose own Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange collages Lange’s photographs and journals with Taylor’s poetry.”
This event will take place Saturday May 6th from 1:00–2:00pm PDT and is free to the public.

Echoes of Exclusion with Paisley Rekdal
2023-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720-6300, United States
Join poets Paisley Rekdal, Fae Myenne Ng, and Ava Chin and novelist Kathryn Ma for a timely discussion about the Chinese Exclusion Act and its echoes in contemporary America. This panel discussion will take place on Sunday May 7th from 2:00–3:00pm PDT.
The Bay Area Book Festival is free and open to the public.

Green Apple Books presents Randall Mann with D.A. Powell
2023-05-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94122, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us on Tuesday May 9th at 7:00pm PST when Randall Mann celebrates the release of his book, Deal: New and Selected Poems, with D.A. Powell at 9th Ave.
Masks are encouraged for in-person attendance. Or, watch the livestream here.”

An Afternoon with Dean Rader, Timothy Donnelly, and Shanta Lee Gander
2023-05-21 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
From the organizers:
“Join us in person or via Zoom as we welcome Dean Rader, Timothy Donnelly, and Shanta Lee Gander. They will read from their latest works and engage in a lively Q&A.
This event will take place on May 21 from 4:00 – 6:30pm EST at the Hudson Valley Writers Center and live on Zoom.”
To register, visit: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/donnelly-gander-rader/

Natalie Diaz and Adam Falk at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
2023-05-23 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
From the organizers:
“THE POET AND ORATOR at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Natalie Diaz and Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91. They are scheduled to appear on Tuesday morning, May 23, in Sanders Theatre.
The Literary Exercises (this will be the 231st iteration) celebrate undergraduate academic excellence, recognize outstanding students’ nominees for formative teaching, and typically nod toward the arts (the poet) and the wider society (the orator). They thus bridge the academic labors leading up to graduation, and the celebratory hoopla to follow two days later, in Tercentenary Theatre.”

Close Readings in a Virtual Space with Christopher Soto
2023-06-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | online
From the organizers:
“This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Christopher Soto, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “tercer poema de amor / Third Poem of Love” by Roque Dalton. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.
Whether already well-versed in the close reading of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been ‘getting it,’ Close Readings in a Virtual Space provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.
Actively participate or simply listen and learn!
The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.
To purchase your FREE ticket, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/close-readings-in-a-virtual-space-with-christopher-soto-tickets-588445364927“

Community of Writers Poetry Program taught by Victoria Chang, Kazim Ali, Forrest Gander, Carmen Giménez, Brenda Hillman, and Evie Shockley
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-25 | Palisades Tahoe, CA, 96146, United States
From the organizers:
“The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences. Director: Brenda Hillman.
Tuition for the Poetry Program is $1450 and includes six evening meals. Financial aid is available; requests for our limited financial aid can be made in the Application Form. Admissions are based on submitted manuscripts. Please Note: Tuition does not include housing costs. See Housing and Meals. See Fees & Deadlines, below.
Note: We make no admissions decisions before all the submissions have been read and evaluated. The Application Form link is at the bottom of the page.
Deadline for receipt of application/submission is March 28, 2023.”
Apply here: https://communityofwriters.org/workshops/poetry-application/

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Award Ceremony and Reception with keynote speaker, Chris Abani
2023-06-24 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | American Writers Museum, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
From the organizers:
“Celebrate the winners of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction during a special award ceremony at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. Presented by Booklist and RUSA and generously supported by NoveList and a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, this year’s show will honor winners Julie Otsuka and Ed Yong and will feature acclaimed novelist and poet, Chris Abani, as the keynote speaker. The event will kick off with a cocktail hour and close with a reception and book signing.”
This event will take place on Saturday, June 24 from 7:00pm – 10:00pm CST. Register for the ALA Conference here: https://idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e1s2
Include the Andrew Carnegie Medals Award Ceremony with your initial registration, or add it later using the unique link in your email confirmation.

Hudson Valley Writer's Center presents: An Afternoon to Celebrate New Poetry with Randall Mann and others
2023-07-16 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | CA
Hudson Valley Writer’s Center presents: An Afternoon to celebrate new poetry collections with Randall Mann, Glenis Redmond, Enzo Silon Surin, and Dustin Brookshire, & Courtney LeBlanc (via Zoom)
From the organizers: Join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director & Sophia Bannister, Programming Assistant & Social Media Director, as we welcome Randall Mann, Glenis Redmond, Enzo Silon Surrin, and Courtney LeBlanc to read and discuss their new poetry collections.
NB: This reading will take place on Zoom. The link will be sent to the email that you use to register as soon as you reserve a spot. (Please check your spam folder and save the link to your calendar.) It will also be sent to you the day of the reading for your convenience.
More information will appear here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/newpoetry/

International Literary Salon in Santa Fe: Arthur Sze, Ryo Yamaguchi & Others
2023-08-13 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | La Mama, 225 E Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
From the organizers:
Words Without Borders is excited to partner with LA MAMA in Santa Fe for a summer afternoon of literature—local and international. Santa Fe-based writers and translators Kareem Abu-Zeid, Arthur Sze, Christina Vo, and Ryo Yamaguchi will be reading their own work as well as the translated writing of contemporary authors from across the globe: Najwan Darwish (tr. Kareem Abu-Zeid), Wang Jiaxin (tr. Arthur Sze), Claudia Masin (tr. Robin Myers), Iryna Shuvalova (self-translated), Bùi Ngọc Tấn (tr. Nguyễn-Hoàng Quyên), Wang Xiaoni (tr. Arthur Sze), and Isabel Zapata (tr. Robin Myers).
Ticketing and accessibility information
Please RSVP on Eventbrite. Once tickets run out, you may sign up for the waitlist. If you are released a ticket from the waitlist, you will have 8 hours to claim the ticket before it’s offered to another person.
This is a free, all-ages event with limited space and seating (stools and benches) located up a stairway at LA MAMA. This is not a wheelchair accessible event. Delicious food and drink will be available for sale at LA MAMA.
About the readers
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, is an Egyptian-American translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world who translates from Arabic, French, and German. His translation of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish’s Exhausted on the Cross was the winner of the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation, as well as a finalist for the PEN America Award, the National Translation Award, and the Derek Walcott Prize. He has received a residency from Santa Fe’s Lannan Foundation, and is also the author of the book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice (Lockwood Press, 2021).
Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); Sight Lines, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award; Quipu (2005); The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, selected for the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Asian-American Literary Award; and Archipelago (1995), selected for an American Book Award. He has also published one book of Chinese poetry translations, The Silk Dragon (2001), selected for the Western States Book Award, and edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). In the spring of 2024, The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry will be published by Copper Canyon Press. Sze is the recipient of many honors, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2021 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Christina Vo is a writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she continues to write and explore the interplay of culture, identity, and personal history. Her work reflects her commitment to understanding and sharing the complexities of the human experience. Christina’s debut memoir, The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home, demonstrates her ability to weave personal experiences into broader narratives about identity, home, and belonging. Her second book, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, an intergenerational memoir co-written with her father, will be published in May 2024. Christina attempts to carve out time to focus on her personal writing, while spending her days working as a donor relations writer for Stanford University. She has worked internationally for UNICEF in Vietnam, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, as well served as a consultant for nonprofits. Christina holds an MSc in social and public communication from the London School of Economics.
Ryo Yamaguchi (he/him) is the publicist for Copper Canyon Press. He is the author of the poetry collection The Refusal of Suitors, published by Noemi Press. His poems have recently been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2020 and The Best Small Fictions 2020 and have also recently appeared in journals such as the Bennington Review, the Yalobusha Review, and The Volta, among others. Ryo has been a staff critic for Harriet Books from the Poetry Foundation, and his other critical writings can be found in outlets such as Jacket2, the Kenyon Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.

The Community of Writers Presents A Short Course: C.D. Wright — An American Original
2023-08-31 16:00 - 2023-09-28 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
From the organizers:
“The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of poet C.D. Wright taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander and Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman. Gander and Hillman will guide participants through an overview of Wright’s extraordinary writing. The course will be designed for those who know Wright’s work already, as well as for those encountering her poetry for the first time.
Classes will take place every Thursday from August 31st – September 28th at 4:00 – 6:00pm PDT. For those who are interested, intimate Zoom discussion groups (Virtual Houses) will meet after each session and on subsequent Saturdays at 10:00am.”
To register, visit: https://communityofwriters.org/register-for-the-short-course-on-c-d-wright/

I Love NY presents Book launch for Dream Apartment with Lisa Olstein featuring Diane Seuss
2023-09-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | CA
I Love NY presents Book launch for Dream Apartment with Lisa Olstein featuring Diane Seuss on September 13 at 7 PM ET
From the organizers:
Please join Jennifer Franklin & Diane Seuss as they help Lisa Olstein launch her fifth poetry collection, Dream Apartment (September, 2023, Copper Canyon). NB: This reading will be on Zoom. The link will be sent to the email that you use to register. (Please check your spam folder). Our readings are free and open to the public. Please consider making a donation towards the poets’ honorarium and, if you like their work, buying their book. Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006), Lost Alphabet (2009), Little Stranger (2013), Late Empire (2017), and Dream Apartment (2023). Her nonfiction includes Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press 2020), a book-length lyric essay exploring the intersection of pain, perception, and language; and Climate (Essay Press 2022), an exchange of epistolary essays with the poet Julie Carr. Diane Seuss needs no introduction. She is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021), winner of the PEN/Voelcker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
More information will appear here: https://www.iloveny.com/event/lisa-olstein%E2%80%99s-book-launch-for-dream-apartment-with-special-guest-diane-seuss-(via-zoom)/64887/

University of Arizona Poetry Center Presents: The Seductions of Voice with Paisely Rekdal
2023-09-20 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix) | The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States
From the organizers:
What is “voice” in poetry, and how have our ideas of what constitutes the lyric voice historically evolved? When it comes to first-person poems, are we really just speaking for ourselves or as part of a collective? How does voice determine how we understand the difference between a poem’s addressee versus its audience? How do our ideas about “voice” and audience themselves change in persona poems? And finally, how do we cultivate readerly sympathy or trust with choices we make around voice? In this class, we’ll look at a range of poems that we might call “voice-driven,” from François Villon, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to Randall Jarrell, Frank O’Hara, Terrance Hayes, Myung-Mi Kim, and Diane Seuss to consider the many lyric possibilities of “voice.” In-class exercises will be provided to help students generate new work.
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center’s Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration will open on Tuesday, August 29th at 10AM.

University of Arizona Poetry Center Presents: A Reading with Paisley Rekdal
2023-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Phoenix) | The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States
From the organizers:
We are proud to present a reading by Paisley Rekdal.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and, most recently, West: A Translation. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah where she is a distinguished professor.
The reading will be livestreamed on the website in addition to the in person reading.

UMass English MFA Presents Lisa Olstein, Visiting Writers Series
2023-09-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01002, United States
UMass English MFA for Poets & Writers Presents Lisa Olstein, Visiting Writers Series on Thursday September 28th 6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern Time
From the organizers:
“Celebrating 60 Years of the UMass English MFA for Poets & Writers
Visiting Writers Series no. 1 // Fall 2023
Join us for the first installment of the Visiting Writers Series (VWS) with UMass MFA alum, LISA OLSTEIN.
Free & open to the public. Reading with Q&A to follow.”
For more information: https://www.umass.edu/englishmfa/event/visiting-writers-series-lisa-olstein

Open Books Presents Christopher Soto & Claudia Castro Luna, Latinx Poetry Writing Workshop
2023-09-30 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Books: A Poem Emporium, 108 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Open Books Presents Christopher Soto & Claudia Castro Luna, Latinx Poetry Writing Workshop on Saturday September 30th at 2pm – 3:30pm Pacific Time
From the Organizers:
“This poetry workshop is free, but space is limited! To RSVP, email instructor Christopher Soto directly at cs3625@nyu.edu and send 1-3 poems. Class will begin at 2pm and will run for 1.5 hours in the Open Books Parlor.
If you have any additional questions about the workshop, please contact Christopher Soto at cs3625@nyu.edu!”
For more information visit: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/pages/9-30-2-3-30pm-latinx-poetry-writing-workshop-with-christopher-soto-claudia-castro-luna
