Copper Canyon Press

UA Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents Philip Metres
2020-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | NY
The University of Arizona Distinguished Visitor Series in Creative Writing presents an online reading with Philip Metres.
Register here: https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WC2fXUcmQDm7ZROLlZHU-Q

Academy of American Poets presents Books Noted Live: Tyree Daye & Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2020-09-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“Join the Academy of American Poets for Books Noted Live, a new, virtual reading and conversation series featuring poets with new or forthcoming books. The first of four events will take place Friday, September 25th at 7PM EDT.
The Academy is pleased to host Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Age of Phillis, which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, in conversation with Tyree Daye, whose collection Cardinal is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Purchase or pre order the books by the readers.”
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/books-noted-live-with/register

A Reading & Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay, moderated by Cathy Linh Che & Malcolm Tariq
2020-09-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
“In celebration of the publication months of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments and Ross Gay’s Be Holding: A Poem, we’re co-hosting a virtual reading with Cave Canem and Milkweed Editions! Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay will read and join Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman and Malcolm Tariq of Cave Canem in conversation. This reading will be held over Zoom at 6:00 PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th. We’ll send out a Zoom link one week in advance to everyone registered. The first 100 participants can join the Zoom webinar. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook for everyone else. RSVP and be sure to order your copy of World of Wonders and Be Holding: A Poem from Bookshop.org!”
Register here: https://kundiman.formstack.com/forms/aimee_ross_reading

Garden of Verses: A Celebration of W.S. Merwin's Poetry and Living Legacy in Support of The Merwin Conservancy
2020-09-30 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
We’re gathering virtually with friends around the world to remember W.S. Merwin on the occasion of his birthday, and to share a vision for stewarding his legacy.
Please join us on September 30 at 12:00pm 12:00pm Hawai‘i / 3:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Eastern.
We will invite you inside the Merwins’ home, along the trails of the palm forest, and into an extraordinary place that will continue to nurture a vibrant creative life through our collective stewardship.
Carrie Fountain, Roshi Joan Halifax, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kealoha, Elizabeth Kapu‘uwailani Lindsey, Howard Norman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Matthew Carlos Schwartz, and Cathy Song will join us remotely to read from Williamʻs poetry and share reflections.
Registration required.

Bard Center for Civic Engagement Presents The Joy and Curse of Translation with Bill Porter / Red Pine
2020-10-01 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Bill Porter / Red Pine, Translator
No one ever plans to be a translator, and no artist is more poorly equipped or trained. Nor do translators ever find out exactly what they’re doing—or even how—but, except for the fact that there’s no money it, why would they ever want to stop?
Join via Zoom

My Name Is My Own: Celebrating June Jordan & Ruth Stone | A Virtual Benefit
2020-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Featuring Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rio Cortez, Monica Sok, and Alison C. Rollins, plus editors Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers

Join Copper Canyon Press and an all-star lineup to celebrate the legacies of two iconic feminist poets, while raising crucial funds to support our spring season of phenomenal books. You’ll be treated to a first look at brand-new and forthcoming anthologies, The Essential Ruth Stone and The Essential June Jordan, and invited to help launch a Kickstarter project to lift up these extraordinary poets and their legacies.
Ruth Stone (1915–2011) and June Jordan (1936-2002), while distinct from each other in terms of aesthetics and identity, share a fierce sense of feminist poetics, a wonderful balance of candor and cleverness, and visionary understandings of power, violence, and solidarity. We are thrilled to honor these poets with you.
Guest readers will include: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, with a preview of his afterword for The Essential June Jordan; international bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert; and a host of other literary luminaries.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3515997557627/WN_bICiuBVBRtGjaJlrkgWK2A

Hugo House Presents Book Launch: Rae Armantrout & Heather McHugh
2020-10-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the organizers:
Join us for a virtual reading with celebrated writers Rae Armantrout and Heather McHugh, who will read from their new books, Conjure and Muddy Matterhorn (respectively).
RSVP for this free reading at the “Tickets” link.

Poets House presents Tyree Daye
2020-10-02 12:00 - 12:20 (America/New_York)
Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and the Poets House Archive on Fridays at noon. On October 2, poet and educator Tyree Daye reads from his forthcoming second collection Cardinal, from Raleigh, NC.
Watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/poetshouse
On IGTV here: https://www.instagram.com/poets_house/channel/
Or check the archive for footage after the event: https://poetshouse.org/digital-initiatives/poets-house-presents/

FEMS2020 Presents Finals Showcase Featuring Charlotte Abotsi & Rachel McKibbens!
2020-10-04 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
As a part of our 4th Annual FEMS Festival, we will be hosting a Finals Showcase featuring Charlotte Abotsi and Rachel McKibbens!
We will be showcasing FEMS 2020 Festival participants alongside two features. Instead of a Finals stage of competition, we are creating space to celebrate the folks who have joined us to write, create community, and be together over the course of the weekend.

Register to attend the full festival or tune in for these incredible features!

USF Humanities Institute Presents A Poetry Reading with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jericho Brown
2020-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Jericho Brown, will read from “The Tradition” and take questions from the audience. “The Tradition” details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. His poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery.
Brown is also the author of “Please” and “The New Testament.” He has won the Whiting Writer’s Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Register here.

Brooklyn Public Library Presents Indigenous Peoples Day Poetry Celebration with Sherwin Bitsui
2020-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 rigorous, proximate gaze and precise linguistic hybridity,” writes Ploughshares, “[Joan Naviyuk] Kane unlocks moments of felt thought in which personal, cultural, and geologic experience converge.” And Dan Chiasson, in The New Yorker, writes of Pico’s work: “Sylvia Plath’s simplest line may be one of her most devastating: ‘I am only thirty.’ I feel the same shudder when I read Pico’s blunt report: ‘I am 34.’”
A celebration of three powerful, affecting and innovative writers, this event is also part of an ongoing series intended to encourage discussion around our country’s complicated history with land ownership. The reading will be followed by a short conversation and audience questions.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.

The Manchester Literature Festival presents Jericho Brown, Rachel Long, Raymond Antrobus & Safiya Sinclair
2020-10-15 16:00 - 2020-10-30 17:30 (America/New_York)
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 Lions, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, examines relationships between a mother and her daughter, between friends, between lovers; considering the legacy of girlhood. Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair’s incredible debut Cannibal uses The Tempest to frame explorations of colonialism and its legacy, womanhood, otherness and exile. The collection won numerous awards on publication in the USA, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison M. Metcalf Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. British-Jamaican and D/deaf poet Raymond Antrobus’ first collection The Perseverance won The Ted Hughes Award, The Rathbones Folio Prize and the Young Writer of the Year Award. New to the Picador list, Raymond will showcase forthcoming material.
Presented in partnership with Picador and hosted by Scottish Makar and MLF Patron Jackie Kay.
Approximate running time 75 minutes
This event will be available for ticket holders to watch for 72 hours after the streamed broadcast.
Tickets for this event are available for FREE or on a Pay What You Can £6 / £12 / £20 basis.
Please pay £6 (low income / concessionary rate), £12 (standard ticket price) or £20 (if you are watching at home with another member of your household) if you are able to. Any ticket revenue we receive will help Manchester Literature Festival survive these challenging times and hopefully bounce back with a live festival in 2021. However, if you can’t afford to buy a ticket please do join us for free.

Fall 2020 Launch Party Livestream: Tyree Daye, Jennifer L. Knox, Alberto Ríos, & Lewis Hyde
2020-10-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 to the event recording will be available here on our website.
Our partnering bookseller for the Launch Party Livestream series is the Seattle-based Estelita’s Library—a Black/Brown-owned community bookstore and library. We encourage you to support Estelita’s by purchasing books by our Launch Party poets through their storefront on Bookshop.org. Start here, then search the titles you’d like to buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/estelitaslibrary
Register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2415990656132/WN_BNl0dYVoTQWhklPRFmGr6w

UNC Chapel Hill presents Tyree Daye’s Cardinal: A Virtual Book Launch with Special Guest Nabila Lovelace
2020-10-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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 of Daye’s family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also serves as an imperfect family album. Cardinal traces the South’s burdened interiors and the interiors of a black male protagonist attempting to navigate his many departures and returns home—a place that could both lovingly rear him and coolly annihilate him. With the language of elegy and praise, intoning regional dialect, and a deliberately disruptive cadence, Daye carries the voices of ancestors and blues poets, while stretching the established zones of the black American vernacular. In tones at once laden and magically transforming, he self-consciously plots his own Great Migration: “if you see me dancing a two step/I’m sending a starless code/we’re escaping everywhere.” These are poems to be read aloud.
Register here.

New York University's Creative Writing Program presents Writing Into a Crisis: A Virtual Reading and Conversation with John Freeman and Khaled Mattawa
2020-10-16 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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.

AAPI FORCE EF presents a Night of Cultural Resistance, feat. Monica Sok
2020-10-17 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 to the last day to turn in our ballots, we know it is our responsibility to get out and vote if we have the privilege to. Our choices will shape the realities of California and the communities around us. Plug in October 17th, 5:30PST to get inspired, and get mobilized to make change for the AAPI community!
Line Up: Terisa Siagatonu (emcee), Ruby Ibarra, Jes Tom, Taz Ahmed, Monica Sok, Low Leaf

Hosfelt Gallery presents Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett
2020-10-20 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Join the Hosfelt Gallery for a presentation by Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett about their new collaborative work “The Disappearing Ox.”
Register here.

Colorado College presents Alison C. Rollins
2020-10-20 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Denver)
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, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Colorado College’s Department of English. Advance registration required.
Register here.

Chessy Normile and Marie Howe present a Reading and Celebration for GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY
2020-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
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.

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.
2020-10-21 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 creative and personal lives in a conversation moderated by editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker. The event will be held on Left Bank Books’ Facebook Live Page.

This event is a fundraiser to celebrate The Common‘s 10th publishing year and launches the place-based magazine into its second decade. Join us for stirring poetry and thoughtful talk!
The event is free, with a suggested donation of $10.
All donations up to $500 will be matched by a donor.

The English Department at The Ohio State University presents Editors Panel 2020
2020-10-21 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Join The Writers Guild at The Ohio State University as we host a conversation with four publishing industry leaders:

Amber Oliver: Editor at Dutton/Plume
Leila Chatti: Inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow and Author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press)
Evette Dionne: Editor-in-Chief of Bitch Media
Rio Cortez: Sales & Retail Marketing Manager at HarperCollins

The event is a panel discussion followed by a short Q&A for attendees. The event is open to the public and designed to help audience members learn more about submitting work for publication, gain insights on publishing trends from industry leaders, and become aware of additional career opportunities like editing and serving as an agent.
Please register for this event in advance.

The Dodge Poetry Program presents the Dodge Poetry Festival 2020
2020-10-22 08:00 - 2020-11-01 17:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Come experience a deep, personal connection to poetry. Join the online festival to engage with beloved and distinguished poets and take part in community conversations no matter where you are (with Ellen Bass and other Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.)
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Live Streaming Passes to the Festival are free.
Captioning will be available for all Dodge Poetry Festival Events

Washington University in St. Louis presents Reading with Mark Bibbins
2020-10-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
Visiting Hurst Professor Mark Bibbins is the author of four books of poetry: 13th Balloon; They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full; The Dance of No Hard Feelings; and Sky Lounge, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. The recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry, Bibbins teaches in the graduate programs at Columbia University and The New School, where he cofounded LIT magazine.
Register here.

The Adroit Journal presents Issue 35 Release Reading
2020-10-22 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our thirty-fifth issue. Readers include issue contributors Traci Brimhall, Kyle Dargan, Randall Mann, Jenny Molberg, Elle Nash, Alison C. Rollins, Darius Simpson, and Jenny Tseng. The reading will be hosted on Zoom by Heidi Seaborn, executive editor of The Adroit Journal.
Register here.

The Wisconsin Book Festival presents Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod & Descent
2020-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Program in Creative Writing, this edition of Wisconsin Wednesdays features UW Alumnae Traci Brimhall and Lauren Russell for their new poetry collections, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, and Descent.
Register here.

Poetry@Tech presents Atlanta Poetry Festival & Translation Summit
2020-10-29 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
featuring
Jericho Brown, Linda Gregerson, Brenda Shaughnessy, Sandra Meek, Ilya Kaminsky, Mario Chard
& a group of distinguished special guest poets from Germany
This event is made possible in co-operation with Poetry@Tech, Terminus Magazine, Emory University, Westminster School, Berry College, and the Haus für Poesie Berlin.
The event will be broadcast virtually over BlueJeans. As always, the reading is FREE and open to the public.
There will also be a number of other partner events through the week as part of the Poetry Festival, organized by our partner institutions.
Join the reading here.

Poets & Writers present Unique and Unified: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the NOMMO Literary Society with Jericho Brown
2020-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
Founded in 1995, the NOMMO Literary Society was a writing workshop specifically for Black writers in New Orleans. Although Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in 2005 led to the workshop’s formal disbandment, its legacy and impact is felt to this day.
Join us for a panel with former NOMMO Literary Society workshop participants as they discuss the value of NOMMO in shaping craft, developing voice, and fostering community. Curated by P&W Literary Outreach Coordinator Kelly Harris.
Register here.

To Marvin: A Celebration of Marvin Bell in Poems
2020-11-01 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us for a reading and celebration of Marvin Bell’s poetry by his friends, colleagues, and former students, including John Irving, Tess Gallagher, Heather McHugh, David St. John, Naomi Shihab Nye, Kwame Dawes, Ellen Bass, Juan Felipe Herrera, Stephen Kuusisto, Dorianne Laux, Lia Purpura, Eric Pankey, and many more. Nathan Bell will sing, and we will raise a toast to the ways in which this extraordinary poet has shaped our literary landscape. “Your are not beautiful, exactly,” he writes in his famous poem for his wife, “To Dorothy.” “You are beautiful, inexactly.” Marvin’s precise understanding of what the inexact beauty surrounding us means has made all the difference in the lives writers and readers around the world.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4dsT1yN4QtuQ8PmToWgJ5A

Twenty Summers presents Jaswinder Bolina & Victoria Chang in Conversation
2020-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
From the organizers:
Poets Jaswinder Bolina and Victoria Chang will talk about their latest books — Jaswinder’s first essay collection Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and Victoria’s latest collection Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) recently nominated for New Yorker’s National Book Award — as well as, perhaps, the state of the world during Twenty Summers’ first virtual arts festival and seven season of programming.
To receive the full conversation video and breakout clips delivered to your email, please register here.

The C.D Wright Women Writers Conference presents Is Anyone Out there? Fostering Community in Rural Places with Traci Brimhall
2020-11-07 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Chicago)
From the organizers:
Is Anyone Out There? Fostering Community in Rural Places
Jacque Boucher, Traci Brimhall, Luisa Muradyan, Mawi Sonna, Winniebell Zong
Living in a rural place can make it hard to connect with other writers. Despite these challenges our panelists have run reading series, book clubs, created literary non-profits, edited journals, started writing groups, and found ways to foster genuine connection online. Our panel will discuss tips and tricks we’ve learned through both our successes and failures.
*With current social isolation as the rule, this panel will be helpful to many of us regardless of our rural or urban settings.
