Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
2022-08-27 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Silo City, 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Silo City Reading Series featuring Jericho Brown
From the organizer:
Join us for the season finale of the 2022 SILO CITY READING SERIES featuring poetry from Jericho Brown and JBLC Poetry Fellow TBA, a musical performance by Florist, and an installation by Johann Diedrick.

The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
2022-08-31 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
The Merwin Conservancy presents Arthur Sze & Carol Moldaw in The Green Room
From the organizers:
“After a hiatus of more than two years, The Merwin Conservancyʻs beloved arts and ecology series The Green Room returned to in-person gatherings on Maui with two very special guests, our poets-in-residence Carol Moldaw and Arthur Sze.

These two extraordinary poets have spent a month in residence in the former home of W.S. and Paula Merwin, and earlier this month Carol and Arthur shared the stage for a very special reading at the Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center on Maui.
This intimate event was captured on video and will be broadcast on Crowdcast on Wednesday, August 31st, at 2:00pm Hawaiʻi / 5:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Mountain / 8:00pm Eastern.
The event is free, and donations are welcome at the virtual “door” to support this beloved arts and ecology salon series, now in its ninth year.
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ABOUT CAROL MOLDAW:
Carol Moldaw’s eighth book, Go Figure, will be published by Four Way Books in 2024. Her most recent books are Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018), So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems and The Widening, a short novel. She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River. Through the Window was translated into Turkish and published in a bilingual edition in Istanbul as Penceredon/Through the Window; her work also has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian. Moldaw is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, and her work is published widely in journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Yale Review. It has also been anthologized in many venues, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets. As noted in The New Yorker, Moldaw’s work “repeatedly achieves lyric junctures of shivering beauty.” About The Lightning Field, Frieda Gardner wrote in The Women’s Review of Books: “She courts revelation . . . in a voice variously curious, passionate, surprised, meditative, and sensual. On the surface of her work are rich sound and variation of rhythm and line. A few steps deeper in lie wells of feeling and complexities of thought.” From 2005-2008 Moldaw was on the faculty of Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency M.F.A. program, and she has been a recurrent Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University. In the spring of 2011, she served as the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University; currently she teaches privately in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.
ABOUT ARTHUR SZE:
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), Sight Lines (2019), for which he received the 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 (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). A recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the eighth annual ‘T’ Space Poetry Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, as well as five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 2012 to 2017, he was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and, in 2017, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.“

Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
2022-08-31 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
Soul Bone Lit Fest presents Featured Reading with Ellen Bass & Mark Spragg
From the organizers:
“Tonight our long-time mentor and frequent guest Mark Spragg is returning together with a close friend of his, Ellen Bass, a poet we deeply admire. We are so happy to have the two of them read together from their poetry and lyrical prose.
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Wyoming. Mark also has an extensive history as a screenwriter, writing the scripts for movies such as An Unfinished Life and Everything that Rises.“

UC Berkeley Lunch Poems presents Alex Dmitrov
2022-09-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
UC Berkeley Lunch Poems presents Alex Dmitrov
From the organizers: “Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poetry — Love and Other Poems, Together and by Ourselves, and Begging for It — and the chapbook American Boys. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. He has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and New York University, among other institutions. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine.”

Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2022-09-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W Liberty St, Reno, NV, 89501, United States
Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl presents Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
From the organizers:
“Keynote Event: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.
We are thrilled to welcome authors, artists, and community members back to the streets of Reno for a Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl reunion like no other. Join us for a festival of books, ideas, and the humanities as we bring people together to celebrate the rich literary talent throughout this region. This year’s Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl features dozens of readings of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on and around California Avenue, workshops, panel discussions, art, family-friendly activities, and a few surprises! Access to all events is free, and all ages are welcome to participate.”

Poets Corner presents Black Coffee: A Conversation with Ellen Bass
2022-09-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM ET
From the organizers:
“In conversation with The Poets Corner founder Meg Weston, Ellen Bass will talk about the craft of poetry, her creative process, influences, and recurring themes that appear in her poems and intrigue her in the poems of others. She’ll read from her various collections, including the most recent, Indigo. Join us on ZOOM for a lively conversation with one of America’s leading poets, starting at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.”
Register here: https://www.thepoetscorner.org/events/black-coffee-a-conversation-with-ellen-bass

Hudson Valley Writers Center presents 2022 Gala honoring Arthur Sze and Lauren Acampora
2022-09-22 18:30 (America/New_York) | Philipse Manor Station, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 10591, United States
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents 2022 Gala, Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 PM ET, honoring Arthur Sze and Lauren Acampora
From the organizers:
“The Hudson Valley Writers Center is thrilled to present the 2022 Gala honoring poet Arthur Sze and novelist Lauren Acampora!
Join the festivities in person (Thursday, September 22, 6:30 PM)
Enjoy live readings by this year’s acclaimed honorees in our historic Philipse Manor Station overlooking the Hudson River! In person tickets ($150) include:

Cocktails, light dinner by Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill, and desserts from Susan Lawrence Catering
The chance to bid on live auction items including unique experiences, events, restaurant and personal care gift certificates, and consultations with your favorite teachers.
The chance to win MULTIPLE in person RAFFLE PRIZES including a free HVWC workshop, signed hardback copies of Arthur Sze’s Glass Constellation, Lauren Acampora’s Hundred Waters, and more!

Our gala will be held indoors and also outdoors under a tent. We encourage all attendees to be up to date on their vaccinations and boosters, but are not planning to check status at this time. While not eating or drinking, we encourage attendees to wear a mask indoors. If you are not feeling well on the day of the gala, we encourage you to attend the reading via Zoom. Our in person gala will host a maximum of 100 people and seating will not be distanced. Doors and windows will remain open as weather permits. We will adhere to the latest public health guidelines which may result in changing policies. Thank you for your assistance in keeping our community safe.”
Register here: https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/2022gala/

AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS: TANEUM BAMBRICK presents INTIMACIES, RECEIVED with DOROTHY CHAN
2022-09-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, CA
AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS: TANEUM BAMBRICK presents INTIMACIES, RECEIVED with DOROTHY CHAN
From the organizers:
“In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick, violence hides in the glint of the carving knife—every intimacy a shadow, every memory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies, Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, following a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative of self. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest—layering vivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation, queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny—utilizing varied forms including ekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.
Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press, Sept 2022) and Vantage, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award (American Poetry Review 2019). A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently a Dornsife Fellow in the PhD program at the University of Southern California. Her work appears in New Yorker, The Nation, Academy of American Poets, PEN and elsewhere.
Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of most recently, BABE, a book forthcoming with Diode Editions this Winter 2021, in addition to Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. Visit their website at dorothypoetry.com Chan received a PhD from Florida State University in 2019, an MFA from Arizona State University in 2015, and a BA from Cornell University in 2012.”

Left Bank Ciders presents The Northern Spy Reading Series with Dana Levin
2022-09-28 19:30 (America/New_York) | Left Bank Ciders, 150 Water Street, Catskills, NY, 12414, United States
Left Bank Ciders presents The Northern Spy Reading Series, 7:30 PM ET, with Dana Levin
From the organizers:
“Wednesday September 28th! 7:30 at Left Bank Ciders, Dana Levin + HR Webster”
For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070143199289

Katonah Poetry Series features Dana Levin
2022-10-02 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Katonah Village Library
Katonah Poetry Series features Dana Levin
Join the Katonah Poetry Series for an in-person poetry reading featuring Dana Levin on October 2, 2022.
More info here: https://katonahpoetry.com/october-2-2022-dana-levin/

Katonah Poetry Series presents Dana Levin
2022-10-02 16:00 (America/New_York) | Katonah Village Library
Katonah Poetry Series presents, Sunday, October 2 at 4 PM ET, Dana Levin
From the organizers:
“This in-person reading at the Katonah Village Library does not require registration. Admission fee ($15) can be paid at the door.”
More information will appear here: https://katonahpoetry.com/

Iowa City Book Festival presents Jennifer L. Knox @ Prairie Lights
2022-10-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Prairie Lights, 15 South Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Jennifer L. Knox presents Crushing It at Prairie Lights. Part of the Iowa City Book Festival. From the organizers:
The poems in Jennifer Knox’s darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects―from history to true crime to epidemiology―while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox’s distinctive surrealism, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox’s empathetic depictions of the ego’s need to assert its precious, singular “I” suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. With clear-eyed spirit, Crushing It swallows all the world, and then some.
Jennifer L. Knox is the author of four books of poems: Days of Shame & Failure (Bloof Books, 2015), The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway (Bloof, 2010), Drunk by Noon (Bloof, 2007), and A Gringo Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2005, Bloof, 2007). Known for their dark, imaginative humor, her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, four times in the Best American Poetry series, and the 2022 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jennifer grew up in Lancaster, California—home to Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, and the Space Shuttle. She studied film and glassblowing at Alfred University, then earned BA in English at the University of Iowa, where she attended the undergraduate Writer’s Workshop. She earned her MFA from New York University. Her honors include three Milwaukee Poetry Slam champion titles and an Iowa Arts Council Fellowship for her crowdsourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth. Jennifer lives in central Iowa, where she teaches at Iowa State University and in a series of private poetry writing classes online.

Can Art Change The World? A Panel Discussion with Jennifer L. Knox
2022-10-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Tuesday Agency, 404 E College St Suite 408,, Iowa City,, IA
Jennifer L. Knox will participate in a vital discussion of the function of art in our present day. From the Organizers:
Hosted by Maya Davis (Stanley Center for Peace and Security) with guests Cynthia Lazaroff (Impact Fellow, Games for Change), Rodrigo Reyes (Director, Sansón and Me), and Jennifer L. Knox
Listen to a multitude of artists, working in different disciplines, address the lasting social impacts of art. Can words, images, and stories move the world towards real change? Our speakers will endeavor to find the answer to the question or maybe just end up with more questions of their own to this thorny and thought-provoking prompt.
Free appetizers. Presented in Partnership with Stanley Center for Peace and Security. This event is open to the public. Free drinks for passholders.

Dana Levin, Alberto Ríos and Ishion Hutchinson for an Evening of Poetry at Georgia Tech
2022-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join Dana Levin, Alberto Ríos, and Ishion Hutchinson for the 21st Annual Bourne Poetry Reading on October 20th, 2022 at 7 PM ET.
From the organizers: As always, this reading is FREE and open to the public. and will take place virtually via Zoom.
To attend the reading on 20 October 2022, follow the instructions below. The reading will begin at 7 pm Eastern Time, but our (virtual) doors open at 6:45 pm Eastern Time.
Joining the reading is easy – just choose the platform that works best for you, and follow the instructions below:
https://gatech.zoom.us/j/99268967767
For more information, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu .

John Freeman at The Vancouver Writer's Fest
2022-10-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Revue Stage, Vancouver, 1601 Johnston St,, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9, Canada
John Freeman reads and discusses poetry with a panel of five poets moderated by Aislinn Hunter. From the Organizers:
Join five poets at the height of their prowess as they share works from their new collections and speak to the urgency of poetry in today’s world. Amidst such turmoil, art is increasingly important. Poems reclaim the power of words and the grace of ideas to shape renewal and hope. Gather strength for a world on the edge with John Freeman (Wind, Trees), Otoniya Okot Bitek (A is for Acholi), Gillian Jerome (Nevertheless: Walking Poems), Brendan McLeod (Friends Without Bodies), and Cecily Nicholson (Harrowings). This will be an event of discovery—of new poets, of ways of seeing the world—and succor, with some of the most exciting, compassionate minds in poetry. Moderated by Aislinn Hunter.

Santa Monica College presents Literary Talks & Readings with Paisley Rekdal
2022-10-25 11:15 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Santa Monica College presents Literary Talks & Readings, October 25 11:15 – 12:30 PM PT, with Paisley Rekdal
From the organizers:
“Welcome to SMC! Have you wanted to listen to intriguing stories? Meet and talk with fascinating, creative artists? Enjoy poetry and richness of language? It has been a regular feature of life at SMC—every semester for the last 22 years. We have the opportunity to listen to a wide variety of award-winning authors who want to share their art and experience with the students. ”
Register here: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91098314478

John Freeman With Debra Gwartney at Elliot Bay Book Co.
2022-10-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliot Bay Book Company
Join John Freeman and Debra Gwartney for readings and a discussion of Wind, Trees.

John Freeman, Natalie Shapero, and Tayi Tibble Read at Diesel Bookstore
2022-10-27 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th St, Santa monica, CA, 90402
From the Organizers:
Join us on Thursday October 27th at 6:30pm as we welcome John Freeman, Tayi Tibble and Natalie Shapero to the store to read from and sign Wind, Trees and other selected works.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend.

John Freeman is the founder of Freeman’s, the literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His work includes the poetry collections Maps and The Park, the book-length essay Dictionary of the Undoing, and several anthologies, among them Tales of Two Americas, a volume on inequality in America, Tales of Two Planets, which examines the climate crisis globally, and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love, coedited by Tracy K. Smith, a portrait of the United States on the cusp of revolution, climate crisis, and the upheavals of a pandemic. His work has been translated into over twenty languages, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and ZYZZYVA. The former editor of Granta, he teaches at NYU and hosts the California Book Club, a monthly discussion of a book from California for Alta Journal.
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2017, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Her second book of poetry, Rangikura, will be published in the United States in 2023.
Poukahangatus, the American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation

Natalie Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Popular Longing. Her previous collections are Hard Child, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and No Object, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. She teaches at UC Irvine.
The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers―be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction.

Cate Marvin and Randall Mann in Conversation with Michael Dumanis
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons 326, North Bennington, VT
Cate Marvin and Randall Mann will have a discussion with Michael Dumanis as part of Bennington College’s Poetry at Bennington programs on Thursday, November 3 at 12 PM ET
From the Organizers:
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer, multiracial poet, critic, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Proprietary (Persea, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, California Book Award, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco.
Cate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon, 2022) and Oracle (Norton), a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.
Contact:

Literature Programs
jessicalynn@bennington.edu
802-440-4376

Publishing in Transit: Copper Canyon Press Featuring Michael Wiegers, Ryo Yamaguchi, and Christopher Soto
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi will join Cole Swensen for a virtual discussion which will be followed by a reading from Christopher Soto. This discussion is a part of The Brooklyn Rail’s Publishing in Transit series
From the Organizers:
Copper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers and Publicist Ryo Yamaguchi join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Christopher Soto.
Copper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers has been acquiring and editing books for the Press since 1993. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, including What About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies The Poet’s Child and This Art, and translated poems for Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, which he co-edited with Mónica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative and regularly speaks about the art of publishing at universities and colleges around the world. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin.
Poet Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of The Refusal of Suitors (Noemi Press, 2015). He has worked in academic and literary publishing for presses such as Wave Books and the University of Chicago Press, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books. He is currently Publicist at Copper Canyon Press.
Poet Cole Swensen is the author of 17 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation.

Christopher Soto with André Naffis-Sahely and Jenny Xie at Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
2022-11-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Christopher Soto will read from his latest collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, and discuss poetry’s relationship to politics and the environment with Jenny Xie and André Naffis-Sahely.
Virtual event on Wednesday, November 2nd at 11 AM PT
From the Organizers: Join these three exciting poets as they discuss their latest collections, from André Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism in High Desert, to Jenny Xie’s explorations of public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in The Rupture Tense and Christopher Soto’s uncompromising call for the abolition of policing and human caging in Diaries of a Terrorist.
Online events (Zoom) are free but donations requested.

Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan, Nicholas Goodly, and Courtney Faye Taylor
2022-11-02 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Graywolf Press and Copper Canyon Press present Chelsea Harlan, Nicholas Goodly, and Courtney Faye Taylor
Wednesday, November 2 at 5:15 Pacific Daylight Time
You’re Invited to a virtual Poetry Reading and Book Discussion with rising, debut authors: Chelsea Harlan, Courtney Faye Taylor, and Nicholas Goodly
Featuring

The first ever collaboration event between two of the United States’s premiere independent presses, Copper Canyon Press and Graywolf Press
Winner of The American Poetry Review’s 2022 First book Prize selected by Jericho Brown, Chelsea Harlan
Winner of Cave Canem’s 2021 Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Courtney Faye Taylor
A conversation between all three authors led by Copper Canyon Press publicist, Ryo Yamaguchi
A celebration of poetry’s future

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lPmkollTuKUX5HX-hrShA

John Freeman and Forrest Gander At City Lights Bookstore
2022-11-02 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | City Lights Foundation, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94133
A reading and discussion of John Freeman’s forthcoming collection Wind, Trees. From the Organizers:
City Lights Foundation, in partnership with Alta Journal, presents John Freeman in a reading of new work and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander. This free event celebrates Freeman’s new collection of poetry, Wind, Trees, published by Copper Canyon Press, and will take place in Jack Kerouac Alley, between City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco. Seating is on a first-come-first-served basis, and face masks are recommended.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything”—Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice, by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
ABOUT THE GUESTS:
John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and an executive editor at Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality that he edited, among them Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation and Tales of Two Planets, which features dispatches from around the world, where the climate crisis has unfolded at crucially different rates. His poetry collections include Maps and The Park. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Orion, Zyzzyva, and Alta Journal. He is a former editor of Granta and an artist in residence at New York University.
Forrest Gander is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, author, translator, and essayist. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Twice Alive is his latest collection of poetry. His translations include the work of Gozo Yoshimasu, Pablo Neruda, Alfonso D’Aquino, and Raúl Zurita. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Be With and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists. He makes his home in Northern California.

Randall Mann and Cate Marvin at Bennington College
2022-11-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College Rd System, North Bennington, VT, 05257
Randall Mann and Cate Marvin will read poems at Bennington College on Wednesday November 2 at 7 PM ET. This reading will also be accessible via Zoom.
From the organizers:
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Randall Mann is a queer, multiracial poet, critic, and medical writer. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Proprietary (Persea, 2017) and A Better Life (Persea, 2021). He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. His writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his books have been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, California Book Award, and Northern California Book Award. Mann’s Deal: New and Selected is forthcoming with Copper Canyon in 2023. He lives in San Francisco.
Cate Marvin is the author of four books of poetry, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon, 2022) and Oracle (Norton), a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis, she is the co-editor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, an organization that seeks to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women” in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.

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Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass
2022-11-04 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Living Room Craft Talks presents The Fifth Series with Chris Abani and Ellen Bass
From the Organizers: “The Modern Elegy. Guest Poet: Chris Abani

No one wants to write an elegy.
–Kevin Young
The elegy is a poem of necessity. It may have been the first poetic speech, originating when our hunter-gatherer ancestors refused to leave their dead behind. The traditional elegy ritualizes grief, gives it language, and offers at least the beginnings of consolation. The modern elegy may do this as well, but, along with sorrow, there are often more complicated feelings: anger, conflict, guilt, and a resistance to solace. Elegies remember and celebrate our dead and make a space for them to live on the page. We’ll reflect on poems that approach the elegy from a wide range of experience and emotion and I’ll offer structures you can turn to when loss asks us to find words for the inexpressible.”

John Freeman with Meng Jin at Portland Book Festival
2022-11-05 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Brunish Theater, 4th Floor, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97205
John Freeman will read and be in conversation with Meng Jim on November 5th at 5 pm PST at the Brunish Theater in Portland.
From the Organizers:
Poet John Freeman and short story writer Meng Jin explore the isolation and search for connection of the past few years, through the quarantines of the pandemic and the political division of the previous administration. Moderated by Mindy Nettifee.
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we’ve been handed? Offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation, Wind, Trees joins the ranks of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S. Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, Meng Jin’s stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, seemingly endless access to knowledge, and little actual power.
Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.

Carolyn Forché, Ocean Vuong, and Marilyn Chin at the 21st Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
2022-11-10 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Ocean Vuong, Carolyn Forche, and Marilyn Chin for an evening of poetry from Georgia Tech at 7 PM ET on November 10th.
From the Organizers:
The reading is FREE and open to the public, and will take place virtually via Zoom. Livestream links and other information are on tabs below.
For more information, contact Travis Denton via email at travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu .

John Freeman Reading with Samiya Bashir at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, NYU
2022-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Lilliann Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St., New York,, NY, 10011
John Freeman will read with Samiya Bashir at 7 PM EST on Thursday, November 10th.
From the organizers:
Poetry Reading: Samiya Bashir and John Freeman
Readings by Samiya Bashir and John Freeman, with a reception and book signing to follow. Please see below for more information about the authors.
Open to the public
All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here
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COVID-19 Protocols (please read carefully)
Per current NYU guidelines, masks are optional. All NYU attendees will be required to show an NYU Violet Go pass at the door. Members of the public are required to adhere to the following:
Age: Must be 5 years of age or older.
Identification: Must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Vaccination: Must provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and boosted (if eligible, based on CDC criteria) with an FDA-authorized or WHO-listed vaccine. Documentation must include:

Name
Birthdate
Dates of doses
Vaccine manufacturer
Documentation must be in English

Note: If the documentation proof you provide does not meet these requirements, you will not be admitted.
Health and Safety Protocols: All attendees must comply with all COVID-19 health and safety protocols, University policies, codes of conduct, and building-specific protocols.
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The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is wheelchair accessible with at least two weeks advance notice; for this or any other accommodations, please call the Creative Writing Program at 212.998.8816 or email creative.writing@nyu.edu.

Samiya Bashir is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poetry maker whose work, both solo and collaborative, has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award’s Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, and two Michigan’s Hopwood Poetry Awards among numerous other awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies. In addition to her books, Bashir has served as editor to national magazines and anthologies of literature and artwork. In 2002 she was co-founder of Fire & Ink, an advocacy organization and writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent with whom she worked through 2015. An Associate Professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Bashir works to create, employ, and teach—within and without traditional academic setting—a restorative poetics which can acknowledge the despair often bred by isolation and turn it toward a poetics of light and its potential for witness, for healing, and for change. Bashir lives in Harlem.
John Freeman founded the literary annual Freeman’s, the latest theme of which is animals. He’s also an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. The author and editor of eleven books, he lives in New York City and hosts the California Book Club, a monthly discussion of a great work of literature from the Golden State for Alta magazine. His new book is Wind, Trees, a collection of poems. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

John Freeman and Deborah Landau
2022-11-14 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11225
Copper Canyon Press authors John Freeman and Deborah Landau will present from their new books at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn at 7:30 PM ET on Monday, Novemeber 14th.
From the organizers: John Freeman—poet, editor, and founder of the literary annual Freeman’s—joins us along with prizewinning poet Deborah Landau for an evening of all things Copper Canyon Press. Freeman presents his newest book Wind, Trees: a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation, offering a stark moral critique of pandemic self-preservation—as “justifications grew / with greed like vines / up the side of a tree / taking everything.” Landau will preview her next collection, Skeletons, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2023. Join us for an evening contemplating the liberties and limitations of the poetic line from two of its contemporary masters.
Registerfor this inperson event here.

John Freeman, Victoria Chang, Peter Balakian, and Victoria Redel on “Redemption, Refuge, and Release”
2022-11-19 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Miami Dade College, Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL, 33132
Join John Freeman, Victoria Chang, Peter Balakian, and Jennifer Redel for a panel discussion of “Redemption, Refuge, and Release,” at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday November 19th at 12 PM ET.
From the Organizers:
Whether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables, the COVID-19 pandemic, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide, James Baldwin in France, or Arshile Gorky in New York City, Peter Balakian‘s layered, elliptical language, wired phrases, and shifting tempos in No Sign engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas,” powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? John Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love in Wind, Trees. And drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge to rewrite Eden, the poems in Victoria Redel‘s Paradise interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and imagined, asking: What if what we fell from was never, actually, grace?
