2022 Blaney Lecture with Paisley Rekdal

2022 Blaney Lecture with Paisley Rekdal From the organizers: On Wednesday, February 23, at 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST, Paisley Rekdal will deliver the 2022 Blaney Lecture, “Beyond Empathy, Beyond the Archive: Notes on Poetic Representation.” This virtual event is free to attend. A Q&A session will follow the lecture. ASL interpretation will […]

Santa Monica College presents Literary Talks & Readings with Paisley Rekdal

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 […]

Paisley Rekdal Interviews Dean Rader

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

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Book Launch Reading with Paisley Rekdal

Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, UT, 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 […]

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Poetry and the Archives of History with Paisley Rekdal

Marsh Cabaret Bar 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 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 […]

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Echoes of Exclusion with Paisley Rekdal

The Magnes Auditorium 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 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.    […]

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Cascadia Field Guide Presents Paisley Rekdal, Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, and Derek Sheffield at Portland Book Fest

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Cascadia Field Guide Presents Paisley Rekdal, Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, and Derek Sheffield at the Portland Book Festival on November 4th, 11:30am-11:50am PT From the organizers: "This pop-up reading features contributors to the mixed-genre anthology Cascadia Field Guide. Join Brittney Corrigan, Oliver de la Paz, Jessica E. Johnson, Paisley Rekdal, […]

National Book Foundation Presents Paisley Rekdal and Paul Harding at the Portland Book Festival

First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Porland, OR, United States

National Book Foundation Presents Paisley Rekdal and Paul Harding at the Portland Book Festival November 4th 1:30-2:30pm PT From the organizers: "Join 2023 National Book Award–honored authors Paul Harding (This Other Eden, Fiction) and Paisley Rekdal (West: A Translation, Poetry) in a cross-genre conversation on how to bring historical voices to life, and how to […]

Portland Book Festival Presents Paisley Rekdal and Oliver de la Paz

Portland's Brunish Theatre 111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, CA, United States

Portland Book Festival Presents Paisley Rekdal and Oliver de la Paz on November 4th, 3:30pm-4:30pm PT From the organizers: "In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz uses the traditional sonnet to eloquently invoke the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America. Paisley Rekdal’s West: A Translation is an unflinching hybrid collection of […]