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* Writers' ConferenceWriters' Conference
Time: 9:00 am
Tallahassee Festival of Books & Writers Conference, visit website for details and times...
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* Writers' ConferenceWriters' Conference
Time: 9:00 am
Tallahassee Festival of Books & Writers Conference, visit website for details and times...
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* Writers' ConferenceWriters' Conference
Time: 9:00 am
Tallahassee Festival of Books & Writers Conference, visit website for details and times...
* Reading & Open Mic. (NH)Reading & Open Mic. (NH)
Time: 12:30 pm
David Surette plus open mic. @ Plymouth Center for the Arts in Plymouth, NH.
* Meena Alexander: CTMeena Alexander: CT
Time: 2:00 pm
The Ferguson Library, 1 Public Library Plaza, Stamford, CT
An afternoon with Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and winner of the PEN Open Book Award for Poetry. Dr. Alexander will read from her works and discuss her life as a writer. A book signing will follow.
Sponsored by Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund and the Friends of Ferguson Library
Info: 203-964-1000
esull@fergusonlibrary.org
http://www.fergusonlibrary.org
* Kundiman & Verlaine Reading:NYKundiman & Verlaine Reading:NY
Time: 5:00 pm
Featured Poets: Hossannah Asuncion, Alison Roh Park, Angela Veronica Wong
Verlaine, 110 Rivington b/w Essex & Ludlow, New York City, NY
donation
Join us for a night of poetry & libation. We're celebrating Kundiman fellows who've won the illustrious PSA Chapbook Prize! Open bar 4-5 p.m.
Sponsored by Kundiman
Info: 212-614-2494
josephl@kundiman.org
http://www.kundiman.org/reading-series/
* Poetry Festival: WAPoetry Festival: WA
Time: 7:30 pm
AY 6, 2012 7:30 PM
Grand Slam
MAY 11, 2012 7:00 PM
Guemes Poetry Reading
PLUS other events! Visit link for more details.
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* Hank Lazer: NYHank Lazer: NY
Mechon Hadar, 190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Free and open to the public.
Mechon Hadar is proud to host an exceptional contemporary poet and thinker Hank Lazer, known for his inroads into spirituality, performance, and the avant-garde. Lazer has published seventeen books of poetry, including Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), and Elegies and Vacations (Salt, 2004). He is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at University of Alabama, where he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press.
Sponsored by Mechon Hadar
* Talk Series: NYTalk Series: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
A panel discussion on conceptualizations of the social as they relate to poetry and poetic praxis. What – and of what consequence – is a poetry “community”? Are reimaginings necessary and/or possible? Panelists include Linh Dinh, Anne Boyer and Brian Ang.
* The Garden Open Mic: DCThe Garden Open Mic: DC
Time: 8:30 pm
BloomBars, 3222 11th St. NW
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* Catherine Barnett: NYCatherine Barnett: NY
Time: 4:00 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall, NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East , New York, NY, NY
This event showcases readings by the Golden Writers, participants of a weekly creative writing workshop for disabled adults led by fellows from the NYU Creative Writing Program. Featuring special guest poet Catherine Barnett.
Sponsored by NYU Creative Writing Program & The Golden Writers
Info: 212-998-8816
creative.writing@nyu.edu
* Well Red Reading SeriesWell Red Reading Series
Time: 7:00 pm
Come for a Bay Area reading with poet, Kim Addonizo and MFA writers: Mallory Bass, Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, and Daniel Scarpa!
at Works/San Jose, CA
365 South Market Street
Downtown San Jose
suggested donation, not required, but greatly appreciated.
* Terpoets Reading: DCTerpoets Reading: DC
Time: 7:00 pm
Senior Night Open Mic
Univ. of Maryland, Dorchester Basement Lounge, College Park
* on William Carlos Williams: NYon William Carlos Williams: NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Herbert Leibowitz on William Carlos Williams
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Editor and critic Herbert Leibowitz, author of “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, discusses the great doctor’s oeuvre, from Spring and All to Paterson.
Info: 212.431.7920
alex@poetshouse.org
* Reading: DCReading: DC
Time: 8:00 pm
Bridge St. Books Reading Series
Feat. Barrett Watten & Ryan Walker.
Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
* Beltway Poetry Grand Slam: DCBeltway Poetry Grand Slam: DC
Time: 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th & K), 1025 5th St. NW
* Tuesday Night Open Mic: DCTuesday Night Open Mic: DC
Time: 9:00 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V), 2021 14th St. NW
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* Poetry and the Stars: DCPoetry and the Stars: DC
Time: 10:00 am
US Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Free/RSVP
* Barney Rosset: NYBarney Rosset: NY
Time: 5:30 pm
The Great Hall of Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY
The Evergreen Review invites lovers of the vanguard and rebels at heart to celebrate the life and work of the late underground publishing hero Barney Rosset, founder of the Evergreen Review and Grove Press.
Rosset debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Gunter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburo Oe, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Dennis Nurkse, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, Giannina Braschi and Malcolm X.
Friends paying their respects at the public memorial service on May 9th include Giannina Braschi, a Latin American poet and author of United States of Banana who was published and championed by Rosset during his final years. Opening the event is Rosset's lifelong best friend Haskell Wexler, best known as the cinematographer of such films as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." Also speaking is Martin Garbus, the First Amendment attorney who, in the AP’s obituary, was quoted describing Mr. Rosset as “the guy who fundamentally broke down censorship barriers in this country."
Sponsored by Evergreen Review
Info: 212-353-4100
evergreen@nyc.rr.com
* Herta Müller: Chicago, ILHerta Müller: Chicago, IL
Time: 6:00 pm
Born in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat, Romania in 1953, Nobel Laureate Herta Müller has written about exile, violence, and politics, and is known for her criticism of Romania’s oppressive regime under Nicolae Ceau?escu. When awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, the Swedish Academy described Müller as a woman “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” The celebrated writer will read collage poetry and from her novel The Hunger Angel (Atemshaukel) in her native German accompanied by English translation.
* Maya Angelou: CTMaya Angelou: CT
Time: 7:30 pm
Bushnell Theatre, Hartford , CT
An evening with legendary poet Maya Angelou.
Sponsored by Fairview Capital
Info: howard@uniquelives.com
* Cecilia Vicunna's Kon Kon: NYCecilia Vicunna's Kon Kon: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
A new cut of Kon Kon, (2012, 60 mins), will be screened, followed by a conversation between Cecilia Vicuña & Jonathan Skinner. In this documentary poem, poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Cón beach, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being wiped out. Con Cón, facing Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, has a cultural heritage going back thousands of years. Over centuries, the “sonido rajado”, a powerful and unique sound, emerged. Revisiting the site, she explores the connections between her own art and the ancient music and oral traditions, while witnessing the ecological and cultural destruction of place.
* In Your Ear Reading Series: DCIn Your Ear Reading Series: DC
Time: 8:00 pm
Feat. David Rees & Heather Fuller.
Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Free
* Wednesday Night Open MicWednesday Night Open Mic
Time: 9:00 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th & K), 1025 5th St. NW
* Nine on the Ninth Open Mic: DCNine on the Ninth Open Mic: DC
Time: 9:00 pm
feat. Mahogany L. Browne.
Busboys and Poets (14th & V), 2021 14th St. NW
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* Poetry Reading: Everett, WAPoetry Reading: Everett, WA
Poetry Northwest Presents The Science Issue
Poetry Reading May 10 at EvCC's ORCA lab
* The Imagists: NYThe Imagists: NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Poet, painter and critic Marjorie Welish discusses the work of the early 20th-century Imagists, especially Ezra Pound and H.D.
Info: 212.431.7920
alex@poetshouse.org
* Donna Stein: Boulder, CODonna Stein: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe Boulder, CO
* Thursday Night Open Mic: DCThursday Night Open Mic: DC
Time: 9:00 pm
Busboys and Poets, 5331 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville
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* Ruthless Grip Reading: DCRuthless Grip Reading: DC
Time: 7:00 pm
Feat. Rob Halpern, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brandon Fitzgerald, and Fitz Fitzgerald.
Black Fox Lounge : 1723 Connecticut Ave. NW
Free
* Ari Banias & Evan Kennedy: NYAri Banias & Evan Kennedy: NY
Time: 10:00 pm
Reading at The Poetry Project
* 11th Hour Poetry Slam: DC11th Hour Poetry Slam: DC
Time: 11:00 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V), 2021 14th St. NW
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* Five Women, One Journey: NJFive Women, One Journey: NJ
Time: 1:00 pm
Featured Poets: Suzann Brucato, Monica Bottone, Elissa Gordon, Jennifer Heine-Baughman, and Kathe Palka
Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church Street, Middletown, NJ
Free and open to the public.
We share a common journey as women, each with a unique voice. Organized by Suzann Brucato, Author of Matriarch ~ A Journey Through Tradition, this event shares the poetic voices of Monica Bottone, Elissa Gordon, Jennifer Heine-Baughman, and Kathe Palka. Each poet will read several of their poems along with sharing their journeys and poetic inspirations.
* The Objectivists: NYThe Objectivists: NY
Time: 3:00 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Poet Ann Lauterbach addresses the formal innovations of the 1930s Objectivist poets with a discussion of the lyrics from Basil Bunting and Lorine Niedecker to George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky.
Info: 212.431.7920
alex@poetshouse.org
* Celebrating Jack Gilbert: CACelebrating Jack Gilbert: CA
Time: 7:30 pm
Featured Poets: Larry Felson, Linda Gregg, Bill Mayer, Joseph Stroud. Jack Gilbert in attendance.
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience.
He has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Monolithos won the Stanley Kunitz Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize, and Views of Jeopardy won the Yale Younger Poets Series. Both books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He currently resides in Berkeley, California.
Sponsored by Poetry Flash
Info: 510-649-1320
events@pegasusbookstore.com
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* Open Mic.: San Diego, CAOpen Mic.: San Diego, CA
Time: 1:00 pm
Free Open Air Poetry Reading, Poetry Grove Poets, in San Diego's Balboa Park. Read/Hear Poems under Towering Trees. Enjoy the peaceful setting: no espresso machines! No fees, no sign-up, nothing to buy, no microphone. Lean your bike against a tree trunk; free parking close by for motorcycles& cars; near public transportation.
All poets (first-time & seasoned), listeners, & kinds of poetry welcome, including rhyme, free verse, limericks, haiku, and more. Read your work and/or the work of others. Or, simply enjoy the variety of poets and
styles. Each poet may have two to five turns, reading 1 or 2 poems per turn. Bring up to 10 poems. Sit on the hardened clay Poetry Bench or : bring a
blanket or chair--and a jacket (it's cooler under the trees).
Find us 5 blocks north of Laurel Street, ¾ of a block east of Sixth Avenue, ¼ block west of Balboa Drive, 150 feet north of Quince. Search for 2 back-to-back garden sheds and the clay Poetry Bench beneath a grove of tall magnolia trees.
For more detailed directions, location, a photo of the Bench where many of us sit, and more: http://www.PoetryGrove.weebly.com. Questions? Want to receive semi-monthly e-mailed reminders? Send first name & last initial to: Terra Lepore, PoetryGrove@att.net.
* Mother's Day Open Mic: DCMother's Day Open Mic: DC
Time: 2:00 pm
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda
Free
* Kay Ryan: NYKay Ryan: NY
Time: 4:00 pm
Katonah Village Library, 26 Bedford Road , Katonah, NY
* AU MFA Reading: DCAU MFA Reading: DC
Time: 5:00 pm
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Free
* Iota Poetry Series: DCIota Poetry Series: DC
Time: 6:00 pm
Feat. Cindy Goff, Jose Padua & Silvana Straw.
Iota Club & Cafe, 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington
Free
* Innisfree Reading: Boulder, COInnisfree Reading: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Matt Stark, Peyton Prater, Sofia Laguna, Jake Malpocker, & Kevin Kane
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* Reading: San Diego, CAReading: San Diego, CA
Time: 4:00 pm
San Diego Public Library
SDSU Professor Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Students
* O.B. Hardison Poetry Series:DCO.B. Hardison Poetry Series:DC
Time: 7:30 pm
feat. Gary Snyder
Folger Shakespeare Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE
* Poetry Project Reading: NYPoetry Project Reading: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
Chris Alexander & Kristen Gallagher
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* Herta Müller: DCHerta Müller: DC
Time: 6:30 pm
Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE
Free
* Innisfree: Boulder, COInnisfree: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Weekly Open Poetry Reading
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* Reading: San Diego, CAReading: San Diego, CA
Time: 4:00 pm
Classics teacher and performer Mark Miner at San Diego Public Library
* Odes and Offerings: NMOdes and Offerings: NM
Time: 6:00 pm
“Odes & Offerings” Poetry Reading - May 16, Wednesday, 6-8 pm – Participating poets read from their work. Poets include: Catherine Ferguson, Phil Geronimo, Renée Gregorio, Kathamann, Piper Leigh, Donald Levering, Joan Logghe, James McGrath, Mary McGinnis, Carol Moldaw, Elizabeth Raby, Miriam Sagan, Lorraine Schecter, Anne-Valley-Fox, Cynthia Wes
A collaborative exhibit featuring the work of visual artists asked to incorporate the words of select poets in their work.
Connect, consider and consume art at the Community Gallery. Residents and visitors are invited to participate in FREE hands-on-workshops and observe demonstrations. Local artists. share their passion for both historic and contemporary traditions.
* Poetry Open Mic: NMPoetry Open Mic: NM
Time: 7:00 pm
Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th Street, NW, Albuquerque, NM
Readings by Robert Arthur Reeves and Sari Krosinsky, plus 30 minutes of open mic. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
* Rob Halpern & Gail Scott: NYRob Halpern & Gail Scott: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
Poetry Project Reading
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* Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)
Time: 9:00 am
Patchwork Farm Retreat near Austin is a four-day writing and yoga retreat in the Bluebonnet Heart of Texas. Visit website for times and details...
* Vijay Seshadri on W.H. AudenNYVijay Seshadri on W.H. AudenNY
Time: 7:00 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Poet Vijay Seshadri Poet Vijay Seshadri addresses the life and work of this prolific British-born poet, who spent much of his adult life in New York creating an unparalleled body of work.
* Clara Burns: Boulder, COClara Burns: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe in Boulder, CO
* Poetic People Power: NYPoetic People Power: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
*10th Annual Show
Helen Mills Theater, 139 West 26th Street, New York, NY
In 2003, a group of poets gathered on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Bluestockings Bookstore to hold a poetry reading against the Iraq war. A community of writers and activists continued to gather each year, under the direction of Poetic People Power founder Tara Bracco, to use poetry to explore our country's most pressing social and political issues. Bracco commissioned new works by emerging New York City poets with diverse styles and held public presentations so the voices of these writers could be heard in poetry clubs and theatres.
Now, as Poetic People Power (P3) celebrates its tenth year, the group presents a look back at their artistic response to the changing political landscape over the past decade and offers new words about where our country is today. The retrospective will include the works of more than a dozen poets on topics including climate change, universal health care, and the global water crisis. Retro-Active is a show not to be missed if you are a believer in the power of art, a community builder, a changemaker, or a person trying to make sense of today's politics. A 2011 article in The Brooklyn Rail described the audience's experience when it wrote: "Imagine pulling the blinds back and letting sunlight flood a darkened room. That’s what a P3 show is like."
Sponsored by Left Tilt Fund, Puffin Foundation
* FLUID: DCFLUID: DC
Time: 8:30 pm
Literary Art Tour, presented by Cross-Pollinate
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, 1632 U St. NW
Free/RSVP
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* Poetry off the Page: Tucs., AZPoetry off the Page: Tucs., AZ
Featured Poets: Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes Brent Cunningham Johanna Drucker Christine Hume Douglas Kearney Ander Monson Julie Patton Claudia Rankine & John Lucas Cecilia Vicuña Dan Waber Joshua Marie Wilkinson The Black Took Collective Amaranth Borsuk Danielle Vogel
University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ
More visceral than conceptual, this year’s symposium will gather poets for whom the stage and all of its demands, such as voice, projection, sound effects, lighting, body movement, acting, props, and image, all help create a new syntactic breadth for the poetic voice. These writers press into new territories in theater, song, film/video, dance, recitation, digital arts, sculpture, book arts and more.
Sponsored by UA Poetry Center in Tucson
* Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)
Time: 9:00 am
Patchwork Farm Retreat near Austin is a four-day writing and yoga retreat in the Bluebonnet Heart of Texas. Visit website for times and details...
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* Poetry off the Page: Tucs., AZPoetry off the Page: Tucs., AZ
Featured Poets: Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes Brent Cunningham Johanna Drucker Christine Hume Douglas Kearney Ander Monson Julie Patton Claudia Rankine & John Lucas Cecilia Vicuña Dan Waber Joshua Marie Wilkinson The Black Took Collective Amaranth Borsuk Danielle Vogel
University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ
More visceral than conceptual, this year’s symposium will gather poets for whom the stage and all of its demands, such as voice, projection, sound effects, lighting, body movement, acting, props, and image, all help create a new syntactic breadth for the poetic voice. These writers press into new territories in theater, song, film/video, dance, recitation, digital arts, sculpture, book arts and more.
Sponsored by UA Poetry Center in Tucson
* Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)
Time: 9:00 am
Patchwork Farm Retreat near Austin is a four-day writing and yoga retreat in the Bluebonnet Heart of Texas. Visit website for times and details...
* Book Fetsival (AZ)Book Fetsival (AZ)
Time: 9:00 am
Northern Arizona Book Festival--Visit website for details.
* Youth Open Mic: DCYouth Open Mic: DC
Time: 5:00 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th & K), 1025 5th St. NW
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* Poetry off the Page: Tucs., AZPoetry off the Page: Tucs., AZ
Featured Poets: Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes Brent Cunningham Johanna Drucker Christine Hume Douglas Kearney Ander Monson Julie Patton Claudia Rankine & John Lucas Cecilia Vicuña Dan Waber Joshua Marie Wilkinson The Black Took Collective Amaranth Borsuk Danielle Vogel
University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ
More visceral than conceptual, this year’s symposium will gather poets for whom the stage and all of its demands, such as voice, projection, sound effects, lighting, body movement, acting, props, and image, all help create a new syntactic breadth for the poetic voice. These writers press into new territories in theater, song, film/video, dance, recitation, digital arts, sculpture, book arts and more.
Sponsored by UA Poetry Center in Tucson
* Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)Patchwork Farm Retreat (TX)
Time: 9:00 am
Patchwork Farm Retreat near Austin is a four-day writing and yoga retreat in the Bluebonnet Heart of Texas. Visit website for times and details...
* Festival: NJFestival: NJ
Time: 1:00 pm
Featured Poets: David Crews, Lynne McEniry, David Vincenti, Deborah LaVeglia, Jessica deKoninck, Adele Kenny, Tina Kelley, Charlotte Mandel, Linda Cronin, Jim Gwyn, Gil Fagiani, Francesca Maxime, Miriam Haier, Susanna Rich, Rick Mullin, Rachel Hadas, Grant Clauser, Sean Webb, Robert Carnevale, Madeline Tiger, Linda Radice, Mark Hillringhouse, John McDermott, Sharon Olson
Please join us for the ninth year of this showcase event. Twelve journals will be displayed and available for purchase. Subscription and submission information will be provided. Editors will answer questions about publication. Each journal will be represented by two poets who have published in the journal. Readings will be held throughout the event in the Community Room. Poets' books will be available for sale and signing.
Journals included this year: Tiferet, Exit 13, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Raintown Review, Schuykill Valley Journal, Adanna, Stillwater Review, Edison Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, US 1 Worksheets, and the Journal of NJ Poets.
West Caldwell Public Library, 30 Clinton Rd, West Caldwell, NJ
* Reading/Open Mike: MAReading/Open Mike: MA
Time: 3:00 pm
Featured Poets: Teresa Cader, Charles Pratt
Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA
Free for members, for non-members
* Sunday Kind of Love: DCSunday Kind of Love: DC
Time: 5:00 pm
Open Mic.
Busboys and Poets (14th & V), 2021 14th St. NW
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* Poetry off the Page: Tucs., AZPoetry off the Page: Tucs., AZ
Featured Poets: Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes Brent Cunningham Johanna Drucker Christine Hume Douglas Kearney Ander Monson Julie Patton Claudia Rankine & John Lucas Cecilia Vicuña Dan Waber Joshua Marie Wilkinson The Black Took Collective Amaranth Borsuk Danielle Vogel
University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street, Tucson, AZ
More visceral than conceptual, this year’s symposium will gather poets for whom the stage and all of its demands, such as voice, projection, sound effects, lighting, body movement, acting, props, and image, all help create a new syntactic breadth for the poetic voice. These writers press into new territories in theater, song, film/video, dance, recitation, digital arts, sculpture, book arts and more.
Sponsored by UA Poetry Center in Tucson
* Reading: San Diego, CAReading: San Diego, CA
Time: 4:00 pm
Part of One Book, One San Diego, native Hawaiian poet Keoni Cabral at the San Diego Public Library
* Poetry Project Reading: NYPoetry Project Reading: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
Uyen Hua, Lauren Levin & Cathy Park Hong
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* Jewish Heritage Reading: DCJewish Heritage Reading: DC
Time: 6:30 pm
Featured Poets: Jody Bolz
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW , Washington, DC
Free and open to the public
In recognition of the contributions of Jewish Americans to literature, poet Jody Bolz (editor of Poet Lore, America's oldest poetry magazine) will read her work. Jody Bolz is most recently the author of A Lesson in Narrative Time (Gihon Books). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, as well as in anthologies such as Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press).
Sponsored by Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
Email cassandra.harper@dc.gov for more info.
* Women of Words: MAWomen of Words: MA
Time: 7:00 pm
Boland Room, Heywood-Wakefield Place, 65 Lake Street, Gardner, MA
Corinne H. Smith, Jan VanVaerenewyck, Linda Cramer, Marie MacDonald & Paula J. Botch
Women of Words, a group of poets from the Athol/Orange area, host their fifth collaboration with the Greater Gardner Artists Association for "Visions in Verse," a night of poetry inspired by art. Poets present their poetry, along with the artists and their art. Free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.
* Robert Crawford: NHRobert Crawford: NH
Time: 7:00 pm
Chester Public Library, 3 Chester St. (Jct. 121 & 121), Chester, NH
* HOT TEXTS: Brooklyn, NYHOT TEXTS: Brooklyn, NY
Time: 7:00 pm
The Way Station, 683 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
suggested donation
Curated by local poet-activists Krystal Languell, Rachel Levitsky and Emily Skillings, HOT TEXTS is a Brooklyn reading series that celebrates innovative writing rooted in desire, sexual politics, the erotic sphere, and the body. HOT TEXTS is an extension of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist, avant-garde event series, collective, and publishing venture.
Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press), How We Saved the City (Stockport Flats) and The Soft Place (forthcoming from Horse Less Press), as well as six chapbooks. She lives in Providence, RI, where she co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series and teaches writing to college students and fourth graders.
Sina Queyras is most recently the author of Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House 2011). Her collection Expressway (Coach House 2009) was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Lemon Hound (Coach House 2006) won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction has appeared in journals internationally including The London Review, Poetry, Fence, Geist and Siecle 21. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books. She has taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford, and Concordia University in Montreal, where she currently resides.
Melissa Broder is the author of two collections of poems, Meat Heart and When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother. Recent poems have appeared in Guernica, Redivider, The Missouri Review, and Court Green. She edits La Petite Zine and, by day, is a publicity manager at Penguin.
H.R. Hegnauer is the author of Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011). She is a freelance book and website designer who works with both independent publishers and individual artists and writers. She maintains a portfolio of her work at hrhegnauer.com. H.R. is a member of Belladonna* and the poets’ theater group GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual.
The event starts at precisely 7 p.m. The first fifteen people to arrive will receive a free, signed book from one of the readers.
Sponsored by Belladonna* Collaborative
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* Bryan Walpert: Boulder, COBryan Walpert: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe in Boulder, CO
* David Abel & Mark Weiss: NYDavid Abel & Mark Weiss: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
Poetry Project Reading
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* Jared Smith: Boulder, COJared Smith: Boulder, CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe
* W.S. Di Piero: CAW.S. Di Piero: CA
Time: 7:30 pm
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA
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* Poets' Potluck: NYPoets' Potluck: NY
Time: 10:00 pm
The Poets’ Potluck is an opportunity for New York City’s poetry community(ies) to come together for an evening of readings, performances, and delicious food. An array of writers, both new and seasoned veterans to the Poetry Project, will read/perform their work. Admission is free if you come with a dish.
Anyone interested in bringing a dish for the potluck will contribute to an amazing feast. If you’re interested in bringing food, please email Brett Price at fridaynightseriesp@gmail.com.
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* Poetry Project Reading: NYPoetry Project Reading: NY
Time: 8:00 pm
Ted Greenwald & Elinor Nauen
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* Walt Whitman Bday: DCWalt Whitman Bday: DC
Time: 12:00 pm
Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration
Feat. Joshua Beckman and Stanley Plumly.
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE
Free
* Innisfree Bookstore: COInnisfree Bookstore: CO
Time: 7:00 pm
Innisfree: Featured Poets Daniel Staniforth and RIchard Froude
* Puerta Rican Poetry: NYPuerta Rican Poetry: NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Poet Martín Espada addresses the political poetic tradition of Puerto Rico, from Julia de Burgos to three major poets—Clemente Soto Vélez, Juan Antonio Corretjer and Francisco Matos Paoli—who were imprisoned for their “seditious” words.
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