May
May 18 – 21 in Buffalo
E-Poetry [2011]
May 19 in NYC
Dorianne Laux on music & poetics
May 19 in San Rafael, CA
Askia Humphrey & Javier Jose Zamora
May 20 in NYC
Hanging Loose publication party
May 20 in New Haven, CT
Anthony Braxton Septet
May 20 in NYC
A night at the NYPL
May 20 in Seattle
Anthony McCann
May 20 – 22 in Princeton, NJ
Sots-Speak:
Regimes of Language Under Socialism
May 20 – 22 in Chicago
Come as You Are:
arts with a conscience
May 21 in NYC
Steve McLaughlin & Bob Perelman
May 22 in Philadelphia
Maria Lisella & Gil Fagiani
May 22 in SF
Charlie Plymell
May 23 in NYC
Curtis Jensen & Lynn Xu
May 24 in Norwich, UK
Jo Shapcott
May 24 in Highland Park, NJ
Maria Mazziaotti Gillian
May 24 in Cambridge, UK
Carrie Etter
May 25 in NYC
Angela Ashman, Dylan Landis,
Eric Lindley, & Shelly Oria
May 25 in NYC
Brian Clements, Elisabeth Frost,
Kate Greenstreet, Janet Kaplan
May 25 in Chicago
Coleman Barks & Phil Cousineau
May 25 in NYC
Andrew Joron & Adeena Karasick
May 25 in Seattle
Julie Carr & Lightsey Darst
May 26 in Exeter, UK
Norman Jope
May 27 in SF
Joan Retallack gives the first
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in 21st Century Poetics
May 27 in Brooklyn
Cara Benson, Sarah Dowling, Viraj Kamdar, and Mark Horosky
May 27 – 28 in Paris
Cognitive Joyce: the Neuronal Text
May 28 in Chicago
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt, Oren Silverman,
Nancy Stohlman & Mathias Svalina
June
June 1 in NYC
Drew Gardner & Mark Yakich
June 3 in Bury, Lancashire
Sound & Dark 2, with
Geraldine Monk, Adeena Karasick,
bill bissett, Iris Garrelf
June 3 in Sussex, UK
Black Mountain College into the 21st Century
June 5 in Montserrat, MO
The Montserrat Poetry Festival
E. John Knapp, Alex Wales, Faith Bemiss,
Neal Torrey, Carol Gorski Buckels, Gustavo Adolfo Aybar,
Brent Martin, Tony Shaffer, Diana Chang,
David Clewell, Larry Allen, Eva Ridenour,
James Coffman, Bernard Hartge, Clarence Wolfshohl,
Connie Kay Koch, Christina Pacosz, Tantra-ziwadi,
Robert Milton Ingram, Evelyn Aholt, & Daniel Mollenkamp
June 6 in NYC
Christopher Salerno & Matthew Yeager
June 7 in London
DS Marriott & Robert Shepherd
June 8 in Dallas
Christopher Soden, Jean Lamberty,
Sanderia Smith
June 9 – 11 in Paris
Legacies of Modernism:
The State of British Poetry Today
June 11 in NYC
Debrah Morkum, Marion Bell &
Carlos Soto Roman
June 11 in Kyoto
Japan International Poetry Society
June 11 in Chicago
Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin, Judith Goldman,
Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner neo-benshi
June 11 -17
Nebraska Summer Writers Conference
June 13 in Cork, Ireland
Jennifer Militello
June 14 in London
Tom Loewenstein
June 14 in SF
Fanny Howe
June 16 – 19 in Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua Writers Festival
June 19 – July 10 in Boulder, CO
The Naropa Summer Writing Program
June 22 in Philadelphia
Neela Vaswani
June 23 – 26 in York, UK
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive
June 25 in Racine, WI
Dawn Lundy Martin & Hoa Nguyen
June 26 in Philadelphia
Paul Siegell & Ocean Vuong
June 8 – 11 in West Chester, PA
The West Chester Poetry Conference
includes
Robert Pinsky, Kim Addonizio, Rafael Campo,
Dick Davis, Rhina P. Espaillat, Dana Gioia,
Allison Joseph, David Mason, Micheal O'Siadhail,
Molly Peacock, AE Stallings, Timothy Steele,
& Terri Witek – 90th birthday celebration
of Richard Wilbur
July & onward
July 9 in Chicago
Stella Radulescu, Gene Tanta & Ramona Tanta
July 12 – 22 in Paris
T.S. Eliot and France
July 16 in Philadelphia
Poets in the Park
as Thaddeus Rutkowski, Leonard Gontarek,
Chad Parenteau, Timothy Gager
join Diane Sahms Guarnieri & G Emil Reutter
July 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference
July 31 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
August 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
August 12 – 18 in McCarthy, Alaska
Wrangell Mountain Poetry Workshop
with Elizabeth Bradfield & Jeremy Pataky
August 20 in Philadelphia
Poets on the Porch
as Dan Maguire, Lynn Levin, Amy King,
Ana Bozicevic, Elizabeth Pallitto
join Diane Sahms Guarnieri & G Emil Reutter
August 26 – 28 in Queensland, Australia
Queensland Poetry Festival
September 10 – 11 in Edinburgh
Conversify:
Poetry, Politics & Form
September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barstone
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 24 in many cities
100,000 Poets for change
September 25 in Philadelphia
Rodger Lowenthal & Catherine Staples
September 29 in Dallas
Joaquin Zuihuatenejo & Natasha Carrazosa
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia
2012
January 2 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
February 4 – 12 2012 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
January 5 – 8 2012 in Key West, FL
30th annual Key West Literary Seminar
with Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem,
John Banville, Douglas Coupland,
Michael Cunningham, William Gibson,
Jennifer Egan, Joyce Carol Oates,
Janna Levin, Gary Shteyngart,
Dexter Palmer, George Saunders
& more
September 7-9 2012
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner
Ongoing
Now – April 13 in Philly,
Penn Humanities Forum
on Virtuality
Now – April 17 in Collegeville, PA
Robert Frank & Donald Camp
Now – April 17 in Wilmington, DE
The Book: A Contemporary View
Now – April 23 in Brooklyn
Emma Bee Bernstein
Now – April 24 in LA
Photography in the New China
Now – April 30 in NYC
Malevich & the American Legacy
Now – April 30 in Miami
O Miami!
a month-long celebration of poetry
Now – May 1 in Santa Fe, NM
Broadsides from the
Al-Mutanabbi Street Project
Now – May 14 in NYC
Todd Zuniga
Now – May 15 in Vienna
Roy Lichtenstein
Now – May 25 in Venice, Italy
Vorticism
Now – July 17 in New Paltz, NY
Tim Davis
Now – August 8 in LA
MOCA’s Street Art show
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Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre
San Francisco Bay Area Readings
are listed by Shampoo
Chicago has a Poetry Calendar
Nathalie Anderson’s Lit-Philly
email list covers Philadelphia
The DC Poetry Calendar is here
There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
If we are capturing
even 0.1%
of all that is going on
of interest to poets,
we would be shocked
