May
May 31 – June 5 in Venice, Italy
Flags for Venice
June
June 1 in NYC
Drew Gardner & Mark Yakich
June 2 in DC
Terence Winch
June 2 in Baltimore
Literary Death Match
June 2 in Venice, CA
In Bloom
(first Bloomsday event of 2011)
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 3 in Venice, CA
Celebrating artists who were hobos
Harry Partch & U Utah Phillips
June 3 – 5 in NYC
Howl! Festival
June 3 – 5 in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Writers Conference
June 4 in Venice, CA
Shonda Buchanan
& New Native Blood Poets
June 4 in Venice, CA
Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts
June 4 – 13 in Philadelphia
AACM: Great Black Music
June 4 – June 12 in Philadelphia
American Sublime
Morton Feldman Festival
June 4 – November 27 in Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale
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 5 in Sherman Oaks & LA
Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts
June 5 in the Twin Cities
Literary Death Match
June 5 – 10 in Milwaukee
The Boundaries between Visual Art & Text
Elizabeth Robinson & Edward Smallfield
June 6 in NYC
Christopher Salerno & Matthew Yeager
June 6 in Hollywood
Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts
June 7 in London
DS Marriott & Robert Shepherd
June 7 in Leeds, UK
Alan Halsey, Karen Mac Cormack,
Steve McCaffery, Geraldine Monk
June 8 in Dallas
Christopher Soden, Jean Lamberty,
Sanderia Smith
June 8 in Manchester, UK
Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac Cormack
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
June 9 in Toronto
Literary Death Match
June 9 in NYC
Walk with Jon Cotner
June 9 in SF
Suzanne Stein
on Marie Laurencin’s
Apollinaire and his Friends
June 9 – 11 in Paris
Legacies of Modernism:
The State of British Poetry Today
June 10 in NYC
Charles Bernstein, Kate Colby, Stephanie Gray,
Jill Magi, Christopher Stackhouse et al
June 10 in Venice, CA
William O’Daly
June 11 in Pittsburgh
Don Wentworth, Renée Alberts, Nikki Allen,
Kris Colllins, Jerome Crooks, Angele Ellis
June 11 in NYC
Debrah Morkum, Marion Bell &
Carlos Soto Roman
June 11 in Kyoto
Japan International Poetry Society
June 11 in Venice, CA
Susan Browne, Christine Jordan, Alex M. Frankel
June 11 in Chicago
Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin, Judith Goldman,
Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner neo-benshi
June 11 -17 in Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Summer Writers Conference
June 12 – 16 in San Marino & Pasadena
Joyce in Science & Art
June 13 in NYC
Memorial Reading for Paul Violi
June 13 in Cork, Ireland
Jennifer Militello
June 14 in London
Tom Loewenstein
June 14 in Paris
Pierre Joris, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
June 14 in SF
Fanny Howe
June 15 in NYC
Memorial Reading for Akilah Oliver
June 16 – 19 in Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua Writers Festival
June 19 in NYC
Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Soloman
June 19 – July 10 in Boulder, CO
The Naropa Summer Writing Program
June 21 in London
Iain Sinclair, John Wilkinson,
Emily Critchley, Rob Stanton
June 22 in Philadelphia
Neela Vaswani
June 23 in London
Carol Watts & Marianne Morris
June 23 – 26 in York, UK
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive
June 24 in Venice, CA
Detroit Rock Poetry
June 25 in Racine, WI
Dawn Lundy Martin & Hoa Nguyen
June 25 in NYC
Joanna Fuhrman, Christopher Funkhouser, Brenda Iijima,
erica kaufman, Jane Rice, & Christina Strong
June 25 – October 31 @ Dia Beacon & Bard
Blinky Palermo
June 26 in Philadelphia
Paul Siegell & Ocean Vuong
June 28 in Paris
Rufo Quintavalle, Colin Herd & Suzanne Allen
July
July 4 – 29 in Paris
Ali Kazma:
How to Film a Poet
July 9 in Chicago
Stella Radulescu, Gene Tanta & Ramona Tanta
July 10 in Venice, CA
Wanda Coleman, Pam Ward, Douglas Kearney
& Chris Webb
July 12 – 22 in Paris
T.S. Eliot and France
July 15 in Venice, CA
Uri Hertz, John Solt, Morgan Gibson
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 16 in Chicago
Jai Arun Ravine & Jillian Soto
July 17 in Venice, CA
Church of Ocean Park Awards
with David St. John & S.A. Griffin
July 22 in Venice, CA
Sarah Maclay, Kate Buckley, Victoria Chang
July 23 in Venice, CA
Carol Lem & Doren Robbins
July 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference
July 30 in Venice, CA
Chella Courington, Menhaz Turner, Cati Porter
July 31 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
August
August 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
August 6 in Venice, CA
Corrie Greathouse & Jessica Helen Lopez
August 12 in Venice, CA
Larry Hankin
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
August 27 – September 4 @ Burnt Norton
Explore the Cotswolds with Paul Muldoon
September
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 & Onward
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
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 – 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
Now – September 6 in SF
The Steins Collect
Now – September 6 in SF
Seeing Gertrude Stein: 5 Stories
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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
