July
July 5 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Ian & Andrew McMillan
July 6 in NYC
Sally Bliumis–Dunn, David Henderson, Cor van den Heuvel
and Cynthia Kraman
with Musical Guests José James & Bobbi Humphrey
July 7 in SF
Ariel Goldberg
July 7 in Washington DC
Tina Darragh, Zein El-Amine, Sarah Browning,
Jinahie
July 7 in LA
Lory Bedikian, Sherman Pearl, Mehnaz Turner,
A. Razor, Cassandra Love, Anthony Seidman
July 7 – 9 in Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
Poetry and the Contemporary
July 7 – 9 in NYC
Elizabeth Streb
& Streb Extreme Action Company
July 7 – 30 in NYC
9 women, 9 views
with Miya Ando, Frances Barth, Denise Green,
Sheila Isham, Judith Murray, Joan Vennum,
Merrill Wagner, Susan Weil, & Betty Weiss
July 8 in Venice, CA
Karen Kaslyan, Anahid Armouni Keshishian,
Soseh Keshishyan
July 9 in Chicago
Stella Radulescu, Gene Tanta & Ramona Tanta
July 9 in Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill Literary Festival
July 10 in Venice, CA
Wanda Coleman, Pam Ward, Douglas Kearney
& Chris Webb
July 11 in Paris
Loren Stein
July 12 in Cork, Ireland
Innovation in Irish Poetry
July 12 in Boston
Ben Berman, Jillian Saucier, & C. M. Ohge
July 12 in NYC
Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Joshua Harmon,
Yehoshua November & Kathleen Ossip
July 12 in Nottingham, UK
Gregory Woods
July 12 – 22 in Paris
T.S. Eliot and France
July 13 in Paris
Panel on literary publishing
July 14 in NYC
Ana Božičević, CA Conrad & Jennifer Chang
July 14 in SF
Bhanu Kapil
July 14 in NYC
Patricia Spears Jones, Paul Legault,
Carol Muske–Dukes & Thomas Sleigh
July 14 in Chestnut Hill, MA
Iain Haley Pollock, Anne-Marie Oomen, Tad Richards
July 14 in London
you can buy the original mss.
of Jane Austen’s “The Watsons” today
July 15 everywhere
Harry Potter
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 16 in St Leonards, Hastings, UK
The Moors
July 16 in NYC
My Lorca:
Edward Hirsch, Jayne Cortez, Jeffrey McDaniel
July 17 in Venice, CA
Church of Ocean Park Awards
with David St. John & S.A. Griffin
July 19 in NYC
Alan Gilbert, Karla Kelsey,
Marie–Elizabeth Mal & Laura Newbern
July 19 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Simon Armitage
July 20 in Manchester
Chris Goode, Jonny Liron, Tamarin Norwood
July 21 in NYC
Celebrating New Directions’ 75th year
with Susan Bernofsky, Forrest Gander, Susan Howe,
Nathaniel Mackey, Richard Sieburth, Mónica de la Torre
& Eliot Weinberger
July 21 in SF
Douglas Kearney
July 21 in Brooklyn
Sarah Rose Etter, Melissa Broder, Sean Doyle,
Daniel Nester, Deb Olin Unferth et al
July 22 in Venice, CA
Sarah Maclay, Kate Buckley, Victoria Chang
July 23 in Venice, CA
Carol Lem & Doren Robbins
July 23 in Brooklyn
Popsickle (sic) Festival
July 23 in Port Townsend, WA
Jeannine Hall Gailey & Dorianne Laux
July 23 – November 22 in Richmond, VA
Tristin Lowe’s Mocha Dick
July 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference
July 26 in NYC
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Albert Mobilio,
Jena Osman & Evie Shockley
July 26 in Paris
Leanne Shapton
July 26 – 28 in London
Summer School for Literary Perverts
with Christian Bök, Kate Briggs, Simon Morris
& Nick Thurston
July 28 in SF
Arnold Kemp
July 29 in Chicago
Printers Ball
July 29 – 31 in Cambridge, MA
Boston Poetry Marathon
July 30 in Venice, CA
Chella Courington, Mehnaz Turner, Cati Porter
July 30 & 31 in SF
Gamelan with Kori Mas
July 31 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
August
August 2 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Penelope Shuttle & Susan Wicks
August 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
August 4 in SF
Amber di Pietra
August 6 in Venice, CA
Corrie Greathouse & Jessica Helen Lopez
August 7 in Ladysmith, BC
Hazelwood Writers Festival
with Sheri-D Wilson, Mona Fertig,
Yvonne Blomer,Tricia Dower, Kirsten Emmott,
David Fraser, Kim Goldberg, Judith Millar,
Kamal Parmar, Cindy Shantz, Patricia Smekal,
Ursula Vaira, Naomi Wakan, Ann Graham Walker,
M.C. Warrior, & Bert Wolfe
August 7 in Hastings, UK
The Moors
August 11 in SF
Evan Kennedy
August 12 in Venice, CA
Larry Hankin
August 12 – 18 in McCarthy, Alaska
Wrangell Mountain Poetry Workshop
with Elizabeth Bradfield & Jeremy Pataky
August 13 in Venice, CA
The Fourth Annual Philomenian
August 13 – 19 in Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Book Festival
August 16 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Fiona Sampson & Carola Luther
August 18 in NYC
Cedar Sigo, Dara Weir & Rosanna Warren
August 18 in SF
Brent Cunningham
August 20 in NYC
My Lorca:
Forrest Gander, Aracelis Girmay, Pablo Medina
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 20 in Pacific Palisades, CA
Suzanne Lummis, John Harris, Bill Mohr
August 25 in SF
Yedda Morrison
August 26 – 28 in Queensland, Australia
Queensland Poetry Festival
August 27 – September 4 @ Burnt Norton
Explore the Cotswolds with Paul Muldoon,
Nigel Smith et al
August 30 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Michael Longley & Jane Routh
September
September 10 – 11 in Edinburgh
Conversify:
Poetry, Politics & Form
September 12 in NYC
Michael Gottlieb’s The Dust
September 13 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Christopher Reid & Elizabeth Burns
(apparently rescheduled from May)
September 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan M Schultz
September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barnstone
September 15 in NYC
Deborah Landau, Srikanth Reddy & Atsuro Riley
September 15 – 18 in Nairobi
Hay Festival Nairobi
September 18 – 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book
September 21 – 24 in Brooklyn
Kronos Quartet’s The Awakening
September 21 – 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 22 – 25 in Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival Segovia
September 24 in many cities
100,000 Poets for change
September 25 in Philadelphia
Rodger Lowenthal & Catherine Staples
September 25 in Seattle
Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 27 in Philadelphia
Charles Alexander
September 27, in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Paul Muldoon
September 29 in Dallas
Joaquin Zuihuatenejo & Natasha Carrazosa
September 30 in Newtown, PA
Iain Haley Pollock
September 30 – October 2 in NYC
NY Art Book Fair
October & Onward
October 2 in Portland, OR
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Molly Tenenbaum,
Martha Silano et al
October 6 in Brooklyn
Robert Wilson
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 6 – 9 in Xalapa, Vera Cruz
Hay Festival Xalapa
October 12 in Syracuse, NY
Iain Haley Pollock
October 12 in West Chester, PA
Michael Ondaatje
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 4 in NYC
Iain Haley Pollock, Vida Cross
November 6 in Pasadena
Natasha Trethewey, TC Boyle, & Ron Carlson
November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show
November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia
November 2011 in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
November 18 – 20 in Kerala, India
Hay Festival Kerala
December 7 – 10 in Brooklyn
Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour
2012
January – April 2012 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
January 1 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
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
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
February 4 – 12 2012 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
September 7-9 2012
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner
Ongoing
Now – July 9 in Bantry, County Cork
West Cork Literary Festival
Now – July 10 in Boulder, CO
The Naropa Summer Writing Program
Now – July 17 throughout the UK
Oxfam Bookfest
Now – July 17 in New Paltz, NY
Tim Davis
Now – July 29 in Paris
Ali Kazma:
How to Film a Poet
Now – July 30 in NYC
Poets House Showcase
Over 2000 poetry books published in 2010
Now – July 31 in Pawtucket, RI
Peter Ciccariello & Brian O’Malley
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
Now – September 11 in SF
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Now – September 18 in NYC
Kevin Jerome Everson
Now – November 27 in Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale
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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
