August
August 30 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Michael Longley & Jane Routh
August 30 in Oakland
Michael McClure, Ray Manzarek
& Big Mix
August 30 in Boulder, CO
Magic Trip opens
August 30 in Berkeley
Tiff Dressen & Avery Burns
August 31 in Berkeley
Bill Berkson
reading & talking
about Frank O’Hara & Edwin Denby
August 31 in Big Sur
Philip Glass’ Days & Nights Festival:
Jerry Quickley, Eleni Sikelianos,
Francesco Levato & Maria Teutsch
in collaboration with Glass &
YOA: Orchestra of the Americas
September
September 1 in Seattle
Silence & Communication:
Joe Milutis, Matthew Simmons, M Thompson,
Lisa Wells, Crystal Curry, Nico Vassilakis,
Cristin Miller, Paul Nelson, Alex Bleecker,
Jarret Middleton, Jeremy Springsteed, Laura Wachs,
Robert Mittenthal, Greg Bem, Jason Conger,
Willie Fitzgerald, Graham Isaac, Summer Robinson,
Jesse Minkert, Ian Ettinger, Gregory Laynor,
& Melanie Noel
each explore John Cage’s concepts
in two minutes or less
September 1 – October 15 in Philadelphia
Alphabet of Art
September 2 in Atlanta, Cambridge, MA,
Minneapolis, Ashville, NC
& Newburyport, MA
Magic Trip Opens
September 2 – 17 in Philadelphia
Fringe Fest
September 3 in Chicago
Sophie Robinson, Sandra Simonds
September 3 in Philadelphia
Baltimore comes to Philly
Adam Robinson, Chris Toll, Chris Mason,
Les Wade, Christophe Cassimassima, Justin Sirois,
Joe Hall, Cheryl Quimba, Jamie Gaughran-Perez,
Rupert Wondolowski, Stephanie Barber
September 4 in Albuquerque
Magic Trip opens
September 6 – January 22 2012 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
September 7 in Ridley Park, PA
Camille Norvaisas
September 8 in Berkeley
Zara Raab
September 8 in Columbus, OH
Magic Trip opens
September 8 in Bryn Mawr
Marylou Kelly Steznewski, Linda A. Cronin & Stu O'Connor
September 9 in NYC
Dedication of the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall
@ the Bowery Poetry Club
September 9 in Sacramento, Denver,
Gainesville & Tempe, AZ
Magic Trip opens
September 9 in NYC
Camille Dungy & Albert Goldbarth
September 10 in Huntsville, Alabama
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival
September 10 in LA
Patricia Smith, Ilya Kaminsky, Jeffrey McDaniel,
Rachel McKibbens, Brendan Constantine, & Suzanne Lummis
September 10 – 11 in Edinburgh
Conversify:
Poetry, Politics & Form
September 12 in NYC
Michael Gottlieb’s The Dust
September 12 in NYC
Akilah Oliver memorial reading, with
Rachel Levitsky, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Lauren Nicole Nixon,
Eric Freer, Kailey Foley & Karl Leone
September 13 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Christopher Reid & Elizabeth Burns
(apparently rescheduled from May)
September 13 in NYC
Feminism & Poetry:
Ana Božičević, Caroline Crumpacker, Diane DiPrima, Melanie La Rosa
September 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan M Schultz
September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barnstone
September 15 in NYC
Anne Waldman, Elaine Equi
September 15 in Laramie, Wyoming
Camille Dungy
September 15 in Berkeley
Maxine Chernoff & Jaime Robles
September 15 in NYC
Deborah Landau, Srikanth Reddy & Atsuro Riley
September 15 – 18 in Nairobi
Hay Festival Nairobi
September 16 in San Diego
Magic Trip opens
September 17 in Kingston, NY
Stan Apps, Lynn Behrendt, Joe Elliott
September 17 in Fort Collins, CO
Camille Dungy
September 18 in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Book Festival
September 18 – 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book
September 20 in Little Rock, AR
Camille Dungy
September 21 – 24 in Brooklyn
Kronos Quartet’s The Awakening
September 21 in London
Sean Bonney
September 21 in NYC
Anne Waldman,
with Ha-Yang Kim & Ambrose Bye
September 21 – 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival
September 22 in Philadelphia
Stephen Greenblatt
September 22 in Jacksonville, FL
Camille Dungy
September 22 in NYC
Sotheby’s Contemporary Arts auction
September 22 in Philadelphia
Andi Rosenthal
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 22 – 25 in Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival Segovia
September 23 in Ithaca, NY
Magic Trip opens
September 23 in St Catharines, Ontario
Camille Martin, Shannon Maguire, Angela Szczepaniak,
Aisha Sasha John, & Zorras Multimedia Group
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 26 in Toronto
Camille Martin, Jim Johnstone
September 26 in Minneapolis
Craig Thompson
September 26 in NYC
Seamus Heaney
September 27 in Philadelphia
Charles Alexander
September 27 in Mill Valley, CA
Camille Dungy
September 27, in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Paul Muldoon
September 27 in Philadelphia
Ernest Hilbert, Daniel Nester, David Yezzi
September 28 in Princeton
Anthony Carelli & Danai Gurira
September 29 in Dallas
Joaquin Zuihuatenejo & Natasha Carrazosa
September 30 in Newtown, PA
Iain Haley Pollock
September 30 – October 1 in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Small Press Festival
September 30 – October 2 in NYC
NY Art Book Fair
October
October 1 in Berkeley
Robert Hass, Camille Dungy, Jane Hirshfield,
DA Powell, Judy Grahn et al
October 2 in Portland, OR
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Molly Tenenbaum,
Martha Silano et al
October 2 in Oakland
Gloria Frym & Donna de la Perriere
October 3 in NYC
Anne Enright & Michael Ondaatje
October 5 in Ridley Park, PA
Mike Cohen
October 5 in Oneonta, NY
Anne Waldman
October 6 in Brooklyn
Robert Wilson
October 6 in Berkeley
Linda Norton & Richard Moore
October 6 in Lewiston, ME
Camille Dungy
October 6 in Philadelphia
William Kennedy & Paul Hendrickson
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 6 – 9 in Xalapa, Vera Cruz
Hay Festival Xalapa
October 11 in Philadelphia
Russell Banks
October 12 in Syracuse, NY
Iain Haley Pollock
October 12 in Philadelphia
Jerome Rothenberg & Amish Trivedi
& (later the same day)
Rusty Morrison & Elizabeth Robinson
October 12 in NYC
Anne Waldman & Charles North
October 13 in Bryn Mawr
WD Ehrhart & Louis McKee
October 13 in Philadelphia
Cecilia Vicuña
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 15 in Minneapolis
Twin Cities Book Festival
October 18 in Philadelphia
Jane Hirshfield
October 19 in NYC
Brent Hayes Edwards, Anne Waldman, Jayne Cortez,
Jerome Rothenberg, Thomas Glave, Heller Levinson, &
Clayton Eshleman
October 19 in Princeton
Rita Dove & James Salter
October 19 – 22 in Vancouver
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan
October 20 in Middletown, CT
Clayton Eshleman
October 20 in Berkeley
Nina Corwin & Adrene Zawinski
October 20 in Philadelphia
Brian Evanson
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
October 21 in Philadelphia
A celebration of Rachel Blau DuPlessis
with Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, Libbie Rifkin,
Eric Keeneghan, Jena Osman, Brian Teare,
Pattie McCarthy, Kevin Varrone, Emily Abendroth,
Holly Bittner, C.A. Conrad, Tom Devaney,
Sarah Dowling, Ryan Eckes, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga,
Chris McCreary, Michelle Taransky, Heather Thomas
& more
October 25 in Tucson
Noah Saterstrom & Anne Waldman
exhibit opens
October 26 at Bryn Mawr
The Quietist Short Story
October 26 in Milwaukee
Magic Trip opens
October 26-28 in Carbondale, IL
Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival
October 29 in NYC
Rae Armantrout, Camille Martin
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
October 31 in NYC
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Leontia Flynn, Rita Ann Higgins
& Caitriona O'Reilly
November
November 1 in NYC
Camille Dungy, Marcus Jackson
& Nagueyalti Warren
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 2 in Ridley Park, PA
Nathalie Anderson
November 2 @ Bryn Mawr
Natasha Trethewey
November 2 & 3 in Berkeley
Clayton Eshleman
November 3 in Mahway, NJ
Camille Dungy
November 3 in Philadelphia
Alice Notley
November 3 in Moraga, CA
Clayton Eshleman
November 3 in Berkeley
Susan Kolodny & Mary Mackey
November 4 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman
November 4 in NYC
Iain Haley Pollock, Vida Cross
November 4 – 6 in Aldeburgh, UK
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
November 6 in Pasadena
Natasha Trethewey, TC Boyle, & Ron Carlson
November 7 in San Francisco
Clayton Eshleman
November 7 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman, talk:
the poet as activist
November 8 in Philadelphia
Peter Balakian
November 8 in San Jose, CA
Camille Dungy
November 8 in Berkeley
Brian Turner, Joseph Woods & Eugene O’Connell
November 9 in San Luis Obispo
Clayton Eshleman
November 9 in SF
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
November 9 in Berkeley
Tess Gallagher
November 10 in Bryn Mawr
Rosemary Cappello & Rosalind Kaplan
November 10 in Philadelphia
Umberto Eco
November 10 in Santa Barbara
Clayton Eshleman
November 10 in Berkeley
Chistopher Buckley, Eliot Schain & Gary Young
November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show
November 13 in Venice, CA
Clayton Eshleman
November 14 in Los Angeles
Clayton Eshleman
November 15 in NYC
Anne Waldman, Brenda Coultas, Anna Moschovakis
November 16 in NYC
National Book Awards Dinner
November 16 in La Jolla
Clayton Eshleman
November 17 in Philadelphia
Joyelle McSweeney & Kim Rosenfield :
The Gurlesque
November 17 in Berkeley
Madeline Tiger & Joan Tiger Bass
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
November 30 in SF
Anne Waldman
November 30 in Princeton
Rae Armantrout & John Irving
November 30 in Philadelphia
Dan Beachy-Quick & Laura Goldstein
December
December 1 in Berkeley
Anne Waldman
December 3 in SF
Anne Waldman with Ambrose Bye
December 7 – 10 in Brooklyn
Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour
December 7 – 21 in Nairobi
Summer Literary Seminar
December 8 in Bryn Mawr
Dave Steel, Frank D. Walsh
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 18 in London
Peter Jaeger:
John Cage’s Zen Poetics
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
February 8 in Princeton
James Richardson & Jonathan Franzen
February 8 & 9 in Indianapolis, IN
Anne Waldman
February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy
February 4 – 12 2012 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley
March 29 – April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 17 – 30 2012 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
September 7-9 2012 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
Ongoing
Now – August 31 in NYC
Jimmy De Sana
Now – September 6 in SF
The Steins Collect
Now – September 6 in SF
Seeing Gertrude Stein: 5 Stories
Now – September 7 in NYC
Ray’s a Laugh:
responding to the work of Ray Johnson,
with Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Leo Fitzpatrick,
Ray Johnson, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman,
Adam McEwen, Josh Smith & Dash Snow
Now – September 11 in SF
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Now – September 18 in NYC
Kevin Jerome Everson
Now – September 4 @ Burnt Norton
Explore the Cotswolds with Paul Muldoon,
Nigel Smith et al
Now – September 25 in London
Twombly & Poussin
Now – November 22 in Richmond, VA
Tristin Lowe’s Mocha Dick
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
as does
The Philly Lit Calendar
The DC Poetry Calendar is here
There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
Modern Poetry
catalogs events around London
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
