Silliman's Calendar

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 20 & 21 in Philadelphia
Miss Rockaway Armada flotilla

August 21 in Berkeley
Benefit for S Clay Wilson
with AD Winans, Luis Garcia, Richard Krech & Clive Matson

August 25 in Bloomington, IN & Hudson NY
MagicTrip opens

August 25 in SF
Yedda Morrison

August 26 in Santa Fe, Seattle
& University City, MO
MagicTrip opens

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

August 30 in Boulder, CO
MagicTrip opens

September

September 2 in Atlanta, Cambridge, MA,
Minneapolis, Ashville, NC
& Newburyport, MA
MagicTrip Opens

September 2 – 17 in Philadelphia
Fringe Fest

September 3 in Chicago
Sophie Robinson, Sandra Simonds

September 4 in Albuquerque
MagicTrip 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 Columbus, OH
MagicTrip opens

September 8 in Bryn Mawr
Marylou Kelly Steznewski, Linda A. Cronin & Stu O'Connor

September 9 in Sacramento, Denver,
Gainesville & Tempe, AZ
MagicTrip opens

September 10 in Huntsville, Alabama
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival

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 16 in San Diego
MagicTrip opens

September 17 in Kingston, NY
Stan Apps, Lynn Behrendt, Joe Elliott

September 18 – 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book

September 21 – 24 in Brooklyn
Kronos Quartet’s The Awakening

September 21 in London
Sean Bonney

September 21 – 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival

September 22 in Philadelphia
Stephen Greenblatt

September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival

September 22 – 25 in Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival Segovia

September 23 in Ithaca, NY
MagicTrip 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 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 1 in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Small Press Festival

September 30 – October 2 in NYC
NY Art Book Fair

October

October 2 in Portland, OR
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Molly Tenenbaum,
Martha Silano et al

October 5 in Ridley Park, PA
Mike Cohen

October 6 in Brooklyn
Robert Wilson

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 West Chester, PA
Michael Ondaatje

October 13 in Bryn Mawr
WD Ehrhart & Louis McKee

October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference

October 15 in Minneapolis
Twin Cities Book Festival

October 19 – 22 in Vancouver
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference

October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan

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

October 26 at Bryn Mawr
The Quietist Short Story

October 26 in Milwaukee
MagicTrip opens

October 29 in NYC
Rae Armantrout, Camille Martin

October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan

November / December

November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang

November 2 in Ridley Park, PA
Nathalie Anderson

November 2 @ Bryn Mawr
Natasha Trethewey

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 10 in Bryn Mawr
Rosemary Cappello & Rosalind Kaplan

November 10 in Philadelphia
Umberto Eco

November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show

November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner

November 17 in Philadelphia
Joyelle McSweeney:
The Gurlesque

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

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
30^th 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

March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh

April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn

May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut

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 8 in LA
MOCA’s Street Art show

Now – August 13, Grand River, Ontario
Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour

Now – August 25 in SF
Smut Capital of America

Now – in Westminster, London, UK
Al-Mutanabbi Street

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