Thursday, September 8, 2011

 


September


September 8 in Berkeley
Zara Raab


September 8 in Seattle
Marvin Bell


September 8 in Columbus, OH
Magic Trip opens


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


September 8 in NYC
Meghan O’Rourke & Deborah Landau


September 8 October 29 in NYC
Fred Hersch: A musician’s eye


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
Jesse Ball, Ben Lerner & Craig Morgan Teicher


September 9 in NYC
Camille Dungy & Albert Goldbarth


September 10 in Huntsville, Alabama
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival


September 10 in LA
Marilyn Manson
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 London
Eugen Gomringer


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 in Chicago
Nick Demske


September 14 @ Yale
Rae Armantrout


September 14 in Chicago
Lisa Fishman & David Trinidad


September 14 in Chicago
Kevin Coval


September 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan M Schultz


September 15 in London
Amy Cutler & Dominic Fox


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 Chicago
Return of the Geek
@ Words that Kill


September 15 in Berkeley
Maxine Chernoff & Jaime Robles


September 15 in NYC
Deborah Landau, Srikanth Reddy & Atsuro Riley


September 15 in SF
Shailja Patel, Vidya & Dohlrhythms Dance Company


September 15 18 in Nairobi
Hay Festival Nairobi


September 16 in NYC
Susanna Kaysen & Rachel Sherman


September 16 in Buffalo
Susan Howe


September 16 in San Diego
Magic Trip opens


September 16 in NYC
Tracy K Smith


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 & 19 in Chicago
Meet Mr Yeats


September 18 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book


September 19 in LA
Joshua Edwards, Joshua Pryor, Terry Wolverton


September 19 in NYC
Robin Robertson & Jeffrey Yang


September 20 in Little Rock, AR
Camille Dungy


September 21 24 in Brooklyn
Kronos Quartet’s The Awakening


September 21 in London
Sean Bonney, Ulli Freer,
Nat Raha, Steve Willey


September 21 in NYC
Anne Waldman
,
with Ha-Yang Kim & Ambrose Bye


September 21 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival


September 21 November 4 in Chicago
The Alternative Press
Multiple Originals Project


September 22 in Philadelphia
Stephen Greenblatt


September 22 in SF
Micah Ballard & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux


September 22 in NYC
Anselm Berrigan & John Godfrey


September 22 @ Yale
Adam Gopnik


September 22 in NYC
Dana Levin with Alice Quinn


September 22 in Chicago
Bill Berkson, Emily Warn,
Andrei Codrescu, Ken Mikolowski


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 Buffalo
Holly Pester


September 23 in Chicago
Douglas Kearney


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 23 in NYC
Melanie Drane, Apricot Irving, Fowzia Karimi,
Namwali Serpell, Merritt Tierce, & JoAnn Wypijewski


September 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
Bruce Conner
The Art of Montage


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 Chicago
Raúl Zurita


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 29 @ Yale
Ben Lerner


September 30 in Buffalo
Ron Silliman


September 30 in Newtown, PA
Iain Haley Pollock


September 30 in NYC
Lydia Davis


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 1 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, South Wales
Robert Minhinnick & Sean O’Brien


October 1 in Seattle
Christine Deavel
with Robin Holcomb & Jacqueline Barnett


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 4 in Oakland
Rae Armantrout


October 4 in Chicago
Xi Chuan, Zhou Zan, Li-Young Lee, Maurice Kilwein Guevara


October 5 in Ridley Park, PA
Mike Cohen


October 5 in Oneonta, NY
Anne Waldman


October 5 @ Yale
Robert Pinsky


October 5 8 in Buffalo
Oulipo 50


October 6 in Brooklyn
Robert Wilson


October 6 in Chicago
WS Merwin


October 6 in NYC
Gerald Stern & Chris Martin


October 6 in SF
Rae Armantrout & Rachel Loden


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 7 16 in Cheltenham, UK
Cheltenham Literary Festival


October 8 in Buffalo
Gertrude Stein’s
Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights


October 11 in Philadelphia
Russell Banks


October 12 in NYC
Teju Cole, Anna Solomon, Rebecca Wolff


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 12 & 13 in Buffalo
Jed Rasula


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 14 in NYC
Derrick Weston Brown, Aracelis Girmay, Kevin Simmonds


October 14 in NYC
Mohammed Naseehu Ali


October 15 in Minneapolis
Twin Cities Book Festival


October 15 in Chicago
Tony Hoagland, J Patrick Lewis, Mary Zimmerman et al


October 15 in SF
John Taggart & CS Giscombe


October 16 in Chicago
Claudia Rankine


October 16 in Chicago
William Gibson


October 17 20 in Chicago
Creative Nonfiction Week


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 in Chicago
Timothy Donnelly


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 Chicago
Terrance Hayes


October 20 in Philadelphia
Brian Evanson


October 20 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
with
Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Doty, Rita Dove,
Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Juan Felipe Herrera,
Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds,
Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Marie Ponsot,
Kay Ryan, Gerald Stern, Anne Waldman
& many, many more


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 21 in Buffalo
Kent Johnson


October 21 in Seattle
Matt Hart & Joseph Mains


October 23 in Chicago
Amitav Ghosh


October 23 in Seattle
Jane Alynn & Carolyne Wright


October 25 in Tucson
Noah Saterstrom & Anne Waldman
exhibit opens


October 26 at Bryn Mawr
The Quietist Short Story


October 26 in Chicago
Eiléan Chuilleanáin, Rita Ann Higgins,
Caitríona O’Reilly, & Leontia Flynn


October 26 in Milwaukee
Magic Trip opens


October 26 in Buffalo
Jerome Rothenberg


October 26 in Chicago
Elaine Equi & Jerome Sala


October 26-28 in Carbondale, IL
Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival


October 27 in NYC
Rae Armantrout & Lisa Jarnot


October 27 in NYC
Garrett Hongo


October 27 & 29 in SF
Anna Moschovakis & John Sakkis


October 28 in NYC
VIDA,
with
Erin Belieu, Barrie Jean Borich, Kekla Magoon,
Cate Marvin, Danielle Pafunda, Susan Steinberg,
Cheryl Strayed, and Ann Townsend


October 28 in Buffalo
K Silem Mohammad


October 28 in Seattle
Carl Adamshick & Melissa Stein


October 29 in NYC
Rae Armantrout, Camille Martin


October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan


October 31 in NYC
Eiléan Chuilleanáin, Leontia Flynn, Rita Ann Higgins
& Caitriona O'Reilly


 


November


November 2011 in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives


November 1 in NYC
Camille Dungy, Marcus Jackson
& Nagueyalti Warren


November 1 in Seattle
Casey Fuller & Laura Read


November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang


November 2 in Ridley Park, PA
Nathalie Anderson


November 2 @ Bryn Mawr
Natasha Trethewey


November 2 in Chicago
Laurie Anderson (talk)


November 2 & 3 in Berkeley
Clayton Eshleman


November 3 in NYC
Tea Obreht, Alexi Zentner, Darin Strauss


November 3 in Buffalo
Marcella Durand


November 3 in Mahway, NJ
Camille Dungy


November 3 in Philadelphia
Alice Notley


November 3 in Moraga, CA
Clayton Eshleman


November 3 @ Yale
Dan Beachy-Quick


November 3 in Berkeley
Susan Kolodny & Mary Mackey


November 3 in Chicago
Jared Diamond


November 4 in NYC
Elizabeth Alexander, Vida Cross, Iain Halley Pollock


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 6 in Chicago
Jonathan Franzen & Isabel Wilkerson


November 7 in San Francisco
Clayton Eshleman


November 7 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman, talk:
the poet as activist


November 7 in SF
Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Gary Snyder


November 7 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, South Wales
Catherine Fisher & Lemn Sissay


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 NYC
Alice Notley & Brenda Coultas


November 10 in Buffalo
Joyelle McSweeney


November 10 in SF
Will Alexander & Maria Damon


November 10 @ Yale
Claudia Rankine


November 10 in Berkeley
Chistopher Buckley, Eliot Schain & Gary Young


November 10 in NYC
Kevin Barry, Nick Laird


November 10 in Seattle
Dana Levin


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


November 11 in NYC
Janine Oshiro, Samuel Park, Jessica Hagedorn


November 11 in NYC
Samuel Lipsyte


November 11 in NYC
Khaled Mattawa


November 12 in SF
A Symposium on Bob Kaufman
with Maria Damon, Will Alexander & Justin Desmangles


November 12 in NYC
The Writing Life:
What does faith have to do with it?


November 13 in Chicago
David Grossman


November 13 in Chicago
Umberto Eco


November 13 in Venice, CA
Clayton Eshleman


November 13 in Chicago
Charles Bernstein


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 Chicago
George Kalamaras


November 16 – January 5 2012 in Chicago
Beautiful Outsiders:
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses


November 16 in La Jolla
Clayton Eshleman


November 17 in Philadelphia
Joyelle McSweeney & Kim Rosenfield :

The Gurlesque


November 17 in NYC
Lynne Tillman & Matthea Harvey


November 17 in Chicago
Don Share on
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses


November 17 in Berkeley
Madeline Tiger & Joan Tiger Bass


November 17 February 18 2012 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media


November 18 in NYC
Elissa Schappell & Helen Schulman


November 18 in Buffalo
Philip Schultz


November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia


November 20 in Seattle
John Burgess & Joannie Kervran Strangeland


 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


November 30 in Chicago
CM Burroughs & Michael Robins


 


December


December 1 in Berkeley
Anne Waldman


December 1 @ Yale
Andrew Hudgins


December 1 in NYC
Matthew Rohrer with Deborah Landau


December 2 in Seattle
Rigoberto González


December 2 in NYC
Jericho Brown & Mark Doty


December 2 in Buffalo
Rod Smith


December 2 in NYC
Jim Shepard


December 3 in SF
Anne Waldman with Ambrose Bye


December 3 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, South Wales
Roger McGough & Clare Potter


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


December 8 in NYC
Timothy Donnelly


December 9 in NYC
EL Doctorow


December 10 in SF
The annual George Oppen lecture
given by Peter Nicholls


December 15 in NYC
Rivkah Galchen with Darin Strauss


December 15 in Chicago
Peter Sis


 


2012


January April 2012 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years


January 1 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
postponed for one year


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 in NYC
Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley


January 26 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia


January 30 February 4 in Elko, NV
28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering


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 5 @ Yale
Susan Howe


April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy


April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky


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 September 11 in SF
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance


Now – September 17 in Philadelphia
Fringe Fest


Now September 18 in NYC
Kevin Jerome Everson


Now September 25 in London
Twombly & Poussin


Now October 15 in Philadelphia
Alphabet of Art


Now January 22 2012 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door


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


Twin Cities Literary Calendar


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