January 2012
January 1 in NYC
38th annual New Year’s Benefit Marathon
with Thurston Moore, Jonas Mekas, Suzanne Vega,
Steve Earle, Eileen Myles, Robert Ashley,
Anselm Berrigan, Charles Bernstein, Corrine Fitzpatrick,
Daniel Kent, Denize Lauture, Donna Brook,
Dorothea Lasky, Barry Denny, Bob Hershon,
Brenda Coultas, Brett Price, Edmund Berrigan,
Elizabeth Devlin, Erica Kaufman, Filip Marinovich,
Foamola, Janet Hamill, John Coletti,
John Giorno, Josef Kaplan, Leopoldine Core,
Macgregor Card, Maggie Dubris, Marcella Durand,
Nathaniel Siegel, Nicole Peyrafitte, Patricia Spears Jones,
Pierre Joris, Secret Orchestra, Stephanie Gray,
Steve Dalachinsky, Steven Taylor, Susan Landers,
Taylor Mead, Tom Savage, Will Edmiston,
Yuko Otomo, Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Miller,
Bill Kushner, Ace Mcnamara, Alan Licht,
Alex Dimitrov, Amy King, Ana Božičević,
Anne Tardos, Arthur’s Landing, Basil King,
Betsy Fagin, Billy Lamont, Bob Hershon,
Bob Rosenthal, Brendan Lorber, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers,
Bryn Kelly, CA Conrad, Christine Elmo,
Christopher Stackhouse, Church of Betty, Corina Copp,
David Freeman, David Henderson, Don Yorty,
Donna Brook, Drew Gardner, Dustin Williamson,
Ed Friedman, Edwin Torres, Elinor Nauen,
Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Reilly, Frank Sherlock,
Franklin Bruno, Genya Turovskaya, Gillian McCain,
Greg Fuchs, James Marshall, Jim Behrle,
John S. Hall , Judah Rubin, Judith Malina,
Katie Degentesh, Ken Walker, Kenny Goldsmith,
Kimberly Lyons, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Lenny Kaye,
Lonely Christopher, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Mark Nowak,
Martha King, Matthew Abuelo, Miguel Gutierrez,
Mitch Highfill, Monica de la Torre, Nada Gordon,
Nick Hallett, Pamela Sneed, Poez,
Paul Legault, Penny Arcade, Peter Gizzi,
Reuben Butchart, Rickey Laurentiis, Sinan Antoon,
Susie Timmons, Ted Dodson, Ted Greenwald,
Todd Colby, Tom Carey, Tracey McTague ,
Tyler Burba, Wayne Koestenbaum, Will Yackulic,
Yoshiko Chuma, Joe Elliot, Nicole Wallace,
Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek & more
January 1 – 8 in Puebla, Mexicopostponed for one year
US Poets in Mexico
January 3 in Philadelphia
Astrid Lorange & Megan Williams
January 5 in Brooklyn
Leigh & Sadie Stein
January 5 in Philadelphia
Aaron Birk
January 5 – 8 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 6 in Philadelphia
David Behrman
January 6 & 7 in Chicago
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
January 6-8 in New Bedford, MA
Moby-Dick Marathon
January 7 in NYC
Noah Eli Gordon & Marianne Morris
January 7 in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Danielle Adair, Sissy Boyd, Amina Cain, and Allison Carter
January 8 in LA
Dangerous Ideas:
Political-Conceptual Art in LA
1974-81
January 11 in Brooklyn
An evening with Solid Objects
January 11 in Anchorage
Peggy Shumaker & Robin Child
January 12 in Amsterdam
Steve Reich
January 14 in NYC
David Lau & Lauren Spohrer
January 14 in London
A conference on Peter Riley
January 14 in Venice, CA
Poetry in Motion: McPoetry – Less is Better
January 14 – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords
January 15 in Milwaukee
Bruce Dethlefsen & Mark Kraushaar
January 16 in London
Steve Reich
January 17 in Philadelphia
Diana Hamilton, Tarannum Laila, Kareem Estefan
January 17 in Los Angeles
Bang on a Can All Stars / red fish blue fish
perform Steve Reich
January 18 in London
Peter Jaeger:
John Cage’s Zen Poetics
January 18 in Paris
Kronos Quartet
perform Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11
January 20 in Ottawa
Cat Kidd & Kaie Kellough
January 20 in Venice, CA
Will Alexander
January 21 in NYC
Karen Mac Cormack & Steve McCaffery
January 21 in Philadelphia
David Behrman & ensemble
January 21 in Venice, CA
Harry E Northup & Lewis McAdams
January 25 in Metz, France
FASE = Four
Movements to the music
of Steve Reich
January 25 in Philadelphia
Melissa Gira Grant & Meaghan O’Connell
January 26 in NYC
Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley
January 26 in Venice, CA
Ellen Maybe’s Poetry Rodeo
January 26 & 27 in Chicago
Ben Lerner
January 27 in Manchester, UK
Psappha Contemporary Music Ensemble
perform Steve Reich
January 27 in Venice, CA
Art Jarvinen,
Kathy Pisaro & the Formalist Quartet
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
January 28 in Milwaukee
18th Annual
Woodland Pattern Marathon Benefit
with Paul McComas, Lucille Rosenberg, Ethel Oliensis,
Mark Hunkel, Sally Tolan, Vijay Kulkarni,
Eloisa Gomez, Greg Flegel, Anne Reis,
Kathleen Klein, Ronnie Hess, C.X. Dillhunt,
Guy Yasko, James Roberts, Amy Prasad,
John Sierpinski, Cele Bona, Karen Haley,
Barb Tabak, Molly Snyder, Kim Suhr,
Robert Vaughan, Judith Zukerman, Sharon Foley,
Mary Steinert-Ng, Marjorie Pagel, Laurel Landis,
Eric Hansen, Aline Mohr, Emily Berthoff,
Joel Ottenstein, Janet Leahy, Katy Phillips,
Marsha Roberts, Nancy Rafal, Michael Farmer,
Cary Fellman, Earl Jude, Charlesetta Thompson,
Martha Kaplan, Kathleen Dale, Koshin/Bob Hanson,
Patty Paul, Ed Werstein, Tom Erickson,
Phyllis Wax, Helen Padway, Mark Zimmerman,
Kim Parsons, Marilyn Taylor, Raquel Lauritzen,
Suzanne Rosenblatt, Betty Priebe, Phyllis Berentsen,
Frank Berentsen, Janine Arseneau, Bill Seidler,
Lenore Lee, Maria Scott, Dale Ritterbusch,
Susanna Carlson, Eddee Daniel, Charles Rossiter,
Jeff Poniewaz, Antler, Bonnie Blackwell,
Lynn Fitzgerald, Lynn West, Vito Carli,
David Schaefer, Chris Austin, Steve Anderson,
Paul Enea, Elliot Lipchik, Steve Pump,
Barbara Wuest, Joan Miller, Sally Kuzma,
Susan Firer, Jim Hazard, JoAnn Chang,
Peter Goldberg, Reed Conway, Joshua David Lickteig,
Kimberly Blanchette, Sheryl Slocum, Steve Platt,
Nick Ramsey, Frank Berg, Richard Rose,
Jennifer Kraft, Anthony Brandl, Dirk Velvet,
Earl Karp, Steven Karp, Harvey Taylor,
Chuck Stebelton, Cathy Cunningham, Timur Gritsevskiy,
Mike Hauser, Robert J. Baumann, Karl Gartung,
Chuck Stebelton, Carl Bogner, Sara Caron,
Paul Drueke, Joe Riepenhoff, Marissa Wall,
Paul Vogel, David J. White, & many more
January 28 in NYC
Chris Kraus & Aaron Winslow
January 28 in Venice
Jeff Gauthier & friends
January 29 in Philadelphia
Mike Cohen & Anthony Buccino
January 29 in Venice, CA
Gerald Locklin, Michael C Ford, Ron Koertge,
Eloise Klein Healy, Dorothy Barressi & Gary Phillips
January 30 in NYC
Susan Stewart, Mark Strand
January 30 – February 4 in Elko, NV
28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
January 31 in Philadelphia
Murat Nemet-Nejat
February
February 2 in Berkeley
giovanni singleton
February 3 in Lisbon, Portugal
FASE = Four
Movements to the music
of Steve Reich
February 3 in Venice, CA
Georgia Jones-Davis
February 4 in DC
Master Class in Gertrude Stein
February 4 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Steve Reich
February 4 in Venice, CA
2nd Annual Poetry of Venice
Photography Event
February 4 in Venice, CA
Robert Mezey, Ron Koertge, David St. John
& Peter Everwine
February 5 in Leipzig, Germany
Palma Marques/Dobler/Schaar/Zweiner Quaret
perform Reich’s Different Trains
February 5 in Venice, CA
Florence Weinberger
February 6 in NYC
Ivan Klima
February 6 in Philadelphia
Adam Wilson
February 7 in Philadelphia
Wayne Miller
February 7 & 8 in Chicago
Joe Sacco
February 8 in Princeton
James Richardson & Jonathan Franzen
February 8 & 9 in Indianapolis, IN
Anne Waldman
February 9 in Seattle
Albert Goldbarth
February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy
February 4 – 12 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
February 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
February 16 in Darmstadt, Germany
Mitglieder des Staatsorchesters Darmstadt
performs Steve Reich
February 16 in Ottawa
Geode
February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin
February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee
February 19 in Zurich, Switzerland
Steve Reich’s Drumming
& The Four Sections
February 24 – May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain
February 26 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing
March
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 2 in NYC
Modernist Manhattan
March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 19 & 20 in Philadelphia
Ron Silliman
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 22 in Philadelphia
Christian Campbell
March 22-25 in Washington, DC
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed
March 26 in NYC
Brian Turner, Kevin Young
March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley
March 29 – April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference
March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder
April
April 4 in Seattle
Troy Jollimore & John Koethe
April 4 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht
April 5 @ Yale
Susan Howe
April 5 in Berkeley
Richard Berengarten
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 8 in San Francisco
Ron Silliman
April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky
April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado
April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth
April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia
May
May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble
May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan
May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman
May 19 in Oxnard, CA
Brendan Constantine & Nina Corwin
May 20 in Philadelphia
Jack Veasey, Marty Esworthy, Christine O’Leary Rockey
June
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet
June 17 – 30 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
June 24 in Philadelphia
JC Todd & Hayden Saunier
June 30 – July 1 in Oxford, UK
Poetry & Psychoanalysis
July & Beyond
September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
September 23 in Philadelphia
Ditta Baron Hoeber & Kirsten Kaschock
September 24 everywhere
100,000 Poets for Change, 2012
October - November in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
October 28 in Philadelphia
David Kozinski & Michele Belluomini
Now – January 5 in Chicago
Beautiful Outsiders:
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses
Now – January 8 in London
Gerhard Richter
Now – January 14 @ Black Mountain College
John Cage: A Circle of Influences
Now – January 22 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
Now – February 5 in Paris
Diane Arbus
Now – February 18 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
Now – April 29 in Rome
ReCycle
Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre
San Francisco Bay Area Readings
are listed by Shampoo
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