Thursday, January 26, 2012

January 2012

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 26 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia

January 27 in Manchester, UK
Psappha Contemporary Music Ensemble
perform Steve Reich

January 27 in Berkeley
Jacqueline Waters

January 27 in Philadelphia
The Aporkalypse

January 27 in Brooklyn
Mark Strand, John James, Lizzie Harris,
JC Longbottom, Hilary Dobel

January 27 in Baltimore
An evening in celebration of
Frank O’Hara & Jan Cremer

January 27 in Venice, CA
Art Jarvinen,
Kathy Pisaro & the Formalist Quartet

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 Brooklyn
Frances Richard, Lee Ann Brown, Monica de la Torre,
Katie Degentesh, Marcella Durand, Nada Gordon,
Anne Tardos, Rachel Levitsky, Kristen Prevallet,
Tracie Morris, Kim Rosenfield

January 28 in Venice
Jeff Gauthier & friends

January 28 in Philadelphia
Steve Dolph, Sarah Dowling, Christian Hawkey

January 28 in Lowell, MA
Small Press Publisher book roundup

January 29 in Philadelphia
Mike Cohen & Anthony Buccino

January 29 on WBAI-FM, NYC
D Nurske, Lawrence Joseph, Susan Wheeler,
Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro

January 29 in Haverford, PA
Paul Hendrickson

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 in NYC
Jarrod Fowler, Kieran Daly

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

January 30 – April 1 @ Bard
Project Lamar

January 31 in Philadelphia
Murat Nemet-Nejat

 

February

February 1 in NYC
Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Devin Johnston

February 1 in Berkeley
Bin Ramke, Hillary Gravendyk, Kelli Anne Noftle,
Lyn Hejinian & Paul Hoover

February 1 in Gloucester, MA
Michael Gregory

February 1 – 26 @ Bard
I Remember:
A Film about Joe Brainard

February 2 in SF
Kathleen Fraser

February 2 @ Villanova
CD Wright

February 2 in Berkeley
giovanni singleton

February 2 in Philadelphia
Kirsten Kaschock, Scott McClanahan,,
Kendra Grant Malone & Matthew Savoca

February 2 in SF
Aaron Shurin

February 2 in Berkeley
Rose Black & Daniel Joseph Polikoff

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 SF
Kathleen Fraser, Brandon Brown

February 4 in Philadelphia
The Wilde Boys:
Alex Dimitrov, Paul LeGault, Zachary Pace,
Adam Fitzgerald, Andrew Durbin

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 4 – 12 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism

February 5 in Leipzig, Germany
Palma Marques/Dobler/Schaar/Zweiner Quaret
perform Reich’s Different Trains

February 5 in NYC
John Cayley, Angela Ferraiolo, Francisco J. Ricardo,
Alan Sondheim, Stephanie Strickland
& Chris Funkhouser

February 5 in Venice, CA
Florence Weinberger

February 6 in NYC
Ivan Klima
(cancelled due to illness)

February 6 in Philadelphia
Adam Wilson

February 7 in Philadelphia
Debrah Morkun, Kate Lilley & Melissa Buzzeo

February 7 in Brooklyn
Eileen Myles, Monica McClure,
Ben Fama & Brenda Shaughnessy

February 7 in Philadelphia
Wayne Miller

February 7 @ Harvard
Dorothea Lasky

February 7 & 8 in Chicago
Joe Sacco

February 8 in NYC
Susan Howe & Roberto Tejada

February 8 in Princeton
James Richardson & Jonathan Franzen

February 8 in Gloucester, MA
Shep Abbott

February 8 & 9 in Indianapolis, IN
Anne Waldman

February 9 in NYC
Pico Iyer & Rebecca Solnit

February 9 @ Bard
Ron Padgett, Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach

February 9 in Berkeley
Louise Glück & Dana Levin

February 9 in Seattle
Albert Goldbarth

February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy

February 10 in Berkeley
Tom Commita

February 10 in NYC
The Hole, a gathering
with
Melissa Buzzeo, CAConrad, Rob Halpern,
Brenda Iijima, Madhu Kaza, Robert Kocik,
Dorothea Lasky, Andrew Levy, C.J. Martin,
Eléna Rivera, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Whitener,
Tyrone Williams,
plus presumably Thom Donovan

February 10 & 11 in Chicago
The poetry of Langston Hughes

February 11 in Philadelphia
Laura Magnoli & Jamie Townsend

February 12 in Philadelphia
Manya Bean, Lynn Blue, Mel Brake,
Ashini Desai, Maria Fama,  Emiliano Martin,
& Al Tacconelli

February 13 in NYC
Bridge (collab issue), with
Allyson Paty, Ben Estes, Ben Fama,
Ben Kopel, Ben Mirov, Ben Pease,
Chris Martin, Christian Hawkey, Danniel Schoonebeek,
David Lehman, David Shapiro, Emily Pettit,
Guy Pettit, Jocelyn Spaar, Mary Austin Speaker,
Paul Legault, Simone Kearney

February 13 in Berkeley
Rebecca Eland, Norman Fischer,
Andrew Schelling, Stephen Ratcliffe

February 13 @ Harvard
Filip Marinovich

February 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley

February 14 in SF
Micah Ballard & Aaron Shurin

February 15 in Gloucester, MA
Jim Dunn

February 15 in NYC
Brandon Downing, Aaron Kunin

February 16 in Darmstadt, Germany
Mitglieder des Staatsorchesters Darmstadt
performs Steve Reich

February 16 in Philadelphia
Lance Olsen

February 16 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña

February 16 @ Harvard
Stephen Burt, Mark Leidner, Tom Sleigh

February 16 in Ottawa
Geode

February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin

February 17 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon

February 17 in Philadelphia
Rey Chow on
documentary realism between cultures

February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee

February 19 in Zurich, Switzerland
Steve Reich’s Drumming
& The Four Sections

February 20 in Berkeley
Rebecca Walker

February 20 in NYC
Alan Felsenthal & Matthew Klane

February 21 in SF
Pamela Z

February 21 @ Villanova
Juan Felipe Herrera

February 22 in NYC
Susan Landers, Rodrigo Toscano

February 22 @ Harvard
Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens

February 23 in Philadelphia
Edmund White

February 23 26 in Chicago
Fjords

February 24 May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain

February 24 in Berkeley
Monica Peck
+
later the same day
Julia Mazawa, Matthew Zapruder & Believer

February 26 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo

February 29 March 3 in Chicago
AWP

February 29 in NYC
Barbara Henning & Frances Richard

February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing

 

March

March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück

March 1 in Chicago
Christian Bök, Peter Gizzi, K. Silem Mohammed,
Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras,
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop

March 2 in NYC
Modernist Manhattan

March 2 in Chicago
Illinois Poets Past & Present
with Christina Pugh, Susan Hahn, Laurence Lieberman,
Ed Roberson, & Kevin Stein

March 2 in Chicago
Carol Ann Duffy & Philip Levine

March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca

March 5 in Berkeley
Aaron Shurin

March 5 – April 1 @ Bard
Brains:
A Journal of Egghead Sexuality

March 7 in NYC
Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu

March 7 @ Harvard
Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen

March 7 in SF
Manuel Muñoz

March 8 in SF
Sawako Nakayasu & Michael Cross

March 8 in Philadelphia
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher

March 9 in Berkeley
Christian Nagler

March 10 in Ottawa
Ron Silliman

March 10 & 11 in Chicago
Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg

March 13 @ Villanova
Hugo Hamilton

March 14 in NYC
Bruce Covey & Amy King

March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy

March 15 in Philadelphia
Cathy Park Hong

March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück

March 15 in Berkeley
Lorna Dee Cerventes & Barbara Jane Reyes

March 15 & 16 in SF
Dodie Bellamy & Alan Gilbert

March 16 in NYC
Zachary Schomburg & Fjords

March 16 in Berkeley
Ariel Goldberg

March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan

March 19 in NYC
Lindsey Boldt & Krystal Languell

March 19 & 20 in Philadelphia
Ron Silliman

March 20 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on oppression & redemption songs

March 21 in NYC
Ammiel Alcalay & David Henderson

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 in Berkeley
Brian Ang

March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction

March 24 in Buffalo
Small Press Book Fair

March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed

March 26 in NYC
Brandon Brown, Paul Legault

March 26 in NYC
Brian Turner, Kevin Young

March 27 @ Harvard
Elizabeth Bishop @ 100:
with
Frank Bidart, Joelle Biele, Gail Mazur,
Lisa Olstein, Katie Peterson, Robert Pinsky,
Lloyd Schwartz,
Mary Jo Salter & Rosanna Warren

March 28 in NYC
Michael Heller, Kristin Prevallet

March 28 in SF
Ye Chun, Laura van den Berg, Dave Madden,
Wayne Miller, & Deb Olin Unferth

March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley

March 28 in SF
Osvaldo Sanchez & Omar Barrada

March 29 April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference

March 29 in Berkeley
Susan Cohen & Rebecca Foust

March 29 in Philadelphia
Cecil Giscombe

March 29 in SF
Khaled Mattawa & Ravi Shankar

March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder

March 30 in NYC
Christopher Rizzo, Debrah Morkun, Russell Dillon,
Tracey McTague, Ben Mazer, Michael Peters,
Jess Mynes & more

 

April

April 3 @ Harvard
Karin Roffman on John Ashbery

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 5 in Philadelphia
Gary Lutz

April 5 @ Harvard
Monica de la Torre & Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza

on Spanish translation

April 5 in NYC
Marilynne Robinson

April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy

April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti

April 8 in SF
Ron Silliman

April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka

April 10 in Berkeley
Ron Silliman

April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky

April 12 @ Villanova
Téa Obreht

April 12 in Chicago
The Dark Room Collective
with Thomas Sayers Ellis, Natasha Trethewey,
Kevin Young, Major Jackson, John Keene,
Sharan Strange, and Nehassaiu deGannes

April 12 @ Harvard
Patrick Donnelly

April 13 in Berkeley
Ted Rees

April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado

April 14 in Chicago
Poetry & Piano, with
Averill Curdy, Calvin Forbes, Adam Marks,
George McRae, Coya Paz & Roger Reeves

April 16 in Long Beach, CA
Ron Silliman

April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron

April 18 @ Harvard
Sabastien Smirou, Cole Swensen, Andrew Zawacki
on French translation

April 18 in Philadelphia
Caroline Bergvall

April 18 in San Diego
Ron Silliman

April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn

April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth

April 25 in Philadelphia
Andrew Ervin & Michael Martone

April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo

April 26 @ Villanova
William Kennedy

April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman

April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky

April 28 in Chicago
Les Murray

April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia

 

May

May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut

May 2 in NYC
Micah Ballard, Joanne Kyger

May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten

May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble

May 11 in Berkeley
Lara Durback

May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan

May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman

May 17 in NYC
Remembering John Cheever

May 18 20 in Tucson
Poetry Off the Page
with
Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes, Brent Cunningham, Johanna Drucker,
Christine Hume, Douglas Kearney, Ander Monson,
Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine & John Lucas, Cecilia Vicuña,
Dan Waber, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, The Black Took Collective
 
plus a screening featuring work by
Kate Greenstreet, Deborah Poe, Sawako Nakayasu,
Branding Downing, John Gallaher, Forrest Gander,
Eula Biss & John Bresland

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 29 everywhere
100K poets for change

October 18 – 21 in Las Vegas
Modernism & Spectacle

October 28 in Philadelphia
David Kozinski & Michele Belluomini

October or November in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives

January 5 – 12, 2013 in Mérida, Yucatán
US Poets in Mexico

 

 Ongoing

Now – February 1 in Los Angeles
Suzanne Lacy

Now – February 5 in Paris
Diane Arbus

Now – February 17 in Lowell, MA
Raymond Pettibon:
The Punk Years

Now – February 18 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media

Now April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords

Now – April 29 in Rome
Re-Cycle

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Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre

Twin Cities Literary Calendar

SF 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,
shocked!