Thursday, March 1, 2012

March

Now March 3 in Chicago
AWP

March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück

March 1 in Chicago
I’ll Drown My Book:
Conceptual Writing by Women

with Dodie Bellamy, Debra Di Blasi, Danielle Dutton,
Judith Goldman, Jennifer Karmin, Tracie Morris,
Sawako Nakayasu, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet,
Frances Richard, Giovanni Singleton, & Christine Wertheim

March 1 in Chicago
Poems & Artists: Visible Meaning
Kyle Schlesinger, Don Share, Lewis Warsh

March 1 in Chicago
Poetry & hot dogs

with Alice Jones, Eileen Myles, Merle Bachman,
Faith Barrett, Sara Suzor, Laura Sims,
Elizabeth Robinson, Travis Cebula, Kimberly Lyons,
Amy King, Joe Elliott, Michael Heller,
Jessica Fischer, Dana Teen Lomax & Corina Copp

March 1 in Paris
Rova

March 1 – May 27 in NYC
Whitney Biennal
with
Kai Althoff, Thom Andersen, Charles Atlas,
Lutz Bacher, Forrest Bess (by Robert Gober), Michael Clark,
Cameron Crawford, Moyra Davey, Liz Deschenes,
Nathaniel Dorsky, Nicole Eisenman, Kevin Jerome Everson,
Vincent Fecteau, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier,
Vincent Gallo , K8 Hardy, Richard Hawkins,
Werner Herzog, Jerome Hiler, Matt Hoyt,
Dawn Kasper, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey,
John Knight, Jutta Koether, George Kuchar,
Laida Lertxundi, Kate Levant, Sam Lewitt,
Joanna Malinowska, Andrew Masullo, Nick Mauss,
Richard Maxwell, Sarah Michelson,
Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran,
Laura Poitras, Matt Porterfield, Luther Price,
Lucy Raven, The Red Krayola, Kelly Reichardt,
Elaine Reichek, Michael Robinson, Georgia Sagri,
Michael E. Smith, Tom Thayer, Wu Tsang,
Oscar Tuazon, Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper,
Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg, Frederick Wiseman

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
(schedule)

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 2 in Chicago
A tribute to Akilah Oliver
with
Julie Patton, Tonya Foster, Selah Saterstrom,
Danielle Vogel & a showing of
Akilah: 3 Readings

March 2 in Bruges, Belgium
Rova

March 2 in NYC
Bao Dei
with Forrest Gander, CD Wright & Eliot Weinberger

March 2 in Venice, CA
Erin Aubry Kaplan

March 2 in Chicago
Chicago Review release reading
with Jennifer Scappatone, Brian Teare,
Michael Donkin, Karen Lepri

March 2 – April 14 in Philadelphia
Ellen Peckham

March 3 in Ottawa
Rae Armantrout

March 3 in Torino, Italy
Rova

March 3 in Philadelphia
Linh Dinh, CA Conrad, Jeremy Hoevenaar,
Bonnie Jones, RM O’Brien, Ed Steck

March 3 in Manchester, UK
Jane Draycott, Andrew McMillan, Luke Yates
with music by
Rebecca Joy Sharp

March 3 in Chicago
LaTasha Nevada Diggs

March 3 in NYC
Ariel Goldberg, James Hoff

March 3 in Venice, CA
Claudia Handler, Mitch Untch
& J Mark Beaver

March 4 in NYC
Brett Price & Nicole Wallace

March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca

March 5 in Philadelphia
Anne Marie Macari & KA Hays

March 5 in Berkeley
Aaron Shurin

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

March 6 in Philadelphia
Mytili Jagannathan & Eddie Hopely

March 6 in London
Helen Moore & Sandeep Parmar

March 6 in Windsor, Ontario
Fred Wah

March 7 in NYC
Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu

March 7 @ Harvard
Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen

March 7 in SF
Manuel Muñoz

March 7 in Vancouver
Steven Price, Julie Bruck, WH New

March 7 in Toronto
Rob Benvie, Heather Curley, Angel Szczepaniak

March 7 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on Sherri Levine’s
Gustave Flaubert: un coeur simple

March 8 in SF
Sawako Nakayasu & Michael Cross

March 8 in NYC
Robert Grenier

March 8 in Philadelphia
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher

March 8 in LA
TC Boyle

March 9 in Venice, CA
Brian M Tracy & David St. John

March 9 in Seattle
Christopher Howell

March 9 in Berkeley
Christian Nagler

March 10 in NYC
Haruo Shirane
on Bash
ō & haiku

March 10 in Chicago
Adam Weg, Lillianna Marie, Leif Haven Martinson,
Brian Mornar

March 10 in NYC
Tracey MacTague, Jennifer Tamayo

March 10 in Ottawa
Ron Silliman

March 10 & 11 in Chicago
Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg

March 11 in Venice, CA
Kerouac @ 90

March 11 in Philadelphia
Jason Zugza, Anne-Adele Wight,
Nick Darling

March 12 in Tempe, AZ
Ray Gonzalez

March 12 in NYC
Jonathan Goldberg, Byron Kim,
Michael Moon

March 12 in LA
Gerald Nicosia
on Kerouac @ 90

March 13 in Philadelphia
Huang Rui and Ko Siu Lan
with Aaron Levy

March 13 @ Villanova
Hugo Hamilton

March 13 in Windsor, Ontario
Ron Silliman

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 NYC
K Silem Mohammad
on Coleridge & Wordsworth

March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück

March 15 in Berkeley
Lorna Dee Cerventes & Barbara Jane Reyes

March 15 in NYC
Bob Holman & Thomas Fink

March 15 in London
Ruth Padel & Andrew O’Hagan

March 15 & 16 in SF
Dodie Bellamy & Alan Gilbert

March 15 – April 27 in Philadelphia
Chai-na/China Signs

March 16 in Philadelphia
Edwidge Danticat

March 16 in LA
Eileen Myles

March 16 in NYC
Zachary Schomburg & Fjords

March 16 in Philadelphia
Huang Rui and Ko Siu Lan

March 16 in Berkeley
Ariel Goldberg

March 16 in NYC
Michael Harper, Judith Harris, Stanley Plumley
& Anne Wright
on
John Keats

March 16 in Venice, CA
Reading for Japan Relief

with
Jesse Glass, Jerry Rothenberg, Marthe Reed,
Amy Uyematsu & Hiromi Ito

March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan

March 17 in NYC
Gigi Bradford on
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, &
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

March 17 in Venice, CA
Gordon Ball

March 17 in London
Publish & Be Damned

March 17 in NYC
K Silem Mohammad, Rick Wiggins

March 18 in Seattle
Kathleen Flenniken

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 20 in Toronto
Leigh Kotsilidis

March 20 in Windsor, Ontario
Dennis Cooley

March 20 in NYC
Quincy Troupe
on the craft of poetry

March 21 in NYC
Ammiel Alcalay & David Henderson

March 21 in Vancouver
Tamara Faith Berger, Anakana Schofield, Ben Wood

March 21 in NYC
Renee Gladman, Eliot Weinberger, Francis R Jones
& Jeffrey Yang
on
Hans Faverey

March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh

March 22 in Cheney, PA
Maya Angelou

March 22 in Venice, CA
Joseph Lease

March 22 in Seattle
Mark O’Connor, Shin Yu Pai

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 in Ottawa
Duncan Mercredi

March 23 in Venice, CA
Laurel Ann Bogen on Erica Erdman

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

March 24 in Buffalo
Small Press Book Fair

March 24 in NYC
John Godfrey, Rodney Koeneke

March 24 in Venice, CA
Mark Rhodes
reads The Waste Land

March 24 in NYC
Mark Doty
on Walt Whitman

March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed

March 25 in NYC
Maude Ellmann

on the Nets of Modernism:
James, Woolf, Joyce, Freud

March 25 – 30 in Jacksonville, FL
John Cage @ 100
with Jaap Blonk, Tom Chiu
& Louis Goldstein

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 27 in West Chester, PA
Joyce Carol Oates

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 NYC
Eamon Grennan
on William Butler Yeats

March 28 in SF
Osvaldo Sanchez & Omar Barrada

March 28 – 30 in NYC
Chapbook Festival

March 28 – 30 in Auckland, NZ
Short Takes on Long Poems
with Jacob Edmond, Pam Brown, Ya-Wen Ho
Philip Mead, John Tranter, Cilla McQueen,
Susan Schultz, Jaimie Gusman, Evan Nagle,
Stephanie Christie, Alex Taylor, Hazel Smith,
Sam Moginie, Andy Carruthers, Kate Lillie,
Martin Harrison, Bernadette Hall, Dinah Hawken,
Jill Jones, Ann Vickery, Ella O’Keefe,
David Howard, Lucas Klein, Jack Ross,
Jessica Wilkinson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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 29 in Seattle
Carol V Davis

March 29 in NYC
Cole Swensen
on 19th century French poetry

March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder

March 30 – April 6 in NYC
The Beat Hotel

March 30 in Venice, CA
Kent Shaw, Carrie Oeding, Joshua Kryah

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

March 31 in NYC
Carla Harryman & Emily Critchley

March 31 in Ottawa
derek beaulieu

March 31 in London
Martón Koppány, Holly Pester, Hannah Silva,
David Berridge, Patrick Coyle, Tamarin Norwood,
Ben Morris, Greg Thomas
et al

March 31 in Venice, CA
What Books
with
Chuck Rosenthal, Mona Houghton,
Ramon Garcia, Katherine Haake,
& Gronk

 

April

April 1 in LA
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

read by James Cushing, Terry Van Vliet, Holly Prado Northup,
Harry Northup, Phoebe MacAdams Ozuna, Fernando Castro,
Eloise Klein Healy, % S.A. Griffin

April 2 in Philadelphia
Ray DiPalma

April 2 in Philadelphia
Harriet Levin & Leonard Garontek

April 3 @ Harvard
Karin Roffman on John Ashbery

April 3 in Philadelphia
Norman Fischer

April 3 in Chicago
Edible Books

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 Seattle
Andrew Feld

April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy

April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti

April 7 in NYC
Brian Kim Stefans, Katie Degentesh

April 8 in SF
Ron Silliman

April 8 in Philadelphia
Ted Mathys, Geoffrey Olsen,
Channa Porter

April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka

April 10 in Philadelphia
Eleanor Wilner, Patrick Donnelly

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 13 in NYC
Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah

April 13 in Seattle
Todd Boss & Matthew Nienow

April 13 & 14 in NYC
William Bronk in New York
with
Jane Augustine, Charles Bernstein, Martin Bober,
David Clippinger, Jonathan Curley, Stephan Delbos,
Deborah Diemont, Joseph Donahue, Norman Finkelstein,
Ed Foster, Lyman Gilmore, Michael Heller,
Sara Henning, Eric Hoffman, Alan Holder,
W. Scott Howard, Susan Howe, Courtney Hughes,
Elisabeth Joyce, Sherry Kearns, Andrew Klobucar,
Burt Kimmelman, Basil King, Martha King,
Daniel Leary, Ruth Lepson, Robert Murphy,
Murat Nemet-Nejat, Peter Nicholls, Geoffrey O'Brien,
Michael Perkins, Tim Peterson, Simon Pettet,
Paul Pines, Gerald Schwartz, Leonard Schwartz,
George Spencer, Carole Stone, James Tolan,
Henry Weinfield, Mark Weiss, Daniel Wolff

April 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Poetry Communities & Individual Talent,
with Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin,
Brian Reed, and Steven Yao

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

April 14 in NYC
Simon Morris, Charles Bernstein

April 14 in Ottawa
Dan Waber

April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado

April 14 in NYC
Dutch poets today, with
Pieter Boskma, Hèléne Geléns, Erik Jan Harmens,
Lucas Hirsch, John Schoorl & Joost Zwagerman

April 16 in Long Beach, CA
Ron Silliman

April 16 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht

April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron

April 16 & 17 in Washington, DC
Arts Advocacy Day

April 17 in Philadelphia
Marjorie Welish

April 17 in Philadelphia
Philip Levine

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 18 in Philadelphia
Rosemary Cappello, Mel Brake, Greg Sirfir,
Elijah B Pringle III, Plum Dragoness

April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn

April 19 in NYC
Sébastien Smirou with Andrew Zawacki

April 21 in NYC
Jen Bervin, derek beaulieu

April 21 in Chicago
Camille Martin, Mark Goldstein

April 21 in NYC
Gertrude Stein: Stanzas in Meditation
with
Logan Esdale, Susannah Hollister, Liesl Olson,
Emily Setina, Nancy Kuhl, Paolo Javier,
Rachel Levitsky, Joan Retallack, Christopher Schmidt,
Laura Sims & Stacy Szymaszek

April 23 in the US & UK
World Book Night

April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth

April 25 in Philadelphia
Andrew Ervin & Michael Martone

April 25 in NYC
CK Williams
on Robert Frost

April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo

April 26 @ Villanova
William Kennedy

April 26 in NYC
Alan Gilbert & Paul Chan

April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman

April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky

April 27 in Seattle
Emily Kendal Frey & Arlene Kim

April 28 in Chicago
Les Murray

April 28 in NYC
Vanessa Place, Diana Hamilton

April 29 in LA
Jonathan Lethem
on Talking Heads’ Fear of Music

April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia

 

May

May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut

May 1 in NYC
Terese Svoboda
on Kay Boyle, Lola Ridge, Hart Crane,
Mina Loy & Marianne Moore

May 2 in NYC
Micah Ballard, Joanne Kyger

May 3 in NYC
Susan Stewart
on Wallace Stevens

May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten

May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble

May 5 in NYC
Tao Lin & Matthew Timmons

May 5 in Manchester, UK
Menna Elfyn, Agnes Lehoczky

May 8 in NYC
Herbert Leibowitz
on William Carlos Williams

May 10 in NYC
Marjorie Welish
on the Imagists

May 10 in Ottawa
CCMC with Phil Minton

May 11 in Berkeley
Lara Durback

May 12 in NYC
Ann Lauterbach
on the Objectivists

May 12 in NYC
Steve Zultanski, Danielle Aubert

May 13 in Philadelphia
Hoa Nguyen, JenMarie Davis
Ellie Goudie-Averill

May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan

May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman

May 15 in NYC
Cornelius Eady
on the Harlem Renaissance

May 16 in Philadelphia
Free Speech Film Fest

May 17 in NYC
Remembering John Cheever

May 17 in NYC
Vijay Seshadri
on WH Auden

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 19 in NYC
Jena Osman & Mónica de la Torre

May 20 in Philadelphia
Jack Veasey, Marty Esworthy, Christine O’Leary Rockey

May 22 in NYC
Rosamond King
on Caribbean poets of the 20th century

May 24 in NYC
Elaine Equi & Jerome Sala

May 27 in Seattle
Meredith Cole

May 31 in NYC
Martín Espada
on Puerto Rican poets

 

June

June 1 in Seattle
Dana Levin

June 2 in NYC
Lee Ann Brown
on the Black Mountain Poets

June 5 in NYC
Saskia Hamilton
on the Boston Brahmins

June 6 – 10 in Paris
&Now 2012

June 8 in NYC
Carol Muske-Dukes
on the Beats

June 8 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference

June 10 in Philadelphia
Andrew Hughes, Jonny Lohr,
Catherine Averill

June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet

June 17 on the Brooklyn Bridge
Galway Kinnell
leads the $250 Bridgewalk

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

July 22 – 27 in Napa
The Napa Writers Conference
with Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman,
Eavan Boland & Arthur Sze

September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies

September 21 & 22 in London
Djuna Barnes Conference

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– March 17 in Philadelphia
Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott
Julia Blumenreich & Wendy Osterweil

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

Now – April 29 in Rome
Re-Cycle

Now – May 6 in Vienna
Tribute to John Cage

Now May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain

Now – May 14 in NYC
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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!