January 17 – 22 in Palm Beach, FL
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 17 – 30 in NYC
Harlem Renaissance Festival
January 17 in London
David Briggs, Ruth Fainlight, Anne-Marie Fyfe,
Allison McVety, Katherine Kilalea, Ellen Cranitch,
Anna-May Laugher, Diana Pooley & Henry Fajemirokun
January 18 in Seattle
Belle Randall
January 18 in New Haven, CT
Annie Murphy Paul & Carl Zimmer
January 18 in Chicago
Susan Buffam & Peter O’Leary
January 19 in NYC
Nick Piombino & Lisa Robertson
January 20 in Philadelphia
Jemeel Moondoc Trio
January 20 in Philadelphia
Arika Okrent on
“Birdo, Dosifasol, P2846
& Other Curious Words
from Invented Languages”
January 20 in Ann Arbor
John Beer & Ish Klein
January 20 & 21 in Chicago
Erin Mouré
January 21 in Chicago
William Burroughs: The Man Within
January 21 in Santa Fe
William Burroughs: The Man Within
January 20 & 21 in Philadelphia
&
January 22 & 23 in NYC
North of Intention
with a. rawlings, Adeena Karasick, Fred Wah,
Jeff Derksen, Jordan Scott, Lisa Robertson,
M. NourbeSe Philip, Nicole Brossard, Roy Miki,
Stephen Collis & Maja Jantar
January 20 – February 19 in NYC
Peter Plagens
January 21 in Saginaw, MI
John Beer & Ish Klein
January 21 in Chicago
Czeslaw Milosz’s Luminous Things
January 21 in NYC
Leopoldine Core & Corrine Fitzpatrick
January 22 in NYC
Norma Cole & CAConrad
January 22 in Philadelphia
The Sonic Liberation Front
meets
Bobby Zankel & the
Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
January 22 in Hastings, UK
The Moors
January 22 in Chicago
Robert Fernandez & Ish Klein
January 22 in Berkeley
Music for Keen Ears
January 22 – February 27 in Forestville, CA
13 Bay Area Artists
including Loreen Barry, Jack Carter,
Michael Coy, Cecilia Hallinan, Elizabeth Herron,
Brooke Holve, Brian Howlett, Eric Johnson,
Lin Max, Pat Nolan, Micah Schwaberow,
Sally Seymour, & Laurie Szujewska
January 23 in London
TS Eliot Prize shortlist reading
January 24 in Iowa City
Ish Klein
January 24 in London
Fiona Sampson & Mimi Khalvati
January 24 in NYC
Ben Mirov & Solmaz Sharif
January 24 in NYC
Carlos Fuentes
January 26 in NYC
Lars Gustafsson & Donna Stonecipher
January 26 in NYC
Kimiko Hahn, Saskia Hamilton, Noelle Kocot,
David Lehman, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy,
& Stacy Szymaszek
January 27 in Philadelphia
Daniel Gordon
talking about his photography
January 27 in Swansea, Wales
Adam O’Riordon
January 28 & 29 in SF
10th Annual Poets Theater Extravaganza
with plays by
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, David Brazil & Evan Kennedy,
Laynie Browne, Christine Choi & Drew Fernando,
Tom Comitta, Corina Copp, C.S. Giscombe,
Brent Cunningham, Ariel Goldberg, Rodrigo Toscano
& more
January 28 in NYC
Travis Nichols
January 28 – 30 @ Esalen
Ellen Bass
January 29 in Milwaukee
The Woodland Pattern New Year Marathon
January 29 in NYC
Yedda Morrison & Douglas Kearney
January 29 in Philadelphia
Noah Cutler & April Lindner
January 30 in Seattle
Edward Harkness & Anne Pitkin
January 30 in Melbourne, Australia
William Burroughs: The Man Within
January 31 in Wendell, MA
Ish Klein & Greg Purcell
January 31 in NYC
a talk by Joshua Clover
January 31 in London
The Importance of Music to Poets
February 1 in Philadelphia (at noon)
Charles Alexander
February 1 in Philadelphia (6 PM)
Nathaniel Mackey
February 1 @ Villanova
Monique Truong
February 2 – 5 in Washington, DC
AWP
February 2 in Washington DC
Cave Canem Offsite at AWP
with E.J. Antonio, Reginald Dwayne Betts,
Remica Bingham-Risher, Derrick Brown, Erica Doyle,
Jonterri Gadson, Yalonda JD Green, Rachel Eliza Griffiths,
Niki Herd, Randall Horton, Linda Susan Jackson,
Marcus Jackson, Brandon Johnson, Bettina Judd,
Rickey Laurentiis, Robin Lewis, January Gill O'Neil,
Iain Pollock, Nicole Sealey & Wendy S. Walters.
February 2 in Ellensburg, WA
Tod Marshall
February 2 – 8 in Elyria, OH
Snoetry II:
world’s longest poetry reading ever
February 3 in Berkeley
Camille T. Dungy
February 3 in Philadelphia
Cecilia Vicuna
February 3 & 4 in Chicago
Rob Halpern
February 4 in NYC
Sandra Alcosser, Joseph Bruchac, Alison Hawthorne Deming,
Mark Doty & Pattiann Rogers
February 4 in Brooklyn
Debrah Morkum
February 7 in Philadelphia
Michael Davidson
February 7 in Belgrade
William Burroughs: The Man Within
February 8 in NYC
Elizabeth Bishop @ 100
with Elizabeth Alexander, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart,
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Tina Chang, Jonathan Galassi,
Kimiko Hahn, Richard Howard, Marie Howe,
Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, Paul Muldoon,
Robert Polito, Marie Ponsot, Vijay Seshadri,
Tom Sleigh, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith & Jean Valentine
February 9 in Philadelphia
Philip Lopate
February 10 in NYC
Sparrow with Foamola & Tsipi Keller
February 10 in Philadelphia
A talk by Julie Weitz
February 10 in Chicago
John Wilkinson
February 11 in SF
Sueyuen Juliette Lee, Maxi Kim,
Jacqueline Frost
February 11 in Bolinas, CA
W.S. Merwin
February 12 in Portland, OR
A celebration of Leslie Scalapino
February 12 in Kingston, NY
Cynthia Arrieu-King & George Quasha
February 14 in Hickory, NC
Kevin Young
February 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan Cheever
February 15 in New Haven, CT
Edith Pearlman & Elizabeth Ziemska
February 15 – 20 in Chicago
Fluxus
February 17 in NYC
Ann Lauterbach & Paul Foster Johnson
February 17 in Chicago
Elizabeth Bishop’s letters to the New Yorker
February 17 @ Villanova
Terrance Hayes
February 18 in Philadelphia
Marathon reading of Mrs Dalloway
February 18 in Brooklyn
Cornelius Eady & Jacqueline Jones LaMon
February 18 in SF
David Wolach, Laura Elrick, Lara Durback
February 19 in Point Reyes Station, CA
ROVA Saxophone Quartet
February 21 in NYC
Joyce Carol Oates, Henri Cole
February 22 in Philadelphia
The Celestial Septet
(being ROVA + the Nels Cline Singers)
February 24 in Chicago
Edwin Torres
February 24 in Philadelphia
New Jewish Writing
with Bob Perelman,
Shahar Bram, Jessica Greenbaum,
& Rivka Fogel
February 24 in Amherst, MA
The Celestial Septet
February 24 in Minneapolis
Gary Jackson & Yusef Komunyakaa
February 25 in Boston
The Celestial Septet
February 26 in NYC
The Celestial Septet
February 26 in Philadelphia
B.E. Kahn & Mel Brake
February 27 in Baltimore
The Celestial Septet
February 28 in Washington, DC
Naomi Ayala, Valerie Martinez, J. Michael Martinez
February 28 in London
David Constantine, Kelly Grovier, Martha Kapos,
Saradha Soobrayen, Christopher Southgate, Anna Robinson,
Kathryn Maris, Sasha Dugdale & Philip Hancock
March 3 in Berkeley
Truong Tran
March 3 in NYC
C.D. Wright & C.K. Williams
March 3 in NYC
Tiphanie Yanique & David Wilentz
March 3 & 4 in Chicago
Claudia Rankine
March 4 in Cambridge, MA
Debrah Morkum, Leslie Williams & Marc Jampole
March 6 in SF
The New Talkies:
Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Nellis, Ron Palmer, Erin Morrill & C.S. Giscombe
March 7 in London
Michael Longley & Sinead Morrissey
March 7 in Philadelphia
Daisy Fried & Sebastian Agudelo
March 10 in NYC
John Ashbery & Paolo Javier
March 10 in Chicago
Peter Nicholls
March 11 in SF
Thalia Field, Allison Cobb, Erin Morrill
March 12 in Kingston, NY
Jennifer Bartlett, Anne Gorrick & Maryrose Larkin
March 12 in Seattle
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 13 in Portland, OR
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 14 in London
Paul Muldoon
March 14 in Eugene, OR
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 14 in Brooklyn
Jean Valentine & Nehassaiu DeGannes
March 15 in SF
Jon Cotner, Andy Fitch, Kate Colby, Filip Marinovich
March 15 in Ashland, OR
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 16 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Jhumpa Lahiri
March 16 in Chicago
Luis J. Rodriguez
March 17 in Berkeley
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 17 in NYC
The poetry of Georg Trakl
with Mina Pam Dick, Christian Hawkey
& Wayne Koestenbaum
March 18 in SF
Divya Victor, Brian Kim Stefans, Meg Day
March 18 in NYC
Pierre Joris on Paul Celan
March 19 in Brockton, MA
Joan Houlihan & Daniel Tobin
March 19 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Introduction to the Language of the Qur’an
with Bruce Lawrence
March 19 in Santa Cruz
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 21 in NYC
A celebration of Czeslaw Milosz
with Robert Hass, Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh
March 21 & 22 in Philadelphia
Edward Albee
March 23 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Jorie Graham, Rachel Hadas, Susan Wheeler
March 24 in Brooklyn
Ammiel Alcalay, Julian Brolaski, Christian Hawkey
March 24 in NYC
The poetry of Zbigniew Herbert
with Edward Hirsch, Charles Simic, Alissa Valles
& Adam Zagajewski
March 24 @ Villanova
Eleanor Wilner
March 24 & 25 in Pittsburgh
Camille Dungy & contributors to
Black Nature
March 25 in Brooklyn
Genya Turovskaya & Ben Fama
March 26 in Philadelphia
John Dorsey & Rebecca Schumedjda
March 26 in NYC
A celebration of The H.D. Book
by Robert Duncan with
Michael Boughn, Victor Coleman, Lisa Jarnot
& Elizabeth Willis
March 26 in Providence
Ish Klein & Robert Hernandez
March 28 in NYC
Adam Zagajewski introduces
Marie Lundquist (Sweden), Tomasz Rozycki (Poland)
& Lutz Seiler (Germany)
March 28 in Wendell, MA
Whit Griffin & Kate Colby
March 29 & 30
Lyn Hejinian
March 31 in NYC
Bei Dao & Rosanna Warren
March 31 in NYC
Jean Valentine & Brian Teare
March 31 in NYC
Nikky Finney & Aracelis Girmay
April 2 in NYC
Queer Optimism & Affective Poetry
with Wendy Lee, Michael Snediker, Brian Teare
& Dara Wier
April 4 in Philadelphia
Teresa Leo & Kate Northrop
April 5 in Chicago
Mary Karr
April 7 in Berkeley
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
April 7 in NYC
Alice Notley, Kamau Brathwaite
April 7 in NYC
Christopher Middleton with John Yau
April 7 & 8 in Chicago
Marjorie Welish
April 8 in Oakland
Jena Osman, Brian Whitener, Ted Rees
April 12 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Karl Kirchwey
April 13 in NYC
Tina Chang & Ross Gay
April 14 in Chicago
Judith Goldman
April 14 in NYC
Karen Swenson on Robert Browning
April 15 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson, Kate Greenstreet,
Ryan Eckes & Matthew Landis
April 16 in Kingston, NY
Lynn Behrendt, Richard Deming & Brenda Iijima
April 16 in Chicago
Ari Brown, Reginald Gibbons, Mabel Kwan,
Christina Pugh, Ed Roberson, & Rachel Jamison Webster
April 16 in Brockton, MA
F.D. Reeve & Diana Der-Hovanessian
April 16 in NYC
Grand Piano at Poets House
with Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel,
Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson,
Ron Silliman & Barrett Watten
April 21 in NYC
Michael Lally & Brenda Iijima
April 21 in Chicago
John Matthias
April 22 in Oakland
K. Silem Mohammad, Rodney Koeneke, Lindsey Boldt
April 22 in NYC
Shane Book, Kamau Rucker & Demetrice Anntia Worley
April 25 & 26 in Philadelphia,
Marjorie Perloff
April 26 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Mohammed Bennis
April 28 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Kewulay Kamara & West African Jali musicians
attempt to recreate an oral epic
after the lone written copy was destroyed
in Sierra Leone’s civil war
April 29 in Rye, UK
The Moors
April 29 in NYC
Harryette Mullen with Barbara Henning
April 30 in Bury, Lancashire
Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko
April 30 in Brooklyn
Harryette Mullen, Niki Herd, Camille Rankine
April 30 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo
April 30 in Chicago
Nikki Giovanni
May 3 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Precarious Lives: Arab Poets since Pre-Islamic Times
with Muhsin al-Musawi
May 3 & 4 in NYC
Annual Chapbook Festival
May 5 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
From Tablet to Pen: A Literary History of Islam
with Reza Aslan
May 5 & 6 in Chicago
Jeffrey Yang
May 7 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Bridging Cultures (Marathon!), with
Najwa Adra, Muzaffar Alam, Ammiel Alcalay,
Kazim Ali, Reza Aslan, Kaveh Bassiri,
Clarissa Burt, Steven Caton, Sylviane Diouf,
Pierre Joris, Mohja Kahf, Persis Karim,
Khaled Mattawa, Jawid Mojaddedi, Stefania Pandolfo,
Frances W. Pritchett, Mahwash Shoaib & Others
May 12 in Brockton, MA
Bert Stern & January G. O’Neil
May 13 & 14 in Salem, MA
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
May 14 in NYC
Marie Ponsot on myth
May 18 – 21 in Buffalo
E-Poetry [2011]
May 19 in NYC
Dorianne Laux on music & poetics
May 21 in Philadelphia
Maria Lisella & Gil Fagiani
May 27 in SF
Joan Retallack gives the first
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in 21st Century Poetics
June 9 – 11 in Paris
Legacies of Modernism:
The State of British Poetry Today
June 11 in NYC
Debrah Morkum, Marion Bell &
Carlos Soto Roman
June 19 – July 10 in Boulder, CO
The Naropa Summer Writing Program
June 23 – 26 in York, UK
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive
June 25 in Philadelphia
Paul Siegell & Ocean Vuong
July 12 – 22 in Paris
T.S. Eliot and France
July 16 in Philadelphia
Poets in the Park
as Thaddeus Rutkowski, Leonard Gontarek,
Chad Parenteau, Timothy Gager
join Diane Sahms Guarnieri & G Emil Reutter
July 30 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
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
September 24 in Philadelphia
Rodger Lowenthal & Catherine Staples
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 29 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
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
Ongoing
Now – January 22 in NYC
Bjorn Ressle’s Winter Salon
with Ok Hyun Ahn, Lawrence Anastasi, William Anastasi,
Carl Andre, Stuart Arends, Chan Hyo Bae,
Robert Barry, Larry Bell,
Joseph Beuys, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage,
John Chamberlain, Jinkee Choi, Mark DeMuro,
Linda DiGusta, Robert G. Edelman,
Jacob El Hanani, Ron Gorchov, Jene Highstein,
Gary Hill, David Hockney,
Sook Jin Jo, Neil Jenney,
Alex Katz, Linda Karshan,
Miru Kim, Songyi Kim, Sol Kjok,
Tadaaki Kuwayama, Kakyoung Lee, Zaun Lee,
Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold,
Robert C. Morgan, Andy Moses, Gerard Mossé,
Rakuko Naito, Dennis Oppenheim, Pim Palsgraaf,
Keun Young Park, George Quasha, Robert Rauschenberg,
Lovisa Ringborg, Dorothea Rockburne, Cordy Ryman,
Ethan Ryman, Robert Ryman, Will Ryman,
Fred Sandback, Anne Senstad, Howard Smith,
Maxwell Stevens, Yuken Teruya,
Cy Twombly, Ali Van, Bernar Venet,
Merrill Wagner, Joan Waltemath, Marjorie Welish,
Mark Wiener, Leah Yerpe, Mark Zimmermann
Now – January 29 in NYC
Charles Olson Centennial Exhibition
Now – January 30 in Boston
The Poetry of Public Life:
Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow & Their Contemporaries
(Dickinson – public?)
Now – February 4 in LA
Iannis Xenakis
Now – February 5 in Berklin
Mark Flood
Now thru February 6 in Berlin
Carsten Höller
Now – February 13 in Miami
Bruce Weber’s Haiti / Little Haiti
Now – March 13 in Weil am Rhein, Germany
Frank Gehry
Now – March 20 in Philadelphia
David Bowen
In Washington, DC, thru March 27
Word, Shout, Sing
Now – April 3 in Chicago
Finding Vivian Maier
Now – April 13, in Philly,
Penn Humanities Forum
on Virtuality
