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 in Marseille
Claude Royet-Journoud, Alain Veinstein
January 28 – 30 @ Esalen
Ellen Bass
January 29 in Milwaukee
The Woodland Pattern New Year Marathon
with Bill Seidler, Kathie Giorgio, Living Arts Eurythmy Ensemble,
Lucille Rosenberg, Paul McComas, Sally Tolan,
Jim Landwehr, Marsha Roberts, Mario Medina,
James Roberts, Harvey Taylor, Larry O. Dean,
Charlesetta Thompson, Lenore Lee, Peter Whalen,
Lauren Kapinski, Tara Arnold, Alison Thompson,
Naomi Waxman, John Sierpinski, Sara Tarrell,
Catherine Jagoe, Robin Chapman, Susan Elbe,
Marilyn Annuci, Alison Townsend, Josie Hymes,
Dirty Red, Joanne Nelson, Judith Zukerman,
Rachel Buff, Betty Ross, Aline Mohr,
Janet Leahy, Barbara Bache-Wiig, Laurel Landis,
Sharon Foley, Robert Vaughan, Kim Suhr,
Bob Hanson, Phyllis Wax, Sheryl Slocum,
Mark Zimmerman, Helen Padway, Tom Erickson,
Mary Lux, Barbara Prendergast, Ed Werstein,
Kim Parsons, Nancy Rafal, Michael Farmer,
Marilyn Taylor, Dale Ritterbusch, Jim Stevens,
Jeff Poniewaz, Antler, Charlie Rossiter,
Eddee Daniel, Eddie Makowski, JoAnn Chang,
Lisa Vihos, Suzanne Rosenblatt, Louisa Loveridge-Gallas,
Joan Miller, Sally Kuzma, Chris Austin,
Paul Enea, Steve Anderson, Steve Pump,
Ryan Hurley, Sue Blaustein, Susan Firer,
Jim Hazard, Eliot O. Lipchik, Barbra Wuest,
Elizabeth Albeck, Richard Roe, Kathleen Dale,
Nik Kovac, Robin Christie, Faith Barrett,
Karl Gartung, Aaron Belz, Brenda Cardenas,
Roberto Harrison, John Koethe, Peter Blewett,
(Student) Blewett, Jennifer Morales, Earl Karp,
Steven Karp, Shane Skinner, Pat Dugan,
Rick Ollman, Janet Jennerjohn, Maurice Kilwein-Guevara,
Maria Scott, Lenore Lee, Josh Lickteig,
Eric Disambwa, Nick Demske, Keith Gaustad,
Erika Jo Brown, BJ Love, Angela Trudell Vasquez,
Rothy Michals, Chuck Stebelton, Cathy Cunningham,
Ching-In Chen, Marie Larson, Rebecca George,
Jackie Lalley, David Press, Dan Godston,
Jennifer Karmin, Matt Trease, Peter Goldberg,
Ken Woodall, Mark Hunkel, Mike Hauser,
Reed Conway, Michael Mahr, Paul Schwarzkopf,
Carolyn Vargo, Janine Arseneau, Jennifer Kraft,
Marcie Eanes, Matt Palasz, Nikki Wallschlaeger,
Karl Saffran, Kari Freitag, Sara Caron,
Tyler Roberts, Kathleen Klein, John Dubord,
Jim Schiller, Carmen Murguia, & more
January 29 in NYC
Yedda Morrison & Douglas Kearney
January 29 in Philadelphia
Noah Cutler & April Lindner
January 29 in Oregon City, OR
Kate Gray and David Rutiezer
January 30 in Seattle
Edward Harkness & Anne Pitkin
January 30 in Venice, CA
Rick Lupert
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 Vicuña
February 3 in DC
Rae Armantrout, Anselm Berrigan, Timothy Donnelly,
Robert Fernandez, Cathy Park Hong, Ish Klein,
K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols,
Ed Roberson, Elizabeth Willis, Matthew Zapruder,
Rod Smith, more.
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 New Haven, CT
Christian Hawkey
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 11 in Venice, CA
Gerald Locklin & Rick Smith
February 12 in Portland, OR
A celebration of Leslie Scalapino
February 12 in Kingston, NY
Cynthia Arrieu-King & George Quasha
February 12 in Venice, CA
Stephen Dobyns
February 14 in Hickory, NC
Kevin Young
February 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan Cheever
February 15 in NYC
Body of Words: Text & Physical Performance
with Lauren Nicole Nixon, Alexandra Beller, Sally Silvers,
Rosamond S. King, Emily Skillings & Saifan Shmerer
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 18 & 19 in Marseille
Black Mountain College
Jean Daive, Martin Richet Auxemery, Stephane Bouquet
& a talk by Jean-Pierre Cometti
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 2 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
March 3 in Berkeley
Truong Tran
March 3 in NYC
C.D. Wright & C.K. Williams
March 3 in Philadelphia
Elizabeth Robinson & Rachel Blau DuPlessis
March 3 in NYC
Tiphanie Yanique & David Wilentz
March 3 & 4 in Chicago
Claudia Rankine
March 4 in Marseille
Import-Export: Mumbai-Marseille
with Sampurna Chattarji, Mustansir Dalvi, Hermant Divate,
Franck Andre Jamme, Danielle & Caroline Sagot-Memory Duvauroux
March 4 in Cambridge, MA
Debrah Morkum, Leslie Williams & Marc Jampole
March 4 in Venice, CA
Jane Lyn Stahl, Grace Zabriskie & Michael C. Ford
March 5 in Venice, CA
Gerard Sarnat & Carine Topal
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 Philadelphia
Johanna Drucker
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 Philadelphia
Vanessa Place
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 & 26 in Windsor, Ontario
The Alphabet Symposium
with Rae Armantrout, Ron Silliman, Jed Rasula
& Steve McCaffery
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 Philadelphia
Derek Beaulieu
March 31 in NYC
Jean Valentine & Brian Teare
March 31 in NYC
Nikky Finney & Aracelis Girmay
April 2 in Philadelphia
Joshua Beckman, Meg Barboza, Anthony McCann
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 Philadelphia
celebrating Gertrude Stein
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 10 in Philadelphia
Jerome McGann
April 12 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Karl Kirchwey
April 13 in NYC
Tina Chang & Ross Gay
April 14 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson
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
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 19 in Philadelphia
Quincy Scott Jones & Holly Melgard
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
September 7-9 2012
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
Ongoing
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 Chicago
The Beats
Now – February 5 in Berklin
Mark Flood
Now thru February 6 in Berlin
Carsten Höller
Now – February 13 in Long Beach
Loving Repeating:
A Musical of Gertrude Stein
Now – February 13 in Miami
Bruce Weber’s Haiti / Little Haiti
Now – February 26 in Boston
Betty, Charlie, Francesca
& George Woodman
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
