Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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 Valenti
ne

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