February 10 in Providence
Memorial for Michael Gizzi
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 10 in Devon, UK
Norman Jope
February 10 in Buffalo
Aimee Nezhukumatahil
February 10 in Boston
Elizabeth Bishop is still 100
with Frank Bidart, Olga Broumas, Peter Campion,
Dan Chiasson, Henri Cole, Bonnie Costello,
Maggie Dietz, David Ferry, Erica Funkhauser,
Jonathan Galassi, Jorie Graham, Melissa Green,
Saskia Hamilton, George Kalogeris, Gail Mazur,
Alice Quinn, Christopher Ricks, Peter Sacks,
Mary Jo Salter, & Lloyd Schwartz.
February 10 in Hampstead, NH
Ellen Doré Watson
February 10 – May 1 in NYC
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
February 11 in SF
Sueyuen Juliette Lee, Maxi Kim,
Jacqueline Frost
February 11 & continuing in NYC
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
February 11 in NYC
Steven Karl & Kathleen Miller
February 11 in Brooklyn
Paige Taggart, Christie Ann Reynolds, & Ish Klein
February 11 in Bolinas, CA
W.S. Merwin
February 11 in Venice, CA
Gerald Locklin & Rick Smith
February 11 & 13 in Rohnert Park, CA
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
February 12 in movie theaters everywhere
Peter Sellars – John Adams live at The Met in HD
Nixon in China
February 12 in Portland, OR
A celebration of Leslie Scalapino
February 12 in Kingston, NY
Cynthia Arrieu-King & George Quasha
February 12 in Brooklyn
The Future of the (German) Novel:
Peter Weber, Andrea Winkler, Andrea Grill,
Rivka Galchen & Paul North
February 12 in Venice, CA
Stephen Dobyns
February 13 in NYC
Writing & Memory:
Antje Ravic Strubel, Julia Schoch, Dorothee Elmiger,
Francine Prose & Susan Bernofsky
February 13 in LA
Aimee Bender, Janet Fitch, Jonathan Lethem,
Susan Straight, Lisa Teasley
February 14 in NYC
Caroline Bergvall & Kim Rosenfield
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 16 in Providence
Brad Morrow
February 16 in London
Steve Spence & Emily Critchley
February16 in NYC
Alan Gilbert & Anna Moschovakis
February 17 in NYC
Ann Lauterbach & Paul Foster Johnson
February 17 in Berkeley
Trinh Minh-ha
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 Brooklyn
Anthony McCann & Matthew Rohrer
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 19 in Chicago
Jan Besemer & Nicholas Alexander Hayes
February 19 – April 17 in LA
Tennessee Williams’
A House Not Meant to Stand
February 20 in Helsinki
Leevi Lehto
February 21 in NYC
Joyce Carol Oates, Henri Cole
February 21 in Rochester,NY
Samuel Hazo & Nirvana Tanoukhi
February 21 in NYC
Lewis Freedman & Nathaniel Otting
February 22 in Norwich, UK
Andrea Levy
February 22 in Philadelphia
The Celestial Septet
(being ROVA + the Nels Cline Singers)
February 22 in Norwich, UK
Anne Blonstein, Carrie Etter, Rachel Lehrman,
Wendy Mulford, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin
&Lucy Sheerman. Introduction by George Szirtes
February 23 in Providence
Cole Swensen
February 23 in NYC
Studying Hunger Journals
with Lee Ann Brown, Barbara Epler, Phil Good,
Bernadette Mayer, Don Yorty, Michael Ruby,
Marie Warsh, Lewis Warsh, Adam Fitzgerald,
Peggy Decoursey, Bill Kushner, Bill Denoyelles,
Deborah Poe, Peter Baker, Miles Champion,
Anne Waldman & CA Conrad.
February 24 in Chicago
Edwin Torres
February 24 in London
Harry Guest
February 24 in Berkeley
Barbara Henning, Steve Katz, Andrew Joron
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 NYC
Celebrating Vanitas 5 – Film
with Elaine Equi, Nada Gordon, Ron Horning,
Jerome Sala, Tom Savage, David Shapiro,
Tony Towle, & John Yau.
February 25 in Boston
The Celestial Septet
February 25 in NYC
Talking with Susan Howe
February 25 in Providence
Laura Mullen
February 25 – March 3 in Chicago
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
February 26 in Philadelphia
William Corbett, Brian Carpenter, Melissa DeGezelle
February 26 in NYC
The Celestial Septet
February 26 in Philadelphia
B.E. Kahn & Mel Brake
February 26 in Edinburgh
JL Williams & Alasdair Paterson
February 27 in Baltimore
The Celestial Septet
February 28 in NYC
Stephanie Barber & Adam Robinson
February 28 in Washington, DC
Naomi Ayala, Valerie Martinez, J. Michael Martinez
February 28 in Providence
Brian Henry
February 28 in London
David Constantine, Kelly Grovier, Martha Kapos,
Saradha Soobrayen, Christopher Southgate, Anna Robinson,
Kathryn Maris, Sasha Dugdale & Philip Hancock
March 1 in Cambridge, MA
Joan Houlihan
March 2 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
March 2 in NYC
Kenneth Irby & Pierre Joris
March 3 in Berkeley
Truong Tran
March 3 in NYC
C.D. Wright & C.K. Williams
March 3 in Providence
Karen Tei Yamashita
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 Brooklyn
Jared White, Brian Foley, & C.S. Carrier
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 4 – 10 in Boston, Philadelphia & Denver
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
March 5 in Tucson
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
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 8 in Norwich, UK
Alice Oswald
March 9 in NYC
Clark Coolidge & Filip Marinovich
March 10 in NYC
John Ashbery & Paolo Javier
March 10 in Berkeley
Lynn Emanuel & Paul Hoover
March 10 in Chicago
Peter Nicholls
March 11 in SF
Thalia Field, Allison Cobb, Erin Morrill
March 11 in NYC
Sommer Browning & Mathias Svalina
March 11 – 17 in Seattle
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
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 NYC
Molly Bendall & Daniel Tiffany
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 15 in Bath
Carrie Etter
March 16 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Jhumpa Lahiri
March 16 in Chicago
Luis J. Rodriguez
March 16 in NYC
Connie Deanovich & Sharon Mesmer
March 17 in Berkeley
Ish Klein, Josh Edwards & 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 Brooklyn
Maryrose Larkin, Jennifer Bartlett, & Anne Gorrick
March 18 in NYC
Pierre Joris on Paul Celan
March 18 – 20 & 25 – 27 in Detroit
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
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 St. Andrews, Scotland
Carrie Etter & Helena Nelson
discuss Barbara Guest & Ruth Pitter
March 19 in Santa Cruz
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 20 in Brookline, MA
Joan Houlihan & David Rivard
March 21 in NYC
A talk by Sergio Bessa & Mónica de la Torre
March 21 in NYC
A celebration of Czeslaw Milosz
with Robert Hass, Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh
March 21 & 22 in Philadelphia
Edward Albee
March 22 & 23 in Providence
New Directions 75th anniversary celebration
March 23 in Northampton, MA
Maryrose Larkin & Anne Gorrick
March 23 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Jorie Graham, Rachel Hadas, Susan Wheeler
March 23 in Berkeley
Patrick Dunagan & Julien Poirer
March 23 in NYC
Directors of the Poetry Center, with
Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer,
Eileen Myles, Ed Friedman, Anselm Berrigan
& Stacy Szymaszek
March 24 in Philadelphia
Vanessa Place
March 24 in London
Elaine Feinstein & Sasha Dugdale
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 in Pleasantville, NY
Maryrose Larkin & Anne Gorrick
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 & more
March 25 in NYC
Jeremy Hoevenaar & Kristen Kosmas
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 Tucson
George Mattingly & Frank Parker
March 26 in Chicago
Ian Hatcher & Adam Roberts
with Erika Jo Brown, Matthew Klane & BJ Love
March 26 in Providence
Ish Klein & Robert Hernandez
March 27 in Edinburgh
JL Williams, Pauline Prior-Pitt & Nancy Somerville
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 28 in NYC
Chris Glomski & Paul Foster Johnson
March 29 in Norwich, UK
Sadie Jones
March 29 & 30
Lyn Hejinian
March 30 in NYC
Erica Kaufman & Maureen Owen
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 1 in Brooklyn
Rob Halpern, Julia Bloch, & Paul Foster Johnson
April 1 & 2 in Columbus, OH
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 2 in Tucson
Rae Armantrout
April 2 in Philadelphia
Joshua Beckman, Meg Barboza, Anthony McCann
April 2 in Chicago
Cris Mazza, Davis Schneiderman & Lidia Yuknavtich
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 6 in NYC
Etgar Keret & Jonathan Safran Foer
April 6 in Manchester, UK
Carrie Etter
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 8 – 14 in St. Louis
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 9 in Santa Monica
Harry E. Northup
April 9 & 10 in Milwaukee
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 10 in Philadelphia
Jerome McGann
April 12 in Tucson
David Gitin & Sherwin Bitsui
April 12 in Berkeley
Joseph Lease
April 12 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Karl Kirchwey
April 13 in NYC
Tina Chang & Ross Gay
April 13 in Rochester, NY
Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin
April 14 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson
April 14 in Chicago
Judith Goldman
April 14 in NYC
Karen Swenson on Robert Browning
April 14 in Keene, NH
Jennifer Militello
April 15 in Boulder
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 15 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson, Kate Greenstreet,
Ryan Eckes & Matthew Landis
April 15 in Brooklyn
Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius, and Natalie Lyalin
April 15 – 21 in Atlanta
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
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 19 in London
Paul Holman
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 Brooklyn
Joshua Beckman, Caroline Knox, and David Shapiro
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 27 in Rochester, NY
Thomas Pfetzinger & Ross Benjamin
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 29 in Brooklyn
Deborah Landau, Mark Bibbins, and Dara Wier
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 2 – 6
Chicago Durutti Skool with CA Conrad & Frank Rogaczewski
seminar on poetry & social existence
from anarchist/marxist perspective
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 6 – 12 in San Diego
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
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 8 – 12 in Kansas City
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
May 12 in Tucson
Samuel Ace & Maureen Seaton
May 12 in Brockton, MA
Bert Stern & January G. O’Neil
May 13 in Brooklyn
Meg Barboza, Michelle Taransky, and Sarah Shapiro
May 13 & 14 in Salem, MA
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
May 14 in NYC
Marie Ponsot on myth
May 14 in Providence
Jennifer Militello
May 17 in London
Francis Presley & Zoë Skoulding
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 24 in Norwich, UK
Jo Shapcott
May 24 in Cambridge, UK
Carrie Etter
May 26 in Exeter, UK
Norman Jope
May 27 in SF
Joan Retallack gives the first
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in 21st Century Poetics
May 27 in Brooklyn
Cara Benson, Sarah Dowling, Viraj Kamdar, and Mark Horosky
May 28 in Chicago
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt, Oren Silverman,
Nancy Stohlman & Mathias Svalina
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 11 in Chicago
Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin, Judith Goldman,
Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner neo-benshi
June 11 -17
Nebraska Summer Writers Conference
June 13 in Cork, Ireland
Jennifer Militello
June 14 in London
Tom Loewenstein
June 16 – 19 in Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua Writers Festival
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 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
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 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
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 2 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
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
The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
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 16 in Toronto
Canadian Art in the ‘60s & ‘70s
through the lens of Coach House Press
Now – February 26 in Boston
Betty, Charlie, Francesca
& George Woodman
Now – February 27 in NYC
The Wooster Group’s version of
Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré
Now – February 27 in Lodz
Władysław Strzemiński
Now – March 5 in NYC
Poets & Painters:
60 Years of Tibor de Nagy
Now – March 13 in Berlin
Sigmar Polke
Now – March 13 in Weil am Rhein, Germany
Frank Gehry
Now – March 19 in London
Robert Mapplethorpe
Now – March 20 in Philadelphia
David Bowen
In Washington, DC, thru March 27
Word, Shout, Sing
Now – April 3 in NYC
Olympia Dukakis in Tennessee Williams’
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
Now – April 3 in Chicago
Finding Vivian Maier
Now – April 13 in Philly,
Penn Humanities Forum
on Virtuality
Now – April 17 in Collegeville, PA
Robert Frank & Donald Camp
Now – April 24 in LA
Photography in the New China
Now – in Vienna
Roy Lichtenstein
Now – May 25 in Venice, Italy
Vorticism
