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The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
March
March 14 in San Francisco
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
with Bill Berkson & Clark Coolidge
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 Montreal
Anne Waldman, Bob Holman, Penny Arcade
March 15 in Bath
Carrie Etter
March 15 in Washington, DC
Jericho Brown & Tom Healy
March 15 in New Haven, CT
Daniel Swift & Michael Alenyikov
March 15 in Oakland
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
March 15 in Seattle
Marie Howe
March 15 in Philadelphia
Oulipolooza
March 16 in Chicago
Eileen Myles & Ed Roberson
March 16 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Jhumpa Lahiri
March 16 in Chicago
Luis J. Rodriguez
March 16 in NYC
Connie Deanovich & Sharon Mesmer
March 16 in Seattle
Timothy Donnelly
March 16 – 20 in St. Andrews, Scotland
StAnza
with
Adnan al-Sayegh, Antonella Anedda, Claire Askew,
Neil Astley, Jane Atkins, Sophie F. Baker,
Emily Ballou, Martin Belk, Jo Bell,
Jay Bernard, David Brown, Hugh Bryden,
John Burnside, Maoilios Caimbeul / Myles Campbell, Karen Cargill,
Ciaran Carson, Mairi & Steaphanaidh Chaimbeul, A. C. Clarke,
Stewart Conn, Alastair Cook, Katherine R. Cooper,
Ellen Cranitch, Robert Crawford, Claire Crowther,
Julia Donaldson, Gawain Douglas, Douglas Dunn,
Carrie Etter, Paul Farley, Mark O. Goodwin,
Philip Gross, Durs Grünbein, Marilyn Hacker,
Diana Hendry, Selima Hill, Bob Holman,
Brian Holton, Sarah Howe, Maja Jantar,
Brian Johnstone, Chris Jones, Stuart Kelly,
David Kinloch, Krikri, Yang Lian,
Jenny Lindsay, Lurach, Alan MacGillivray,
Kevin MacNeil, Robyn Marsack, James McGonigal,
Hugh McMillan, Jelle Meander, Matt Merritt,
Alison Mitchell, Tom Morton, Phil Najemy,
George Nakhutsrishvili, Katrina Naomi, Helena Nelson,
Don Paterson, Jila Peacock, Tom Petsinis,
Dan Phillips, Poetry Beyond Text, Tom Pow,
David Robakidze, Anna Robinson, Lesley-Jane Rogers,
Steve Ronnie, Fiona Sampson, John Sampson,
Penelope Shuttle, John Siddique,
Degna Stone, Lidija Šimkutė, Catriona Taylor,
Natasha Trethewey, Ryan Van Winkle,
Stephen Watts, Helen White, Kevin Williamson,
Rab Wilson, Dawn Wood, Anna Woodford,
Kevin Young & 2 orchestras
March 17 in Berkeley
Ish Klein, Josh Edwards & Robert Fernandez
March 17 in Philadelphia
Joseph McElroy
March 17 in NYC
Anselm Berrigan, Phong Bui, Kimberly Lyons:
Poetry as Music – A Different Way of Thinking
March 17 in San Rafael, CA
Kay Ryan, Jane Hirshfield, Ellery Akers
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 in Dallas
Prudence the Auset
March 18 in Toronto
Andrew Pyper
March 18 in Santa Monica
Margaret Randall & VB Price
March 18 in Hadley, MA
Marina Blitshteyn, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Karin Gotthall
March 18 – 20 in NYC
Left Forum 2011
March 18 – 20 in Point Reyes, CA
Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje,
William Least Heat-Moon, Tom Farber, Eddy L. Harris,
Julia Whitty, Peter Gleick, Philip Fradkin,
Alex Fradkin, Tim Palmer, Linda Spalding,
Pamela Michael, Claire Peaslee, Evelyn Reilly,
Jonathan Skinner, & Malcolm Margolin
March 18 – 20 in Chicago
What is it good for?
Defining Art’s Purpose
March 18 – 20 & 25 – 27 in Detroit
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
March 19 in NYC
Shearsman turns 30
with
Shira Dentz, Jill Magi, Anne Gorrick,
Michael Heller, Nancy Kuhl, Richard Deming,
Shira Dentz, Deborah Meadows, Elena Rivera,
Mercedes Roffee, Mark Weiss, Maryrose Larkin,
George Economou, & Joseph Bradshaw
March 19 in Brooklyn
Will Edmiston,
Arlo Quint, Kathleen Miller
March 19 in St. Louis,
A celebration of George Hitchcock & Kayak,
with
Albert Goldbarth, Mark Jarman, Mark Doty,
Robert McDowell, William Harmon, Nancy Willard,
Lou Lipsitz, Willis Barnstone, Aliki Barnstone,
Gary Young, David Swanger, Patty McDowell Aakhus,
Joseph Bednarik, Christine Neilson, Michael Basinski,
Richard Newman, Liz Hughes Wiley, & Linda Lappin
March 19 in Brockton, MA
Joan Houlihan & Daniel Tobin
March 19 in Brooklyn
Abigail Child’s Suburban Trilogy
March 19 in Dallas
Da’rrell Cloudy & Jay Bean
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 SF
Sparring with Beat Ghosts
March 19 in NYC
Dodie Bellamy & Chris Sylvester
March 19 in Santa Cruz
Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 20 in Brookline, MA
Joan Houlihan & David Rivard
March 20 in NYC
Tenney Nathanson
March 20 in DC
Susan Tichy, Justin Sirois & Jeremy Schmall
March 20 in Chicago
Victor David Giron, James Payne,
Luis Humberto Valadez, Natalie Edwards, Ben Tanzer
March 20 in Philadelphia
Dodie Bellamy, Corina Copp, David Buuck
March 21 in NYC
A talk by Sergio Bessa & Mónica de la Torre
March 21 in Toronto
Jasper Fforde, Gail Scott, Don Winslow
March 21 in NYC
A celebration of Czeslaw Milosz
with Robert Hass, Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh
March 21 in Brooklyn
Letters to Distant Cities
March 21 & 22 in Philadelphia
Edward Albee
March 22 & 23 in Providence
New Directions 75th anniversary celebration
March 22 in Paris
Anna Moschovakis & Françoise Valéry
avec Ha-Yang Kim
March 22 in SF
Cyrus Cassells
March 23 in Northampton, MA
Maryrose Larkin & Anne Gorrick
March 23 in Chicago
Matthew Zapruder & Ed Healey
March 23 in Milwaukee
Daniel Khalastchi & Zach Savich
March 23 in NYC
Douglas Coupland & Chuck Klosterman
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 Project, 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 SF
Jennifer Martenson & Claire Becker
March 24 in SF
Susie Bright
March 24 in Brooklyn
Ammiel Alcalay, Julian Brolaski, Christian Hawkey
March 24 in Philadelphia
Bhanu Kapil
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 Madison
Carla Harryman
March 24 in Ann Arbor
Ken Mikolowski & Big Enigma
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
Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Steve McCaffery
& more
March 24 – August 7 in Philadelphia
Sheila Hicks
March 25 in NYC
Jeremy Hoevenaar & Kristen Kosmas
March 25 – April 23 in Brooklyn
Emma Bee Bernstein
March 25 in Santa Monica
Raindog & Michael Paul
March 25 in Brooklyn
Genya Turovskaya & Ben Fama
March 25 in NYC
Miguel Angel Zapata, Yván Yauri
March 26 in DC
Catherine Wagner, chris cheek,
Keith Tuma, Tom Orange
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 Seattle
Sommer Browning & Noah Eli Gordon
March 26 in Santa Monica
New Poets of the American West
March 26 in NYC
Brandon Brown & Liz Fodaski
March 26 in Chicago
The Ladies Ring Shout
(Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal)
&
Adam Roberts
with Erika Jo Brown, Matthew Klane & BJ Love
March 26 in Providence
Ish Klein & Robert Hernandez
March 26 & 27 in Pleasanton, CA
Poetry, Prose & Arts Festival
with Al Young
March 27 in Philadelphia
Josh Edwards, Ish Klein & Robert Fernandez
March 27 in NYC
Vanessa Place & Rob Fitterman:
The Bedbug Variations
March 27 in Edinburgh
JL Williams, Pauline Prior-Pitt & Nancy Somerville
March 27 in Chicago
Erika Jo Brown, BJ Love, Matthew Klane & Adam Roberts
March 28 in NYC
Barbara Hammer, Maggie Nelson,
Janlori Goldman
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 Washington, DC
Ilya Kaminsky, Valzhyna Mort, Nikola Madzirov
March 29 in Oakland
M NourbeSe Philip
March 29 in Norwich, UK
Sadie Jones
March 29 & 30 in Chicago
Lyn Hejinian
March 30 in Berkeley
Ron Silliman, Steve Farmer
March 30 in NYC
Erica Kaufman & Maureen Owen
March 30 in Milwaukee
Jim Chapson
March 30 in Ambler, PA
PoetryNoir
March 30 in NYC
Jaimy Gordon with Jayne Anne Phillips
March 31 in NYC
Bei Dao & Rosanna Warren
March 31 in Philadelphia
Derek Beaulieu
March 31 in Chicago
Ales Steger
March 31 in Dallas
Dan Savage
March 31 in NYC
Jean Valentine & Brian Teare
March 31 in Seattle
Robyn Schiff
March 31 in NYC
Nikky Finney & Aracelis Girmay
March 31 in Lawrence, KS
Justin Runge, Jim McCrary, Robert Baumann
April
April 1 in Brooklyn
Rob Halpern, Julia Bloch, & Paul Foster Johnson
April 1 in SF
Vanessa Place & Kenneth Goldsmith
April 1 in Oakland
Nik De Dominic, Amanda Nadelberg and Geoffrey G O'Brien
April 1 & 2 in Columbus, OH
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 2 in Tucson
Rae Armantrout
April 2 in Paris
Collaboration & the Artist’s Book
Susan Bee, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein,
Vincent Katz, Contrat Maint, Raphael Rubinstein
& Peter Soriano
April 2 in NYC
Bruce Andrews & Nada Gordon
April 2 in Chicago
Tony Trigilio
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 3 in Milwaukee
Edible Books
April 4 in NYC
Jack Halberstam, Rob Halpern, Brenda Iijima
April 4 in Philadelphia
Teresa Leo & Kate Northrop
April 5 in Buffalo
The Quote’s the Thing –
Negotiating © in Scholarly Criticism
April 5 in Chicago
Mary Karr
April 5 in Oakland
Chana Block
April 5 in New Haven, CT
Annie Murphy Paul & Carl Zimmer
April 6 in NYC
Etgar Keret & Jonathan Safran Foer
April 6 in Manchester, UK
Carrie Etter
April 6 in SF
Ralph Metzner
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 SF
Reginald Dwayne Betts
April 7 in NYC
Christopher Middleton with John Yau
April 7 & 8 in Chicago
Marjorie Welish
April 8 in DC
Lee Ann Brown, Chris Vitiello,
Diane Timblin
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 in NYC
Tan Lin & Sara Wintz
April 9 in Hadley, MA
Lauren Ireland, Luke Bloomfield, Lily Ladewig, Ben Mirov
April 9 in Chicago
Larry Sawyer & Connor Stratman
April 9 & 10 in Milwaukee
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 10 in Philadelphia
Jerome McGann
April 11 in West Chester, PA
Karl Kirchwey
April 11 – 13 in London
The London Book Fair
April 12 in Tucson
David Gitin & Sherwin Bitsui
April 12 in Berkeley
Joseph Lease
April 12 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Karl Kirchwey
April 12 in SF
Yiyun Li
April 13 in NYC
Tina Chang & Ross Gay
April 13 in Chicago
Kiki Petrosino & Evan Lavender-Smith
April 13 in Rochester, NY
Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin
April 13 in Chicago
Daniel Tiffany, Andy Fitch, Anna Moschovakis
April 14 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson
April 14 in Chicago
Judith Goldman
April 14 in SF
Camille Roy & Robert Glück
April 14 in NYC
Karen Swenson on Robert Browning
April 14 in Keene, NH
Jennifer Militello
April 14 in Philadelphia
Mark Nowak
April 15 in Boulder
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 14 in Brooklyn
Dorothea Lasky, Julia Guez, Danniel Schoonebeek,
Emily Brandt and Eric Helms Dalton
April 15 in Philadelphia
Kit Robinson, Kate Greenstreet,
Ryan Eckes & Matthew Landis
April 15 in London
Martin Anderson, Anthony Barnett, Amy Evans & John Mateer
April 15 in Brooklyn
Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius, and Natalie Lyalin
April 15 – 17 in Chicago
Quit Bullshittin’:
solidarity in the arts
April 15 – 21 in Atlanta
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
April 15 – June 12 in Wollongong
Coalcliff Days
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 16 in SF
Philippe Beck, Guy Bennett
April 16 in Kingston, NY
Richard Deming & Brenda Iijima
April 16 in Chicago
Tim Yu
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
Patrick Lovelace & Alli Warren
April 17 in Chicago
Heather Palmer, Brandon Will, Cassandra Troyan,
Mark R. Brand
April 19 in Philadelphia
Quincy Scott Jones & Holly Melgard
April 19 & 20 in Chicago
Rob Halpern
April 19 in London
Paul Holman
April 19 in Gloucester, MA
Vincent Katz & Anna Moschovakis
April 20 in SF
Lydia Davis
April 21 in NYC
Michael Lally & Brenda Iijima
April 21 in Chicago
John Matthias
April 21 in San Rafael, CA
Jacqueline Berger & Alexandra Teague
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 Oakland
Alissa Nutting and Janet Mitchell
April 22 in NYC
Shane Book, Kamau Rucker & Demetrice Anntia Worley
April 23 in NYC
Gary Sullivan & Derek Fenner
April 23 in SF
Will Alexander
with Cedar Sigo & Andrew Joron
April 23 in Philadelphia,
The Philadelphia Poetry Festival
April 25 & 26 in Philadelphia,
Marjorie Perloff
April 26 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Mohammed Bennis
April 26 in New Haven, CT
Gail Mazur and Eleanor Lerman
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 28 in Dallas
Susan Briante, Rachel Levitsky
& a tribute to Akilah Oliver
April 28 in SF
Bill Morgan
April 29 in Rye, UK
The Moors
April 29 & 30 in Princeton, NJ
The Princeton Poetry Festival
with
Michael Dickman, Meghan O'Rourke, Brenda Shaughnessy,
Tracy K. Smith, Susan Wheeler,CK Williams,
Paolo Henriques Britto, Idra Novey, Agi Mishol,
Aleš Šteger, Brian Henry, Anthony Carelli,
Kathleen Graber, Mark Doty, Sharon Olds,
Carl Philips, Charles Simic, & Natasha Trethewey
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 Pittsburgh, PA
Kelli Stevens Kane, Robin Clarke, Rose Fletcher,
E. B. Bortz, William James, Sheila B.,
Ann Ungar, Lewis Colyar, Katie Pugh,
Edward Murray, Johnathan White,
Adia & Art Soloman
April 30 in Chicago
Coya Paz, Susanna Lang, Parneshia Jones,
LinaRamona Vitkauskas, and Nina Corwin
April 30 in NYC
Nick Piombino & Pierre Joris
April 30 in Chicago
Nikki Giovanni
May
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 in London
Cralan Kelder et al
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 in Chicago
Columbia Poetry Review reading
featuring D.A. Powell
May 5 in SF
Joe Stroud & Peter Weltner
May 5 & 6 in Chicago
Jeffrey Yang
May 6 in Oakland
Anthony McCann, Robyn Schiff and Matthew Rohrer
May 6 in Dallas
Rage Almighty
May 6 – 12 in San Diego
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
May 7 in NYC
The Logic of the World
The Poetics of Robert Kelly
with
Vyt Bakaitis, Phong Bui, Mary Caponegro,
Carey Harrison, Pierre Joris, Jonas Mekas,
Tom Meyer, Nicole Peyrafitte, Kristen Prevallet,
Elizabeth Robinson, George Quasha, Robert Kelly,
Carolee Schneeman, Charles Stein, David Levi-Strauss,
Peter Lamborn Wilson, John Yau, & more
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 7 in NYC
Juliana Spahr, David Buuck, Maureen Thorson
May 9 in NYC
Mary Campbell, Ronaldo Wilson,
Paul Foster Johnson
May 8 – 12 in Kansas City
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong
May 10 & 11 in NYC
Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek
May 10 in SF
Stephen Snyder
May 11 in Chicago
Noah Eli Gordon, Sommer Browning
May 11 in Dallas
Ricardo Garza & Michael Guinn
May 12 in Tucson
Samuel Ace & Maureen Seaton
May 12 in Dallas
Paul Otremba & Young Eui Choi
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 SF
Susan Thackrey
on Robert Duncan’s HD Book
May 14 in NYC
Marie Ponsot on myth
May 14 in Providence
Jennifer Militello
May 14 in NYC
Bernadette Mayer & Laynie Browne
May 17 in Berkeley
Will Alexander, Garrett Caples & Cedar Sigo
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 19 in San Rafael, CA
Askia Humphrey & Javier Jose Zamora
May 20 in New Haven, CT
Anthony Braxton Septet
May 20 – 22 in Princeton, NJ
Sots-Speak:
Regimes of Language Under Socialism
May 20 – 22 in Chicago
Come as You Are:
arts with a conscience
May 21 in Philadelphia
Maria Lisella & Gil Fagiani
May 21 in NYC
Steve McLaughlin & Bob Perelman
May 24 in Norwich, UK
Jo Shapcott
May 24 in Cambridge, UK
Carrie Etter
May 25 in Chicago
Coleman Barks & Phil Cousineau
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 27 – 28 in Paris
Cognitive Joyce: the Neuronal Text
May 28 in Chicago
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt, Oren Silverman,
Nancy Stohlman & Mathias Svalina
June
June 3 in Sussex, UK
Black Mountain College into the 21st Century
June 5 in Montserrat, MO
The Montserrat Poetry Festival
E. John Knapp, Alex Wales, Faith Bemiss,
Neal Torrey, Carol Gorski Buckels, Gustavo Adolfo Aybar,
Brent Martin, Tony Shaffer, Diana Chang,
David Clewell, Larry Allen, Eva Ridenour,
James Coffman, Bernard Hartge, Clarence Wolfshohl,
Connie Kay Koch, Christina Pacosz, Tantra-ziwadi,
Robert Milton Ingram, Evelyn Aholt, & Daniel Mollenkamp
June 7 in London
DS Marriott & Robert Shepherd
June 8 in Dallas
Christopher Soden, Jean Lamberty,
Sanderia Smith
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 14 in SF
Fanny Howe
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
June 8 – 11 in West Chester, PA
The West Chester Poetry Conference
includes
Robert Pinsky, Kim Addonizio, Rafael Campo,
Dick Davis, Rhina P. Espaillat, Dana Gioia,
Allison Joseph, David Mason, Micheal O'Siadhail,
Molly Peacock, AE Stallings, Timothy Steele,
& Terri Witek – 90th birthday celebration
of Richard Wilbur
July & onward
July 9 in Chicago
Stella Radulescu, Gene Tanta & Ramona Tanta
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 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference
July 30 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
August 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
August 12 – 18 in McCarthy, Alaska
Wrangell Mountain Poetry Workshop
with Elizabeth Bradfield & Jeremy Pataky
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 10 – 11 in Edinburgh
Conversify:
Poetry, Politics & Form
September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barstone
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 24 in Philadelphia
Rodger Lowenthal & Catherine Staples
September 29 in Dallas
Joaquin Zuihuatenejo & Natasha Carrazosa
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 29 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia
2012
January 2 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
February 4 – 12 2012 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
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
November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner
Ongoing
Now – March 19 in NYC
Afterwards, In Between & Since:
A Charles Olson Centennial Exhibition
Now – March 19 in London
Robert Mapplethorpe
Now – March 20 in Philadelphia
David Bowen
Now – March 23 in Chicago
The Simulationists
Now – March 26 in NYC
Karlheinz Weinberger
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 17 in Wilmington, DE
The Book: A Contemporary View
Now – April 24 in LA
Photography in the New China
Now – May 1 in Santa Fe, NM
Broadsides from the
Al-Mutanabbi Street Project
Now – May 15 in Vienna
Roy Lichtenstein
Now – May 25 in Venice, Italy
Vorticism
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