Silliman's Blog

April 8 in Chicago
Tribute to Akilah Oliver
with
Adrienne Dodt, Krista Franklin, Jenny Henry,
Jennifer Karmin + J’Sun Howard, John Keene, Kevin Kilroy,
Marie Larson, Todd McCarty, Marissa Perel,
Rebecca George, & Luis Humberto Valadez

April 8 in Venice, CA
Peggy Shumaker, Anne Coray & Steve Kahn

April 8 in Oakland
Jena Osman, Brian Whitener, Ted Rees

April 8 in Brooklyn
Karl Kirchwey

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 Lansdale, PA
Joanne Leva, Liz Chang,
Doris Ferleger, Helen Mirkil, Amy Scott-McKinny,
Fran Baird, Neil Babcox, Barbara Wagner,
Grant Clauser, Bernadette McBride, Lara Gaydos,
Susan Charkes and Tom Mallouk

April 9 in Hadley, MA
Lauren Ireland, Luke Bloomfield, Lily Ladewig, Ben Mirov

April 9 in Chicago
Larry Sawyer & Connor Stratman

April 9 in Venice, CA
World Wide Word Radio Reading
with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Billy Burgos, Brett Candace,
Rachelle Cruz, Tracey Darling, Jennifer Donnell ,
Kate Durbin, Corrie Greathouse, Doug Knott,
Armine Iknadossian, Marie Lecravain , Cassandra Love,
Kim McMillon, Richard Modiano, Frankie Salinas,
Miguel Sanchez, Bryan Sanders, Mende Smith,
A.K. Toney, Pam Ward

April 10 in N. Kingstown, RI
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop

April 9 & 10 in Milwaukee
Poetry – a film by Lee Chang-dong

April 10 in Philadelphia
Jerome McGann

April 10 in Venice, CA
Rosie the Riveter Reading
with Katie Formosa-McMurray, Anna Badua, Oceana Callum
& Genevieve Zuidervaart

April 11 in West Chester, PA
Karl Kirchwey

April 11 in NYC
Matthew Zapruder & Eileen Myles

April 11 in NYC
Rachel Glaser & Amy Lawless

April 11 in NYC
Alarm Will Sound

April 11 @ Kenyon
Jerome Rothenberg

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 in Oxford, OH
Jerome Rothenberg

April 12 @ Bryn Mawr, PA
Karl Kirchwey

April 12 in Paris, TX
Nicole Peyrafitte

April 12 in Washington, DC
Kit Robinson

April 12 in SF
Yiyun Li

April 13 in NYC
Tina Chang & Ross Gay

April 13 in Cincinnati
Jerome Rothenberg

April 13 in State College, PA
Kit Robinson

April 13 in Chicago
Kiki Petrosino & Evan Lavender-Smith

April 13 in Rochester, NY
Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin

April 13 in Baltimore
Karl Kirchwey

April 13 in NYC
Elaine Equi & Ron Padgett

April 13 in NYC
The Phoneme Choir

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 Bangor, ME
Brock Clarke

April 14 in Carrboro, NC
Poetry on Your Plate
with
Glenn Cassidy, Claudine Moreau, & Ricky Garni

April 14 in NYC
Karen Swenson on Robert Browning

April 14 in Louisville
Jerome Rothenberg

April 14 in Keene, NH
Jennifer Militello

April 14 in Philadelphia
Mark Nowak

April 14 & 15 in Detroit
Cary Nelson
on poetry & solidarity

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 Washington, DC
Joe Hall, Adam Marston & Katy Bohinc

April 15 in Ann Arbor
Jerome Rothenberg

April 15 in Princeton
Karl Kirchwey

April 15 in Brooklyn
Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius, and Natalie Lyalin

April 15 & 16 in Chicago
A Roy Fisher Celebration
with Auggie Kleinzahler, Maureen McLane
& Tom Pickard

April 15 & 16 in Amherst, MA
Juniper Literary Festival

April 15 – 17 in Bronxville, NY
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival,
with
Kazim Ali, Christian Bök, Heather Christle,
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Paul Guest, Cathy Park Hong,
Douglas Kearney, Ann Lauterbach, Paul Legault,
Jeffrey McDaniel, K. Silem Mohammad, Vanessa Place,
D. A. Powell, Khadijah Queen, Patrick Rosal

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 Venice, CA
Land of Poets
with
Michelle Bitting, Laurel Ann Bogen, Wanda Coleman,
B.H. Fairchild, Sherman Pearl, Mike the Poet,
Pam Ward, Hilda Weiss, Wayne Lindberg & more

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 Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo

April 17 in NYC
Kit Robinson, Anne Tardos, Sergei Tcherepnin

April 17 in Chicago
Heather Palmer, Brandon Will, Cassandra Troyan,
Mark R. Brand

April 18 @ Harvard
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop

April 18 in NYC
Saskia Hamilton & Karl Kirchwey

April 19 in Philadelphia
Quincy Scott Jones & Holly Melgard

April 19 & 20 in Chicago
Rob Halpern

April 19 in NYC
Cecilia Vicuña, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, & Carmen Giménez Smith

April 19 in London
Paul Holman

April 19 in Gloucester, MA
Vincent Katz & Anna Moschovakis

April 20 in SF
Lydia Davis

April 20 in Bristol, RI
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop

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 Brooklyn
Joshua Beckman, Caroline Knox, and David Shapiro

April 22 in Washington, DC
Meg Ronan, Alison Strub, Aubrey Lenahan

April 22 in Oakland
Alissa Nutting and Janet Mitchell

April 22 in NYC
Shane Book, Kamau Rucker & Demetrice Anntia Worley

April 22 in Oakland
K. Silem Mohammad, Rodney Koeneke, Lindsey Boldt

April 23 in NYC
Gary Sullivan & Derek Fenner

April 23 in SF
Will Alexander
with Cedar Sigo & Andrew Joron

April 23 in Denver
Alarm Will Sound: 1969

April 23 in Philadelphia,
The Philadelphia Poetry Festival

April 25 in NYC
Trialogues

April 25 in NYC
Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Andrei Codrescu

April 25 in NYC
Amanda Nadelberg & Genya Turovskaya

April 25 & 26 in Philadelphia,
Marjorie Perloff

April 26 in NYC
Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World
Mohammed Bennis

April 26 in Baltimore
Rosanna Warren

April 26 in New Haven, CT
Gail Mazur and Eleanor Lerman

April 27 in NYC
Arthur Rimbaud
with Edwin Torres, Anne Tardos, Nicole Peyrafitte,
Franklin Bruno, David Shapiro, Bree Brenton,
Julie Patton, Madeline Gins, Richard Hell,
Evi Jundt, Anna Williams & Sharon Mesmer

April 27 in Rochester, NY
Thomas Pfetzinger & Ross Benjamin

April 27 in NYC
Academy of American Poets
annual Assault on Poetry, with
Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Cassandra Wilson,
Michael Cunningham, Uma Thurman, Chris Cooper,
Patti Smith, Alec Baldwin

April 28 in Swarthmore, PA
Dilruba Ahmed, Megan Gillespie, Chloe Martinez, Iain Haley Pollock

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 28 – 30 in NYC
The Best of Public Access Poetry
(Don’t forget the Meat is Movie
Neo-Benshi Mashup Narration Spectacular)

April 28 in New Paltz, NY
Tim Davis

April 29 in Rye, UK
The Moors

April 29 in Brooklyn
Harryette Mullen

April 29 in NYC
PEN World Voices,
curated by Laurie Anderson

April 29 in NYC
Harryette Mullen with Barbara Henning

April 29 in Brooklyn
Deborah Landau, Mark Bibbins, and Dara Wier

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 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 2 in NYC
Dorothea Lasky, Star Black & David Yezzi

May 3 in London
Ron Silliman

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 in London
London Word Festival
with Christian Bök, Luke Kennard, Maria Fusco,
MC Ross Sutherland et al

May 3 & 4 in NYC
Annual Chapbook Festival

May 4 in NYC
Jen Benka & Laura Mullen

May 5 in Lubbock, TX
Literary Lubbock
with
Monte Akers, Ernesto Cardenal, Pat Carr,
Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, Michael Ventura, Robert Lee Maril,
& Richard D. White, Jr

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 Baltimore
John Barth

May 6 in Oakland
Anthony McCann, Robyn Schiff and Matthew Rohrer

May 6 in Dallas
Rage Almighty

May 6 in NYC
Gregg Bordowitz

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,
Roger Van Voorhees, Michael Ives & 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 8 in Brooklyn, OH
Trialogues

May 8 in NYC
Does Innovation ask for Destruction? (Brunch)
(Reservations Required)

May 9 in NYC
Mary Campbell, Ronaldo Wilson,
Paul Foster Johnson

May 9 in NYC
Angie Estes & Mitch Siskind

May 9 in NYC
Patrick James Dunagan & Daniel Nohejl

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 NYC
Marcy Dermansky, Heather Kristin, Albert Mobilio,
& Stephen O’Connor

May 11 in Dallas
Ricardo Garza & Michael Guinn

May 11 in NYC
Celebrating Tim Dlugos
with Anselm Berrigan, Tom Carey, CA Conrad,
Jane DeLynn, Alex Dimitrov, Brad Gooch,
Duncan Hannah, Patricia Spears Jones, Erica Kaufman,
Michael Lally, Chip Livingston, Jaime Manrique,
Stephen Motika, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett,
Aaron Smith, Stacy Szymaszek, Marvin Taylor,
David Trinidad & Terence Winch

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 Washington, DC
Bill Berkson & Cole Swenson

May 13 in Brooklyn
Meg Barboza, Michelle Taransky, and Sarah Shapiro

May 13 in NYC
Matt Hart & the Small Dance

May 13 & 14 in Salem, MA
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
with Steve Almond, Jericho Brown, Mark Doty,
Nezhukumatathil, David Rivard, Lloyd Schwartz,
Brian Turner, Afaa Michael Weaver & more

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 16 in NYC
Vahni Capildeo & Vivek Narayanan

May 16 in NYC
Dan Chiasson & Deborah Landau

May 17 in Berkeley
Will Alexander, Garrett Caples & Cedar Sigo

May 17 in NYC
Renee Gladman, Danielle Dutton, Amina Cain

May 17 in London
Francis Presley & Zoë Skoulding

May 18 in NYC
Paula Cisewski & Ronaldo Wilson

May 18 in NYC
Greg Ames, Melissa Broder,
Joseph Colonna, & Richard Foerster

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 in NYC
A night at the NYPL

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 NYC
Steve McLaughlin & Bob Perelman

May 22 in Philadelphia
Maria Lisella & Gil Fagiani

May 23 in NYC
Curtis Jensen & Lynn Xu

May 24 in Norwich, UK
Jo Shapcott

May 24 in Cambridge, UK
Carrie Etter

May 25 in NYC
Angela Ashman, Dylan Landis,
Eric Lindley, & Shelly Oria

May 25 in Chicago
Coleman Barks & Phil Cousineau

May 25 in NYC
Andrew Joron & Adeena Karasick

May 26 in Exeter, UK
Norman Jope

May 27 in SF
Joan Retallack gives the first
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in 21^st 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 1 in NYC
Drew Gardner & Mark Yakich

June 3 in Sussex, UK
Black Mountain College into the 21^st 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 6 in NYC
Christopher Salerno & Matthew Yeager

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 26 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 – 90^th 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 31 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 many cities
100,000 Poets for change

September 25 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 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan

November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang

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
30^th 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 – 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 – April 30 in Miami
O Miami!
a month-long celebration of poetry

Now – May 1 in Santa Fe, NM
Broadsides from the
Al-Mutanabbi Street Project

Now – May 14 in NYC
Todd Zuniga

Now – May 15 in Vienna
Roy Lichtenstein

Now – May 25 in Venice, Italy
Vorticism