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June
June 13 in Philadelphia
AACM: Great Black Music
June 13 in NYC
Memorial Reading for Paul Violi
June 13 in Cork, Ireland
Jennifer Militello
June 13 in Philadelphia
Jamie O’Neill
June 13 in NYC
Emily Dickinson’s family feuds
June 13 in Manhattan & Brooklyn
Poets House Bridge Walk
June 14 in Brooklyn
Jennifer Tamayo & Cathy Park Hong
June 14 in London
Tom Loewenstein
June 14 in Paris
Pierre Joris, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
June 14 in SF
Fanny Howe
June 14 in Wallingford, PA
Jeffrey Valentine
June 15 in NYC
Memorial Reading for Akilah Oliver
June 16 in Paris
Stephen Crowe
art inspired by Finnegans Wake
June 16 in NYC
Jennifer Grotz, Lisa Jarnot, Chris Martin
June 16 – 19 in Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua Writers Festival
June 16 – 19 in Basel
Scope Basel
June 17 in Paris
David & Eleanor Antin
June 18 in Cambridge, MA
Mary Bonina
June 18 in Philadelphia
Iain Haley Pollock
June 18 – 19 in NYC
Ligorano / Reese
Morning in America
(rain date: June 25 – 26)
June 19 in NYC
Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Soloman
June 19 – July 10 in Boulder, CO
The Naropa Summer Writing Program
June 21 in London
Iain Sinclair, John Wilkinson,
Emily Critchley, Rob Stanton
June 21 in Philadelphia
RW Dennen & Anne-Adele Wight
June 21 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Bernard O’Donoghue & Tony Curtis
June 22 in Philadelphia
Neela Vaswani
June 23 in London
Carol Watts & Marianne Morris
June 23 in London
Vincent Katz & Barry Schwabsky
June 23 – 26 in York, UK
Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive
June 23 – 28 in New Orleans
ALA
June 24 in Venice, CA
Detroit Rock Poetry
June 25 in Racine, WI
Dawn Lundy Martin & Hoa Nguyen
June 25 in NYC
Joanna Fuhrman, Christopher Funkhouser, Brenda Iijima,
erica kaufman, Jane Rice, & Christina Strong
June 25 & 26 in Chicago
Poetry Foundation celebrates its new glass castle
June 25 – October 31 @ Dia Beacon & Bard
Blinky Palermo
June 26 in Philadelphia
Paul Siegell & Ocean Vuong
June 27 in Calgary
Gregory Betts & Jake Kennedy
June 28 in Paris
Rufo Quintavalle, Colin Herd & Suzanne Allen
June 28 in London
Glam Slam
June 30 in DC
Iain Haley Pollock, Yvette Neisser Moreno
July
July 2 – 17 throughout the UK
Oxfam Bookfest
July 2 in Venice, CA
Codepink: Women Behaving Badly
with Jo Scott-Coe, Gayle Brandeis,
Stephanie Barbe Hammer, Donna Hilbert
July 4 – 29 in Paris
Ali Kazma:
How to Film a Poet
July 5 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Ian & Andrew McMillan
July 7 in LA
Lory Bedikian, Sherman Pearl, Mehnaz Turner,
A. Razor, Cassandra Love, Anthony Seidman
July 8 in Venice, CA
Karen Kaslyan, Anahid Armouni Keshishian,
Soseh Keshishyan
July 9 in Chicago
Stella Radulescu, Gene Tanta & Ramona Tanta
July 9 in Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill Literary Festival
July 10 in Venice, CA
Wanda Coleman, Pam Ward, Douglas Kearney
& Chris Webb
July 12 – 22 in Paris
T.S. Eliot and France
July 14 in NYC
Ana Božičević & Jennifer Chang
July 14 in Chestnut Hill, MA
Iain Haley Pollock, Anne-Marie Oomen, Tad Richards
July 14 in London
you can buy the original mss.
of Jane Austen’s “The Watsons” today
July 15 everywhere
Harry Potter
July 15 in Venice, CA
Uri Hertz, John Solt, Morgan Gibson
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 16 in Chicago
Jai Arun Ravine & Jillian Soto
July 16 in St Leonards, Hastings, UK
The Moors
July 16 in NYC
My Lorca:
Edward Hirsch, Jayne Cortez, Jeffrey McDaniel
July 17 in Venice, CA
Church of Ocean Park Awards
with David St. John & S.A. Griffin
July 19 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Simon Armitage
July 22 in Venice, CA
Sarah Maclay, Kate Buckley, Victoria Chang
July 23 in Venice, CA
Carol Lem & Doren Robbins
July 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference
July 29 in Chicago
Printers Ball
July 30 in Venice, CA
Chella Courington, Mehnaz Turner, Cati Porter
July 30 & 31 in SF
Gamelan with Kori Mas
July 31 in Philadelphia
Nathan Graziano & David Blaine
August
August 2 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Penelope Shuttle & Susan Wicks
August 3 – 7 in Seattle
Haiku North America
August 6 in Venice, CA
Corrie Greathouse & Jessica Helen Lopez
August 7 in Ladysmith, BC
Hazelwood Writers Festival
with Sheri-D Wilson, Mona Fertig,
Yvonne Blomer,Tricia Dower, Kirsten Emmott,
David Fraser, Kim Goldberg, Judith Millar,
Kamal Parmar, Cindy Shantz, Patricia Smekal,
Ursula Vaira, Naomi Wakan, Ann Graham Walker,
M.C. Warrior, & Bert Wolfe
August 7 in Hastings, UK
The Moors
August 12 in Venice, CA
Larry Hankin
August 12 – 18 in McCarthy, Alaska
Wrangell Mountain Poetry Workshop
with Elizabeth Bradfield & Jeremy Pataky
August 13 in Venice, CA
The Fourth Annual Philomenian
August 16 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Fiona Sampson & Carola Luther
August 18 in NYC
Cedar Sigo, Dara Weir & Rosanna Warren
August 20 in NYC
My Lorca:
Forrest Gander, Aracelis Girmay, Pablo Medina
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
August 26 – 28 in Queensland, Australia
Queensland Poetry Festival
August 27 – September 4 @ Burnt Norton
Explore the Cotswolds with Paul Muldoon,
Nigel Smith et al
August 30 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Michael Longley & Jane Routh
September
September 10 – 11 in Edinburgh
Conversify:
Poetry, Politics & Form
September 13 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Christopher Reid & Elizabeth Burns
(apparently rescheduled from May)
September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barstone
September 15 in NYC
Deborah Landau, Srikanth Reddy & Atsuro Riley
September 15 – 18 in Nairobi
Hay Festival Nairobi
September 21 – 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 22 – 25 in Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival Segovia
September 24 in many cities
100,000 Poets for change
September 25 in Philadelphia
Rodger Lowenthal & Catherine Staples
September 27, in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Paul Muldoon
September 29 in Dallas
Joaquin Zuihuatenejo & Natasha Carrazosa
September 30 in Newtown, PA
Iain Haley Pollock
September 30 – October 2 in NYC
NY Art Book Fair
October & Onward
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 6 – 9 in Xalapa, Vera Cruz
Hay Festival Xalapa
October 12 in Syracuse, NY
Iain Haley Pollock
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 4 in NYC
Iain Haley Pollock, Vida Cross
November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show
November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia
November 2011 in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
November 18 – 20 in Kerala, India
Hay Festival Kerala
2012
January 1 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
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
May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
September 7-9 2012
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner
Ongoing
Now – June 17 in Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Summer Writers Conference
Now – June 16 in San Marino & Pasadena
Joyce in Science & Art
Now – June 18 in Brooklyn
Susan Bee
Now – July 17 in New Paltz, NY
Tim Davis
Now – August 8 in LA
MOCA’s Street Art show
Now – September 6 in SF
The Steins Collect
Now – September 6 in SF
Seeing Gertrude Stein: 5 Stories
Now – September 11 in SF
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Now – September 18 in NYC
Kevin Jerome Everson
Now – November 27 in Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale
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Poets & Writers
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San Francisco Bay Area Readings
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Chicago has a Poetry Calendar
Nathalie Anderson’s Lit-Philly
email list covers Philadelphia
The DC Poetry Calendar is here
There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
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of all that is going on
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