Silliman's Blog

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 NYC
Alan Gilbert, Karla Kelsey,
Marie–Elizabeth Mal & Laura Newbern

July 19 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Simon Armitage

July 20 in Manchester
Chris Goode, Jonny Liron, Tamarin Norwood

July 21 in NYC
Celebrating New Directions’ 75^th year
with Susan Bernofsky, Forrest Gander, Susan Howe,
Nathaniel Mackey, Richard Sieburth, Mónica de la Torre
& Eliot Weinberger

July 21 in SF
Douglas Kearney

July 21 in Brooklyn
Sarah Rose Etter, Melissa Broder, Sean Doyle,
Daniel Nester, Deb Olin Unferth et al

July 22 in Venice, CA
Sarah Maclay, Kate Buckley, Victoria Chang

July 23 in Venice, CA
Carol Lem & Doren Robbins

July 23 in Port Townsend, WA
Jeannine Hall Gailey & Dorianne Laux

July 24 – 26 in Vienna
100 Myles: The International
Flann O’Brien Centenary Conference

July 26 in NYC
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Albert Mobilio,
Jena Osman & Evie Shockley

July 28 in SF
Arnold Kemp

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 4 in SF
Amber di Pietra

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 11 in SF
Evan Kennedy

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 13 – 19 in Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Book Festival

August 16 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Fiona Sampson & Carola Luther

August 18 in NYC
Cedar Sigo, Dara Weir & Rosanna Warren

August 18 in SF
Brent Cunningham

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 25 in SF
Yedda Morrison

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 12 in NYC
Michael Gottlieb’s The Dust

September 13 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Christopher Reid & Elizabeth Burns
(apparently rescheduled from May)

September 14 & 15 in Philadelphia
Susan M Schultz

September 15 in San Rafael, CA
Tony & Willis Barnstone

September 15 in NYC
Deborah Landau, Srikanth Reddy & Atsuro Riley

September 15 – 18 in Nairobi
Hay Festival Nairobi

September 18 – 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book

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 25 in Seattle
Jeannine Hall Gailey

September 27 in Philadelphia
Charles Alexander

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 2 in Portland, OR
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Molly Tenenbaum,
Martha Silano et al

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 12 in West Chester, PA
Michael Ondaatje

October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference

October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan

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
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

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