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August
Now in NYC, Santa Cruz, SF & Berkeley
MagicTrip
August 9 – 13 in Cambridge & Boston
National Poetry Slam
August 10 in Milwaukee
Sherman Jackson
August 10 in NYC
Andrew Raha,l Anwyn Crawford, E. J. McAdams,
Camille Ikalina Robles, Stefanie Simons
August 10 in London
Helen Babbs + James Wilkes, Chris McCabe,
Isobel Dixon, Sarah Kelly, Matt Martin & Chrissy Williams
August 11 in SF
Evan Kennedy
August 11 in Bryn Mawr
Christine Weiser, Anthony DiFiore & Janet Spangler
August 11 in Philadelphia
Build & Eat
August 12 in San Jose, Santa Ana, West LA
& Portland OR
MagicTrip opens
August 12 in Venice, CA
Larry Hankin
August 12 in Doylestown, PA
Grant Clauser
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 in Chicago
Noelle Kocot, Mike Hauser
August 13 – 19 in Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Book Festival
August 16 in Grasmere, Cumbria, UK
Fiona Sampson & Carola Luther
August 17 in Gloucester, MA
David Rich
August 18 in NYC
Cedar Sigo, Dara Weir & Rosanna Warren
August 18 in SF
Brent Cunningham
August 19 in Arcata, CA, DC,
Ashland, OR & Philadelphia
MagicTrip opens
August 20 in NYC
My Lorca:
Forrest Gander, Aracelis Girmay, Pablo Medina
August 20 in Chicago
Christ Golmski, Laura Goldstein
August 20 in Ogden, UT
MagicTrip opens
August 20 in Brooklyn
Fort Greene Literary Festival
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 20 in Pacific Palisades, CA
Suzanne Lummis, John Harris, Bill Mohr
August 20 & 21 in Philadelphia
Miss Rockaway Armada flotilla
August 21 in Berkeley
Benefit for S Clay Wilson
with AD Winans, Luis Garcia, Richard Krech & Clive Matson
August 25 in Bloomington, IN & Hudson NY
MagicTrip opens
August 25 in SF
Yedda Morrison
August 26 in Santa Fe, Seattle
& University City, MO
MagicTrip opens
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
August 30 in Boulder, CO
MagicTrip opens
September
September 2 in Atlanta, Cambridge, MA,
Minneapolis, Ashville, NC
& Newburyport, MA
MagicTrip Opens
September 2 – 17 in Philadelphia
Fringe Fest
September 3 in Chicago
Sophie Robinson, Sandra Simonds
September 4 in Albuquerque
MagicTrip opens
September 6 – January 22 2012 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
September 7 in Ridley Park, PA
Camille Norvaisas
September 8 in Columbus, OH
MagicTrip opens
September 8 in Bryn Mawr
Marylou Kelly Steznewski, Linda A. Cronin & Stu O'Connor
September 9 in Sacramento, Denver,
Gainesville & Tempe, AZ
MagicTrip opens
September 10 in Huntsville, Alabama
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival
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 16 in San Diego
MagicTrip opens
September 17 in Kingston, NY
Stan Apps, Lynn Behrendt, Joe Elliott
September 18 – 23 in Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book
September 21 – 24 in Brooklyn
Kronos Quartet’s The Awakening
September 21 in London
Sean Bonney
September 21 – 25 in Cape Town, RSA
Open Book Festival
September 22 in Philadelphia
Stephen Greenblatt
September 22 – 25 in Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
September 22 – 25 in Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival Segovia
September 23 in Ithaca, NY
MagicTrip opens
September 23 in St Catharines, Ontario
Camille Martin, Shannon Maguire, Angela Szczepaniak,
Aisha Sasha John, & Zorras Multimedia Group
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 26 in Toronto
Camille Martin, Jim Johnstone
September 26 in Minneapolis
Craig Thompson
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 1 in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Small Press Festival
September 30 – October 2 in NYC
NY Art Book Fair
October
October 2 in Portland, OR
Jeannine Hall Gailey, Molly Tenenbaum,
Martha Silano et al
October 5 in Ridley Park, PA
Mike Cohen
October 6 in Brooklyn
Robert Wilson
October 6 in Philadelphia
William Kennedy & Paul Hendrickson
October 6 – 9 in Buffalo
MSA 13:
Structures of Innovation
October 6 – 9 in Xalapa, Vera Cruz
Hay Festival Xalapa
October 11 in Philadelphia
Russell Banks
October 12 in Syracuse, NY
Iain Haley Pollock
October 12 in Philadelphia
Jerome Rothenberg & Amish Trivedi
& (later the same day)
Rusty Morrison & Elizabeth Robinson
October 12 in West Chester, PA
Michael Ondaatje
October 13 in Bryn Mawr
WD Ehrhart & Louis McKee
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 15 in Minneapolis
Twin Cities Book Festival
October 19 – 22 in Vancouver
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
October 21 in Philadelphia
A celebration of Rachel Blau DuPlessis
with Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, Libbie Rifkin,
Eric Keeneghan, Jena Osman, Brian Teare,
Pattie McCarthy, Kevin Varrone, Emily Abendroth,
Holly Bittner, C.A. Conrad, Tom Devaney,
Sarah Dowling, Ryan Eckes, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga,
Chris McCreary, Michelle Taransky, & Heather Thomas
October 26 at Bryn Mawr
The Quietist Short Story
October 26 in Milwaukee
MagicTrip opens
October 29 in NYC
Rae Armantrout, Camille Martin
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
November / December
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 2 in Ridley Park, PA
Nathalie Anderson
November 2 @ Bryn Mawr
Natasha Trethewey
November 4 in NYC
Iain Haley Pollock, Vida Cross
November 4 – 6 in Aldeburgh, UK
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
November 6 in Pasadena
Natasha Trethewey, TC Boyle, & Ron Carlson
November 10 in Bryn Mawr
Rosemary Cappello & Rosalind Kaplan
November 10 in Philadelphia
Umberto Eco
November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show
November 16 in New York
National Book Awards Dinner
November 17 in Philadelphia
Joyelle McSweeney:
The Gurlesque
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
December 7 – 10 in Brooklyn
Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour
December 7 – 21 in Nairobi
Summer Literary Seminar
December 8 in Bryn Mawr
Dave Steel, Frank D. Walsh
2012
January – April 2012 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
January 1 – 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
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
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
June 17 – 30 2012 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
September 7-9 2012 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
Ongoing
Now – August 8 in LA
MOCA’s Street Art show
Now – August 13, Grand River, Ontario
Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour
Now – August 25 in SF
Smut Capital of America
Now – in Westminster, London, UK
Al-Mutanabbi Street
Now – August 31 in NYC
Jimmy De Sana
Now – September 6 in SF
The Steins Collect
Now – September 6 in SF
Seeing Gertrude Stein: 5 Stories
Now – September 7 in NYC
Ray’s a Laugh:
responding to the work of Ray Johnson,
with Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Leo Fitzpatrick,
Ray Johnson, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman,
Adam McEwen, Josh Smith & Dash Snow
Now – September 11 in SF
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Now – September 18 in NYC
Kevin Jerome Everson
Now – September 25 in London
Twombly & Poussin
Now – November 22 in Richmond, VA
Tristin Lowe’s Mocha Dick
Now – November 27 in Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale
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Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre
San Francisco Bay Area Readings
are listed by Shampoo
Chicago has a Poetry Calendar
Nathalie Anderson’s Lit-Philly
email list covers Philadelphia
as does
The Philly Lit Calendar
The DC Poetry Calendar is here
There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
Modern Poetry
catalogs events around London
The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
If we are capturing
even 0.1%
of all that is going on
of interest to poets,
we would be shocked
