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October
October 10 in NYC
Steve Timm & Abraham Smith
October 10 in Paris
Lynn Crawford & Harry Matthews
October 10 in NYC
Xi Chuan, Zhou Zan, Marilyn Chin,
Li-Young Lee, Forrest Gander
October 10 in LA
Jules Engel &
the Animation of the Unconscious
October 10 in NYC
Tina Chang & Angie Estes
Now – October 23 in Manchester, UK
Manchester Literature Festival
October 11 in Philadelphia
Russell Banks
October 11 in NYC
Deborah Landau
October 11 in NYC
Rachel Shteir & Nathan Deuel
October 11 in Paris
Anna Arov, Megan Garr, Kate Foley,
Sarah Ream, Jane Lewty & Lars Palm
October 11 – 21 in Wells, Somerset, UK
Wells Festival of Literature
October 12 in NYC
Teju Cole, Anna Solomon, Rebecca Wolff
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 NYC
Anne Waldman & Charles North
October 12 in DC
Xi Chuan, Zhou Zan
October 12 in NYC
Steve Katz
October 12 & 13 in Buffalo
Jed Rasula
October 12 – 16 in Liverpool
Chapter & Verse Literary Festival
October 13 in Bryn Mawr
WD Ehrhart & Louis McKee
October 13 in Berkeley
John Taggart
October 13 in Philadelphia
Cecilia Vicuña
October 13 – 15 in San Diego
&NOW 5 conference
October 13 & 14 in Chicago
Allen Fisher
October 14 in NYC
Derrick Weston Brown, Aracelis Girmay, Kevin Simmonds
October 14 @ Harvard
Chris Mattison
on the Hong Kong poetry scene
October 14 in NYC
Abigail Child:
Is This What You Were Born For?
October 14 in NYC
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
October 14 & 15 in Belfast, ME
Belfast Poetry Festival
October 14 – 23 in Lancaster, UK
Lancaster Literature Festival
October 14 – 30 in Chester, UK
The Essar Oil Chester Literature Festival
October 15 in Minneapolis
Twin Cities Book Festival
October 15 in Chicago
Al DeGenova
October 15 in London
The Camarade Project
(collaborations evening)
October 15 in Gloucester, MA
Iain Sinclair on Charles Olson
& his influence on British poets
of the 1960s & ‘70s
October 15 in Chicago
Tony Hoagland, J Patrick Lewis, Mary Zimmerman et al
October 15 in SF
John Taggart & CS Giscombe
October 15 in Boston
Susan Howe, Forrest Gander, Michael Palmer
October 15 in Carborro, NC
West End Poetry Festival
October 15 in Philadelphia
Diane Sahms Guarnieri
October 15 @ Bard
The music of Lou Harrison
October 15 in NYC
Doug Nufer & Filip Marinovich
October 15 – 19 in Canterbury, UK
Canterbury Festival
October 16 in Chicago
Claudia Rankine
October 16 in LA
The avant-garde & Hollywood
October 16 in SF
Dance World Gym
by Kevin Killian & Karla Milosovich
October 16 in Chicago
William Gibson
October 16 in DC
Drew Gardner
October 16 in NYC
Donald Breckenridge & Ron Kolm
October 17 in NYC
Robert Fernandez & Jennifer Tamayo
October 17 @ Harvard
Michael Palmer
October 17 in Paris
Rae Armantrout & Joe Ross
October 17 @ Harvard
Robert Pinsky
October 17 in NYC
Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Timothy Donnelly
October 17 – 20 in Chicago
Creative Nonfiction Week
October 17 – 23 in Durham, UK
Durham Book Festival
October 18 in Philadelphia
Jane Hirshfield
October 18 in NYC
John Jeremiah Sullivan
October 18 in London
Peter Philpott & Emily Critchley
October 19 in NYC
Brent Hayes Edwards, Anne Waldman, Jayne Cortez,
Jerome Rothenberg, Thomas Glave, Heller Levinson,
& Clayton Eshleman
read Aimé Césaire
October 19 in Princeton
Rita Dove & James Salter
October 19 in Chicago
Timothy Donnelly
October 19 in Seattle
Ben Lerner
October 19 in NYC
Holly Black, Lauren McLaughlin
October 19 – 21 in NYC
Crossing the Borders:
25th National Conference
on Liberal Arts & the Education of Artists
October 19 – 22 in Vancouver
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
October 19 – 23 in Louth, Lincolnshire, UK
Wolds Words
Festival of Reading, Writing & Performance
October 20 in Philadelphia
9 Dylanologists close-read
Bob Dylan
October 20 in Middletown, CT
Clayton Eshleman & Typhaine Lesverot
read Aimé Césaire
October 20 in Berkeley
Nina Corwin & Adrene Zawinski
October 20 @ Harvard
Kathleen Fraser, Elizabeth Willis
October 20 in Chicago
Terrance Hayes
October 20 in NYC
Chris Weikel, Christopher Borg, Christopher Bram
October 20 in DC
Shanna Compton, Susana Gardner, Maureen Thorson
October 20 in Philadelphia
Brian Evanson
October 20 in Cambridge, MA
Wendell Berry
October 20 – 22 in NYC
Poets’ Forum
with Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Doty, Rita Dove,
Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Juan Felipe Herrera,
Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds,
Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Marie Ponsot,
Kay Ryan, Gerald Stern, Anne Waldman
& many, many more
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
& more
October 21 in Buffalo
Kent Johnson
October 22 in Chicago
Toni Asante Lightfoot
October 21 in NYC
Allison Carter & Jibade-Khalil Huffman
October 21 in Seattle
Matt Hart & Joseph Mains
October 22 in Philadelphia
Susana Gardner, Jenn McCreary, Kirsten Kaschock
October 23 in Chicago
Amitav Ghosh
October 23 in LA
Film abstraction in the 1940s & ‘50s
October 23 in NYC
Terese Svoboda, Caitlin Horrocks, Lawrence Douglas
October 23 in Seattle
Jane Alynn & Carolyne Wright
October 24 in NYC
John Coletti & Jacqueline Waters
October 24 @ Harvard
Jennifer Clarvoe & April Bernard
October 24 in NYC
Bruce Covey, Emily Kendal Frey
October 25 in Tucson
Noah Saterstrom & Anne Waldman
exhibit opens
October 25 @ Harvard
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Linda Oppen
& Bob & Helene Quinn
on George Oppen
October 25 in Berkeley
Jean Day
October 25 in Glasgow
Richard Price
October 25 in NYC
Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
October 25 in Athens, GA
Dorothea Lasky, Travis Nichols, Monica Fambrough
October 26 at Bryn Mawr
The Quietist Short Story
October 26 in NYC
Kathleen Fraser & David Larsen
October 26 in Chicago
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Rita Ann Higgins,
Caitríona O’Reilly, & Leontia Flynn
October 26 in Milwaukee
Magic Trip opens
October 26 in Buffalo
Jerome Rothenberg
October 26 in Chicago
Elaine Equi & Jerome Sala
October 26-28 in Carbondale, IL
Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival
October 27 in NYC
Rae Armantrout & Lisa Jarnot
October 27 in DC
Camille Martin, Mel Nichols, Amy Wright
October 27 @ Bard
Juliana Spahr & Jonathan Skinner
on Ecopoetics
October 27 in NYC
Garrett Hongo
October 27 & 29 in SF
Anna Moschovakis & John Sakkis
October 27 – 30 in London
Sentinel Literature Festival
October 28 in NYC
VIDA,
with Erin Belieu, Barrie Jean Borich, Kekla Magoon,
Cate Marvin, Danielle Pafunda, Susan Steinberg,
Cheryl Strayed, and Ann Townsend
October 28 in Buffalo
K Silem Mohammad
October 28 in Seattle
Carl Adamshick & Melissa Stein
October 29 in NYC
Rae Armantrout, Camille Martin
October 29 in Chicago
Jesse Seldess
October 29 in Cambridge, MA
Allen Fisher, Chuck Stebleton
October 30 in Philadelphia
Jim Mancinelli & Michael Steffan
October 30 in LA
Distributing the avant-garde:
The Creative Film Society Collection
October 30 in London
Anne Gorrick & Pat Hartigan
October 30 in Concord, MA
Teresa Cader & Charles W Pratt
October 31 in NYC
James Copeland & Ariana Reines
October 31 in Cambridge, MA
Marsha Pomerantz & Judith Baumel
October 31 in NYC
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Leontia Flynn, Rita Ann Higgins
& Caitriona O'Reilly
November
November 1 in Philadelphia
Nicole Steinberg, Sam Truitt
November 1 @ Harvard
Frolic Architecture
with Susan Howe & David Grubbs
November 1 in NYC
Camille Dungy, Marcus Jackson
& Nagueyalti Warren
November 1 in Seattle
Casey Fuller & Laura Read
November 2 in NYC
Ron Silliman & Doug Lang
November 2 in Ridley Park, PA
Nathalie Anderson
November 2 @ Bryn Mawr
Natasha Trethewey
November 2 in NYC
Deborah Landau
November 2 in Chicago
Dennis Tedlock
November 2 in Chicago
Laurie Anderson (talk)
November 2 in Cambridge, MA
Walter Mosley
November 2 & 3 in Berkeley
Clayton Eshleman
November 3 in SF
ruth weiss
November 3 in Brookline, MA
Dorothea Lasky & Christina Davis
November 3 in NYC
Tea Obreht, Alexi Zentner, Darin Strauss
November 3 in Buffalo
Marcella Durand
November 3 in NYC
William Carlos Williams’
Poems from the Spanish
November 3 in Chicago
Joshua Edwards
November 3 in Mahway, NJ
Camille Dungy
November 3 in Philadelphia
Alice Notley
November 3 in Moraga, CA
Clayton Eshleman
November 3 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman
November 3 @ Yale
Dan Beachy-Quick
November 3 in Berkeley
Susan Kolodny & Mary Mackey
November 3 in Chicago
Jared Diamond
November 4 in NYC
Elizabeth Alexander, Vida Cross, Iain Halley Pollock
November 4 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman
November 4 in Newtown, PA
Edmund White
November 4 in NYC
Iain Haley Pollock, Vida Cross
November 4 in NYC
Welcome to the Writing Machine
(an evening of collaborations)
November 4 – 6 in Aldeburgh, UK
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
November 5 in NYC
Wayne Koestenbaum & Divya Victor
November 5 in Lawrence, KS
Celebrating the writing of Kenneth Irby
on his 75th birthday
with Lyn Hejinian, Pierre Joris, Ben Friedlander,
Denise Low & Joe Harrington
November 6 in NYC
Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives Manhattan
November 6 in Pasadena
Natasha Trethewey, TC Boyle, & Ron Carlson
November 6 in Chicago
Jonathan Franzen & Isabel Wilkerson
November 7 in San Francisco
Clayton Eshleman
November 7 in NYC
Harmony Holiday & Jared Stanley
November 7 in Cambridge, MA
Carol Moldaw, Lisa Olstein
November 7 in Athens, GA
Anne Waldman, talk:
the poet as activist
November 7 in Boulder, CO
Abigail Child
November 7 in SF
Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Gary Snyder
November 7 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, South Wales
Catherine Fisher & Lemn Sissay
November 8 in Philadelphia
Peter Balakian
November 8 in San Jose, CA
Camille Dungy
November 8 in Berkeley
Judith Goldman
November 8 in Cambridge, MA
Rosa Alcalá, Eduardo C. Corral & Aracelis Girmay
November 8 in Berkeley
Brian Turner, Joseph Woods & Eugene O’Connell
November 9 in San Luis Obispo
Clayton Eshleman
November 9 in SF
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
November 9 in NYC
Tracie Morris & Elliott Sharp
November 9 in Berkeley
Tess Gallagher
November 9 – 20 in San Luis Obispo
Language of the Soul:
28th Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival
November 10 in Bryn Mawr
Rosemary Cappello & Rosalind Kaplan
November 10 in Philadelphia
Umberto Eco
November 10 in Santa Barbara
Clayton Eshleman
November 10 in NYC
Alice Notley & Brenda Coultas
November 10 in Buffalo
Joyelle McSweeney
November 10 in SF
Will Alexander & Maria Damon
November 10 @ Yale
Claudia Rankine
November 10 in Berkeley
Chistopher Buckley, Eliot Schain & Gary Young
November 10 in NYC
Kevin Barry, Nick Laird
November 10 in Seattle
Dana Levin
November 10 – 13 in NYC
Pinta:
The Modern & Contemporary
Latin American Arts Show
November 10 – 20 in Philadelphia
First Person Festival
November 11 in NYC
Janine Oshiro, Samuel Park, Jessica Hagedorn
November 11 in NYC
Samuel Lipsyte
November 11 in NYC
Khaled Mattawa
November 12 in SF
A Symposium on Bob Kaufman
with Maria Damon, Will Alexander & Justin Desmangles
November 12 in NYC
The Writing Life:
What does faith have to do with it?
November 12 in NYC
Gregory Laynor & Holly Melgard
November 13 in Chicago
David Grossman
November 13 in Chicago
Umberto Eco
November 13 in Venice, CA
Clayton Eshleman
November 13 in Chicago
Charles Bernstein
November 13 in LA
Doing it on tape:
Video from the Women’s Building
November 13 in Plymouth, MA
Paul Stone, Zvi Sesling
November 14 in Los Angeles
Clayton Eshleman
November 14 in Athens, GA
Ron Silliman
November 14 in NYC
Amaranth Borsuk & Kate Durbin
November 15 in NYC
Anne Waldman, Brenda Coultas, Anna Moschovakis
November 15 in Athens, GA
Catherine Wagner
November 15 @ Harvard
Pierre Joris on Paul Celan
November 15 in Seattle
Robert Bringhurst
November 16 in NYC
National Book Awards Dinner
November 16 in Chicago
George Kalamaras
November 16 in NYC
Hoa Nguyen, Jesse Seldess
November 16 – January 5 2012 in Chicago
Beautiful Outsiders:
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses
November 16 in La Jolla
Clayton Eshleman
November 17 in Philadelphia
Joyelle McSweeney & Kim Rosenfield :
The Gurlesque
November 17 in NYC
Lynne Tillman & Matthea Harvey
November 17 in Chicago
Don Share on
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses
November 17 in Berkeley
Madeline Tiger & Joan Tiger Bass
November 17 & 18 in Chicago
Alice Notley
November 17 – February 18 2012 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
November 18 in NYC
Elissa Schappell & Helen Schulman
November 18 in Buffalo
Philip Schultz
November 18 in Berkeley
The Grand Piano
November 18 – 20 in Kerala, India
Hay Festival Kerala
November 19 in San Rafael, CA
Dana Gioia
November 20 in SF
An evening with
the Grand Piano collective
November 20 in Seattle
John Burgess & Joannie Kervran Strangeland
November 20 in LA
Resistance:
4 films on the dying American Dream
November 21 in Cambridge, MA
Richard Hoffman, John Hodgen
November 22 in London
Kelvin Corcoran, Gavin Selerie
November 24 in Liverpool
Ian Seed, Jane Routh, Sarah Hymas,
Carol Coates, Elizabeth Burns, Mike Barlow
November 28 in NYC
What it means for
Alison Knowles & Kenny Goldsmith
to be invited to the White House,
with Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith & Steven Zultanski
November 30 in SF
Anne Waldman
November 30 in Princeton
Rae Armantrout & John Irving
November 30 in Philadelphia
Dan Beachy-Quick & Laura Goldstein
November 30 in NYC
Julian T Brolaski & Elizabeth Willis
November 30 in Chicago
CM Burroughs & Michael Robins
December
December 1 in Berkeley
Anne Waldman
December 1 @ Yale
Andrew Hudgins
December 1 in NYC
Matthew Rohrer with Deborah Landau
December 1 in Berkeley
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
December 1 in SF
Alan Kaufman
December 2 in Seattle
Rigoberto González
December 2 in NYC
Jericho Brown & Mark Doty
December 2 in Buffalo
Rod Smith
December 2 in NYC
Jim Shepard
December 2 in Newtown, PA
Martha Rhodes
December 3 in Swindon, UK
Carrie Etter
December 3 in NYC
Kieran Daly & Lanny Jordan Jackson
December 3 in SF
Anne Waldman with Ambrose Bye
December 3 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, South Wales
Roger McGough & Clare Potter
December 3 in Pasadena
Wallace Berman’s Underground
December 4 in SF
Kaplan Harris,
talking with Bruce Boone & Bob Glück
about the LeftWrite Conference
30 years later
December 4 in LA
Visual Communications:
Asian-American film in the 1970s
December 5 in Cambridge, MA
Meghan O’Rourke
December 5 in DC
Aracelis Girmay on Emily Dickinson
December 7 @ Harvard
Anna Rabinowitz
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
December 8 in NYC
Timothy Donnelly
December 8 in SF
Gerald Nicosia
December 9 in NYC
EL Doctorow
December 10 in SF
The annual George Oppen lecture
given by Peter Nicholls
December 10 in NYC
Barbara Cole & Mel Nichols
December 12 in Cambridge, MA
Rosanna Warren, David Yezzi
December 15 in NYC
Rivkah Galchen with Darin Strauss
December 15 in Chicago
Peter Sis
December 15 – 17 in Brooklyn
Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas
December 18 in SF
Asian-Pacific Islander-American poets
& the Avant-Garde
with Barbara Jane Reyes et al
December 18 in Saratoga Springs, NY
Nicole Peyrafitte & the Trojans
January 2012
January – April 2012 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
January 1 – 8 2012 in Puebla, Mexicopostponed for one year
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 7 in NYC
Noah Eli Gordon & Marianne Morris
January 8 in LA
Dangerous Ideas:
Political-Conceptual Art in LA
1974-81
January 14 in NYC
David Lau & Lauren Spohrer
January 18 in London
Peter Jaeger:
John Cage’s Zen Poetics
January 21 in NYC
Karen Mac Cormack & Steve McCaffery
January 26 in NYC
Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley
January 26 & 27 in Chicago
Ben Lerner
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
January 28 in NYC
Chris Kraus & Aaron Winslow
January 30 – February 4 in Elko, NV
28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
February & Beyond
February 2 in Berkeley
giovanni singleton
February 7 & 8 in Chicago
Joe Sacco
February 8 in Princeton
James Richardson & Jonathan Franzen
February 8 & 9 in Indianapolis, IN
Anne Waldman
February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy
February 4 – 12 2012 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin
February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley
March 29 – April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference
March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder
April 5 @ Yale
Susan Howe
April 5 in Berkeley
Richard Berengarten
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky
April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado
April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
May 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 19 in Oxnard, CA
Brendan Constantine & Nina Corwin
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet
June 17 – 30 2012 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
September 7-9 2012 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
October - November 2012 in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
Ongoing
Now – October 10 in Lowell, MA
Lowell celebrates Kerouac
Now – October 15 in Philadelphia
Alphabet of Art
Now – October 15 in NYC
Perfect Man II
Now – October 16 in Birmingham, UK
Birmingham Book Festival
Now – October 16 in Beverly, UK
Beverly Literature Festival
Now – October 16 in Cheltenham, UK
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Now – October 24 in London
The DSC South Asian Literature Festival
Now – October 29 in NYC
Fred Hersch: A musician’s eye
Now – October 29 in NYC
Francie Shaw
Now – November 6 in Gloucester, MA
Sam Feinstein
Now – January 22 2012 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
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
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of all that is going on
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