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November
November 25 in Philadelphia
Elijah Thomas
November 26 in Toronto
Lise Downe, Bryan Sentes, Tyler Hayden,
Steve McCaffery
November 27 in Philadelphia
Amina Gautier
November 27 in Venice, CA
Gerard Nicosia
on On the Road
November 28 in Philadelphia
Lunch with Electric Literature
November 28 in Cambridge, MA
Four Quartets: Variations
with Bryant Park Quartet, Jon Woodward, Oni Buchanan,
R. Dwayne Betts, Thalia Field, Nate Speare,
Corianna Moffatt, Phil Timberlake, Marya Lowry,
The Guidonian Hand
November 28 in Alberta
Rachel Zolf
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 29 in Philadelphia
Kimmika Williams
November 30 in SF
Anne Waldman
November 30 in Princeton
Rae Armantrout & John Irving
November 30 in Philadelphia
Dan Beachy-Quick, Frank Rogaczewski & Laura Goldstein
November 30 in NYC
Julian T Brolaski & Elizabeth Willis
November 30 in Chicago
CM Burroughs & Michael Robins
November 30 in Burlington, VT
Four Quartets: Variations
with The Guidonian Hand, Oni Buchanan, Nate Speare,
Corianna Moffatt, Phil Timberlake, Marya Lowry,
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Major Jackson, Jon Woodward,
Iktus Percussion Quartet
November 30 – December 4 in Miami
Art Miami
(Free tix here)
December
December 1 in Berkeley
Anne Waldman
December 1 @ Yale
Andrew Hudgins
December 1 @ Harvard
Sugata Bose on the last phase of Tagore
December 1 in NYC
Matthew Rohrer with Deborah Landau
December 1 in Berkeley
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
December 1 in SF
Alan Kaufman
December 1 in Philadelphia
Yolanda Wisher
December 1 @ NYU
Matthew Rohrer & Deborah Landau
December 1 & 2 @ NYU
Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference
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 2 in NYC
Abraham Gomez-Delgado & Action Theory
December 2 in Venice, CA
Vinzula Kara
December 2 in NYC
Four Quartets: Variations
with The Guidonian Hand, Katie Ford, Jon Woodward,
Cathy Park Hong, Oni Buchanan, Nate Speare,
Corianna Moffatt, Phil Timberlake, Marya Lowry,
Iktus Percussion Quartet
December 3 in Swindon, UK
Carrie Etter
December 3 in Brussels
The Net & the Future of Artistic Creation
with Raphaël Bastide &
Yannick Antoine, Michel Bauwens, Josephine Bosma,
Heath Bunting, Paolo Cirio, Florian Cramer,
Régine Debatty, Constant Dullaart, Jodi,
Olia Lialina, Alessandro Ludovico, Nicolas Malevé,
Miltos Manetas, Julian Oliver, Domenico Quaranta,
Rafael Rozendaal, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic
December 3 in NYC
Kieran Daly & Lanny Jordan Jackson
December 3 in Chicago
Adam Zagajewski reads Cyprian Norwid
to the music of Chopin
December 3 in Venice, CA
Annette Cruz, Dennis Cruz, A. Razor,
Iris Berry & Danny Baker
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 3 & 10 in NYC
Jen Bervin on Emily Dickinson
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 4 in NYC
Karen Weiser & Paolo Javier
December 4 in Venice, CA
The poets of Conflux Press
December 5 in Cambridge, MA
Meghan O’Rourke & Joanne Diaz
December 5 in NYC
Judah Rubin & Marion Bell
December 5 in DC
Aracelis Girmay on Emily Dickinson
December 6 in Philadelphia
Laura Neuman, Ron Silliman
December 6 in Denver
Clyfford Still: Daring the Light
December 7 @ Harvard
Anna Rabinowitz
December 7 in NYC
Tom Carey & Jaime Manrique
December 7 in Philadelphia
Text & Movement as Artistic Materials, with
Megan Bridge, Meg Foley, Laura Neuman, Peter Price
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 Seattle
Terrance Hayes
December 8 in NYC
Timothy Donnelly
December 8 in SF
Gerald Nicosia
December 8 in Venice, CA
Khadijah Queen, Ariel Robello, Ashaki M Jackson
December 8 – January 21 in NYC
The visual art of Elizabeth Bishop
@ Tibor de Nagy
December 9 in NYC
EL Doctorow
December 9 in NYC
Shonni Enelow & Steve Reinke
December 9 in Venice, CA
Philip Daughtry, Amy Uyematsu
December 10 in Philadelphia
Vyt Bakaitis, Lynn Behrendt,
Joe Elliot, Kimberly Lyons
December 10 in SF
The annual George Oppen lecture
given by Peter Nicholls
December 10 in Milwaukee
Lorine Niedecker: A Poet’s Life
December 10 in NYC
Barbara Cole & Mel Nichols
December 10 in Venice, CA
Formalist String Quartet
with Wadada Leo Smith
December 10 in Philadelphia
Alvin Lucier
December 11 in Concord, MA
XJ Kennedy & the Light Brigade
December 11 in Milwaukee
Peter O’Leary, Chris Glomski, Zach Barochas
December 11 in Venice, CA
Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Seth Fischer
December 12 in NYC
Debrah Morkun & Greg Purcell
December 12 in Cambridge, MA
Rosanna Warren, David Yezzi
December 12 in NYC
James Fenton & Durs Grünbein
December 13 in NYC
Poets from Bone Bouquet, Lunar Chandelier,
No, Dear & Off the Park Press
plus Kenneth Patchen
just back from the dead
December 13 in Philadelphia
Harry “Bakeowski” Baker, Angel Hogan, Cassendre Xavier
December 13 in NYC
Annual Belladonna Benefit & Auction
with Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye
December 14 in NYC
Carolee Schneemann
December 14 in Milwaukee
James Causey
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 16 in Venice, CA
The students of Anaïs Nin:
Nancy Shiffrin, Leah Schweitzer, Nan Hunt
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
December 18 in Milwaukee
Great Lakes Improvising Orchestra
December 19 in NYC
Ben & Sandra Doller
January 2012
January 1 in NYC
38th annual New Year’s Benefit Marathon
with Thurston Moore, Jonas Mekas, Suzanne Vega,
Steve Earle, Eileen Myles, Robert Ashley,
Anselm Berrigan, Charles Bernstein, Corrine Fitzpatrick,
Daniel Kent, Denize Lauture, Donna Brook,
Dorothea Lasky, Barry Denny, Bob Hershon,
Brenda Coultas, Brett Price, Edmund Berrigan,
Elizabeth Devlin, Erica Kaufman, Filip Marinovich,
Foamola, Janet Hamill, John Coletti,
John Giorno, Josef Kaplan, Leopoldine Core,
Macgregor Card, Maggie Dubris, Marcella Durand,
Nathaniel Siegel, Nicole Peyrafitte, Patricia Spears Jones,
Pierre Joris, Secret Orchestra, Stephanie Gray,
Steve Dalachinsky, Steven Taylor, Susan Landers,
Taylor Mead, Tom Savage, Will Edmiston,
Yuko Otomo, Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Miller,
Bill Kushner, Ace Mcnamara, Alan Licht,
Alex Dimitrov, Amy King, Ana Božičević,
Anne Tardos, Arthur’s Landing, Basil King,
Betsy Fagin, Billy Lamont, Bob Hershon,
Bob Rosenthal, Brendan Lorber, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers,
Bryn Kelly, CA Conrad, Christine Elmo,
Christopher Stackhouse, Church of Betty, Corina Copp,
David Freeman, David Henderson, Don Yorty,
Donna Brook, Drew Gardner, Dustin Williamson,
Ed Friedman, Edwin Torres, Elinor Nauen,
Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Reilly, Frank Sherlock,
Franklin Bruno, Genya Turovskaya, Gillian McCain,
Greg Fuchs, James Marshall, Jim Behrle,
John S. Hall , Judah Rubin, Judith Malina,
Katie Degentesh, Ken Walker, Kenny Goldsmith,
Kimberly Lyons, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Lenny Kaye,
Lonely Christopher, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Mark Nowak,
Martha King, Matthew Abuelo, Miguel Gutierrez,
Mitch Highfill, Monica de la Torre, Nada Gordon,
Nick Hallett, Pamela Sneed, Poez,
Paul Legault, Penny Arcade, Peter Gizzi,
Reuben Butchart, Rickey Laurentiis, Sinan Antoon,
Susie Timmons, Ted Dodson, Ted Greenwald,
Todd Colby, Tom Carey, Tracey McTague ,
Tyler Burba, Wayne Koestenbaum, Will Yackulic,
Yoshiko Chuma, Joe Elliot, Nicole Wallace,
Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek & more
January 1 – 8 in Puebla, Mexicopostponed for one year
US Poets in Mexico
January 5 – 8 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 6 in Philadelphia
David Behrman
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 14 – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
January 18 in London
Peter Jaeger:
John Cage’s Zen Poetics
January 21 in NYC
Karen Mac Cormack & Steve McCaffery
January 21 in Philadelphia
David Behrman & ensemble
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 29 in Philadelphia
Mike Cohen & Anthony Buccino
January 30 in NYC
Susan Stewart, Mark Strand
January 30 – February 4 in Elko, NV
28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
January 31 in Philadelphia
Murat Nemet-Nejat
February
February 2 in Berkeley
giovanni singleton
February 6 in NYC
Ivan Klima
February 7 in Philadelphia
Wayne Miller
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 Seattle
Albert Goldbarth
February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy
February 4 – 12 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
February 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin
February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee
February 26 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing
March
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 2 in NYC
Modernist Manhattan
March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 19 & 20 in Philadelphia
Ron Silliman
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 22-25 in Washington, DC
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed
March 26 in NYC
Brian Turner, Kevin Young
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
April 4 in Seattle
Troy Jollimore & John Koethe
April 4 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht
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 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth
April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia
May
May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble
May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan
May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman
May 19 in Oxnard, CA
Brendan Constantine & Nina Corwin
May 20 in Philadelphia
Jack Veasey, Marty Esworthy, Christine O’Leary Rockey
June
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet
June 17 – 30 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
June 24 in Philadelphia
JC Todd & Hayden Saunier
July & Beyond
September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
September 23 in Philadelphia
Ditta Baron Hoeber & Kirsten Kaschock
October - November in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
October 28 in Philadelphia
David Kozinski & Michele Belluomini
Ongoing
Now – November 26 in Portland, OR
Object Poems
Now – November 27 in Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale
Now – December 17 in NYC
Augusto de Campos
Now – January 5 in Chicago
Beautiful Outsiders:
Black Sparrow, Burning Deck & Fulcrum Presses
Now – January 8 in London
Gerhard Richter
Now – January 22 in Austin, TX
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
Now – February 5 in Paris
Diane Arbus
Now – February 18 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
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The Philly Lit Calendar
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There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
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The Bowery Poetry Club
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