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January 2012
January 26 in NYC
Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley
January 26 in Venice, CA
Ellen Maybe’s Poetry Rodeo
January 26 & 27 in Chicago
Ben Lerner
January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia
January 27 in Manchester, UK
Psappha Contemporary Music Ensemble
perform Steve Reich
January 27 in Berkeley
Jacqueline Waters
January 27 in Philadelphia
The Aporkalypse
January 27 in Brooklyn
Mark Strand, John James, Lizzie Harris,
JC Longbottom, Hilary Dobel
January 27 in Baltimore
An evening in celebration of
Frank O’Hara & Jan Cremer
January 27 in Venice, CA
Art Jarvinen,
Kathy Pisaro & the Formalist Quartet
January 28 in Milwaukee
18th Annual
Woodland Pattern Marathon Benefit
with Paul McComas, Lucille Rosenberg, Ethel Oliensis,
Mark Hunkel, Sally Tolan, Vijay Kulkarni,
Eloisa Gomez, Greg Flegel, Anne Reis,
Kathleen Klein, Ronnie Hess, C.X. Dillhunt,
Guy Yasko, James Roberts, Amy Prasad,
John Sierpinski, Cele Bona, Karen Haley,
Barb Tabak, Molly Snyder, Kim Suhr,
Robert Vaughan, Judith Zukerman, Sharon Foley,
Mary Steinert-Ng, Marjorie Pagel, Laurel Landis,
Eric Hansen, Aline Mohr, Emily Berthoff,
Joel Ottenstein, Janet Leahy, Katy Phillips,
Marsha Roberts, Nancy Rafal, Michael Farmer,
Cary Fellman, Earl Jude, Charlesetta Thompson,
Martha Kaplan, Kathleen Dale, Koshin/Bob Hanson,
Patty Paul, Ed Werstein, Tom Erickson,
Phyllis Wax, Helen Padway, Mark Zimmerman,
Kim Parsons, Marilyn Taylor, Raquel Lauritzen,
Suzanne Rosenblatt, Betty Priebe, Phyllis Berentsen,
Frank Berentsen, Janine Arseneau, Bill Seidler,
Lenore Lee, Maria Scott, Dale Ritterbusch,
Susanna Carlson, Eddee Daniel, Charles Rossiter,
Jeff Poniewaz, Antler, Bonnie Blackwell,
Lynn Fitzgerald, Lynn West, Vito Carli,
David Schaefer, Chris Austin, Steve Anderson,
Paul Enea, Elliot Lipchik, Steve Pump,
Barbara Wuest, Joan Miller, Sally Kuzma,
Susan Firer, Jim Hazard, JoAnn Chang,
Peter Goldberg, Reed Conway, Joshua David Lickteig,
Kimberly Blanchette, Sheryl Slocum, Steve Platt,
Nick Ramsey, Frank Berg, Richard Rose,
Jennifer Kraft, Anthony Brandl, Dirk Velvet,
Earl Karp, Steven Karp, Harvey Taylor,
Chuck Stebelton, Cathy Cunningham, Timur Gritsevskiy,
Mike Hauser, Robert J. Baumann, Karl Gartung,
Chuck Stebelton, Carl Bogner, Sara Caron,
Paul Drueke, Joe Riepenhoff, Marissa Wall,
Paul Vogel, David J. White, & many more
January 28 in NYC
Chris Kraus & Aaron Winslow
January 28 in Brooklyn
Frances Richard, Lee Ann Brown, Monica de la Torre,
Katie Degentesh, Marcella Durand, Nada Gordon,
Anne Tardos, Rachel Levitsky, Kristen Prevallet,
Tracie Morris, Kim Rosenfield
January 28 in Venice
Jeff Gauthier & friends
January 28 in Philadelphia
Steve Dolph, Sarah Dowling, Christian Hawkey
January 28 in Lowell, MA
Small Press Publisher book roundup
January 29 in Philadelphia
Mike Cohen & Anthony Buccino
January 29 on WBAI-FM, NYC
D Nurske, Lawrence Joseph, Susan Wheeler,
Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro
January 29 in Haverford, PA
Paul Hendrickson
January 29 in Venice, CA
Gerald Locklin, Michael C Ford, Ron Koertge,
Eloise Klein Healy, Dorothy Barressi & Gary Phillips
January 30 in NYC
Susan Stewart, Mark Strand
January 30 in NYC
Jarrod Fowler, Kieran Daly
January 30 – February 4 in Elko, NV
28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
January 30 – April 1 @ Bard
Project Lamar
January 31 in Philadelphia
Murat Nemet-Nejat
February
February 1 in NYC
Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Devin Johnston
February 1 in Berkeley
Bin Ramke, Hillary Gravendyk, Kelli Anne Noftle,
Lyn Hejinian & Paul Hoover
February 1 in Gloucester, MA
Michael Gregory
February 1 – 26 @ Bard
I Remember:
A Film about Joe Brainard
February 2 in SF
Kathleen Fraser
February 2 @ Villanova
CD Wright
February 2 in Berkeley
giovanni singleton
February 2 in Philadelphia
Kirsten Kaschock, Scott McClanahan,,
Kendra Grant Malone & Matthew Savoca
February 2 in SF
Aaron Shurin
February 2 in Berkeley
Rose Black & Daniel Joseph Polikoff
February 3 in Lisbon, Portugal
FASE = Four
Movements to the music
of Steve Reich
February 3 in Venice, CA
Georgia Jones-Davis
February 4 in DC
Master Class in Gertrude Stein
February 4 in SF
Kathleen Fraser, Brandon Brown
February 4 in Philadelphia
The Wilde Boys:
Alex Dimitrov, Paul LeGault, Zachary Pace,
Adam Fitzgerald, Andrew Durbin
February 4 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Steve Reich
February 4 in Venice, CA
2nd Annual Poetry of Venice
Photography Event
February 4 in Venice, CA
Robert Mezey, Ron Koertge, David St. John
& Peter Everwine
February 4 – 12 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
February 5 in Leipzig, Germany
Palma Marques/Dobler/Schaar/Zweiner Quaret
perform Reich’s Different Trains
February 5 in NYC
John Cayley, Angela Ferraiolo, Francisco J. Ricardo,
Alan Sondheim, Stephanie Strickland
& Chris Funkhouser
February 5 in Venice, CA
Florence Weinberger
February 6 in NYC(cancelled due to illness)
Ivan Klima
February 6 in Philadelphia
Adam Wilson
February 7 in Philadelphia
Debrah Morkun, Kate Lilley & Melissa Buzzeo
February 7 in Brooklyn
Eileen Myles, Monica McClure,
Ben Fama & Brenda Shaughnessy
February 7 in Philadelphia
Wayne Miller
February 7 @ Harvard
Dorothea Lasky
February 7 & 8 in Chicago
Joe Sacco
February 8 in NYC
Susan Howe & Roberto Tejada
February 8 in Princeton
James Richardson & Jonathan Franzen
February 8 in Gloucester, MA
Shep Abbott
February 8 & 9 in Indianapolis, IN
Anne Waldman
February 9 in NYC
Pico Iyer & Rebecca Solnit
February 9 @ Bard
Ron Padgett, Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach
February 9 in Berkeley
Louise Glück & Dana Levin
February 9 in Seattle
Albert Goldbarth
February 9 in Walla Walla, WA
Camille Dungy
February 10 in Berkeley
Tom Commita
February 10 in NYC
The Hole, a gathering
with Melissa Buzzeo, CAConrad, Rob Halpern,
Brenda Iijima, Madhu Kaza, Robert Kocik,
Dorothea Lasky, Andrew Levy, C.J. Martin,
Eléna Rivera, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Whitener,
Tyrone Williams,
plus presumably Thom Donovan
February 10 & 11 in Chicago
The poetry of Langston Hughes
February 11 in Philadelphia
Laura Magnoli & Jamie Townsend
February 12 in Philadelphia
Manya Bean, Lynn Blue, Mel Brake,
Ashini Desai, Maria Fama, Emiliano Martin,
& Al Tacconelli
February 13 in NYC
Bridge (collab issue), with
Allyson Paty, Ben Estes, Ben Fama,
Ben Kopel, Ben Mirov, Ben Pease,
Chris Martin, Christian Hawkey, Danniel Schoonebeek,
David Lehman, David Shapiro, Emily Pettit,
Guy Pettit, Jocelyn Spaar, Mary Austin Speaker,
Paul Legault, Simone Kearney
February 13 in Berkeley
Rebecca Eland, Norman Fischer,
Andrew Schelling, Stephen Ratcliffe
February 13 @ Harvard
Filip Marinovich
February 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
February 14 in SF
Micah Ballard & Aaron Shurin
February 15 in Gloucester, MA
Jim Dunn
February 15 in NYC
Brandon Downing, Aaron Kunin
February 16 in Darmstadt, Germany
Mitglieder des Staatsorchesters Darmstadt
performs Steve Reich
February 16 in Philadelphia
Lance Olsen
February 16 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña
February 16 @ Harvard
Stephen Burt, Mark Leidner, Tom Sleigh
February 16 in Ottawa
Geode
February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin
February 17 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon
February 17 in Philadelphia
Rey Chow on
documentary realism between cultures
February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee
February 19 in Zurich, Switzerland
Steve Reich’s Drumming
& The Four Sections
February 20 in Berkeley
Rebecca Walker
February 20 in NYC
Alan Felsenthal & Matthew Klane
February 21 in SF
Pamela Z
February 21 @ Villanova
Juan Felipe Herrera
February 22 in NYC
Susan Landers, Rodrigo Toscano
February 22 @ Harvard
Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens
February 23 in Philadelphia
Edmund White
February 23 – 26 in Chicago
Fjords
February 24 – May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain
February 24 in Berkeley
Monica Peck
+
later the same day
Julia Mazawa, Matthew Zapruder & Believer
February 26 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
February 29 in NYC
Barbara Henning & Frances Richard
February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing
March
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 1 in Chicago
Christian Bök, Peter Gizzi, K. Silem Mohammed,
Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras,
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
March 2 in NYC
Modernist Manhattan
March 2 in Chicago
Illinois Poets Past & Present
with Christina Pugh, Susan Hahn, Laurence Lieberman,
Ed Roberson, & Kevin Stein
March 2 in Chicago
Carol Ann Duffy & Philip Levine
March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca
March 5 in Berkeley
Aaron Shurin
March 5 – April 1 @ Bard
Brains:
A Journal of Egghead Sexuality
March 7 in NYC
Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu
March 7 @ Harvard
Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen
March 7 in SF
Manuel Muñoz
March 8 in SF
Sawako Nakayasu & Michael Cross
March 8 in Philadelphia
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher
March 9 in Berkeley
Christian Nagler
March 10 in Ottawa
Ron Silliman
March 10 & 11 in Chicago
Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg
March 13 @ Villanova
Hugo Hamilton
March 14 in NYC
Bruce Covey & Amy King
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 15 in Philadelphia
Cathy Park Hong
March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück
March 15 in Berkeley
Lorna Dee Cerventes & Barbara Jane Reyes
March 15 & 16 in SF
Dodie Bellamy & Alan Gilbert
March 16 in NYC
Zachary Schomburg & Fjords
March 16 in Berkeley
Ariel Goldberg
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 19 in NYC
Lindsey Boldt & Krystal Languell
March 19 & 20 in Philadelphia
Ron Silliman
March 20 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on oppression & redemption songs
March 21 in NYC
Ammiel Alcalay & David Henderson
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 22 in Philadelphia
Christian Campbell
March 22-25 in Washington, DC
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 23 in Berkeley
Brian Ang
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 24 in Buffalo
Small Press Book Fair
March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed
March 26 in NYC
Brandon Brown, Paul Legault
March 26 in NYC
Brian Turner, Kevin Young
March 27 @ Harvard
Elizabeth Bishop @ 100:
with Frank Bidart, Joelle Biele, Gail Mazur,
Lisa Olstein, Katie Peterson, Robert Pinsky,
Lloyd Schwartz,
Mary Jo Salter & Rosanna Warren
March 28 in NYC
Michael Heller, Kristin Prevallet
March 28 in SF
Ye Chun, Laura van den Berg, Dave Madden,
Wayne Miller, & Deb Olin Unferth
March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley
March 28 in SF
Osvaldo Sanchez & Omar Barrada
March 29 – April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference
March 29 in Berkeley
Susan Cohen & Rebecca Foust
March 29 in Philadelphia
Cecil Giscombe
March 29 in SF
Khaled Mattawa & Ravi Shankar
March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder
March 30 in NYC
Christopher Rizzo, Debrah Morkun, Russell Dillon,
Tracey McTague, Ben Mazer, Michael Peters,
Jess Mynes & more
April
April 3 @ Harvard
Karin Roffman on John Ashbery
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 5 in Philadelphia
Gary Lutz
April 5 @ Harvard
Monica de la Torre & Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza
on Spanish translation
April 5 in NYC
Marilynne Robinson
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti
April 8 in SF
Ron Silliman
April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka
April 10 in Berkeley
Ron Silliman
April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky
April 12 @ Villanova
Téa Obreht
April 12 in Chicago
The Dark Room Collective
with Thomas Sayers Ellis, Natasha Trethewey,
Kevin Young, Major Jackson, John Keene,
Sharan Strange, and Nehassaiu deGannes
April 12 @ Harvard
Patrick Donnelly
April 13 in Berkeley
Ted Rees
April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado
April 14 in Chicago
Poetry & Piano, with
Averill Curdy, Calvin Forbes, Adam Marks,
George McRae, Coya Paz & Roger Reeves
April 16 in Long Beach, CA
Ron Silliman
April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron
April 18 @ Harvard
Sabastien Smirou, Cole Swensen, Andrew Zawacki
on French translation
April 18 in Philadelphia
Caroline Bergvall
April 18 in San Diego
Ron Silliman
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth
April 25 in Philadelphia
Andrew Ervin & Michael Martone
April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo
April 26 @ Villanova
William Kennedy
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
April 28 in Chicago
Les Murray
April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia
May
May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 2 in NYC
Micah Ballard, Joanne Kyger
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble
May 11 in Berkeley
Lara Durback
May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan
May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman
May 17 in NYC
Remembering John Cheever
May 18 – 20 in Tucson
Poetry Off the Page
with
Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes, Brent Cunningham, Johanna Drucker,
Christine Hume, Douglas Kearney, Ander Monson,
Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine & John Lucas, Cecilia Vicuña,
Dan Waber, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, The Black Took Collective
plus a screening featuring work by
Kate Greenstreet, Deborah Poe, Sawako Nakayasu,
Branding Downing, John Gallaher, Forrest Gander,
Eula Biss & John Bresland
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
June 30 – July 1 in Oxford, UK
Poetry & Psychoanalysis
July & Beyond
September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
September 23 in Philadelphia
Ditta Baron Hoeber & Kirsten Kaschock
September 29 everywhere
100K poets for change
October 18 – 21 in Las Vegas
Modernism & Spectacle
October 28 in Philadelphia
David Kozinski & Michele Belluomini
October or November in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
January 5 – 12, 2013 in Mérida, Yucatán
US Poets in Mexico
Ongoing
Now – February 1 in Los Angeles
Suzanne Lacy
Now – February 5 in Paris
Diane Arbus
Now – February 17 in Lowell, MA
Raymond Pettibon:
The Punk Years
Now – February 18 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
Now – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords
Now – April 29 in Rome
Re-Cycle
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Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre
SF 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,
shocked!
