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March
Now – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 1 in Chicago
I’ll Drown My Book:
Conceptual Writing by Women
with Dodie Bellamy, Debra Di Blasi, Danielle Dutton,
Judith Goldman, Jennifer Karmin, Tracie Morris,
Sawako Nakayasu, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet,
Frances Richard, Giovanni Singleton, & Christine Wertheim
March 1 in Chicago
Poems & Artists: Visible Meaning
Kyle Schlesinger, Don Share, Lewis Warsh
March 1 in Chicago
Poetry & hot dogs
with Alice Jones, Eileen Myles, Merle Bachman,
Faith Barrett, Sara Suzor, Laura Sims,
Elizabeth Robinson, Travis Cebula, Kimberly Lyons,
Amy King, Joe Elliott, Michael Heller,
Jessica Fischer, Dana Teen Lomax & Corina Copp
March 1 in Paris
Rova
March 1 – May 27 in NYC
Whitney Biennal
with Kai Althoff, Thom Andersen, Charles Atlas,
Lutz Bacher, Forrest Bess (by Robert Gober), Michael Clark,
Cameron Crawford, Moyra Davey, Liz Deschenes,
Nathaniel Dorsky, Nicole Eisenman, Kevin Jerome Everson,
Vincent Fecteau, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier,
Vincent Gallo , K8 Hardy, Richard Hawkins,
Werner Herzog, Jerome Hiler, Matt Hoyt,
Dawn Kasper, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey,
John Knight, Jutta Koether, George Kuchar,
Laida Lertxundi, Kate Levant, Sam Lewitt,
Joanna Malinowska, Andrew Masullo, Nick Mauss,
Richard Maxwell, Sarah Michelson,
Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran,
Laura Poitras, Matt Porterfield, Luther Price,
Lucy Raven, The Red Krayola, Kelly Reichardt,
Elaine Reichek, Michael Robinson, Georgia Sagri,
Michael E. Smith, Tom Thayer, Wu Tsang,
Oscar Tuazon, Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper,
Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg, Frederick Wiseman
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
(schedule)
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 2 in Chicago
A tribute to Akilah Oliver
with Julie Patton, Tonya Foster, Selah Saterstrom,
Danielle Vogel & a showing of
Akilah: 3 Readings
March 2 in Bruges, Belgium
Rova
March 2 in NYC
Bao Dei
with Forrest Gander, CD Wright & Eliot Weinberger
March 2 in Venice, CA
Erin Aubry Kaplan
March 2 in Chicago
Chicago Review release reading
with Jennifer Scappatone, Brian Teare,
Michael Donkin, Karen Lepri
March 2 – April 14 in Philadelphia
Ellen Peckham
March 3 in Ottawa
Rae Armantrout
March 3 in Torino, Italy
Rova
March 3 in Philadelphia
Linh Dinh, CA Conrad, Jeremy Hoevenaar,
Bonnie Jones, RM O’Brien, Ed Steck
March 3 in Manchester, UK
Jane Draycott, Andrew McMillan, Luke Yates
with music by
Rebecca Joy Sharp
March 3 in Chicago
LaTasha Nevada Diggs
March 3 in NYC
Ariel Goldberg, James Hoff
March 3 in Venice, CA
Claudia Handler, Mitch Untch
& J Mark Beaver
March 4 in NYC
Brett Price & Nicole Wallace
March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca
March 5 in Philadelphia
Anne Marie Macari & KA Hays
March 5 in Berkeley
Aaron Shurin
March 5 – April 1 @ Bard
Brains:
A Journal of Egghead Sexuality
March 6 in Philadelphia
Mytili Jagannathan & Eddie Hopely
March 6 in London
Helen Moore & Sandeep Parmar
March 6 in Windsor, Ontario
Fred Wah
March 7 in NYC
Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu
March 7 @ Harvard
Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen
March 7 in SF
Manuel Muñoz
March 7 in Vancouver
Steven Price, Julie Bruck, WH New
March 7 in Toronto
Rob Benvie, Heather Curley, Angel Szczepaniak
March 7 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on Sherri Levine’s
Gustave Flaubert: un coeur simple
March 8 in SF
Sawako Nakayasu & Michael Cross
March 8 in NYC
Robert Grenier
March 8 in Philadelphia
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher
March 8 in LA
TC Boyle
March 9 in Venice, CA
Brian M Tracy & David St. John
March 9 in Seattle
Christopher Howell
March 9 in Berkeley
Christian Nagler
March 10 in NYC
Haruo Shirane
on Bashō & haiku
March 10 in Chicago
Adam Weg, Lillianna Marie, Leif Haven Martinson,
Brian Mornar
March 10 in NYC
Tracey MacTague, Jennifer Tamayo
March 10 in Ottawa
Ron Silliman
March 10 & 11 in Chicago
Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg
March 11 in Venice, CA
Kerouac @ 90
March 11 in Philadelphia
Jason Zugza, Anne-Adele Wight,
Nick Darling
March 12 in Tempe, AZ
Ray Gonzalez
March 12 in NYC
Jonathan Goldberg, Byron Kim,
Michael Moon
March 12 in LA
Gerald Nicosia
on Kerouac @ 90
March 13 in Philadelphia
Huang Rui and Ko Siu Lan
with Aaron Levy
March 13 @ Villanova
Hugo Hamilton
March 13 in Windsor, Ontario
Ron Silliman
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 NYC
K Silem Mohammad
on Coleridge & Wordsworth
March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück
March 15 in Berkeley
Lorna Dee Cerventes & Barbara Jane Reyes
March 15 in NYC
Bob Holman & Thomas Fink
March 15 in London
Ruth Padel & Andrew O’Hagan
March 15 & 16 in SF
Dodie Bellamy & Alan Gilbert
March 15 – April 27 in Philadelphia
Chai-na/China Signs
March 16 in Philadelphia
Edwidge Danticat
March 16 in LA
Eileen Myles
March 16 in NYC
Zachary Schomburg & Fjords
March 16 in Philadelphia
Huang Rui and Ko Siu Lan
March 16 in Berkeley
Ariel Goldberg
March 16 in NYC
Michael Harper, Judith Harris, Stanley Plumley
& Anne Wright on
John Keats
March 16 in Venice, CA
Reading for Japan Relief
with
Jesse Glass, Jerry Rothenberg, Marthe Reed,
Amy Uyematsu & Hiromi Ito
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 17 in NYC
Gigi Bradford on
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, &
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
March 17 in Venice, CA
Gordon Ball
March 17 in London
Publish & Be Damned
March 17 in NYC
K Silem Mohammad, Rick Wiggins
March 18 in Seattle
Kathleen Flenniken
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 20 in Toronto
Leigh Kotsilidis
March 20 in Windsor, Ontario
Dennis Cooley
March 20 in NYC
Quincy Troupe
on the craft of poetry
March 21 in NYC
Ammiel Alcalay & David Henderson
March 21 in Vancouver
Tamara Faith Berger, Anakana Schofield, Ben Wood
March 21 in NYC
Renee Gladman, Eliot Weinberger, Francis R Jones
& Jeffrey Yang on
Hans Faverey
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 22 in Cheney, PA
Maya Angelou
March 22 in Venice, CA
Joseph Lease
March 22 in Seattle
Mark O’Connor, Shin Yu Pai
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 in Ottawa
Duncan Mercredi
March 23 in Venice, CA
Laurel Ann Bogen on Erica Erdman
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 24 in Buffalo
Small Press Book Fair
March 24 in NYC
John Godfrey, Rodney Koeneke
March 24 in Venice, CA
Mark Rhodes
reads The Waste Land
March 24 in NYC
Mark Doty
on Walt Whitman
March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed
March 25 in NYC
Maude Ellmann
on the Nets of Modernism:
James, Woolf, Joyce, Freud
March 25 – 30 in Jacksonville, FL
John Cage @ 100
with Jaap Blonk, Tom Chiu
& Louis Goldstein
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 27 in West Chester, PA
Joyce Carol Oates
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 NYC
Eamon Grennan
on William Butler Yeats
March 28 in SF
Osvaldo Sanchez & Omar Barrada
March 28 – 30 in NYC
Chapbook Festival
March 28 – 30 in Auckland, NZ
Short Takes on Long Poems
with Jacob Edmond, Pam Brown, Ya-Wen Ho
Philip Mead, John Tranter, Cilla McQueen,
Susan Schultz, Jaimie Gusman, Evan Nagle,
Stephanie Christie, Alex Taylor, Hazel Smith,
Sam Moginie, Andy Carruthers, Kate Lillie,
Martin Harrison, Bernadette Hall, Dinah Hawken,
Jill Jones, Ann Vickery, Ella O’Keefe,
David Howard, Lucas Klein, Jack Ross,
Jessica Wilkinson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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 29 in Seattle
Carol V Davis
March 29 in NYC
Cole Swensen
on 19th century French poetry
March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder
March 30 – April 6 in NYC
The Beat Hotel
March 30 in Venice, CA
Kent Shaw, Carrie Oeding, Joshua Kryah
March 30 in NYC
Christopher Rizzo, Debrah Morkun, Russell Dillon,
Tracey McTague, Ben Mazer, Michael Peters,
Jess Mynes & more
March 31 in NYC
Carla Harryman & Emily Critchley
March 31 in Ottawa
derek beaulieu
March 31 in London
Martón Koppány, Holly Pester, Hannah Silva,
David Berridge, Patrick Coyle, Tamarin Norwood,
Ben Morris, Greg Thomas et al
March 31 in Venice, CA
What Books
with
Chuck Rosenthal, Mona Houghton,
Ramon Garcia, Katherine Haake,
& Gronk
April
April 1 in LA
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
read by James Cushing, Terry Van Vliet, Holly Prado Northup,
Harry Northup, Phoebe MacAdams Ozuna, Fernando Castro,
Eloise Klein Healy, % S.A. Griffin
April 2 in Philadelphia
Ray DiPalma
April 2 in Philadelphia
Harriet Levin & Leonard Garontek
April 3 @ Harvard
Karin Roffman on John Ashbery
April 3 in Philadelphia
Norman Fischer
April 3 in Chicago
Edible Books
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 Seattle
Andrew Feld
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti
April 7 in NYC
Brian Kim Stefans, Katie Degentesh
April 8 in SF
Ron Silliman
April 8 in Philadelphia
Ted Mathys, Geoffrey Olsen,
Channa Porter
April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka
April 10 in Philadelphia
Eleanor Wilner, Patrick Donnelly
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 13 in NYC
Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah
April 13 in Seattle
Todd Boss & Matthew Nienow
April 13 & 14 in NYC
William Bronk in New York
with
April 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Poetry Communities & Individual Talent,
with Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin,
Brian Reed, and Steven Yao
April 14 in Chicago
Poetry & Piano, with
Averill Curdy, Calvin Forbes, Adam Marks,
George McRae, Coya Paz & Roger Reeves
April 14 in NYC
Simon Morris, Charles Bernstein
April 14 in Ottawa
Dan Waber
April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado
April 14 in NYC
Dutch poets today, with
Pieter Boskma, Hèléne Geléns, Erik Jan Harmens,
Lucas Hirsch, John Schoorl & Joost Zwagerman
April 16 in Long Beach, CA
Ron Silliman
April 16 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht
April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron
April 16 & 17 in Washington, DC
Arts Advocacy Day
April 17 in Philadelphia
Marjorie Welish
April 17 in Philadelphia
Philip Levine
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 18 in Philadelphia
Rosemary Cappello, Mel Brake, Greg Sirfir,
Elijah B Pringle III, Plum Dragoness
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
April 19 in NYC
Sébastien Smirou with Andrew Zawacki
April 21 in NYC
Jen Bervin, derek beaulieu
April 21 in Chicago
Camille Martin, Mark Goldstein
April 21 in NYC
Gertrude Stein: Stanzas in Meditation
with Logan Esdale, Susannah Hollister, Liesl Olson,
Emily Setina, Nancy Kuhl, Paolo Javier,
Rachel Levitsky, Joan Retallack, Christopher Schmidt,
Laura Sims & Stacy Szymaszek
April 23 in the US & UK
World Book Night
April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth
April 25 in Philadelphia
Andrew Ervin & Michael Martone
April 25 in NYC
CK Williams
on Robert Frost
April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo
April 26 @ Villanova
William Kennedy
April 26 in NYC
Alan Gilbert & Paul Chan
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
April 27 in Seattle
Emily Kendal Frey & Arlene Kim
April 28 in Chicago
Les Murray
April 28 in NYC
Vanessa Place, Diana Hamilton
April 29 in LA
Jonathan Lethem
on Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia
May
May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 1 in NYC
Terese Svoboda
on Kay Boyle, Lola Ridge, Hart Crane,
Mina Loy & Marianne Moore
May 2 in NYC
Micah Ballard, Joanne Kyger
May 3 in NYC
Susan Stewart
on Wallace Stevens
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble
May 5 in NYC
Tao Lin & Matthew Timmons
May 5 in Manchester, UK
Menna Elfyn, Agnes Lehoczky
May 8 in NYC
Herbert Leibowitz
on William Carlos Williams
May 10 in NYC
Marjorie Welish
on the Imagists
May 10 in Ottawa
CCMC with Phil Minton
May 11 in Berkeley
Lara Durback
May 12 in NYC
Ann Lauterbach
on the Objectivists
May 12 in NYC
Steve Zultanski, Danielle Aubert
May 13 in Philadelphia
Hoa Nguyen, JenMarie Davis
Ellie Goudie-Averill
May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan
May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman
May 15 in NYC
Cornelius Eady
on the Harlem Renaissance
May 16 in Philadelphia
Free Speech Film Fest
May 17 in NYC
Remembering John Cheever
May 17 in NYC
Vijay Seshadri
on WH Auden
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 19 in NYC
Jena Osman & Mónica de la Torre
May 20 in Philadelphia
Jack Veasey, Marty Esworthy, Christine O’Leary Rockey
May 22 in NYC
Rosamond King
on Caribbean poets of the 20th century
May 24 in NYC
Elaine Equi & Jerome Sala
May 27 in Seattle
Meredith Cole
May 31 in NYC
Martín Espada
on Puerto Rican poets
June
June 1 in Seattle
Dana Levin
June 2 in NYC
Lee Ann Brown
on the Black Mountain Poets
June 5 in NYC
Saskia Hamilton
on the Boston Brahmins
June 6 – 10 in Paris
&Now 2012
June 8 in NYC
Carol Muske-Dukes
on the Beats
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 10 in Philadelphia
Andrew Hughes, Jonny Lohr,
Catherine Averill
June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet
June 17 on the Brooklyn Bridge
Galway Kinnell
leads the $250 Bridgewalk
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
July 22 – 27 in Napa
The Napa Writers Conference
with Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman,
Eavan Boland & Arthur Sze
September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
September 21 & 22 in London
Djuna Barnes Conference
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– March 17 in Philadelphia
Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott
Julia Blumenreich & Wendy Osterweil
Now – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords
Now – April 29 in Rome
Re-Cycle
Now – May 6 in Vienna
Tribute to John Cage
Now – May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain
Now – May 14 in NYC
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