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April
April 6 in Seattle
Andrew Feld
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 6 in Kansas City, MO
Aracelis Girmay
April 6 in West Hollywood
The Aesthetics of Translation
with Erik Bullot, Rebecca Brown
& John Nelson-Wagner
April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti
April 7 in Philadelphia
Megawords book/zine exchange
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 9 in NYC
Elizabeth Reddin & Laurie Weeks
April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka
April 10 in Philadelphia
Eleanor Wilner, Patrick Donnelly
April 10 in Berkeley
Ron Silliman
April 11 in NYC
Abigail Child
introduces the films of
Carolee Schneeman & George Kuchar
April 11 in NYC
Stephen Motika & Brian Teare
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
as part of
The One Day Poetry Festival
April 16 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht
April 16 in NYC
Lanny Jordan Jackson
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 Cambridge, MA
Neal Stephenson
April 17 in Philadelphia
Philip Levine
April 18 @ Harvard
Sabastien Smirou, Cole Swensen, Andrew Zawacki
on French translation
April 18 in NYC
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
read by
Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Michael Brownstein,
Bill Corbett, Donna Dennis, Larry Fagin,
Ed Friedman, Michael Lally, Keith McDermott,
Thurston Moore, Charles North, Ron Padgett,
David Shapiro, Johnny Stanton, Tony Towle,
Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Edmund White
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 20 in DC
p. inman, Gary Sullivan & Megan Ronan
April 20 in Seattle
Sierra Nelson & Zachary Schomburg
April 20 – 22 in Bronxville, NY
9th annual Sarah Lawrence Poetry Fest
with Caroline Bergvall, Monica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin,
Farrah Field, Nikky Finney, Vievee Francis,
Suzanne Gardinier, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Ben Lerner,
Bernadette Mayer, Rachel McKibbens, Kevin Pilkington,
Mathias Svalina, John Whitworth, Joshua Marie Wilkinson,
Li Young Lee
April 20 – 23 in Salem, MA
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
April 21 in NYC
Jen Bervin, derek beaulieu
April 21 in Sacramento
Dominguez Abraham, Kelly DeWitt
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 22 in Seattle
Carol Levin
April 22 in Chicago
Pamela Lu
April 22 in Philadelphia
16th annual Poetry Ink:
100 poets reading
April 23 in the US & UK
World Book Night
April 23 in Lawrence, KS
Matvei Yankelevich
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 Lawrence, KS
Charles Alexander, Melody Charles,
Jonathan Stalling
April 26 in Chicago
Stacey Waite
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 4 in Seattle
Corey Marks
May 4 in Chicago
Ron Silliman
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 8 & 9 in Barcelona
Caroline Bergvall
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 Seattle
Melissa Dickey & Zach Savich
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 25 – 27 in London
Poetry & Revolution
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 12 – 17 in Rotterdam
43rd Poetry International Festival
with
Ron Silliman, Tomaž Šalamun, K. Satchidanandan,
Chus Pato, Ulrike Draesner, Marije Langelaar,
B. Zwaal, Jan Lauwereyns et alia
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 4 in Paris
Sotheby’s first comics auction
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
November 3 in San Diego
Joseph Harrington
January 5 – 12, 2013 in Mérida, Yucatán
US Poets in Mexico
with Ron Silliman,
Anselm Berrigan, Nicole Cooley,
Lynn Emanuel, Tom Sleigh, Mario Bojórquez,
Rubén Márquez , Ámbar Past, Álvaro Solís
Ongoing
Now – April 21 in Chicago
Guerrilla Girls
Now – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords
Now – April 27 in Philadelphia
Chai-na/China Signs
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
Print/Out
Now – May 27 in Newport Beach, CA
Richard Diebenkorn
Now – 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
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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
Silicon Valley reads
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,
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