THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 2026 5:30pm EDT
Renee Gladman will be holding a reading and colloquium with creative writing students at the University of Cincinnati as part of their Visiting Writers Series. The reading is free and open to the public. More information here.
Uptown Campus, 2911 Woodside Drive, 646 Langsam Library
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 2026 7:30pm PDT
Prageeta Sharma joins poet Anders Carlson-Wee and host Mandy Kahn for Deep Dive, a literary reading series at The Philosophical Research Society. More information and ticket purchase here.
Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2026 6:30pm EDT
Dale Martin Smith will read from The Passenger as a part of KIRBY's Fairy book launch. More information and ticket purchase here.
Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St Paul St, St. Catharines, ON
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OCTOBER 22-24, 2026 7pm EDT
Don Mee Choi will give a reading at the 2026 World Word Travelers transnational literature festival in Graz, Austria. More information here.
Dreihackengasse 2, 8020 Graz, Austria
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 24, 2026 5:15pm ET
Dorothea Lasky will be holding a free poetry workshop at Poets House in Kray Hall, alongside fellow instructors Megan Fernandes, Wendy Xu, and D.S. Waldman. Framing poetry as a tool of divination, participants "will use poetry as a space to uncover the occult aspects of our everyday existence." The day will be wrapped with a reading featuring the instructors and workshop participants. More information and registration here.
10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 24, 2026 7:30pm PDT
Eileen Myles will give a reading as a part of the Fonograf Editions 10th Anniversary. More information and ticket purchase here.
Atrium Movements and Events, 2305 SE 50th Avenue #100, Portland, OR
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28, 2026 6pm EDT
Douglas Kearney will give a reading as a part of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars Reading Series. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. This event is free and open to the public. More information here.
Gilman Hall, Bowman Dr, Baltimore, MD
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 2026 7pm CET
To mark the publication of Freely Frayed into German, Don Mee Choi will be joining her poet-translators Uljana Wolf and Lotta Thiessen for a reading and conversation at the Grüner Salon. They will be "discuss[ing] translation and transference, personal memory and geopolitical remembrance, and a poetry that creates new connections across languages, times, and forms." More information here.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 2026 7pm EDT
Anslem Berrigan will take part in Poet as Witness: “In Isolation, Language Dies on the Tongue,” joining other poets to read and reflect on works created under oppression. More information and ticket purchase here.
Elizabeth Kray Hall, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2026 11:30am GMT
As a part of her UK book tour for Freely Frayed, Don Mee Choi will read at the Poetry in Aldeburghe festival on a panel called "World to World: Translatings." More information and ticket purchase here.
Aldeburghe Jubilee Hall, 8 Crabbe St, Aldeburgh, UK
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2026 5pm GMT
Don Mee Choi's participation in the Poetry in Aldeburghe festival continues. To wrap the weekend up she will host a workshop titled "Innovate, Interact: Read, Play, Rehearse, Perform!" where participants will explore the work of Yi Sang, "one of South Korea’s most innovative poets during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea." More information and ticket purchase here here.
The Tiffany Room, The Wentworth Hotel, Wentworth Rd, Aldeburgh, UK
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2026 7pm GMT
Don Mee Choi continues her UK book tour for Freely Frayed at East Bristol Books, where she will be reading extracts from her work. She will also be in conversation with poet and scholar Dr. Rebecca Kosick. More information here.
East Bristol Books, 12 West St, St Philip's, Bristol, UK
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2026 6:30pm GMT
Don Mee Choi continues her UK book tour for Freely Frayed at Newcastle University, where she will be readings extracts from Freely Frayed alongside two other radical, internationally celebrated poets: Grace Nichols and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. More information here.
Herschel Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RY, United Kingdom
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2026
Sandra Simonds will give a reading at artist-owned music and art space, Dada. More details to come.
Dada, 60-47 Myrtle Ave, Ridgewood, NY
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2026
Renee Gladman will be holding a reading, Q&A, and book signing at the University of Michigan as part of their Zell Visiting Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). More information and registration here.
525 S. State St, Ann Arbor, MI
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2026 7pm EST
Terrance Hayes will host a poetry reading by Claudia Rankine which will conclude with a reception/signing of books. This is a free event but an RSVP is required to attend. More information here.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, New York, NY
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2026 5:15pm GMT
Don Mee Choi continues her UK book tour for Freely Frayed with a live reading and performance of the text at Tramway, a contemporary art and performance space in Glasgow. The performance will be accompanied by drawings, concrete poetry, and photography, as well as by "music [and] gestures . . . as a form of generating bodily marks, signs and writing." More information here and ticket purchase here.
25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE, United Kingdom
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2026 4:15pm GMT
Don Mee Choi continues her UK book tour for Freely Frayed with a live reading at The Pleasance: Cabaret Bar alongside fellow poet Hannah Lavery. The two poets "are united by their embrace of work which is insistently both playful and political, writing as witness, archive and protest in an urgent and unpredictable world." More information here and ticket purchase here.
60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ, United Kingdom
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2026 7pm EST
Terrance Hayes will give a reading and host a conversation at the College of Saint Benedict. More information here.
Gorecki Center, College of Saint Benedict, Columbia, SC
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 2026 7pm EST
Prageeta Sharma will read alongside Jennifer Moxley as a part of the Poetry Society of America Reading Series. More information and ticket purchase here.
Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 18, 2026
Don Mee Choi will give a reading of her poetry at the 2026 ELLAK (English Language & Literature Association of Korea) Conference, at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul. For this year's conference, entitled The End: Reclaiming the Beginning, ELLAK invited scholars across disciplines to respond to the theme of "the end" as a generative framework for humanistic inquiry: "Rather than viewing 'the end' as mere finality, the conference will explore it as a complex and dynamic concept—one that reveals the underlying forces of transformation and renewal. 'The end' highlights the fragility of human and non-human life and enables us to better understand an era currently beset with international conflict, ecological collapse, technological upheaval, and sociopolitical turmoil." More information here.
25-2 Seonggyungwan-ro, Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 19, 2026
Don Mee Choi will give a reading from DMZ Colony at the wit n cynical Poetry Bookstore in Seoul, South Korea, moderated by poet-critic Eun-Gwi Chung. More information coming soon.
271-1 Changgyeonggung-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 2027 7pm EST
Edwin Torres will be reading from his recent collection, feel recordings in the evershift, at Poets House in Kray Hall alongside other readings by fellow poets Kyle Carrero Lopez, Migwi Mangwi, and Sanam Sheriff. The event is free, and will also be viewable as a livestream on Zoom. More information here.
10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2027
Renee Gladman will be holding a lecture on craft at the University of Michigan as part of their Zell Visiting Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Michigan League, Henderson Room, 3rd floor). More information and registration here.
911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
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