Saturday OCTOBER 5, 2024 7:00pm CT
Dara Barrois/Dixon will be reading from her collection Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences For Astronauts as part of A Common Sense Reading Series. She will be joined by Peter Mishler. Event details here.Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO
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Sunday OCTOBER 6, 2024 5:00pm PT
Dara Barrois/Dixon, Emily Kendal Frey, Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, John Morrison, and Zachary Schomburg will be reading at Bishop & Wilde. Event details here.Bishop & Wilde, 2601 NW Thurman St. Portland, OR
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Monday OCTOBER 7, 2024
Matthew Rohrer will read with Pablo Medina and Tangie Mitchell at KGB Bar.KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street. New York, NY
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Wednesday October 9, 2024 7:00pm PT
HOUSE PARTY for Dara Barrois/Dixon's new book, Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts and the just released audiobook of her recent Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina. Hosted by Frances McCue and Jerry Cotter, and including harpist Monica Schley. There will be drinks. There may be astronauts.
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Thursday OCTOBER 10, 2024 7:00pm PT
Poet Anselm Berrigan presents "Pregrettably Yours: On Being Influenced," a free lecture in partnership with the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry and the Hotel Sorrento. This lecture will focus on Berrigan’s own experience of being influenced, understanding and developing influence as a source for writing, the strange and sometimes beautiful (as in Jimi Hendrix’ line “strange beautiful grass of green”) oddities of being part of a family of poets, and listening as a practice inseparable from reading and writing. Free and open to the public. Reserve ticket here.
Hotel Sorrento, 900 Madison St., Seattle, WA
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Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm ET
The event begins with Fred Moten’s lecture called “A Forward Thrust of Blackness.” This is followed by a 7 p.m. screening of the documentary “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” at the Challenger Learning Center Planetarium. talk on ““A Forward Thrust of Blackness”” This talk is meant to induce and enact meditation on black poetry as the infinite rehearsal of an infinite conversation. Event details here.FSU Conradi Studio Theatre, 631 University Way, Tallahassee, FL
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Thursday October 10, 2024 6:00pm ET and livestreamed
Other Influences reading at Woodberry Poetry room: Readings by Hoa Nguyen, Prageeta Sharma, Carla Harryman, Erica Hunt, Tracie Morris Anne Tardos, incantation by KPrevallet, intros by Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone. Free and public. More details here.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lower Level, 24 Quincy Street.
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Thursday OCTOBER 10, 2024 7:00pm PT
Los Angeles Review of Books and BOMB Magazine host a party with readings from poets Kate Durbin, Nada Alic, Harmony Holiday, and Greg Mania. Event details here.
Night Gallery, 2050 Imperial St, Los Angeles, CA
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Friday October 11, 2024 5:30pm ET
Fred Moten will join Nicki Giovanni in conversation about their work in poetics, film, theory, music, and other art forms inside academe and around the globe over the past six decades. Event details here.FSU student union, 75 N. Woodward Ave. Tallahassee, FL
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Saturday OCTOBER 12, 2024 2:00pm CT
Readings by Dolores Dorantes and Natalie Diaz at the annual Chinati Weekend. Also featuring Conversation between Zoe Leonard and Lynne Cooke. See event details here.Crowley Theater, 98 S Austin St. Marfa, TX
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Saturday OCTOBER 12, 2024
Anselm Berrigan will read in full, while recording, his new book, Don’t Forget to Love Me. Reserve free ticket here.
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA
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Sunday October 13, 2024 1:00pm ET
Terrance Hayes returns to Pittsburgh for a reading and relaunch of the International Poetry Forum at City of Asylum. Event details here.Alphabet City, 40 West North Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
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Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:30pm ET
Jo Park will host a gathering of local poets and scholars — Dara Barrois/Dixon, Julia Bloch, Elizabeth Kim, Jena Osman, and Syd Zolf — who will each riff on a single passage from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée. Event registration here.Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
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Wednesday, OCTOBER 16, 2024
Isaac Jarnot will be reading from Four Lectures and Srikanth Reddy will be reading from upcoming book The Unsignificant. Bagley Wright Lecture Details here.
Grolier Poetry Bookshop, 6 Plympton St, Cambridge, MA
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Thursday OCTOBER 17, 2024 5:30pm ET
Isaac Jarnot will be reading from Four Lectures. Bagley Wright Lecture Details here.
Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA
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Thursday OCTOBER 17, 2024 6:30pm ET
Dara Barrois/Dixon, Bianca Stone, and Emilie Menzel, will read from recent work. Event details here.Amherst Books, 8 Main St. Amherst, MA
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Thursday OCTOBER 17-19, 2024 10:00am ET
The 20th edition of the biennial Dodge Poetry Festival will feature readings from many poets, including Tyehimba Jess and Edwin Torres. This joyful, community-driven celebration will also feature dozens of activities, workshops, poetry slams and jams. See event details here.New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St. Newark, NJ
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Saturday October 19, 2024 8:00pm ET
MCs and poets, including Tyehimba Jess, akim, Big Daddy Kane, MC Lyte, DJ Spinna, Caridad De La Luz (LA BRUJA), mayor ras j. Baraka, and Mahogany L. Browne, perform their hits for this celebratory concert during the Dodge Poetry Festival. Event details here.Prudential Hall, 1 Center St, Newark, NJ
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Tuesday OCTOBER 22, 2024 4:30pm ET
Don Mee Choi will deliver a public lecture titled “The Poetics of Translation.” See event details here.Princeton University, 185 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ
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Wednesdays OCTOBER 23- NOVEMBER 20, 2024 7:00pm ET
Hoa Nguyen gives on a five-week excursion into the innovative work of five women poets: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Wanda Coleman, Alice Notley, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Waldman. This seminar is a crash course in their writing and innovative poetics, where you'll be encouraged to write both during and outside of sessions, responding to prompts drawn from readings. Event details here.Online seminar through Zoom
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Wednesday OCTOBER 23, 2024 6:00pm ET
Book launch for Srikanth Reddy’s The Unsignificant; in conversation with Edgar Garcia. Event details to come.Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL
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Thursday OCTOBER 24, 2024
Matthew Rohrer reading at NYU with Annylese Gelman & Jack Underwood. Event details to come.New York University. New York, NY
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Tuesday OCTOBER 29, 2024 4:30pm ET
Don Mee Choi will give a reading of her work. See event details here.Princeton University, 185 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ
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Friday NOVEMBER 1, 2024 ET
Douglas Kearney's work is being brought into an adaptation of the Monteverdi opera in "The Comet / Poppea". See more event details here.
Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA
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Friday NOVEMBER 1-3, 2024
The Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival. This three-day event is a celebration of the rich poetic heritage of the Cascadia bioregion and will take place at various venues throughout Seattle. Poets include CAConrad, Fred Wah, Koon Woon, CS Giscombe, Jami Macarty, Jill Lapointe, Sharon Thesen, Stephen Collis, Robert Lashley, Carletta Wilson, Daphne Marlatt, Robert Michael Pyle, Samar Abulhassan, Sharon Hashimoto, Claudia Castro Luna, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Meredith Quartermain, and Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, and more. Event details here.Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. Seattle, WA.
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Thursday NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Matthew Rohrer will be reading at Relegation Books in Baltimore, MD. Event details to come.Relegation Books, Baltimore, MD
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Thursday NOVEMBER 7, 2024 6:00pm ET
A reading by Don Mee Choi from all of her works followed by a conversation with Professor Jo Park. See event details here.Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
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Friday NOVEMBER 8, 2024 6:00pm ET
Srikanth Reddy joins novelist and RAP Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures. See event details here..The Clark, 225 South St. Williamstown, MA
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Saturday, NOVEMBER 9, 2024
Lisa Jarnot will be reading from Four Lectures. Bagley Wright Lecture Details here.
Woodland Pattern, 720 E Locust St. Milwaukee, WI
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Saturday NOVEMBER 9, 2024
Matthew Rohrer will be reading at George Mason University. Event details to come.George Mason University, 4400 University Dr. Fairfax, VA
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Tuesday NOVEMBER 12, 2024 4:30pm ET
Srikanth Reddy lecture at Princeton University. Event details to come.Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Saturday NOVEMBER 16, 2024
Matthew Rohrer will be joined by Dara Barrois-Dixon, Alan Felsenthal, and Dobby Gibson in a reading at Unnameable Books . Event details to come.Unnamable Books, 66 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA
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Thursday NOVEMBER 21, 2024 7:30pm ET
A reading by Don Mee Choi of her most recent work. See event details here.George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, 3E4 Fairfax, VA
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Tuesday NOVEMBER 26, 2024 6:00pm PT
Tisa Bryant will read from the new edition of Unexplained Presence. See event details here.
Virtual event held by City Lights. Register for link.
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Friday & Saturday DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2024
Dara Barrois/Dixon, Dorothea Lasky, and Marc Vincent will be reading two nights at the Red Lion Inn. Event details to come.Red Lion Inn, 30 Main St. Stockbridge, MA