Tuesday SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 6:30pm EDT
CAConrad leads a Longevity of Practice Workshop as part of their September poetry tour. More details here.
University of Massachusetts Studio Arts Building Atrium, 110 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA
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Tuesday SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 7-8:30pm PDT
Garrett Caples MC's a City Lights event with Thea Matthews, Patrick James Dunagan, and Maw Shein Win in celebration of Matthews' new book, GRIME. The event is online. More details here.
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 7pm EDT
Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Emily Martin read a chaplet series, curated by Bahaar Ahsan, in an event hosted by the Belladonna* Collaborative. More details here.
Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St, New York, NY
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 7pm PDT
Garrett Caples and Austin Carder discuss the publication of Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 by André Breton. The event is online, free, and hosted by City Light Books. More details here.
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*Friday SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 8am CDT
Lorine Niedecker's life and works are discussed in two PBS Wisconsin episodes, narrated by 2023-24 Wisconsin State Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig. One features Gulig's reflections on how Niedecker's legacy makes Fort Atkinson a special place in the history of American poetry. The other describes the impact of Niedecker's poetry in the early 20th century more than 50 years later. These are part of the series, "Welcome Poets." More details here.
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Friday SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 7pm EDT
CAConrad discusses their newest poetry collection, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, and reads with Golden. This event is part of their September poetry tour. More details here.
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 13, 2025 12-3pm EDT
CAConrad leads a workshop on how poets' occult and paranormal experiences and practices in the past show us how to trust that these same forces are alive and at work today. Participants will also discuss (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals. This event is part of their September poetry tour. Tickets are available online. More details here.
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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Monday SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 4:30-6pm EDT
Chris Nealon gives a lecture titled "'Not Paradise But Plain Reality': George Stanley and the Concept of Poetry" at Princeton University. More details here.
East Pyne Hall, Room 010, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Monday SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
Anselm Berrigan delivers a Bagley Wright lecture titled "Pregrettably Yours: On Being Influenced." More details here.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 7pm CDT
CAConrad speaks as part of the University of Minnesota Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series. This event is part of CAConrad's September poetry tour. More details here.
University of Minnesota, Pillsbury 412, 310 Pillsbury DR. SE, Minneapolis, MN
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 3:30pm EDT
Dorothea Lasky, Elizabeth Metzger, and Callie Siskel discuss the poet-editor relationship in a lecture at the Emily Dickinson Museum. The event also has an online option. More details here.
Emily Dickinson Museum, 280 Main Street, Amherst, MA
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 3-5pm CDT
CAConrad celebrates their poetry installation on the outside of the Woodland Pattern Book Center building. This event is hybrid and is part of CAConrad's September poetry tour. More details here.
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
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Sunday SEPTEMBER 21, 2025 2-4pm EDT
Prageeta Sharma reads with Megha Sood, Ramya Ramana, and Ashna Ali, with special guest Pramila Venkateswaran, in an event sponsored by Matwaala South Asian Diaspora Poets' Collective. Prageeta Sharma's newest collection, Onement Won, will be released by Wave Books in September 2025. The event is free and tickets are available online. More details here.
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, South Huntington, NY
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Wednesday SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 6-7:30pm CDT
Douglas Kearney is in conversation with Keith S. Wilson and Chaun Webster in an event hosted by Milkweed Books. More details here.
Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South Target Performance Hall, Second Floor, Minneapolis, MN
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 7pm EDT
Dara Barrois/Dixon reads with Harryette Mullen at the Poetry Society of America. Tickets are available online. More details here.
Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 7pm EDT
Dorothea Lasky and Thea Matthews read and discuss Matthews' most recent book, GRIME. Tickets are available online. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube. More details here.
Books Are Magic, 225 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY
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Thursday SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 7pm CDT
CAConrad reads from their newest book, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, as part of their September poetry tour. More details here.
Prairie Lights Bookshop, 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA
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*Friday SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 8:30am CDT
Lorine Niedecker's life and works are discussed in a PBS Wisconsin episode, narrated by 2023-24 Wisconsin State Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig. This installment features Niedecker's work from the middle of the 20th century through the 1960s, tracing her life in a cabin on the Rock River until a change enables her to take trips to places that inspire a new direction in her poetry. This is part of the series, "Welcome Poets." More details here.
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Friday SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 6:30pm EDT
Edwin Torres, Heather Christle, James Sherry, and other NYC poets read their new work at the McNally Jackson Seaport for the Brave, Unbodied Scheme event. RSVP is required to reserve a seat. More details here.
McNally Jackson Books Seaport, 4 Fulton St, New York, NY
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 3-6pm EDT
Dorothea Lasky leads a workshop on the color yellow in poetry, as well as the idea of having "too much" of something. Tickets are available online. More details here.
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 2:45-3:45pm PDT
Srikanth Reddy delivers the keynote address for the University of Washington Fall Convergence series. More details here.
North Creek Event Center, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
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*Friday OCTOBER 3, 2025 8:30am CDT
Lorine Niedecker's life and works are discussed in a PBS Wisconsin episode, narrated by 2023-24 Wisconsin State Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig. This installment features Gulig's reflections on how Niedecker's legacy has impacted his life and achievements. This is part of the series, "Welcome Poets." More details here.
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*Friday OCTOBER 10, 2025 8:30am CDT
Lorine Niedecker's life and works are discussed in a PBS Wisconsin episode, narrated by 2023-24 Wisconsin State Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig. This installment features Gulig's retelling of Niedecker's 1966 trip that inspired the first poem of hers that he ever read, "Lake Superior." This is part of the series, "Welcome Poets." More details here.
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Thursday OCTOBER 16, 2025 5pm CDT
Anselm Berrigan delivers a Bagley Wright lecture titled "Content is a Glimpse: On Being Influenced by Visual Artists' Writings." The event is free. More details here.
Room 801, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Saturday OCTOBER 18, 2025 7pm CDT
Anselm Berrigan delivers a Bagley Wright lecture titled "Pregrettably Yours: On Being Influenced." The event is free. More details here.
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
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Friday OCTOBER 24, 2025 7:30pm MDT
Julian Talamantez Brolaski reads their work and gives a Q&A at Boise State. The event will be followed by a book signing. More details here.
Hemingway Center (HEMG) 110, Boise State University, ID
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Tuesday NOVEMBER 4, 2025 6-7:30pm EST
Fred Moten, André Lepecki, Ann Pellegrini, and Karen Shimakawa read and discuss selected texts from Gilles Deleuze, Frantz Fanon, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The event is hosted by NYU Performance Studies. More details here.
Richard Schechner Studio Room 612, Broadway Block, New York, NY
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Thursday NOVEMBER 6, 2025 7-9pm EST
Maggie Nelson reads from her latest book, Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth. After, there will be a reception and book signing. More details here.
The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY
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Friday NOVEMBER 7, 2025 5-7pm EST
Matthew Rohrer hosts an event with readings by Mike Carlson, Tina Chang, and Terrance Winch. After, there will be a reception and book signing. More details here.
The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY
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Tuesday NOVEMBER 11, 2025 7-9pm CST
Douglas Kearney presents poets from the Cave Canem Minneapolis Regional Workshop, Pattern/Constraint/Sound. Readers will share works that engage with structure, sound, and innovation in various written mediums. More details here.
The Loft Literary Center, 1011 South Washington Avenue #200, Minneapolis, MN