Thursdays OCTOBER 9 – January 8, 2025 5-8pm EST
Dorothea Lasky begins a ten-session long poetry intensive workshop titled The Heart of The Book. Participants can expect both individual and group meetings, generative prompts, and feedback on several drafts. By the end of the course, each student will leave with a manuscript of poems. More details here.
Online only
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Tuesday OCTOBER 21, 2025 4:30-6pm PST
Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, and Hoa Nguyen will be reading their work and discussing their art alike. This event is free and open to the public. More details here.
Crookshank Hall, 140 W. Sixth Street Claremont ,CA
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Thursday OCTOBER 23, 2025 6pm PST
Cedar Sigo will be joining Sid Ghosh in a discussion surrounding his fellow poets collection debut. The event is free and it is recommended to RSVP. More details here.
Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA
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Thursday OCTOBER 23, 2025 7pm CST
Fred Moten and musician Brandon Lopez collaborate for night one of No Idea Festival in Dallas. No Idea 2025 presents artists engaged in the peripheries of Free Improvisation, Composition, Noise, Free Jazz, and Sonic Intervention. To highlight artists' working methods, musicians move through No Idea’s format of established groups, emerging collaborations, and festival curated first-meetings. More details here.
The Wild Detectives, 314 Eighth St, Dallas, TX
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Friday OCTOBER 24, 2025 7:30pm CST
Fred Moten and jazz multi instrumentalist Joe McPhee share the stage for night two of No Idea Festival in Dallas. No Idea 2025 presents artists engaged in the peripheries of Free Improvisation, Composition, Noise, Free Jazz, and Sonic Intervention. To highlight artists' working methods, musicians move through No Idea’s format of established groups, emerging collaborations, and festival curated first-meetings. General admission tickets are available online. More festival details here.
Alienated Majesty, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX
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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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Saturday OCTOBER 25, 2025 1:30pm CST
Fred Moten delivers a free talk as apart of No Idea Festival. More festival details here.
Alienated Majesty, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX
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Saturday OCTOBER 25, 2025 7:30pm CST
Fred Moten and jazz composer Brandon Lopez collaborate for No Idea Festival in Austin. No Idea 2025 presents artists engaged in the peripheries of Free Improvisation, Composition, Noise, Free Jazz, and Sonic Intervention. To highlight artists' working methods, musicians move through No Idea’s format of established groups, emerging collaborations, and festival curated first-meetings. General admission tickets are available online. More festival details here.
Scottish Rite Theater, 207 W 18th St, Austin, TX
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Wednesday OCTOBER 29, 2025 8pm EST
Cedar Sigo and Anselm Berrigan will be reading from their newly published works, Siren of Atlantis and Don't Forget to Love Me hosted by the Poetry Project. Tickets are available for purchase on their website along with access to a free livestream of the event. More details here.
St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th Street, NY
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Wednesday OCTOBER 29, 2025 5-7pm EST
CAConrad will discuss 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. Rumi, Hannah Weiner, Will Alexander, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, and Ariana Reines are some poets whose work and practices we will investigate. CA will also discuss (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals as a practice for all writers and artists. These rituals provide a window into the creative viability of everything around us, initiating an "extreme present," where we learn how, even in crisis, we can thrive through the poems and learn to collaborate in unexpected ways with other artistic disciplines. More details here.
MOSAIC EventSpace, 49 Main St. North Adams, MA
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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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Saturday NOVEMBER 8, 2025 10am-5pm CST
Douglas Kearney reads from his most recent work, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always at Twin Cities Book Festival. The TCBF features dozens of presenting authors, special children’s programs, and a wide variety of exhibitors featuring new and rare books, quirky literary curiosities, and more. The festival is free to the public. More details here.
Union Depot, 214 4th St E UNIT 120, St Paul, MN
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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
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Thursday DECEMBER 4, 2025 7pm PST
Anselm Berrigan reads at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. More details here.
University of Arizona: Poetry Center, 1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ
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Thursday DECEMBER 11, 2025 7pm EST
Prageeta Sharma and Jennifer Moxley read for Poetry Society of America. Registration is required, tickets are available for purchase on their website. The event also has an online option. More details here.
Poetry Society of America, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Friday DECEMBER 12, 2025 7pm EST
Prageeta Sharma holds a workshop titled Poetics/Poetry on Myth, Caste, Race, Supremacy, and Emancipatory Practices. More details here.
The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E 10th st, New York, NY
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Thursday FEBRUARY 19, 2026 6:30pm CST
Prageeta Sharma reads poems from Onement Won for the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series. More details here.
Vanderbilt University, Dept. of English, location TBD, Nashville, TN