***Visit Copper Canyon Press at Booth #418***
Thursday (March 27)
Jericho Brown, Camille Rankine
9:00am–10:15pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Predictable Unpredictability: Celebrating the Poetry of Reginald Shepherd.
Paisley Rekdal
10:35am–11:50pm. Room 406AB, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Breaking Walls: Heirs of Angel Island Write Against the Anti-Chinese West.
Michael Wasson
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal.
Traci Brimhall
12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Not Cue Cards or Assignments: The Magic of Prompts in Poetry Workshops.
Geoffrey Brock
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Twenty Years of Reimagining Place: An Ecotone Anniversary Reading.
Victoria Chang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
When Words Are Not Enough: Graphic Literature & Diasporic Histories.
Patricia Spears Jones
12:10pm–1:25pm. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Crowned with Laurels: The Role of the Poet Laureate in a Contemporary Age.
Geoff Bouvier
7:00pm–10:00pm. The Los Angeles Makery, 260 S Los Angeles St.
Black Lawrence Reading.
Friday (March 28)
Victoria Chang, Tyree Daye, Dean Rader
9:00am–10:15am. Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Eyes Wide: Exploring the Extended Ekphrastic.
Maurya Simon
10:00am–11:00am. Red Hen Press Booth.
Book Signing.
Camille Rankine
10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision.
Paisley Rekdal
10:35am–11:50pm. Room 503, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Can I Write That? At the Crossroads of Social Change & Conscious Language.
Kerry James Evans
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way.
Patricia Spears Jones
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Sisterhood: Friendship, Feminism, Lineage & Perseverance.
Paisley Rekdal
12:30–1:30pm. W.W. Norton Booth.
Signing for Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens.
Diannely Antigua
1:45pm–3:00pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
How Do You Know When You’re Done? Poets on Revision.
Michael Wasson
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Excuse My Beauty: Queer Indigenous Poetics, Story & Time.
Christopher Soto
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Literary Production During Authoritarian Governments.
Tishani Doshi, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Michael Wiegers, and Shangyang Fang
3:20pm–4:35pm. Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Vacancies We Name: Poetry of Global Perspectives, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press.
Terry Ehret
5:00pm–7:oopm. Catcher in the Rye 10550 Riverside Drive Toluca Lake, CA 91602.
Celebrate 2025 Poetry Books from Sixteen Rivers Press.
Randall Mann
5:00pm–7:30pm. Precinct, 357 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013.
Unbound @ Precinct – a Queer Offsite Reading.
Diannely Antigua
6:00pm–7:30pm. Heavy Manners Library.
Luz y Carbón: an AWP Offsite Reading.
Pádraig Ó Tuama
7:00pm–8:30pm. The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena.
The Slowdown Live.
Amanda Gunn
8:00pm–10:00pm. Sybilline Records, Pasadena.
Off-site reading with Dialogist.
Saturday (March 29)
Amanda Gunn
9:00am–10:15am. Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Forms of Grief: The Craft of Writing Elegiac Poetry.
Dean Rader
10:ooam–11:00am. Only Poems Table.
Book Signing of Beyond the Borderless.
Philip Metres and Pádraig Ó Tuama
10:35am–11:50am. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Spirit Work: Talking (with) Sacred Texts Through Poetry.
Forrest Gander, Shangyang Fang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 407, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
“Traduttore, Traditore!”: Poets on Translation.
Jennifer Chang
12:10pm–1:25pm. Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center.
No Excerpts: On the Long Poem.
Pádraig Ó Tuama
12:30pm–1:30pm. Norton Booth 646.
Book Signing.
Maria Hummel
1:45pm–3:00pm. Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Middle March: Novel Writing’s Toughest Mile.
Sophie Cabot Black
3:20pm–4:35pm. Room 408A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two.
Resistance, Refusal, Silence & Life: When We Don’t Write.
Natalie Shapero, Jennifer Chang, Tyree Daye, Christopher Kondrich
5:00pm–6:00pm. R Bar in K Town.
Off-site Reading with Southern Indiana Review.
Sunday (March 30)
Tishani Doshi
4:00pm–5:00pm. Wonzimer Gallery.
Windswept Artist Talk with Susan Ossman.