Poetry Battles presents Jericho Brown

Poetry Battles presents an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition, on July 29 at 7 p.m. EDT via Instagram Live. From the organizers: We couldn't be more excited for this week's episode of "Poetry Battles Live!" We have the honor of sitting down with the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet, […]

The Frost Place presents Formalist Track: Freedom and Form, a Poetry Seminar directed by Patrick Donnelly

The Frost Place presents Formalist Track: Freedom and Form, a 2021 Poetry Seminar directed by Patrick Donnelly, from August 1-6, 2021 online via Zoom. From the organizers: Now Accepting Applications! As always, you’ll have access to instruction from our world-class faculty, focused attention on your work, and the vital exchanges of peers in workshop. Our […]

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The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar

The Life of Poetry: An Online Workshop, August 2-6,  with Ellen Bass & Frank X. Gaspar From the organizers: If you want to write images like that “glint of light on broken glass”—precise, clear, and immediately arresting—please join Ellen Bass and Frank X. Gaspar at the online The Life of Poetry Workshop. We’ll craft poems […]

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Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading

Georgia Center for the Book presents 2021 Route 1 Reads Poetry Reading, a virtual poetry reading, on August 2 at 7 p.m. EDT. Featured guests include Michael Klein, Kirun Kapur, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Kiki Petrosino, Adrienne Su, and Tyree Daye, with editor Kim Roberts. From the organizers: Poets from Maine to Florida, featured on the […]

Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown

Rain Taxi presents Rita Dove in conversation with Jericho Brown on August 3 at 5:30 p.m. Central time via Crowdcast. From the organizers: In her first book of new poems in twelve years, acclaimed poet Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Deftly connecting history’s grand exploits to the […]

Book Passage presents Anthony Veasna So’s AFTERPARTIES: A Tribute Panel

Book Passage presents Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties: A Tribute Panel, an online event featuring panelists Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and Mira Jacob, on August 7 at 4 p.m. Pacific time. From the organizers: Sat., August 7, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online Panelists include: Bryan Washington, Monica Sok, and […]

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference presents “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry” with Paisley Rekdal

Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference presents "White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry," a virtual lecture by Paisley Rekdal on Aug. 12 at 4:30 p.m. (EDT). From the organizers: Join us for “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation  in Poetry,” with Paisley Rekdal. Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact […]

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Brooklyn Poets presents Craft Lab: Nonsense and Senselessness with Jericho Brown

Brooklyn Poets presents Nonsense and Senselessness, a Craft Lab with Jericho Brown, on August 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT online via Zoom. From the organizers: Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove says that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Yet many readers still struggle to understand the meanings of poems. […]

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North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson

North Carolina Humanities presents Guide the Way: Traveling the Historic South and the Poetry of Today, with Tyree Daye and Dr. Torren Gatson, on August 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT. From the organizers: What happens when a southern poet and historian meet? This event features the 2021 North Carolina Humanities selected Route 1 […]