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Brooklyn Poets presents Brooklyn Poets Reading Series with Mark Bibbins
Brooklyn Poets presents, June 3 at 7 PM EDT, Brooklyn Poets Reading Series with Mark Bibbins From the organizers: Named one of the best reading series in NYC as well as one of the 50 best free things to do in the city by Time Out New York, the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series takes place bimonthly […]
Community Bookstore presents Ocean Vuong presents “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” in partnership with the Asian American Writers Workshop
Community Bookstore presents, June 3 at 7:30 PM EDT, Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," in partnership with the Asian American Writers Workshop From the organizers: Ocean Vuong joins us for the paperback release of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. This program is in partnership with the Asian American Writers Workshop and Murmrr and will […]
Roxbury Poetry Festival presents Craft Talk with Rachel McKibbens
Roxbury Poetry Festival presents Craft Talk, June 5 at 1 PM - 2 PM EDT, with Rachel McKibbens From the organizers: As poets, we use devices to resurrect or bury, but how often are we willing to lean into our own wickedness, to give it its rightful placement as the second face of our vulnerability […]
Roxbury Poetry Festival presents Keynote Address with Jericho Brown
Roxbury Poetry Festival presents Keynote Address, June 5 at 4 PM - 5 PM EDT, with Jericho Brown From the organizers: 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner, Jericho Brown, will read from his book The Tradition and answer a few questions from the audience. This talk will be moderated by a local artist. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxbury-poetry-festival-2021-tickets-146513542951
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences presents Ghostlily Along, Bloodily Biting: Using Nocturnes and Palinodes to Jump Start Nature Poems with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences presents, June 6 at 5:30 PM EST, Ghostlily Along, Bloodily Biting: Using Nocturnes and Palinodes to Jump Start Nature Poems with Aimee Nezhukumatathil From the organizers: Using sample poems from Yone Noguchi, Jane Kenyon, and Arthur Sze as jumping-off points, we will investigate how and when to use retractions (palinodes) […]
Ellen Bass presents Truth & Beauty: An Online Writing Workshop
Ellen Bass presents, June 7-11, Truth & Beauty: An Online Writing Workshop From the organizers: If you want to encounter more truth in your poems, to express it in the most beautiful way possible, to craft poems that reflect the inextricable marriage of truth and beauty, love and death, the luminous and the ordinary, please […]
Hudson Valley Writers presents Monday Night Poetry with Alex Dimitrov (via Zoom)
Hudson Valley Writers presents, June 7, 14, 21, & 28 at 6:30 PM - 9 PM EDT, Monday Night Poetry with Alex Dimitrov (via Zoom) From the organizers: This is a 4-week class, occurring on 4 consecutive Mondays beginning June 7 ending on June 28 via Zoom. 6:30-9:00pm EST. HVWC is lucky to have award-winning […]
Hennepin Avenue UMC presents An Evening with Jericho Brown
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church 511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesHennepin Avenue UMC presents, June 19 at 6 PM - 8 PM CDT, An Evening with Jericho Brown From the organizers: There are two ways to attend. This is a hybrid event, with registered tickets available for in-person or virtual attendance. In-person Attendance ($20) Experience Jericho in person, with reserved, socially-distanced seating for 150 in the beautiful […]
New York Public Library presents Spiritfirst: Akwaeke Emezi with Saidiya Hartman
New York Public Library presents, June 8 at 7 PM - 8 PM EDT, Spiritfirst: Akwaeke Emezi with Saidiya Hartman From the organizers: The bestselling author shares their debut work of nonfiction, Dear Senthuran, a memoir that "deeply engages with the metaphysics of Black spirit and singularly faces the Black reader." Register here: https://www.showclix.com/event/akwaekeemezi/tag/nyplwebsite
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Ocean Vuong: Live & Online‑Only
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents, June 9 at 6 PM PDT, Ocean Vuong: Live & Online‑Only From the organizers: Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series […]