One Book, One Philadelphia presents A Conversation with Jericho Brown

One Book, One Philadelphia presents, April 14 at 7:30 PM EDT,  A Conversation with Jericho Brown From the organizers:  The 2021 One Book programming season kicks off with a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and One Book featured author, Jericho Brown, and Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta B. Mayson. The event will feature special performances of […]

Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival presents Tishani Doshi

Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival presents, April 15 - 18 GMT , Tishani Doshi From the organizers: It feels like a lifetime since we hosted our 2020 festival in the Temple of Peace last February. At the time, as Storm Denis raged outside, none of us knew what we would face in the coming months. Now we are looking […]

Scripps College presents @Noon: 21st-Century Indigenous Poets feat. Sherwin Bitsui

Scripps College presents @Noon: 21st-Century Indigenous Poets, April 20 at 12 PM PDT, feat. Sherwin Bitsui From the organizers: In celebration of National Poetry Month, join Sherwin Bitsui, Santee Frazier, and this spring’s Mary Routt Chair in Creative Writing, Joan Naviyuk Kane, for a reading and discussion of their work. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noon-21st-century-indigenous-poets-tickets-149179474825

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Diesel, A Bookstore presents Arthur Sze

Diesel, A Bookstore presents Arthur Sze From the organizers: Join us on Tuesday, April 20th at 6:30 pm for a virtual event with with Arthur Sze in conversation with John Evans as they discuss The Glass Constellation:  New and Collected Poems.   Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/arthur-sze-in/register  

Lift Every Voice presents Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jone

Lift Every Voice presents Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation, April 20 at 7 PM EDT, with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Patricia Spears Jones From the organizers: Join New York-based poets Mariposa Fernández (Bronx), LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Harlem) and Patricia Spears Jones (Brooklyn) to celebrate the publication of the Library of America’s history-making anthology, African […]

Cuirt International Festival of Literature presents Conversations on Craft with Tishani Doshi

Cuirt International Festival of Literature presents Conversations on Craft, April 21 at 5 PM GMT, with Tishani Doshi From the organizers: Cúirt presents Conversations on Craft, a series of events to exercise the formal muscles of new and emerging writers at every stage of their development. A series of webinars with live Q&As, these events […]

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Lift Every Voice presents The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes, with Kevin Young, Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James

Lift Every Voice presents, April 21 at 6:30 PM EDT, The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes, with Kevin Young, Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James From the organizers: It was 100 years ago, in June 1921, that a young Langston Hughes published what would become one of his best-known poems, “The Negro Speaks […]

Cave Canem presents New Works: Writing Grief feat. Nikki Wallschlaeger

Cave Canem presents New Works: Writing Grief, April 21 at 7 PM - 7:30 PM EDT,  feat. Nikki Wallschlaeger From the organizers: Poets Saddiq Dzukogi (Your Crib, My Qibla), Natasha T. Miller (Butcher), and Nikki Wallschlaeger (Waterbaby) read poems from recent collections that grapple with grief.   Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_APUEXl-YSEGlpSzkSobySg