The Keeler Tavern Museum presents Poetry in the Garden with Sophie Cabot Black and Patricia Spears Jones
Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center 152 Main St, Ridgefield, CT, United StatesFrom the organizers: "Poetry in the Garden (formerly "A Garden of Verse") is back for another summer season! The series, produced by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes, will feature some of the nation's leading poets. Join us in KTM&HC's beautiful historic walled garden for weekly readings throughout the month of July. Doors open at […]
The 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black
Nolan Park Governors Island, New York, NYThe 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival presents Diannely Antigua, Deborah Landau, and Sophie Cabot Black From the organizers: "A literary institution in its thirteenth year, funded by NYSCA, DCLA, and more, The New York City Poetry Festival is a progressive and transformative event that draws over 15,000 attendees. NYC PoFest is one of […]
Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass presents Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe and Ellen Bass 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 […]
DIESEL, A Bookstore presents Noah Warren, Christian Gullette, and Dan O’Brien
Diesel, A Bookstore 225 26th St, Santa monica, CAFrom the organizers: "Join us on Tuesday July 30th at 6:30 pm as we welcome Christian Gullette, Dan O'Brien and Noah Warren to the store to discuss and sign Coachella Elegy, Survivors's Notebook and The Complete Stories. This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in […]
Flyleaf Books presents their Second Sunday Poetry Series with John Balaban and Anna Lewis
Flyleaf Books 752 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFlyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series presents readings with John Balaban and Anna Lewis From the organizers: "Join us for our Monthly Poetry series, an afternoon of poetic readings. Featured poets will each read for 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, then an open mic. Please sign up by 2:30 pm, and […]
Ted Kooser Book Release – Raft
Chapters Books & Gifts 548 Seward St, Seward, NE, United StatesFrom the organizers: "Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life's shared experiences and emotions--illness, aging, beauty, and love. Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems […]
Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews present Ted Kooser Book Launch
From the organizers: "Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews will share poems from Ted Kooser's latest book, RAFT, out from Copper Canyon Press in September, 2024. Please note: due to health reasons, Ted Kooser will not be participating in this reading, though he will be watching!" Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-kooser-book-launch-tickets-935544367387?aff=oddtdtcreator Preorder the book here. Include a […]
2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading featuring Fady Joudah and Pádraig Ó Tuama
The Greene Space 44 Charlton St, New York, NY, United StatesFrom the organizers: The Jackson Poetry Prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent. It was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. Eligible poets must have published at least two books of acknowledged literary merit. The 2024 prize carries a monetary value of […]
CCP at Brooklyn Book Festival, Sunday, September 29
Brooklyn Borough Hall 209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFrom the organizers: "The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international […]
New Works: Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe
Poets House 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, United StatesFrom the organizers: Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. In Cabot Black’s Geometry of the Restless Herd (Copper Canyon, 2024), poems about sheep herding examine the connection between people, land, animals, and power. Howe’s New and Selected Poems […]
The Essential C.D. Wright: A Reading with Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander
Join Copper Canyon Press and honored guests Arthur Sze, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander for an evening of poetry and celebration in honor of legendary poet C.D. Wright. Hosted by C.D. Wright’s longtime poetry editor and Copper Canyon Press’s Executive Editor, Michael Wiegers, this livestream benefit reading will launch The Essential C.D. Wright and feature rare […]
Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye
From the organizers: Let's honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with poets Danusha Laméris and Naomi Shihab Nye. Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've […]
2024 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival with Sophie Cabot Black
From the organizers: Poetry Reading - Friday night, October 18, at 7:30 PM (EDT): Each of our guest poets Peter Balakian, Sophie Cabot Black, and Maya C. Popa present a public reading in the auditorium of the Sharon Springs Central School. Afterward, you’ll be able to meet the poets in the lobby, purchase a copy […]