July/August 2008
SUMMER BREAK double issue with poems by Carl Dennis, Kathryn Starbuck, Albert Goldbarth, Heather McHugh, Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Kevin McFadden, Bob Hicok, Glyn Maxwell, and others.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 5:30-10:00 PM
Past Events05.29.08: Poetry Magazine Presents: Two NYC Independent Bookstore Readings 05.28.08: Poetry Magazine Presents: Two NYC Independent Bookstore Readings 05.15.08: American Perspectives: Edward Hirsch 05.01.08: American Perspectives: Frank Bidart 04.26.08: Poetry Off the Shelf: Charles Simic 04.24.08: American Perspectives: Four Saints in Three Acts 04.16.08: Poetry Off the Shelf: Lorna Dee Cervantes and Rigoberto González 04.05.08: Chicago KIDS' Poetry Day 04.02.08: Mary Oliver 04.01.08: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY 03.13.08: American Perspectives: Peter Sacks on Edward Hopper 01.24.08: American Perspectives: Four Notable Latino Poets 01.10.08: Poetry Off the Shelf: Kwame Dawes 12.28.07: Poetry Marathon 12.13.07: American Perspectives: Langdon Hammer On Poet Hart Crane 12.06.07: Poetry at the Pulitzer: Water 11.18.07: A theatrical interpretation of Frank Bidart's The Third Hour of the Night 11.17.07: A theatrical interpretation of Frank Bidart's The Third Hour of the Night 11.16.07: A theatrical interpretation of Frank Bidart's The Third Hour of the Night 11.14.07: 53rd Annual Poetry Day: Eavan Boland 11.09.07: American Perspectives: Marjorie Perloff 11.08.07: Make It News: A Symposium on Poetry and Journalism 11.04.07: Poetry On Stage: The Waste Land 11.03.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: Diane Ackerman 11.03.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: W.S. Merwin 11.03.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: Writing Nature Panel 10.24.07: American Perspectives: A Cave Canem Reading Featuring Frank Walker, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Parneshia Jones, and Kelly Norman Ellis 10.24.07: Kwame Dawes, Mary Karr, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Smith, and Rachel Zucker 10.18.07: American Perspectives: Helen Vendler 10.14.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: A.E. Stallings 10.12.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons, Mary Kinzie, and Adam Zagajewski 09.15.07: American Perspectives: Edward Hirsch 07.31.07: Inventions on Inventions 07.20.07: Printers' Ball 06.10.07: Pimone Triplett & Andrew Feld 06.06.07: Donald Hall & Andrew Motion 05.30.07: Robert Bly 05.07.07: Donald Hall and Andrew Motion 05.10.07: Donald Hall and Andrew Motion 04.18.07: Victor Hernández Cruz 04.10.07: Jack Prelutsky 04.04.07: Tony Hoagland and Dean Young 03.15.07: Poetry Off the Shelf: Martín Espada 02.08.07: Kim Addonizio 01.16.07: Kevin Young 11.19.06: Tartuffe 11.18.06: Tartuffe 11.17.06: Tartuffe 11.05.06: Poetry Off the Shelf: Gary Snyder 11.05.06: Poems of Peace & War 11.04.06: Poetry on Stage: Aurea 10.17.06: Poetry Day: Robert Hass 09.29.06: Mark Strand 09.16.06: Patricia Barber 09.07.06: Poetry Off the Shelf: David Lehman 06.12.06: Another Damn Benefit 06.04.06: Poetry, performance, and music by Aurea 05.16.06: Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest Finals 04.19.06: Poetry Out Loud Illinois State Finals 04.27.06: Poetry Off the Shelf: Adam Zagajewski and Clare Cavanagh 04.05.06: Poetry Out Loud Springfield Finals 04.04.06: Poetry Out Loud Chicago Finals 11.16.05: Poetry Day: Derek Walcott 11.13.05: John Hollander: What You Mean by Home 11.13.05: Poetry on Stage: 10 Brecht Poems 11.12.05: Poetry on Stage: 10 Brecht Poems 11.11.05: Poetry on Stage: 10 Brecht Poems 11.10.05: Poetry on Stage: 10 Brecht Poems 11.05.05: Edward Hirsch: Roots and Wings 11.05.05: Poetry Off the Shelf: Lawrence Joseph & Stuart Dybek 11.05.05: Panel: A Home for Poetry 11.03.05: Poetry Off the Shelf: Kay Ryan 10.17.05: Poetry Off the Shelf: Billy Collins 09.20.05: Poetry on Stage: The Burial at Thebes 09.19.05: Poetry on Stage: The Burial at Thebes 09.18.05: Poetry on Stage: The Burial at Thebes 14.19.05: Poetry Off the Shelf: Kevin Young 04.11.05: National Poetry Recitation Contest Chicago Finals 04.08.05: Poetry on Stage: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral 04.07.05: Poetry on Stage: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral 04.06.05: Poetry on Stage: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral 04.05.05: Poetry on Stage: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral 04.04.05: Poetry on Stage: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral 04.04.05: Poetry in the Public Forum: Dana Gioia |
UPCOMING READINGS
July 16, 2008 : Provincetown, MACarl Phillips. Fine Arts Work Center
Phillips (Quiver of Arrows), who is also offering a workshop on revision at the work center this week, gives a public reading. A slide talk by painter and printmaker Andrew Mockler follows.
July 17, 2008 : Chicago, IL
Ed Roberson, Dan Beachy-Quick, Eleni Sikelianos, and others. Experimental Station
Roberson (City Eclogue), Beachy-Quick (A Whaler’s Dictionary), and Sikelianos (Body Clock) read their contributions to Chicago Review’s new Barbara Guest issue. Local writers give a staged reading of Guest’s play The Office, published for the first time in the issue.
July 17, 2008 : Seattle, WA
Mary Cornish, Timothy Kelly, and J.W. Marshall. Cabaret Series
In this event cosponsored by Oberlin College Press, three FIELD poetry prize winners from the Pacific Northwest —Cornish (Red Studio), Kelly (The Extremities), and Marshall (Meaning a Cloud)—read from new books at the Richard Hugo House.
July 18, 2008 : San Francisco, CA
Lucille Clifton, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, C.D. Wright, and Dean Young. Squaw Valley Benefit Reading
Clifton, Hass, Olds, Wright, and Young read at First Unitarian Universalist Center to benefit the Squaw Valley Community of Writers’ Poetry Scholarship Fund, which helps talented writers afford a week-long workshop. Poets and publishers donate and sign books; the event is usually standing-room-only.
July 19, 2008 : Cambridge, MA
Kate Colby, Matvei Yankelevich, and Jeffrey Yang. Boston Poetry Collective
Colby, whose new book Unbecoming Behavior is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse, reads with Ugly Duckling editor Yankelevich (The Present Work) and new Directions poetry editor Yang (An Aquarium) at Pierre Menard Gallery.
July 19, 2008 : San Francisco, CA
Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Bin Ramke, and others. Bay Area Poetry Marathon
Literary magazine editors Chernoff, Conoley, and Ramke (of New American Writing, VOLT, and Denver Quarterly, respectively), read with D.A. Powell, Chad Sweeney, David Blair, and others for one in a series of summer marathon readings at the LAB gallery in the Mission District.
July 20, 2008 : Oakland, CA
Anna Moschovakis and Dennis Somera. The (New) Reading Series
Poet and translator Moschovakis (I Have Not Been Able To Get Through To Everyone), who edits, designs, and prints books for Ugly Duckling Presse, reads with recent Mills College MFA graduate Somera at 21 Grand.
July 22, 2008 : Chicago, IL
Carrie Etter and Andy Gricevich. Series A
American expat poet Etter (The Tethers), who now teaches at Bath Spa University, returns to her home state to read new work with musician, poet, and CANNOT EXIST editor Gricevich.
July 23, 2008 : Orange, CA
Jeffrey McDaniel and Jack McCarthy. Two Idiots Peddling Poetry
Former slam poets McDaniel (The Endarkenment) and McCarthy (who had a memorable cameo in the film Slam Nation) read at the Ugly Mug Caffe for this series hosted by “idiots” Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg.
July 24-26, 2008 : San Francisco, CA
Jack Hirschman, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Alejandro Murguia, and others. Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry
Murguia (Southern Front) curates this festival that brings young poets in contact with authors such as Cervantes (Drive: The First Quartet) and San Francisco poet laureate Hirschman for readings, workshops, and cultural exchanges.
July 25, 2008 : New Smyrna Beach, FL
Thomas Sayers Ellis and Terese Svoboda. Atlantic Center for the Arts
Dark Room Collective cofounder Ellis (Maverick Room) reads with fellow Graywolf author Svoboda (Black Glasses Like Clark Kent) at the arts center where both are teaching workshops for teenagers.
July 26, 2008 : Cambridge, MA
Liz Bradfield, Kevin Gallagher, and Jon Thompson. The So & So Series
Broadsided Press editor Bradfield (Interpretive Work), political economist Gallagher, and Parlor Press poetry editor Thompson (The Book of the Floating World) read for this series for “early career poets” hosted by Chris Tonelli.
July 27-August 2, 2008 : Franconia, NH
James Hoch, Susan Howe, Jean Valentine, and others. Frost Place Festival and Conference
2008 Frost Place poet-in-residence Hoch (Miscreants) reads with guest poets Howe (Souls of the Labadie Tract) and Valentine (Little Boat) as well as festival fellows Linda Susan Jackson (What Yellow Sound Like) and Ilya Kaminsky (Dancing in Odessa) for the 30th anniversary of this festival, which offers daily craft talks, workshops, and readings.
July 28, 2008 : Provincetown, MA
Cleopatra Mathis. Fine Arts Work Center
After a weeklong workshop on how to save “unruly” poems, Mathis reads from her latest collection, White Sea. A slide talk by printmaker Vicky Tomayko follows.
July 30, 2008 : New York, NY
Shanna Compton. Chrystie Street Series
Bloof Books editor Compton (For Girls (& Others)) reads for this brand new series hosted by Steve Roberts at Home Sweet Home Bar.
July 30, 2008 : San Clemente, CA
Angie Estes and Kathy Fagan. Casa Romantica Reading Series
Ohio State University professors and poets Estes (Chez Nous) and Fagan (The Charm) read at the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens.
August 3, 2008 : Berkeley, CA
Chad Sweeney, Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Richard Silberg. Poetry Flash Reading Series
Poetry Flash editor Silberg (Deconstruction of the Blues) and others gather at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue to send off Chad (Arranging the Blaze) and Jennifer K. Sweeney (Salt Memory), who are moving from the Bay Area to the Midwest.
August 4, 2008 : Provincetown, MA
Marie Howe. Fine Arts Work Center
Howe (The Kingdom of Ordinary Time), a 1983 Fine Arts Work Center fellow, leads a workshop for experienced poets and gives a public reading. A slide talk by muralist Roberto Juarez follows.
August 5, 2008 : New York, NY
Oni Buchanan, Darcie Dennigan, and Abraham Smith. Poetry from the Rooftops
Buchanan (Spring) reads from her second collection and
Dennigan (Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse) and Smith (Whim Man Mammon) read from their first collections at The Arsenal, NYC’s Parks and Recreation Department headquarters, for Poetry from the Rooftops, the new Academy of American Poets summer series.
August 6, 2008 : Seattle, WA
George Bowering and Marion Kimes. Subtext Reading Series
Vancouver poet Bowering (Kerrisdale Elegies), Canada’s first-ever poet laureate and a baseball fanatic, comes down to the Good Shepherd Center to read with Kimes (Crows’ Eyes), a longtime used bookseller at Seattle’s Horizon Books.
August 6, 2008 : Provincetown, MA
Ralph Angel and Victoria Redel. Fine Arts Work Center
Poet and translator Angel (Exceptions and Melancholies) reads with poet and novelist Redel (Swoon), whose novel, Loverboy, was adapted into a film directed by Kevin Bacon. Printmaker Peik Larsen gives a slide talk.
August 8, 2008 : Provincetown, MA
Mary Oliver. Fine Arts Work Center
Provincetown resident and best selling poet
Oliver (Red Bird) gives a reading in memory of
Grace Paley, which will benefit a fellowship fund endowed by Paley for writers at the arts center.
August 9, 2008 : Seattle, WA
John Burgess and Raul Sanchez. Ugly Mug Café
Snow Monkey editor Burgess (A History of Guns in the Family) reads with Sanchez, whose Seattle street poems use Spanglish and Caló, at this coffee house that also hosts weekly jazz.
August 10, 2008 : Cambridge, MA
David Barber, Major Jackson, and John Skoyles. New England Poetry Club
Three poetry editors read from new books at the Longfellow National Historic Site: Barber (Wonder Cabinet) of The Atlantic Monthly, Jackson (Hoops) of The Harvard Review, and Skoyles (The Situation) of Ploughshares.
August 10, 2008 : Los Angeles, CA
Kristi Maxwell, Jillian Weise, Michele Matheson, and Alistair McCartney. Rhapsodomancy Reading Series
Poets Maxwell (Realm Sixty-Four) and Weise (The Amputee's Guide to Sex) travel from Cincinnati and Clemson, respectively, to read with Los Angeles novelists Matheson (Saving Angelfish) and McCartney (The End of the World Book) at the Good Luck Bar in Silver Lake.