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February
February 10 in Berkeley
Tom Commita
February 10 in Tucson
Renee Angle, Judith Goldman, Bhanu Kapil,
Laura Mullen, & Laynie Browne:
I’ll Drown My Book
February 10 in NYC
The Hole, a gathering
with Melissa Buzzeo, CAConrad, Rob Halpern,
Brenda Iijima, Madhu Kaza, Robert Kocik,
Dorothea Lasky, Andrew Levy, C.J. Martin,
Eléna Rivera, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Whitener,
Tyrone Williams,
plus presumably Thom Donovan
February 10 in Venice, CA
David Steiner
February 10 in Princeton, NJ
James Joyce as chamber music
February 10 & 11 in Chicago
The poetry of Langston Hughes
February 10 – 17 in Brooklyn
Per-Oskar Leu
February 11 in Philadelphia
Laura Magnoli & Jamie Townsend
February 11 in Kingston, NY
Caroline Crumpacker, LS Asekoff
February 11 in NYC
Jon Leon & Dot Devota
February 11 in Chicago
Barry Schwabsky
February 11 in Venice, CA
Stacy Gnall & Alissa Nutting
February 11 in London
The Camarade Project (Edition II):
with collaborations by
Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland
Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks
Sophie Collins & Sam Riviere
Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle
Maria Fusco & Andrea Brady
Richard Barrett & Nathan Jones
James Davies & Stephen Emmerson
Philip Terry & Jeff Hilson
Tim Atkins & Carrie Etter
Katerine Kashchavtseva
& Lucy Harvest Clarke
Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease
February 11 in Manchester, UK
Eric Ormsby, Adam Strickson, Tara Bergin
with music by
Our Liberated Winter
February 11 in Venice, CA
Bill Mohr
February 11 in NYC
Molly Peacock
on Donne & Herbert
February 12 in Philadelphia
Manya Bean, Lynn Blue, Mel Brake,
Ashini Desai, Maria Fama, Emiliano Martin,
& Al Tacconelli
February 12 in NYC
Mariette Lamson & Alina Gregorian
February 12 in Venice, CA
Sherman Pearl, Lee Rossi, David Alpaugh
+ later the same day
Douglas Kearney, Michael C Ford, Melissa F Ford,
Brendan Constantine, Corrie Geathouse, Billy Burgos
& Carlyle Archibeque
February 13 in NYC
Bridge (collab issue), with
Allyson Paty, Ben Estes, Ben Fama,
Ben Kopel, Ben Mirov, Ben Pease,
Chris Martin, Christian Hawkey, Danniel Schoonebeek,
David Lehman, David Shapiro, Emily Pettit,
Guy Pettit, Jocelyn Spaar, Mary Austin Speaker,
Paul Legault, Simone Kearney
February 13 in Berkeley
Rebecca Eland, Norman Fischer,
Andrew Schelling, Stephen Ratcliffe
February 13 @ Harvard
Filip Marinovich
February 13 & 14 in Philadelphia
Karen Finley
February 14 in SF
Micah Ballard & Aaron Shurin
February 14 in Chicago
William Waters on Rilke
February 14 in Philadelphia
Anne Rice
February 14 in Berkeley
Richard Krech, John Oliver Simon,
Luis Garcia, Andy Clausen
February 15 in Gloucester, MA
Jim Dunn
February 15 in NYC
Brandon Downing, Aaron Kunin
February 15 in Philadelphia
Norman Finkelstein & Brian Teare
February 15 in NYC
David Horvitz
February 16 in Darmstadt, Germany
Mitglieder des Staatsorchesters Darmstadt
performs Steve Reich
February 16 in Philadelphia
Lance Olsen
February 16 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña
February 16 @ Harvard
Stephen Burt, Mark Leidner, Tom Sleigh
February 16 in Paris
Tracie Morris & Jody Pou
February 16 in Ottawa
Geode
February 17 in Newtown, PA
James Richardson & Ethel Rackin
February 17 in Venice, CA
Carol V Davis
+ one hour later
Leslie Monsour, Charlotte Innes,
Mehnaz Turner
February 17 in SF
Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon
February 17 in Philadelphia
Rey Chow on
documentary realism between cultures
February 18 in Wels, Austria
Rova
February 18 in Venice, CA
Dorothy Barresi, Ron Koertge,
& Gary Brower
+ later the same day
Jesus Angel Garcia & Amy Schroeder
February 18 in Philadelphia
Ryan Eckes & Quincy Scott Jones
February 18 in NYC
Anne Tardos, David Buuck
February 18 in Oxnard, CA
Florence Weinberger & Polly Bee
February 18 in NYC
Linda Gregerson
on Milton & Spenser
February 19 in Zurich, Switzerland
Steve Reich’s Drumming
& The Four Sections
February 19 in NYC
Brian Johnstone, Uljana Wolf, Eugene Ostashevsky
February 19 in Vienna
Rova
February 19 in Venice, CA & Santa Monica
Celebrating the life of Scott Wannberg
February 19 – May 14 in NYC
Print/Out
February 19 in LA
First LA zine fest
February 19 in Venice, CA
Eloise Klein Healy, Sesshu Foster,
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Brittany Michelson
February 20 in Berkeley
Rebecca Walker
February 20 in Vancouver
Louise Dennys interviews Pico Iyer
February 20 in NYC
Alan Felsenthal & Matthew Klane
February 20 in Philadelphia
Eric Baudelaire’s
27 Years Without Images
February 20 – May 14 in NYC
Millennium Magazines
February 21 in SF
Pamela Z
February 21 in Philadelphia
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mark Harman & Eric Jarosinski
on Rilke
February 21 @ Villanova
Juan Felipe Herrera
February 21 in Seattle
Carol Guess
February 21 in Philadelphia
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
February 21 – 23 in Bern, Switzerland
Rova
February 22 in NYC
Susan Landers, Rodrigo Toscano
February 22 in Vancouver
Richard Wagamese, Ann DeGrace, Robert Hough
February 22 in Philadelphia
Saul Williams
February 22 @ Harvard
Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens
February 23 in Philadelphia
Edmund White
February 23 in NYC
Susan Bee
February 23 – 26 in Chicago
Fjords
February 24 – May 13 in NYC
John Chamberlain
February 24 in Jena, Germany
Rova
February 24 in Venice, CA
Jacqueline Berger & Eric Gudas
+ later the same day
Jimmy Cvetic
February 24 in Berkeley
Monica Peck
+
later the same day
Julia Mazawa, Matthew Zapruder & Believer
February 25 in Berlin
Rova
February 25 in NYC
Ish Klein, Corrine Fitzpatrick
February 25 in London, Ontario
Lise Downe, Cornelia Hoogland
February 25 in Venice, CA
Leslie Ross
February 25 in Portsmouth, NH
Celebrating Black Poetry
with Kemi Albi, Royaline Edwards, Mckendy Fils-Aimé,
Ernest "Scripture" Gibson III, Regie O'Hare Gibson
February 26 in Philadelphia
Celebrating Gil Ott
February 26 in Philadelphia
Nathalie Anderson & Teresa Leo
February 26 in Bayreuth, Germany
Rova
February 26 in NYC
Douglas Florian
February 26 in NYC
Laura Henriksen & Matvei Yankelevich
February 26 in Venice, CA
Elizabeth Arnold & Sarah MacLay
February 27 in Cottbus, Germany
Rova
February 27 in NYC
Sarah Crowner
on Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray
February 28 in Metz, France
Rova
February 28 in Philadelphia
Anne Waldman
February 28 – March 4 in Ottawa
VerseFest
February 29 in Manchester, UK
Tim Allen, Andrea Brady, nick-e melville
February 29 in High Point, NC
Leigh Kotsilidis
February 29 in NYC
Barbara Henning & Frances Richard
February 29 in Chicago
Mtulu Blasing
February 29 – March 3 in Chicago
AWP
March
March 1 in Berkeley
Louise Glück
March 1 in Paris
Rova
March 1 in Chicago
Christian Bök, Peter Gizzi, K. Silem Mohammed,
Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras,
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
March 2 in NYC
Modernist Manhattan
(schedule)
March 2 in Chicago
Illinois Poets Past & Present
with Christina Pugh, Susan Hahn, Laurence Lieberman,
Ed Roberson, & Kevin Stein
March 2 in Chicago
Carol Ann Duffy & Philip Levine
March 2 in Bruges, Belgium
Rova
March 2 in NYC
Bao Dei
with Forrest Gander, CD Wright & Eliot Weinberger
March 2 in Venice, CA
Erin Aubry Kaplan
March 3 in Ottawa
Rae Armantrout
March 3 in Torino, Italy
Rova
March 3 in Manchester, UK
Jane Draycott, Andrew McMillan, Luke Yates
with music by
Rebecca Joy Sharp
March 3 in Chicago
LaTasha Nevada Diggs
March 3 in NYC
Ariel Goldberg, James Hoff
March 3 in Venice, CA
Claudia Handler, Mitch Untch
& J Mark Beaver
March 4 in NYC
Brett Price & Nicole Wallace
March 5 in NYC
Federico García Lorca
March 5 in Philadelphia
Anne Marie Macari & KA Hays
March 5 in Berkeley
Aaron Shurin
March 5 – April 1 @ Bard
Brains:
A Journal of Egghead Sexuality
March 6 in Windsor, Ontario
Fred Wah
March 7 in NYC
Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu
March 7 @ Harvard
Juliana Spahr, Cole Swensen
March 7 in SF
Manuel Muñoz
March 7 in Vancouver
Steven Price, Julie Bruck, WH New
March 7 in Toronto
Rob Benvie, Heather Curley, Angel Szczepaniak
March 7 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on Sherri Levine’s
Gustave Flaubert: un coeur simple
March 8 in SF
Sawako Nakayasu & Michael Cross
March 8 in Philadelphia
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher
March 9 in Venice, CA
Brian M Tracy & David St. John
March 9 in Seattle
Christopher Howell
March 9 in Berkeley
Christian Nagler
March 10 in NYC
Haruo Shirane
on Bashō & haiku
March 10 in NYC
Tracey MacTague, Jennifer Tamayo
March 10 in Ottawa
Ron Silliman
March 10 & 11 in Chicago
Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg
March 11 in Venice, CA
Kerouac @ 90
March 13 @ Villanova
Hugo Hamilton
March 13 in Windsor, Ontario
Ron Silliman
March 14 in NYC
Bruce Covey & Amy King
March 15, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Camille Dungy
March 15 in Philadelphia
Cathy Park Hong
March 15 in NYC
K Silem Mohammad
on Coleridge & Wordsworth
March 15 in Seattle
Louise Glück
March 15 in Berkeley
Lorna Dee Cerventes & Barbara Jane Reyes
March 15 & 16 in SF
Dodie Bellamy & Alan Gilbert
March 16 in Philadelphia
Edwidge Danticat
March 16 in NYC
Zachary Schomburg & Fjords
March 16 in Berkeley
Ariel Goldberg
March 16 in NYC
Michael Harper, Judith Harris, Stanley Plumley
& Anne Wright on
John Keats
March 16 in Venice, CA
Reading for Japan Relief
with
Jesse Glass, Jerry Rothenberg, Marthe Reed,
Amy Uyematsu & Hiromi Ito
March 17 in Oxnard, CA
Elijah Imlay & Aaron Saroyan
March 17 in NYC
Gigi Bradford on
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, &
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
March 17 in Venice, CA
Gordon Ball
March 17 in NYC
K Silem Mohammad, Rick Wiggins
March 18 in Seattle
Kathleen Flenniken
March 19 in NYC
Lindsey Boldt & Krystal Languell
March 19 & 20 in Philadelphia
Ron Silliman
March 20 in NYC
Ariana Reines
on oppression & redemption songs
March 20 in Toronto
Leigh Kotsilidis
March 20 in Windsor, Ontario
Dennis Cooley
March 20 in NYC
Quincy Troupe
on the craft of poetry
March 21 in NYC
Ammiel Alcalay & David Henderson
March 21 in Vancouver
Tamara Faith Berger, Anakana Schofield, Ben Wood
March 21 in NYC
Renee Gladman, Eliot Weinberger, Francis R Jones
& Jeffrey Yang on
Hans Faverey
March 22 at Bryn Mawr
Tom Sleigh
March 22 in Venice, CA
Joseph Lease
March 22 in Seattle
Mark O’Connor, Shin Yu Pai
March 22 in Philadelphia
Christian Campbell
March 22-25 in Washington, DC
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 23 in Berkeley
Brian Ang
March 23 in Venice, CA
Laurel Ann Bogen on Erica Erdman
March 23-25 in York, UK
James Joyce’s nonfiction
March 24 in Buffalo
Small Press Book Fair
March 24 in NYC
John Godfrey, Rodney Koeneke
March 24 in Venice, CA
Mark Rhodes
reads The Waste Land
March 24 in NYC
Mark Doty
on Walt Whitman
March 25 in Philadelphia
Marie-Elizabeth Mali & Dilruba Ahmed
March 25 – 30 in Jacksonville, FL
John Cage @ 100
with Jaap Blonk, Tom Chiu
& Louis Goldstein
March 26 in NYC
Brandon Brown, Paul Legault
March 26 in NYC
Brian Turner, Kevin Young
March 27 @ Harvard
Elizabeth Bishop @ 100:
with Frank Bidart, Joelle Biele, Gail Mazur,
Lisa Olstein, Katie Peterson, Robert Pinsky,
Lloyd Schwartz,
Mary Jo Salter & Rosanna Warren
March 28 in NYC
Michael Heller, Kristin Prevallet
March 27 in West Chester, PA
Joyce Carol Oates
March 28 in SF
Ye Chun, Laura van den Berg, Dave Madden,
Wayne Miller, & Deb Olin Unferth
March 28 in Princeton
James Tate & Jane Smiley
March 28 in NYC
Eamon Grennan
on William Butler Yeats
March 28 in SF
Osvaldo Sanchez & Omar Barrada
March 28 – 30 in NYC
Chapbook Festival
March 29 – April 1 in NYC
National Black Writers Conference
March 29 in Berkeley
Susan Cohen & Rebecca Foust
March 29 in Philadelphia
Cecil Giscombe
March 29 in SF
Khaled Mattawa & Ravi Shankar
March 29 in Seattle
Carol V Davis
March 29 in NYC
Cole Swensen
on 19th century French poetry
March 30 in Newton, PA
April Linder
March 30 in Venice, CA
Kent Shaw, Carrie Oeding, Joshua Kryah
March 30 in NYC
Christopher Rizzo, Debrah Morkun, Russell Dillon,
Tracey McTague, Ben Mazer, Michael Peters,
Jess Mynes & more
March 31 in NYC
Carla Harryman & Emily Critchley
March 31 in Venice, CA
What Books
with
Chuck Rosenthal, Mona Houghton,
Ramon Garcia, Katherine Haake,
& Gronk
April
April 2 in Philadelphia
Harriet Levin & Leonard Garontek
April 3 @ Harvard
Karin Roffman on John Ashbery
April 4 in Seattle
Troy Jollimore & John Koethe
April 4 in Philadelphia
Edith Grossman & Rosalie Knecht
April 5 @ Yale
Susan Howe
April 5 in Berkeley
Richard Berengarten
April 5 in Philadelphia
Gary Lutz
April 5 @ Harvard
Monica de la Torre & Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza
on Spanish translation
April 5 in NYC
Marilynne Robinson
April 6 in Seattle
Andrew Feld
April 6 in Walnut Creek
Camille Dungy
April 7 in Chicago
Miguel Barnet & Ana Rossetti
April 7 in NYC
Brian Kim Stefans, Katie Degentesh
April 8 in SF
Ron Silliman
April 10 in SF
Carol Sklenicka
April 10 in Berkeley
Ron Silliman
April 12 @ Yale
Ilya Kaminsky
April 12 @ Villanova
Téa Obreht
April 12 in Chicago
The Dark Room Collective
with Thomas Sayers Ellis, Natasha Trethewey,
Kevin Young, Major Jackson, John Keene,
Sharan Strange, and Nehassaiu deGannes
April 12 @ Harvard
Patrick Donnelly
April 13 in Berkeley
Ted Rees
April 13 in NYC
Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah
April 13 in Seattle
Todd Boss & Matthew Nienow
April 14 in Oxnard, CA
Harry Northup & Holly Prado
April 14 in Chicago
Poetry & Piano, with
Averill Curdy, Calvin Forbes, Adam Marks,
George McRae, Coya Paz & Roger Reeves
April 14 in NYC
Simon Morris, Charles Bernstein
April 14 in NYC
Dutch poets today, with
Pieter Boskma, Hèléne Geléns, Erik Jan Harmens,
Lucas Hirsch, John Schoorl & Joost Zwagerman
April 16 in Long Beach, CA
Ron Silliman
April 16 & 17 in Chicago
Sharon Cameron
April 16 & 17 in Washington, DC
Arts Advocacy Day
April 17 in Philadelphia
Philip Levine
April 18 @ Harvard
Sabastien Smirou, Cole Swensen, Andrew Zawacki
on French translation
April 18 in Philadelphia
Caroline Bergvall
April 18 in San Diego
Ron Silliman
April 19 at Bryn Mawr
Kimiko Hahn
April 19 in NYC
Sébastien Smirou with Andrew Zawacki
April 21 in NYC
Jen Bervin, derek beaulieu
April 21 in Chicago
Camille Martin, Mark Goldstein
April 21 in NYC
Gertrude Stein: Stanzas in Meditation
with Logan Esdale, Susannah Hollister, Liesl Olson,
Emily Setina, Nancy Kuhl, Paolo Javier,
Rachel Levitsky, Joan Retallack, Christopher Schmidt,
Laura Sims & Stacy Szymaszek
April 23 in the US & UK
World Book Night
April 23 & 24 in Philadelphia
John Barth
April 25 in Philadelphia
Andrew Ervin & Michael Martone
April 25 in NYC
CK Williams
on Robert Frost
April 26 in NYC
Heather McHugh & Lucia Perillo
April 26 @ Villanova
William Kennedy
April 26 & 27 in Chicago
Brenda Hillman
April 27 in Newtown, PA
Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky
April 27 in Seattle
Emily Kendal Frey & Arlene Kim
April 28 in Chicago
Les Murray
April 28 in NYC
Vanessa Place, Diana Hamilton
April 29 in Philadelphia
Louis McKee & Steve Delia
May
May in Beirut, Lebanon
Hay Festival Beirut
May 1 in NYC
Terese Svoboda
on Kay Boyle, Lola Ridge, Hart Crane,
Mina Loy & Marianne Moore
May 2 in NYC
Micah Ballard, Joanne Kyger
May 3 in NYC
Susan Stewart
on Wallace Stevens
May 3 & 4 in Chicago
Fred Moten
May 5 in Philadelphia
Robert Ashley & ensemble
May 5 in NYC
Tao Lin & Matthew Timmons
May 5 in Manchester, UK
Menna Elfyn, Agnes Lehoczky
May 8 in NYC
Herbert Leibowitz
on William Carlos Williams
May 10 in NYC
Marjorie Welish
on the Imagists
May 11 in Berkeley
Lara Durback
May 12 in NYC
Ann Lauterbach
on the Objectivists
May 12 in NYC
Steve Zultanski, Danielle Aubert
May 14 in NYC
Kay Ryan
May 15 in Seattle
Michael & Matthew Dickman
May 15 in NYC
Cornelius Eady
on the Harlem Renaissance
May 16 in Philadelphia
Free Speech Film Fest
May 17 in NYC
Remembering John Cheever
May 17 in NYC
Vijay Seshadri
on WH Auden
May 18 – 20 in Tucson
Poetry Off the Page
with
Julie Carr & K.J. Holmes, Brent Cunningham, Johanna Drucker,
Christine Hume, Douglas Kearney, Ander Monson,
Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine & John Lucas, Cecilia Vicuña,
Dan Waber, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, The Black Took Collective
plus a screening featuring work by
Kate Greenstreet, Deborah Poe, Sawako Nakayasu,
Branding Downing, John Gallaher, Forrest Gander,
Eula Biss & John Bresland
May 19 in Oxnard, CA
Brendan Constantine & Nina Corwin
May 19 in NYC
Jena Osman & Mónica de la Torre
May 20 in Philadelphia
Jack Veasey, Marty Esworthy, Christine O’Leary Rockey
May 22 in NYC
Rosamond King
on Caribbean poets of the 20th century
May 27 in Seattle
Meredith Cole
May 31 in NYC
Martín Espada
on Puerto Rican poets
June
June 1 in Seattle
Dana Levin
June 2 in NYC
Lee Ann Brown
on the Black Mountain Poets
June 5 in NYC
Saskia Hamilton
on the Boston Brahmins
June 6 – 10 in Paris
&Now 2012
June 8 in NYC
Carol Muske-Dukes
on the Beats
June 8 – 12 in Homer, AK
Kechemak Bay Writers Conference
June 16 in Oxnard, CA
Tim Tipton & Terry Van Vliet
June 17 on the Brooklyn Bridge
Galway Kinnell
leads the $250 Bridgewalk
June 17 – 30 in Montreal
Summer Literary Seminar
June 24 in Philadelphia
JC Todd & Hayden Saunier
June 30 – July 1 in Oxford, UK
Poetry & Psychoanalysis
July & Beyond
September 7-9 in Kent, UK
European Network
for Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
September 21 & 22 in London
Djuna Barnes Conference
September 23 in Philadelphia
Ditta Baron Hoeber & Kirsten Kaschock
September 29 everywhere
100K poets for change
October 18 – 21 in Las Vegas
Modernism & Spectacle
October 28 in Philadelphia
David Kozinski & Michele Belluomini
October or November in the Maldives
Hay Festival Maldives
January 5 – 12, 2013 in Mérida, Yucatán
US Poets in Mexico
Ongoing
Now – February 12 in Florence, Italy
TS Eliot & the Heritage of
Rome & Italy in Modernism
Now – February 17 in Lowell, MA
Raymond Pettibon:
The Punk Years
Now – February 18 in Buffalo
Language to Cover a Wall:
Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
Now – February 19 in Hartford, CT
Patti Smith, Camera Solo
Now – February 25 in NYC
Fré Ilgen
Now– March 17 in Philadelphia
Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott
Julia Blumenreich & Wendy Osterweil
Now – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords
Now – April 29 in Rome
Re-Cycle
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Poets & Writers
offers a superb listing of readings
sortable by city, state & genre
SF Bay Area Readings
are listed by Shampoo
Chicago has a Poetry Calendar
Nathalie Anderson’s Lit-Philly
email list covers Philadelphia
as does
The Philly Lit Calendar
The DC Poetry Calendar is here
There is a calendar for Australian Poetry
Modern Poetry
catalogs events around London
The Bowery Poetry Club
hosts 20 to 30 events each week
If we are capturing
even 0.1%
of all that is going on
of interest to poets,
we would be shocked,
shocked!
