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Allison Hedge Coke will be reading at the 45th Annual Writers Week Conference on February 15th at 4:00 PM. Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. February 12 and 14-18,...

This event was originally published on WomenandMyth.org. Announcing Scholar Salon 35: Register for January 27 “Onsite research: Listening to the Land” with Elizabeth Cunningham Thursday,  January 27, 2022 at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time  REGISTER HERE Novelist Elizabeth Cunningham will share how her encounters with place shaped The Maeve Chronicles, a...

The Black Earth Institute is seeking 8 new fellows for July 2022–July 2025 The Black Earth Institute is a community of creative, committed artists. Established in 2005, BEI is dedicated to supporting art that re-forges the links between spirit, earth, and society, for art and its makers create the space...

WE ARE THE FUTURE: USING VOCABULARY FROM WALT WHITMAN’S DEMOCRATIC VISTAS MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2021 – FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2021 9:00AM 455.00 Quantity: ADD TO CART Instructor: Patricia Jones Monday – Friday June 28 – July 2 9am – 12pm 5 sessions on campus This Workshop is designed to engage...

On June 28th at 5:00 PM GMT-6, Taylor Brorby, Sandra Steingraber and Tamie Parker Song will be reading as part of Terrain.org‘s Reading Series. The event will be streamed live at the link below. I hope you can join us. Read more information and register here: https://www.terrain.org/events/terrainorg-reading-series-5/?fbclid=IwAR2i7DmBv7uBpWrBuhadNM2AWsRlixI4-NUEWzVwdZ3mK-VYZJzIMKpL-q0

Tomorrow, April 21st Bower Writers House at Elizabethtown University will spotlight PURO CHICANX WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (published by Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts and Black Earth Institute), a wonderful anthology of contemporary Chicanx writings, with a digital reading by some of its fabulous contributors: Carmen Tafolla, Denise...

This event was originally posted on eventbrite.com. Join a discussion with Mary Swander about her new book, ‘The Maverick M.D.: Dr. NIcholas Gonzalez and His Fight for a New Cancer Treatment.’ About this Event Author Mary Swander will make a Zoom appearance to discuss her new book: The Maverick M.D.: Dr....

Friday November 20th @ 7PM ET

An upcoming event headlined by Austin Smith was the subject of a TelegraphHerald article. SINSINAWA, Wis.—Author and poet Austin Smith will lead “Poetry of the Land” for Sinsinawa Mound Center, 585 County Road Z. Join Smith via Zoom from 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 for a reading and discussion of...

An event featuring Regie Gibson is being held by the CelebritySeries. Poet and literary performer Regie Gibson presents his powerful, evocative, and lyrical works in this performance from his home. The great Kurt Vonnegut once said to him, “Regie, you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left...

Sunday, Aug. 30, Eulenspiegel will be premiering another new show, Shenanigans: Animals in Charge!, at Geyer Farm near Oxford for a special ‘drive-in’ performance in honor of Ag Arts Field Day. “Ag Arts is a non-profit run by Mary Swander,” said Leo, “It promotes agriculture and the arts in collaboration.”...

Join award-winning author Lauren Camp in celebrating the launch of her recently released book of poems, Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020), called a “stirring, original collection” by Publishers Weekly and “an astonishing, enchanted world of nature and cityscape, interior terrains, art-making and witnessing all at once” by award-winning poet Hala Alyan. In her Psaltery & Lyre review, Rebecca Beardsall...

Using a Canon (Feminine) is a generative poetry workshop for accomplished poets who want to read, explore and use a small universe of poets—contemporary women poets to inspire new work and engage their practice. Who is in and out of the “literary canon” is a huge subject for debate, but...

A History of Kindness By Linda Hogan . Torrey House Press. 100 pages. Out May 26. Environmental writer Linda Hogan, BEI Emeritus Fellow, presents readers with another warm, wise collection of poems focused on living in harmony with self, animals and Earth. Review “Hogan remains awed and humble in this...

Tompkins County Poet Laureate Melissa Tuckey is offering a free online writing workshop with a mission:  to raise our voices in solidarity with essential workers who are on the front lines in our community during this crisis.  Melissa will share examples of haiku and discuss how the form works, and...

Read through John Ashbery’s poem “Unusual Precautions” together with poet Marcella Durand and others taking part. About this Event Marcella Durand, one of our favorite poets, will lead this intimate, virtual group read-through of John Ashbery’s poem “Unusual Precautions” (from Shadow Train). Neither teaching nor explaining, Marcella will serve as your expert tour-guide...

Hansell/Hulsey Center 950 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35233

WEST CHESTER, PA West Chester Poetry Conference West Chester University

Opening of the exhibition “Mississippi”, poems by Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay, at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, MS. Exhibition on view until late October.

Rolling Reading Series, Penn State University

Celebrate Michigan Rivers

Pastels, Polaroids, and the Portrait Poem: Join Regie Gibson for a drop-in program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. All are welcome.

Attend a reading by Pam Uschuk from “Truth to Power” with William Root.

Lauren Camp is the featured poet at Chatter, in Site, New Mexico.

Atttend a panel discussion with Lauren Camp at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.

Attend a poetry reading by Lauren Camp with member of the New Mexico Senate, Bill O’Neill, at the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.

Roundtable discussion on women’s voices and a community poetry reading.

Gibson is the kick-off speaker at Framingham State University’s Arts and Idea’s series of 2019-2020, featuring themes of Roots/Routes. Gibsons’ performance is entitled Shakespeare to Hip Hop. Read more about the series here:

She will be reading pieces from her new book, The Bones of Winter Bones, as well as signing books at 11am.

A presentation and discussion of her newest book, Turquoise Door, for the Journey Santa Fe radio show.

A reading from her most recent book, Turquoise Door.

A special collaboration with the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, ZGF Architects, and Lease Crutcher Lewis, featuring saxophone quartet The Quadraphonnes (https://quadraphonnes.com/ ), with newly composed pieces by John and Claudia Savage as “Thick in the Throat, Honey,” Andrew Durkin, and Mark Orton. At this event you’ll explore three spaces with...

John Briggs, an Emeritus Fellow, will be presenting an art exhibition of his photography at the Jasper Rand Museum for the whole month of August.

This classic comedy is being performed in Barboursville, VA “against the backdrop of Governor James Barbour’s mansion, designed by Thomas Jefferson, which burned on Christmas day in 1884 and is now part of a vineyard.”  Emeritus Fellow, Linda Hogan is responsible for all the property designs of the program!  ...

Emeritus Fellow, Melissa Tuckey will be presenting her poetry at the 21st Annual Kateri Peace Conference. The conference will discuss the dangers of our climate crisis in hopes of inspiring “cooperation, connectedness and community, which cultivates resilience and sustainability.” Friday will be a “Day of Reflection” with readings, an introduction...

BEI Senior Fellow, Patricia Spears Jones will be presenting her poetry at the Wild Seeds Writers Retreat on July 19th at SUNY Plattsburg. The reading is free and open to the public! Follow the link below for more information on the event: Wild Seeds Writers Retreat

Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Annual Modern Dance Festival in Fort Worth, TX is celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham this month in celebration of his 100th birthday. Within a 16-day window at The Modern, a variety of films,...

BEI Emeritus Fellow Petra Kuppers, along with artist Stephanie Heit will be hosting a Post-Conference Workshop titled “Tendings and Eco-poetic Disability Culture: Bodymindspirits of the Future” after the Biennial meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. The workshop will offer “an artful space for engagement and resource-sharing”...

BEI Scholar DJ Lee is chairing a panel on Arctic Art and Climate Change at the Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. The panel will feature presenters from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Puget Sound, and Pace University and will include discussion...

On Sunday, June 2, Parachute Literary Arts will welcome visitors to celebrate Whitman’s bicentennial on Coney Island. The day-long Whitman Was Here: Walt Whitman In Coney Island festival will feature poetry, music, free workshops, and site-specific walks, as well as readings by LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Cliff Fyman, Stephanie Gray, Patricia Spears Jones, Tracie Morris,...

Homegrown: Local Responses to Food Insecurity

Dean and Denise Biechler. 12 – 4 pm: Tina Bakehouse and Mary Swander

Sponsored by Des Moines University and Iowa Asian Alliance

AgArts Field Day, Ames. Dean and Denise Biechler. 12 – 4 pm: Erika Kuhn and Mary Swander

Lindsay Bauer https://northeast.edu/Maps/Cox-Activities-Center.aspx 

Lindsay Bauer  Talk-back/ panel discussion with Jorgen Rose of Practical Farmers of Iowa and local panelists

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WASHINGTON, DC Workshop: Writing Like A Woman 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM The Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE Sponsored by The Writer’s Center Info Here or Call (301) 654-8664

Poetry Reading, Panels, Metrical Poetry Consulting May 21-24 Poetry by the Sea Conference Mercy by the Sea Madison, CT

Join us for our daily investigation into craft for all writing level Ann Fisher-Wirth’s sixth book of poems is The Bones of Winter Birds (Terrapin Books 2019). Ann’s fifth book, Mississippi, is a poetry/photography collaboration with the Delta photographer Maude Schuyler Clay (Wings Press 2018). With Laura-Gray Street, Ann coedited...

Who’s going to get the farm? And what are they going to do with it? Will your future plans for your land create harmony or strife for your family? Or have you even started to think that far ahead? “Map of My Kingdom,” a play focusing on farmland transfer, will...

Presentation — “Discovering Baghdad: How Writing My Father’s Story Took Me to the Tigris”

Join us at Kramerbooks for a reading by poet Annie Finch from some of her popular books of poetry. Annie Finch is an award-winning poet and writer on earth-based spirituality. Her books of poetry include Spells, Calendars, Eve, Goddess Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, and a ritual drama...

This workshop is limited to 15 participants; admittance is on a first-registered, first-served basis. Those interested in participating in the workshop should email Doug Branch at dbranch@southwest.tn.

For National Poetry Month, Ann Fisher-Wirth will be doing a reading of her new book of poetry, Bones of Winter Birds.  Ann Fisher-Wirth’s sixth book of poems, The Bones of Winter Birds, was chosen in this year’s Terrapin Press Open Reading Competition and published in February 2019. Her fifth book, Mississippi,...

Drama about recent immigrant farmers showing in PAC This story was sponsored by SDSU Facilities & Services – Sustainability and Multicultural Center. Follow the dramatic story that VANG has to offer the SDSU community this April. Based on the true story, VANG follows the journey of four recent immigrant couples as...

“Marcella Durand & Anne Tardos” at The Poetry Project 131 E 10th Street, New York (View Map), 212-674-0910 Apr 3, 2019

Sunday, May 12 Ox-Eye Vineyards Reading with Lesley Wheeler and Susan Facknitz Staunton, VA

Tuesday, April 30 • 6pm Collected Works Bookstore Mary Oliver Tribute Santa Fe, NM