Thursday, March 28 • 9:30 to 11pm Collaboration with Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet, effects) Passages Bookshop • Portland, OR

Thursday, March 28 • 6:30 to 9pm Authors of 3: A Taos Press Reading Blackfish Art Gallery, Portland, OR

The Long X Arts Foundation of McKenzie County will host “Getting the Pen Moving” on Wednesday, March 20 from 1-3 p.m. at the Pioneer Museum of McKenzie County. The workshop will be guided by North Dakota native and award winning essayist and poet, Taylor Brorby, currently based out of Ames, Iowa. Brorby has conducted a...

A transformational workshop using rhythmic language, community, and art to access and transform the energy of mind, body, heart, will, and spirit. Click here to register for the class! Class is from 10 AM-2:30 PM Fee includes lunch, snacks, coffee, tea, and use of art materials

I am a lover of bridges, so they have angled their way into this workshop description, and why not? We cross bridges every day both mindful of their structure, and yet also indifferent. But without structure from the materials that hold up the bridge, there would no bridge, no crossing,...

Thick in the Throat Honey presents: Iterations, Improvisations, and Collaborations as part of “Just Off Site: Passages Bookshop Literary Festival” Poetry-music performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey presents an evening of daring collaborations with local and visiting writers (Lauren Camp, Lezlie Amara Piper, Skyler Reed, Jacqueline Johnson, and Jennifer...

A free farmland legacy letter workshop will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, April 12, at the nearby Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. Participants will work on drafting a letter that captures practical and sensory details about their farmland, special memories of it and hopes for its future. RSVP to Debra Boekholder, debra@practicalfarmers.org or...

Practical Farmers of Iowa and Center for Rural Affairs are partnering to bring several performances of “Map of My Kingdom,” a play that explores many of the thorny issues surrounding farmland transfer decisions, to communities across Iowa in March and April. At 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at Pearson Lakes...

Master Class with Sarah Blackman, Jacqueline Johnson, and Len Lawson Master Classes give students and developing writers the chance to learn from professional poets prior to a Poetic Conversation. Each master class is a unique and intimate experience shaped by each artist, their writing process, and their work. Click Here...

Women’s History Month is not just for women, but for all who champion women. This evening will encourage a frank and honest dialogue uplifting women and their causes. Sarah Blackman, Jacqueline Johnson, and Len Lawson will speak poetically from their perspectives. The director of creative writing at the Fine Arts Center, Blackman’s debut novel, Hex,...

Tribute Presented by Radius Ensemble at Longy’s Pickman Hall, Cambridge MA Portraits of Langston for flute, clarinet, piano and narrator TOWER – Red Maple for bassoon and strings RAVEL arr. JONES – Le Tombeau de Couperin for wind quintet COLEMAN – Portraits of Langston for flute, clarinet, piano and narrator with special guest...

Practical Farmers of Iowa and Center for Rural Affairs are partnering to bring several performances of “Map of My Kingdom,” a play that explores many of the thorny issues surrounding farmland transfer decisions, to communities across Iowa. Admission is free, and all performances will feature an open discussion with the...

People often avoid discussing religion, politics and money, but for many rural families there’s a topic that’s even more touchy: Who is going to inherit the farm? The play “Map of My Kingdom,” on stage next week in Colfax and Moscow, explores ideas about land transition and planning for the...

People often avoid discussing religion, politics and money, but for many rural families there’s a topic that’s even more touchy: Who is going to inherit the farm? The play “Map of My Kingdom,” on stage next week in Colfax and Moscow, explores ideas about land transition and planning for the...

Burton Blatt Institute’s Multimedia (Dis)courses Series Launches March 7 On March 7, the Burton Blatt Institute’s (BBI) Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, in collaboration with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present the first event in a new series that showcases disability literature, media and the...

On Feb. 21, Columbia Gorge Community College will host “Map of My Kingdom,” a play written by Iowa’s Poet Laureate Mary Swander. The 7 p.m. event is coming to Wy’east Middle School auditorium in Odell. A $10 donation is requested. (The event is postponed from an earlier date, due to...

Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies, will read from his new book of poetry at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 26, 2019, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona. Davis’s reading will kick off the fall Hard Freight Café, an...

Teale Lecture: Dr. Liam Heneghan, Professor of Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University. Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm – 5:00pm Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants:...

Claudia Savage is participating in the Conversations With Writers Series with her event–Radical Empathy: The Importance of Love Poems in Wartime. On Monday, February 25 at 8:00 PM at Reedville Presbyterian Church. Claudia F. Saleeby Savage is part of the performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey. Her latest collection of...

Whether it’s as a performer at any of the city’s numerous poetry readings, or as a teacher of poetry at local classes and writing programs, Boston-based poet Regie Gibson is a familiar face to Worcester poetry audiences. And with good reason: He’s a sharp, dynamic performer and an exciting, daring...

Interdisciplinary poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the first featured author in Randolph’s spring 2019 Visiting Writers Series. Diggs will share some of her work at the College on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 8 p.m. in the Alice Ashley Jack Room of Smith Memorial Building. The program...

Join NEW DOMINION BOOKSHOP for a reading with poet Lauren Camp (Turquoise Door) and novelist Clifford Garstang (The Shaman of Turtle Valley). This event will be free and open to the public. Lauren Camp is the author of four books, most recently Turquoise Door. Her honors include the Dorset Prize and the Anna...

Whether it’s as a performer at any of the city’s numerous poetry readings, or as a teacher of poetry at local classes and writing programs, Boston-based poet Regie Gibson is a familiar face to Worcester poetry audiences. And with good reason: He’s a sharp, dynamic performer and an exciting, daring...

Lauren Camp, BEI Senior Fellow, will be joining Lauria at the 7th Elemental Concert as a guest poet on Saturday, March 2nd at 6:30pm. Original Article

MARCELLA DURAND along with other poets EJ McAdams, & Brenda Ijima will be giving a poetry reading at Zinc Bar! Marcella Durand’s forthcoming books include The Prospect from Delete Press (Spring 2019) and a new collection from Black Square Editions (Fall 2019), along with her translation of Michèle Métail’s book-length poem, Earth’s...

LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY brings BEI Scholar, Liam Heneghan for one event in their Spring Lecture series to welcome scientist, author, DePaul University professor, and father Liam Heneghan as he examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories! Book sale and signing to follow lecture. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books lie...

MassArt’s annual Hellerstein Lecture is proud to present Regie Gibson. Literary performer Regie Gibson has lectured & performed in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Regie & his work appear in “love jones”: a feature-film based on events in his life. He is a former National Poetry Slam Champion, has featured...

Recent immigrants from Asia, Africa, Mexico and Europe are taking up farming in Iowa! Mary Swander, poet and dramatist brings these dramas to life in her play Vang. The Black Earth Institute and Art and Literature Lab presents her play Vang on Sat “Come join the Black Earth Institute as...

How can children’s bedtime stories show us how we can protect the earth? Join The Black Earth Institute in our Dane County Performance Series to find out.  Liam Heneghan, Author of Beasts at Bedtime will be doing a reading at the Art + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI at 7:30PM!...

Mary Swander’s play Map of My Kingdom to will be at Wy’east Middle School auditorium in Odell. $10 Donation requested. “Map of My Kingdom,” commissioned by Practical Farmers of Iowa, tackles the critical issue of land transition. In the drama, Angela Martin, an attorney and mediator in land transition disputes, shares...

Ann Fisher-Wirth will be doing a reading from her new book of poetry With the Bones of the Winter Birds on February 18 at 5pm!

On Monday, Jan. 21, Brookline’s MLK Day Celebration Committee is presenting “On Race: Brookline Then and Now” at the Coolidge Corner Theater from 3 to 4:30 p.m. (free admission). Featuring “Brookline, Facing Civil Rights,” a documentary film conceptualized by the Committee and produced by R. Harvey Bravman, it highlights recollections...

First Parish Voices on the Green — “Secrets and Lies”: 7-9 p.m. Jan. 25, First Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Road. Cost: $10, general admission; $20, sponsors; $5, children and young adults. First Parish in Lexington will present the program “Secrets and Lives,” the second in this year’s series of...

Amanda Reavey, BEI Fellow, will be giving a talk “Writing Water in the Anthropocene” at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While water has always played a geopolitical role, the way we view water and thus, our environment, has always been in the realm of poets and...

Amanda Reavey, BEI Fellow, will be teaching a beginning creative writing class this Spring through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Anais Nin (1903-1977), best remembered for her journal writing, said, “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...

Claudia Savage, BEI Fellow, will be guest appearing in A very intimate house concert at The SkyLodge on Mt. Scott lie very still (Ken Ollis, drums, Mike Gamble, guitar, & John C. Savage, woodwinds). $20 Advance tickets recommended as seating is very limited 6:30-9:30PM Please Paypal  ($20 for direct deposit or $21 for credit card) to: john@johncsavage.com to reserve your...

Ghost Town Poetry Featuring VoiceCatcher Poets Claudia F. Savage and Deborah Brink Wöhrmann. Christopher Luna’s wonderful reading series! Claudia is a featured reader along with Deborah and an open mic as well. 6:30PM to sign up for open mic. 7-9PM for the reading.

Lauren Camp, alongside Katherine DiBella Seluja, who will read from her powerful new book, prose writer Ty Bannerman, some exceptional live music will be apart of the Bad Mouth Series Saturday, January 12!

Liam Heneghan, BEI Scholar Advisor, will be at Booked for Fun on Tuesday, December 18th from 6-7pm. Booked for Fun is a family friendly event where Liam will be discussing Christmas books and his book, “Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature”. He will be putting on...

Claudia Savage, current BEI Fellow, and her husband John will be teaching a class “Music Your Work New” at the Winter Poetry Festival at the Independent Publishing Resource Center Studios. http://claudiafsavage.com/

Annie Finch as “Poetry Witch” at Winter Solstice Dreams in NY on December 12th! Attend and introduce yourself afterwards.

Patricia Spears Jones, BEI Senior Fellow will be reading poems while Luke Stewart works his bass on Dec 7 at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn.

Regie Gibson, BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be participating in one of three Celebrity Series concerts in December, these universal desires will be expressed by a South African gospel choir, a multi-cultural quintet collaborating with a Greater Boston youth chorus, and a musician bringing together Boston police and people affected by violence....

Todd Davis will be participating in High School Writing Day at Penn State University on April 12!

Todd Davis will be doing a poetry reading at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey on March 21!

Todd Davis will be performing a poetry reading at Easter Oregon University on Tuesday, February 5.

December 6, poet Ann FIsher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay will host an Art Cafe. This will be the third event in an Art Cafe series by Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Their collaborative book and exhibition project, Mississippi, features 47 poems and 47 photographs that examine the history,...

Todd Davis, BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be performing a reading at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR on Monday, February 4, 2019.

Todd Davis, BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be performing a poetry reading on January 31, 2019. Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California. http://www.todddavispoet.com/schedule.html

Austin Smith will be performing a reading of his new collection of poems, Flyover Country, tonight at 7:00 PM in New York at the KGB Bar. “These poems live in the delicate space between the ordinary and the luminous. They are filled with lived experience, sharp scene-setting, close observations, but...

Austin Smith will be in California performing a reading at Point Reyes Books from his new book of poetry, Flyover Country. Austin, BEI Fellow, will be reading on Thursday, December 6 at 7:00 PM. Bay Area poet Austin Smith is joined by Forrest Gander to celebrate the release of his collection...

Austin Smith will be performing a poetry reading from his new collection of poems, Flyover Country. He will be joined by Dora Malech at East Bay Book Sellers Friday, January 18 at 7:00 PM. For more about the event. 

Austin Smith, BEI Fellow, will be at the Cordelia Street Cafe on Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM. This reading will be apart of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry. Austin will be reading with Dora Malech and Miller Oberman. Dora Malech is the author of two previous books of...

Austin Smith, BEI Fellow, will be joining Dora Malech & Susan Stewart on Thursday, November 15 at 6:00 pm at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ. Austin will be doing a reading of his new book, Flyover Country.  Austin Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do...

Regie Gibson will be one of the many artists performing on Tuesday, November 13 at 8 PM at the Resistance MIC! Featuring performances by Sarah Sweeney, Jennifer Jean, plus the amazing talents of writers in the newly published Pangyrus Resistance Issue including Robert Pinsky, Sonya Larson, Fred Marchant, and more. Music...

Austins Smith will be in the Twin Cities on November 6 (ELECTION DAY). He will be presenting on his newest book of poetry Flyover Country, a collection of poetry about violence and the Midwest. Catch him at 7pm!

Annie Finch will be hosting, Poems, Spells, and Curses: a Halloween Poetry Performance. It will be October 29, 2018 at 7 Pm at the LaPop Cultural Salon.

Melissa Tuckey, BEI Emeritus Fellow and co-editor of About Place Journal’s recent issue Roots + Resistance, exhibit in New York: Ghost Fishing, is going to be closing. There will be an event in celebration of the end of the exhibit on November 1, at 6:00 pm. Please join the Tisch...

This week on Cambridge Community Television, Regie Gibson will be one of the presenters during the Immigrant Experience program. Standing beside Teresita Fernández’s Harvard public art project, Autumn (…Nothing Personal), we will learn about how this work was inspired by James Baldwin’s 1964 essay, Nothing Personal, published at the height of the...

Catch Mary Swander, BEI Emeritus Fellow, at the Celebration of the Literary Arts 2018 in Illinois! “Presenting an address on the importance of “Making Words Count,” Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander serves as the keynote speaker for the Midwest Writing Center’s fall fundraiser Celebration of the Literary Arts 2018, an October...

Dr. Kerry Trask and Ted Rulseh will be signing their newly published books at LaDeDa Books & Beans, 1624 New York Ave. Manitowoc from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Trask’s book, “Spirit of the Rivers,” details the nine-year development of the newly installed and dedicated monument on the Lakeshore. Trask...

Patricia Spears Jones, poet and Emeritus fellow, will be doing a reading as part of University of Hartford’s Fall 2018 Cardin Reading Series. Ms. Jones’ most recent book of poetry, A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press Distinguished Poets series) features her 2016 Pushcart Prize-winning poem, “Etta James at...

Join BEI Emeritus Fellow and poet, Patricia Spears Jones at the Freedom Forums on Sunday, October 21 from 2pm to 5pm. The event will be a reading, writing, and discussion to consider how our realities in our communities and country intersect to shape, threaten and enhance our perceptions of home. For...

Catch Annie Finch on Thursday, March 28 doing a reading for Plume Anthology! The event will be from 6pm until 8 pm at Cargo in Portland, Oregon.

Annie Finch, BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be on the panel for Literary Sexual Abuse: From Silence to Safety. “Associated Writing Programs Panel with Shaindel Beers, Cathy Linh Che, Annie Finch (Moderator), Genevieve Pfeiffer, and Wendy Scott. Exact time and location TBA Staggering numbers of writers– mostly women– have had our...

Lauren Camp will be presenting a talk and reading from her newest book of poetry, Turquoise Door. She will be doing this at the New Mexico State Poetry Society on Saturday, March 9!

Lauren Camp, BEI Senior Fellow and author of Turquoise Door, will be presenting on poetry memories and dementia at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities.

Lauren Camp, BEI Emeritus Fellow and author of recently published Turquoise Door, will be at La Puerta in Albuquerque, NM as a featured poet. The event is on December 16 at 10 am!

Lauren Camp will continue to be in Santa Fe this week as she does a reading with Juan Morales and Rebecca Aronson on Sunday, November 11 at 6pm! The event will be at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, NM.

Join Laurent Camp, BEI Emeritus Fellow, as she does a reading with David Mutschlecner on Saturday, November 17 at 2pm at the White Rock Branch Library! Santa Fe poet Lauren Camp and Los Alamos poet David Mutschlecner will read from their work at the White Rock Branch Library, 2 p.m....

Lauren Camp will be presenting on her new book of poetry Turquoise Door on Wednesday, November 7 at Breakfast With O’Keefe! “Join us for a reading from the new book Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico by author Lauren Camp. Turquoise Door brings the contemporary realities of the...

Lauren Camp at Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Conference on Saturday, November 3 from Noon-1! She will be doing a talk and poetry readings on dementia poems.

Lauren Camp will be presenting on One Hundred Hungers, Discovering Baghdad: How Writing My Father’s Story Took Me to the Tigris. The event will be held at Bridgewater College at 7:30 PM on Thursday, November 1st. .  For copies of One Hundred Hungers. Lauren recently released a new book: Turquoise Door....

Lauren Camp, BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be hosting a reading of her new book of poetry: Turquoise Door. Catch the event, Sunday, October 21 at 3 pm at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM. “Turquoise Door, Lauren Camp’s fourth book, introduces readers to the cultural anthropology of Taos, New Mexico in the...

Liam Heneghan, a professor at DePaul University and BEI Resident Scholar, will be performing a reading of his “not-yet-finished” trilogy set in medieval Ireland. The reading will be apart of the Tiger Room Salon on Saturday, October 27 in Chicago. For more information about Tiger Room Salon .

Friday, November 9 from 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm, Petra Kuppers will be presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association in Atlanta. She will be running a workshop: Tendings: Bodymindspiritis of the Future.  “This workshop offers an artful space for engagement and resource-sharing, bringing contemporary art-based approaches to bear on sitedness,...

On Saturday, October 20, Petra Kuppers will be hosting a meet-up for disability arts scholars and artists at Alice Salomon School. German BEI supports interested in attending should contact her at petra@umich.edu.

On Friday, October 19th, Petra Kuppers a BEI Fellow will be on the opening plenary of the major German Disabilities Studies Conference in Berlin. For those of you in Germany, keep an eye out for this conference!

For any BEI international contacts, Petra Kuppers will be in Berlin for a few days! On Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 PM she will be at Berlin’s Cafe Morgenrot to meet fellow disability arts individuals. This is an open, no-cost event. Those interested are encouraged to join!

Tuesday, October 16, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts will be hosting a reading of Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear as well as a silent auction. The event will be held at Mission Gardens in Tuscan. READERS: Karen Brennan, Cynthia Hogue, Tyler Meier,...