Lobos: A Wolf Family Returns is a book by Brenda Peterson, BEI Emeritus Fellow, and Photographs by Annie Marie Musselman. On Sunday, October 14, Annie will be doing a reading of Lobos at the Third Place Books in Seattle. Lobos is adapted from Brenda’s original essay, Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the...
Deflecting Violence Through Poetry: A High School Teacher Workshop at the Portland Book Festival Claudia Savage, BEI fellow and poet, will be at the Poetry Workshop at the Portland Book Festival on Saturday, November 11. Deflecting Violence Through Poetry How can poetry actually help students deal with the violence in...
A Poet’s Rhythm: Refugees and Exiles (the work of Li-Young Lee and Hala Alyan) 8 glorious weeks. 5 in-person meetings (October 21, November 4, November 18, December 2, and December 9) to read together, generate work inspired by two accomplished writers, and commune with each other. Weekly online supplemental materials to...
Claudia Savage, BEI Fellow and Poet, will be apart of an Extradition Series with her husband on Saturday, October 20th at the Leaven Community. Thick in the Throat, Honey perform Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden for Tenor Saxophone and Gated Tape (2013) by Daniel Brandes for this quarterly Creative Music...
Claudia Savage will be leading writing workshops every Wednesday from October 10 until November 1st. Writing the Body: A Somatic Workshop and Exploration Use somatic (body-focused) sensory rituals and practices to discover new ways to express your story on the page. Explore and combine each of the senses, writing both...
Regie Gibson, poet and BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be one of the 275 presenters at this year’s annual Boston Book Festival. The festival is free to all and will be running all day on Saturday, October 13! There will be entertainment, freebies, and books sales at booths. The 275 presenters...
Regie Gibson, poet and BEI Emeritus Fellow, is performing along with Tem Blessed at a double bill event at the New Moon Coffeehouse on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 8:00 PM. The doors open at 7:30pm. Spoken word! As traditional as Shakespeare, as ancient as primeval legend, as modern as...
The Worcester County Poetry Association is hosting the winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize. The winners and BEI Emeritus Fellow and judge of the contest: Regie Gibson, will be preforming samples of their poetry at the event. The event is Sunday, September 23 from 3pm to...
Austin Smith, BEI fellow, is a newly publish poet! His novel, Flyover Country Poetry is releases on September 25, 2018. He will be holding a local reading at the Arcadia Books in Spring Green, WI on September 28th at 7pm. Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence:...
Melissa Tuckey will be doing readings during Saturday of the Basilica SoundScape Event. The event is being called the “antifestival” because of its unique mix of visual arts, literature and music. The three-day fest, hosted by Basilica Hudson, features an eclectic sampling of musicians and performers, which begins Friday with Japanese...
The Kalona Library in Iowa is presenting two of Mary Swander’s, BEI Emeritus Fellow, plays. Both plays are produced by Swander Woman Productions a theater company that creates and tours dramatic performances focused on food, farming and the larger rural environment. “Vang” is a drama about immigrant farmers that brings to...
Patricia Spears Jones, poet and BEI Emeritus Fellow, joins six other all-star female poets in a poetry reading to support the Democratic National Committee. Other featured poets include: Lee Ann Brown, Elaine Equi, Rachel Hadas, Trace Peterson, Larissa Shmalio, and the M.C. of the event Maggie Balistreri. Show your support on...
Liam Heneghan, BEI Resident Scholar Advisor and author of Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature, will be presenting a program for the Chicago Audubon Society. The program will be about the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories and discuss how classic children’s stories can provide a complete guide...
BEI is proud to announce a reading and performance event on Saturday, October 6th, 2018! This event will be part of the 2018 BEI’s Annual Fellowship Retreat. We are excited to showcase our new fellows, scholar, and our Emeritus fellows from around the country. The event will be local, on...
Regie Gibson, BEI Emeritus Fellow and poet, will act as a Poet in Residence at the galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mass Poetry is presenting these workshops with participates having the opportunity to submit the poetry created during the workshops. These workshops will be held every Wednesday...
Join BEI Emeritus Fellow, Annie Finch in her weekend retreat on the healing rhythms of words September 21-23 at the renowned Garrison Institute. The Healing of Spiral of Words: Transformation Through the Rhythms of Language combines the powers for writing, rhythms, and self-exploration. It is a deeply transformational path to discovering...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will be featured at the Atlas Soul’s Library After Dark performance. Regie is a percussionist, performer, and award-winning poet. “Atlas Soul is an award-winning band performing original music that focuses on polyrhythm and melodies rooted in the Afro-Mediterranean traditions mixed with funk, jazz and hip hop....
BEI senior fellow Patricia Spears Jones will be celebrating the re-publication of Pauli Murry’s memoir Song in a Weary Throat and poetry collection Dark Testament. Fellow poet Kevin Young and feminist scholars Patricia Bell-Scott and Brittney Cooper will also help celebrate Murry. Patricia will be sharing some of Murry’s poems...
BEI senior fellow Patricia Spears Jones will be joining Bob Holman and Jessica Hagedorn in a Tribute to Fay Chiang. “Fay was a poet and community activist who supported the diverse cultures of Chinatown and the Lower East Side through education and artistic initiatives, including her stint as the Executive Director...
Join BEI fellow Jacqueline Johnson as she celebrates Women’s History Month. Along with Sarah Blackman and Len Lawson, they will be speaking poetically about their perspectives on women and their causes. This event is intended to celebrate women and everyone who champions them. A master class with the poets will...
Poet and BEI Emeritus Fellow Melissa Tuckey will join poet Brenda Cárdenas for a reading at DC’s Folger Theatre in early October. This event is co-sponsored by Letras Latinas. Tuckey will read from Ghost Fishing, her recent anthology of eco-justice poetry. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
Join BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander this Saturday, August 4th at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. Swander will help participants “enjoy exploring the floral imagery of the Botanical Garden while learning how to capture these impressions in poetry. Participants will study poetry based in horticulture including William Wordsworth, Emily...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will read and perform at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site (Cambridge, MA) this Sunday, July 1 at 3 PM. This is a FREE event held by the New England Poetry Club. Click here to learn more about Gibson and NEPC. Contact info@nepoetryclub.org if you...
BEI Senior Fellow Patricia Spears Jones will teach a week-long poetry workshop in Provincetown, MA this July. The workshop is titled “Basic and Bold” and will be held at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center (click for more details). From the FAWC website: “Poets often need to return to the radical —...
Blast Your Own Breath – June edition We want to welcome DFW artists/writers who are featured in the Rewilding issue of About Place Journal, released on May 15th, to Blast Your Own Breath at Creative Arts Lounge. Blast Your Own Breath is a bimonthly literary arts performance series taking place...
As part of a week of writing workshops at the Manhattanville MFA’s Summer Writers’ Week, BEI Fellow Melissa Tuckey will be leading the poetry program. There will be four other genres to choose from, including fiction, drama and nonfiction. Each afternoon, Summer Writers’ Week participants will select from a variety...
As part of the Marshalltown’s Orpheum Theater’s Summer Series, BEI Emeritus Fellow and Iowa Poet Laureate, Mary Swander will host “Discussions, Readings & Maybe a Banjo”. In addition to Swander’s event, Director Bob Untiedt believes the downtown facility has something to offer that encompasses all interests. Untiedt said in 2017, the...
As part of Ithaca’s Spring Literary Festival, “Poetry in a Time of Crisis,” a reading and discussion, will feature “Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology” editor and BEI Fellow Melissa Tuckey and contributor Mukoma Wa Ngugi, assistant professor of English, at Buffalo Street Books on May 6. The ninth annual Spring Writes...
An NEA Big Read will take place at the Native American Literary Feast and Festival this Saturday at LCO Ojibwa Community College in Hayward, Wisconsin. Saturday’s festival will bring BEI Emeritus Fellow Roberta Hill, author Louise Erdrich and poets William Bearheart, Kim Blaeser, and Heidi Erdrich. Readings are schedule from...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will intersperse poetry and reflective readings between pieces at an upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr event in Lexington, MA. Follen Community Church will host the premiere of “In His Own Words: Concert in Memory of Martin Luther King”, which sets the words of MLK’s speech...
Current BEI Fellow Lauren Camp will be touring Rochester 14-17 of April. The visit is sponsored by the Mayo Clinic Behavioral Health Research Program Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and University of Minnesota Rochester. Public events during her tour include events such as writing workshops; a poetry reading with local poets; talks about the...
On Thursday, May 10, BEI Resident Scholar Advisor Liam Heneghan will be joined by prominent area Chicago artist Barbara Cooper for a conversation at the Barrington Area Library about the intersection of art and science. Liam will bring his expertise as an ecosystem ecologist, Environmental Science Professor and co-director of DePaul...
DePaul’s University’s Institute for Nature and Culture is hosting the launch event for BEI Emeritus Fellow Liam Heneghan book: Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books lie profound teachings about the natural world that can...
Wells College‘s Visiting Writer Series and Center for Sustainability and the Environment presents a reading from BEI Fellow Melissa Tuckey in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall at the college on Monday, April 9th. Melissa will read from her newly released book, “Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology”, along...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Debra Marquart will read from her work at Kansas State University this coming Friday. Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University, where she teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing and environment. She also teaches in the Stonecoast Low-Residency Master of...
BEI Senior Fellow Patricia Spears Jones will read with Kimberly Lyons at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. The Harriet Reading Series features talks, performances, and readings by poets who have appeared on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog. The series presents both established and emerging poets who find innovative approaches to the craft of...
Whether we identify as rural, urban, or suburban; as native, immigrant, or exile, we are marked by place and we make a mark on places we live by how we choose to live. This intersection of place and identity is reflected in the language we use and the stories we...
A one-of-a-kind experience is happening in Winston-Salem. Featuring a group of world-renowned poets, including BEI Senior Fellow Patricia Spears Jones, gathered into a stellar faculty, the 2018 Jacar Press Gathering of Poets offers a unique opportunity to experience a diverse and talented group of poets under one roof. While the...
BEI Senior Fellow Patricia Spears Jones will read poetry accompanied by Jason Kao Hwang on the violin. Other performers include: Mutations for Justice Fay Victor – voice, comp / Jaimie Branch – trumpet / Luke Stewart – bass / Michael Vatcher – drums Afro-Algonquin 2018 Mixashawn – sax / Rick...
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, celebrating Split This Rock’s 10th anniversary, invites poets, activists, poetry lovers, and dreamers to Washington, DC for three days of readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, open mics, activism — opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community,...
New Mexico Press Women announced its program for its 2018 state conference, “Telling Truths Boldly: Harnessing the Narrative Drive”. The conference, geared toward writers and communicators from a variety of genres, will include a memoir writing workshop led by BEI Fellow Lauren Camp. New Mexico Press Women, an affiliate of the National...
Join BEI Fellow Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay for a reading and book signing of their new book, Mississippi. More details here
BEI Emeritus Fellow and Oneida poet Roberta Hill will introduce the Wisconsin Reads The Round House: An NEA Big Read project, and read her own poetry. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the...
Join Black Earth Institute fellows and contributors to About Place Journal issues “South” and “Political Landscapes” for our off-site reading.
Come celebrate the launch of Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology and Split This Rock’s 10th anniversary! Hosted by BEI Fellow Melissa Tuckey, Editor, and Co-Founder of Split This Rock. This ground-breaking book of poems brings social justice to the forefront of eco-poetry and offers a rich terrain of culturally diverse...
In an unforgettable partnership, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Schuyler Clay have collaborated on MISSISSIPPI, a gorgeous new book that offers a new spirit of place for their home state. The book features 47 poems by Ann Fisher-Wirth and 47 color photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay that explore the...
The inaugural Mass Cultural Council Institute will take place on March 17 at the DCU Center in Worcester. Its aim is to connect youths and their peers with city and town leadership from every corner of the Commonwealth. Our youth have tremendous capacity to be a visible and audible part of developing...
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, Iowa Poet Laureate and BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander will read, discuss, and maybe share a banjo tune! Admission is free because this event is funded by Humanities Iowa. The Orpheum Theater Center has received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private, non‐profit state affiliate of the National Endowment...
BEI Fellow, Lauren Camp will be reading at The Elliot Bay Book Company on Sunday October 22nd at 5pm.Camp will be reading from her book A- Hundred Hungers that explores her fathers upbringing in Baghdad, and her interactions with Iraqi-Jewish culture. Located in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood...
BEI Fellow, Lauren Camp will be reading along with poet Mischa Willett , both of whom will be reading poems on family and migration. The event will be on Monday, October 23rd, and will start at 7pm. Lauren Camp is the author of three books, including One Hundred Hungers, which...
BEI Senior Fellow, Annie Finch will be reading along with poet and fiction writer Gary Fincke at the Writer’s Center on Saturday, November 11th, from 2pm-4pm. The Writer’s Center is housed in a 12,200 square foot facility in the arts and entertainment district of Bethesda, Maryland, with workshops also offered...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will be reading at The Boston Book Festival on Oct. 28. The festival will be going on at sites surrounding Copley Square; most events are free. Dozens of authors and literary personalities appear in panels, talks and workshops (there’s also a daylong event for teen...
BEI Emeritus Fellow, Linda Hogan will be a featured writer at the 25th Native American Literacy Festival. This year’s event will be known as “The Returning the Gift Festival. Hogan will be among many speaking at this 3-day event, for which registration can be found here.
BEI Fellow, Melissa Tuckey is co-hosting an event, “Sunday Kind of Love,” along with poet Ruth Irupé Sanabria. The two poets are hosting this event to give a voice, and platform to young poets of the Washington D.C. area. Tickets are $5 and can be purchases online, or at the day...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander has written a new play, “Map of My Kingdom,” which will by followed by a “Legacy Letter Workshop,” for those invested in Farms, and Family Businesses. The event is being hosted by the Purdue Initiative for Family Firms, and will be held on November 16th,...
BEI emeritus fellow, Patricia Spears Jones will be reading as a special guest alongside fellow poet, Erika Hunt, at the Thinking Its Presence Conference. The three-day conference will examine work at the intersection of creative writing and critical race theory. Jones will speak on October 21st, following a performance by...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Richard Cambridge brings a new featured poet on the third friday of every month for his monthly series at The Armory. The next artist is still to be determined, but all events take place at The Armory, in Portland,OR, at 7:30, and are $10 to attend. Richard Cambridge’s poetry...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Louise Halfe will be receiving a lifetime achievement award, acknowledging her work in poetry. The tribute event for this award will take place on October 13th, one day after the Toronto Book Awards take place. The Events will be taking place at the Toronto public library. “Celebrating...
Wolf Nation program: BEI Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson and wolf researcher Suzanne Asha Stone will talk about how to co-exist with wolves as they return to their native territories, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Olympia Timberland Library, 313 Eighth Ave. SE. Browsers Bookshop will be on hand to sell copies...
BEI Emeritus Fellow and Playwright Mary Swander is a fourth-generation Iowan, Poet Laureate of Iowa and a distinguished professor of English at Iowa State University. She worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Dennis Chamberlin, and Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival award-winner Matt Foss to create “Vang.” “Vang,” a one-hour play about...
BEI Senior Fellow, Patricia Spears Jones will be speaking and reading poetry at the second annual Gemini Writers Conference. In a special pre-festival event titled “Real Women Have Words,” Marilyn Atlas, the award-winning producer of HBO’s Real Women Have Curves, will join SA2020 president and CEO Molly Cox in conversation with...
On July 29th, BEI Fellow, Lauren Camp will be reading poetry from her most recent book, One Hundred Hungers. The event will go on from 7-9pm, and Lauren will be reading along with poet/writer Jake Vermaas. Lauren Camp is the author of three books, including One Hundred Hungers, which won the...
On July 15th, 1pm-2:30PDT, Brenda Peterson will be speaking at the Book Passage Bookstore, in the Ferry Building. Peterson will of course be covering the topic of wolves, through discussing different parts of her book Wolf Nation. Peterson will speak alongside Amaroq Weiss, who has worked in wolf conservation for over...
On July 28th, from 7:00- 8:30pm, Regie Gibson will perform spoken word poetry at the Museum of African American History at the African Meeting house. The significance of this event is to shed light on the rich and important history of the African Meeting House, built in Boston in 1806 by...
Taylor Brorby, poet and BEI fellow, will read this Thursday at 7 pm at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City. He will read from his latest book, entitled Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, which focuses on today’s environmental challenges, particularly in the Midwest, and a new book of poetry, Crude.
Poets & Writers is hosting a reception in honor of BEI Emeritus fellow Patricia Spears Jones, winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize. The reception will take place on Tuesday, May 23, beginning at 6 pm, and requires an RSVP. The Century Association 7 West 43rd Street New York City...
The Poetry Project is hosting its first-ever gala to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The gala will honor Anne Waldman for her radical and inspiring contributions to international contemporary poetry and activism, and for her past leadership of The Poetry Project. The evening includes performances by composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson, writer and vocalist...
Todd Davis will give a poetry reading, at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Davis is an author of five full-length collections of poetry. He edited the non-fiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and was co-editor on Making Poems: Forty Poems with...
Todd Davis will share his work, at The Writer’s Series at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. Reading will be followed by time for questions. Davis is an author of five full-length collections of poetry. He edited the non-fiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of...
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore + Cafe will be hosting Lauren Camp, a BEI Fellow, Jennifer Foerster and Carolina Ebeid for book readings on April 9th. Lauren Camp is the author of three books, most recently One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize.
Lauren Camp, a BEI Fellow, will share her work along with Carolina Ebeid at the BookBar in Denver, CO. Camp will be reading from her most recent publication, One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize.
Lauren Camp, a BEI Fellow, along with Raza Ali Hasan and Teow Lim Goh will give a reading at Songbird Cellars in Pueblo, CO on April 7th. Camp will be reading from her most recent publication, One Hundred Hungers. The event is free.
An Monday, April 3rd, The Living Archive: African American Poetry will hold Panel Discussion #2: Black Style, Black Language. Poets will include Regie Gibson, a BEI emeritus fellow, Askia Toure, Nicole Terez Dutton, L’Merchie Frazier and Barbara Lewis. Askia Tore and L’merchie Frazier are previous contributors to About Place Journal, BEI’s...
English River Church of the Brethren is hosting a performance of “Vang” on March 26, at 2 p.m. The church is located in South English, Iowa. The drama about recent immigrant farmers is a collaboration between Poet Laureate of Iowa Mary Swander, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Dennis Chamberlin, and Kennedy Center...
Join Lauren Camp for a reading at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Lauren Camp is the author of three books, most recently One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize.
Join the Potter’s House for a poetry reading with Lauren Camp and Sarah Browning on Tuesday, March 21st, in Washington, DC. Lauren Camp will be sharing from her most recently published One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize. Sarah Browning will share work from Whiskey in the Garden of...
Busboys and Poets welcomes Lauren Camp to the Langston Room, at their 14th Street location, to present her latest book of poems called One Hundred Hungers. Lauren Camp is the author of three books, most recently One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize. Click here for more information on...
As the visiting poet at the The Writer’s Center, Lauren Camp will be reading from her most recent publication, One Hundred Hungers, on Sunday March 19th. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Free admission. Click here for more information on the event.
Join Salem State University’s writers Series for a free performance by Regie Gibson, a BEI Emeritus Fellow. The event will take place at the SSU, Ellison Campus Center. Click here for more information.