Join the Oakland Symphony for Notes from Native America, on Friday, February 24th at 8:00pm at the Paramount Theatre. Ticket price range: $25-$80. Click here for more information about the event. The concert will feature music by award-winning composers Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and John Wineglass plus Northern California’s own Su-Nu-Nu-Shinal...
The Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization has invited Lauren Camp to their third lecture of their four-part poetry series: Poetry at the Center. Camp will speak on poetry and pose. Event is free and light refreshments will be served. Click here for more information about the event. The Center...
Head to the Poets House for Day One: a Poetry Reading and Open Mic, an Inauguration Day-inspired evening of readings from local artists. Hear words from Patricia Spears Jones, a BEI Emeritus Fellow, and others such as Wo Chan, Rosebud Ben-Oni and more. After the scheduled performances, a limited number...
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) presents the Walking With Whitman, Poetry in Performance Series with Host George Wallace featuring poet Patricia Spears Jones on Friday, April 7th at 7:30pm. The series continues to bring the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature on the national scene to our Huntington stage. Poet...
On January 15t, Martin Luther King Jr.’s actual birthday, the Writers Resist Project is holding more than 75 planned readings across the country to celebrate a different aspect of his legacy: that of resistance. In Iowa City, the Iowa Writers’ House and Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature have partnered to organize...
The Town of Lexington commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its fourth annual family-friendly day of volunteer activities supporting the underserved. Events being at 9:00 am and run until 4:00 pm. Regie Gibson, a BEI Emeritus Fellow, will perform at the Opening Ceremony at 11:30 am, with the SNAP Sing...
Regie Gibson, a BEI Emeritus Fellow, will be featured at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam, along with Harlym 1two5, a poet known in Boston for his work dealing with issues of diversity. Click here to read more about Regie Gibson and Harlym 1two5.
“Wake the Frack Up”: Academe and Social Responsibility Join Taylor Brorby, a BEI Emeritus fellow, on fracking and its repercussions. Taylor will pull from personal experience as an essayist, poet, and activist to both educate about fracking and highlight that the only life worth living is one rooted in embodied...
Join Black Earth Institute for a Fellows Reading during the AWP Conference weekend in Washington DC!! We will be hosting a reading at John and Winslow’s Art Studio, at 8:00 pm on Friday, February 10th. Refreshments, including beer and wine, will be provided. Work will be presented by: Todd Davis,...
BEI emeritus fellow, Mary Swander will present Map of My Kingdom, a performance about issues of farmland transitions. The showing is held at the Warburg Theological Seminary. Maria Vorhis will perform and Mary Swander will do talk-back. For more information about Mary Swander and her work click here.
BEI emeritus fellow, Mary Swander will present Map of My Kingdom, a performance about issues of farmland transitions. The showing is sponsored by Cafe Dodici and the L.E.T.S Center for the Healing and Creative Arts. The venue is to be announced. Maria Vorhis will perform and Mary Swander will do talk-back. For more...
BEI emeritus fellow, Mary Swander will present Vang, a performance about recent immigrant farmers. The showing is here at Central College in Pella, IA. The venue is to be announced. Rip Russell and Erin Mills will perform and Mary Swander will do talk-back. For more information about Mary Swander and her work click...
BEI emeritus fellow, Mary Swander will present Vang, a performance about recent immigrant farmers. The showing is sponsored by Cafe Dodici and the L.E.T.S Center for the Healing and Creative Arts. The venue is to be announced. Rip Russell and Erin Mills will perform and Mary Swander will do talk-back. For...
Mary Swander presents Map of my Kingdom, starring Maria Vorhis and Jan Joannides leading a talk-back in Mantorville, MN. “In Minnesota, the average farm operator’s age in 2012 was 56.6. In Iowa, that number was 57.1.That means significant farmland will soon be transitioned on from its original owners — 93 million acres...
Harlow Gallery presents the final event of the 2016 poetry reading series The Bookey Reading featuring poet Annie Finch, on Friday, November 18 beginning at 7pm. Refreshments are served and a $3 donation is appreciated at the door to support programming at the Gallery. The Bookey Reading: featuring Annie Finch
BEI Emeritus Fellow, Debra Marquart will join Mount Marty College (MMC) during its 9th season of the Great Plains Writers Tour with the addition of a Writers Symposium. MMC students and community members are invited to participate. The event brings award-winning professional writers to Yankton to hold readings, discussions and writing workshops. The...
The Writers Studio celebrates the Pushcart Prize and the release of the Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses 2017. BEI Senior Fellow Patricia Spears Jones will share her poems from Painkilling and A Lucent Fire along side other pushcart winners at the Strand Bookstore in New York. Pushcart...
Farm to Text will meet to discuss Mary Swander’s play Farmscape, which has been performed many times across the US, including a special performance for Secretary Vilsack of the USDA, and published as a book in 2012. The play documents the American farmscape through interviews with real people involved in real...
Mary Swander will present the first NYC staging of Vang and Map of My Kingdom, two one-act farm plays. Farm to Text is pleased to partner with Change Food and AgArts to stage these two plays at the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium at NYU’s Kimmel Center on Sunday, November 13 at...
BEI Emeritus fellow, Mary Swander is welcomed by Farm to Text to New York to give a reading on November 15th. As the Poet Laureate of Iowa and champion of rural American literature, Mary will present her work in the NYU English Department Event Space. Beverages and light appetizers will be...
Best of Books will host a poetry reading and signing with Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown, and Lauren Camp from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at the store in Edmond. Brown has had several books be finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award, including To Sing Hallucinated: First Thoughts on Last Words. Camp is the author...
Lauren will host a reading and in conversation with Nathan Brown, followed by a book signing at the Full Circle Book Store on Saturday, October 29th, from 3-5 pm. In her Dorset Prize-winning new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One...
Lauren Camp will perform at the Mark Everett Poetry Reading Series in Norman, Oklahoma on Tuesday, October 25th. For more info check out Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series.
Ann Fisher-Wirth is joining the Spring: Ecology and Politics, Writers Series 2016-17. Fisher-Wirth will share an ecopoetry reading outdoors at the Hut at Indian Springs School in Pelham, Alabama. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Fisher-Wirth’s poetry has appeared in some of the most prestigious creative writing journals. She is editor...
[Photo: Dia:Chelsea, by Don Stahl] Dia:Readings in Contemporary Art is hosting Patricia Spears Jones and Christopher Stackhouse on Tuesday, November 1st at 6:30. Both based in New York, Patricia Spears Jones is a poet, playwright, and literary curator and Christopher Stackhouse is a critic, poet, and teacher. $10 General Admission, $6 Students...
The Final Thursday Reading Series Fall 2016 season features Taylor Brorby on Thursday, October 27th in Cedar Falls, IA. FTRS is held at the Hearst Center with an open mic starting at 7 pm to share five minutes of poetry fiction or creative non-fiction. Singer-songwriters are also welcome. The featured reader takes the...
John T. Price, a native of Iowa, will visit the Writers Series hosted by Waldorf University. Price will perform a free public reading of his work at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Louise V. Hanson Library. He is the award-winning author of three Midwestern nature memoirs. For more...
A BEI Emeritus fellow, slam poetry champion and educator Regie Gibson teams up with Marlon Carey, a hip hop poet and actor, and musicians to create a literary performance that combines poetry, spoken word, story, song and rap. Hosted at the Roslindale Branch Library outside of Boston, MA, Shakespeare to...
Brenda Peterson joins Mid-Columbia book group to share her work I Want to be Left Behind: Finding Rapture on Earth. The event will be held in room 300 at the Central Church in Richland, WA. Click here for more information.
Hosted by St. John’s University, Annie Finch is invited to join the Queen’s Campus as a part of the English Department Speaker Series on October 11th. Annie Finch is the author and editor of more than twenty books of poetry, plays, translation, literary essays and more. Her most recent work, Spells: New...
Todd Davis will lead a poetry reading and a workshop on his first visit as a writer-in-residence at Write On, Door County. The workshop titled “Putting Sacred Spaces in Poems,” will be held at the Door County Government Center, in Sturgeon Bay from 1-4 pm. This is open to anyone...
Picture of Grant Wood’s painting Appraisal. Mary Swander’s play will premiere at the Dubuque Museum of Arts followed with a talk by Dr. Randy Lengeling. Mary Swander, Iowa’s former Poet Laureate and Distinguished Professor of English at Iowa State University, will write a poetic performance piece centered around Grant Wood’s painting Appraisal. Based on research and...
Patricia Spears Jones will be on the Penn State Altoona campus to read from her work on Tuesday, October 11, 2016. Her visit is sponsored by the Visiting Writers Committee and the English Program. The reading will take place at 12:05 pm in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center...
Regie Gibson will be joining The Arlington Author Salon in October. The Fall theme for this free reading is, “Cross Pollination: When other Art Forms Inspire Writing.” The event will take place at the Kickstand Cafe. The Arlington Author Salon is a free reading series with a twist: each author’s presentation...
On October 4th, Brenda Peterson, the author, and Annie Marie Musselman, the photographer, will come together to give a book talk of “Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North America.” There will be a book signing following the talk. This will take place at the Wheelock Library, in...
Lauren Camp and Jenn Givhan will present a poetry reading hosted by the Santa Fe Poetry and Prose Meetup Group. The reading will take place at the Teatro Paraguas Performing Arts Theater. Lauren Camp is the author of three books; her most recent being One Hundred Hungers which was the winner of the...
Join us for an evening of poetry, dramatic readings and stories with the Fellows of the Black Earth Institute, hosted by the Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI. The art presented will speak to both timely and universal issues from the work and changes the fellows are active in....
BEI Emeritus Mary Swander performs “Map of My Kingdom” at the Wartburg Theological Seminary, Rural Ministry Conference, 333 Wartburg Place, in Dubuque, Iowa, on March 6, 2017, with .Maria Vhoris.
BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander performs “Map of My Kingdom” at the Wild Rose Casino, 777 Wild Rose Road, in Jefferson, IA, on September 6, 2016, with Lindsay Bauer, Mary Swander (talk-back).
BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander performs Vang at the Prairiewoods Retreat Center, 120 Boyson Road, in Hiawatha, Iowa, on October 29, 2016 at 3:00 P.M, with Rip Russell and Erin Mills. Mary Swander talk-back.
BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander performs Vang at Christian Brothers University and Memphis Center for Food and Faith, in Memphis, TN, on October 26, 2016, with Matt Foss and Elizabeth Thompson.
BEI Emeritus Fellow will be performing Vang at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center on October 25, 2016, 7:30 P.M. with Matt Foss and Elizabeth Thompson.
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby will be giving a reading at Content Bookstore in Northfield, MN on October 25th at 7pm.
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby will be attending the Mountain Sky Retreat (environmental think tank) in Big Sky, Montana, between October 10-16, 2016.
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby will be giving a Keynote address to North Dakota Library Association “Libraries and Social Change” in Dickinson, ND on September 23, 2016.
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby will be Reading/Conversing with Stephen Trimble at the University of Utah on September 21st, 2016.
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby will speak at the WorldCanvass event at the University of Iowa on September 13th at 7:30pm, in the newly-opened Voxman Music Building in downtown Iowa City. “Guests in our second segment, Mitch Brouse, Ion Vasi, and Taylor Brorby, will focus on controversies and opposition, especially the sometimes...
BEI Emeritus Marcella Durand Presents At Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7am. For more information please Click Here.
For our fifth installment of “Get Lit After Work,” our pop-up literary biergarten located in front of the Cheers bar in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace, we welcome Regie Gibson, a National PoetrySlam Champion, songwriter, author, and educator. Regie will be joining us for an evening of spoken word accompanied by...
On October 16, 2016, BEI Emeritus Fellow Elizabeth Cunningham will be presenting at Book Woman in Austin Texas from 3:00pm-6:00pm. The event will be: Sunday, October 16, 2016 – 3:00pm to 6:00pm Bookwoman 5501 N Lamar Blvd A-105, Austin , TX
The festival, labeled as a celebration of books, reading and the book arts will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at the main library. The event is geared toward readers and book enthusiasts of all ages, with emphasis on literary talent from Clinton and surrounding...
Hope you can make this upcoming feature at the Lizard Lounge this Sunday, August 7, a celebration of Black August, initiated by Jonathan Jackson’s attempt to liberate his brother George from the Marin County courthouse on August 7, 1970. While February is Black History month, August is the month, historically,...
BEI Fellow Lauren Camp will guide a writing workshop in Roswell, New Mexico on November 12th.
BEI Fellow Lauren Camp presents “Journey Santa Fe” with Janet Eigner and Susan Gardner in Santa Fe, NM.
In September Melissa Tuckey will be participating as an artist in residence in SEEDS at EarthDance in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Seeds brings together artists, community activists, scientists, spiritual leaders, permaculture practitioners “to explore the potent space of art, allyship, movement practice, and ecology” The festival culminates with a community day on...
“Map of My Kingdom,” a play on farmland transfer by Iowa’s Poet Laureate Mary Swander, will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday, July 29. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., in the Sukup Performing Arts Wing at the Clear Lake Arts Center, 17 South Fourth St. in downtown Clear Lake, Iowa....
Nearly 70 years after Aldo Leopold’s death and not far from where he got his first taste of wilderness, 25 professors from across the country are in the midst of a four-week institute at Northern Arizona University aimed at bringing new life and modern perspectives to the words and teachings...
On June 23, some of the nation’s most revered poets (including BEI Emeritus Fellow Patricia Spears Jones) will gather at the Olympic House in Squaw Valley to read from their work. The event is open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.; the reading begins at 7:30 p.m.. Suggested...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will present a reading from his new book WinterKill at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 1st. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching portrait of...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will present a reading from his new book WinterKill at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg, Pennsylvania on October 26th. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will present a reading from his new book WinterKill at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on October 21st. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis Presents WinterKill Reading at the Juniata Valley Audubon Society, Bellwood, Public Library in Bellwood, Pennsylvania on September 20th at 6:30pm. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will present a reading from his new book WinterKill at the Stillwater Poetry Festival in Stillwater, Pennsylvania. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching portrait of the...
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will present a reading from his new book WinterKill at Shakespeare & Co in Moussoula, Montana. In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching portrait of the...
Sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Judaic & Israel Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies, poet Lauren Camp presents “Discovering Baghdad: How Writing My Father’s Story Took Me to the Tigris.” For more information please check out this link: Discovering Baghdad, Poet Lauren Camp.
BEI Fellow Lauren Camp will be presenting at The Neustadt Festival: Intergenerational Writing Workshop along with co-instructor Oklahoma Poet Laureate emeritus Nathan Brown on October 26th at the University of Oklahoma. For more information please check out this link: http://laurencamp.com/news_events/news.shtml
BEI Fellow Lauren Camp will be reading a poem Sunday 25th at 10am for Chatter Sunday. For more information please check out this link: http://laurencamp.com/news_events/news.shtml
BEI Fellow Lauren Camp is hosting a Creative Writing Workshop every Wednesday, between July 20th to August 10th in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this workshop, she’ll begin to make your poem, story or essay exactly right for the ear and eye, working line by line and word by word....
BEI Fellow Todd Davis will speak at Beargrass Writing Retreat, Sunday, August 28th for more information please check-out the following link: http://www.beargrasswriting.com/2016-writers/
Join the ongoing celebration of Robinson Jeffers with a week of poetry readings (with our very own BEI Fellow performing on June 14th) at Hendershots Coffee in downtown Athens! Admission is free and open to the public. The schedule of featured poets is listed below: June 13: Keetje Kuipers June...
The Handel and Haydn Society will perform a special concert of music by black composers at the Museum of African American History. The program will feature Countertenor Reginald Mobley, who will curate the performance and lead members of the H+H Chorus in spirituals, gospel music, and contemporary selections. The diverse selection...
The 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Juan Felipe Herrera, has selected poet Allison Hedge Coke for the 2016 Witter Bynner Fellowship. In his selection, Herrera said he sought to honor Hedge Coke “for her precision of Earth, of suffering in and out of the...
The University of Mississippi’s eighth annual Green Week celebration, coordinated by the Office of Sustainability, is set for April 16-24. Established in 2009, Green Week features a variety of interactive events that allow UM students, faculty, staff and Oxford residents to explore ways to live a more sustainable life and...