Todd Davis, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will receive the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, in the Edith Davis Eve Memorial Chapel. The award ceremony includes a lecture by Davis and will be followed by a...
Celebrate the life and work of internationally acclaimed poet and performer Jayne Cortez (1934-2012). Join Jadele McPherson, t’ai freedom ford, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and electronic musician Val Jeanty as they invoke surrealism, politics, the spoken word, and New York City. “If the drum is a woman” will feature original...
An offsite reading at Stories Books and Cafe. See the poster below for Fellows reading, time and place. Light snacks provided. Free admission
STORY IS ALL THERE IS… it is the thread that holds our worlds and our perceptual reality together. Story is getting increasing attention these days in every field. In order to celebrate the ubiquity of story, we are holding the first (possibly annual) Woodstock Story Festival – a celebration of Story...
Winterkill (Michigan State University Press, 2016) 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 cycles of birth and death in the woods and streams of Pennsylvania, while never...
Join poet Lauren Camp for the inaugural reading from her new book, One Hundred Hungers. The book won the Dorset Prize and has just been released by Tupelo Press. In poems that explore the life experiences of a first-generation, Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi father, One Hundred Hungers tells a...
Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty writers exploring the complexities of fracking through first-hand experience, investigative journalism, story-telling, and verse. At a time when politics and profits inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about the hazards of fracking, these...
Tammy Gomez, Bei Fellow, is among 12 of the city’s influential Latinas whose oral histories have been preserved in a project you can see and hear in March at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. “Mujeres Poderosas: The Legacy of Strong Latinas in Fort Worth” combines audio from...
From Cristina: Please share! Our field crew and my co-researcher Dave Hibbs and I will be attending KEPA, along with Waterton Lakes National Park staff. I will be speaking about our Earthwatch Institute Waterton Fire and Wolves project, the new Kainai First Nation Community Fellows Program, and will be leading...
Ann Fisher-Wirth, UM Professor of English, and Maude Schuyler Clay, photographer, discuss their collaborative project “Mississippi” at the brown bag lecture on March 9. Ann Fisher-Wirth’s poems will be on letterpress broadsides shown along with Maude Clay’s photographs. The show will open March 1 at the Gammill Gallery, Center for the...
“Friends, I hope you can make our show in Boston’s premier Celtic music venue. This is a great listening room! Also available for streaming” –Richard Cambridge, BEI Emeritus Fellow and orchestra member.
In 2012 more than 56% of Iowa’s farmland was owned by people over the age of 65 with many of them questioning just what will happen to their land after their gone. In order to help waylay fears and answer questions about transitioning land to the younger generation Iowa Public...
“If you are looking for information on fracking, you will find it here–but that is only the beginning. … This is not just another literary anthology–it is an urgent act of witness.”–John T. Price, editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader More and more people are being affected by fracking all...
Join us for a solo reading by and conversation with poet Annie Finch, visiting from her home in New England. “An exuberant exposition of Annie Finch’s accomplishment as a poet of craft, humor, myth, intimacy and of the natural world.” (Marilyn Hacker, chancellor, Academy of American Poets) “Annie Finch understands better than...
Patricia Spears Jones and Clarence Major read from new and selected work, followed by a conversation with each other and their audience. Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet and playwright and author of A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2015). Poems are anthologized in Angles...
Through a series of targeted exercises and by reading an array of poets, we’ll work on generating new poems. Along the way, we’ll discuss the elements of poetry (phanopoeia, melopoeia, and logopoeia) and issues of craft. This is a writing and talking class more than a reading class. Our goal...
Patricia Spears Jones is poet, cultural critic, playwright and author of four major poetry collections and will be reading from her recently launched A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems from White Pine Press. Susie Timmons has a collection of earlier books entitled Superior Packets that was recently been published by Wave Books. http://www.pw.org/literary_events/the_poetry_project_patricia_spears_jones_and_susie_timmons
Now in its fourth year, Northeastern Illinois University’s Visiting Writers Series has another roster of stellar authors. The VWS has very quickly become a must-attend event not only for Creative Writing students from NEIU’s English Department, but for the campus and community at large. The Visiting Writers Series, like all great literature, is not just for a...
Tenth reading of the season with featured readers Rich Boucher and Lauren Camp. $5 admission goes to Poets’ Fund (Memberships available for Friends of Poetry on the Hill). Doors open at noon. Featured readers from 1:00 to 3:00 with an open reading following. Wine and cheese trays available for purchase. ...
This is an open-mic benefit reading. Please bring a non-perishable food item and/or cash to support the efforts of Second Harvest Food Bank. To sign-up for open mic, contact cww@salem.edu
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The Endangered Species Act – Benefiting Landscapes, Wildlife and People This event is open to the public. Please RSVP: rsvp@endangered.org To take action click here.
“This workshop offers inspiration in all genres — fiction, memoir, poetry. We’ll read, discuss and write, using a series of unconventional prompts and exercises. We’ll build listening skills, word banks and approaches, always searching to understand and capture the emotion, and finding alternatives to traditional ways of phrasing.” Wednesday afternoons,...
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Travel to Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiu, New Mexico home of Georgia O’Keeffe, and find writing inspiration in her studio and garden. Tuesday, July 28 —OR— Friday, Aug 21 Cost: $145; Museum Members, $130
Todd Davis will lead two poetry workshops for elementary and high school students at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater on July 7 and July 14. The workshops will emphasize the centrality of the natural world and introduce students to Wright’s idea of art and architecture working in concert with the natural...
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“Please join American Book Award-winning poet, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for a reading from her latest collection, Streaming, “a veritable symphony, her poems embracing musicality and dissonance like the best of modern composers.”” For more details about the event, click here.
Judith Roche reading from ALL FIRE ALL WATER Margareta Waterman reading from Denouement “All Fire All Water by Judith Roche is both a hymn to all that is broken and destroyed in the world and a song of celebration for the earth’s renewal and rebirth.” Maria Mazziotti Gillan ...
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From the “Blog for Iowa“: “Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism features poster art from more than 20 movements from the 1950s to the present, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycott, divestment from South Africa to protest Apartheid, boycotts of corporations using sweatshops, the...
Judith Roche reading from ALL FIRE ALL WATER Margareta Waterman reading from Denouement “All Fire All Water by Judith Roche is both a hymn to all that is broken and destroyed in the world and a song of celebration for the earth’s renewal and rebirth.” Maria Mazziotti Gillan ...
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Join Patricia Spears Jones, Soraya Shalforoosh, and Terence Degnan for WORDS SUNDAY.
Curated by Metta Sama, Director w/ Meera Nair http://www.salem.edu/community/cww/
Featuring Don’t Shoot, a poetry reading curated by Samuel Jablon, including poets: Anomalous who, Steve Dalachinsky, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, Patricia Spears Jones, Yuko Otomo, Peter Rugh, and Visual Poetics. http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/respond/
Hawarden, Iowa: Saturday, February 21, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Hawarden Public Library. University of Massachusetts, March 2, 2015. Time and place TBA. Penn State University, March 31, 2015. 4:00 P.M. University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, 4/21/2015, Whitewater, WI, 7:30pm. Living History Farms, Des Moines, Iowa, 4/21/2015, Urbandale, IA, 5/2/2015,...
Des Moines, Iowa: Sunday, January 11, 2015- 2:00 P.M. , Church of the Land, Walnut Hill, Iowa. Ames, Iowa: Friday, January 23, 6:00 P.M. Practical Farmers of Iowa Conference, Scheman Building Auditorium. Maquoketa, Iowa: Saturday, February 7, 2015. 2:00 P.M. Maquoketa Art Experience. 124 S. Main St., Maquoketa, IA. DeWitt,...
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This is not your average poetry class. Slam poetry uniquely combines elements of drama, poetry, oral storytelling, and hip hop spoken word to create one of the most engaging new forms of self-expression. Taught by Regie Gibson, winner of the 1998 National Slam Competition, this workshop will show you how...
New England poet Emily Dickinson, a resident of Amherst, MA and widely known as “the Belle of Amherst,” will be celebrated in an evening of poetry presented by contemporary poets who reflect on her work and its influence on theirs. The performance will be presented at First Parish in Lexington,...
This workshop will explore the deep roots and juicy traditions of women’s literature as a way to enrich your poetry and prose, as we discuss some of the most important themes and techniques of women’s writing down the millennia. You will write several pieces of your own poetry or prose...
Tom Montgomery Fate will be a visiting writer.
“Travelers don’t know where they’re going. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been,” writes Paul Theroux. Tourists look; travelers see, conscious of their perspective. Which is why many writers who travel are concerned less with destinations than with the journey itself, less with being an accidental tourist than with being an...
