Cody Walker: December 12, 2008, Seattle, WA

Cody Walker
Seattle launch of Shuffle and Breakdown
7:30 p.m. @ Open Books
2414 N. 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 633-0811
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com

Miller, Gevirtz, Brady: December 6, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Teresa K. Miller w/ Susan Gevirtz and Taylor Brady

8pm @ The Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street
$3 suggested donation

Georgiou and Hunt: December 5, 2008, NYC

Elena Georgiou & Erica Hunt
The Center for Book Arts Broadsides Reading Series
6:30 pm @ The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor

100 limited edition broadsides of one poem from each reader will be on sale at the event.

Suggested Donation $10/ $5 CBA members

The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
(212) 481-0295
info@centerforbookarts.org

by subway
N or R train to 28th Street and Broadway
F train to 23rd Street and 6th Avenue
6 train to 28th and Lexington Avenue
1 or 9 train to 28th Street and 7th Avenue
B, D, Q and F trains to 34th and 6th Avenue (Herald Square)
2, 3, or 7 to 34th Street (Penn Station)

State of the Union: A Poetry Reading, October 30, 2008, New York, NY

with John Ashbery, Dan Chelotti, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Caroline Knox, Eileen Myles, Mathias Svalina, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Elizabeth Willis and Rachel Zucker.

6:30pm @ The Amie and Tony James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

Free & open to the public

Browning, Cohen, Herron, Howe, Rumble, and Svalina: October 24, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Stain of Poetry

w/ Summer Browning, Julia Cohen, Patrick Herron, Brian Howe, Ken Rumble, and Mathias Svalina

7 p.m. @ the Stain Bar
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
766 grand street
Brooklyn, Ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street, 1 block west)
718/387-7840

Douglas A. Martin: October 2, 2008: Brooklyn, NY

Nightboat Books invites you to celebrate the publication of
Your Body Figured
by Douglas A. Martin

Pierogi Gallery
177 N 9th St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718-599-2144

http://www.nightboat.org/Body_Figured.htm81

Winter, Grant-Malone, Young: September 27, 2008: Brooklyn, NY

Max Winter w/ Kendra Grant-Malone and Mike Young

@ Space Space
390 Seneca Avenue
the Bushwick neighborhood, Brooklyn

[Take the 'L' train to the Dekalb stop. Exit onto Stanhope and Wykoff Streets, and take Stanhope 3 blocks north (if you are walking north, you will be going uphill). Space Space is on the west side of Stanhope, at the corner just before you reach Seneca; you can identify the entrance by the porcelain goose head attached to the wall by the door.]

Klassnik, Marks, Olstein @ the So & So #29: September 20, 2008: Boston, MA

Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, and Lisa Olstein

8pm @ The Distillery
516 East Second Street
South Boston, MA 02127

Feel free to bring booze and snacks.

KSW August Conference: August 19 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kootenay School of Writing
August Conference
N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921
:: Positions Colloquium ::

August 19 - 24, 2008
at/with VIVO Media Arts Centre
1965 Main St, Vancouver

Tuesday 19 August
Afternoon-Evening Session only
*not* at VIVO, location TBA
4:00 pm - late
Opening day social - a party + bbq with readings by poets who have been members of the KSW board or collective.
Sachiko Murakami, Donato Mancini, Maxine Gadd, Peter Culley, Steve Collis, Ted Byrne, Andrea Actis
+ surprise guests

Wednesday 20 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Panel presentation
Title / theme: "On Line: Poetics and the Distribution of Meaning"
Moderator and Curator: Andrew Klobucar
Panellists: Darren Wershler-Henry, Brian Kim Stefans, Judy Radul, Sianne Ngai

1:00 pm
Theatrical presentation
Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy w/guests
"The Clifford Irving Show"

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Darren Wershler-Henry, Brian Kim Stefans, Colin Smith, Robert Fitterman, Clint Burnham

Thursday 21 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Panel presentation
Moderator and Curator: Rita Wong
Title / theme: "Alpha Bets: Language Gambles on a Gift Economy"
Panelists: Juliana Spahr, Pat O'Brien, Reg Johanson, Peter Cole

1:00 pm
Talk
Michael Davidson
"On the Outskirts of Form: Cosmopoetics in the Shadow of NAFTA."

Evening Session7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Rita Wong, Juliana Spahr, PILLS (A. Vidaver, R. Johanson, R. Farr), Pat O'Riley, Peter Cole, Louis Cabri, Jules Boykoff

Friday 22 August

Morning - Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Seminar
Seminar leaders: Kaia Sand and Jules Boykoff
Title / theme: "Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry & Public Space"
Respondents: Catriona Strang, Colin Smith, Juliana Spahr, Nicholas Perrin, Laura Elrick, Clint Burnham

1:00 pm
Panel presentation
Moderator and Curator: Jeff Derksen
Title / theme: "Neoliberalism and the Politics of Poetics"
Panellists: Rodrigo Toscano, Rod Smith, Dorothy Lusk, Roger Farr, Laura Elrick

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Rodrigo Toscano, Rod Smith, Kaia Sand, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Jeff Derksen

Saturday 23 August

Morning-Afternoon Session
11:00 am
Seminar
Seminar leader: Sianne Ngai
Title / theme: "The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance and the Problem of Fun
Respondents: Tyrone Williams, Mark Wallace, Andrew Klobucar, Rob Fitterman, Stacy Doris, Michael Davidson, Louis Cabri, Dodie Bellamy

1:00 pm
Audio feature
Lisa Robertson and Stacy Doris
"The Perfume Recordist"

Evening Session
7:00 pm
Readings, presentations, and performances by:
Tyrone Williams, Mark Wallace, Catriona Strang, Judy Radul, Laura Elrick

Sunday 24 August
Afternoon-Evening Session only
*not* at VIVO, location TBA

Browning, Cohen, Doxsee, Svalina: August 10, 2008, Richmond, VA

Sommer Browning! Julia Cohen! Julie Doxsee! Mathias Svalina!

Really, who's not to love, says we.

2pm @ Chop Suey Books
1317 W. Cary Street
Richmond VA

Doxsee, Schmall, Taylor, & Yankelevich: August 9, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Book Release Party for Octopus & X-Ing Press:
Julie Doxsee, Matvei Yankelevich, Jeremy Schmall & Justin Taylor

Saturday, August 9, 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Melville House
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)

Celebrate the independent small press with a poetry reading featuring three new books: Undersleep by Julie Doxsee (Octopus), The Senator Letters by Jeremy Schmall (X-ing) and More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor (X-ing). The authors are joined by Matvei Yankelevich, author of The Present Work (Palm Press) and editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook).

Boully, Pardlo, Waldrep: July 1, 2008, NYC

Jenny Boully, Gregory Pardlo, and G.C. Waldrep
Poetry from the Rooftops
Sponsored by Academy of American Poets and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

6:30 p.m. @ the Arsenal Building at Central Park
64th Street at 5th Avenue (next to the Zoo)
FREE
Please call 212.360.1324 or email rsvp[at]parks.nyc.gov to reserve your free ticket.
more info here

Gabbert, King, Lin, Stein, & Young: June 7, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Marshmallow Roast (& Poetry Reading)
with Elisa Gabbert, Amy King, Tao Lin, Leigh Stein, and Mike Young

Poetry reading in the backyard at Harrison Space as part of the Bushwick Arts Festival. There will be fire and there will be marshmallows. Poets will be encouraged to read with flashlights. Drinks provided. Bring your own friends. Come early & look at art. Stay late & listen to music.

9:00pm@ Harrison Space
14 Harrison Pl
Brooklyn , NY
http://artsinbushwick.org

Directions: take L train to Morgan stop. Exit station at Bogart. Walk down street immediately ahead. Look for golden bomb shelter doors in the ground about 1/2 block up on your right.

Ackerson-Kiely, Schomburg & Stucky: June 7, 2008, South Boston, MA

So and So #26
w/ Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Zachary Schomburg & Janaka Stucky

8pm @ The Distillery
516 East Second Street

Feel free to bring booze and snacks

Marks & Starkweather: June 1, 2008, West Caldwell, NJ

Justin Marks and Sampson Starkweather
Poetry Festival: A Celebration of New Jersey's (and Some Neighbors') Literary Journals
1-5 PM @ the West Caldwell Public Library
30 Clinton Rd.
973-226-5441

Bookfair and reading inlcudes editors and readers for Edison Literary Review, Exit 13, Lips, The Literary Review, Mudfish, New York Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Philadelphia Poets, Schuykill Valley Journal, Tarpaulin Sky, and Tiferet

Ohle & Evenson: May 23, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Littoral
with David Ohle, Brian Evenson & musical guest Nat Baldwin

8PM @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://www.issueprojectroom.org

Poetry Goose Up w/ Too Many Readers to Name: May 17, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Poetry Goose Up

Featuring readings by Ana Božicevic, John Coletti, Kate Greenstreet, Sarah Gridley, Katy Henriksen, Shannon Jonas, Jennifer Kronovet, Mark Lamoureux, Timothy Liu, Chris Martin, Jess Mynes, Cate Peebles, Christopher Rizzo, Matthew Rohrer, Frank Sherlock, Joanna Sondheim, Shanxing Wang, and Rebecca Wolff

Hosted by Cannibal, Saltgrass, Harp & Altar, & Tight

3-8pm @ East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St
btwn. Green & Huron
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G to Greenpoint Ave (exit at India St)
Doors 2:30 pm, readings from 3-8 pm
$6

Hart & Nadelberg: May 12, 2008, Turners Falls, MA

Matt Hart and Amanda Nadelberg
Slope Editions Reading
7 p.m. @ the Rendezvous Bar
78 Third Street

Boully, Parks, Schmidt & Martin: May 2, 2008, NYC

Jenny Boully, Cecily Parks, Chris Schmidt, and Douglas A. Martin

Readings and live interviews followed by questions and discussion

CUNY Graduate Center Poetics Group
4 pm @ the DSC study lounge (room 5409)
CUNY Graduate Center
65 Fifth Avenue

Clausen & Rohe: May 1, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Jan Clausen & Jean Rohe
Celebrate May Day with an Evening of Poetry and Song
7:30 pm @ K-Dog and Dune-Buggy Café
43 Lincoln Road (near Flatbush Avenue)
(718) 282-7139

Comstock, Garthe, Heller, & Martin: May 1, 2008, Albany, NY

Fence Magazine Issue 19 Launch Reading
Michael Comstock, Karen Garthe, Vivian Heller and Douglas A. Martin
8PM@ University at Albany
Standish Room, 3rd floor, Science Library
See the NYS Writers Institute calendar listing for more details

Georgiou & Peet: April 25-27, 2008, Manchester, VT

Greater Manchester Arts Council Poets' and Writers' Weekend
Reading: Elena Georgiou, Ted Gilley, Christian Peet & others
Publishing Panel: Elena Georgiou, Jeffrey Levine, Christian Peet, & others

Saterstrom: April 17, 2008, Lincoln, NE

Selah Saterstrom
7pm @ Callen Conference Center
Smith Curtis Building
NWU Campus

Carr & Gordon: April 14, 2008, Denver, CO

Julie Carr & Noah Eli Gordon
7:30 pm@ The Tattered Cover
2526 E. Colfax Ave

McSweeney: April 10, 2008, San Marcos, CA

Joyelle McSweeney
7 p.m. @ Grand Salon (Room 113)
M. Gordon Clarke Field House
California State University
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.

Palm & Spahr: April 5, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Kristin Palm & Juliana Spahr
Small Press Traffic
7:30 PM @ Timken Lecture Hall,
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
$5-10 sliding scale

Boully: April 4, 2008, Las Cruces, NM

Jenny Boully
Noemi Press Reading
New Mexico State University

Details TBA

Gordon & Wilkinson: March 25, 2008, Washington, DC

Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
DC Poetry
7:30 pm@ Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Williams, MacDonald, Wheeler, Pallant: March 20, 2008, Richmond, VA

Letters to the World: Readings from An Anthology of Women’s Poetry
Featuring Susan Settlemyre Williams, Catherine MacDonald, Lesley Wheeler, and Cheryl Pallant.

6 p.m. @ the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
200 N. Boulevard (at Grove Avenue)

Tickets, which must be purchased in advance, are $8 (members and students, $5) and are available on-line (tickets.vmfa.museum), at the museum or by telephoning (804) 340-1405.

Harvey & Bang: March 19, 2008, Chicago, IL

Matthea Harvey & Mary Jo Bang
The Danny's Reading Series
Danny's Tavern
1951 W Dickens
(in Bucktown, near Damen and Dickens)

Bell, Capps, Gordon, Wilkinson: March 24, 2008, Cambridge, MA

Josh Bell, Ashley Capps, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

The inaugural Boston Poetry Collective reading

7pm @ The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street
Inman Sq.

Mullen, Poe, Volpert: March 28, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Laura Mullen, Deborah Poe, and Megan A. Volpert
7 p.m. @ Stain Bar
766 Grand St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Gordon & Wilkinson: March 7, 2008, Seattle, WA

Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
7:30 pm @ Open Books
2414 N. 45th St. Seattle, WA 98103

Goode, Maxwell, Shapira: March 7, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

Laura Goode, Kristi Maxwell & Kate Shapira
Burning Chair Readings
7:30 pm @ The Fall Café
307 Smith Street (btwn. Union & President)
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
F/G to Carroll
FREE & good for you

Boully: March 6, 2008, Roanoke, VA

Jenny Boully
8:15 pm @ Green Drawing Room, Main
Hollins University

McSweeney & Johannes Göransson: March 3, 2008, Iowa City, IA

Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson
7:00 pm @ Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque Street

Clausen & Litzky: February 26, 2008, NYC

Jan Clausen & Tsaurah Litzky
Bluestockings Bookstore Women’s/Trans Poetry Jam & Open Mike
7 PM @ Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
Phone: (212) 777-6028

Anderson & Saterstrom: February 18, 2008, NYC

Selah Saterstrom & Erik Anderson
8 p.m. @ The Poetry Project
St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th St at Second Avenue
$8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members

Kapil & Bellamy: February 15, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Bhanu Kapil & Dodie Bellamy
Small Press Traffic
7:30 PM @ Timken Lecture Hall,
California College of the Arts,
1111 8th Street
$5-10 sliding scale

Bozicevic-Bowling, Marks, & Shankar: February 9, 2008, Providence, RI

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Justin Marks, & Ravi Shankar
Ada Books
741 Westminster St

Steal This Reading: January 31, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

AWP OFF-SITE READING:

Steal This Reading:
A Brooklyn Book Burning

Featuring 15 authors from 6 publishers:

C.D. Wright, Eleni Sikelianos, Graham Foust, Joyelle McSweeney, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Julie Doxsee, Max Winter, Adam Clay, Zachary Schomburg, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Lily Brown, Rauan Klassnik, Cindy Savett, Jon Thompson, and Melanie Hubbard.

Hosted by Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Free Verse Editions, Kitchen Press, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky Press & Typo.

Thursday, January 31st
Doors @ 7 PM
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin Street (Greenpoint neighborhood), Brooklyn, NY
tel (718) 514-7625
$6 = Admission + Two Drinks (can't beat that!)

Machlin & Hofer:January 30, 2008, NYC

Dan Machlin & Jen Hofer
8:00 PM @ The Poetry Project
St. Marks Church
131 East 10th St at Second Avenue
$8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members

Brown, Becker, Hudson & Holian: January 26, 2008, Oakland, CA

Lily Brown, Claire Becker, Victoria Hudson, & Patrick Holian

Back Room Live
7:00 PM @ McNally's Irish Pub
5352 College Avenue

Brown, Becker, Langan: January 19, 2008, Lincoln, NE

Lily Brown, Claire Becker, & Steve Langan

The Clean Part Reading Series
7:00 PM @ 12 St & R St