The live storytelling event, This Really Happened, is back at Blue Metropolis presenting stories on the theme “Obsessions.” Come and hear some of your favourite writers talk about their passions, compulsions, and preoccupations. Participants include Deni Ellis-Béchard (White, 2018), Nisha Coleman, Maggie Panko, Ann Lambert, Joel Yanofsky, Taylor Tower
Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018) will teach a poetry workshop at Chautauqua Institution.
This Friday Night International Feature will feature performances by Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, Salgado Maranhäo and translator Alexis Levitin (Blood of the Sun, 2012), Isabel de la Fuente, Javier Etchevarren and translator Jesse Lee Kercheval, Andrea Jurjević reading Olja Savičević, and more at Cafe Istanbul.
Join Porter Square Books for a reading to celebrate the publication of Ceremonial Entries by Joseph DeRoche (1938-2013), edited by Kevin Gallagher, with Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018). Poets Collins and Gallagher will be joined by poet Anna M. Warrock in reading from the collection.
Join Influx Collectiv their May queer poetry night with Muriel Leung, Jos Charles (feeld, 2018), Ryka Aoki, Yosimar Reyes and Tommy Pico.
Poet Kathy Fagan (Sycamore, 2018) will read from her new collection on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery.
Join Jos Charles (feeld, 2018), Terrance Hayes, Illya Kaminsky, and Diana Khoi Nguyen for a conversation on excavating the self as a subject for their poetry.
Poet Jos Charles (feeld, 2018) will read selections from her newest collection on the circuitry of gender and speech.
Poets Cathy Barber, Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018), and Holly Jensen will read at Mac’s on Saturday, April 13th at 7 p.m.
Guests Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018) and Angie Estes will present ‘‘A Poetry Reading in Celebration of 50 years of the Oberlin College Press and FIELD magazine.”
