The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning will host the Kentucky book release for Ada Limón’s newest collection of poems, The Carrying. Bring your friends and loved ones to pick up your copy and to hear Limón’s reading.
Gretchen Marquette hosts Milkweed poets Caitlin Bailey and Chris Santiago at Poetry in the Park alongside Diane Seuss, Sumita Chakraborty, Roy Guzmán, and Michael Torres.
Analicia Sotelo, poet behind Virgin, will appear in the NYC Poetry Festival as a part of the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series.
Author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt Janisse Ray will appear in the Georgia Writers Museum Meet the Author series.
This weekend retreat with poet David Keplinger will explore a creative path to presence through meditative poetry, how to make listening to, reading and/or writing poetry a meditation practice, and explore the body as a vessel for the poem and nature as springboard for writing poetry.
Poet of North American Stadiums Grady Chambers will appear at the Poetry Foundation with Henri Cole to celebrate the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.
Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming will perform a reading entitled “Voyage & Adventure” and be interviewed by David Stromeyer.
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art will host poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming for a poetry reading with Betsy Sholl and Christopher Seid entitled “Arts & Letters by the Sea.” The program will include light refreshments and a book signing.
Author and poet Alison Hawthorne Deming will host a talk titled “Hunting for Herring: An Evening in Celebration of Fishery Traditions on Grand Manan & Beyond” on her interest in “stone wiers” as well as the importance of herring throughout history and around the world.
As a part of their “Breath and Matter” series, Boston Sculptors Gallery will host poet and author Alison Hawthorne Deming for an exhibition titled “Words to Wood/Wood to Words” in collaboration with sculptor Susan Lyman.
