Events – Village of Crickets

The Erotic as Power: Reading & Celebration @ AWP San Antonio

MERKABA | Thursday, March 5th 7-9pm AWP Offsite Event! This tribute to Audre Lorde's powerful essay, is a celebration of sensuality, sex, and the reclamation of our bodies through acts of defiance & resistance. Rapid fire readings. Drink tickets. Free & Open to the public. Live DJ after the reading!

VOC POETRY: John Murillo w/ José Olivarez, & Yesenia Montilla

POETS HOUSE | Friday, May 1st at 7pm Join us for a reading and celebration with the extraordinary poet, John Murillo, who will be reading from his widely-anticipated second collection, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. Murillo will be joined by award-winning poets José Olivarez, and Yessenia Montilla.

Honeysuckle: Book Launch with Robin Gow

Bluestockings Bookstore Café & Activist Center | Sat. February 1st at 7pm
Celebrate our Robin Gow's debut chapbook, HONEYSUCKLE! Robin will read from their debut chapbook about queerness, naming, and identity. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Village of Cricket's editor, Dani Barnhart, and a brief book signing.

Passeggiate: NYC Book Launch with Judith Baumel

KGB Bar in the East Village, NYC | Wednesday, December 11 @7pm
Join us in celebration of Judith Baumel's extraordinary new book of poetry, Passeggiate. Come to KGB Bar for a reading of Judy's gorgeous new work, and stay for a holiday party of gracious imbibing, book signing, and merriment.

A Reading & Conversation with Rivka Galchen

Poets House NYC | Wednesday, November 20th @ 7PM
Join us for a fiction reading and conversation with Rivka Galchen at Poets House. This event will be moderated by Katherine Hill in Kray Hall, and there will be a reception in the reading room to follow.

Gender Reveal Party! VIBRANT

KGB Bar in the East Village NYC | Wednesday, November 6th @ 7PM
Gender Reveal Party's first reading of trans & queer writers in NYC will feature readings by Catherine Chen, Lauren Clark, Jen Levitt, Jerome Murphy, Sarah Sala, & Benny Sisson. Created & Hosted by Robin Gow.

Ilya Kaminsky & Nomi Stone

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe | Wednesday, September 25 @ 7PM
Join us for a reading in celebration of Ilya Kaminsky's new collection of poetry, Deaf Republic & Nomi Stone's new collection, Kill Class. Reception and book signing to follow.

Speaking of Delight…

A Reading and Conversation with Ross Gay Friday, April 12 at 7pm | Langston Hughes House Join us for a reading and conversation in celebration of Ross Gay's newly published genre-defying book of essays, The Book of Delights. Reception and book signing to follow.

Free & open to the public.

The Resistance is Femme (AF) | AWP

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism Anthology Reading

Friday, March 29^th | 6:30pm | Powell’s City of Books

Readings by Lauren K. Alleyne, Ryka Aoki, Denice Frohman, Amanda Johnston, Ada Limón, Anastacia-Renée, & Patricia Smith. Hosted by the editors, Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan

Women of Resistance & The Dusty Rebel | Artbook @ MoMA PS1

Saturday, September 29th Join the Coeditors of Women of Resistance, Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan in conversation with photographer, Daniel Albanese aka TheDustyRebel, and street artist, Jilly Ballistic. This will be a multimedia event, with art projections, and poetry readings by Lauren Clark, Cynthia Dewi Oka, and Rosebud Ben Oni.

i, too resist | poems for a new feminism

Wednesday, October 17th @7pm Poets from the anthology, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism will come together for a special reading at the historic Langston Hughes House. Readings by Lauren K. Alleyne, Judith Baumel, Jericho Brown, Ellen Hagan, and Jacqueline Jones LaMon.

CAPTIVATED: Storytelling with Catherine Chung & Téa Obreht

Wednesday, November 28th | Cornelia Street Cafe Join two of the most captivating voices in contemporary fiction for an evening of storytelling at Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village. Award-winning novelists, Cathy Chung and Téa Obreht both have second novels forthcoming, and both are known to delight their audiences. This is one is not to be missed.

CHRISTOPHER SMART’S CAT: A Reading & Conversation with Igor Webb & John Matthias

Wednesday, November 7th @6pm | Cornelia Street Café Told from the vantage point of those, like the author, who were children in the Holocaust, the book is a beautifully crafted meditation on great writers—from Virginia Woolf to W.G. Sebald, from Philip Roth to Danilo Kiš—as well as a gripping tale alive with remarkable characters.

Women of Resistance at KGB Bar

Wednesday May, 23 @7PM | KGB Bar Celebrate the newly published anthology, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism with four contributing poets. Lauren Clark, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Ruth Irupe Sanabria, and Wendy Xu will bring feminist fire to the East Village on what is sure to be an evening to remember. Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism is "a collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender...

Power Dynamics in Poetry: A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar & Rachel Zucker

Wednesday, May 2 6-8PM | POETS HOUSE Join award-winning poets and educators, Rachel Zucker and Kaveh Akbar in an exploration of the perils and responsibilities of writing about violence and oppression as it is experienced by others. Kaveh’s poem, “Heritage,” about a young Iranian woman hanged in 2014 for killing her attempted rapist...