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Events

I AM NO BIRD: An Evening of Fiction

I AM NO BIRD: An Evening of Fiction

Wednesday, April 18 @ 7PM | Housing Works Bookstore Café Don't miss a night of extraordinary storytelling at one of the best literary spots in NYC! National Poetry Slam Champion, Elizabeth Acevedo will read from her debut novel, The Poet X, along with readings by PEN Open Book Award nominee, Jade Sharma, and 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize Winner, Sara Batkie...
Women of Resistance Launch Party at AWP

Women of Resistance Launch Party at AWP

Friday, March 9th 5-7pm | Spain Restaurant and Toma Bar Join the editors of Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan, along with poets, writers, faculty and friends for a pre-publication "Launch Party" at AWP 2018 in Downtown Tampa. Rapid-fire performances by Mahogany L. Browne, Safia Elhillo, Dorothea Lasky, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Jenny Johnson...
Gracious Imbibing IV: Adelphi MFA Alumni Reading & Holiday Party

Gracious Imbibing IV: Adelphi MFA Alumni Reading & Holiday Party

This event is open to the public. The festivities will begin with an Alumni Poetry & Short Prose Reading by Laura Fairgrieve, Mj Mcginn, Iris Mahan, and special guest, Patricia Spears Jones. As always, we welcome everyone to invite their significant others to join...

Brazen Text & The Femme Electric

Brazen Text & The Femme Electric

A Reading and conversation with ​Rachel McKibbens & Airea D. Matthews. Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | 7pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Rachel ​McKibbens reads from her ​forthcoming​ book of poetry, BLUD ​(Copper Canyon Press, Oct 2017)​ and Airea D. Matthews...

Book Launch! Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss by Martha Cooley

Book Launch! Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss by Martha Cooley

Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband to recover from la strage, or “the massacre.” There, in this sun­drenched paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines what we all must confront one day, mortality. How do we grieve?
Spring Ruckus: A Poetic Empowerment

Spring Ruckus: A Poetic Empowerment

The poetry community has the power to amplify the most valuable (and often muffled) voices, by coming together--not by becoming one voice, but by speaking as individuals with complex and multi-faceted identities. With this reading, we hope to ignite great energy and power through individuality and solidarity. AND WE DID!!! IT WAS FIRE!!!
Looking for The Stranger: A Reading & Conversation with Alice Kaplan

Looking for The Stranger: A Reading & Conversation with Alice Kaplan

National Book Award finalist, Alice Kaplan read from her gripping biography, not of a modern French writer, but of the modern French novella, The Stranger — "a cornerstone of modern literature, one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, and the best-selling mass market paperback in French publishing history."
Night at the Fiestas: A Reading & Conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade

Night at the Fiestas: A Reading & Conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade

"Kirstin Valdez Quade writes with life-loving precision, tenderness, and grace. These stories, set among the adobes and piñons and mesas of Northern New Mexico, are deeply compassionate hymns of longing, for respect for family, even when it’s broken, and ultimately for redemption, whether it can be found or not.
Duende | AWP 2016

Duende | AWP 2016

Lorca tells us that the artist is possessed by duende, a malign spirit that burns the blood like powdered glass. This panel asks if poets can or should summon duende at will. Is it fleeting and ephemeral, or can it be harnessed as an instrument of craft?
Jacqueline Jones LaMon Celebration

Jacqueline Jones LaMon Celebration

AUMFA & VOC celebrate our own Jacqueline Jones LaMon, and her new position serving as president of Cave Canem Foundation, Inc., an organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.
Communing with the Dead

Communing with the Dead

All Souls Day Reading at KGB Bar Readings by Catherine Chung, Sharon Guskin, Arli Middendorf, and Nghiem Tran
Brief Encounters Reading

Brief Encounters Reading

A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction Readings by Martha Cooley, Meghan Daum, James Richardson, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jonathan Wilson