Thursday October 26, 2023, 7-8pm, Northern Center Peninsula II - Visiting Writer at NMU w/ Christina Olson: https://nmu.edu/english/events

Reading @ University of Oregon Wednesday • November 8, 2023

Launch Party for PILGRIMS 2.0 Event date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm Event location: Ciné Lab, 234 West Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601

Join poet and playwright Dan O'Brien live online at his home in California for an evening (or morning) of poetry, prose and performance with The Butcher's Dozen, a monthly series curated by London-based writer David Collard. This is the first time in over 150 gatherings that the program will be devoted entirely to the work […]

A reading at Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland) on December 5th @ 7 PM

Book Signing & Reading with Former Merrill Fellow Matthew Minicucci JAMES MERRILL HOUSE VISITORS CENTER 107 Water Street, Stonington CT

The Unsung Masters Reading Room 2502B, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2 Each year, the Unsung Masters Series publishes a book devoted to the life and work of a great but little known author. Volumes include large selections of the author's work printed alongside interviews, articles, drafts, photographs, and ephemera. This reading brings together the […]

Intro Forever: Mapping the Creative and Pedagogical Terrain of Community Colleges Room 2502A, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2 Though community colleges typically enroll around forty percent of United States undergraduates, they are seldom discussed as sites of knowledge production or expertise. Panelists—active writers and community college professors—will talk about the pedagogical and creative implications […]

Draft, Draft, Goose: The Thinking Behind Revising Room 2105, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level In this panel, five distinguished writers will each share a draft of a published piece along with its final version, and discuss the decisions made to get there. We’ll consider the cascading effects of the smallest changes, and how to […]

The Against Tradition Tradition: Contradiction & the Prose Poem Room 2504AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2 Originating in nineteenth-century France as a subversive form “supple . . . and rugged enough to adapt . . . to the lyrical impulses of the soul,” prose poems are now taught in writing classrooms across the globe. […]

Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature: A Reading Room 3501AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3 Fabulism and speculative literature have long employed the bizarre, unexpected, and impossible to better reflect human experience. Recent political and societal changes, such as anti-trans laws, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the attack on no-fault divorce […]