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Upcoming Events
Young Harris College
February 19, 2026 at 5:30 pm
AWP Offsite University Press Poetry Reading
Featuring authors from Louisiana State University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, and University of Wisconsin Press
Baltimore Museum of Industry
March 4, 2026 at 7pm
Poetry & the Sacred
Panel Discussion with Hayan Charara, Jared Harél, Philip Metres, and Megan Pinto.
Association of Writers and Publishers Conference
Room 328, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
March 6, 2026 at 9am
Un/Holy Acts: Religious Violence, Sacred Texts & Religious Poetry
Panel Discussion with Kazim Ali, Jessica Jacobs, Donovan McAbee, and Tess Taylor
Association of Writers and Publishers Conference
Room 328, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
March 6, 2026 at 10:35am
Recent Events
West End Poetry Festival,
Carrboro, NC
October 18, 2025
The 22nd Bourne Poetry Reading
with Victoria Chang and Vievee Francis
Poetry at Tech
Cypress Theater, Georgia Tech Student Center
November 2, 2023 at 7 p.m.
College of the Florida Keys
Tennessee Williams Theater
October 12, 2023 at 6 p.m.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
with Monica West and Dean Bakopoulos
Middlebury College
August 22, 2023 at 4:15 p.m.
Malaprop’s Bookstore
Asheville, NC
July 9, 2023
Annual Laura Riding Jackson Foundation Poetry Festival
Vero Beach, Florida
April 22, 2023
Lincoln University
April 12-14, 2023
Brooklyn Public Library – Adams Street
Saturday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m.
Rattlecast
Monday, March 6, 2023 at 8 p.m.
Georgia Center for the Book
with Christina Olson
Decatur, Georgia
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
LSU Press Facebook Live Author Series on Unusually Grand Ideas
Wednesday, March 1 at 3:00 p.m.
Unusually Grand Ideas Book Launch
Presidents’ Dining Room
Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
Monday, February 27, 2023
Wild and Precious Life Reading Series (Virtual Event)
with Shareen K. Murayama & Patricia Smith
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
New York Encounter Festival
New York, New York
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Pat Conroy Literary Center
Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.