Tell Your Story: A Personal Essay Workshop

Online

A free writing class from the Humanities WA Speakers Bureau and Whatcom County Library System. In this interactive and generative writing workshop, Kristen Millares Young will help participants tell their own stories. Each hourlong session will begin with a one-page reading to inspire group discussion, followed by timed prompts that guide individual writing sessions. By weaving together community […]

What Is A Public Intellectual Today: #PublishingPaidMe with Khalisa Rae, Mikki Kendall, and L.L. McKinney

Zoom

#PublishingPaidMe made it impossible to ignore serious, enduring wage gaps between Black and white writers. What do Black writers entering the workforce need to know? Stanford’s Laura Goode will co-host this virtual panel with poet and journalist Khalisa Rae, welcoming acclaimed authors Mikki Kendall and L.L. McKinney to offer practical advice and hard truths of making a […]

Khalisa Rae with Abigail Fitzpatrick Reading and book signing with the Poetry Society of South Carolina

Charleston Library Society 164 King St, Charleston, SC, United States

Khalisa Rae is a poet, journalist, and educator in Durham, North Carolina, that speaks with fierce rebellion. She is the graduate of the Queens University MFA program, where she studied under renown authors, Claudia Rankine and Ada Limon. In 2012, her poetry chapbook, Real Girls Have Real Problems was published by Jacar Press. Her love for poetry and […]

Outside the Canon: On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poetry

Charleston Library Society 164 King St, Charleston, SC, United States

RSVP HERE: https://www.poetrysocietysc.org/event-info/outside-the-canon-on-the-places-and-poetic-forms-of-the-black-southern-poetry The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is a living, breathing thing: a ghost, a bay window, a river’s edge, a magnolia tree, a stained-glass hymn. Like many great poets that came before me, I […]

Words and Wine featuring Khalisa Rae

Killer Queen Wine Bar 117 E. Main St., Durham, NC, United States

An evening of author talks, readings, and wine at Killer Queen Wine Bar featuring Khalisa Rae For more info email poetendlesswill@gmail.com  

Tess Taylor Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading

Hugo House 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading I join Seattle-based poets Dujie Tahat, Luther Hughes, Gabrielle Bates and NYC-based Julia Guez Details to come!

Ra Malika Imhotep and Dexter L. Booth Reading, Discussion, and Q&A!

Youtube Live

Red Hen Press has teamed up with Lost City Bookstore in Washington, D.C. for a virtual event series in 2022! Join us in welcoming Ra Malika Imhotep and Dexter L. Booth as they discuss their collections of poetry gossypiinand Abracadabra, Sunshine About gossypiin: gossypiin is a Black feminist hypertext that registers the feeling of an experience of the […]

Poetry Night Reading Series

THE JOHN NATSOULAS GALLERY, ROOFTOP SCULPTURE GARDEN 521 First Street, Davis, CA, United States

Poetry in Davis is a clearinghouse of information about poetry-related events in and around the City of Davis. This website focuses primarily on The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones. The Poetry Night Reading Series is held on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 First […]

LA Times Festival of Books – Visit Booth 960!

USC Campus

Visit Red Hen at Booth 960 on the USC Campus for the 2022 LA Times Festival of Books! We will have author signings and tons of newly released books for sale!

Kim Dower—I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom A Poetic Celebration of Motherhood

Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Writers Bloc Presents® and the Skirball Cultural Center celebrate motherhood with an afternoon of poetry from former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower, who will also be joined in conversation by authors Lisa See and Hope Edelman. Just in time for Mother’s Day, Dower’s latest collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom, is an evocative and […]

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Tess Taylor in conversation with Nathan Heller: Rift Zone & Last West

Book Passage - Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, United States

Rift Zone, Taylor's much-anticipated fourth book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines--rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Taylor's hometown--an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault--these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant, a bloody land grab, gun violence, valley girls, strip malls, redwood […]