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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
Monday, April 25; Student workshop on Tuesday April 26. Krause studio, AMS, Evanston Two solo performances (Noelle Ghoussaini and Mariam Bazeed) and a student workshop (led by Noelle Ghoussaini) will explore the connection between performance, embodiment and social praxis for SWANA artists. Organized by Performance Studies, hosted by MENA Mondays. Noelle Ghoussaini is […]
This 90 minute poetry workshop is for poets and non-poets alike – for anyone who’d love to know how to plant the seeds for poems to grow. From the instructor: "Our time together will provide an opportunity to mine our memories and experiences, our hearts and feelings and potentially awaken new, startling poems. We will […]
A limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you! Kim Dover will be sharing work from her fifth collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom. ABOUT THE LIVE EVENT We're limiting attendance to allow for social distancing, so registration via Eventbrite […]
Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents a signature celebration of poetry's important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers. On April 28, 2022, the 19th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind will be exclusively presented online at 7:30 p.m. EDT, making it available to poetry readers and lovers everywhere. RSVP […]
Add your stories and art to Red Hen’s legacy! This year, we’ll have individual literary and art activities for kids and adults alike: contribute to our community art wall by creating drawings, filling in coloring pages, writing your own 1-page story, or creating black-out poems of your own! Author readings will be screened on-site and, […]
A Generative Poetry Workshop led by Khalisa Rae Level: All Levels This is a generative writing workshop designed to help women and femme writers unleash the power locked within in them through exploring the work of poignant women writers. Feminist writers like Audre Lorde, Maggie Nelson, Dorothy Chan, Patricia Smith use writing as a tool of […]
Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim's poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother--childbirth to empty nest--as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally […]
Authors Karen Brennan, Kate Gale, and Cynthia Hogue present and celebrate their most recent releases at Changing Hands Phoenix. ABOUT THE LIVE EVENT We're limiting attendance to allow for social distancing, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission. Masks are required. ABOUT THE BOOKS About Television: A Memoir | Television is a fluid text that sometimes reads like poetry, sometimes […]
