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 […]

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

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!

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 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!

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 […]

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 […]