BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Red Hen Press - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Red Hen Press X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://redhen.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Red Hen Press REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220411T192601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T192601Z UID:16408-1651255200-1651269600@redhen.org SUMMARY:ArtNight Pasadena DESCRIPTION: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\, as always\, we’re happy to give tours of our publish world! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/artnight-pasadena/ LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220414T180214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T180214Z UID:16465-1651174200-1651174200@redhen.org SUMMARY:Academy of American Poets: Poetry & the Creative Mind DESCRIPTION: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. \nOn 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 to attend live for free.\n \nPoetry & the Creative Mind features leading and legendary actors\, dancers\, artists\, musicians\, and public figures sharing their favorite poems. Past readers have included Uzo Aduba\, Sam Beam\, Wayne Brady\, Glenn Close\, Claire Danes\, Tina Fey\, Terrance Howard\, Bill T. Jones\, Maya Lin\, Paul Simon\, Patti Smith\, Uma Thurman\, and Carrie Mae Weems\, as well as frequent Honorary Event Co-chair Meryl Streep. \nThis always-inspiring evening benefits the K–12 Education Program of the Academy of American Poets\, which reaches more than 100\,000 students each year with resources on Poets.org\, the Dear Poet project\, and materials created for National Poetry Month. \nPoetry & the Creative Mind is made possible thanks to the support of individuals and the event’s corporate sponsors\, including the publishers and companies helping to champion poetry and expand its readership of all ages as part of The Publishers Circle and The Young Readers Circle. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/academy-of-american-poets-poetry-the-creative-mind/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220315T230028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T230028Z UID:16182-1650999600-1651003200@redhen.org SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT Kim Dower: I Wore This Dress Today For You\, Mom DESCRIPTION:A limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you! \nKim Dover will be sharing work from her fifth collection\, I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom. \nABOUT THE LIVE EVENT \n\nWe’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing\, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.\nMasks are required.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nKim Dower’s poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache\,” and by O Magazine as “unexpected and sublime.” Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound\, her 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 caring for one’s mother suffering from dementia. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work\, these poems\, heartbreaking\, funny\, surprising\, and touching\, explore the quirky\, unexpected observations\, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers\, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and explore the deep crevices and emotions of these impenetrable relationships: the love\, despair\, joy\, humor and gratitude that fills our lives. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKim Dower\, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018)\, has published four collections of poetry\, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars\, described by the Los Angeles Times as\, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache\,” Slice of Moon\, called “unexpected and sublime\,” by “O” magazine\, Last Train to the Missing Planet\, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness\, memory and loss\, fragility and perseverance\,” said Richard Blanco\, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave\, winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry. Nominated for five Pushcart Prizes\, Kim’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals including Plume\, Ploughshares\, Rattle\, The James Dickey Review\, Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac\,” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.” Her poems are included in several anthologies\, notably\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond\, (Beyond Baroque Books/Pacific Coast Poetry Series\,) and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles\, (Tia Chucha Press.) She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University\, UCLA Extension Writer’s Program\, West Hollywood Library and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/author-event-kim-dower-i-wore-this-dress-today-for-you-mom/ LOCATION:Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix\, 300 West Camelback Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220315T223848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T223848Z UID:16179-1650992400-1650997800@redhen.org SUMMARY:POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP Kim Dower: "For Mothers and Anyone Who’s Ever Had a Mother Figure in their Life" DESCRIPTION: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. \nFrom 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 explore the rich soil of our childhoods – the places\, and emotions from our past and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing.  After hearing a prompt\, we will dive into ‘fever writing’ or ‘automatic writing\,’ and witness the magic we create!  With Mother’s Day coming up\, we will hear prompts that will inspire us to write our own poems – to and about our mothers and mother figures\, or just for gifts to ourselves!  Bring nothing but a pad and your favorite pen!” \nPLEASE NOTE:\nFollowing the workshop\, Kim will be sharing work from her fifth collection\, I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom\, published by Red Hen Press. 7PM TUESDAY\, APRIL 26\nA limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you!\nABOUT THE IN-PERSON WORKSHOP \n\nWe’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing\, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.\nMasks are required.\n\nWORKSHOP DETAILS \n\nCost: $30 per person. Includes admission to the workshop\, one (1) copy of I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom\, and one (1) drink ticket.\nRegister below.\nPlease have paper and pen or an electronic device to write on.\nRefunds will not be issued within one day of the event.\n\nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nKim Dower graduated from Emerson College where she also taught Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry. Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October\, 2016- October\, 2018\, Kim has published four\, highly acclaimed collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars\, Slice of Moon\, Last Train to the Missing Planet\, and the IPPY Award-winning collection\, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave. Kim’s poems have been widely anthologized and appear in journals such as The James Dickey Review\, Ploughshares\, Barrow Street\, Rattle\, Plume and The Writer’s Almanac. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/poetry-writing-workshop-kim-dower-for-mothers-and-anyone-whos-ever-had-a-mother-figure-in-their-life/ LOCATION:Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix\, 300 West Camelback Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220224T214257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T214257Z UID:16109-1650873600-1650992400@redhen.org SUMMARY:SWANA Songs: Performance and Praxis (New Moons Event) DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25; Student workshop on Tuesday April 26. \nKrause studio\, AMS\, Evanston  \n  \nTwo 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. \nOrganized by Performance Studies\, hosted by MENA Mondays. \n  \nNoelle Ghoussaini is a celebrated multidisciplinary theatre artist: a director\, writer\, activist\, educator and performer (NU alum\, ’07 Performance Studies and French\, minor in Africana Studies). \nMariam Bazeed’s work across genres has been published in print and online\, and their plays performed in festivals in the United States and abroad.  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by: \nNorthwestern University School of Communication \nAlice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities  \nDepartment of Performance Studies  \nMiddle East Studies Committee and Liberal Art Program\, Northwestern University in Qatar \nDepartment of Gender and Sexuality Studies \nMiddle East and North African Studies Program \nProgram of African Studies URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/swana-songs-performance-and-praxis-new-moons-event/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220329T195715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T195715Z UID:16227-1650816000-1650819600@redhen.org SUMMARY:Tess Taylor in conversation with Nathan Heller: Rift Zone & Last West DESCRIPTION: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 trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. \nTaylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses–mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink–an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. At once sorrowful and furious\, tender and fierce\, Rift Zone is startlingly observant\, relentlessly curious–a fearsome tremor of a book. \nAcclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange’s photography with a new work \nIn Last West\, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys\, Lange photographed migrant laborers\, Dust Bowl refugees\, tent cities and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor’s hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange’s own journals and notebook fragments\, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement\, landscape and place. \n“Scintillatingly rendered by Taylor as conversation\, meditation\, road trip\, and vivid documentary account\, Last West tracks the not-so-distant past into the erupting present\, taking on as many poetic forms as there are California topographies.” -Forrest Gander\, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry \nTess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry\, including The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, and The Forage House\, called “stunning” by The San Francisco Chronicle. Work & Days was named one of The New York Times best books of poetry of 2016.  In spring 2020 she published two books of poems. Last West was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art as a part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition; Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press\,  was hailed as “brilliant” in the LA Times and named one of the best books of 2020 by The Boston Globe. Taylor has  served as on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for over a decade.  She is currently on the faculty of Ashland University’s Low-Res MFA Creative Writing Program. \nNathan Heller has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 2013 and a finalist for a National Magazine Award for essays and criticism. His work has been anthologized in the Best American series and elsewhere\, and he has served as an essayist for the “PBS NewsHour.” Before coming to The New Yorker\, he wrote for the New York Times Magazine\, New York\, Rolling Stone\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. He is at work on a book about the Bay Area. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/tess-taylor-in-conversation-with-nathan-heller-rift-zone-last-west/ LOCATION:Book Passage – Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220311T005601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220311T005601Z UID:16177-1650812400-1650819600@redhen.org SUMMARY:Kim Dower—I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom A Poetic Celebration of Motherhood DESCRIPTION: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. \nJust in time for Mother’s Day\, Dower’s latest collection\, I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom\, is an evocative and candid anthology of poems that looks at the rich and complex relationships that mothers and daughters share. \nA book signing follows the program. Books available for purchase. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/kim-dower-i-wore-this-dress-today-for-you-mom-a-poetic-celebration-of-motherhood/ LOCATION:Skirball Cultural Center\, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220425 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220411T192454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T192454Z UID:16405-1650672000-1650844799@redhen.org SUMMARY:LA Times Festival of Books - Visit Booth 960! DESCRIPTION:Visit Red Hen at Booth 960 on the USC Campus for the 2022 LA Times Festival of Books! \nWe will have author signings and tons of newly released books for sale! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/la-times-festival-of-books-visit-booth-960/ LOCATION:USC Campus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220329T195128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T195128Z UID:16218-1650571200-1650571200@redhen.org SUMMARY:Poetry Night Reading Series DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Poetry Night Reading Series is held on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 First Street\, Davis CA). The featured reader begins at 8:00 p.m. and is followed by an Open Microphone segment at 9:00 p.m.. \nAttendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table\, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. \nFor more information about Poetry Night\, please email: poetryindavis@gmail.com URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/poetry-night-reading-series/ LOCATION:THE JOHN NATSOULAS GALLERY\, ROOFTOP SCULPTURE GARDEN\, 521 First Street\, Davis\, CA\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Poetry in Davis":MAILTO:poetryindavis@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220331T191533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T191533Z UID:16278-1650567600-1650567600@redhen.org SUMMARY:Ra Malika Imhotep and Dexter L. Booth Reading\, Discussion\, and Q&A! DESCRIPTION:Red Hen Press has teamed up with Lost City Bookstore in Washington\, D.C. for a virtual event series in 2022! \nJoin us in welcoming Ra Malika Imhotep and Dexter L. Booth as they discuss their collections of poetry gossypiinand Abracadabra\, Sunshine \nAbout gossypiin: \ngossypiin is a Black feminist hypertext that registers the feeling of an experience of the world in which the self is an unstable plurality continuously unmade. It is a story marked into the flesh of the poet\, transferred onto the page through a process of distillation. It is an enactment of Black feminist poetic utterance that tends to the inside parts. This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbaceum\, or Cotton Root Bark\, which was used by enslaved Black women to induce labor\, cure reproductive ailments\, and end unwanted pregnancies. Through an arrangement of stories and memories experienced\, read\, heard\, reimagined\, and remixed\, the poet reckons with a peculiar yet commonplace inheritance of violation and survival. gossypiin performs an interruption of the narrative silence around sexual harm and the mark it makes on Black femme subjectivity. \nAbout Abracadabra\, Sunshine: \nAbracadabra\, Sunshine is a series of ever-turning letters written to lovers\, friends\, and family as a testament to human perseverance and to art-making as a continuous defiance against the often overwhelming complexities and hardships of existence. Darting from the Czech Republic to the Andromeda Galaxy\, from the films of Godard to the tales of the Brothers Grimm and the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang\, these poems foreground our animal need for love and connection against the background of our historical obsession with destruction. By turns dour and deeply hopeful\, Booth’s poems extol the communal and healing powers of vulnerability and love. \n*** \nRa Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta\, Georgia. As a scholar and cultural worker\, Ra is invested in exploring relationships between queer articulations of Black femininity\, Southern vernacular culture\, and the performance of labor. As a steward of Black Studies and Black feminist thought\, Ra dreams\, organizes\, and facilitates spaces of critical reflection and embodied spiritual-political education. \nDexter L. Booth is the author of Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf Press\, 2013)\, which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was selected by Major Jackson. Booth’s poems have been included in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2015 (edited by Sherman Alexie)\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, and The Golden Shovel Anthology honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. Booth was a finalist for 2016–2017 COG Poetry Award. He was awarded an artist residency at Yaddo in 2017 and another at the MacDowell Colony in 2018. Booth is currently a contributing editor for Waxwing Journal\, a PhD candidate and Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California\, and a professor in the Ashland University MFA program. \ngossypiin and Abracadabra\, Sunshine will be available at Lost City Books! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/ra-malika-imhotep-and-dexter-l-booth-reading-discussion-and-qa/ LOCATION:Youtube Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220329T195520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T195520Z UID:16223-1650394800-1650394800@redhen.org SUMMARY:Tess Taylor Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading\nI join Seattle-based poets Dujie Tahat\, Luther Hughes\, Gabrielle Bates and NYC-based Julia Guez\nDetails to come! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/tess-taylor-personal-as-prelude-a-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220407T173039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T173039Z UID:16377-1649703600-1649710800@redhen.org SUMMARY:Words and Wine featuring Khalisa Rae DESCRIPTION:An evening of author talks\, readings\, and wine at Killer Queen Wine Bar featuring Khalisa Rae \nFor more info email poetendlesswill@gmail.com \n  URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/words-and-wine-featuring-khalisa-rae/ LOCATION:Killer Queen Wine Bar\, 117 E. Main St.\, Durham\, NC\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220409T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220409T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220407T172521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T172521Z UID:16375-1649498400-1649498400@redhen.org SUMMARY:Outside the Canon: On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poetry DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE: https://www.poetrysocietysc.org/event-info/outside-the-canon-on-the-places-and-poetic-forms-of-the-black-southern-poetry \nThe 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. \nLike many great poets that came before me\, I am not a native of the South. I migrated to the Southern states to feel connected to my ancestors and find language and culture; to be more attuned with Zora Neale Hurston\, Toni Morrison\, Nikkey Finney\, Maya Angelou\, and more. What links these great Southern Black poets is their ability to capture the light and the darkness of the South. Each rendered the region as a dichotomy of beauty and pain: music in melancholia\, the trauma\, and tumbling hills. All exist here\, and this juxtaposition always defined the execution of their work. This seminar will explore the poetic and craft of the Southern Black writing tradition. \nKhalisa 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 performance has led her to be an active member of the National Poetry Slam(NPS) community since 2010\, and the host of various poetry open mics. \nKhalisa went on to start the women and femme poetry organization\, Poet.she Performing Arts in Greensboro\, NC after graduating from N.C. A&T University in 2011. Upon relocating to Wilmington\, NC\, she started the Athenian Press- a BIPOC bookstore and resource center for women\, femme\, non-binary\, and trans writers and artists.  There she taught as an English professor and held the role of Community Outreach Director at the YWCA\, among other advocacy titles with various nonprofits. Her work has been published widely and speaks to womanhood\, anti-racism\, identity\, and generational trauma. Her essays are featured in Autostraddle\, Catapult\, LitHub\, as well as articles in B*tch Media\, NBC-BLK\, and others. Her poetry appears in Frontier Poetry\, Florida Review\, Rust & Moth\, PANK\, Hellebore\, Sundog Lit\, HOBART\, Flypaper Lit\, and countless other places. She was a finalist in the Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize and a winner of the Fem Lit Magazine Contest\, White Stag Publishing Contest\, and the Bright Wings Poetry Contest. Currently\, serves as the founder of Think in Ink: A BIPOC Collective and the Women of Color Speak Reading series. She is also the Assistant Editor at Glass Poetry and a workshop facilitator at Catapult. \nHer debut poetry collection\, Ghost in a Black Girls Throat is forthcoming from Red Hen Press April 2021 and Unlearning Eden from White Stag Publishing. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/outside-the-canon-on-the-places-and-poetic-forms-of-the-black-southern-poetry/ LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King St\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220407T172244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T172244Z UID:16371-1649444400-1649444400@redhen.org SUMMARY:Khalisa Rae with Abigail Fitzpatrick Reading and book signing with the Poetry Society of South Carolina DESCRIPTION: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 performance has led her to be an active member of the National Poetry Slam(NPS) community since 2010\, and the host of various poetry open mics. \nKhalisa went on to start the women and femme poetry organization\, Poet.she Performing Arts in Greensboro\, NC after graduating from N.C. A&T University in 2011. Upon relocating to Wilmington\, NC\, she started the Athenian Press- a BIPOC bookstore and resource center for women\, femme\, non-binary\, and trans writers and artists.  There she taught as an English professor and held the role of Community Outreach Director at the YWCA\, among other advocacy titles with various nonprofits. Her work has been published widely and speaks to womanhood\, anti-racism\, identity\, and generational trauma. \nAbigail G. Fitzpatrick is an MFA candidate and Woodfin Fellow at the College of Charleston. She writes poetry\, nonfiction and flash fiction pieces. When she is not reading or writing\, she is playing with her two rescue bunnies or arguing with her mother over FaceTime. \nThis event is open to the public. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/khalisa-rae-with-abigail-fitzpatrick-reading-and-book-signing-with-the-poetry-society-of-south-carolina/ LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King St\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220310T185448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T185448Z UID:16165-1649358000-1649358000@redhen.org SUMMARY:Poetry Night with Andrea Carter Brown\, Chloe Martinez\, and Cynthia Hogue DESCRIPTION:Andrea Carter Brown will be reading from September 12\, Chloe Martinez will be reading from Ten Thousand Selves\, and Cynthia Hogue will be reading from In June the Labyrinth.  URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/poetry-night-with-andrea-carter-brown-chloe-martinez-and-cynthia-hogue/ LOCATION:Chevalier’s Books\, 133 N Larchmont Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220407T171944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T171944Z UID:16368-1649350800-1649356200@redhen.org SUMMARY:What Is A Public Intellectual Today: #PublishingPaidMe with Khalisa Rae\, Mikki Kendall\, and L.L. McKinney DESCRIPTION:#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 living as a Black writer in a discriminatory industry. How does sharing industry information like book advances\, salaries\, and contacts increase collective bargaining power? How can you avoid common first-project mistakes? And what tips\, tricks\, and strategies should every emerging author know? \nPlease register for the Zoom webinar at this link. https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mUXh9Hj-TVqOybKMrmQfkA \nSpeakers:  \n\nKhalisa Rae is an award-winning journalist\, poet\, and activist in Durham NC. She is the debut author of Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat (Red Hen Press 2021) and Real Girls Have Real Problems chapbook. With over 10 years as an editor and compelling essayist\, her work appears in Autostraddle\, Catapult\, LitHub\, as well as articles in Blavity\, B*tch Media\, Parents.com\, NBC-BLK\, and others. Her poetry is featured in Southern Humanities Review\, Tishman Review\, Florida Review\, PANK\, HOBART\, among countless others. She is the winner of the Bright Wings Poetry contest\, the Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize\, and the White Stag Publishing Contest\, among other prizes. Currently\, she serves as Senior Writer at Jezebel and Content Creator at Bet News. Her literary engagement and stewardship include being Editor in Chief of Think in Ink Bipoc Collective and founder/host of Women of Color Speak Reading Series. Her YA Novel in verse. Unlearning Eden is forthcoming. Follow here at @k_lisarae on Twitter. Find more information here: khalisarae.com. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/what-is-a-public-intellectual-today-publishingpaidme-with-khalisa-rae-mikki-kendall-and-l-l-mckinney/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220402T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220402T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T235118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T235118Z UID:16021-1648897200-1648900800@redhen.org SUMMARY:Tell Your Story: A Personal Essay Workshop DESCRIPTION: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 narratives\, we can craft a vision for our future that includes hope and the capacity for unexpected change. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/tell-your-story-a-personal-essay-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220310T190521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T190521Z UID:16167-1648371600-1648375200@redhen.org SUMMARY:Kim Stafford poetry reading live stream DESCRIPTION:Kim Stafford will be reading poems and participating in a live conversation with Rattle Magazine on Sunday\, March 27 at 9:00am! Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/kim-stafford-poetry-reading-live-stream/ LOCATION:Youtube END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220326T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T234557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T234557Z UID:16015-1648022400-1648314000@redhen.org SUMMARY:2022 AWP Conference And Bookfair DESCRIPTION:Kristen Millares Young will be in Philadelphia for the AWP Conference for two panels! “Unmake the Patriarchy of Your Mind” with Sonora Jha\, Anastacia-Renée\, Alexandra Teague and Laura Reed\, and “Beyond the Immigrant Narrative: the Poetics\, Politics\, & Craft at the Margins” with Juan Carlos Reyes\, David Heska Wanbli Weiden\, Shin Yu Pai and Jason Magabo Perez. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/2022-awp-conference-and-bookfair/ LOCATION:Pennsylvania Convention Center\, 1101 Arch St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T233834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T233834Z UID:16011-1647973800-1647977400@redhen.org SUMMARY:Tell Your Story: A Personal Essay Workshop DESCRIPTION:A free writing class from the Humanities WA Speakers Bureau\, King County Library System and the Newcastle Arts Council. In this interactive writing workshop\, Kristen Millares Young will help you tell your own story. Begin with a reading to inspire group discussion\, followed by timed prompts that guide individual writing. By weaving together community narratives\, we can craft a vision for our future. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/tell-your-story-a-personal-essay-workshop/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T233158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T233158Z UID:16004-1647945000-1647959400@redhen.org SUMMARY:Women's University Club: Meet the Author of SUBDUCTION! DESCRIPTION:Kristen Millares Young will be reading from her novel Subduction and discussing her award winning debut! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/womens-university-club-meet-the-author-of-subduction/ LOCATION:1105 6th Ave #301\, Seattle\, WA 98101\, 1105 6th Ave #301\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T080000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220224T214042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T214134Z UID:16106-1647414000-1647417600@redhen.org SUMMARY:Muslim Writers’ Voices: a Symphony and a Cacophony (Zoom webinar) DESCRIPTION:REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE!\nJoin us on March 16 2022 at 7:00am PST for a panel of Muslim writers who will read from works recently published in New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims\, an anthology published by Red Hen Press and edited by Kazim Ali.  \n  \nThe readings will be followed by a moderated discussion\, Q&A and open mic.  \n  \nOur goal is to create a dialogue that showcases the intersections and diversity amongst Muslims. The event draws inspiration from Kazim Ali’s introduction to the anthology which says:  \n  \n“This collection includes the religious of all stripes; practicing and nonpracticing; the cultural Muslim; the secular Muslim; the feminist Muslim; Muslims of various gender identities\, sexualities\, and national origins. The writers within are converts\, reverts\, “good” Muslims\, “bad” Muslims\, born Muslim\, ex-Muslim\, and trying-to-be or failing-to-be Muslim…This collection of voices ought to be a symphony and cacophony at once\, like the body of Muslims as they are today.” \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public\, presented in a Zoom webinar format. \n  \nTo learn more about the anthology\, please visit the Red Hen Press website. \n  \nAbout the Writers \nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, including several volumes of poetry\, novels\, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water. \nAyeh Bandeh-Ahmadi’s memoir-in-stories\, “Ayat\,” was a finalist for the First Pages Prize and the Chautauqua Foundation’s Janus Prize\, recognizing an emerging writer’s work for daring innovations that reorder literary conventions and readers’ imaginations. Her writing has appeared in Entropy’s Top 25\, No Tokens and PANK; has been recognized with support from Millay Arts\, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Creative Fellowship\, and the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship; and appears in the New Moons anthology of Contemporary Writing from North American Muslims from Red Hen Press. She was part of a ten-person team responsible for raising $4T to support COVID stimulus at the U.S. Treasury Dept. and has taught personal essay to Washington D.C. high school students for PEN/Faulkner. \nHazem Fahmy is a writer and critic from Cairo. His debut chapbook\, Red//Jild//Prayer won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest\, and his second\, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo\, is forthcoming from Half-Mystic Press in March 2022. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow\, his poetry has appeared\, or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020\, AAWW\, The Boston Review\, and Prairie Schooner. His criticism has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Mubi Notebook\, Reverse Shot\, and Mizna. \n  \nBarrak Alzaid is writer of memoir\, prose\, poetry and art criticism whose current project\, Fabulous\, relates his queer coming of age in Kuwait. His poem Fa’et was awarded a first place prize by Nasiona Magazine in their inaugural micro nonfiction and poetry competition. Excerpts of his memoir are published in several anthologies including The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Tales from Many Muslim Worlds (Penguin SEA)\, Emerge: 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology\, and in New Moons\, an anthology of Muslim writing edited by Kazim Ali (Redhen Press). He has conducted fellowships\, workshops and residencies through Delfina Foundation\, Fine Arts Works Center and Lambda Literary Retreat. He is a founding member of the artist collective GCC.  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by: \nNorthwestern University School of Communication \nAlice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities  \nDepartment of Performance Studies  \nMiddle East Studies Committee and Liberal Art Program\, Northwestern University in Qatar \nDepartment of Gender and Sexuality Studies \nMiddle East and North African Studies Program \nProgram of African Studies URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/muslim-writers-voices-a-symphony-and-a-cacophony-zoom-webinar/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T083000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220301T182612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T182739Z UID:16123-1646728200-1646728200@redhen.org SUMMARY:PIWWC Global Poetry Zoom; Our Voices: Our Resistance! Poems Bearing Witness & Speaking OUT! DESCRIPTION:PEN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WRITERS COMMITTEE \npresents \nOur Voices: Our Resistance! \nPoems Bearing Global Witness \n& SPEAKING OUT!! \nA rousing Global – Multilingual – Free the Word Poetry Zoom! \nPoetry that shines\, roars\, and soars with the POWER of the Word \nto bring & sing the Change we long to see!!! \n14 poets from 13 countries present poems in 9 languages! \nLed by Judyth Hill\, San Miguel PEN\nEmpty Chair #3. Meral Şimşek (Kurdish poet) \nPLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND : HERE \nOUR FEATURED POETS: \nIya Kiva: Ukraine PEN ~ Aziz Isa Elkin: Uyghur PEN ~ Christine Wormull PEN Chile ~ Dragica Čarna Slovene PEN \nDaphine Arinde: Uganda PEN ~ Art Goodtimes: San Miguel PEN ~ Diane Régimbald: PEN Quebec \nBana Beydoun: PEN Lebanon ~ Cho Lay Mar: Myanmar PEN ~ Stella Nyanzi: Uganda PEN ~ Veera Tyhtilä: PEN Finland \nPam Uschuk: PEN America ~ Tessy Baila: PEN Greece ~ Linda Baros: PEN Romania \n  URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/piwwc-global-poetry-zoom-our-voices-our-resistance-poems-bearing-witness-speaking-out/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220301T171251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T171251Z UID:16115-1646332200-1646339400@redhen.org SUMMARY:The Loneliest Girl Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press Kate Gale celebrates the launch of her new book\, The Loneliest Girl\, a poetry collection exploring a powerful narrative for all women who have carried guilt and shame—for being a woman\, for not being enough\, for being a victim. This latest collection from the University of New Mexico Press offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world and determine their own destiny. \nWe’re celebrating with an in-person party at the Hen House Literary Center with Kate and a few incredible poets! Join Kim Dower\, Ron Koertge\, and Douglas Manuel for a reading celebration! Light refreshments will be served! \nCan’t make it in person? We’ll be livestreaming this event as well on Facebook and on YouTube! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/the-loneliest-girl-book-launch/ LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Red Hen Press":MAILTO:media@redhen.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T231756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T231756Z UID:16000-1644926400-1644931800@redhen.org SUMMARY:Lion Rock Visiting Writer's Series: Bilingual Workshop DESCRIPTION:A free bilingual writing class from the Humanities WA Speakers Bureau and Central Washington University\, also featuring a reading by Karla Yaritza Maravilla. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/lion-rock-visiting-writers-series-bilingual-workshop/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20220131T230832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T230832Z UID:15996-1644427800-1644433200@redhen.org SUMMARY:Seventh Wave Magazine One Time Intimate Talks DESCRIPTION:Kristen Millares Young\, author of Subduction\, will be part of the Seventh Wave’s 90-minute Intimate Talks for their Community Fundraiser! There’s only 14 spots available\, so book your spot now! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/seventh-wave-magazine-one-time-intimate-talks/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220103 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20211129T192826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T192826Z UID:15813-1639699200-1641167999@redhen.org SUMMARY:Red Hen Offices Closed for Holiday Break! DESCRIPTION:Red Hen operations will be closed so our staff can celebrate the holidays with their families! We wish you all a joyous holiday season filled with light\, laughter\, and love! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/red-hen-offices-closed-for-holiday-break/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20211102T194201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T194201Z UID:15635-1639166400-1639166400@redhen.org SUMMARY:DELIRIUM MUSICUM: An Intimate Concert DESCRIPTION:DELIRIUM MUSICUM: An Intimate Concert\, Live at the Village Studios December 10\, 2021\, 8pm. \nInspiring Audiences with Ecstatic\, Impassioned Music Making with special poetry readings provided by: LYNNE THOMPSON\, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. \nThe musicians who make up Delirium Musicum make sure each concert is an immediate\, visceral experience for their audiences. Their impassioned performances grab hold of concert-goers’ emotions and don’t let go. The musicans are among the top up-and-coming performers in classical music\, and draw from Los Angeles’ crackling artistic energy. The experience is awe-inspiring\, from the first moment that a bow is drawn across a string until the very last note! \n  URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/delirium-musicum-an-intimate-concert/ LOCATION:Village Studios\, 1616 Butler Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20211129T192559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T192559Z UID:15811-1639069200-1639072800@redhen.org SUMMARY:New Moons: VIRTUAL at Chevalier's Books DESCRIPTION:Featuring editor Kazim Ali\, Tanzila Ahmed\, Ramy Eletreby\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Bushra Reman\, Rarfia Faizullah\, and Sham-E-Ali. URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/new-moons-virtual-at-chevaliers-books/ LOCATION:Chevalier’s Books\, 133 N Larchmont Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134439 CREATED:20211129T192407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T192407Z UID:15808-1638903600-1638910800@redhen.org SUMMARY:New Moons: IN PERSON at Stories Cafe LA DESCRIPTION:Featuring Tanzila Ahmed\, Ramy Eletrby\, Mahin Ibrahim\, and Aatif Rashid! Join us in person in Los Angeles at this famed bookstore and cafe and celebrate New Moons with us! URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/new-moons-in-person-at-stories-cafe-la/ LOCATION:Stories Books and Cafe\, 1716 W. Sunset Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR