Red Hen Press

IN-PERSON: Pamela Uschuk at SITE Santa Fe
2022-06-25 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Denver) | SITE, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Chatter

Saturday, Jun 25, 2022, 10:30am at SITE Santa Fe
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning.
Jonathan Dove Figures in the Garden
Alfred Schnittke Hymnus no. 2
Antonin Dvorak Serenade for Winds in D minor, op. 44
Melissa Peña, Karen Wagner oboe
James Shields, Sergei Vassiliev clarinet
Kai Rocke bassoon
Peter Erb, Jeff Rogers, Julia Erdmann Hyams horn
James Holland cello
Nina DeCesare bass
Pamela Uschuk poet

Red Hen Book Fair!
2022-06-18 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Outside: Book Sale Bonanza! – 1p-5p
BLOWOUT SALE! Starting at $1, bring home steeply discounted books and support local nonprofit publisher Red Hen Press as we strive to bring new and diverse books to the world!
Food Truck on site!

Inside: WITS Graduates Open Mic, 3p-5p
Student Anthology Release Party!Join us for food and drinks to celebrate the culmination of our Writing in the Schools program!
Activities include WITS students open mic and interactive book activities for both kids and adults
All students, parents, teachers, and community members welcome!

Vaccination Statement: Masks and proof of vaccination required inside

Red Hen Readathon!
2022-06-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Join us for an incredible two-hour celebration of literature and publishing! We invite you to support Red Hen Press in this spring fundraiser with donations or book purchases! Listen to our slate of award-winning, bestselling, rave-reviewed authors from our Spring 2022 season share some of their incredible work, learn more about the Red Hen Press initiative, and be a part of our journey by supporting us today!

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Carlos Allende at the UCLA Writer's Program Instructors Publication Party
2022-06-08 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
Carlos Allende, author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love will be at the UCLA Writer’s Program Instructors Publication Party on June 8, 2022 from 7:00 to 9:30! More information to come!

Yuvi Zalkow book launch event at Powell's Books
2022-06-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
June 7 @ 7pm Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
• Book launch event with Joanna Rose
…and Yuvi’s animations
more info to come!

Diane Thiel and Carl Marcum Discussion, Reading, and Q&A
2022-06-02 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Diane Thiel and Carl Marcum as they discuss their collections of poetry Questions from Outer Spaceand A Camera Obscura!
About Questions from Outer Space :
Compelling poems with brave, insightful, often humorous observations of the world.
Diane Thiel’s eagerly anticipated collection of poems, Questions from Outer Space, explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions on many fronts, challenging assumptions and locating unique angles of perception. This thought-provoking book reflects a deep engagement with the natural world, a questioning of our built systems, the expansive wilderness of parenting, and the complexities of navigating outer and inner space.
About A Camera Obscura :
From the edge of a singularity and across desert roads at night, A Camera Obscura teleports its readers through deep space nebulae and the constructs of cityscapes to arrive at what it means to “see.” Lovers embrace in sonnets and meditations move through artworks and Hubble Telescope images as these poems employ ekphrastic visions to balance the profound displacements in the most mundane aspects of our lives with science, fact, faith, and song. In the ceremonial blades of Aztec sacrifice and the anonymity of undocumented lives, these poems accrete into a solar system of images seen true, seen askance, seen in error, seen entire. A Camera Obscura is the dark room of the imagination where sīgnum–the sign, the act–becomes the tangible testaments of living.
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Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry and nonfiction, including Echolocations and Resistance Fantasies. Thiel’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Hopkins Review, and numerous other publications. Her awards include a PEN Award, the Nicholas Roerich Prize, and a Fulbright. Thiel received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and has traveled and lived in Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, working on literary and environmental projects. She is Regents’ Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and lives in the Sandia Mountain foothills.
Carl Marcum is a Chicano poet from Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of the collection Cue Lazarus, and his poems have appeared in the anthologies The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction & Fantasy. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Marcum has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Taos Writers Conference. He served as a Canto Mundo Fellow from 2011–2015. Marcum taught for many years at DePaul University in Chicago and now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is the managing director of a small engineering and environmental consulting firm in the Marcellus Shale.
Questions from Outer Space and A Camera Obscura will be available at Lost City Books!

Adam Kirsch at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop
2022-06-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grolier Poetry Bookshop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
More details to come!

Jenny Qi, Pete Hsu, and Lily Hoang at Skylight Books
2022-05-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
Join the incredible Jenny Qi, Pete Hsu, and Lily Hoang at Skylight Books for a gorgeous conversation on their upcoming releases, and on trauma, identity, violence, and belonging.

Women…Water…Spirals Exhibition Launch
2022-05-22 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Red Hen Press
1540 Lincoln Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

Red Hen Press is celebrating the re-opening of our art gallery space at the Hen House Literary Center! We’re thrilled and honored to welcome over 80 artists to our community center, including Rachel X Hobreigh, Renee Amitai, 50 artists from the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, and 30 local Los Angeles artists! These incredible artists are all donating some or all of their proceeds from art sales to Red Hen Press, and we are so grateful for their generosity. Join us at the opening party for this wonderful celebration and take home a unique, exclusive art piece!
Refreshments will be provided! All attendees must be fully vaccinated and boosted, which will be verified at the door. Masks are required when not eating or drinking.

Thea Prieto discusses From the Caves with guest, The Last Exit author Michael Kaufman
2022-05-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Thea Prieto as she discusses From the Caveswith guest, The Last Exit author Michael Kaufman!
About From the Caves:
Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths. From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings.
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Thea Prieto is a recipient of the Laurels Award Fellowship, as well as a finalist for the international Edwin L. Stockton, Jr. Award and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. She writes and edits for Poets & Writers, Propeller Magazine, and The Gravity of the Thing, and her work has also appeared at New Orleans Review, Longreads, Entropy, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College. From the Caves is her first book.
Michael Kaufman, PhD, is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. As an advisor, activist, and keynote speaker, he has developed innovative approaches to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality and positively transforming men’s lives. Over the past four decades his work with the United Nations, governments, non-governmental organizations, corporations, trade unions, and universities has taken him to fifty countries. Michael is the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women. He volunteers as a senior fellow at Promundo (Washington D.C. ) and co-wrote its first State of the Worlds’ Fathers Report. He advised the French government in 2019 and the Canadian government in 2018 as a member of their respective G7 Gender Equality Advisory Councils. In 2017 he was awarded Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross.
From the Caves will be available at Lost City Books!

IN-PERSON: Charles Harper Webb and Carleton Eastlake at Vroman's!
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, in conversation with Carleton Eastlake, author of Monkey Business, at Vroman’s in Pasadena! These two authors will discuss the themes toxic masculinity, the dynamics of love and infatuation, and the mysteries of seduction and life.

MONKEY BUSINESS Book Launch at Diesel, a bookstore
2022-05-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel, a bookstore, 225 26th Street. Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA, 90402, United States
Join us on Saturday, May 7th at 3:00 pm as we welcome Carleton Eastlake to the store to discuss and sign Monkey Business!
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend.
A conflicted TV writer on location in Florida becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at a nightclub when she upends everything he thought he understood about life, limerence, bonded love, power, creativity, paintball combat, and what psychologists and philosophers refer to as the Hard Problem of human consciousness. Monkeys — and parrots — do play a role. As does Chairman Mao. And, in a cameo appearance, NASA. It is in no way autobiographical.
Carleton Eastlake graduated from UCLA in political science and psychology and from Harvard Law School with a concentration in law and the social sciences. After a career in public policy and consumer protection law, being hired on Steven Spielberg’s series seaQuest confirmed him as a television writer-producer as well. He has shared in Edgar and Saturn awards and is a former board member of the Writers Guild of America West and a past President of PEN Center USA. His wife, Loraine Despres, is a best-selling novelist, television writer, and tree-farmer. They live in Los Angeles, California.

LitFest Pasadena: Red Hen Day
2022-05-07 | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Join Red Hen Press and our literary community as we put on a complete day of literary programming!

1-2:15pm – State of Publishing Panel (featuring local publishers)
2:45pm-4:00pm – Craft Panel
4:30-5:45pm – Craft Workshop
6:15-7:30pm – Reading with local authors

Changing Hands Bookstore Author Event
2022-04-30 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix, 300 West Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85012, United States
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 like prose, while exploring classism, ableism, and feminism in a world defined by the advent of new media and, for the author, a privilege that often felt suffocating.
About The Loneliest Girl | Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena’s temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim-blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame—for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world–in which women find their way out from the cave of the Cisthene and into a world where they determine their own destiny.
About Distantly | This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard’s lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. The poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The cities in Brossard’s poems feel surreal, and in them dwell survivors of “misfortunes,” living in urban landscapes with their “gleaming debris” and “bridges, ghats, / rivers in a time of peace and torture.”
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Karen Brennan is the author of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and an AWP award, she is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her stories, poems, and essays have been widely published in journals and magazines and have been included in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Georgia, Michigan (among others) as well as The Best Small Fictions, 2017 and An Anthology of Contemporary XXperimental Women Writers (Spuyten Duyvil). Since 1991, she has served as core faculty for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Television, a memoir is her eighth book.
Kate Gale is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Editor of the Los Angeles Review. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. In addition to The Loneliest Girl, she is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Goldilocks Zone (U of NM Press, 2014) and Echo Light (Red Mountain P, 2014).
Cynthia Hogue’s most recent collections are Revenance (2014) and In June the Labyrinth (2017). Her tenth collection, instead, it is dark, will be out from Red Hen Press in 2023. Distantly by Nicole Brossard is her third co-translated volume. Hogue’s recent chapbook is entitled Contain (Tram Editions 2022). Her honors include two NEA Fellowships. She taught as the Marshall Chair in Poetry for fifteen years at ASU, before retiring to Tucson.

Kim Dower - I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom
2022-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Book Passage – Corte Madera, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, 94925, United States
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 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.
Kim Dower, Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, has published four highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including the Gold Ippy Award winning collection Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave. She has been nominated for four Pushcarts, is widely anthologized, and teaches writing workshops for Antioch University, the West Hollywood Library, and UCLA Writer’s Extension.

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Feminist Poetry and the Power of the Femme
2022-04-30 12:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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 expression, resistance, and movement building. We will explore how the femme-centered literary work questions the status quo and challenges all systems of oppression while deepening our feminist roots in knowledge. We will hone our writing skills to not only tap into an unsung voice, but also generate work that moves, mesmerizes, and motivates conversation.
We will also explore ways in which women writers, particularly women and femme writers of color have had to articulate their pain and erasure in unique ways, and will practice emulating that in hopes of also finding a balm, a shovel, a sharp talent to claw ourselves out and back to light.
+ PLEASE NOTE This workshop will occur online via Zoom. Students do not need to create an account to participate, but should test out Zoom before their class if they are first-time users. On Thursday, April 28th from 5:30pm to 6:00pm, MWPA staff will offer a tech help session on Zoom. Students are encouraged to attend the tech help session, which usually takes only 5-10 minutes, if they have any tech concerns, use Zoom infrequently, or simply would like to test their connection, and those who do not are responsible for ensuring that they are able to use Zoom on their own. The week of the workshop, students will be emailed a link that they may click to enter the test session and the class.
+ REQUIRED EQUIPMENT A reliable, fast internet connection (broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE), speakers & a microphone (built-in or USB plug-in), and a webcam (built-in or USB plug-in).
If you would like to quickly and easily test your internet connection and your computer’s compatibility with Zoom, click HERE. Full details on supported Operating Systems, internet browsers, and more can be found HERE. To download and familiarize yourself with Zoom, click HERE.

ArtNight Pasadena
2022-04-29 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
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!

Academy of American Poets: Poetry & the Creative Mind
2022-04-28 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
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 to attend live for free.

Poetry & 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.
This 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.
Poetry & 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.

AUTHOR EVENT Kim Dower: I Wore This Dress Today For You, Mom
2022-04-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix, 300 West Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85012, United States
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 is required for admission.
Masks are required.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Kim 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kim 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.

POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP Kim Dower: "For Mothers and Anyone Who’s Ever Had a Mother Figure in their Life"
2022-04-26 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix, 300 West Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85012, United States
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 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!”
PLEASE NOTE:
Following 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
A limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you!
ABOUT THE IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

We’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.
Masks are required.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Cost: $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.
Register below.
Please have paper and pen or an electronic device to write on.
Refunds will not be issued within one day of the event.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kim 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.

SWANA Songs: Performance and Praxis (New Moons Event)
2022-04-25 08:00 - 2022-04-26 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 a celebrated multidisciplinary theatre artist: a director, writer, activist, educator and performer (NU alum, ’07 Performance Studies and French, minor in Africana Studies).
Mariam Bazeed’s work across genres has been published in print and online, and their plays performed in festivals in the United States and abroad.

This event is co-sponsored by:
Northwestern University School of Communication
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Department of Performance Studies
Middle East Studies Committee and Liberal Art Program, Northwestern University in Qatar
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Middle East and North African Studies Program
Program of African Studies

Tess Taylor in conversation with Nathan Heller: Rift Zone & Last West
2022-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Book Passage – Corte Madera, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, 94925, 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 trees, and the painful history of Japanese internment.
Taylor’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.
Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange’s photography with a new work
In 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.
“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
Tess 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.
Nathan 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.

Kim Dower—I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom A Poetic Celebration of Motherhood
2022-04-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90049, 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 candid anthology of poems that looks at the rich and complex relationships that mothers and daughters share.
A book signing follows the program. Books available for purchase.

LA Times Festival of Books - Visit Booth 960!
2022-04-23 - 2022-04-24 | 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!

Poetry Night Reading Series
2022-04-21 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 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..
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to secure a table, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list.
For more information about Poetry Night, please email: poetryindavis@gmail.com

Ra Malika Imhotep and Dexter L. Booth Reading, Discussion, and Q&A!
2022-04-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 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.
About Abracadabra, Sunshine:
Abracadabra, 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.
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Ra 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.
Dexter 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.
gossypiin and Abracadabra, Sunshine will be available at Lost City Books!

Tess Taylor Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading
2022-04-19 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, 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!

Words and Wine featuring Khalisa Rae
2022-04-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

Outside the Canon: On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poetry
2022-04-09 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC, 29401, 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 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.
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.
Khalisa 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.
Her debut poetry collection, Ghost in a Black Girls Throat is forthcoming from Red Hen Press April 2021 and Unlearning Eden from White Stag Publishing.

Khalisa Rae with Abigail Fitzpatrick Reading and book signing with the Poetry Society of South Carolina
2022-04-08 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC, 29401, 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 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.
Khalisa 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.
Abigail 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.
This event is open to the public.
