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 […]

#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 […]

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. 

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]