All Events

Sunday, Jan 24, 3:00pm

New York City

THE RED BOOK DIALOGUES
Tracy K. Smith, with Lisa DeBenedittis

Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith and an associate dean and assistant professor at Parsons School for Design are invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation.

Co-sponsored by the Rubin Museum of Art.

$20 / $18 for PSA members

Check out www.rmanyc.org/redbook for more information, or call the Rubin Museum Box Office at (212) 620-5000 ext. 344 to get the PSA Member discount.

All tickets include admission to the exhibit The Red Book of C.G. Jung

Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street

Tuesday, Feb 2, 6:30pm

New York City

POEMS & PINTS with
Molly Peacock and Terese Svoboda

The popular series returns this Spring to New York's historic Fraunces Tavern.

Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of six books of poetry, including The Second Blush (W.W. Norton and Company, 2008) and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (2002). She is the editor of, The Private I: Privacy in a Public World (Graywolf, 2001) and The Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books, 2009).

Terese Svoboda is the author of ten books of prose and poetry, most recently Weapons Grade (University of Arkansas Press, 2009) and Black Glasses Like Clark Kent (2008) which won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her opera WET premiered at Los Angeles Disney Hall in 2005. She lives in New York City.

Monday, Feb 8, 7:30pm

Los Angeles, CA

PSA SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Wanda Coleman, Brendan Constantine, and Albert Goldbarth, with Robert N. Casper

A reading and moderated discussion with an eclectic mix of acclaimed contemporary poets.

Co-sponsored by Red Hen Press.

Admission is $10 / $5 for PSA Members and Students.

Geffen Playhouse
10866 Le Conte Avenue

Wednesday, Feb 17, 6:30pm

Queens, NY

THE NEW SALON IN QUEENS
Mark Doty, with Robert N. Casper

An offshoot of our series, in the most diverse borough in New York City.

Mark Doty is an award-winning poet and memoirist. His eight poetry collections include My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award. Doty's other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, as well as the Guggenheim,Whiting, and Rockefeller foundations. He lives in New York City and teaches at Rutgers University.

Co-sponsored by Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

Admission is free.

Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
(For directions to campus, visit www.qc.edu)

Thursday, Feb 18, 7:00pm

New York City

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Olena Kalytiak Davis, with Deborah Landau

A reading and conversation in an intimate format.

Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities (Tin House Books, 2003). Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).

Thursday, Feb 25, 7:00pm

New York, NY

AN EVENING WITH VERA PAVLOVA

A reading, in Russian and English, celebrating the publication of the celebrated Russian poet's first book in English, If There is Something to Desire (Knopf). Deborah Garrison, the editor of her new book, will interview Pavlova after the reading.

Read about Vera Pavlova and her new book in VOGUE!

Co-sponsored by The Russian American Foundation.

$10 / Free for PSA Members and Russian American Foundation Members.

Grand Gallery, National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South

Tuesday, Mar 2, 6:30pm

New York City

POEMS & PINTS with
Meena Alexander and John Burnside

Our popular series at New York's historic Fraunces Tavern.

Meena Alexander's collections of poetry include Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books, 2008), Raw Silk (2004), and Illiterate Heart (2002), the winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award.  She is also the editor of Indian Love Poems (Everyman's Library/ Knopf, 2005) and the author of two novels. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York.

John Burnside is the author of several books, a collection of short stories, several novels, and a memoir. His collections of poetry include The Good Neighbour (2005), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize; The Light Trap (2001), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award; and his first book The Hoop, which won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He currently teaches at the University of St. Andrews.

Presented in partnership with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Admission is free.

Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street (corner of Broad Street)

Fri-Sat, Mar 5-6

New York, NY

WALLACE STEVENS, NEW YORK, AND MODERNISM

Two readings as part of the NYU conference, to celebrate Wallace Stevens' poetry and poetics as well as highlight the years he spent in New York and their particular mark on his work. (For more details on the conference, visit http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/)

Co-sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Humanities Initiative, the Creative Writing Progam, and the Comparative Literature and English Departments at New York University.

Admission is free.

Friday, Mar 5
5:30 pm
Eamon Grennan, Maureen McLane, Tracy K. Smith, and Mark Strand

Saturday, Mar 6
4:30 PM
Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Matthew Rohrer, and Elizabeth Willis

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Gallatin Building, New York University
1 Washington Place

Monday, Mar 8, 7:00pm

Pasadena, CA

A CELEBRATION OF THE KATE AND KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARDS
Lucia Perillo, Carl Phillips, and Robert Wrigley, with Alice Quinn

A reading honoring winners of these prestigious awards.

Co-sponsored by Claremont Graduate University and Red Hen Press.

Admission is $10 / $5 for PSA Members and Students.

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
The Theatre @ Boston Court
70 North Mentor Avenue

Wednesday, Mar 10, 6:30pm

New York, NY

BRIGHT WINGS
Billy Collins, George Green, Joshua Mehigan, Linda Pastan, David Allen Sibley, and David Yezzi

A reading celebrating the publication of Bright Wings, an anthology of poems edited by Billy Collins and featuring paintings by David Allen Sibley. Joel Cracraft, curator of ornithology at the Museum, will introduce the readers.

Co-sponsored by Columbia University Press and the American Museum of Natural History.

$15 / $13.50 for PSA Members.

Kaufmann Theater
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street

Thursday, Mar 11, 6:00pm

Cambridge, MA

CRITICAL CONTEXTS
David Orr, Srikanth Reddy, and Rebecca Wolff, with Robert N. Casper

Our annual roundtable on the state of contemporary American poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Admission is free.

Thompson Room, Barker Center
Harvard University
12 Quincy Street

Saturday, Mar 13, 3:00pm

The Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY
Joshua Beckman, Rachel Hadas, and Evie Shockley

Tuesday, Mar 30, 7:00pm

New York, NY

AN EVENING WITH MAXINE KUMIN

Wednesday, Mar 31, 7:00pm

New York City

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Elizabeth Alexander, with Alice Quinn

A reading and conversation in an intimate format.

Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. She has published five books of poems including American Sublime (Graywolf, 2005), which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the American Library Association's "Notable Books of the Year"; Antebellum Dream Book (2001); and The Venus Hottentot (1990). Most recently, she composed and delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which was published as a chapbook from Graywolf Press. She teaches at Yale University.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writing House, New York University
58 West 10th Street

Thursday, Apr 1, 7:00pm

New York City

100TH ANNUAL PSA AWARDS CEREMONY

The 100th anniversary of the PSA's awards ceremony, celebrating the winners of our 13 annual awards and honoring the life and work of our 2010 Centennial Frost Medalist, Lucille Clifton. PSA President Emerita Molly Peacock and former Executive Director Elise Paschen will also be honored.

Admission is free.

Grand Gallery, National Arts Club
15 Gramery Park

Monday, Apr 5, 6:00pm

New York City

THE FIGURE OF ORPHEUS IN POETRY AND PERFORMANCE, 1910-2010
with John Ashbery, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mark Strand, Maria Tucci, and others

In honor of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary and the PSA's 100th Anniversary, an event celebrating the figure of Orpheus mythologized in poetry as well as dance, music, and film.

Co-sponsored by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.

Admission is free.

Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street

Tuesday, Apr 6, 6:30pm

New York City

POEMS & PINTS with
Joanna Klink & Carol Muske-Dukes

Our popular series at New York's historic Fraunces Tavern.

Joanna Klink is the author of Raptus (Penguin, 2010), Circadian (2007), They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000).  She is currently the Briggs Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University.

Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of numerous novels and collections of poetry, including Sparrow, a National Book Award finalist. She served as California's poet laureate and is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review and the LA Times Book Review.

Presented in partnership with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Admission is free.

Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street (corner of Broad Street)

Thursday, Apr 8, 4:30pm

Denver, CO

PSA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT AWP
Cyrus Cassells, B. H. Fairchild, Kimiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, Jean Valentine, Diane Wakoski, Gary Young, and Matthew Zapruder

Tuesday, Apr 20, 7:00pm

Nashville, TN

NEW SALON AT VANDERBILT
Ciaran Carson, with Alice Quinn

The branch of our series, at the prestigious Southern University.

Ciaran Carson's collections of poetry include On the Night Watch (2009); For All We Know (2008), which was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award; Language: Poems (1993), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize; and Belfast Confetti (1990), which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. He is also author of Last Night's Fun: About Time, Food and Music (1996), a study of Irish traditional music. He lives in Belfast.

Monday, Apr 26, 7:00pm

Austin, TX

PSA SPOTLIGHT SERIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
H. L. Hix, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, and Dean Young, with Robert N. Casper

Co-sponsored by the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

An offshoot of our Spotlight Series, featuring a panel discussion on poetry with current faculty at the acclaimed writing program.

Free and open to the public.

Avaya Auditorium
ACE 2.302
University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, Apr 28, 7:00pm

New York City

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Heather McHugh, with Robert N. Casper

A reading and conversation in an intimate format.

Heather McHugh was appointed Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. She's also is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including her most recent Upgraded to Serious (Copper Canyon, 2009);  Eyeshot (Wesleyan, 2004), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize; and Hinge & Sign (1994), a finalist for the National Book Awards and named a "Notable Book of the Year, by the New York Times. In 2009, she was awarded the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" for her work. in 1984.

Mon-Tue, May 3-4

New York City

CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL

Now in its second year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of the 2009 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellows.

Please visit chapbookfestival.org for further details.

Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center CUNY, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, and Poets & Writers.

Thursday, May 6, 7:00pm

New York, NY

A TRIBUTE TO DANIEL HALPERN AND ECCO PRESS
John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Anthony Bourdain, Janie Fink, Richard Ford, Jorie Graham, Daniel Halpern, Campbell McGrath, and Joyce Carol Oates

An evening honoring the great poet, publisher, and teacher, and the press he founded forty years ago.

Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Ecco, and the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

Admission is free.

Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th floor)
New York University
60 Washington Square South

Friday, May 14, 7:30pm

Minneapolis, MN

POETS OF THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, 1910-2010
Antler, Robert Bly, Marvin Bell, Heid Erdrich, Ray Gonzalez, Mary Kinzie, Jim Moore, and Thylias Moss

Distinguished Midwestern poets read their own work as well as the work of their canonical predecessors.

Co-sponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Admission is $5 / $3 for MCBA, PSA, and Rain Taxi Members and Students.

Target Performance Hall, Open Book
1101 Washington Avenue S.

Saturday, May 15, 3:00pm

New York City

A SEASON IN POETRY
L. S. Asekoff, Ken Chen, and Eamon Grennan