All Events

Sunday, Aug 29, 3:30pm

New Orleans, LA

REMEMBERING KATRINA
Nicole Cooley, Peter Cooley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kay Murphy, Brenda Marie Osbey, Alison Pelegrin, Brad Richard, and Martha Serpas, with Alice Quinn

An event honoring the fifth anniversary of the hurricane, featuring poets from New Orleans and the Bayou state. 

Co-sponsored by the English Department, Tulane University.

Admission is free.

Kendall Cram Room, Lavin-Bernick Center
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue

Sunday, Sep 12, 11:00am

Brooklyn, NY

PSA PRESENTS AT THE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL

The Poetry Society of America hosts a reading at the day-long festival, featuring Martin Espada, Dorthea Lasky, John Murillo, and Jean Valentine, with Robert N. Casper.

Main Stage

Admission is free.

For more information about other poetry events at the Brooklyn Book Festival visit www.brooklynbookfestival.org

Monday, Sep 13, 7:30pm

Los Angeles, CA

LA SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Kim Dower, Percival Everett, Dana Levin, 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 $20 / $15 for PSA Members and Students.

Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue

Thursday, Sep 16, 6:15pm

Los Angeles, CA

CELEBRANDO CHICANA POETRY
Diana Garcia, Maria Melendez, and Emmy Pérez, with Robert N. Casper.

As part of the Flor y Canto Festival, a reading and moderated discussion with three of America's most exciting Chicana poets.

Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas.

Admission is free.

For more information about the Festival, visit http://readraza.com/florsked.htm.

Friends Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library
University of Southern California
3550 Trousdale Parkway, University Park Campus

Saturday, Sep 18, 3:00pm

New York, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY
Maggie Dietz, Tom Healy, and Julie Sheehan.

Welcoming the arrival of Fall, with poets reading classic favorites as well as their own work at the largest botanical garden in the United States.

Co-sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with general admission to the Botanical Garden.

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
For directions see www.nybg.org

Tuesday, Sep 21, 7:00pm

Harrisonburg, Virginia

73 POEMS FOR 73 YEARS: CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF LUCILLE CLIFTON

A tribute reading to the PSA Frost Medalist and former board member by poets across the country, featuring Rita Dove, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Glaser, Nikky Finney, Haki R. Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, and others.

Co-sponsored by the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University and the Steger Poetry Prize at Virginia Tech.

Admission is free.

Wilson Hall Auditorium
James Madison University

Thursday, Sep 23, 7:00pm

Boston, MA

POETS OF NEW ENGLAND, 1910-2010
with Frank Bidart, Major Jackson, X.J. Kennedy, Gail Mazur, Mary Oliver, James Tate, Rosanna Warren, and Franz Wright.

Contemporary New England Poets read their own poems as well as the work of New Englanders of yore.

Co-sponsored by Boston Review and the Boston University Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Tsai Performance Center, Boston University
685 Commonwealth Avenue

A Centennial Benefit Reception will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Thursday, Sep 30, 7:00pm

New York, NY

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Matthew Zapruder, with Deborah Landau.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002), The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Come on All You Ghosts, published by Copper Canyon in Fall of 2010.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.

Admission is free.

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

Thursday, Oct 7, 6:00pm

Atlanta, GA

POETS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1910-2010
with Claudia Emerson, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey, C. D. Wright, and Kevin Young.

Contemporary poets celebrate the great tradition of Southern Poetry in America over the past century.

Co-sponsored by the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, MARBL, Emory University.

Admission is free.

Glenn Memorial Auditorium
Emory University

A Centennial Benefit Reception will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Tuesday, Oct 12, 7:00pm

New York, NY

100 YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1910-2010
with U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Daniel Hoffman, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic.

Our U.S. Poets Laureate read their own poems and poems by their predecessors at the famous hall, in honor of the anniversary of the first meeting of the Poetry Society of America in October, 1910, and the publication of The Poets Laureate Anthology.

Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center.

Admission is free.

The Great Hall, Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue

A Centennial Benefit Reception Dinner will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Thursday, Oct 14, 7:00pm

New York, NY

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Monica de la Torre with Robert N. Casper.

Mónica de la Torre is the author of the poetry books Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007) and Public Domain (Roof, 2008). She is co-editor of the anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) with Michael Wiegers.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.

Admission is free.

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

Wednesday, Oct 27, 6:30pm

Queens, NY

THE NEW SALON IN QUEENS:
Readings and Conversations
Marilyn Hacker, with Alice Quinn.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Names (W. W. Norton, 2009); Desperanto: Poems, 1999-2002 (2003); Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994), which won the Poet's Prize; and Winter Numbers (1994), which won both the Lenore Marshall Prize and a Lambda Poetry Literary Award.

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

Admission is free.

Rosenthal Library, 230
Queens College

For directions to campus, visit www.qc.edu.

Thursday, Nov 4, 7:00pm

Nashville, TN

NEW SALON AT VANDERBILT
Tom Sleigh with Alice Quinn.

Tom Sleigh's most recent collections include Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Far Side of the Earth (2003), named an Honor Book by the Massachusetts Society for the Book. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Vanderbilt University.

Admission is free.

Wilson Hall, Room 126
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Avenue South

Thursday, Nov 4, 7:00pm

Austin, TX

PSA SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Ange Mlinko, Kevin Prufer, Evie Shockley, with Robert N. Casper.

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

Admission is free.

University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, Nov 4, 7:00pm

New York, NY

SPOTLIGHT ON ARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO:
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Charles Bernstein, Thomas Epstein, and Genya Turovskaya, with Eugene Ostashevsky, and Matvei Yankelevich

A reading and roundtable discussion with the famed Russian avant-garde poet, in English.

Admission is free.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, The Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Dalkey Archive Press.

Dodge Hall, Room 501
Columbia University
2960 Broadway

Saturday, Nov 6, 7:00pm

New York, NY

TURNING TIDES:
A SYMPOSIUM ON DIASPORIC LITERATURES

A creative and scholarly symposium which will highlight three different legacies of diaspora in the United States: Haiti, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico.

Co-sponsored by Fordam University in conjunction with The Academy of American Poets, The Acentos Foundation, The Asian American Writers' Workshop, Caribbean Cultural Center, Cave Canem, CENTRO de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Kundiman, The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham, New York Metro American Studies Association, Poets and Writers, Poets for Ayiti, Poets Out Loud, and Puerto Rican Studies Association.

Admission is free.

McNally Auditorium
Fordham University
Lincoln Center

For schedule of events and more information visit http://turningtides.squarespace.com/

Thursday, Nov 11, 7:00pm

Austin, TX

PSA SPOTLIGHT SERIES AT UT-AUSTIN
Ange Mlinko, Kevin Prufer, and Evie Shockley, with Robert N. Casper.

A reading and conversation with three emerging poet/critics.

Co-sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the English Department, University of Texas at Austin.

Admission is free.

Avaya Auditorium, ACES Building
University of Texas at Austin
201 E. 24th Street

Saturday, Nov 13, 11:45am

New York, NY

PANEL DISCUSSION:
ASSEMBLING THE MANUSCRIPT
Jonathan Galassi, E. Tracy Ginnell, Craig Teicher, with Robert N. Casper.

As part of the Literary Writers Conference at the New School, a panel with noteworthy editors and critics on the best way to put together a manuscript of poems.

Co-sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Press, the National Book Foundation, The New School Creative Writing Program, and Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.

For more information on the conference and to register, visit www.lwcnyc.org

Thursday, Nov 18, 7:00pm

New York, NY

NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Charles Wright with Alice Quinn.

Charles Wright is the author of several volumes of poetry, including  Sestets: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Scar Tissue (2007), which was the international winner for the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Black Zodiac (1997), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.

Admission is free.

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

Saturday, Nov 20, 3:00pm

New York, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY
Sally Keith, Gregory Pardlo, and Spencer Reece.

Co-sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with general admission to the Botanical Garden.

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
For directions see www.nybg.org

Tuesday, Nov 30, 7:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

POETS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1910-2010
with Wanda Coleman, Robert Hass, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Michael Palmer.

Celebrated Western poets read their own work as well as poems by their favorite poets of the region.

Co-sponsored by PEN Center USA and the Hammer Museum.

Admission is free.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard

A Centennial Benefit Reception Dinner will follow the reading.

For tickets and information about the reception please contact Aimee Walker or call 212-254-9628.

Tuesday, Dec 14, 7:30pm

Washington D.C.

EMILY DICKINSON BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Lucia Perillo, with Alice Quinn

Lucia Perillo has published four books of poetry, most recently Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and  Luck is Luck (Random House, 2005), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts prize from Claremont University. A former MacArthur fellow, she lives in Olympia, Washington.

Co-sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

$10/$8 for PSA Members and Students.
Call 202-675-0374 for more information or visit www.folger.edu.
Call 202-544-7077 for tickets.

Folger Theatre
Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE