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Wednesday, Feb 8, 8:00pm

New York, NY

POETRY AS SURVIVAL:
AN EVENING WITH GREGORY ORR

"Poetry is a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive." — Gregory Orr

A conversation exploring the intersection between creative expression and mental health—Gregory Orr will present and converse with Arts in Mind curator Joshua Wolf Shenk and Donald Rosen, the CEO and Medical Director of the Austen Riggs Center.

Gregory Orr is the author of 10 collections of poetry, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and a long-time professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia. Orr has given his career to showing the healing power of poetry and explaining the complex matters of craft, aesthetics, and psychology that make this possible.

Admission is free. 

Cosponsored by Arts in Mind, the Sandor Ferenzci Center at the New School in New York City, and the Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center.

The New School's Arnold Hall
65 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Friday, Feb 10, 5:00pm

New York, NY

LITERARY LEGACY: TWO WRITERS IN CONVERSATION ON CRAFT & PROCESS
Mark Doty and Tracy K. Smith

Literary Legacy invites you to engage with Mark Doty and Tracy K. Smith as they converse on topics of craft and their process. Moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes. 

Mark Doty is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (2005); Source (2002); and Sweet Machine (1998). 

Tracy K. Smith's first collection, The Body's Question (2003), won the Cave Canem Prize in 2002. Her second book, Duende ( 2007), won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection, Life on Mars, was published by Graywolf Press in 2011. 

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Friday, Mar 2, 3:00pm

Chicago, IL

THE DOORS OF MY HEART: A TRIBUTE TO DEBORAH DIGGES with Patrick Phillips, Susan Mitchell, Joelle Biele, and Alice Quinn

Join us to celebrate the life and work of the late poet, memoirist, and teacher, Deborah Digges (1950-2009), whose startling lyricism and soulful intelligence have been deeply important to a wide range of contemporary writers. Our panelists, who include editors, long-time friends, and former students, will read from Digges's work and discuss both her life and her lasting impact on American poetry.

Admission is free with conference registration.

Associated Writing Program Conference 
Marquette, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor 

Friday, Mar 2, 4:30pm

Chicago, IL

PSA PRESENTS AT AWP: C. K. Williams

PSA Presents C. K. Williams at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Williams will read his poetry and participate in a moderated discussion with Alice Quinn.

C. K. Williams  is the author of numerous books of poetry and translations, including Wait (2011), The Singing (2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; and Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris.

Admission is free with conference registration.

Associated Writing Program Conference
Grand Ballroom
Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor 

Saturday, Mar 3, 1:30pm

Chicago, IL

PSA PRESENTS AT AWP: Mary Jo Bang and Ed Roberson

PSA Presents Mary Jo Bang and Ed Roberson at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Bang and Roberson will read and then participate in a moderated discussion with Darrel Alejandro Holnes. Introduced by Alice Quinn.

Admission is free with conference registration.

Associated Writing Program Conference
Grand Ballroom
Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor 

Thursday, Mar 8, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Meghan O'Rourke with Deborah Landau

New Salon welcomes poet Megan O'Rourke to read from her newest work, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Deborah Landau.

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of two collections of poetry, Once (2011) and Halflife (2008). She is also the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye (2011), a chronicle of mourning written after the death of her mother. From 2005-2010 O'Rourke was poetry co-editor for the Paris Review, and in 2000 she was a fiction editor for the New Yorker.  Since 2001 she has been a contributing writer for the online magazine Slate.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Saturday, Mar 10, 4:00pm

Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY:
Star Black, Dave Lucas, and Patrick Phillips

A Season in Poetry welcomes the Spring with poets Star Black, Dave Lucas, and Patrick Phillips, who will read work of their own and the work of others to celebrate the season.

Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with All Garden Pass admission to the Botanical Garden.

For directions see www.nybg.org

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road

Tuesday, Mar 13, 7:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

RED, WHITE, & BLUE: POETS ON POLITICS
Douglas Kearney and Edgar Arceneaux

As part of the new national series Red, White, &  Blue: Poets on Politics presented by the Poetry Society of America and its partners this election year, poet Doug Kearney and artist-activist Edgar Arceneaux of the Watts House Project discuss their individual engagement with politics in their artistic practices, pieces, and the world of arts and letters. Moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Co-sponsored by [ALOUD], Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

Admission is free. Reservations recommended.

630 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 

Wednesday, Mar 14, 7:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

RED, WHITE, & BLUE: POETS ON POLITICS
Douglas Kearney, Prageeta Sharma, and Matthew Zapruder

As part of the new national series Red, White, & Blue: Poets on Politics, presented by the Poetry Society of America and its partners this election year, poets Douglas Kearney, Prageeta Sharma, and Matthew Zapruder will discuss the thinking and process behind their self identified political poems and the state of politics in poetry today. Moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Co-sponsored by Pen Center USA. 

Admission is free. Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm.

Annex
Hammer Museum 
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Tuesday, Mar 20, 5:30pm

Washington DC

LATINO/A POETRY NOW:
William Archila and Ruth Irupe Sanabria

Continuing our tour of Latino/a poets around the nation, cosponsored by Letras Latinas, this event features the rich and dynamic voices of poets William Archila and Ruth Irupe Sanabria.

Admission is free. 

5:30 PM Seminar
New North 408

8:00 PM Reading
Copley Formal Lounge

Georgetown University
37th ST and O ST, NW Washington DC 
http://maps.georgetown.edu

This event is hosted by Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice as part of their 2011-2012 Readings and Talks Series, and cosponsored by Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the Library of Congress' Hispanic Division and Poetry and Literature Center. 

Thursday, Mar 29, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Glyn Maxwell with Alice Quinn and Belinda McKeon

New Salon welcomes poet Glyn Maxwell to read his newest poems, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Belinda McKeon. Introduced by Alice Quinn.

Glyn Maxwell is the author of several collections of poetry, including Out of the Rain (1992), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Nerve (2002), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poem (2011). He has taught at Amherst College, Columbia University, and The New School, and was poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Monday, Apr 2, 7:00pm

New York, NY

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE: POETS ON POLITICS
C. A. Conrad, Filip Marinovich, and Patricia Smith

As part of the national series Red, White, and Blue: Poets on Politics, presented by the Poetry Society of America and its partners this election year, poets C. A. Conrad, Filip Marinovich, and Patricia Smith will discuss the thinking and process behind their self-identified political poems and the state of politics in poetry today. Moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Co-sponsored by the New School Writing Program

Admission is free.

Wollmann Hall
The New School
65 West 11th Street

Tuesday, Apr 3, 7:00pm

Nashville, TN

THE NEW SALON AT VANDERBILT
Don Paterson with Alice Quinn

New Salon welcomes poet Don Paterson to read  his newest work, followed by a discussion moderated by Alice Quinn.

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

Admission is free. 

126 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University

Thursday, Apr 12, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Linda Gregerson with Darrel Alejandro Holnes

New Salon welcomes poet Linda Gregerson to read her newest poems, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Linda Gregerson is the author of four volumes of poetry including Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), a finalist for both The Poet's Prize and the Lenore Marshall Award. She is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Friday, May 4, 7:00pm

Queens, NY

POETS IN THE PLAYHOUSE:
Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah

Poets in the Playhouse, brings  poetry from page to stage, beginning with a theatrical staging by students of Thomas and Beulah, the Pulitzer prize-winning collection by Rita Dove at Queens College with a theatrical staging by students.

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

Tuesday, May 22, 7:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

PSA SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
Janice N. Harrington, Anna Journey, and Kevin Simmonds

The Spotlight hits LA once more, shedding its light on poets  Janice N. Harrington, Anna Journey, and Kevin Simmonds. Their reading will be followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Co-sponsored by 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