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Thursday, Feb 7, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READING AND CONVERSATIONS
Edward Hirsch, with Charif Shanahan

Edward Hirsch has published seven books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), and Special Orders (2008).  He has also written four books of prose: the bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), Responsive Reading (1999), The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Poet's Choice (2006).  Since 2003, he has served as the fourth President of the Guggenheim Foundation. 

Co-Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Thursday, Feb 21, 7:00pm

New York, NY

BLESSING THE BOATS:
A Tribute to Lucille Clifton

The public is invited to attend a celebration of Lucille Clifton's life and work on the occasion of BOA's posthumous publication of her Collected Poems. Welcomed by Tonya Foster and introduced by co-editor Michael Glaser, 12 world-class poets will read in tribute: Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Marie Howe, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith and the mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran will perform her original compositions based on Clifton poems.

Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the Academy of American Poets, BOA Editions, Cave Canem Foundation, CUNY Hunter, and Poets House.

Admission is free.

Proshansky Auditorium
The Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue

Thursday, Feb 28, 4:00pm

New York, NY

CELESTIAL TWINS:
Conversations, performances, & readings
on the relationship between music & poetry

A one-day program of interdisciplinary discussions, poetry readings, and performances with David Grubbs  and Susan Howe, Infuse Chamber Ensemble, Mohammed Fairouz, Wayne Koestenbaum, Masha Lankovsky, Roy Nathanson, and Michael Zapruder.

Co-sponsored with the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative. 

Free and open to the public. 
 
For schedule of the day's events visit NYU Gallatin. 

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place
 

Thursday, Feb 28, 7:00pm

New Orleans, LA

THE NEW SALON:
READING AND CONVERSATIONS
Jericho Brown, with Peter Cooley

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is an Assistant Professor at Emory University. His first book, Please (New Issues), won the American Book Award.

Co-Sponsored by Tulane University

Admission is free. Reception to follow.

Tulane University
Stone Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center 

Saturday, Mar 9, 1:30pm

Boston, MA

YET DO I MARVEL:
Black Iconic Poets of the 20th Century
A Centennial Tribute to Robert Hayden

Featuring Eduardo C. Corral and Dark Room Collective members Thomas Sayers Ellis, Major Jackson, Sharan Strange. Introduced and moderated by Alice Quinn, the participants will launch the PSA's new national series of tributes to black iconic poets of the 20th Century by exploring the life and poetry of Robert Hayden, discussing his influence, and reading poems of their own in tribute to him.

Admission is free with conference registration.

AWP Conference
Hynes Convention Center
Sheraton Boston Hotel
39 Dalton Street

Thursday, Mar 14, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READING AND CONVERSATIONS
Tina Chang, with Alice Quinn

Tina Chang is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008).  She is currently Brooklyn Poet Laureate.

Co-Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

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

Thursday, Mar 28, 7:00pm

New York, NY

PSA CHAPBOOK READING AT THE STRAND
Dan Chelotti and Yusef Komunyakaa

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship, the public is invited to attend three spring readings at The Strand, featuring former chapbook fellows and the poets who selected their work for publication. Dan Chelotti and Yusef Komunyakaa will read their work and participate in a salon-style conversation.

Introduced by Alice Quinn.

$10 for general public,$5 for PSA Members.

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway

Friday, Apr 5, 7:00pm

New York, NY

103rd ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY

The evening will feature readings by award recipients Lizza Rodriguez, Ted Mathys, Elyse Fenton, Carol Light, Nick Twemlow, Naomi Replansky, Martín Espada, and Robert Bly. 

Admission is free.

The Grand Ballroom,
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South

Wednesday, Apr 10, 7:00pm

New York, NY

KEEPING TIME:
POETS AND MUSICIANS HONOR GRAND CENTRAL

Poets Marie Howe, Eduardo C. Corral, Bob Holman and Poetry in Motion poets Billy Collins, Aracelis Girmay, and Jeffrey Yang join musicians Yaz Band, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Salieu Suso, and The Hot Sardines from MUNY for a night of  music and poetry honoring Grand Central Terminal in its centennial year. 

Free and open to the public.

Cosponsored by the MTA Arts for Transit. 

Vanderbilt Hall
Grand Central Terminal
89 E 42nd Street

Thursday, Apr 11, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READING AND CONVERSATIONS
John Ashbery, with Deborah Landau

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28, 1927. He is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, most recently A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007); Where Shall I Wander (2005); Chinese Whispers (2002); Your Name Here (2000); Girls on the Run: A Poem (1999); Wakefulness (1998); Can You Hear, Bird (1995); And the Stars Were Shining (1994); Hotel Lautrémont (1992); Flow Chart (1991); and April Galleons (1987). Ashbery has won nearly every major American award for poetry. His collection A Wave (1984) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series.

Co-Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free. 

NYU Global Center
238 Thompson Street
Level C Auditorium 

Thursday, Apr 11, 7:00pm

Nashville, TN

THE NEW SALON AT VANDERBILT:
READING AND CONVERSATIONS
Michael Longley, with Alice Quinn

Michael Longley is one of Ireland's leading poets. He is the author of numerous collection of verse, including Gorse Fires (1991), which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize; The Weather in Japan (2000), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthomden Prize; and A Hundred Doors (2012), which won the Poetry Now Award. He holds honorary doctorates from Queens University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin, (1999) and was the 2001 recipient of the Queens' Gold Medal for Poetry. Longley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2010.

Co-Sponsored by Vanderbilt University.

Admission is free.

126 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University

Sunday, Apr 14, 3:00pm

Yonkers, NY

Writing Workshop and Reading

See The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames, an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum, and join writer Stacey Kahn at 3 pm for a Writing Workshop to record your impressions and memories of iconic waters. 

At 4 pm participants read their writings and are joined by Vijay Seshadri, who reads as well. 

The program is free with Museum admission. For directions visit www.hrm.org.

Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Ave

Sunday, Apr 14, 4:00pm

Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY:
Sarah Arvio, Peter Covino, Adam Kirsch

To celebrate the season of spring, poets will read 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 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, Apr 16, 7:00pm

New York, NY

PSA CHAPBOOK READING AT THE STRAND
Hossannah Asuncion and Kimiko Hahn

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship, the public is invited to attend three spring readings at The Strand, featuring former chapbook fellows and the poets who selected their work for publication. Hossannah Asuncion and Kimiko Hahn will read their work and participate in a salon-style conversation.

Introduced by Brett Fletcher Lauer.

$10 for general public,$5 for PSA Members.

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway

Sunday, Apr 21, 2:00am

Washington DC

A Poetry Reading at the National Portrait Gallery with John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakka, and Paul Muldoon

Join the Portrait Gallery for readings by Guggenheim Fellow and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner John Koethe; Pulitzer Prize–winner Yusef Komunyakka; and Pulitzer Prize–winner Paul Muldoon. This gathering will mark the close of the exhibition "Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets" and will anticipate the fall 2013 publication of Lines in Long Array. This book contains 12 newly commissioned poems on the Civil War by major contemporary poets.  Introduced by David Ward.

National Portriat Gallery
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium
8th and G Street NW

Wednesday, Apr 24, 6:30pm

Queens, New York

THE NEW SALON AT QUEENS COLLEGE:
READING AND CONVERSATIONS
Marie Howe

Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1998); and is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.  Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University. She is the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State.

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

Admission is free.

Queens College Library
65-30 Kissena Boulevard

Thursday, Apr 25, 7:00pm

Tucson, AZ

LATINO/A POETRY NOW
Carmen Giménez Smith, J. Michael Martínez, and Roberto Tejada

Join us for the penultimate event in a reading series that has traveled the country, from Cambridge, MA, to Washington, D.C., and Saint Paul, MN. This event will feature readings by three distinct and dynamic voices in Latino/a poetry, followed by a public conversation moderated by Francisco Aragon.  

Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Admission is free.

University of Arizona
1508 East Helen Street  

Monday, Apr 29, 6:30pm

New York, NY

CELEBRATING POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY:
A Norton Anthology

Readings by contributors to the anthology Postmodern American Poetry, 2nd edition (W. W. Norton, 2013), edited by Paul Hoover, including Charles Bernstein, Katie Degentesh, Elaine Equi, Drew Gardner, Peter Gizzi, Nada Gordon, Lisa Jarnot, Caroline Knox, Noelle Kocot, Tan Lin, Steve McCaffery, Eileen Myles, Sharon Mesmer, Bob Perelman, Joan Retallack, Gary Sullivan, Cole Swensen, Edwin Torres, Marjorie Welish, Susan Wheeler, and John Yau.

Co-Sponsored by The New School.

Admission is free.

The New School
Wollman Hall, 5th floor
65 W. 11th Street

Wednesday, May 1, 2:00pm

New York, NY

After Lorca: A Day of Poetry and Performance

This daylong festival of performance and poetry will offer a multitude of responses to traditional and radical receptions of Lorca in the US.

Poets and performers LaTasha Diggs, Rob Fitterman, Eileen Myles, Judah Rubin, Sara Jane Stoner, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, the Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group, and others explore the tensions between urban and pastoral, foreign and American, mapped and experimental, as well as the often-unexamined queerness of Lorca's work

Co-sponsored by The Graduate Center (CUNY), and Fundación, Federico García Lorca.

Free and Open to the Public.

Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
365 5th Avenue

Wednesday, May 1, 7:00pm

New York, NY

The Poetry of Bravery

PEN Worlds Voices partners with the Poetry Society of America in offering an exciting and instructive seminar on the topic of bravery--aesthetic, political, sexual--in poetry.  Major contemporary poets and writers discuss what constitutes bravery in the work of an important predecessor or contemporary.  

Mary Karr on Zbigniew Herbert 
Edward Hirsch on  Joseph Brodsky 
Henri Cole on James Merrill 
Yusef Komunyakaa on Muriel Rukeyser 
Eileen Myles on Akilah Oliver 
Paul Auster on George Oppen 
Hilton Als on Brenda Shaughnessy  

Tickets $30/$25 PEN/PSA Members and students with valid ID
866-811-4111 or www.worldvoicesfestival.org 

Tishman Auditorium
The New School
66 W 12th St
New York, NY 10011

Friday, May 3, 7:00pm

New York, NY

2013 PSA CHAPBOOK READING

Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship with readings by 2013 Chapbook Fellows Danielle Blau, Eric Bliman, Justin Boening, and Cherry Pickman, alongside poet Matthew Rohrer and two of this year's poet-judges Vijay Seshadri and Dara Wier.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Admission is free.

The Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue

Saturday, May 4, 3:00pm

New York, NY

From Chapbook to Book

Winners of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship Dawn Lundy Martin, Idra Novey, and Maya Pindyck discuss the artistic and practical challenges of the road from chapbook to first book in this exciting panel moderated by Andrew Seguin.

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. 

Admission is free.

The Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue 

Tuesday, May 7, 7:00pm

Pasadena, CA

LA SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Douglas Kearney, Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, with Kate Gale

Douglas Kearney, Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke will read from their work and be in conversation with Kate Gale of Red Hen Press.

Admission: $10 for general, $5 for PSA members, students and seniors.

Co-sponsored by Red Hen Press.

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Mentor Avenue

Saturday, May 11, 4:00pm

A SEASON IN POETRY:
Alex Dimitrov, Harmony Holiday, and Patrick Rosal

To celebrate the season of spring, poets will read 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 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, May 28, 7:00pm

New York, NY

MAY SWENSON CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE
with Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Sharon Dolin, Mark Doty, Jessica Greenbaum, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Howard, Jan Heller Levi, Gardner McFall, Willard Spiegelman, and Samantha Thornhill.

In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson's birth, this reading will showcase the breadth of her poetic output, from nature poems displaying her keen observation of wildlife to exuberant and erotic love poems celebrating beauty and passion, to place poems recording her travels to the American southwest, France, and Italy and her residence in New York.

Introduced by Langdon Hammer, editor of the forthcoming Collected Poems.

Co-sponsored by the Library of America and Poets House.

Poets House
1o River Terrace

 

Thursday, May 30, 7:00pm

New York, NY

PSA CHAPBOOK READING AT THE STRAND:
Camille Rankine and Cornelius Eady

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the PSA Chapbook Fellowship, the public is invited to attend three spring readings at The Strand, featuring former chapbook fellows and the poets who selected their work for publication. Cornelius Eady and Camille Rankine will read their work and then participate in a salon-style conversation.

Introduced by Alice Quinn.

$10 for general public,$5 for PSA Members.

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway

Thursday, Jun 6, 7:00pm

Chicago, IL

YET DO I MARVEL: BLACK ICONIC POETS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Quraysh Ali Lansana, Rosellen Brown, Kwame Dawes, Haki Madhubuti, Dipika Mukherjee, and Ed Roberson

In this Chicago segment of the Poetry Society of America's 2013 national series, six distinguished poets and writers will offer illuminating presentations on major 20th century figures—including Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kamau Brathwaite, and others—reading and discussing the influence of their work. 

Co-sponsored by The Poetry Foundation.

Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60654 

Thursday, Jul 11, 7:15pm

Los Angeles, CA

YET DO I MARVEL: BLACK ICONIC POETS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Wanda Coleman, Major Jackson, Brighde Mullins and in conversation with Alice Quinn

In this Los Angeles segment of the Poetry Society of America's 2013 national series, three distinguished poets will celebrate the lives and poetry of major 20th century figures— James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, and Gwendolyn Brooks discussing their influence, and reading poems of their own in tribute.

Admission is free. For more information visit [ALOUD]

Co-sponsored by ALOUD at Central Library, presented by The Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Central Library
 Mark Taper Auditorium
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Tuesday, Jul 16, 7:00pm

Santa Monica, CA

ANNENBERG BEACH HOUSE
Blas Falconer, Atsuro Riley, and Tess Taylor, with Alice Quinn

As part of the Beach=Culture series, the PSA presents a reading and moderated discussion with an eclectic mix of acclaimed contemporary poets.

Co-sponsored by Red Hen Press. 

Annenberg Community Beach House
415 Pacific Coast Highway

Thursday, Jul 18, 7:30pm

New York, NY

Free: Amplified

Free: Amplified, curated and organized by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, invokes, remixes and deconstructs Sekou Sundiata's FREE! (1977), his only published book of poetry. This multimedia concert features a generation of New York and L.A. based poets and performing artists who came of age in the 1990s as well as a new generation of poets in their twenties inspired by both Sundiata and his heirs. Free: Amplified's ensemble features HPrizm (Anti-Pop Consortium), Tamar-kali, Douglas Kearney, Patrick Rosal, Kamala Sankaram, Jasiri, Val-Jeanty, Kassa Overall, and Lisette Santiago.