National 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

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

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, 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, 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

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 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

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