National Events

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, 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 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

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  

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

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