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Nonsite.org is proud to announce “B-Side Modernism,” a research fellowship and conference at the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library (Emory University, Atlanta), starting in late 2013 and continuing in three phases through summer 2015. Official Site

Award-winning poet Evie Shockley and bestselling author Meg Wolitzer will read from their work on Wednesday, February 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The event, part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, is free and open to the public. Official Site

In the 1920s, Albert Barnes built an important collection of African art and used it to promote a progressive platform of educational and social reform with the notion that these objects would inspire contemporary black artists and writers. Poets Sonia Sanchez, former Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University and Philadelphia’s first poet laureate, and Ja Jahannes, author of TruthFeasting and editor of Black Gold: An Anthology of Black Poetry, read from their work and discuss their inspiration in African art. Evie Shockley, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, will moderate.

Thursday, Feb 26

New York, NY

JOHN BERRYMAN AT 100:
A CELEBRATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Join us for a celebration of John Berryman, in honor of the poet's centenary, marked by FSG last year with the publication of four volumes of Berryman's work, each with a new introduction:

The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift

The Dream Songs, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction by Michael Hofmann

Berryman's Sonnets, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction by April Bernard

77 Dream Songs, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction by Henri Cole

Fourteen distinguished contemporaries will commemorate the poet's life and work, in three afternoon panels, and each will read a favorite poem in that evening's reading, including April Bernard, Henri Cole, Cornelius Eady, Rachel Hadas, Saskia Hamilton, Cathy Park Hong, A. Van Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Edward Mendelson, Patrick Rosal, Evie Shockley, Daniel Swift, Kevin Young, Rachel Zucker.

Schedule of Events

Panels

3pm-3:50pm - Cornelius Eady, Rachel Hadas, Daniel Swift moderated by A. Van Jordan

4pm-4:50pm - April Bernard, Henri Cole, A. Van Jordan
moderated by Robin Coste Lewis

5pm-5:50pm - Cathy Park Hong, Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young
moderated by Rachel Zucker

6pm-7pm - Public Reception

7pm-8:15 - Reading

All events are free and open to the public, including the reception.

Co-sponsored by Barnard Forum on Poetry and Poetics; FSG; Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University; Poets House; and Writing Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University.

The New Foundation Seattle presents Ecopoetics: An Evening of Poetry, with readings by Rob Halpern, Angela Hume, Gillian Osborne, Joan Retallack, Evie Shockley, and Jonathan Skinner.

7 pm Friday, March 27
@ The New Foundation Seattle
312 2nd Ave South
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/W96Eu
Directions from Sheraton Seattle: https://goo.gl/maps/lji9o
Free and open to the public

"'Nothing to See': Ekphrasis and Black Subjectivity in Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother"

On Friday, June 19, 2015 acclaimed poets Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, J. Michael Martinez, Sharon Olds, and Evie Shockley will read from their poetry in the Setzer Auditorium at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.

This gathering of the tribe—all staff poets from this year's Community of Writers’ Summer Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley—will raise money for the Poetry Program’s financial aid and scholarships. Books by the poets will be available for purchase and signing.

See our Poetry Workshop Page for more information about the poets who will be reading. For more information, call toll free: (877) 537-8073 or email squawpoet@ureach.com.

Tickets are $20 advance/$25 at the door for general admission and $12 advance/$15 at the door for students (with current student ID). Group discounts are available. The Crocker Art Museum will NOT be selling tickets. Please do not contact them regarding ticket sales.

To purchase tickets and for more info, click here.

The Poetry Program is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel free to try anything. Official Site

Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement is a fifteen-month program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that responds to the resurgence of interest in contemporary poetry, its expanded production and wide circulation. Black Poetry continues the work that was undertaken by Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry during 2013-14 by giving more focused attention to a reassessment of African American poetry during the last fifty years, from 1960 to the present. Official Site

William J. Harris and Evie Shockley will read. Megan Kaminski and Jim McCrary host. A good time will be had by all!

For more info, click here.