Events
EVENTS
2025
Dates to be announced
PAST EVENTS
2022
Wednesday 14 September (Virtual)
Greenlight Bookstore with Sharon Olds
Wednesday 21 September (Virtual)
Prairie Lights with Evie Shockley and Donika Kelly
Monday 26 September (Virtual)
Skylight Books with Aleshea Harris and Ashaki M. Jackson
Tuesday 4 October (Virtual)
Loyalty Bookstores with Ross Gay
Thursday 1 December (In-person)
Trinity College
Hartford, CT
Friday 2 December (In-person + Virtual)
The Poetry Project with John Keene
New York, NY
Thursday 8 December (Virtual)
Cave Canem with Maya Marshall
Wednesday 14 December (In-person + Virtual)
Books Are Magic & Brooklyn Poets with Zakia Henderson-Brown, Aracelis Girmay, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Michelle Whittaker, & Jenny Xie
Brooklyn, NY
2023
Sunday February 5
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
Friday March 3 (Virtual)
YMCA of Downtown Syracuse
Tuesday March 28 (Virtual)
The Canon Project, University of Houston with francine j. harris
Monday April 10
92nd Street Y with Carl Phillips
New York, NY
Thursday April 13
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) with Yona Harvey
San Francisco, CA
Thursday April 20
New York University with Rio Cortez
New York, NY
Friday 28 July (Virtual)
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center
Tuesday 8 August
Table of Contents
New York, NY
Saturdays 5, 12, & 19 August
The Poetic Line at the Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Tuesday 15 August
Bryant Park Reading Room
New York, NY
Saturday 26 August
Jackson-Madison County Public Library
Jackson, TN
Thursday 7 September
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
Friday 20 October
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) with Jared Jackson and India Lena González
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday 2 November
New York Public Library with Terrance Hayes and Nicole Sealey
New York, NY
Saturday 11 November
Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poetic License
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Thursday 30 November
Books Are Magic with Simon Shieh
Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday 5 February
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
Thursday 7 February
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Friday 1 March
Case Western Reserve
Cleveland, OH
Thursday 1 February – Saturday 6 April
The Flesh of the Earth | curated by Enuma Okoro
Hauser & Wirth
New York, NY
Saturday 6 April
Passaic Community College
Paterson Poetry Prize Winners and Finalists Reading
Paterson, NJ
Tuesday 9 April
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Great Barrington, MA
Thursday 18 April
Waltham Public Library
Waltham, MA
Tuesday 30 April
SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, NY
Friday 13 September
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Monday and Tuesday 23-24 September
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
“Poet Explores Identity with Art” by Kathleen Armstrong
Wednesday 25 September
University of Maryland with Hanna Pylväinen
College Park, MD
Thursday 3 October
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Saturday 5 October
Poetry Workshop
The Clifton House
Baltimore, MD
Sunday 6 October
Green Way Reading Series at People’s Book with Sacha Marvin and Tyree Daye
Takoma Park, MD
Thursday to Saturday 17-19 October
Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival with Hanif Abdurraqib and Rachel Swearingen
Youngstown, OH