I’m looking forward to reading down the hall from my office in the ever-familiar Center Hall 216. I’ll have books for sale and, I hope, some of my lovely students in attendance. As is de rigueur for any lunchtime event at Wabash, there will be a mountain of free Brothers Pizza, the official pizza of Wabash’s English Department.
I’ll be joining my friends and fellow Denison University alumni writers, Katie Berta and Alison Stine, as we discuss literary careers, writing, and other sundry topics related to a life in letters. This event will be part of Denison’s Arts ReMix, a three-day event held from March 5-8, hosted on campus, and designed to showcase and celebrate DU arts: music, literature, theater, the visual arts, etc. I’m very glad to be invited!
Time of panel and location on campus is still TBD.
I’ll be reading at Purdue University’s John Martinson Honors College while working with Dr. Peter Moore’s PrintBay students. Dr. Moore and his intrepid pupils will produce a broadside of a poem from When the Earth Flies into the Sun, but the reading is open to the general public!
Come on over to West Lafayette, my new home, for this reading on March 11th at 4:30 PM. Meet Peter, whose a scholar, poet, and printmaker. Take a look at some killer analogue media.
Jesse and I will team up again for a reading at fellow GLCA school, Allegneny College. I’m grateful to Christopher Bakken for inviting us both! Time and location TBD.
I’ll be reading at Hungry Brain, a bar in Chicago, alongside Jaswinder Bolina—an At Length contributor and fine poet!—and one other this December. The event is 21+ but also free. Just come and have a cocktail, hear some poetry, and slide into the holidays. Midwesterners: note that the time is CDT
Thanks to Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers for hosting me!
I’m delighted that I’ll be joining my Saturnalia press-mates to raise money for our supportive, aesthetically daring, and all-around wonderful press. This event will be help over Zoom, though you’ll have the opportunity to buy books, donate to Saturnalia, and (of course) hear some fine poetry.
Here’s a link to register (free!) for the event!
And here’s a lineup of the readers:
Chris Brunt
Jonathan C. Chou
Andrea Jurjević
Becca Klaver
Derek Mong
Travis Mossotti
Jared Stanley
Guest Reader: Roberto Tejada
I’ll be back in Ann Arbor, Michigan—home of my MFA at U of M and the city where I met my wife!—on December 4th to read with Katie Hartsock. I’m a big fan of Katie’s work, which we’ll feature in an upcoming issue of At Length, and I’m grateful to say that I’ve known her since we met in Ann Arbor, way back in the mid-2000s, while we were both doing our MFAs.
And what a joy to read at Literati Bookstore, which is carrying on the torch from the legendary Shaman Drum!
I’m looking forward to a reading in Indy with my old friend, Jesse Nathan, whose book Eggtooth is a delight. Added bonus? Tomorrow Bookstore, our gracious host, is run by Jake Budler and Julia Breakey. Jake and his brothers all went to Wabash, and I’ve know him and Julia for quite awhile! Jesse and I will be joined by the poet Isabella Mansfield as well. Hope to see you there
Doors open at 7 PM, reading at 7:30.!
Thanks to John James, I’ll be returning to Louisville for a reading from When the Earth Flies into the Sun, and I’ll be joined by my friend Christopher Kempf and Corey Van Landingham. And I’m looking forward to meeting the poet Hailey Higdon.
Join me at Denison University, where I’ll be reading my poems to celebrate Swasey Chapel’s 100th birthday. I’ll be reading poems in the Chapel—that’ll be a first—alongside the Hilltoppers and a string quartet. I first saw this Chapel as a middle schooler attending Ohio’s Power on the Pen competition, so this feels a bit like coming full circle.
Join me and Arisa White for a poetry reading at USF! With thanks to D.A. Powell and all the organizers.
To honor David Baker’s retirement from Denison University, I’ll be joining old friends and fellow Baker students—like Jennifer Leonard and Matthew Miller—as we read from our work. This will be followed by David’s own reading, from his new book Whale Fall, at 5 PM.
I’ll be joining my wife Anne O. Fisher to discuss collaborative translation—and translation more widely—at this GLCA-sponsored virtual conference. You can register through the conference website.
Four authors from Saturnalia Books will be reading as part of the Bryant Park Reading Series, presented in Midtown Manhattan (NYC) under the summer sky. Join me, Star Black, Libby Burton, and Cortney Lamar Charleston for a night of poetry.
On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll give a poetry reading at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University. Reading time TBD.
On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll teach a mini course called “Meter Matters | Meters Morph” at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Registration is open to the public. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University. Course description below:
There is more to meter than meets the eye (or ear). In this workshop we’ll take a decidedly un-tweedy look at English metrics, asking ourselves to imagine new and unusual ways to measure our lines. We’ll read poems that count their syllables (syllabics), their accents (accentuals), or both (accentual syllabics). We’ll ask whether Twitter coined a meter (made of characters); we’ll see if we can measure letters and words. Can a prose poem, which eschews the line entirely, find meter? Is there a paradoxical freedom in inventing our own forms? Expect to read poems by Marilyn Hacker, Terrance Hayes, Richard Wilbur, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Frost, and others. The workshop will begin with a crash course in traditional metrics, then we’ll expand outward. We’ll write. We’ll count stuff on our fingers. We’ll find our feet.
On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I’ll join a lunchtime roundtable on publishing at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The day-long festival will be held at Spalding University.
As part of Wabash College’s Humanities Colloquium, I’ll read an essay on masculinity and poetry as it relates to Walt Whitman’s recently discovered prose work, On Manly Health and Healing; Robert Bly’s Collected Poems; and Christopher Kempf’s debut poetry collection, Late in the Empire of Men.
Talk will be held in Detchon 209.
Join Derek Mong, Ladan Osman, and Sally Wen Mao for a night of poetry in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood. The reading is part of Brooklyn Poets, a wonderful organization founded by Jason Koo, which brings poets, workshops, and Whitman love to Brooklyn, NY.
