Simple List of Events

The Dragonfly Open Studio and Registration, 12-5 PM

Thursday, Apr 18, 12:00pm

The Dragonfly Poetry and Performance Ritual Space, 3921 St. Claude

With:

Opening Night at Dogfish

Thursday, Apr 18, 7:00pm

Dogfish, 2448 N. Villere

With:

Henk Rossouw , Chen Chen , Oliver Baez Bendorf , Lee Ann Brown

Open Mic at the Dragonfly, 12-5 PM

Friday, Apr 19, 12:00pm

The Dragonfly Poetry and Performance Ritual Space, 3921 St. Claude

With:

International Feature Reading

Friday, Apr 19, 7:00pm

Café Istanbul (in the Healing Center 2372 St Claude)

With:

Pierre Joris , Nicole Peyrafitte , Salgado Maranhão , Javier Etchevarren , Isabel de la Fuente , Andrea Jurjević , Jesse Lee Kercheval

International Visual Poetry Exhibit Opening Reception and Party

Friday, Apr 19, 10:00pm

Barrister's Gallery, 2331 St. Claude

With:

JS Makkos , Joseph Bienvenu

Constraint-based Poetry

Saturday, Apr 20, 9:00am

RM 250, Healing Center

With:

Kristi Maxwell , Amber Nelson , Lo Kwa Mei-en , Dora Malech

Epic: An Exploration of the Long Poem

Saturday, Apr 20, 9:00am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Kenning JP Garcia , laura goldstein , Genève/Geneva Chao , Laurin DeChae , Megan Kaminski

Rising from the Ashes: Women Writers as the Phoenix

Saturday, Apr 20, 9:00am

Rooftop Room, Healing Center

With:

Frankie Rollins , Selah Saterstrom , Kristen E. Nelson , Soham Patel , Magdalena Zurawski

Gender and Voice in Experimental Poetics

Saturday, Apr 20, 10:05am

RM 250, Healing Center

With:

Chen Chen , Steve Bellin-Oka , Anna De Vaul

Critical Intersections: Writing &/as Activism

Saturday, Apr 20, 10:05am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Elizabeth Robinson , Allison Cobb , Matthew Henriksen

Translation in a Xenophobic World

Saturday, Apr 20, 10:05am

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Pierre Joris , Nicole Peyrafitte , Mark Statman

Partraits of a Puzzle in Pieces: an interactive 3-D poetry installation

Saturday, Apr 20, 10:05am

Mezzanine, Healing Center

With:

Jennifer Paccione , Laura Mullen

Adoptee Book Club: On Fostering Community and Kinship

Saturday, Apr 20, 10:05am

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Tiana Nobile , Ansley Moon , Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello , Sun Yung Shin

Small Press Reading I

Saturday, Apr 20, 11:15am

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Matty Layne Glasgow , Kristen E. Nelson , Wendy Barnes , Jacq Greyja

Another North, Another South: Poetry from a Changing California

Saturday, Apr 20, 11:15am

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Mark Wallace , Omar Pimienta , Jeanine Onori Webb , Suzanne Stein , Steven Farmer

Dreams and Poetry Workshop

Saturday, Apr 20, 11:15am

RM 250, Healing Center

With:

Rodger Kamenetz

Catastrophe to Courage: Poets Push the Essay

Saturday, Apr 20, 11:15am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Ching-In Chen , Dana Teen R. Lomax , Sarah Rosenthal , Muriel Leung , Jennifer Firestone

Radio Love of a Nocturnal Crowd: A Reading Courting Joyce Mansour

Saturday, Apr 20, 11:15am

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Shanna Compton , K. Lorraine Graham , Maureen Thorson , MC Hyland , Paula Cisewski

Saturday Lunch Feature (90 min.)

Saturday, Apr 20, 12:15pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

WITH WAVES: A Collaborative Performance

Saturday, Apr 20, 1:50pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

laura goldstein , Toby Altman , Ching-In Chen , Emily Barton Altman , Keith S. Wilson

The Cosmic Collective: A Group Poetry Reading

Saturday, Apr 20, 1:50pm

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Heather C Sweeney , Jade Quinn , Ariella Ruth , Megan Kaminski

Sundress Publications Reading

Saturday, Apr 20, 1:50pm

RM 250, Healing Center

With:

Erin Elizabeth Smith , H.K. Hummel , Hali Sofala-Jones , Brynn Martin , Sarah A. Chavez

Small Press Reading II

Saturday, Apr 20, 1:50pm

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Melanie Maria Goodreaux , elizabeth jacobson , Jeff Grieneisen , Emily Brandt

Supernatural Language: Queering Ecopoetics

Saturday, Apr 20, 1:50pm

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Matty Layne Glasgow , Amber Flora Thomas , Oliver Baez Bendorf , Lindsay Tigue

Raced, Not Erased: Ghosts in Favor of Critical Theory

Saturday, Apr 20, 3:00pm

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Joseph Earl Thomas , Muriel Leung

Bomb on the Tongue: Writing the Incendiary

Saturday, Apr 20, 3:00pm

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Amy Pence , Julie E. Bloemeke , Andrea Jurjević , Cecilia Woloch

Workshop: That Various Field: An Improvisation (2 hrs)

Saturday, Apr 20, 3:00pm

RM 250, Healing Center

With:

Andrea Panzeca

Evening with Epic Rites Press

Saturday, Apr 20, 3:00pm

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Todd Cirillo , Wolfgang Carstens , William Taylor, Jr.

Trembling Pillow Press Reading

Saturday, Apr 20, 3:00pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Megan Burns , Irène Mathieu

Projecting: the Exigencies and Efficacies of Project-based Books of Poetry

Saturday, Apr 20, 4:10pm

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

James Meetze , Janet Holmes , Michael McKee Green

Spacewitch Collective Reading

Saturday, Apr 20, 4:10pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Jessica Smith , Bronwen Tate , Adra Raine , Amy McDaniel , Alison Strub , Genève/Geneva Chao

Small Press Reading III

Saturday, Apr 20, 4:10pm

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Indran Amirthanayagam , Smeetha Bhoumik , Blake Nemec , Joseph Lease

New Poetry from Letterpress Publishers

Saturday, Apr 20, 4:10pm

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

David Welch , MC Hyland , Nik De Dominic , Friedrich Kerksieck , Daniel Altenburg

On These Difficult Times For Poems and Other Living Creatures

Sunday, Apr 21, 9:00am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Michelle Taransky , Julia Johnson , Jordan Stempleman , Ben Kopel , Emily Pettit

Workshop: Erasure as Conversation

Sunday, Apr 21, 9:00am

Rm 250, Healing Center

With:

Isobel O'Hare

Form as Performance

Sunday, Apr 21, 10:05am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Kristi Maxwell , K. Lorraine Graham , Meg Wade , Kristen E. Nelson

Somewhere in the Cloud & Inbetween: A Reading & Dusie Kollektiv Chapbook Exchange in Tribute to Marthe Reed

Sunday, Apr 21, 10:05am

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Susana Gardner , Elisabeth Workman , Megan Kaminski , Megan Burns , Dana Teen R. Lomax , Adra Raine , Carrie Hunter , Bronwen Tate , C.S. Carrier , Kenning JP Garcia , Allison Cobb , Jill Darling , Sarah Rosenthal , Paula Cisewski

Embodied Poetics: Threads of Matrilineal Influence

Sunday, Apr 21, 10:05am

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Lee Ann Brown , Laynie Browne , Janice A. Lowe

Before and Beyond Garcia-Lorca: Jewish and Islamic Latinx Poets on the Roots of Spanish Poetry and Its Influence on Contemporary Latinx Poetry

Sunday, Apr 21, 11:10am

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Kenning JP Garcia , Jacq Greyja , Kathleen Alcala

Putting the Ms. in MS: Women's Workshop Takes On Book-length Manuscripts

Sunday, Apr 21, 11:10am

Rm 250, Healing Center

With:

Elizabeth Gross , Aran Donovan , Cassie Pruyn

Rural Experimentalisms: Correspondence, Friendship, and the Pastoral

Sunday, Apr 21, 11:15am

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Adam Clay , Bronwen Tate , MC Hyland , Matthew Henriksen

Sunday Lunch Feature

Sunday, Apr 21, 12:15pm

Cafe Istanbul

With:

Are We There Yet?: A Live Poetry Podcast Recording

Sunday, Apr 21, 1:50pm

Rm 250, Healing Center

With:

Tiana Nobile , Ching-In Chen , Muriel Leung , Jacquelyn Grant Brown

Lavender Ink / Diálogos Reading

Sunday, Apr 21, 1:50pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Shira Dentz , Mark Statman , Andrea Jurjević , Rodger Kamenetz , Ralph Adamo

Poets and Publishing

Sunday, Apr 21, 1:50pm

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Jonathan Penton , Rosalyn Spencer , Jeff Weddle , Jim Elmborg , Robert B. Riter

Small Press Reading V

Sunday, Apr 21, 3:00pm

Art Gallery, Healing Center

With:

Dora Malech , Tenney Nathanson

Apocalypse Lovers: Co-Conceiving Our Own Demise

Sunday, Apr 21, 3:00pm

Rm 250, Healing Center

With:

Benjamin Aleshire , Clare Welsh , Daiquiri Jones , Dylan Krieger

Small Press Reading IV

Sunday, Apr 21, 3:00pm

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Elle Magnuson , Andrea Panzeca , Leslie Bary , Wendy Barnes

Marthe Reed's ARK HIVE

Sunday, Apr 21, 3:00pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Laura Mullen , Henk Rossouw , Oliver Baez Bendorf , Jennifer Firestone , Dana Teen R. Lomax , Carolyn Hembree , Megan Kaminski

Poetics of the Neoliberal Midwest

Sunday, Apr 21, 3:00pm

Rooftop, Healing Center

With:

Toby Altman , laura goldstein , Emily Barton Altman , Brenda Sieczkowski , Keith S. Wilson

Big Energy Poets: Writing Climate Change Workshop

Sunday, Apr 21, 4:10pm

Healing Arts Conference Room, Healing Center

With:

Heidi Lynn Staples , Anna Lena Phillips Bell , Adam Dickinson , Jonathan Skinner , Amy King

Post-Apocalyptic Polyvocality

Sunday, Apr 21, 4:10pm

Cafe Istanbul, Healing Center

With:

Laura Mullen , Elizabeth Gross , Jerika Marchan , Brad Richard

Unlikely Books reading

Sunday, Apr 21, 4:10pm

Rm 250, Healing Center

With:

Larissa Shmailo , Jeff Weddle , David E. Matthews , C. Derick Varn , Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Simple List of Events

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