Please join us on Tuesday, June 22, for @Salon's *virtual* Pride showcase and performance event celebrating the joy and power of contemporary innovative genderqueer writers and artists. The evening launches the call for Obsidian's genderqueer, genrequeer "Playground" issue curated by interdisciplinary artist and Nightboat author Ronaldo V. Wilson, and will feature an interactive poetry reading […]
Join us on Tuesday, June 29th at 6PM PT / 9PM ET for the launch of Honey Mine: Collected Stories by Camille Roy (edited by Lauren Levin and Eric Sneathen) who will be joined by Eileen Myles, hosted by City Lights! RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camille-roy-in-conversation-with-eileen-myles-tickets-157753877093
We hope you will join us June 30th at 9pm EDT as Gillian Osborne and Jen Bervin discuss Green Green Green, a collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and histories both poetic and personal! Rsvp here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/greengreengreen/register
Please join us Sunday, July 18, at 4pm EST for a conversation with Lauren K. Alleyne, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Kearney, avery r. young, and Nightboat author Rosamond S. King. The first event of Obsidian's new series, O|Sessions, Black Listening will investigate the role of listening and improvisation in performance, centering Black creative expression and […]
Please join us on Thursday, August 12, for a *virtual* salon-style reading series featuring Ruben Quesada, George Abraham, Nathan Hoks, and Nightboat author Divya Victor. Poetry & Biscuit's pandemic series, curated by Carrie Olivia Adams and Fred Schmalz in partnership with Black Ocean, features poets in dialogue, not only sharing their work, but their questions, ideas, and […]
Please join us on Friday, September 17, at 7:00pm PT in celebration of Honey Mine: Collected Stories! Presented by Small Press Traffic and guest hosted by Anne Walsh, the evening will consist of readings by Claudia La Rocco and Camille Roy and an exhibition + talk with ZH Leonard. RSVP here: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/sept-rsvp. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/honey-mine/.
Join us on Friday, September 17, at 7pm ET for a *virtual* reading by Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam, NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Their second book, Abi-Karam's Villainy answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be, at heart aiming to destroy […]
Please join us on Thursday, September 23, at 7:30pm ET for a *virtual* conversation with Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam and Randa Jarrar! Abi-Karam's second book, Villainy harnesses street protest as a poetic formation, both embodying direct action and exhibiting the desires that bring queers into public space. RSVP here: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-andrea-abi-karam-discusses-villainy-randa-jarrar
Please join us on September 29 at 8:00pm ET! In conjunction with the recent publication of CURB, Nightboat author Divya Victor joins Serena Rose Chopra, Kama La Mackerel, Aditi Machado, and Prageeta Sharma for a *virtual* evening of readings and conversation tracing breadths of South Asian diasporic experience. Across a range of inquiries, five poets consider the textual scaffoldings of […]
We hope you can join us Thursday, October 7th at 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET for a virtual reading featuring Allison Cobb with Clayton Aldern, presented by Town Hall Seattle and Grist! RSVP here: https://townhallseattle.org/event/allison-cobb-with-clayton-aldern/
