Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

Impossible Reading, March 26, 7 PM at Green Kill Gallery in Kingston, NY

Please join us for an Impossible Reading, hosted by Elizabeth Guthrie, with poetry and performance by Edwin Torres, Stacy Szymaszek, and Matt Mottel on Saturday, March 26, 7 PM, live stream.

Please join us for an Impossible Reading, hosted by Elizabeth Guthrie, with poetry and performance by Edwin Torres, Stacy Szymaszek, and Matt Mottel on Saturday, March 26, 7 PM, live streamed on Youtube from Green Kill.

Green Kill live stream videos can be accessed through Green Kill Sessions on YouTube. To watch live the suggested donation for this event is 5 dollars. Please consider increasing your donation as your contributions will be allocated to Green Kill and the performers equally. Green Kill is a peer to peer art space for dedicated writers, performers, musicians, and artists. Your support helps to create opportunity for a widely diverse range of artists to present their work to the public.

Here’s the donation link (A 10 dollar donation is suggested): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impossible-reading-march-26-8-pm-live-stream-tickets-290968012157

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Jun
12
3:00 PM15:00

Fahrenheit 451 House

I’ll be giving a small in-person (masks required) reading with Brenda Coultas and Martina Salisbury on Saturday, June 12/3pm at Fahrenheit 451 House in Catskill. Famous Hermits won’t be out yet - we’re aiming for a soft release in July.

The Poetry Project Newsletter published a conversation Brenda and I had over email which began last December before I knew exactly where I’d end up after Tucson (I knew there would be an after). I’m so thrilled that my first reading back in the state of NY is with her. You can read our convo, which we entitled TIME BANDITS, here.

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Mar
17
8:00 PM20:00

A Celebration for Akilah Oliver’s the she said dialogues: flesh memory

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The Poetry Project is proud to join Nightboat in celebrating the republication of Akilah Oliver’s beloved book, the she said dialogues: flesh memory, a collection of poems which – 20 years on – continue to sustain us with new, essential, and prescient force in their investigation of “the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language.” Brilliant in their listening and utterance, Oliver’s poems embrace grief, desire, obstacle, and possibility, and draw us across time as Tracie Morris observes in her new foreword, into “this kind of gathering together, a collective state of being called she.”

Readers and performers include: Tyler Burba, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tonya M. Foster, Tobi Haslett, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph & LaVonne Natasha Caesar, Rachel Levitsky, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Marcia Oliver, Julie Patton, Tiana Reid, Eleni Sikelianos, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zolf. With special thanks to Nightboat and to co-editors Laura Meyers, Marcia Oliver, and Rachel Zolf.

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Feb
21
to Mar 3

“A Dollar's Worth of Blood, Please”: Anti-Capitalist Poets—A Multi-Session Workshop with Stacy Szymaszek

Woodland Pattern Book Center

Sundays Feb. 21, 28, and March 7 | 2–4 pm CT (online)

Cost: $100 General | $90 Members 

REGISTER HERE

In this workshop we will devote half of our time talking about the work of leftist and proletariat poets who were writing in the United States during the Great Depression and further into the 1930s. We’ll also read some of Mark Nowak’s critical work on how lineage construction obscured certain “social poets.” We will devote the other half to reading contemporary poets whose work is developing a field of anti-racial capitalist (anti-neoliberal, anti-colonial . . .) poetry in the US and read some of Chris Nealon’s critical work on poetry in late-late capitalism. The workshop will be reading-heavy (individually outside of class) from a PDF I will provide, with gathering time spent on discussion. I will give writing prompts related to the reading but there will be no critique of work. At the end of the workshop everyone will be invited to submit a poem for a pamphlet that will be printed and shared.

Writers we may read include Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser, Langston Hughes, Charles Reznikoff, Lorine Niedecker, John Wheelwright, Ernesto Cardenal, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baraka, Claudia Rankine, Wendy Rose, Mark Nowak, Chris Nealon, Kevin Davies, Ted Rees, Jasmine Gibson, and D.S. Marriott. 

Alice Neel’s Portrait of Kenneth Fearing, 1935. The title of this workshop is taken from a Fearing poem.

Alice Neel’s Portrait of Kenneth Fearing, 1935. The title of this workshop is taken from a Fearing poem.

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Feb
18
7:00 PM19:00

Poetry & Economic Justice: Reading w/ D.S. Marriott, Jasmine Gibson, and Ted Rees

Part of The First Function of Poetry: A Social Justice Series.

With events organized and hosted by Stacy Szymaszek. 

LInk to attend HERE (scroll down)

Thurs. Feb. 18 | 7 pm CT | $Give What You Can

D.S. Marriott was born in Nottingham and educated at the University of Sussex. He is the author of several books, including Duppies (Commune Editions, 2019), Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, 2018), Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman, 2008) and the chapbooks In Neuter (Equipage, 2012). Bluetown is forthcoming from Omnidawn.

Jasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn living in Harlem. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis, desire, and freedom. She is the author of Only Shallow (Montez Press, 2020) and Don't Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018).

Ted Rees is the author of Thanks giving: a Poem (Golias Books, 2020) and In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). He facilitates online writing workshops through his Overflowing Poetry Workshops programming, and has recently delivered talks and lectures at the Kelly Writers House and Simon Fraser University. He co-edits Asterion Projects with Levi Bentley and is editor-at-large for The Elephants.

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Woodland Pattern's 27th Annual (Virtual) Poetry Marathon & Benefit
Jan
30
to Jan 31

Woodland Pattern's 27th Annual (Virtual) Poetry Marathon & Benefit

24 HOURS! 250+ POETS! + music, film, & more

JANUARY 30 & JANUARY 31, 2021 | 10 AM - 10 PM

Schedule HERE

RSVP HERE

I’m reading in the 40th Anniversary hours, specifically in the 8-9 hour. It feels a bit like “memory lane” but also very integrative of my poetry lives in all the places I have been.

6-10 pm WOODLAND PATTERN 40TH ANNIVERSARY HOURS, sponsored by LiveWriters, Greg Flegel & Rich Greene, Scott Gelzer & Sherry Goldsmith, Colectivo Coffee, and Anne Kingsbury & Karl Gartung. Featuring poetry, improvisational music, short films, & archival footage.

6-7 / Susan Firer, Portia Cobb, Rick Ollman, Janet Jennerjohn, Paul Druecke, Bryon Cherry, Zack Pieper, Freesia McKee, Mike Michaels, Ae Hee Lee, RS Deeren, & Bob Hanson & Karen Ingvoldstad

7-8 / Takahiro Suzuki, Karl Gartung, Jacqueline Lalley, Greg Flegel, Jen Benka, Ching-In Chen, Franklin K.R. Cline, John Koethe, Sam Pekarske, Brenda Cárdenas, & Roberton Harrison

8-9 / Peter Burzynski, Stacy Szymaszek, Chuck Stebelton, Tyrone Williams, David Wilk, Maureen Owen, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Elizabeth Robinson, Diane Glancy, Joe McPhee, & The Transatlantic Bridge #2.1 (Dan Bitney, Rob Frye, JayVe Montgomery, Olivia Scemama, & Simon Sieger)

9-10 / CAConrad, Joshua Beckman, TC Tolbert, Janelle VanderKelen, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Jennifer Scapettone, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Roberson, Duriel E. Harris, Ruth B8r Ginsburg, Eileen Myles, & Kati Katchever

This was, I think, the first photo of me to appear online and then Ron Silliman’s used it on his blog making it seemingly omnipresent for awhile. I always hated it but now that I am older I do not hate it. Working at Woodland Pattern around 2004.

This was, I think, the first photo of me to appear online and then Ron Silliman’s used it on his blog making it seemingly omnipresent for awhile. I always hated it but now that I am older I do not hate it. Working at Woodland Pattern around 2004.

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Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, Week 2
Jun
18
to Jun 24

Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, Week 2

Stacy Syzmazek: Imagine You Are Not Alone: Project-Life

Let's begin to "crack open the case file" on The Poetry Project. How did it start? How does it still exist? Invented from necessity by poets, run by poets for a half-century, how is it still necessary? (If we presume it is.) What forms of action have kept it a "high energy construct" and what others are possible on site and off? We'll read interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter, listen to oral histories and readings from the archive, and consider the New Year's Day Marathon as direct action (+ how-to perform a 2 min. poem that leaves people wanting more). We'll read and respond to work (and work about work) published by the Project over its history and see what we can learn about the spirit of this and other infrastructures supporting communities of poets (and vice versa).

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