POETRY EVENTS - NEW YORK CITY & CALIFORNIA

Monday, Apr 20, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE PSA READINGS AT MCNALLY JACKSON:
Olena Kalytiak Davis & Morgan Parker

Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems(2014), which was a 2014 Lannan Literary Selection. Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize. Her second book, shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities (2003), was recently republished by Copper Canyon Press (2014).

Morgan Parker is the author of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Coconut Books 2016). Her poetry and essays have been featured in numerous publications as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not a Painter (Argos Books) and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop(forthcoming, Haymarket Books). A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Coconut Magazine, she also contributes writing to Weird Sister and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. She lives in Brooklyn and atwww.morgan-parker.com.

Admission is free.

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street

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Olena Kalytiak Davis


Morgan Parker, photograph by Kwesi Abbensetts 

Thursday, Apr 23

New York, NY

POETRY IN MOTION: THE POET IS IN
11am-6pm

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the PSA presents Poetry in Motion: The Poet Is In in partnership with the MTA Arts & Design. The program was inspired by New York State Poet Laureate Marie Howe, Arts & Design's de facto Poet in Residence, who is dedicated to bringing poetry to everyone in the metropolitan area.

Free and open to the public, the celebration takes place in the new Fulton Street Station from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., featuring 

The Poet is In: an array of award-winning poets, including NY State Poet Laureate Marie Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sharon Olds, and Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Café, will sit in a booth (inspired by Lucy's booth from the Peanuts comic strip) and write poems for those who request one;

and

Music Under New York: A variety of musicians from the MUSIC program will perform throughout the day to accompany the poetry feature

Fulton Center
200 Broadway (enter at Fulton Street)
NY NY 10038

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Saturday, Apr 25, 11:30am

Lake Balboa, CA

LOS ANGELES RIVER POETRY READING
with Luis Rodriquez, Eloise Klein Healy, William Archila, and Lewis MacAdams

In addition to a reading by renowned Los Angeles poets, the event features a variety of activities for adults and children (ages 6 and up) including a walking tour of the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve led by Lewis MacAdams, poet and Co-founder/President of Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), and urban ecologist/educator/designer Kat Superfisky; art, poetry writing activities, and refreshments for children (ages 6 and up), sponsored by Red Hen Press; and a pop-up picnic: Bring your own picnic basket and enjoy a lovely luncheon in the idyllic setting of the Sepulveda Basin Park.

The LA River Poetry Reading has been made possible by Play the LA River (PLAR), and through the support of Red Hen Press and The Poetry Society of America.

All events begin at The Amphitheatre located within the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve.

The event is free and open to the public.

Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
6339 Woodley Avenue
Lake Balboa, CA 91406 

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Tuesday, Apr 28, 4:00pm

Los Angeles, CA

RUSH HOUR READING
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: POETRY IN MOTION/LA™
with Kate Gale, Eloise Klein Healey, Robin Coste Lewis, and Luis Rodriguez

The PSA joins Los Angeles Metro, our partner in Poetry in Motion/LA™, for a celebration of National Poetry Month, featuring new LA Poetry in Motion poets Kate Gale and Robin Coste Lewis, as well as Eloise Klein Healey and Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Luis Rodriguez.

Co-sponsored by Metro Art at LA Metro,  as part of  Metro Presents, which showcases free arts and cultural programs at historic Union Station.Union Station East 800 N Alameda St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Tuesday, Apr 28, 7:00pm

New York, NY

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH CELEBRATION
with Rickey Laurentiis, Cate Marvin, Sharon Olds, Matthew Rohrer, Danez Smith, and Wendy Xu

The PSA joins Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in hosting a poetry bash for National Poetry Month, with support from media sponsors Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Poets, and Wave Books. Readings by Rickey Laurentiis, Cate Marvin, Sharon Olds, Matthew Rohrer, Danez Smith, and Wendy Xu. 

Co-presented with Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.  Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, and Wave Books.

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012 

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Thursday, Apr 30, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Dorothea Lasky, with Deborah Landau

Dorothea Lasky is the author of four books of poetry, most recently ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014), as well asThunderbird, Black Life, AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.

Co-Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street

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Dorothea Lasky