Group reading of recent Tripwire writers, translators, and editors, celebrating several new Tripwire publications (journal, pamphlets, and books). Featuring David Buuck, Hugo García Manríquez, Erasmo Pantoja, Irene Silt, & more---
These are times of ethical and interpersonal disassociation, when venality and xenophobia are not only normalized, but demanded. Meanwhile, that great beast “morality” is used to cudgel those who, for whatever reason, appear to deviate from the norm: trans and other queer people, most notably, but also those of minority religions and philosophies. All these dysfunctions require one central behavioral pattern: conformity. We have weapons against conformity: art, poetry, and everything absurd.
As bell hooks writes it, “To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body.” In hooks’ black feminist theory, the movement from margin to center, describes an agential political relationship to spheres of power, but how does this movement, from center to margin, also translate into a poetics of extension, rupture, and adjacency?
For 50 years, BOA Editions has published poets whose work is dynamic, eclectic, and engaged with the pressing complexities of our times. Since its founding in 1976, BOA has published more than 300 books of American poetry, poetry-in-translation, and short fiction, and its list crosses the typical divisions of the contemporary literary world, comprising writers who innovate in a wide range of modes and forms.
2026 marks indie publisher Black Ocean's 20th year in publishing. Join us for a reading and panel discussion to celebrate this achievement and the many different books and authors that have found their home with Black Ocean over the years. The event will feature readings by longtime Black Ocean authors Nathan Hoks and Joe Hall, who will be reading from their new books, as well as poetry editor Carrie Olivia Adams, reading from new work from Tupelo Press.
Louisiana State University is one of the few MFA programs in the state and one that encourages multi-genre and hybrid writing. To showcase its diversity and robustness of poetic styles, LSU presents a reading by professors, instructors, and graduate students. Contributors Adam Clay, Ariel Francisco, Jesse DeLong, Nuha Fariha, Brooke Stanish and Sarah Brockhaus will read in a range of forms, from traditional to experimental techniques. While reading from new and recently published work, each writer will explore the broader sense of place, both in Baton Rouge and beyond.
FIELD TRIP is a literary project with the simple aim of bringing more poets to the Detroit area while, simultaneously, promoting the incredible local talent.
Detroit famously has a rich literary tradition. Field Trip draws inspiration from Detroit presses and literary organizations such as Alternative Press and Broadside Lotus Press, as well as many others.
The Literary Arts MFA cohort at Brown University presents “Dream Desires: Mirror / Blueprint,” a poetry reading that transverses dual sides of the meanings of the word “dream.” A dream may be a reflection of a wish or prediction received during sleep; it may also be a goal designed and acted toward during waking life. Magical or pragmatic, visionary or constructed, fragment or flowchart, portal or plan… these two definitions feel opposite, but proximate--both kinds of dreams echo our desires for the future.
Collective Task, an international poet-artist collective founded in March 2006, will present a 50-minute performance celebrating its 20th anniversary. With over 40 members spanning from Baghdad to Berlin to Lima, the collective has an established history of performances at prestigious venues including MoMA, The Berlin Poetry Festival, and NYU-Florence, and has produced over 1000 works available at www.collectivetask.org.
Readings by authors and/or translators from recent Lavender Ink and Diálogos books. Efraín Velasco and Mark Statman will read from their English language version of Velasco’s Scenes Left Out of […] and the English and Spanish versions of Statman’s Volverse/Volver. Robert Fitterman and Roberto Balò will read from Balò's forthcoming Saga, translated from the Italian by Fitterman. Olga Mikolaivna reads from her forthcoming translation of Ukrainian poet Stanislav Belsky, There Will Be No Culmination.