2012
June
17th -
24th: Cave Canem Summer Retreat
University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, PA
Cave
Canem's week-long retreat is held annually at the
University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg,
Pennsylvania. Adult African American poets are eligible
to apply.
www.cavecanempoets.org
July
6th -
16th: Stonecoast MFA Summer Residency
University of Southern Maine, Brunswick,
ME
Stonecoast
residencies are
a lively yet
meditative
experience in a
stunning natural
environment,
designed to
provide valuable
and substantial
new ideas to
absorb into your
writing during
the following
semester. Think
of the most
creatively
stimulating
literary
conference
you've ever
attended,
combined with a
festive reunion
of dear friends
old and new.
Workshops in
the morning are
followed by an
organic lunch,
afternoon
seminars and
panels, and
readings from
faculty and
visiting writers
in the evening.
http://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa
2011
January
20th
: 7:00pm - The Ancestor and The Archive
Women
and Their Work, 1710 Lavaca Street, Austin, TX 78701
In
conjunction with Wura-Natasha Ogunji's exhibit, this
performance/discussion will explore the way artistic
work creates history and connects to ancestors via
the creative process, and thereby
creates/re-creates/shifts cosmologies.
www.womenandtheirwork.org
February
2nd :
7:00pm - AWP Cave Canem Fellows Reading
Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th St NW
(between Dupont Cr & Farragut N Metro Stations), DC
20036
20
Cave Canem fellows raise the roof! All donations go
to the Cave Canem Scholarship Fund.
www.cavecanempoets.org
4th :
8:30pm - Affrilachian Poets 20th Anniversary Reading
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St., NW DC, 20009
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Affrilachian
Poets! Join Frank X Walker, Randall Horton, Crystal
Good, Makalani Bandele, Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Kelly
Norman Ellis, Ellen Hagan, Ricardo Nazario y Colón,
Stephanie Pruitt and Amanda Johnston for an evening
of poetry from across the region and beyond.
www.affrilachianpoets.com
5th:
3:00pm - FOUNDING WOMEN
/ AWP Panel
Thurgood
Marshall South Room / Marriott Wardman Park,
Mezzanine Level
Founding Women: Publishers and Editors from
across the Literary Journal Landscape.
TORCH founder,
Amanda Johnston, joins Jennifer S. Flescher,
Brigid Hughes, Rebecca Wolff, Jennifer Barber, Beth
Harrison, Rebecca Morgan Frank. Katharine Graham,
former publisher of the Washington Post,
said to love what you do and feel that it
matters—how could anything be more fun? In this
panel, six female publishers from a range of media
and generations will discuss their own literary
matters: the process of creating and sustaining
their successful literary ventures. Panelists will
discuss the gender politics of publishing and
explore the strides the literary landscape has made
and the struggles we still grapple with.
5th :
5:00pm - TORCH D.C.
Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage,
1816 12th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 0009
Join
us for an intimate reading featuring TORCH:
poetry, prose, and short stories by African American
Women contributors Venus Thrash, Evie Shockley,
Melanie Henderson, and Tara Betts hosted by Randall
Horton. TORCH is an online journal published by
Torch Literary Arts.
www.torchliteraryarts.org
10th
: 7:00pm - Amanda Johnston Features at BookWoman
BookWoman Feminist Bookstore, 5501 North Lamar,
Austin, TX 78751
Open
Mic Poetry hosted by Deb Akers featuring Amanda
Johnston. Bring a poem or two to share or just come
and enjoy!
www.e-bookwoman.com
March
25th:
7:00pm - Café Libro / Womens Circle
Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A South First St.,
Austin, TX 78704
In
celebration of Women's History Month, Café Libro
presents a reading circle of local women poets in
the historic Resistencia Bookstore. For more
information please call 512-416-8885.
April
7 -
11th: Austin International Poetry Festival
Join
over 250 registered poets and poetry lovers for four
days of readings, workshops and open mics at the
world's largest non-juried poetry festival. Poets as
far afield as Australia and as close to home as down
the street celebrate the written and spoken word.
www.aipf.org
10th:
7:00pm - Cave Canem Reading featuring Roger Reeves,
Jonathan Moody, and Amanda Johnston
University of Texas at Austin, John L. Warfield
Center for African & African American Studies
JES A232A, Mailcode D7200, Austin, TX 78712 •
512-471-1784
Cave
Canem fellows Roger Reeves, Jonathan Moody, and
Amanda Johnston share new work at
CAAAS. Free and
open to the public.
June
19-26th: Cave Canem Summer Retreat
Cave
Canem's week-long retreat is held annually at the
University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Adult African
American poets are eligible to apply.
www.cavecanempoets.org
July
8th:
10:00pm - Amanda Johnston Features at the Nuyorican
Poets Cafe
Historical Friday Night @the world renown Nuyorican
Poets Cafe. Located in the Lower East Side: 236 East
3rd Street (between Ave A and Ave B), The nearest
trains are the 6 to Astor Place, F train to 2nd
Avenue or J train to Essex Street, you can check the
website for further directions. www.nuyorican.org