Fall 2024

September 18 - 21
Featured Poet at the Furious Flower Poetry Conference
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
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October 3
30th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
Chicago History Museum
Chicago, IL
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October 13
Virtual Reading with Sterling D. Plumpp
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October 18 - 19
Dodge Poetry Festival
Newark, NJ
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Past Events

2024

February 10
S149. Cave Canem and The Importance of Black Literary Archive
AWP Conference
Kansas City, MO
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February 29
Reading at Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI

2023

February 9
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Tucson, AZ
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February 25
Amherst LitFest
Phosphorescence Poetry Event with Victoria Chang
Amherst, MA
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March 8 – 11
AWP Conference
Seattle, WA
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April 15
New Orleans Poetry Festival
New Orleans, LA

April 22
Midwest Literary Walk Chelsea, MI
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April 27
Montgomery County Public Libraries
Rockville, MD

2022

Week of March 22
Writer in Residence
University of Cincinnati / Virtual Events
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Week of April 5
Writer in Residence
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Virtual Events
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June 18
Reading for Antioch MFA Program
Virtual Events

July 31
Brooklyn Poets Craft Lab
Virtual Lab

August 6
Craft Class for Kweli Journal
Virtual Class

September 21 - 24
Robert Hayden Symposium
Dartmouth College

October 27
University of Detroit Mercy
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FALL 2020

August 21
Hugo Literary Series: Karen Russell, Tyehimba Jess, and Tara Conklin
Virtual Event
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September 19 & 20
Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack
A Workshop for the Hugo House
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October 22 - November 1
Dodge Poetry Festival
Virtual Events
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October 27
Visit with Texas State
Virtual Event

SPRING 2020

January 22
The Bankhead Memorial Lecture
University of Alabama
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February 19
Reading at Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT

February 26
Tyehimba Jess & Janice Lowe at Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, NM
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FALL 2019

September 17
Brooklyn Book Festival Poetry World Series
Brooklyn. NY

September 19
Tribute to Sterling Plumpp
Poetry Foundation
Chicago, IL

September 25
Reading at The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI

September 27 - 28
Furious Flower 25th Anniversary Celebration
Washington, D.C.

October 30
The New York Times 1619 Project
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Washington. D.C.

November 6
Reading at the Center for Literary Arts
San Jose, CA

November 14
Reading at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH

SPRING & SUMMER, 2019

January 23 - 26
Palm Beach Poetry Festival Poet-At-Large
Palm Beach, FL
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January 30
Northwestern University Reading at Block Museum of Art
Evanston, IL
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February 6
Reading at the Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City, MO
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February 14
Cave Canem Legacy Conversation: Page and Stage
The Poetry Foundation
Chicago, IL
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February 15
Princeton Conference on Black Poetry
Princeton, NJ
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February 17
First Person Plural Reading
New York, NY

March 27 - 31
AWP Conference
Portland, OR

Thursday, March 28

6:00 pm: Fierce Love: The Field Office Collective Reading, Portland Art Museum (more information)

Friday, March 29

9:00 am: Information to Astonishment: Research as Creative Process, Oregon Convention Center

April 4
Reading at Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA
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April 10
Reading at Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
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April 11
Reading at Clemson University Literary Festival
Clemson, SC
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April 23
Reading at Bennington College
Bennington, VT

April 26
Reading at the Moses Brown School
Providence, RI

April 30
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
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May 15
Africa in America Festival
Panama

June 29 - July 6
Medellin International Poetry Festival
Medellin, Columbia

FALL 2018

August 23 - 28
International Book Fair of Costa Rica
Costa Rica

September 12 - 15
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

September 18 - 20
Weber State University
Ogden, UT

September 25
Reading at Rutgers
New Brunswick, NJ

October 6
Gramma Reading
Seattle, WA

October 19 - 21
University of Chicago Blues Festival
Chicago, IL

October 22 - 28
International Poetry Festival of Guayaquil
Guayaquil, Ecuador

October 30
Reading at the City College of New York
Harlem, New York City, NY

November 1
Lunch Poems at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

November 6 - 7
Diversifying Art Leadership Panel
Cleveland, OH

November 15
Reading: International Writers Workshop, Hong Kong Baptiste
Hong Kong

December 7 - 8
Convention of the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics
Wuhan, China

December 10
Reading at 92Y
New York, NY

SPRING 2018

January 20
"I Got a Lust for Life: The Unique Words and Sounds of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan"
Reading at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library
Toledo, OH
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January 25
The New Salon: Reading and Conversation
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, New York University
New York, NY
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January 30
Reading at Villanova University
Villanova, PA
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February 6
Reading at Columbia University
New York, NY

February 11 - 17
Nicaragua Poetry Festival
Granada, Nicaragua
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February 20
Reading at Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
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March 4
Reading, Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
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March 7 - 10
AWP Conference
Tampa, FL

March 22
Furious Flower Collegiate Summit
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
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March 23
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, VA
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March 25
"Writing the American Story: Diverse Voices in Distinguished Books"
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards presented by the Cleveland Foundation
Charlottesville, VA
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April 6
Reading at Hardin-Simmons University
Abilene, TX
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April 13
Reading at MIT
Cambridge, MA
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April 26
Reading at Centre College
Danville, KY

May 3
Newcastle Poetry Festival
Newcastle, United Kingdom
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FALL 2017

November 3 - 5
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX {more information}

November 13
Gwendolyn Brooks Celebration
92nd Street Y
New York, NY {more information}

November 30
Reading at the University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

December 8
"A Letter That Begins With I Love You: A Celebration of Patricia Smith"
Poets House
New York, NY {more information}

December 13
Gwendolyn Brooks Celebration
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York, NY {more information}

December 29 - 30
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Visiting Poet
Montpelier, Vermont