Past Readings

Fall 2006 / Spring 2006 / Fall 2005 / Spring 2005

Fall 2004 / Spring 2004 / Spring 2003 / Fall 2003 / Spring 2002 / Fall 2002

Spring 2001 / Fall 2001 / Spring 2000 / Fall 2000 / Spring 1999 / Fall 1999

October 2007 is National Humanities Month!
Great program for students and educators.

Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series: Eliot Katz and Bob Rosenthal on Allen Ginsberg. October 14, 2007, 3:00 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City. Free. Poet Eliot Katz and Bob Rosenthal will give an insightful and personal discussion about Allen Ginsberg and the East Village, where Ginsberg used to reside for many years. Through poems and photos, you will learn how the East Village influenced Ginsberg's work and activism. Special focus on the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Free and open to the public as part of the Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series. This lecture series features prominent poets and writers discussing historical literary figures and their relationship with key New York City landmarks. More info at Litwalks.com

Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series: Edward Hirsch on Federico Garcia Lorca. October 22, 2007, 7:00 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City. Free. Award winning poet Edward Hirsch will discuss Federico Garcia Lorca's pivotal book "Poet in New York" (Poeta en Nueva York) and the young poet's journey through New York City. Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic. He has published six books of poems and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written four prose books including "How to Read a Poem," a national bestseller. Free and open to the public as part of the Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series. This lecture series features prominent poets and writers discussing historical literary figures and their relationship with key New York City landmarks. More info at Litwalks.com

Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series: Kevin Fitzpatrick on Dorothy Parker. October 28, 2007, 3:00 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City. Free. Kevin Fitzpatrick on Dorothy Parker and The Algonquin Round Table and the creation of the "New Yorker" magazine. Fitzpatrick is president of the Dorothy Parker Society and author of "A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York." Free and open to the public as part of the Lit Walks Lecture and Poetry Series. This lecture series features prominent poets and writers discussing historical literary figures and their relationship with key New York City landmarks. More info at Litwalks.com

(Fall 2006)

Rattapallax Reading and Screening. August 25, 2006 at 7pm. Featuring Alberto Martins, Joao Bandeira, Idra Novey, Elisa Andrade Buzzo & Sylvio Back. Hosted by Flavia Rocha and Ram Devineni. Academia Internacional de Cinema, Rua Dr. Gabriel dos Santos, 142 Higienopolis Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Roxanne Varzi, author of Warring Sould: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Sept. 15, 2006 from 6:30-8pm. Jonathan Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St., NYC.Ê Free and open to the public Ê A book signing reception will follow the reading. Sponsored by ArteEast.

Roger Bonair-Agard. Berkeley Slam at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. Oct. 4, 2006 at 8:30 PM, Free

Roger Bonair-Agard. Fantasia Coffeehouse, 1322 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham, WA. October 9, 2006 at 8:30 PM, Free

Roger Bonair-Agard. Seattle Poetry Slam, Mirabeau Room, 529 Queen Anne Ave North, Seattle, WA. October 10, 2006, $5

AIC-RATTAPALLAX SALON. Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7pm. NY-born vocalist and poet Haale weaves Persian melodies through a lush soundscape. Screening of Abbas Kiarostami & Daniel Mitelpunkt's Forest Without Leaves, and Oscar nominated short, Little Terrorist. [ more info ]

Roger Bonair-Agard's Tarnish and Masquerade Launch. Sol, 609 West 29th St., New York, NY. October 20, 2006, 7PM, Free. Special guests & hosts: Hallie Hobson, Patricia Smith, Patrick Rosal, Lynne Procope, & Marty McConnell. Co-sponsored with Terra Nova Collective.

Roger Bonair-Agard. Laguardia Community College, Long Island City, NY. November 2, 2006, 6:30 PM, Free.

LIT-FILMS with Willie Perdomo, Roger Bonair-Agard & Kazim Ali. Friday, November 3, 2006 at 6:30pm at the Langston Hughes Community and Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona NY. Free screening of films and poetry reading. Co-sponsored with Kundiman.

Roger Bonair-Agard: Masquerade (One-Man Show). Center Stage Theatre, 48 West 21st St., New York, NY. Nov. 7-11, Nov. 14, Nov. 16-19, 2006, $12

Roger Bonair-Agard. Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC. December 9, 2006 at 9 PM, Free.

AIC-RATTAPALLAX SALON. Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 7pm. Free. Featuring Roger Bonair-Agard, Ry Russo-Young's remake of Psycho, and Punk Rocker Henry Rollins as the angel of death in Deathdealer. And the innovative films from the Academia Internacional de Cinema in Brazil. The event is co-sponsored with Jungle Drums, which is the preminent Brazilian cultural magazine in the world. Based in London and Sao Paulo, the magazine focuses on the influence of Brazilian films, fashion, art, literature, music, and culture. [ more info ]

(Spring 2006)

Fundraiser for Alabanza film. April 24, 2006 at 7 PM. Jonathan Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St. (off Prince St.) in SOHO, NYC. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Hirsch & Cecilia Vicuna. With special screening of an early cut of the film. $20 entrance fee, but will get $15 worth of books. [ more ]

THE FOURTH PEOPLE'S POETRY GATHERING. Poems from the World's Endangered and Contested Languages read and performed in their Mother Tongues and English (May 3rd to 7th, 2006), NYC

Suheir Hammad at Ziryab Reading,
May 6th, 2006, 6:00 pm. The Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC. Admission: $8; includes 1 drink.

The Road to Damascus: Discovering Syrian Cinema, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC. May 5-18, 2006, Sponsors: ArteEast

REEL Poets at QPL. May 21, 2006, 1:00 pm, Flushing Queens Public Library, 41-17 Main Street, Queens, NY. Featuring films and readings by Idra Novey and Ravi Shankar.

REEL Poets at QPL. June 27, 2006, 6:00 pm, Flushing Queens Public Library, 41-17 Main Street, Queens, NY. Featuring films and readings.

(Fall 2005)

Kundiman & Verlaine present Xue Di, Debora Kuan & Sawako Nakayasu. Monday, Sept. 12, 2005. Open Bar (sponsored by LEVEL Vodka): 6-7pm Reading begins at 7 pm. $5 suggested donation. Verlaine, 110 Rivington Street b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts.

Shelter from the Storm: Benefit Readings for Victims of Hurricane Katrina. Performances by Toni Morrison, Amiri and Amina Baraka, Cecil Taylor, Eric Bogosian, Yusef Komunyakaa, Anne Waldman, Marc Ribot, Suheir Hammad, Beau Sia, Eddie Bobé, Denizé Lature, Willie Perdomo, Dael Orlandersmith, Edwin Torres and New Orleans' "People's Poet" Kalamu ya Salaam, many more. Sept 30 and Oct 1, 2005. Bowery Poetry Club and St. Mark's Church, NYC. [ more info ]

Suheir Hammad's Book Party for ZaatarDiva (and showing of the film "The Fourth World War"). Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 7:30 pm. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15. The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, NYC (that's the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Streets.

Suheir Hammad. Nov. 3, 2005. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Suheir Hammad. Nov. 3, 2005. Babeland, 707 E Pike St., Seattle, WA

Suheir Hammad. Nov. 5, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Elliot Bay Bookstore, 101 South Main St. Seattle, WA.

Suheir Hammad. Nov. 8, 2005. Poetry Lounge, Los Angeles, CA.

Suheir Hammad. Nov. 9, 2005. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

Glyn Maxwell's Broken Journey. Begins Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 at Theatre Three, 311 W. 43rd St., 3rd floor, NYC. Produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.

Kgafela oa Magogodi & Sawako Nakayasu. Nov. 13, 2005 at 5pm. Tribes, 285 East 3rd St., NYC.

Suheir Hammad's Book Party. Nov. 14, 2005 at 8:15 pm, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC.

The Manhattan Review magazine reading. Pascale Petit, Robert Minhinnick, D. Nurkse, Frank Beck, Nicholas Birns & Angelo Verga. $6 (include one drink)
Nov. 16, 2005. Housing Works, 126 Crosby St., NYC

Glyn Maxwell's Wolfpit. Begins Friday, April 1. 2006 at Theatre Three, 311 W. 43rd St., 3rd floor, NYC. Produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.

(Spring 2005)

Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd & Flávia Rocha. Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 8 pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . Free. [more]

Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd & Flávia Rocha. Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 8 pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Free. [more]

Breyten Breytenbach, Nathalie Handal, Fabrício Carpinejar, Johnny Lorenz, Flávia Rocha, and Marlon de Almeida. World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Rattapallax's reading, Thursday, Jan 27, 2005, at 6:30pm at the Palco José Marti. [more]

Willie Perdomo. March 19, 2005: Arkansas Center for the Book, University of Arkansas/Fayetteville Public Library, Springdale, AR

Yusef Komunyakaa & NatashaTrethewey
Friday, March 25, 2005 Reception: 7pm / Reading: 8pm. The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum. Free and Open to the Public. This event is cosponsored by: Chattahoochee Review, Rattapallax, Agnes Scott College, Poetry at Tech, The Georgia Center for the Book, Five Points, and the Atlanta Review. Download press release.

UniVerse: World Literary Voices. Featuring Bei Dao, Breyten Breytenbach, Martín Espada, John Godfrey, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Dunya Mikhail, Joan Margarit Consarnau & Elif Shafak. Translators are Eliot Weinberger, Idra Novey & Niloufar Talebi. April 21, 2005 at 9pm. Free. St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave., NYC. [more]

Edwin Torres, Colette Inez & Matvei Yankelevich, April 24, 2005 at 7pm, ABC No Rio,156 Rivington St. NYC. Hosted by Thad Rutkowski

Lifting the Shadow: Toward a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World. May 2, 2005: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), City University of New York. A conference to address the political, moral, and cultural dimensions of the growing nuclear threat and to help mobilize for its elimination. [more]

Michael McClure's V K T M S
Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W. 52nd Street (btwn. 10 & 11th), 3rd Flr., May 5 - May 29, 2005. Thursday-Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 7PM. $15. Produced by Verse Theater Manhattan

Rattapallax 12 Launch Reading & Party. Featuring Paul Beatty, Sean Thomas Dougherty, F.D. Reeve, Patricia Spears Jones, Sheila Maldonado, David Cameron, Aaron Kiely, Tsaurah Litzky, Carol Mirakove & Dan Shapiro (reading work by Tomas Harris). May 2, 2005 at 7pm. Verlaine, 110 Rivington St. off Ludlow St., NYC. Free. Hosted by Idra Novey & Edwin Torres. [ more ]

CLMP's Periodically Speaking: Translations from the Axis of Evil featuring Niloufar Talebi. May 10, 2005, 6pm. DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room, The NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Ave. & 42nd St. (Please use Fifth Avenue entrance)

Willie Perdomo. June 20-24, 2005: VONA Writing Wkshp., University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Willie Perdomo. Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the little theatre. Poetry in the Branches at Port Richmond Library, 75 Bennett Street, Staten Island, (718.442.0158), NYC. Free.

(Fall 2004)

DEMO: A demonstration in words. A poetry reading on the RNC, President Bush and the crisis in Iraq. Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 8pm. St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave., New York City. Free. Featuring Carl Hancock Rux, Sapphire, Katha Pollitt, Mark Doty, Anne Waldman, Cornelius Eady, Vijay Seshadri, Hettie Jones, Hal Sirowitz, Bob Holman, Grace Schulman, Eileen Myles, Marie Ponsot, Robert Polito, John Yau, Rodrigo Toscano, Carol Mirakove, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Corie Feiner, Greg Fuchs, Anselm Berrigan, Laura Elrick, Bruce Andrews, Kathy Engel, Zero Boy, John Coletti and Kristin Prevallet. Hosted by Jen Benka and Ram Devineni.[ more ]

Rattapallax Poetry Reading and Brazilian Party. Sept. 5, 2004 at 7 PM. Blag Club, 1st floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Phone: 020-7243-0123. Admissions: £3. Featuring Roger Robinson, Pascale Petit, Jacob Sam La Rose, Todd Swift, and others. Hosted by Rajesh Bhardwaj & Ram Devineni. Film showing by caraballo-farman, and Fernando Severo. DJs and Brazilian music. Proceeds benefit ABC: Action for Brazils Children. Co-sponsored with Jungle Drums magazine. [ more ]

Willie Perdomo. Sept. 17, 2004 at 7pm. Americartes Festival at Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.

Pushkin by Jonathan Leaf. Sept. 20, 2004 at 7:30pm. Manhattan Theater Club, 311 W. 43rd St (b/ 8th and 9th Aves.) 8th Floor, Studio #3. Staring Harry Lennix & directed by Erica Gould. Co-sponsored with VTM.

Rhina Espaillat + Open-mike. October 3, 2004 at 4 pm at The Iambs and Trochees Reading, The Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine Street, NY.

Songs and Bombs. Oct. 15, 2004 at 10:30 pm. Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave., New York City. $8. Launch of Emily XYZ's SongBook and reading for Casagrande with Cristobal Bianchi, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano & Idra Novey.

Michelle Noteboom, Jennifer K. Dick, Ethan Gilsdorf & Julie Carr. October 20, 2004 at 6:30 pm. Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.], NYC. Free.

Willie Perdomo. Oct 23, 2004, 5-7pm: TRIBES Gallery, NYC

Willie Perdomo. Oct. 28, 2004 at 8pm: University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

Emily XYZ. Nov. 4, 2004 at 8 pm: Art House Productions, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City NJ

Willie Perdomo. Nov. 8, 2004: Conversations with Ilan Stavans, WGBH/PBS Boston, MA

Emily XYZ. Nov. 4, 2004 at 8 pm: Art House Productions, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City NJ

Willie Perdomo. Nov. 5, 2004: Behind the Book, Clinton H.S., Bronx, NY

Willie Perdomo. Nov. 12, 2004 at 11am: CUNY Honors College, NYC

Emily XYZ. Nov. 12, 2004 at 6pm: Pink Pony Reading Series, Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. NYC

Willie Perdomo. Dec. 10, 2004 at 6pm: Pink Pony Reading Series, Cornelia Street Café, NYC

(Spring 2004)

Willie Perdomo. January 5 thru Jan 12 Neruda Foundation Santiago, Chile

Willie Perdomo. January 13. EXIT Art. NYC

Dr. Martin Luther King Reading featuring Willie Perdomo & D.H. Melhem. January 19 at 7 pm. Sponsored by Youth Speaks and Community Word Project. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., NYC.

Willie Perdomo. January 25. TRIBES Gallery A Gathering of the Tribes, NYC.

The Urban Stamped: a new opera by F.D. Reeve. The Makor/Steinhardt Center, 35 West 67th St., Sunday, Jan. 25, Feb. 1, Feb. 8 at 3pm. Produced by Verse Theater Manhattan. Tickets/reservations: 212-415-5500.

Split Seconds: Respiro and Rattapallax Multimedia Happening. January 31, 7-9 pm. Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., NYC. Featuring Eugene Ostashevsky, Adina Dabija, Jeet Thayil and Bombay Down. AI poetry by Ray Kurzweil's Ramona. Film by Zoe Beloff and video performance by Kurt Ralske.

Willie Perdomo at Community Word Project Mural Exhibit Kickoff Event. February 7 (Sat.) at 11 am. Poets House, 72 Spring St., 2nd Flr., NYC.

Actor Danny Glover, Sonia Sanchez, Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Willie Perdomo, Dr. Abena Busia, Edward Kufuor, and Second2Last. February 7 (Sat.) at 7pm. The New School, Tishman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St., New York City. $5 donation to the Ghana Education Project. Advance tickets: 212-229-5488.

Willie Perdomo. February 8. Enoch Pratt Free Library Baltimore, MD

Iambs and Trochees Poetry Reading (by formalists). February 8 at 3pm. Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine Street, NYC. Featuring Charles Martin.

Benefit Reading/Dinner for Ghana Education Project. Yusef Komunyakaa, Willie Perdomo, Lamont B. Steptoe & Agya Boake-Boaten. Introduction by Herman Beavers. Feb. 22 (Sunday) at 6:00 PM: White Dog Cafe, 3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA. Reservations required 215- 386-9224.

Willie Perdomo. February 25 thru March 6 California Tour: Includes readings at San Francisco University High School, MACLA, Topical Nopal, Voz Alta, La Pena Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA & Los Angeles, CA

V K T M S by Michael McClure. Music/Direction by James Milton & Christopher North. Saturday, March 6, 8:00 PM, $5. Medicine Show Theatre 549 West 52nd Street (btwn. 10 & 11th), Third Floor. Discussion with the Michael McClure to follow. Presented by Verse Theater Manhattan & Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble.

Iambs and Trochees Poetry Reading (by formalists). March 7 at 4pm. Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine Street, NYC. Featuring Alfred Dorn. $8 minimum per person (both food and drink are available).

Lyric Recovery Festival with feature Lucie Brock-Broido; session essayist Alfred Corn; premieres of work by poet-librettist Annie Finch; set by Kevin Warren, and final-round judge Glyn Maxwell. Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC on March 22, 2004 at 7:30 pm

Michael Palma will be the featured reader at the Iambs and Trochees Poetry Reading, Sunday, April 4, 2004, at The Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine Street (near Bleecker), New York, 4 pm, hosted by Terese Coe. $8 minimum, to be followed by Open for formalist poems.

Willie Perdomo. April 7 at 6:30 pm. Barnes & Noble Main Store, 105 Fifth Ave at 18th St., NYC.

Willie Perdomo. April 8. University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT

Willie Perdomo. April 12-14. Sonja Hanes Stone Center for Black Culture & History Reading Circle UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

Spit and Swap: artists reception and auction of street art. April 13, 2004 at 6:00 pm, 161 Essex Street. NYC. Featuring art by abe lincoln jr., woon, skewville, michael de feo, vinnie ray, richard butler, anera, ricardo, tats cru, acb, goldmineshithouse, you are ..., carlucci, ron english, sparks, richard hambleton, john sebastiono, smaze, rep1, and others.

Willie Perdomo. The National Book Foundation Reading. April 20 at 6:30pm. National Blue Heron Arts Center on 123 E. 24th St., NYC.

Willie Perdomo. April 23. Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University, 211 Park St., New Haven, CT.

Willie Perdomo. April 29. Simmons College Boston, MA

Iambs and Trochees Reading featuring Joseph Salemi. May 2 at 4 pm, The Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine Street, NY

POESÍA 100%: a Celebration of Pablo Neruda. Featuring Mark Doty, Willie Perdomo, Mark Eisner, Katherine Jamieson, and others. Food and drinks will be served and showing of Pablo Neruda: a Documentary & reading of new translations from Essential Neruda from City Lights Press. May 4 at 7 pm. Issue Project Room, 619 East 6th St., b/ Ave. B and C, NYC. $10. Proceeds benefit documentary.

Willie Perdomo. May 5. Terra Incognita Cornelia Street Café NYC

Willie Perdomo. May 21-23. THE LOFT Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Healing Poetry" featuring Marie Ponsot, Grace Schulman, Brendan Costello, Helen Barnard, Michael Morical, Ellen Peckham, Elaine Schwager, Sam Friedman, Sina Quayras, Michele Rosenthal, Yerra Sugarman, Barry Wallenstein & Frances Richey. Hosted by Patricia Brody. May 27 at 7 pm. Issue Project Room, 619 East 6th St., b/ Ave. B and C, NYC. $5.

Kate Light, Michael Palma, Christine Potter & Terese Coe. May 29 at 2pm. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. $6

Jeet Thayil. June 10, 7pm. The Asian American Writers' Workshop; 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A, b/ 5th Ave. & Broadway, NYC

Jeet Thayil. June 14, 5.30pm, International Center, 50 West 23rd St., 7th Flr, NYC

Jeet Thayil. June 15, 7pm, St. Marx Cafe Reading Series; St. Marx Cafe, 37 St. Marks
Place, Corner of 2nd Avenue, NYC; $6 (includes 1 drink).

Jeet Thayil. June 20, 7pm, Village Reading Series; Caffe Sha Sha, 510 Hudson Street,
b/ Christopher & 10th, NYC

Willie Perdomo. June 27 thru July 3. VONA Wkshp, San Francisco, CA

Jeet Thayil. July 10, 7pm, Gallery 108, 108 Beacon St.Somerville, MA

Jeet Thayil/Book Launch Reading & Party. July 21, 7pm, Drink Me Café, 620 E. 6th St.;
B/ Ave. B & C, NYC

(Fall 2003)

Marathon Reading on AIDS in Africa
September 2, 2003 starting at 5 PM. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., between Houston & Bleecker. 212.614.0505, http://bowerypoetry.com / download flyer. $10 suggested donation and in return you will get to stay as long as you like and get books from Rattapallax Press valuing over $15. All proceeds will go to GEP.

Breyten Breytenbach, Sapphire, Glyn Maxwell, Grace Schulman, Vijay Seshadri, Timothy Liu, Meena Alexander, Willie Perdomo, Cecilia Vicuña, Bob Holman, Marie Ponsot, Tory Dent, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nicole Blackman, Keith Roach, Karen Swenson, Regie Cabico, Edwin Torres, F.D Reeve, Todd Colby, William Pitt Root, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Anselm Berrigan, Jackie Sheeler, Bonnie Rose Marcus, Prageeta Sharma, Yerra Sugarman, Nathalie Handal, Daniel Nester, Emanuel Xavier, Elaine Schwager, Flávia Rocha, Ron Price, Jeet Thayil, Kahlil Almustafa, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Bill Kushner, Isabelle Balot, Aracelis Girmay, Claudia Alick, Jesse Alick, Karma Mayet Johnson, Jane Sprague, Kazim Ali, Carlos Gomez, Patricia Carlin, Lynne Procope, Daniela Gioseffi, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jade Sharma, Travis Montez, Peter Rojcewicz, Felice Belle, Karen Jaime, Eliane Sexton, Brendan Lorber, Vincent Toro, Pat Duffy, Clara Sala, Douglas Martin, and Cole Rachel. With performances by Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Second2Last, tyren (grfx), and Haale with hip-hop poetry by Wordsworth, Wiseguy & Gaston, Juggaknots, tyren (grfx), MANICexpressize, Evolution, Anacaona, and Rocky. [ more ]

Glyn Maxwell's The Forever Waltz. September 8 at 7:30 pm. The Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th St., NYC (Between Aves. A & B)
www.versetheatermanhattan.com

Joan Larkin, Jan Clausen, Elena Georgiou, Griffin Hansbury and hosted by Beatrix Gates. September 13 at 2pm. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

Willie Perdomo. September 19. New York is Book Country, NYC.

Willie Perdomo. September 20 at 4 pm. Verse Festival 2003 at Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Tory Dent, Marilyn Hacker, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Yerra Sugarman. September 22 at 6:30 pm. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

Willie Perdomo. September 23 at 1:30 pm. Writer's Forum at Bronx Academy of Letters, Bronx, NY

Willie Perdomo. September 26 at 10 pm. Spotlight/Kick-Off for publication of Smoking Lovely, Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 E. 3rd St., (b/ Ave. B&C), NYC

Willie Perdomo. September 27. Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

Willie Perdomo. October 1. ASCENTOS Series, Blue Ox Bar, Bronx, NY

Karaoke + Poetry = Fun (KPF) . October 7 at 9:30 pm. The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery at Bleecker, New York City. $6

Willie Perdomo. Oct 7. Latino Education Institute, Worcester, MA

Smoking Lovely (Willie Perdomo) Book Launch Party! October 13 at 7:00 pm. 13 Bar/Lounge, 35 E. 13th St., Union Square, NYC. Co-sponsored by LouderARTS.com. FREE. Willie Perdomo will read with guests John Rodriguez, Rich Villar, Jai Kumar and Jayme del Rosario.

PlayGrounD: The Death of King Arthur by Matthew Freeman. October 13th from from 7:30-9:30 PM. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., between Houston & Bleecker. 212.614.0505, $10. Sponsored by Verse Theater Manhattan and Inverse Theater

Willie Perdomo. October 16-18. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH

Willie Perdomo. Oct 21-25. "NY/PR Blues." New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, NYC

Willie Perdomo. October 28. University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Willie Perdomo. October 28 at 6:00 pm. Teaism Penn Quarter, 400 8th St., NW. Copies available at Vertigo Books, 7346 Baltimore Ave. College Park, MD.

Rattapallax 5th Anniversary Party and Reading featuring Meena Alexander, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Philip Nikolayev, Samuel Menashe, Meg Kearney, Jeet Thayil and Bombay Down, Matvei Yankelevich, Nancy Mercado, Leeya Mehta, Vivek Narayanan, Eugene Ostashevsky & Second2Last. DJ Derek and hosted by Flavia Rocha and Edwin Torres. October 29 at 7 pm. Issue Project Room, 619 East 6th St., b/ Ave. B and C, NYC. $5. [more]

Willie Perdomo. October 30 - November 1. Sam Houston State College, Huntsville, TX

Willie Perdomo. November 2 at 3 pm. Schomburg Center for Black Research, Drumvoices Book Party & Celebration for Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas, Harlem, NY

Willie Perdomo. November 7 at 7:00 pm. Patrias Brooklyn, NY

Willie Perdomo. November 8 at 7:00 pm. Nuyorican Poets Café ALOUD! 30 Year Anniversary Town Hall, NYC

Home: A NY Literary Festival
Poets from other countries living and working in New York City. November 10, 2003 at 6pm, Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC. Off West 4th Street and 6th Ave. Featured readers include Robert Minhinnick (editor of Poetry Wales); Pascale Petit (editor of Poetry London); Isabelle Balot is a French poet working for the United Nations; and Ethan Gilsdorf from Paris where he is poet and reviewer.

PlayGrounD: Agamemnon by Stephen Berkoff. November 10 from 7:30-9:30 PM. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., between Houston & Bleecker. 212.614.0505, $10. Sponsored by Verse Theater Manhattan and Inverse Theater

Willie Perdomo. November 11 at 7:00pm Acentos - Blue Ox Bar - Corner of Third Ave & East 139 Street, Bronx, NYC 4, 5, 6 IRT Trains to 138th Street Station Hosted by Oscar Bermeo FREE! ($5 Suggested Donation) http://www.louderarts.com/acentos

Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyaaka, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM. Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil [ more ]

Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyaaka, Edwin Torres, Paulo Henrique Britto, Flávia Rocha & translators. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM. Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil [ more ]

Willie Perdomo. November 13 at 12:00 pm. Hunter College, NYC

Willie Perdomo. November 13 at 7:00 pm. College of New Rochelle New Rochelle, NY

Willie Perdomo. November 17-18. Cuyahoga Library, CPL, Cleveland, OH

Willie Perdomo. November 21. Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA

Rattapallax 10 Launch Reading. November 22 at 2:00 pm. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

PlayGrounD: Midnight Brainwash Revival by Kirk Bromley. December 8 from 7:30-9:30 PM. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., between Houston & Bleecker. 212.614.0505, $10. Sponsored by Verse Theater Manhattan and Inverse Theater

(Spring 2003)

F.D. Reeve, Michael Hulse & Frederick Feirstein
February 22, 2003 at 2pm, Jefferson Market Library, 425 Ave. of the Americas, NYC.

Short Fuse at AWP in Baltimore
February 26, 2003 at 10:30 PM. AWP Conferene, Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. Slam featuring Edwin Torres, DJ Renegade, Crystal WIlliams, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Larry Jaffe and hosted by Regie Cabico.

Mark Nickels & Michael T. Young
March 9, 2003 at 6:00 PM. Iota Club and Cafe, 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA.

Dialogue Through Poetry/World Poetry Day. Wednesday 19, March, 2003 at 8:00 PM. Mason Hall, Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave. at 23rd St., New York City, FREE. Featured poets and readers: Robert Creeley, Marilyn Hacker, Vijay Seshadri, Grace Schulman, Amiri & Amini Baraka. Winners of the High School "World Poetry Day" Writing Competition. [more]

Culture of Peace and Non-violence/World Poetry Day. March 20, 2003 at 8 PM at the New York Open Center, 83 Spring Street, between Broadway and Lafayette, NYC. Prominent women poets from New York City respond through their words on how to create a culture of peace and non-violence in the world and celebrate UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Some of the featured poets include Veronica Golos, Haale, Maria Terrone, D.H. Melhem, Flavia Rocha, Elaine Schwager, Daniela Gioseffi, Ruth Nolan, and many others. Special guest: Swami Ramananda. http://www.opencenter.org

Short Fuse at the Cuirt Festival in Ireland
April 26th at 3:30 PM, The Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland.

Megan Sexton, Andrea Carter Brown & Rayn Roberts. April 26, 2003 at 2pm. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

Edwin Torres, Flavia Rocha & Chris Daniels. May 6, 2003 at 7:00 pm. Soft Skull Bookstore, 71 Bond Street (at State St.) Brooklyn, NY

Rattapallax 9 Launch Party!!!
May 9, 2003 at 7:30 pm. WhiteBox Gallery, 525 West 26th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) NYC. Free. Hosted by Edwin Torres & Flávia Rocha. DJ Derek Beres. Featuring Cecilia Vicuña, Todd Colby, Willie Perdomo, Brian Stefans, Marcella Durand, Ange Mlinko, Rodrigo Toscano, Paul Skiff, Chris Daniels, Magdalena Zurawski, Jena Osman, Matias Mariani, and many others.

Play reading of "Patpong Street" by R.A. Carlsen. Winner of the John Golden Playwriting Award from Hunter College. July 26, 2003 at 2pm. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

(Fall 2002)

September 14, 2002 at 2 pm--Rattapallax 8 Launch Reading, Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. at 40th St., NYC

October 5, 2002 at 2:30 pm--Sharon Kraus, Marie Ponsot & Yerra Sugarman, Riverside Branch, 65th and Amsterdam, NYC

October 14, 2002 at 7 pm--Short Fuse Reading featuring Penn Kemp, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Tug Dumbly, and Philip Norton. 13 Bar / Lounge 35 East 13th Street & University Place, NYC.

Short Fuse: Launch Reading. New School, October 15, 2002 at 8 PM. FREE, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St., New York City. Featuring Simon Armitage, Charles Bernstein, Glyn Maxwell, Bob Holman Patricia Smith, Ron Silliman, Willie Perdomo, Todd Colby, Regie Cabico, Emily XYZ, Robert Allen, Edwin Torres, DJ Renegade, Zoe Anglesey, Adeena Karasick, Fortner Anderson, Prageeta Sharma, Wednesday Kennedy, Penn Kemp, Guillermo Castro, Mary O'Donoghue, Richard Peabody, Victoria Stanton, Vincent Tinguely, David McGimpsey, Helen Thomas, Barbara DeCesare, Corey Frost, Ian Ferrier, Joshua Auerbach, Robert Priest, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Catherine Kidd, Kevin Higgins, Rosemary Dun, Tug Dumbly, Ben Doyle Jill Battson, Kélina Gotman, Andrea Thompson, Dawna Matrix Jason Pettus, Heather Hermant, Larry Jaffe, Sean M. Whelan, Lauren Williams, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, David Hill, Silvana Straw, Srikanth Reddy, Hal Niedzviecki, Laurie Anne Fuhr, Stephen Brockwell, Matthew Miller, Jeffrey McDaniel, Cathyann Coley-McIntyre, and Ryk McIntyre. Hosted by Todd Swift and Philip Norton.

October 16, 2002 at 6:30pm--Simon Armitage, Ron Silliman and Stephanos Papadopoulos. Jefferson Market Library, 425 Ave. of the Americas at 10th St., New York City.

October 16, 2002 at 7:30pm--Short Fuse Reading, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery & Bleecker, New York City. $5. Ron Silliman, Fortner Anderson, Adeena Karasick, David McGimpsey, Penn Kemp, Kevin Higgins, Robert Priest, Rosemary Dunn, Sean M. Whelan, Helen Thomas, Joshua Auerbach, Lauren Williams, Barbara DeCesare, and Bob Holman. Hosted by Todd Swift and Philip Norton.

October 17, 2002 at 7:30 pm--Short Fuse/Conundrum Reading, Galapagos Arts Space, 70 North 6th Street (between Kent and Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Corey Frost, Victoria Stanton, Vincent Tinguely, Ian Ferrier, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Tug Dumbly, Catherine Kidd, Andrea Thompson, and Heather Hermant. Hosted by Andy Brown and Todd Swift.

October 17, 2002 at 7 pm--Brit Lit: New Writing from the UK and Ireland featuring Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Pascale Petit, Michael Hulse, Bernardine Evaristo, and Mimi Khalvati. Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College, 150 E. 25th St. at Lexington Ave., New York City. FREE.

October 18, 2002 at 10 pm--Short Fuse Slam Reading at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street (between Avenues B and C.), New York City. $5. Fuse Slam Team from Australia: Philip Norton, Tug Dumbly, Wednesday Kennedy, Lauren Williams & Sean M. Whelan.

October 18, 2002 at 7pm-- Short Fuse Reading hosted by Jill Battson Featuring Louise Bak, Robert Priest, Penn Kemp, Sonnet L'Abbe, Stephen Pender, Dwayne Morgan, Julie Crysler, Dawna Rae Matrix, and others. Blues on Bellair, 25 Bellair Street, Toronto.

October 19, 2002 at 8pm--Short Fuse Reading hosted by Ian Ferrier with special guests Swifty Lazarus also featuring: Cat Kidd, Fortner Anderson, Alexis O'Hara, Jason Camlot, Victoria Stanton, Stephanie Bolster, Robert Allen, and others. Salla Rosa, St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal.

October 19, 2002 at 2 pm--Eamon Grennan & Michael T. Young. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC. FREE

October 19, 2002 at 7 pm--Night of Persian Women’s Poetry and Songs featuring Mimi Khalvati and Haale. Bluestockings Women's Bookstore, 172 Allen St. NYC

October 20, 2002 at 5 pm--Short Fuse Reading at Tribes, Tribes, 285 East Third Street (between C & D), New York City. Edwin Torres, Todd Colby, Wednesday Kennedy, Guillermo Castro, Kélina Gotman, Tug Dumbly, Sean M. Whelan, and MTC Cronin.

October 21, 2002 at 6:30 pm--Poetry Wales/Short Fuse Reading, St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City. FREE. Robert Minhinnick, Duncan Bush, Lloyd Robson, and Pascale Petit.

October 26, 2002 at 2 pm--Kyi May Kaung & Elaine Schwager, St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

November 6, 2002 at 7 PM--Short Fuse Reading featuring Charles Bernstein and Sean Thomas Dougherty. Talking Leaves Bookstore, 3158 Main Street in Buffalo, New York

November 16 , 2002 at 2 pm--Guy Gauthier, Bill Kushner & Karin Randolph. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City. FREE.

November 20, 2002 at 7 PM--World Fusion Night Featuring Josey Foo, Adeena Karasick, Ed Lin, Barbara Decesare & Corey Frost. Co-sponsored with Kaya Press.
Knitting Factory, 74 leonard Street, New York City. $5

November 24, 2002 at 7:30 pm--Short Fuse Reading at the Budapest Bardroom
Gobelin Room, Hotel Gellért, Budapest, Hungary. Featuring Peter Finch, Gwendolyn Albert, N. R. Branach, Kálmán Farago and Anna Haraszti. Hosted by Heather Hermant and David Hill (also in the anthology).

November 24, 2002 at 8pm--Short Fuse Reading in Edinburgh, Tron Bar, Hunter Square, Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Featuring Jem Rolls, Rob Gee, Annie Wallace, Larry Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Todd Swift plus Anita Govan, Michael McGill, Viv Gee

November 25, 2002 at 8 pm--Short Fuse Reading in Bristol, il Bordello Arts Bar, moored at Welsh Back, Bristol BS1. Featuring Todd Swift, Larry Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Rosemary Dun, Lucy English, Peter Hunter, Tony Lewis-Jones, Tom Phillips with band BUCKY. £2. Sponsored by Big Mouth Productions.

November 26, 2002 at 8pm--Short Fuse Reading in Oxford, Red Room, Quod Bar, High Street, Oxford. Todd Swift, Larry Jaffe and Adeena Karasick. Sponsored by the Back Room Poets. 2 pounds.

November 26, 2002 at 7:30pm--Short Fuse Reading in Bath, Doolally's cafe, Walcot street, Bath. Featuring Lucy English, Rosemary Dun, Tom Philips, Peter Hunter and others.

November 27 & 28, 2002--Short Fuse Reading at Cardiff University. Featuring Peter Finch, Todd Swift & Michael Hulse. Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Rattapallax / Poetry Wales Poetry Reading
November 28 (Thursday) at 7:30 PM Dylan Thomas Centre, Somerset Place, Swansea, UK. Featuring Todd Swift, Adeena Karasick, Larry Jaffe, Paul Henry & Samantha Wynne Rhydderch.

Short Fuse Reading at Poetry Society, UK
November 29, 2002 (Friday) at 8pm. 22 Betterton Street London, UK. Featuring Simon Armitage, Francesca Beard, Aoife Mannix, and Todd Swift. £6/4.

Short Fuse Reading in Paris. December 2, 2002 (Monday) at 8:00 pm. La Fondation Des Etats Unis Grand Salon 15, bd Jourdan 75014 Paris Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris Metro (RER B): Cité Universitaire. Featuring Adeena Karasick, Tony Lewis-Jones, Patrick Chapman, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jennifer Dick, Ethan Gilsdorf, Michelle Noteboom and Lisa Pasold. Hosted by Todd Swift, the collection's co-editor.

Rattapallax / Ambit. December 3, 2002 (Tuesday) at 6:30 pm. Princess Louise, 208 High Holborn, WC1V, Upstairs. Entrance: £4 / £3 concessions. Featuring Carole Satyamurti Pascale Petit, Margo Berdeshevsky, and Mario Petrucci.

(Spring 2002)

February 2 at 2 pm--Daniela Gioseffi & Michael Graves. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

February 17 at 7 pm--Gabrielle LeMay, Daniela Gioseffi & Stephen Massimilla
Caffe Sha Sha, 510 Hudson Street (between Christopher and West 10th), NYC

February 25 at 6:30 pm--Celebrating Literary Brooklyn Series with Mae Jackson and T'ai Freedom Ford and hosted by Daniela Gioseffi.
Brooklyn Heights Public Library, 280 Cadmon Plaza West, NYC

March 1 at 7:00 pm--Glyn Maxwell & Stephanos Papadopoulos. National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC

March 10 at 6:00 pm--Daniela Gioseffi and Angelo Verga with Thea on guitar. The Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia St, NYC $6

March 14 at 7:30 pm--James Ragan, Maureen Holm & Tobias Deehan Makor
(The Poetry & Mentorship Series), 35 West 67th St, NYC

March 16 at 2 pm--Johanna Keller, Charles Martin & Michael T. Young. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

March 20 from 7-9 pm--2001 Dialogue Through Poetry Reading with Breyten Breytenbach, Shashi Tharoor, Bob Holman, Sonia Sanchez, Sharon Olds and others.
The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St., NYC. FREE

March 22 at 7 pm--Mark Nickels, Paul McDonald & Michael T. Young. Halcyon 227 Smith St. (between Butler and Douglass St.), Brooklyn, NYC

March 22 at 8:30 pm--Ron Price, Elaine Schwager and Deedee Agee. 228 West 22nd Street, Ground Floor, Buzzer 1, between 7th and 8th Avenue

March 23 at 6 pm--Daniela Gioseffi & Gabrielle LeMay Hosted by Yictove.
The Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., NYC

March 30, 2002 at 2 pm--Rattapallax No. 7 Launch Reading hosted by Martin Mitchell
Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. at 40th St., NYC

April 4, 2002 at 2 pm--The Contrapuntal Air: A Panel Discussion on the Convergence of Islamic and Western Literary Traditions, the poet Agha Shahid Ali, New Arab Poetry, and the Role of the Literary Journal. Rifkind Room, NAC 6/316, City College. With Khaled Mattawa, Christopher Merrill, Marilyn Hacker, Ram Devineni, Yerra Sugarman and M. L. Williams.

April 5-6, 2002--North Carolina Literary Festival-- Stephanos Papadopoulos. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 6 at 2 pm--New Arab Poetry Reading featuring Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Hacker, Mary Ann Caws & others. Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. at 40th St., NYC

April 16 at 6:45 pm--A.E.Stallings & Kate Light. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

April 20 at 2 pm--Marilyn Hacker, Martin Bax & Jeanne Marie Beaumont. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

April 22 at 7 pm--Robert McDowell. National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy South, NYC

April 23 at 6:45 pm--Robert McDowell & Richard Levine. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

April 27 at 2 pm--Rhina P. Espaillat & Prageeta Sharma. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

May 11 at 2 pm--Ross Martin, John Coletti & Mark Nickels. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

May 18 at 2 pm--"The World Healing Book" Anthology Reading hosted by Birgitta Jonsdottir. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

June 8 at 2 pm--Poets Timothy Liu, Kathleen Ossip, Tina Chang, and Sarah Davis. Also, films by Lisa DiLillo, Joel Schlemowitz and Lisa Barnstone. Event sponsored by drunkenboat.com. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

June 15 at 2 pm--Maria Terrone, Deena Linett & Kate Light. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

June 19 at 7:30 pm-- X.J. Kennedy & Michael T. Young. Newburyport Art Association Gallery (Powow River Poets Monthly Reading Series)

(Fall 2001)

Sept 8, 2001 at 2pm--Indran Amirthanayagam, Peter M. Rojcewicz, and Richard Levine. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Sept. 15, 2001 at 2pm--Marilyn Hacker, Beatrix Gates & Stephanos Papadopoulos
St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Sept. 19, 2001 at 7pm--Lamont B. Steptoe and Ron Price. Kelly Writer's House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

Sept. 20, 2001 at 3:30 p.m--Stephanos Papadopoulos. The Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC Chapel Hill

Sept. 24, 2001 at 6:30 pm--Daniela Gioseffi & F.D. Reeve. The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Sept. 29, 2001 at 2 pm--Rattapallax No. 6 Launch Reading hosted by Martin Mitchell
Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave., NYC

Sept. 30, 2001 at 2 pm--Ron Price, Mark Nickels, Michael T. Young & Elaine Schwager. Manayunk Art Center, 419 Green Lane, Philadelphia

Oct. 6, 2001 at 2pm--Colette Inez and Ron Price. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Oct. 10, 2001 at 6:45pm--Ron Price and Elaine Schwager. Jefferson Market Library, 425 Ave. of the Americas (at 10th St.), NYC

Oct. 15, 2001 at 7:30 pm--Ron Price and Pamela Uschuk. North Westchester Center for the Arts., NYC

Oct. 17, 2001 at 6 pm--Kate Light, Elaine Schwager & Richard Levine. The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Oct. 20, 2001 at 2pm--Poets from Rattapallax (USA) and Poetry Wales (UK) hosted by Martin Mitchell and Robert Minhinnick
St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Oct. 20, 2001 at 6pm--Poems of Love and War with Stephanos Papadopoulos. The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Oct. 21, 2001 at 6 pm--Rika Lesser, Ron Price, Michael T. Young & Mark Nickels
The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC

Oct. 21, 2001 at 6:30 pm--Robert Minhinnick and Stephanos Papadopoulos. The New 14th St. Y, 344 East 14th St. & 1st. Ave., NYC

Oct. 25, 2001 at 7:30 pm--Michael T. Young
Halcyon, 227 Smith St., NYC

Oct. 25, 2001 at 7:30 pm--Stephanos Papadopoulos and Richard Levine
Main Line Art Center, Old Buck Lane and Lancaster Avenue (Rt. 30) in Haverford

Oct. 27, 2001 at 2pm--Charlie Smith and Mark Nickels. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Nov. 3, 2001 at 2pm--George Bradley, Rick Pernod and Michael T. Young. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Nov. 8, 2001 at Bright Hill Press--Michael T. Young and Ron Price. Treadwell, New York

Nov. 16, 2001 at 7 pm--Ron Price
Richard Hugo House 1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle

Nov. 17, 2001 at 7pm--Nye Beach Writer's Series featuring Ron Price. Performing Arts Center, 777 West Olive, Newport, OR

Nov. 17, 2001 at 2 pm--Bob Holman, Regie Cabico & Bill Kushner. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Nov. 20, 2001 at 2 pm--Martine Bellin, Bill Kushner, Richard Levine. Caffe Sha Sha 510 Hudson Street (Christopher-W10th)

Dec. 3, 2001 at 6:45 pm--Glyn Maxwell & Stephanos Papadopoulos. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Dec. 7, 2001 at 7 pm--Daniela Gioseffi & Maureen Holm. THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS "La Plume Series," 28 West 27th St., NYC 3rd Floor.

Dec. 8, 2001 at 2 pm--Louis Simpson & Elaine Schwager. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

Dec. 9, 2001at 6:30 pm--Maureen Holm & Johanna Keller. The Phoenix Reading Series (curated by Michael Graves), Bar & Books, 636 Hudson St (Horatio/Jane), NYC

Dec. 15, 2001 at 2 pm--PO-EP! Launch Reading. Hosted by Anselm Berrigan & Edwin Torres. Featuring: John Yau, Juliana Spahr, Todd Colby, Sharon Mesmer, Marcella Durand, Mike Tyler, Fred Moten, John Coletti, Mariana Ruiz-Firmat, Kostas Anagnopoulos, Lila Zemborain & others. St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., NYC