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BBC Contains Strong Language Festival

Birmingham

BBC Arts’ annual poetry and spoken word festival of new work is in Birmingham this September, as the city celebrates hosting the Commonwealth Games. Award-winning reggae poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson joins top writers and speakers as part of the four-day showcase taking place all around the city and on the …

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Workshop with Ian Williams: Nothing More Than Feelings

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Join Griffin Trustee Ian Williams for Nothing More Than Feelings on Thursday September 8 at 6:00 p.m. EST. People instantly associate poetry with feelings, and poets oblige by continuing to dump our feelings there. This workshop attunes us afresh to how we represent our feelings. We move through the chain …

$40

The Laurel Prize Reading

Polinations Chamberlain Sq Birmingham, Victoria Square, Birmingham

The Laurel Prize for eco and nature poetry is the world's largest prize for best collection awarded annually. Join this year's judges Glyn Maxwell (Chair), Tishani Doshi and Elena Karina Byrne for a very special reading highlighting their own work and their relationship with climate activism poetry. Discover what else …

Free

Muldoon’s Picnic

Irish Arts Center 726 11th Avenue, New York, NY

With a name that harkens back to a late 1800s New York vaudeville act, this moveable feast of an event—curated and presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and songwriter Paul Muldoon—combines music, prose and poetry, and high commentary and low comedy with an evolving lineup of world-class guests and house band …

$25 – $65

Poetry Reading with Claire Schwartz and Solmaz Sharif

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Porter Square Books is happy to welcome Claire Schwartz to celebrate the release of her debut poetry collection, Civil Service!  Fellow poet Solmaz Sharif will be joining the author with a reading from her own collection, Customs, which released earlier this year and conversation. This event will take place on Tuesday, September 13 at 7pm ET, hosted virtually …

Free