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calendar
2008
January
Poetry Residency
January 4-14, 2008
Bennington College
Bennington, VT
website: www.bennington.edu/acad_grad_writ_resid.asp
Poetry Workshop
January 21–26, 2008
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Delray Beach, FL
website: www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org
Poetry Reading
January 30 February 2, 2008
AWP Conference & Bookfair
Sheraton New York
website: www.awpwriter.org/conference/2008awpconf.php
February
Poetry Reading
February 7, 2008
University of Missouri Kansas City
New Letters
English Department
Kansas City, MO
(816) 501-4607
website: www.newletters.org/eventsReading.asp
Poetry Reading
February 14, 2008
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA
academic.ursinus.edu/engl/creatwrtg.htm
Poetry Reading
February 17, 2008
Black Ink
Robins’ Bookstore
108 S. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 735-9600
www.robinsbookstore.com/
Poetry Reading
February 19, 2008
Montpelier High School
Montpelier, VT
www.mpsvt.org/mhs/mhssite/index.html
Lecture
February 20, 2008
University of Vermont
Bailey Howe Library
Special Collections
Burlington, VT 05401
library.uvm.edu/nucleus/LibNews.php
March
Poetry Reading
March 6, 2008
Clemson University
Clemson Literary Festival
Clemson, SC
www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/writers_nook/litfest.htm
Poetry Residency
March 10-14, 2008
New Orleans Center for Creative
Arts (Nocca)
2800 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA
(504) 940-2800
www.nocca.com
Poets & Writers Benefit
March 18, 2008
The Ritz-Carlton – Battery
Park
New York, NY
Poetry Reading
March 20, 2008
University of Missouri-Columbia
Reynolds Alumni Center
Columbia, MO 65211
creativewriting.missouri.edu/
Poetry Reading
March 24, 2008
Long Island University
Voices of the Rainbow Reading Series
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 488-1050
website: www.brooklyn.liu.edu/depts/english/voices.htm
Poetry Lecture
March 27, 2008
Emma Willard School
Troy, NY 12180
website: www.emmawillard.org/academics/speakers_series/index.php
April
Poetry Reading
April 2, 2008
State of the Art: African American
Poetry
Poetry Society of America
Boston University
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research
Center
Boston, MA 02215
Poetry Reading
April 8, 2008
Elgin Community College
Elgin, IL. 60123
website: www.elgin.edu
Poetry Reading
April 18, 2008
University of Alabama
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series
Tuscaloosa, AL
website: www.as.ua.edu/english/08_cw
May
Poetry Reading
May 16, 2008
36th Annual Poetry Festival
City College of New York
website: www.ccny.cuny.edu/poetryoutreachcenter
June
Poetry Residency
June 12-22, 2008
Bennington College
Bennington, VT
website: www.bennington.edu/acad_grad_writ_resid.asp
June 13, 2008
The New School
The Summer Literary Salon
New York, NY
www.newschool.edu/summerwriters
summerwriters@newschool.edu
212.229.5611
Poetry Workshop
June 23-27, 2008
Manhattanville College
Summer Writers Week
Purchase, NY
manhattanville.edu/AcademicsandResearch/DowdOGormanWritingCenter/SummerWritersWeek
July
July 20–27, 2008
Poetry Workshop
Stonecoast Writer's Conference
University of Southern Maine
Wolfe's Neck on Casco Bay
Freeport, Maine
website: www.usm.maine.edu/summer/stonecoastwc/
August
Poetry Reading
with David Barber & John Skoyles
August 10, 2008, 4 p.m.
Sponsored by The New England Poetry Club
Longfellow National Historic Site
105 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-876-4491
website: www.nepoetryclub.org/events.htm
Poetry Workshop
August 17-22, 2008
Fine Arts Work Center
Provincetown, MA
website: www.fawc.org/summer/index.shtm
Poetry Reading
August 23, 2008
West Tisbury Free Public Library
1042 State Road
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
(508) 693-3366
website: westtisburyfreepubliclibrary.org/programs.php
October
Poetry Reading
October 15, 2008
New York State Writers Institute
University at Albany
State University of New York
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-3300
website: www.albany.edu/writers-inst/
Poetry Reading
October 16, 2008
Black Poetry Day
SUNY-Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY
Poetry Reading
October 18, 2008
Eagle Pond Author's Series
Silver Center for the Arts
Plymouth State University
17 High Street
Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
(603) 535-2787
website: www.plymouth.edu/silver/events/eaglepond.html
November
Poetry Reading
November 5, 2008
Phillips Exeter Academy
Lamont Poets
20 Main Street,
Exeter, NH 03833
(603) 772-4311
website: www.exeter.edu/libraries/4513_4541.aspx
Poetry Reading
November 8, 2008, 7 p.m.
The Academy of American Poets
American Poet Launch Party
Poets Forum November 6-8
(212) 274-0343
website: www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/380
Poetry Reading
November 19, 2008
Long Island University
Poetry Center
CW Post Campus
72 Northern Blvd
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-2000
2009
January
Poetry Residency
January 8-18, 2009
Bennington College
Bennington, VT
website: www.bennington.edu/acad_grad_writ_resid.asp
February
Poetry Discussion
February 11, 2009
Walt Whitman Tribute
with Eamon Grennan and Pattiann Rogers
and hosted by Michael Silverblatt
Lannan Foundation
Readings & Conversations
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 West San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 986-8160
website: www.lannan.org/lf/programs/rc/
Poetry Readings
February 11-14, 2009
AWP Conference & Bookfair
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
website: www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009awpconf.php
April
Public Conversation
April 2, 2009
Two Sets of Eyes on the Urban Landscape:
with Afaa Weaver & Major Jackson
Somerville Community Access Television
90 Union Square
Somerville, MA 02143
617-628-8826
website: dougholder.blogspot.com/2008/05/afaa-weaver-renowned-african-american.html
2007
Click here to see a list of Major Jackson's 2007 poetry readings.
2006
Click here to see a list of Major Jackson's 2006 poetry readings.
2005
Click here to see a list of Major Jackson's 2005 poetry readings.
2004
Click here to see a list of Major Jackson's 2004 poetry readings.
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