Check out the Gigantic Sequins Shiny Family at the following #AWP23 events, on and off-site!
We can’t afford to be there this year, but we’re so proud of all of our past contributors, contest judges, editors, readers, etc. who will be participating in these events. Check as many out as possible!
PRE-RECORDED
12pm/on-demand: Arisa White, panel: Bodies in Archives: Researching Personhood, Researching as a Person
12pm/on-demand: Aram Mrjoian, panel: We Are All Armenian Launch
WEDNESDAY 3/8
6pm: Katie Prince, off-site reading: Inspired by Iceland: A Multi-Media Poetry Reading
6pm: Mag Gabbert, off-site reading: City Feet, Swamp Mouths: A Louisiana Regional Offsite Reading at AWP
7pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz: Quarter After 8 Launch Party & Reading
THURSDAY 3/9
9am: Kimberly Gray, panel: Poetic Experiments: Incorporating Play into Writing and Teaching
1:45pm: Mónica Gomery, panel: Jewish Diasporist Poetics
4pm: Isle McElroy, off-site reading: The Future is No One
5pm: Alina Stefanescu, off-site reading: AWP: Wandering Words & Wild Euphony
6pm: Dorothy Chan, off-site reading: Diode Editions Presents: Poetry
9pm: Muriel Leung & Ronaldo V. Wilson, off-site event: Nightboat All Night
FRIDAY 3/10
9am: Caits Meissner, panel: Those who can…TEACH, Sponsored by WITS Alliance
10:35am: Saul Lemerond, panel: Not Lazy and Stupid: Atypical Minds Fighting for Space on the Page
1:45pm: Gabrielle Bates, panel: So You Want to Publish a Poetry Collection
1:45pm: Jericho Brown, panel: How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill, Sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation
1:45pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, panel: “Surprised by Joy”: The Generative Writing Workshop
1:45pm: Rachel Mennies, panel: The Best of All Worlds: Partnering to Support Presses, Nonprofits, and Writers
1:45pm, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, panel: How Writers of Color Use Humor To Tell Their Stories
3:20pm, Caits Meissner, panel: Through the Walls: Working Equitably with Incarcerated Writers
3:20pm: Dustin M. Hoffman, panel: Wonderfully Weird and Small: How to Build a Thriving Small Press
5pm: Gabrielle Bates and MICHAEL CHANGE, off-site reading: We Keep Beginning • An AWP 2023 Offsite Event
5:30pm: Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, off-site reading: The Word Works
6pm: Ronaldo V. Wilson, off-site reading: MarginShift Presents: an AWP off-site with Counterpath Press
7pm: Arisa White, off-site reading: The Wilds—Pleasure, Power, and the Erotic—Celebrating Miah Jeffra’s American Gospel
7pm: jay dodd, off-site reading: AWP: Group Reading with Nightboat, FC2 and The Elephants
7pm: Alyse Knorr & Kathleen Rooney, off-site reading: Switchback, Futurepoem, Action, VOLT, Jellyfish, Boa, & Everybody: AWP Off-site Extravaganza
7pm: Sommer Brownding, off-site reading: Rendezvous: An AWP Offsite
7pm: Gabrielle Bates, off-site reading: Brooklyn Poets AWP Seattle Offsite Reading
7:30pm: S. Brook Corfman, off-site reading: Autumn House Queer Nature Anthology
7:30pm: Kristina Langley Mahler, off-site event: AWP Offsite
8pm Jose Hernandez Diaz, off-site reading: Harbor/Acre Poets AWP Off-Site Reading: Where the Sea Meets the Land
SATURDAY 3/11
9am: Kayleb Rae Candrilli, panel: From Poe and Plath to Meds and Co-Pays: Poetry and Mental Illness
10:35am: Jericho Brown, panel: Growing the Garden: Paying Tribute to Joanne Gabbin and Furious Flower
10:35am: Wendy Xu, panel: Poets of Chinese Heritage: A Reading
12:10am: Alina Stefanescu, panel: Writing Abortion in the Wake of Roe
3:20pm: Keetje Kuipers, panel: Begin Again: New Editors on Taking the Helm, Sponsored by CLMP
3:20pm: Saul Lemerond, panel: The Nuts and Bolts of Podcasting: Practical Advice for Teaching Out Loud
3:20pm: Isle McElroy, panel: Laughter in the Time of Suffering: Writing Humor from the Margins
5:30pm: Jennifer Fliss, off-site off-site reading: Words with Music…And Friends
6pm: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, off-site reading: Glitterati
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