On Friday, March 25 at 1:45 p.m. ET, don’t miss our offering for the 2022 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair: a special reading featuring Academy Chancellor Emeritus Arthur Sze, 2014 Audre Lorde Award winner Meg Day, and Kemi Alabi, winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Academy Executive Director Jen Benka will introduce the event.
To attend this or any other AWP events, either virtual or in-person, you’ll need to purchase a conference registration in advance, which you can do here: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/registration_overview
Friday, March 25, 2022
A Reading by Meg Day, Arthur Sze, and Kemi Alabi, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets
Meg Day, Arthur Sze, and Kemi Alabi, with an introduction by the Academy’s Executive Director Jen Benka
Virtual
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Please note: this virtual event is pre-recorded and will be available on the AWP virtual conference platform, in addition to being screened on-site at the in-person conference in Philadelphia in the Michael A. Nutter Theater (Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level). Here is a link to enter the AWP virtual conference platform, which is accessible only to those who have already registered for the conference: https://www.awpwriter.org/user/pathable_login
OTHER EVENTS FEATURING THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS CHANCELLORS AND PRIZE WINNERS AND POEM-A-DAY GUEST EDITORS
Thursday, March 24, 2022
American Regional Poets Laureate
Georgina Marie Guardado, Lloyd Schwartz, Bobby LeFebre, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, and Brian Sonia-Wallace
120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ET
Honoring American Poet Ruth Stone in a New Film about Her Life & Poetry
Chard deNiord, Toi Derricotte, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jan Freeman, and Bianca Stone
121BC, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. ET
New Poetry from Graywolf Press
Donika Kelly, Jim Moore, Vijay Seshadri, and Tracy K. Smith
Virtual
10:35 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. ET
#AWP22 Keynote Address by Toi Derricotte, Sponsored by Wilkes University Creative Writing
Toi Derricotte
Terrace Ballroom I & II, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 400 Level
8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET
The Colonel: Thirty Years Later
William Archila, Claudia Castro Luna, Yvette Siegert and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
How to Publish a Literary Anthology
Kimberly Garts Crum, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Bonnie Omer Johnson, and Erin Keane
115AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. ET
Home in Florida: A Home Tour & Discussion by Latinx Writers
Richard Blanco, Anjanette Delgado, and Ariel Francisco
Virtual
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. ET
The World Split Open: Four Women Poets on Memoir
Sharon Dolin, Jennifer Militello, Natasha Saje, Natasha Trethewey
Virtual
3:20 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. ET
Bound, Stitched, & Pressed: On Chapbooks & Community
Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kwame Dawes, Philip Metres, Tyler Mills, and Brian Teare
125, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. ET
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Bowling Green State University MFA’s Fiftieth Anniversary Reading
Matt Bell, Michael Czyzniejewski, Carolyn Forché, Charles Fort, and Karen Craigo
115AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ET
Black Women’s & LGBTQ+ Literary Cultures in the City of Brotherly Love
Trapeta B. Mayson, Jeannine A. Cook, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Yolanda Wisher,
Virtual
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
The Last Song, the Last Sweet Bite: A Tribute to Joy Harjo
Travis Hedge Coke, Oscar Hokeah, Tanaya Winder
Virtual
12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. ET
Joy Is an Act of Resistance: A Poetry Reading by Women of Color
Tina Chang, Natalie Diaz, Brenda Shaughnessy, Patricia Smith, and Tracy K. Smith
Virtual
3:20 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. ET
EVENTS PRESENTED BY THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE POETRY COALITION
Thursday, March 24, 2022
AAWW at AWP: Stories in Solidarity for Asian Artists
Piyali Bhattacharya, Mira Jacob, Nayomi Munaweera, and Jafreen Uddin
115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.ET
Since My Body: Discovery & Embodiment of Disabled Voices, Sponsored by Zoeglossia
Kay Ulanday Barrett, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Saleem Hue Penny, and Ellen McGrath Smith
Michael A. Nutter Theater, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
How to Start a Poetry Festival & Why
Sarah Browning, M.P. Carver, and Martin Jude Farawell
Virtual
3:20 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. ET
Honoring the Endeavor! Sponsored by Cave Canem
Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady
Michael A. Nutter Theater, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Beyond Genres: A Panel with Patrick Rosal, K-Ming Chang & T Kira Māhealani Madden, Moderated by J. Mae Barizo, Sponsored by Kundiman
J. Mae Barizo, K-Ming Chang, T Kira Māhealani Madden, and Patrick Rosal
Terrace Ballroom I & II, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 400 Level
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
The Poet’s Voice: Conversations with the Archive
Francisco Aragón, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Diana Marie Delgado, Julie Swarstad Johnson, and Urayoán Noel
115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. ET
Asian American Caucus
Neelanjana Banerjee, Cathy Linh Che, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, and Mimi Khúc
126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. ET