Join us at the 2023 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair, from Wednesday, March 8 through Saturday, March 11 in Seattle, Washington, for readings and panels with Academy of American Poets Chancellors, prize winners, and more.
Drop by our booth (#811) at the Seattle Convention Center to pick up a free copy of American Poets magazine, our Read More Poems tote, and the official 2023 #NationalPoetryMonth poster.
And on Saturday, March 11 at 1:45 p.m. PST, don't miss our featured reading with the author of Saltwater Demands a Psalm (Graywolf Press, forthcoming in April 2023), winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, Kweku Abimbola; James Laughlin Award winner and author of Tanya (Knopf, 2023), Brenda Shaughnessy; and 2017 Walt Whitman Award winner and author of Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press, 2022), Jenny Xie. Academy Programs Director Nikay Paredes will introduce the event, and a signing of the poets’ new collections will immediately follow at 3 p.m. PST. Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5.
To attend this or any other AWP events, either virtual or in-person, you’ll need to purchase a conference registration in advance: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/registration_overview
Full schedule of events featuring Academy of American Poets Chancellors, prize winners, Poet Laureate Fellows, Poem-a-Day Guest Editors, and more:
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
50 Years of Fire: A Reading to Celebrate AGNI
Cyrus Cassells, Jamie Quatro, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Lia Purpura, and Jennifer Alise Drew
Virtual
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.PST
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Architecture of Things: A Tribute to Ed Roberson
Evie Shockley, Philip Williams, Douglas Kearney, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ed Roberson
Rooms 433-434, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
A Book Signing with Elizabeth Torres, Author of Lotería/Nocturnal Sweepstakes (University of Arizona Press, 2023), winner of the 2022 Ambroggio Prize
Academy of American Poets Booth #811, AWP Bookfair, Exhibit Hall 1 & 2, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level
11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST
Literary Fame: Should We Strive for It? Should We Care about It?
Zack Rogow, Dion O'Reilly, Richard Blanco, and Cornelius Eady
Rooms 431-432, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
The State of Vietnamese-American Poetics
Joshua Nguyen, Paul Tran, Susan Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, and Hieu Minh Nguyen
Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
Blue Flower Arts Presents Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kwame Dawes, and Chigozie Obioma
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kwame Dawes, Chigozie Obioma
Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. PST
Friday, March 10, 2023
Beauty Clanging: A Tribute to Kamilah Aisha Moon
Maya Pindyck, Ama Codjoe, Remica Bingham-Risher, and Ellen Hagan
Rooms 335-336, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
Far from the Coasts: Multigenre Asian Diasporic Writers Recrafting Place
Jasmine An, Carlina Duan, Divya Victor, Thirii Myint, and Urvi Kumbhat
Room 437, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
Writing through Apocalypse: Poets at the End of the World
Franny Choi, Saeed Jones, and Brenda Shaughnessy
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
Writing Social Justice with Grace, Beauty, and Power
Jessica Goudeau, Mai Der Vang, Stephen O’Connor, Helen Benedict, and Carolyn Ferrell
Rooms 345-346, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
Stand (or Sit) and Deliver: Inviting Audiences into Poetry through Performance
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, M. NourbeSe Phillips, Ilya Kaminsky, Alicia Jo Rabins, and Joshua Nguyen
Rooms 335-336, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
Stealing Time: On Purpose, Permission, and Putting Writing First
Miciah Bay Gault, Robin Beth Schaer, Ukamaka Olisakwe, Crystal Wilkinson, and Connie May Fowler
Rooms 345-346, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
Extended Mournings: Encountering Violence, Memory, and Grief in the Asian Diaspora
Serena Chopra, Jane Wong, Ching-In Chen, Divya Victor, and Dao Strom
Rooms 333-334, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PST
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill, Sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation
Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Jericho Brown, W. Ralph Eubanks, Tiphanie Yanique, and Darlene Taylor
Signature Room, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PST
Redefining “Southern”: A Poetry Reading with The Southern Collective Experience
Nicole Tallman, Ashley M. Jones, Jack B. Bedell, Clifford Brooks III, and J.D. Isip
Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PST
Poetry Alive! Why Teaching Living Poets to Children and Youth Matters
Melissa Smith, Donna Vorreyer, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Outspoken Bean, and Becca Rose Hall
Rooms 443-444, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. PST
A Chapbook Signing with Diane Sun, 2022 National Student Poet, West Region
Academy of American Poets Booth #811, AWP Bookfair, Exhibit Hall 1 & 2, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level
4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. PST
Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus
Rena Priest, Kimberly Blaeser, and Deborah Taffa
Room 340-342, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. PST
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Growing the Garden: Paying Tribute to Joanne Gabbin and Furious Flower
Remica Bingham-Risher, Shauna Morgan, Tyehimba Jess, Jericho Brown, and Opal Moore
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PST
A Celebration of the Poetry of Ed Ochester
Jan Beatty, Denise Duhamel, David Wojahn, Richard Blanco, and Robin Becker
Rooms 433-434, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
Wanting: Women Writing about Desire
Margot Kahn, Sonora Jha, Rena Priest, Kristen Arnett, and Nicole Hardy
Terrace Suite II, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. PST
A Reading by Kweku Abimbola, Brenda Shaughnessy, Jenny Xie, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets
Kweku Abimbola, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Jenny Xie
Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PST
Terrain.org 25th Anniversary Reading
Simmons Buntin, Alison Hawthorne Deming, J. Drew Lanham, Brian Turner, and Ellen Bass
Room 437, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. PST