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| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| State Poet Jewel Rodgers Reading – Visiting Writers Series | Norfolk, NE | |
| Poetry reading & open mic: Rooted in Us: Celebrating Black Writers and the Legacy of S. Pearl Sharp | Altadena, CA | |
| 16th Annual Creative Edge Lecture featuring Arthur Sze | Irvine, CA | |
| Poet’s Voice Evening with Pulitzer Prize Winner Marie Howe | Greenwich, CT | |
| Poets Meet-Up | Temecula, CA | |
| Crystal Wilkinson Reading – Richard H. Thornton Reading Series | Lynchburg, VA | |
| Mayda del Valle and Mark Turcotte Reading | Chicago, IL | |
| Poetry Reading by Alumni Leah Flax Barber and Will Schutt | Oberlin, OH | |
| Affrilachian Poets Collective Reading | Chicago, IL | |
| Nick Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Contest |
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
Aurelius & Furius, true comrades,
whether Catullus penetrates to where in
outermost India booms the eastern ocean's
wonderful thunder;
whether he stops with Arabs or Hyrcani,
Parthian bowmen or nomadic Sagae;
or goes to Egypt, which the Nile so richly
dyes, overflowing;
even if he should scale the lofty Alps, or
summon to mind the mightiness of Caesar
viewing the Gallic Rhine, the dreadful Britons
at the world's far end--
you're both prepared to share in my adventures,
and any others which the gods may send me.
Back to my girl then, carry her this bitter
Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books, 2015) and Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), which won the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Tiana Clark is the author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).