APRIL 27
Monday
Choice Words Launch Reading and Discussion Sponsored by Harvard Bookstore. With Desiree Cooper and Kristen Ghodsee
MAY 9
Saturday
2 PM EST
Choice Words International Launch Reading and Discussion (Online). Featuring international contributors to Choice Words: Writers on Abortion.
Previous and Canceled Events
APRIL 25
5 PM
Saturday
Online Poetry Reading for LitBalm Books
APRIL 14
Tuesday
Choice Words Launch Reading and Discussion Sponsored by Haymarket Books
APRIL 2-4
Thursday-Saturday
WEST CHESTER, PA
Teaching and Reading: West Chester Poetry Conference
West Chester University
APRIL 6
Monday
NEW YORK, NY
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
7:30 pm
The Strand Bookstore
APRIL 13
Monday
ATLANTA, GA
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
7:30 pm
Charis Bookstore
APRIL 19
Sunday
WASHINGTON, DC
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
Annie Finch with Amy Alvarez, Desiree Cooper, Teri Cross Davis, & Purvi Shah
5 PM
Politics & Prose Bookstore
APRIL 23
Thursday
CHICAGO, IL
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
Pilsen Community Books
(Also a Fundraiser for Chicago Abortion Fund)
APRIL 24
Friday
CHICAGO, IL
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
Women & Children First Bookstore
MAY 13
Wednesday
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
7pm
City Lights Bookstore
MAY 14
Thursday
PORTLAND, OR
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
7 PM
Broadway Books
MAY 17
Sunday
SEATTLE, WA
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
3 PM
Elliott Bay Books
MAY 21-24
Thursday-Sunday
MADISON, CT
Panel: Women Poets and Spirituality
Annie Finch, Marilyn Nelson and Alicia Ostriker
Poetry by the Sea Conference
Mercy by the Sea
MAY 27
Wednesday
BOSTON, MA
Launch Tour Reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
Harvard Bookstore
RECENT
2020
FEBRUARY 16
Sunday
WASHINGTON, DC
Valentine's Reading
3:00 pm
DC Arts, 18th St. NW
JAN 23
JAIPUR, INDIA
Reading at Jaipur Literature Festival
Poetry Durbar
with Ashok Vajpeyi, Chandra Prakash Deval, Ranjit Hoskote & Navin Kishore, moderated by Lakshya
Jaipur Literature Festival
Hotel Diggi Palace
2019
DEC 20-22
GARRISON, NY
Women, Poetry, and Spirituality Retreat Weekend
With Marianela Medrano
Garrison Institute
OCT 30
WASHINGTON, DC
Reading, Performance, & Ritual: Poetry Across the Veil
7:15 pm
Busboys and Poets
14th & V Sts.
OCT 28
WASHINGTON, DC
Poetry Reading at Folger Shakespeare Library
7:30 pm
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
July 12
BROOKLYN, NY
Talk: Language, Rhythm, and Power (2)
4:00 PM
St. Francis College
180 Remsen St., Brooklyn, NY
MAY 30-JUNE 2
NEW HAVEN, CT
Yale Reunion Class Ode
May 30-June 2
Class of 1979 40th Reunion
Yale College
New Haven, CT
MAY 21-24
MADISON, CT
Poetry Reading, Panels, Metrical Poetry Consulting
May 21-24
Poetry by the Sea Conference
Mercy by the Sea
Madison, CT
MAY 2-16
WASHINGTON, DC
A Poet's Craft: The Revolutionary Spell of the Sonnet
May 2-16, 3:30-6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Ave.
Washington, DC
More info
APRIL 30
WASHINGTON, DC
Poetry Reading and Discussion for National Poetry Month
7 PM
KramerBooks, DuPont Circle
Washington, DC
APRIL 11-14
BALTIMORE, MD
Workshop: Healing the Wounded Womb Through Poetry and Rhythm
April 12, 2 pm
Annie Finch and Marianela Medrano
Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel (Open to National Poetry Therapy Conference Registrants)
Baltimore, MD
APRIL 2
NEW YORK, NY
A Seed for Spring Equinox: Women's Sacred Performance and Womb-Healing Ritual
Tuesday April 2, 7 pm
4th Universalist Church
160 Central Park West
New York, NY
MARCH 29
PORTLAND, OR
Reading by Fellows of Black Earth Institute
Friday, March 29, 3:00- 5:00 pm
Ford Food and Drink
Portland, OR
MARCH 28
PORTLAND, OR
Poetry and Magic Reading
LeeAnn Brown, Dominique Christina, Joshua Davis, Annie Finch, Monica Mody, Genevieve Pfeiffer, Sheree Renee Thomas, Joanna C. Valente
An evening designed to draw down the intimate relationship between poetry and magic, to create the terrain of rhythm, form and shape where word and enchantment walk together. Let's charge ourselves for personal, spiritual, and political transformation.
Thursday, March 28, 8-10 pm
Raven's Wing Magical Co. 7927 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR
MARCH 26
SEATTLE, WA
Healing Rhythms of Words Workshop on Whidbey Island
Tuesday, March 26, 1-4 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Whidbey Island
20103 WA-525, Freeland, WA
For info, contact lisa.siders@gmail.com
MARCH 6
PORTLAND, OR
Reading for the 2019 Plume Poetry Anthology
Thursday, March 28, 6-8 pm
Cargo Lounge, 81 SE Yamhill St
Portland, OR
MARCH 6
NEW YORK, NY
Reading Launch for Larissa Shmailo's Sly Bang
Larissa Shmailo, Annie Finch, Trace Peterson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Mark Vincenz, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Jefferson Market Library
FEB 28
WASHINGTON, DC
Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 28, 7 pm
Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Bevil Townsend, and Annie Finch Reading Hosted by K. Lorraine Graham
1261 Morse St. NE, Washington, DC