Past Events
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
1:30PM: Talk/Reading at Carnegie Mellon University, Creative Writing Program, Porter Hall, Room A18A
8:00PM: University of Pittsburgh, Theatre Department. Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning (Staging of CME by students from Davis & Elkins College)
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
NOON: Lecture, “Labor history with line breaks,” at West Virginia University, History Department, Student Union (Rhododendron Room)
4:30PM: Documentary Poetry Workshop, Davis & Elkins College
8:00PM: Opening of CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia (4 night run) – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby
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Friday, April 17, 2009
11:00AM: Appalachian Literature Class Visit (Prof. Peter Okun), Davis & Elkins College
4:00PM: Coffee house talk w/ Creative Writing students (Prof. Bill King), The Icehouse, Davis & Elkins College
8:00PM: CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:00PM: CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College
Mark in Maryland
11:00AM: Reading/Talk at National Labor College (AFL-CIO), Silver Spring, MD, @ the United Association of Labor Educators (UALE) Conference, North Classroom Building, Room 7102
7:00PM: Reading/Talk at Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
2:00PM: Closing of CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby
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Monday, April 20, 2009
7:30PM: Reading at Shippensburg University (Taggart Reading Series), Dauphin Humanities Center 051
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 thru Saturday, April 25, 2009
Davis & Elkins College Theater Students will be performing Coal Mountain Elementary at community locations across West Virginia (Logan County, Sutton, etc.). Check back soon for details.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
3:00PM: Reading/Talk @ University of Iowa, English Department
7:00PM: Reading @ Prairie Lights Bookstore
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
NOON: Season Opening Lecture, John L. Lewis Museum of Mining and Labor, Lucas, Iowa
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
11:00AM: KFAI, “Write on Radio”
7:00PM: Reading, Untold Stories, Labor Histories Series, Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, Rondo Library (with the Twin Cities Labor Chorus)
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
7:00PM: Reading with Emmanuel Ortiz, Mayday Bookstore, Minneapolis
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
12:42 PM (EST): Interview on “Word of Mouth” (New Hampshire Public Radio)
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
7:00PM: Arise! Bookstore, Minneapolis
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
4:30PM: Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
6:30PM: “Poetry Dialogue” with unions/workers, Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
11:00AM: Swingshift College/Labor Studies Program, Indiana University Northwest (Gary, IN)
6:30PM: Poetry Center, Chicago
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
7:30PM: Michigan State University/Labor History Speakers Series (105 S. Kedzie)
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Friday, October 23, 2009
3:00PM: North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, panel presentation on “Creative Labor: Writers, Journalists, and the Class Imagination”
7:00PM: Reading at Book Beat, Oak Park, MI.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
8:30AM-1:30PM: Visiting Writer, “In Celebration of Books,” Gunston Day School, Centreville, MD
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
5:30PM: Mills College, Oakland (Contemporary Writers Series)
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
7:00PM: UC-Santa Cruz (Living Writers Series)
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
8:00PM: Poetics Research Bureau, Los Angeles
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
7:00PM: Small Press Traffic, San Francisco (“On Class Warfare,” with Reid Gomez and Rachel Loden)
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
9:30AM-1:30PM: Visiting Writer, Reservoir High School, Fulton, MD
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:30AM-2:00PM: Visiting Writer, Glen Burnie High School, Glen Burnie, MD
6:30PM: Reading/Talk, Institute for Policy Studies (with the Beehive Design Collective), Washington, DC
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
8:00PM: Reading (with Lillian Allen, Francisco Aragón, and Nancy Morejón), Split This Rock Poetry Festival
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Friday, March 12, 2010
11:30AM: “Documentary Poetics” panel, Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC)
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
3:00PM: Reading at Buffalo Street Books (Ithaca, NY)
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Noon: Visiting lecture, “Sociology of Work,” Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
4:00PM: Reading, English Department/RIT (Rochester, NY)
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
TBA: Interview on WBFO
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
12:30PM: Reading, “On the Edge Poetry Series,” Niagara County Community College (NCCC) (Sanborn, NY)
7:00PM: Reading at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY)
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Friday, April 16, 2010
TBA: Reading and panel discussion with Juliana Spahr, “Documentary Poetics and the Long Poem,” University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
7:00PM: Reading at the Wooden Shoe Bookstore (Philadelphia)
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
8:00PM: Reading with Amiri Baraka at The Poetry Project (New York)
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June 11-13, 2010
“Rethinking Poetics,” Columbia-Penn Poetics Initiative, Columbia University (NYC), on panel with C.S. Giscombe, Steve Evans, Stephanie Young, and Juliana Spahr
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
3:00PM (EST): Interview, “Against the Grain,” KPFA
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
10:00AM: Interview, “The Weekly Reader,” KMSU
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September 20, 2010
4:30PM: Panel with Brenda Hillman, “Socially Engaged Poetry,” Fall for the Book, Johnson Center Cinema, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
6:00PM: Occupational folklore talk, Fall for the Book, Dewberry Hall North, Johnson Center (GMU)
8:00PM: Reading, Fall for the Book, Johnson Center Cinema, (GMU)
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September 25, 2010
2:00PM: “The Cost of Coal,” panel discussion with Tricia Shapiro, Baltimore Book Festival (Radical Bookfair Pavilion)
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September 29, 2010
7:00PM: Wor-Wic Community College (Salisbury, MD)
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October 18, 2010
4:30PM: St. Bonaventure University, English Department
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October 19, 2010
TBA: Oberlin College, Creative Writing Department
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October 20, 2010
7:30PM: Cleveland State University, Poetry Center
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October 21, 2010
12:30PM: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English Department
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November 9, 2010
6:00PM: Labor Heritage Foundation Awards dinner, with Richard Trumka (President, AFL-CIO) and Cecil Roberts (President, United Mine Workers of America)
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January 22, 2011
4:30PM (Eastern): BBC Radio 3,Between the Ears: “The Cost of Coal”
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February 4, 2011
2:00PM: Book signing, Coffee House Press table, AWP
7:00PM: Floricanto: Multicultural Reading in protest of SB1017, True Reformers Building, 1200 U Street NW, Washington DC
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February 5, 2011
Noon: Group reading for the new anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams, Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, DC
1:30PM: AWP (Washington, DC) — panel with Martín Espada, Carolyn Forche, & Toi Derricotte (organized by Split This Rock)
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February 8, 2011
7:00PM: Reading and presentation on Coal Mountain Elementary and Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams, National Labor College (Silver Spring, MD)
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March 31, 2011
2:00PM: Visiting Writers Series, Towson State University (Towson, MD)
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April 8, 2011
6:00PM: Reading, Kent County Poetry Festival @ the Bookplate (Chestertown, MD)
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April 12, 2011
4:00PM: Panelist at the “New Labor Journalism” symposium (with Kari Lydersen, Gabriel Thompson, and Mike Elk @ Georgetown University, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor (Washington, DC)
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April 14, 2011
8:00PM: Temple University “Poets & Writers Series” (Philadephia, PA)
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May 9, 2011
7:00PM: Reading with Amiri Baraka for 12th Street/New School, Barnes & Noble @ Union Square (New York)
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June 12-18, 2011
TBA: World Poetry Festival of Venezuela (Caracas and other cities)
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October 20, 2011
All Day: Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader, National Day on Writing, Drury High School (North Adams, MA)
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October 29, 2011
NOON: Occupy Wall Street panelist (with Monica Youn, Dora C. Wang, and Joel Whitney), Page Turner 2011: The Third Annual Asian American Literary Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
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November 15, 2011
7:00pm: Reading, Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY)
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January 1, 2012
3:00pm onward: 38th Annual New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon Benefit Reading @ the Poetry Project (New York, NY)
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