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2008

 

January 11-13, 2008

Volcano Art Center

Volcano Village, Hawaii

Reading, Friday evening, 7:00

Weekend workshop, 9:30-4:30 Sat. and Sun.

With Eva Saulitis, author of Leaving Resurrection

www,volcanoartcenter.org

January 29, 2008

Colgate University

13 Oak Dr.

Hamilton NY 13346

Lunch with students

4:30 Peggy Shumaker reading from Just Breathe Normally

Eva Saulitis reading from Leaving Resurrection

January 30-February 2, 2008

AWP in NYC

Sheraton Hotel, Midtown

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference

1:30-2:30 on Thursday, Jan. 31  Signing Blaze at the Red Hen Press Booth, #51-54

12:00 on Saturday, Feb. 2  Panel--Liz Bradfield, Eloise Klein Healy, Kate Gale, Hilda Raz, Eva Saulitis, Peggy Shumaker

Lasting Impressions--Developing an Imprint within a Small Press  

Conference Room D, Sheraton, Lower Level, Executive Conference Center

4:00-4:45 on Saturday, Feb. 2-- Signing Just Breathe Normally at the University of Nebraska Booth, B25-26

January 4, 2008

Wells College

170 Main St.

Aurora NY  13026

8:30 Nonfiction Reading

Peggy Shumaker, Eva Saultis, and Jennifer Brice

February 15, 2008

7:00 p.m.

Reading from Just Breathe Normally

Antigone Books

411 N. 4th Ave.

Tucson AZ

520.792-3715

www.antigonebooks.com

February 20-23, 2008

Desert Nights, Rising Stars

Arizona State University Campus

Tempe, AZ

480 965-6018

www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/conference/index.html

February 25, 2008

Red Hen at the Geffen

7:30  Reading with Anne Carson

Geffen Playhouse
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Box Office
(310) 208-5454
Geffen Playhouse

General Admission $35

Senior & Student (w/ID)
Individual event: $25/event

 

Feb. 26, 2008

University of California Riverside

tba  Visit to Professor Maurya Simon's class

3:00-5:00 Reading and craft talk

1500 HMSS

UC Riverside

March 19, 2008

Roundtable Discussion

"Art as a Form of Political Engagement and Social Responsibility"

Piper Writers Center

Arizona State University Campus

Kate Gale, Eloise Klein Healy, Terry Hummer,

Drew Matott, Drew Cameron, Melissa Pritchard,

Alberto Rios, Peggy Shumaker

March 19, 2008

Letters to the World

WOM-PO Anthology Reading

With Kate Gale, Eloise Klein Healy, Cynthia Hogue (moderator),

Lois Roma-Deeley, Peggy Shumaker

7:00 p.m., Changing Hands Bookstore

6428 S. McClintock Dr.

Guadalupe and McClintock

Tempe, AZ  85383

480 730-0205

March 20, 2008

10:30 a.m.

Paradise Valley Community College

Letters to the World

WOM-PO Anthology Reading

Paradise Valley Community College Library

18401 N. 32nd St.

Phoenix AZ  85032

Reception and signing in the library following the reading.

April 5, 2008

Reading from Alaska's Heart

Benefit fundraiser for Adult Learning Programs of Alaska

7:00 Pike's Waterfront Lodge

Fairbanks AK

I'm there in spirit, though not in body!

April 16, 2008

Reading, 7:00 p.m.

with Connie Voisine

Village Books

1210 11th St.

Bellingham WA  98225

360-671-2626

April 17, 2008

2:00  Class visit, Professor Brenda Miller

4:00  Reading with Connie Voisine

Viking Union Gallery

Western Washington University

Bellingham WA

April 18, 2008

Reading 7:00 p.m.

Whidbey Island Writers' Association

Freeland Library

5495 Harbor Ave.

Freeland WA

360-331-7323

www.writeonwhidbey.com

360-331-6714

wiwa@whidbey.com

April 19, 2008

Workshop 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Whidbey Island Writers' Association

www.writeonwhidbey.com

360-331-6714

wiwa@whidbey.com

April 23, 2008

Reading, 7:00 p.m.

The Writers Place

3607 Pennsylvania

Kansas City MO  64111

816-753-1090

www.writersplace.org

April 24, 2008

Reading and

2:00 Class visit

8:00 Reading

Pittsburg State Distinguished Visiting Writers Series

Governor's Room

Overman Student Center

Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg KS

620 235-4689

engl@pittstate.edu

May 14-17, 2008

Poetic Ecologies Conference
Université Libre de Bruxelles

Belgium
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Contact:  Prof. Franca Bellarsi
fbellars@ulb.ac.be
http://www.francabellarsi.tk/
http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/langlitt/FB/FB.html

May 15  Session p4  "Exploding the Tradional Boundaries of Ecopoetics"   A Reading

May 17  Session a3  "Going to Extremes: Poems from Alaska and Arizona"

May 29-June 1 

Pima Writers' Workshop

Pima Community College

Meg Files, Director
2202 W. Anklam Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85709-0295
United States
Phone: 520-206-6084
E-Mail: mfiles@pima.edu
Contact the West Campus Arts Division at 520-206-6974 for info

June 4-9, 2008

Gettysburg Review Writing Conference

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg PA

Contact Kim Dana Kupperman

kkupperman@gettysburg.edu

717.337.6774

June 12-14, 2008

Alaska Book Festival

UAF Campus, Wood Center

Fairbanks AK

http://www.uaf.edu/summer/events/book_festival/index.html

July 13-27, 2008

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Creative Writing Class

www.fsaf.org

August 3-13, 2008

Rainier Writing Workshop Residency

Pacific Lutheran University Campus

Tacoma WA

MFA @ PLU ~ Rainier Writing Workshop

September 11-14, 2008

Orcas Island Writers' Festival

orcasislandwritersfestival.com

October 23-24, 2008

Friends of Dard Hunter

International Organization of Hand Papermakers

Outrigger Keahou Beach Resort

Kailua Kona Hawaii

presentation with Karla Elling

21st Annual Meeting

October 26, 2008

Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award Presentation Brunch

I'll be presenting the award for the contest I judged to

Erinn Batykefer for her manuscript Allegheny, Monongahela

Los Angeles CA