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2009

 

February 11-14, 2009

AWP Annual Conference, Chicago

Feb. 14, 1:30, Waldorf Room, 3rd floor, Chicago Hilton

Brain Power: Processing the Beautiful and the Horrendous

panel with Allison Hedge Coke, Mira Bartok, and Linda Hogan

awpwriter.org

 

February 14, 2009

Poetic Dialogue Project

Chicago Cultural Center, 2:30 p.m.

Reception following

78 East Washington

Claudia Cassidy Theatre

Randolph Side, 2nd floor

Beth Shadur, coordinator

The Poetic Dialogue Project

 

February 18-21, 2009

Desert Nights Rising Stars

Arizona State University Writers Conference

ASU, Tempe, AZ

Feb. 18, 2:00-3:00  Teaching Creative Writing panel with Kevin McIlvoy and Patricia Murphy

Feb. 20, 10:45-11:45 multigenre class Body Talk

www.asu.edu/piper/conference/

 

March 13-15, 2009

Tucson Festival of Books

Tucson, Arizona

Reading with C. K. Williams

March 14, 2009, 11:30 a.m.

ILC, Rm. 120, UA Campus

sponsored by

University of Arizona Poetry Center

(520) 626-5880

Festival of Books

 

April 17-26, 2009

The Extravagant World

Writing, hiking, birdwatching retreat

Costa Rica

Eco-Arts

http://www.eco-arts.net/

 

June 3-6, 2009

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference

University of Victoria, Victoria B.C.

10:30 a.m. Saturday

Warm and Getting Warmer:

Alaskan Writing on the 50th Anniversary of Statehood

panel with Eric Heyne, Nancy Lord, Sherry Simpson

ASLE Conference 2009

 

June 12-16, 2009

Kachemak Bay Writing Conference

Homer, Alaska

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

 

July 3, 2009

First Friday Reading/Signing

5:00-8:00 p.m.

If Only, A Fine Shop

215 Cushman St
Fairbanks, AK 99701
(907) 457-6659

www.ifonlyalaska.com

 

July 19-Aug. 1, 2009

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Fairbanks, Alaska

!Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Home Page

 

August 2-11, 2009

Rainier Writing Workshop Residency

Tacoma WA

MFA @ PLU ~ Rainier Writing Workshop

 

October 16-18, 2009

Sotto Voce Poetry Festival

Shepherdstown WV

http://www.somondocopress.com/sottovoce/index.htm

Hope Maxwell-Snyder  hms@hbp.com

 

October 25, 2009

Red Hen Press 15th Anniversary

Los Angeles, CA

 

 

2010

 

February 14, 2010

Boreal Books at the Ruskin

featuring Eva Saulitis, Margo Klass, Frank Soos

800 S. Plymouth St.

Los Angeles CA 90005

323 755-3530

 

March 17-22, 2010

Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat

Universary of Nebraska Kearny

 

April 8-10, 2010

AWP in Denver

Thurs., Apr. 8

9:00-10:15  Poets Guide to the Birds  201 CCC

4:30-5:45  Red Hen Press Women Writers of the West Panel 103-105 CCC

Fri., Apr. 9

9:00-10:00  Signing Gnawed Bones at the Red Hen Press booth

3:00-3:45  Signing Just Breathe Normally at the University of Nebraska booth

Sat., Apr. 10

1:00-2:00  Signing Gnawed Bones at the Red Hen Press booth

 

April 13, 2010

7:30 p.m.

Red Hen Reading

Aloud

Los Angeles Central Library

with Chris Abani and Percival Everett

630 W. 5th Street

Los Angeles CA 90071

213 228-7000

redhenpress6@verizon.net

 

April 30-May 2, 2010

Poetry at Round Top

with Ted Kooser

Harryette Mullen

Peggy Shumaker

Naomi Shihab Nye

Khaled Mattawa

Poetry at Round Top - Round Top Festival Institute

 

June 12-15, 2010

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

Homer, AK

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

 

July 18-31, 2010

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Creative Writing Class

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

 

August 7-18, 2010

Rainier Writing Workshop

at Pacific Lutheran University

Rainier Writing Workshop