January 29th, 2009

Reading and Book launch for Birdwatching in Wartime by Jeffrey Thompson at the Farmington Public Library.  Jeff is the author of 4 collections of poetry.  He is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington.

February 5th, 2009

Book Launch Party and Alice James Books author event at The Bowery Poetry Club.  Readings start at 6:30 pm.  Freebies, books for sale, no cover! Come enjoy the fun and some great poetry.

February 13th, 2009 @ 8 pm

Reading during AWP conference in Chicago at Columbia College with Frank Giampietro, Idra Novey, Bill Rasmovicz, and Lia Purpura

April 2nd, 2009

The Collected Poet Series reading at Mocha Maya's in Shelburne Falls, MA with Anne Marie Macari, author of several poetry books, including her latest from Autumn House Press, She Heads into the Wilderness.

 April 16th, 2009 @ 4 pm

Reading at Keene State College with Tim Mayo in Kenne, NH.

May 5th, 2009 @ 7 pm

Reading at Open Books in Seattle, WA with Idra Novey, winner of the 2008 Amy Award and 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award. Elizabeth Austen, whose interviews and recordings of Seattle-area poetry readings can be heard every Monday on “The Beat” on KUOW, 94.9, public radio, will record the event.

May 7th, 2009 @ 7 pm

Reading at Powell's Books on Hawthorne with Idra Novey and Mary Szybist, who is the recent recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship awarded by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and an NEA fellowship.

June 29th, 2009 @ 7:30pm

Reading at Drew University during the MFA summer residency with Jonathan Thirkield, winner of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award, presented by the Academy of American Poets.

 July 11th, 2009

Reading at the Books & Blooms festival in the Boothbay Railway Village. Time and location TBA