Poets & Writers AWP Offsite 2024
Feb
9
5:00 PM17:00

Poets & Writers AWP Offsite 2024

Come join us as Poets & Writers presents an offsite reading at AWP 2024 in Kansas City! This reading will feature authors from our inaugural fiction and poetry cohorts, including Caitlin Cowan, Kristen Gentry, Ae Hee Lee, Chin-Sun Lee, Sebastian Merrill, Olatunde Osinaike, and Leslie Sainz.

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Tender Headed: A Reading and Panel with Olatunde Osinaike
Jan
25
6:00 PM18:00

Tender Headed: A Reading and Panel with Olatunde Osinaike

The Porch and Soul’d Creative Collective are excited to co-host Olatunde Osinaike for his Tender Headed book tour, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series. The event will include a reading by the author, followed by a panel discussion along with Tyquan Morton, Jonathan Wynn and Christian Sinclair talking at length on themes noted in the book.

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Wild & Precious Life Reading Series
Jan
10
7:30 PM19:30

Wild & Precious Life Reading Series

Poetry comforts, inspires, and heals. Poetry is a catalyst for change. Poets need a space to share their art, and poetry lovers need a space to receive the poet’s art. Born out the pandemic, the Wild & Precious Life Series (WPLS) is a Zoom-based poetry reading series that launched on 4/1/20 to be that space.

The January 2024 featured readers include Dorianne Laux, Evelyn Berry, and Olatunde Osinaike.

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Concert & Reading at Cafe Noir
Dec
14
5:30 PM17:30

Concert & Reading at Cafe Noir

Equal parts bookstore, coffee shop and inviting community space, Café Noir fills its shelves with books by Black, PoC and LGBTQ+ authors. And now they’re filling your cup with music, too, as they kick off our Small Business Series sponsored by the Iris Collective with Iris musician Cremaine Booker, aka That Cello Guy. Cremaine also serves as principal cello for Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and has played with the likes of Hans Zimmer and Jewel, among others. Cremaine will be joined by debut author Olatunde Osinaike and his National Poetry Series-winning collection Tender Headed.

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Write Now: The Poetry of Place
Apr
22
7:00 PM19:00

Write Now: The Poetry of Place

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Broadleaf Writers Association is proud to welcome three phenomenal poets for Write Now: The Poetry of Place!

Join us on Thursday, April 22, at 7pm ET via Zoom as poets Andrea Jurjevic, Donney Rose, and Olatunde Osinaike come together to break down their processes for writing poems and then getting them published – both in print journals and online – including the crafting and pitching of their own chapbooks and larger collections of poems.

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The Nashville Canon Revue
May
2
6:00 PM18:00

The Nashville Canon Revue

Join us every first Thursday of the month for The Nashville Canon Revue, a night for poetry and short stories. Here we bring together Nashville writers of all intention - song, storytellers, fiction, verse - poets all. A night dedicated to notebooks and the people who fill them.

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Et Al. Reading Series
Nov
11
8:00 PM20:00

Et Al. Reading Series

A poetry event series that seeks to place further attention to poetics into the cultural landscape of Nashville. Et Al. Readings host one visiting poet, & at least one local poet to re-contextualize the space and scope of the traditional poetry reading.

Join us for the return of the Et Al. at its new home, The Packing Plant!

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Open Mouth Reading Series
Apr
8
7:00 PM19:00

Open Mouth Reading Series

Community-based poetry series located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, co-curated by poets M.D. Myers, Molly Bess Rector, and J. Bailey Hutchinson. 

Recent featured poets of the series include Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Ada Limón, Angel Nafis, Adam Clay, Aziza Barnes, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Jerriod Avant, and many more. 

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