Events & Readings


Lit Youngstown Literary Festival Session Panel
Oct
20
10:45 AM10:45

Lit Youngstown Literary Festival Session Panel

Domestic Fabulism: The Supernatural Home

Virginia Konchan, Jennifer Moore, Carolyn Oliver, Caryl Pagel

Moderator Molly Fuller

What happens when the familiar and the surreal collide? This panel explores how poets might interweave fabulist elements—including myth, magic, and dreams—with domestic and pastoral modes, complicating and enriching received notions of labor, landscape, gender, ritual, performance, and observation, resulting in transformative and singular realities.

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WritersShop Writing Workshop
Aug
29
6:00 PM18:00

WritersShop Writing Workshop

  • 3030 W. Central Avenue Toledo, OH, 43606 United States (map)
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Join us at Sanger Branch Library for a writing workshop on lyric intimacy and lyric invention, lead by Ohio Northern professor Jennifer Moore. We'll talk about the "I" and the "you," read a few examples of short lyric poems, and do an exercise or two focused on turning memories into lyrically resonant poems. Open to all!

WritersShop Writing Workshop is hosted by Lucas County Poet Laureate, Jonie McIntire, meeting once a month. For August, September and October, we will be at Sanger Branch Library.

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AWP Offsite Reading: Literary Rule Breakers
Mar
9
4:00 PM16:00

AWP Offsite Reading: Literary Rule Breakers

To some artists, rules are actually challenges! At this event seven published writers will briefly explain what “rule” they are breaking and read a piece that in some way breaks a rule. Maybe in form or style, or simply through a character that doesn’t play by the rules. Come listen, drink tasty coffee, and chat with writers!
Featuring:
• Jennifer Moore, poet, professor, author of Easy Does It
• Matt Bell, novelist, professor, author of Appleseed
• Katie Berta, poet, and editor extraordinaire
• Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, memoirist, professor, author of My Life as Laura
• Josh Davis, poet, teacher, author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black
• Alyse Bensel, poet, professor, author of Rare Wonderous Things
• Jennifer Pullen, fiction writer, professor, author of A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue

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Mask Up: Exploring Persona and What We (Don’t) Know in Lyric Poetry
Nov
12
9:30 AM09:30

Mask Up: Exploring Persona and What We (Don’t) Know in Lyric Poetry

  • Bowling Green State University (map)
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This poetry workshop will focus on the possibilities available to authors when writing in a persona, or mask. We will explore definitions of “persona” consider the advantages and techniques of this mode, read examples of persona poems, and spend time drafting poems through various writing prompts.

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“Aftermath: Teaching in the Age of ‘After’ Poems”
Mar
3
to Mar 7

“Aftermath: Teaching in the Age of ‘After’ Poems”

This panel of writers, professors, and editors will give creative writing educators tools to teach students about plagiarism. We will explore the difference between poems with creative integrity and those that cross into theft, as well as the ethics of writing after living poets who explore personal experiences in their work. The panel will offer crucial pedagogical strategies, including how to discuss questions of attribution, transformation, and responsible engagement with source material.

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The Writers Guild at Bloomington Spoken Word Stage Series
Feb
3
6:00 PM18:00

The Writers Guild at Bloomington Spoken Word Stage Series

WEDNESDAY, FEB 3, 6pm EST

Featuring authors Shannon Gibney & Ellen Birkett Morris, poet Jen Moore, & music from bassist Stephan Crump

Drop a note to demand4poetry@gmail.com and you will receive a ZOOM link, or watch LIVE on the Writers Guild at Bloomington Facebook page

Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association – Indiana

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Reading with Lawrence Coates
Jan
31
6:00 PM18:00

Reading with Lawrence Coates

  • Art & Performance Center of West Toledo (map)
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2020 begins in the most wonderful way! Join us for featured readers:

Lawrence Coates
Jen Moore

Donations of $5 suggested at the door, to keep the lights on and spaces available for events like these. Giving more (or less) when you can is always appreciated. Snacks, coffee and wine offered.

Let’s start off our year in a communion of words!

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Mercyhurst University Literary Festival reading
Mar
14
7:00 PM19:00

Mercyhurst University Literary Festival reading

When

Thursday March 14, 2019 - 8:00 pm

Where

Taylor Little Theatre, Mercyhurst Campus, Erie, Pennsylvania

Mercyhurst University’s annual Literary Festival opens with a reading by poet Jennifer Moore, a Mercyhurst graduate. She’ll read from her work on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in Taylor Little Theatre. The event is free and open to the public. Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (University of Akron Press, 2015) and her poems have appeared in CrazyhorseDIAGRAMBest New PoetsThe Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Artsmith and the Jentel Arts Foundation, and residencies with the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. An associate professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. 

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Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat
Jul
12
to Jul 27

Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat

  • Laceyville, Pennsylvania USA (map)
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Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in Laceyville, PA, offers visual artists, writers, composers, and instrumentalists a quiet country setting for two- to five-week residencies to focus on their creative endeavors. Spaces are available from mid-May to mid-September. Soaring Gardens has no fees, makes no demands, and there are no intrusions from the administration—only the studios, gardens, deer, other creatures, and time. For more information, go here.

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Cocklebur Press Monthly Reading
Apr
5
5:30 PM17:30

Cocklebur Press Monthly Reading

Your favorite indie press at your favorite indie bookstore! Open mic signup at 5:30pm. Featured reader (Jen Moore) reads at 6pm. 


Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (The University of Akron Press, 2015), and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

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AWP 2018 UIC Program for Writers Alumni Reading
Mar
10
4:00 PM16:00

AWP 2018 UIC Program for Writers Alumni Reading

Please join us for a wildfire offsite AWP reading, featuring new work by 19 (19!) alumni of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Program for Writers PhD program. The readers: Simone Muench, Brooke Wonders, Jen Moore, Virginia Konchan, Mary Biddinger, Jackie White, Matthew Corey, Megan Milks, Andy Farkas, Erica Bernheim, Snezana Zabic, James Tadd Adcox, Laura Krughoff, AD Jameson, Sara Tracey, Tyler Mills, Brianna Noll, Annah Browning, and Beth McDermott.

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AWP Reading: University of Akron Press and Gold Wake Press
Mar
8
6:00 PM18:00

AWP Reading: University of Akron Press and Gold Wake Press

  • 500 North Tampa Street Tampa, FL, 33602 United States (map)
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We are so excited that University of Akron Press and Gold Wake Press will be teaming up this year to bring you a lineup of 12 writers!

Aimée Baker
Anne Barngrover
Justin Bigos
Nick Courtright
Eileen G'Sell
Matthew Guenette
Kyle McCord
Jennifer Moore
Emilia Phillips
Glenn Shaheen
Sandra Simonds
Erin Stalcup

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Tupelo Quarterly Reading & Party at AWP 2018
Mar
7
7:00 PM19:00

Tupelo Quarterly Reading & Party at AWP 2018

We're excited to celebrate Tupelo Quarterly and honor our contributors. Please join us for a reading and party at AWP 2018 in Tampa. Featured readers will include:

Mary Jo Bang
Jennifer Moore
Darcie Dennigan
Anne Champion
Denise Duhamel
Michael Martone
Shane McCrae
Henk Roussouw
Tyler Mills

Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!

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Hudson Valley Poet Night
Oct
8
7:00 PM19:00

Hudson Valley Poet Night

Those in upstate NY or willing to travel, come out for a night of diverse poetries, inspired by a Poetry & Mythology panel at Marist College the following day!

The readers are:

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2017 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry, a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she teaches writing at Stockton University in southern New Jersey.

Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015) and a forthcoming chapbook, Imaginary Weather (Hermeneutic Chaos, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Leah Umansky lives in New York City and is the author of The Barbarous Century, (Eyewear Publishing, 2018), Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox 2012) and two chapbooks, the dystopian themed Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016) and the Mad Men inspired Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press 2014). A graduate of the MFA program in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, she is also the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in New York City. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry Magazine, Magma, Barrow Street, Salamander, Pleiades, and Plume.

Heather Treseler, winner of the Frank O’Hara poetry prize (2016), is an associate professor of English at Worcester State University where she teaches creative writing and American literature. Her poems and essays appear in Boston Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, Boulevard, Worcester Review, Missouri Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Poetry Review, among other journals. She has also published essays in four scholarly books about postwar American poets Elizabeth Bishop and John Berryman, among others. In 2017-18, she is a Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, finishing a collection of poems that recasts stories from classical mythology. Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Virginia Konchan is the author of a collection of poetry, The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018), a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017), and two chapbooks, including That Tree is Mine (dancing girl press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Best New Poets, and her honors include an NEH fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Award. Co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary, and Associate Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, she teaches at Marist College.

A poet and critic, Sarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collection Queer Fish, a winner of the Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared recently in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches in the department of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany-SUNY.

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Feb
11
10:30 AM10:30

AWP Panel Presentation: "The Undergrad and the Lit Journal"

Abstract: Humanities-based academic disciplines are increasingly being asked to provide practical experience for their majors. One answer that has gained popularity in recent years is the use of print and online literary journals to provide real-world, hands-on experience. Panelists will discuss the ways they have incorporated editing, design, aesthetics, and publications into their classrooms, the benefits to students and the schools, and the economic and pedagogical challenges they have faced (with Thom Caraway, Simone Muench, Jeff Dodd, and Rachel Cruea)

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Feb
9
8:00 PM20:00

AWP17 Reading: Plays Inverse, The Lettered Streets Press, Ghost Proposal

Plays Inverse, The Lettered Streets Press, and Ghost Proposal are teaming up for a reading in Washington, D.C.! Join authors from each press for an evening of poetry, playwriting, and prose. Admission is free, with books and conversation to follow. Featuring readings by:

Toby Altman
David Bersell
Jennifer Moore
Alexis Pope
Dennis James Sweeney
Catherine Theis
Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Joshua Young

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Feb
8
6:00 PM18:00

AWP17 Reading: Newfound, Waxwing, As/Us

A stellar lineup of writers from three journals share their work at an offsite reading. Join us at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C.

Program:

WELCOME (7:00 p.m.)

POETRY (7:05-7:40): Safia Elhillo, Jen Moore, Maggie Smith-Beehler

PROSE (7:45-8:20): Jamie Poissant, Sejal Shah

PROSE & POETRY (8:25-9:00): Michael Wasson, MJ Gette, Mira Rosenthal

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