Events
Meet our authors and celebrate Graywolf throughout the year
Please note that many of our author events have either been changed to a virtual format or have been postponed to a later date. Please watch this page for updates and contact wolves@graywolfpress.org with any questions. Note that all virtual event times are displayed in Central Time.
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Author Tour Events
Mar
02
VIRTUAL: Jakob Guanzon reading and in conversation with Mina Hamedi on ABUNDANCE, presented by POWERHOUSE Arena
Date:
EST
Location:
powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NYview map
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4 PM Pacific / 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern. This event is free and open to the public and will be broadcast on Zoom. Register here. Copies of Abundance are available for sale from POWERHOUSE Arena.
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Mar
03
VIRTUAL: Diane Seuss (frank: sonnets) in conversation with Jeff Shotts, presented by Literati Bookstore
Date:
EST
Location:
Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MIview map
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4:00 PM Pacific / 6:00 PM Central / 7:00 PM Eastern. This event is free and open to the public, and will be broadcast live on Zoom. Register here. Copies of frank:sonnets are available for purchase from Literati Bookstore.
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Mar
04
VIRTUAL: "New Poetry from Graywolf Press" with Natalie Diaz (POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM), Carmen Giménez Smith (BE RECORDER), Sally Wen Mao (OCULUS), Danez Smith (HOMIE), and Eduardo C. Corral (GUILLOTINE), presented by the AWP Conference
Date:
CST
Location:
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in College Park, MDview map
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Five extraordinary poets will present and read from their recently published new collections from Graywolf Press, one of the leading independent publishers in the country. In brilliant and distinct voices, these five poets confront many important questions and issues of our time—immigration, consumerism, racism, suicide, sexuality, representation, the natural world—and always with a lasting sense of responsibility, friendship, and love. Moderated by Graywolf Press Executive Editor Jeff Shotts. Click here for more information and to register for the AWP Conference.
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Mar
04
VIRTUAL: "Here's Why It Matters: Responding to Contemporary Issues in Fiction" with Belle Boggs (THE GULF), Deb Olin Unferth (BARN 8), Susan Steinberg (MACHINE), and Jakob Guanzon (ABUNDANCE), presented by the AWP Conference
Date:
CST
Location:
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in College Park, MDview map
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Contemporary issues beyond politics inform fiction, but how important is it for today’s writers to actively engage with these issues on the page? How can cultural engagement create meaningful, enduring fiction? From factory farming to religion in schools, and from gender relations to reimagining Liberia’s founding, these Graywolf Press authors grapple with the world around them. These four authors will read and discuss with editor Steve Woodward how contemporary issues have informed their work. Click here for more information and to register for the AWP Conference.
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Mar
05
VIRTUAL: AMERICAN HARVEST and WHITE FLIGHTS: Marie Mockett and Jess Row in conversation, sponsored by Graywolf Press and presented by the AWP Conference
Date:
CST
Location:
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in College Park, MDview map
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Join acclaimed authors Marie Mutsuki Mockett (American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland) and Jess Row (White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination) as they read from and discuss their latest works of nonfiction. Engaging with race, religion, agriculture, and contemporary fiction, these two authors are at the center of ongoing conversations of vital importance to us all. Introduced and moderated by Graywolf Press director and publisher Fiona McCrae. Click here for more information and to register for AWP.
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Mar
06
VIRTUAL: Dorthe Nors (WILD SWIMS) to teach a master class, presented by A Public Space
Date:
EST
Location:
A Public Space in New York, NYview map
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific / 2:00 - 4:00 PM Central / 3:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern. A Master Class on literary companions and why they're necessary--and what they offer--for the writer. This event will be broadcast on Zoom. Enrollment is $85. Click here to register.
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Mar
07
"New and Known: Poetic Forms and Traditions" with Khaled Mattawa (FUGITIVE ATLAS), Mark Wunderlich (GOD OF NOTHINGNESS), Diane Seuss (FRANK), and Roy G. Guzmán (CATRACHOS), presented by the AWP Conference
Date:
CST
Location:
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in College Park, MDview map
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Five brilliant poets, published by Graywolf Press, discuss traditional and innovative forms within their recent collections and the work of others. Whether negotiating nations’ borders through a poem’s constraints, integrating formal techniques of disparate geographic origins, or bending—and breaking—the rules of received forms, these poets examine the ways in which poems’ containers can be vessels for the psychological and political, complicating the cultural resonances of their traditions. Moderated by Graywolf Press Editor Chantz Erolin. Click here for more information and to register for the AWP Conference.
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Mar
07
VIRTUAL: Diane Seuss in conversation on frank:sonnets, presented by this is a bookstore & Bookbug
Date:
EST
Location:
Bookbug in Kalamazoo, MIview map
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2:00 PM Pacific / 4:00 PM Central / 5:00 PM Eastern. This event is free and open to the public, and will be broadcast live on Zoom. Register here. Copies of frank: sonnets are available for purchase from this is a bookstore & Bookbug.
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Mar
10
VIRTUAL: Mark Wunderlich reading from GOD OF NOTHINGNESS, presented by Hudson Valley Writers Center
Date:
EST
Location:
Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NYview map
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4 PM Pacific / 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern. With Kazim Ali and Jill Bialosky. Click here for more information and to register.
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Mar
18
VIRTUAL: Mark Wunderlich reading from GOD OF NOTHINGNESS, presented by University of Utah
Date:
MST
Location:
University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UTview map
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6 PM Mountain / 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern. Event will be broadcast via Zoom. Click here for more information and to register.
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This is why I love poems: they require me to sit still, listen deeply, and imagine putting myself in someone else’s unfamiliar shoes.
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize Winner