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The 2012 Akron Poetry Prize is open for submissions until June 15 via The University of Akron Press.

From the website: “The Akron Series in Poetry was founded to bring to the public writers who speak in original and compelling voices. Each year, The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,500 and publication of his or her book. The final selection will be made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2012 is …

This morning, Harriet brought the wider poetry community news of poet/professor Joshua Clover’s pending arraignment for his involvement in a US Bank “shutdown” on the UC-Davis campus that began in January. Clover, along with 11 students (dubbed “The Davis Dozen”), staged a teach-in and other protests against the collusion between the public university and the private commercial enterprise, after which the campus branch of the bank was subsequently closed.

The Yolo County district attorney’s office plans to charge Clover and the students with 20 counts each of obstructing movement …

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Poet and Coldfront editor Steven Karl has announced his departure from New York. The Brooklyn resident has been consistently either featured or present at NYC poetry events for nearly 8 years, and he will continue to write for Coldfront as Miami editor.

Steven will be missed; his upcoming east coast readings are not to be:

May 12th, 2012 8pm
Flying Object
Northampton, MA
with Dan …

Between Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens there a ton of readings happening every night. Each Sunday, Coldfront will feature five upcoming readings.

Kundiman & Verlaine present a night of poetry & libation

Sunday, May 6, 2012 ($5 suggested donation) Open Bar from 4-5 Reading begin at 5pm

A Celebration of PSA Chapbook-winning Kundiman fellows: Hossannah Asuncion, Alison Roh Park, & Angela Veronica Wong

Verlaine

10 Rivington St

New York, NY

KGB Season Finale

Monday, May 7, 2012  7:30pm- 12:00am

MATT HART is the author of four collections of poetry Who’s Who Vivid, Wolf Face, Light-Headed, and Sermons And …

Announced May 2nd was the second annual Believer poetry award, and it was presented to Heather Christle for her collection The Trees The Trees. From The Believer: “Behind each of Christle’s poems is the question of what it means to be human today, in this strange-getting-stranger world.”

And also: “Christle writes with the minimalist diction and bare-bones sentence structure popular with today’s youngest generation of poets, and yet she is one of the most gifted at transcending these limitations to create powerful, living experiences—poems that echo everywhere with the skittery pulse of contemporary …

SPRINGING—THURSTON MOORE & JOHN ZORN—A BENEFIT FOR THE POETRY PROJECT/Friday, May 4, 8PM/$25 ADVANCE/$30 AT DOOR (Seniors/Students still $25)Visit Poetryproject.org for tickets

If you happen to be in New York on Friday, please consider supporting this benefit for The Poetry Project. It looks to be a once-in-lifetime evening.

Duo action! John Zorn – reeds. Thurston Moore – electric guitar. With an opening set of poetry with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, erica kaufman & Dana Ward.

John Zorn is a musician/composer who lives and works in NYC. He consistently strives to present a wild, …

Tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd, at 7pm Susan Briante and Farid Matuk will read from their work at CU Boulder in the British and Irish Studies room of Norlin Library (5th Floor). These poets are not to be missed!

Susan Briante is the author of two full-length collections of poetry from Ahsahta Press, Pioneers in the Study of Motion (2007) and Utopia Minus (2011). Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Court Green, Painted Bride Quarterly, Creative Non-Fiction, and other journals. She is an Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at UT-Dallas.

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This month’s readings extend slightly beyond Atlanta and include a reading in Rome, Georgia and a reading in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Karen Head hosts London Calling: A Benefit Extravaganza for Poet & Novelist Collin Kelley at 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 3rd. Attendees are invited to read their favorite Collin Kelley poems, or write one for/about him or London. Organizers will also have some items up for auction to support Kelley’s trip to read at London’s Southbank Centre. The benefit/reading will be held at Bound to Be Read Books (481-B Flat …

Four Way Books authors Joan Aleshire, Patrick Ryan Frank, Stephen Motika, and Jonathan Wells will read tonight at the NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway, NYC. Admission is free.

Joan Aleshire is the author of five books of poems, most recently, Happily (Four Way Books, 2012). She has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1983 and currently lives in Shrewsbury, Vermont.

Patrick Ryan Frank is the author of the poetry collection How the Losers Love What’s Lost, which won the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. …