James Davis will read from his prize winning collection, Club Q
2022-10-12 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth Street, Dallas, TX, 75208, United States
James Davis will read from his prize-winning poetry collection, Club Q, at The Wild Detective in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday October 12th from 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, so do come along if you can. James will be in conversation with the event’s host, Logen Cure, after the reading, discussing Club Q and new work.

Danielle Blau will read from p e e p, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2022-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Danielle Blau’s debut full-length poetry collection peep was selected by Vijay Seshadri for the 2021 Anthony Hecht Prize. Her nonfiction book Rhyme or Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Blau’s mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published with an introduction by D.A. Powell, and her poems won first place in the multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest. Poetry, short stories, articles, and interviews by Blau appear in The Atlantic, Australian Book Review, The Baffler, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, several volumes of the Plume Anthology of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her work has been set to music by composers of various stripes and performed in such venues as Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Carnegie Hall. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of New York University with an MFA in poetry, Blau teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan, and curates and hosts the monthly Gavagai Music + Reading Series in Queens, where she lives with her son Kai.
This event is free, but you must preregister here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/872563677

Henry Walters will read from The Nature Thief, finalist for the 16th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Henry Walters is a New Hampshire poet, raised in the Midwest. His second book of poems, The Nature Thief, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published by The Waywiser Press in late 2022. His first book of poetry, Field Guide A Tempo, was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A student of Latin and Greek, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before returning to the United States, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball and basketball coach, actor, and birding guide. His poems, translations, reviews, and essays appear in periodicals such as The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Orion, Literary Imagination, and New Letters. He lives with his young family, a hive of bees, and a hawk.
The event is free but you must register in advance by going to:
Henry_Walters_Reading

The Seventeenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading
2023-03-01 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
James D’Agostino, whose The Goldfinch Caution Tapes, won the seventeenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read alongside the contest’s judge, acclaimed poet Alice Fulton.
Please note that this event will be presented via ZOOM in Eastern Time (ET). Access links will be included in a performance reminder email closer to the event.
Tickets to this event are Pay What You Will, starting at $5, in order to make them accessible to whoever would like to attend. We appreciate whatever you can afford, which will go toward supporting future programming.
To reserve your ticket(s), please click on this link, which will take you to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s website: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-alice-fulton-james-dagostino/
