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Friday, September 25
7pm
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series | 144 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY
Featuring Jennifer Firestone, Lena Moses-Schmitt & Camille Rankine. Free & open to the public.
Register Here

Sunday, September 27
11am
Brooklyn Book Festival | Main Stage on Borough Hall Plaza
At the Gate
Poets Cornelius Eady, Adrian Matejka & Tracy K. Smith read and reflect on what they have inherited from Lucille Clifton's poetry and the possibilities her work continues to open for poets today. Moderated by Camille Rankine. Free & open to the public.

Mondays, October 12 - November 9
7-9pm
Poetry Society of America Crash Course Seminar | Music & Motion with Camille Rankine
Online (via Zoom)
In this five-session course, we'll explore books that move, employing sound, rhythm, echo, pulse, and pacing to activate and engage the reader and communicate beyond language. Details here. $325. Registration required.

The Glimpse poetry podcast, host, featuring guests Kaveh Akbar, Chen Chen, Ama Codjoe, Hafizah Augustus Geter, Omotara James, Rachel McKibbens, John Murrillo, and Solmaz Sharif

The Slowdown poetry podcast, featured poem "Inheritance"

It Would Sound like a Dream, poetry film directed by Matthew Thompson

Jazz Poetry at City of Asylum, collaboration with Thumbscrew

On the Motion of Animals, poem set to music, composition and performance by James Moore with Alicia Moran Hall

GAVAGAI Music and Reading Series, collaboration with David Cieri and Mike Brown

The 10th Anniversary of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, reading & conversation with Camille Rankine & Cornelius Eady at The Strand

Poets on Craft: Patrick Rosal & Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Camille Rankine

Poets on Craft: Kazim Ali & Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, moderated by Camille Rankine

Poets on Craft: Tina Chang & Ross Gay, moderated by Camille Rankine

Faculty Spotlight, Carnegie Mellon University
"While writing is not activism—it's not breaking down prison walls—at the same time, it is speech. It is the way that we build and tell stories about who we are as people and who we can be."

Brooklyn Magazine
"Literature can be a platform for the voices of those who have been marginalized, demonized, oppressed, and an avenue for those voices to reach others."

PEN Ten
"Anyone who promotes censorship understands the power of words."

Interview Magazine
"I like to remember that we're not all experiencing the world from the same perch—not seeing the same day—and that's one thing poetry can offer: the opportunity to see the world in a new way."

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
"I don't write every day. I'm a very slow writer. I try to BE a writer every day, though, and that happens in lot of ways. It's about how I move through the world, how I observe and listen."

Words without Borders: The City and the Writer
"I have to leave the city to see the sky again."