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Join AWP's literary community for the following offsite events, hosted throughout the Boston area during our conference. While these events are not organized or sponsored by AWP, we list them as a courtesy to our attendees.
Last updated: March 1, 2013.

Offsite Events

Tuesday

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Four Stories Literary Series
Location: Middlesex Lounge 315 Massachusetts Avenue Central Square, Cambridge
Cost: Free
The 2013 opening night of the "Best of Boston" and "the city's hippest" literary series Four Stories, featuring four award-winning authors (Jennifer Haigh, Michael Lowenthal, Lauren Slater & Kailtin Solimine) reading under the theme "Telling tales: Stories of secrets, lies, and true confessions," with special guest Four Stories founder Tracy Slater as MC. Free for entry, and offering mingling, eating, and drinking--plus the Four Stories style of intellectual inquiry: Ask the best question, win a free drink!

Wednesday

12:00 noon

Women in Action: A new wave of art, theatre, music, performance
Location: Boston Playwrights' Theatre
Cost: Free
Dramaturg Lisa Timmel will moderate a discussion about women writers and social justice issues in the American theatre with the playwriting committee members of VIDA: Caridad Svich (2012 Obie winner for lifetime achievement), Ruth Margraff (Art Institute of Chicago), Lisa Schlesinger (Columbia College Chicago), and Charlotte Meehan (Sleeping Weazel Artistic Director and Playwright-in-Residence at Wheaton College). This event will livestream on HowlRound's #NEWPLAY TV (The Theatre Commons at Emerson College)

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Art School Writing Faculty Roundtable on BA/BFA Programs
Location: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cost: Free
The roundtable is intended for faculty who teach at art schools that have undergraduate creative writing programs or are considering starting one up. We'll be discussing topics such as curriculum, major and minor requirements, thesis and reviews, recruiting, marketing, advising and retention, ways a writing major can take advantage of the art school environment and how new writing programs interact with the rest of the school/liberal arts curriculum.

5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

CutBank Reading and Release Party
Location: Middlesex Lounge 315 Massachusetts ave, Cambridge
Cost: $0
Come celebrate issue 78 of CutBank, new CutBank chapbooks and listen to writers from the magazine and friends read at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge. Readers Include: Sean Bernard, Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Richards, Lindsay Tigue, Charles Haverty, EB Vandiver, and more...

5:00 p.m.

Poems from Poland, Italy and Slovenia
Location: Mission Bar & Grill, 724 Huntington Ave. Brigham Circle
Cost: Free
Poets Richard Jackson (author of 10 books, 2 translations, 2 critical books & 2 anthologies, awarded the Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Slovenia for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans, a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter-Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow, won the AWP George Garret National Award for Teaching and Arts Advocacy) reading from Petrarch and Pascoli;, Deborah Brown (author of a book of poems. “Walking the Dog’s Shadow,” the 2010 winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Award (BOA, 2011) and Susan Thomas (author of 2 poetry collections, State of Blessed Gluttony, (Red Hen Press, 2004, Benjamin Saltman Prize) and The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself, (Fomite Press, 2011) reading from Last Voyage, a collection of Giovanni Pascoli’s Selected Poems); Danuta Borchardt (the National Translation Award in 2001 and her Pornografia won the prestigious Found-in-Translation Award in 2010) reading from Poems of Cyprian Norwid; and Barbara Siegel Carlson (Fire Road is forthcoming Dream Horse, 2013) reading from her translation of Look Back, Look Ahead:Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel (Ugly Duckling Press, 2010). Directions: Walk through Hynes Convention Center to Prudential Mall to exit on Huntington Ave. (by Cheese Cake Factory) to Prudential T stop. Take Green Line “E” outbound to Brigham Circle (intersection of Tremont, Huntington & Francis St.). Mission Bar and Grill is across street.

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS POETRY READING
Location: The Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton St, Cambride, MA 02138
Cost: f
Cross-Cultural Communications presents poets and translations reading their own work and translations: Stanley H. Barkan, poet-publisher of CCC (ABC of Fruits and Vegetables); Laura Boss, poet-editor of Lips (Flashlight); Kristine Doll, Catalan translator, Prof. of Romance Languages at Salem State University (Joan Alcover's Elegies); Maria Mazziotti Gillan, poet-editor of PLR and Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College and Creative Writing Program at Binghamton U. (The Place I Call Home); Robin Metz, poet-Director of Creative Writing at Knox College (Unbidden Angel); Biljana D. Obradović, Serbian poet-Prof. of English at Xavier University of Louisiana (Petice / Fives).

5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

5th Annual Festival of Language
Location: Dillon's, 955 Boylston Street, Boston
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Join us for the fifth annual Festival of Language at Dillon's 955 Boylston Street, Boston just 0.05 miles from Hynes Convention Center (across the street). This year's event will run from 5:30-10:30 pm and be presented in three 90-minute sessions. This year's event will feature approximately 50 readers presenting their work, five minutes each rapid-fire style. Our lineup includes: Halvor Aakhus, Christopher Allen, Janee Baugher, Tom Bligh, Laura Bogart, Jane L. Carman, Ryan Clark, Ewa Chrusciel, Larry O. Dean, Debra Di Blasi, John Domini, Kate Dusenbery, Andy Farnsworth, Sarah R. Garcia, Ani Gjika, Rebecca Goodman, Steve Halle, Stephen Hastings-King, Quintus Havis, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Deborah Henry, Lily Hoang, Tom Hunley, Len Kuntz, Anna Leahy, Michael Mejia, R.B. Moreno, Martin Nakell, Kirk Nesset, Daniel Nester, Alissa Nutting, Theresa O’Donnell, Doug Rice, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Anita Schmaltz, Leona Sevick, Rob Stephenson, Ayara Stein, David Stevenson, Monica Storss, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Holms Troelstrup, Meg Tuite, Robert Vaughan, Sam Witt, and Bill Yarrow with intermission musician Dakota D. Carman.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Bad Attitude and Bluegrass: Readings and Music
Location: Rosebud Bar and Grill, Davis Square, 381 Summer St (corner of Elm St and Summer), Somerville; Subway Red Line: Davis Square
Cost: Free ($5 cover after 8pm)
Nonfiction writers Ethan Gilsdorf (Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks) and Steve Macone (The Onion, NPR) and poets Janet Wondra (Bad Attitude)and Ava Leavell Haymon (Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread) deliver a heathy dose of "bad attitude" -- from the playful, irreverent, and transgressive to just plain bad-tempered work. Not your grandmother's literary event. Attendees are invited to drink and some food, and after the reading, stick around for the bluegrass band Best Ever Chicken. The Rosebud is located a two minute walk from the Davis Square T stop on the Red Line, just across the river in Somerville.

6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Gold Wake Press Reading
Location: Trident Booksellers Cafe
Cost: $0
This year Gold Wake is hosting an off-site reading at AWP Boston in 2013! Come over to Trident Books (3-5 min walking from the event center), and hear a slew of terrific authors from Gold Wake Press including Erin Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Witzke Slot, Nick Courtright, Kathleen Rooney, Donora Hillard, Kristina Marie Darling, Joshua Young, T.A. Noonan, Sarah E. Colona, Anne Champion, Brian Mihok, Jeannie Hoag, Kyle McCord.

6:00 p.m.

Maggy Poetry Magazine Marathon Reading
Location: Editorial Institute, 143 Bay State Road, Boston University
Cost: Free
Join us at the prestigious EDITORIAL INSTITUTE for a "Maggyathon" marathon reading from the contributors of Maggy Poetry Magazine, issues 1, 2, 3 & 4! Copies of print issues will be available at a wonderfully discounted price. Special thanks to our hosts and co-oraganizers The Editorial Institute, care of Christopher Ricks and Katy Evans Pritchard. POETS: Brian Blanchfield, James Capozzi, Ben Fama, Joanna Fuhrman, Tom Healy, Simone Kearney, Rickey Laurentiis, Paul Legault, Zachary Pace, Cherry Pickman, Christie Ann Reynolds, Danniel Schoonebeek, Emily Skillings, Emily Vogel, Roger Van Vorhees, Joe Weil, Samantha Zighelboim.

6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Monster Mags of the Midwest reading
Location: Back Bay Social Club, 867 Boylston
Cost: Free
Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter invite you to an AWP offsite reading, with Steve Almond, Tarfia Faizullah, Roy Kesey, Mary Miller, Sarah Rose Nordgren, and Marcus Wicker. Cocktail hour from 6-7 pm (Back Bay Social Club has both food and drink available for purchase), readings to start at 7

6:00 p.m.

New Issues Poetry & Prose presents Kirstin Scott and David Keplinger
Location: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Copley Square-Mezzanine Conference Room
Cost: free
Please join us for a reading by Kirstin Scott, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, and David Keplinger, author of four collections of poetry and winner of the Colorado Book Award. Located two blocks from the Hynes Convention Center.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Orion Magazine Reader Meet-Up
Location: Orleans Restaurant, 65 Holland Street, Somerville
Cost: Free
Meet Orion Magazine staff, including Jennifer Sahn and Hannah Fries, and fellow readers and friends for an informal evening of mingling and snacks in Davis Square. Questions? E-mail eglaser@orionmagazine.org.

6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Poetry and Music at Darryl's Presented by Northeastern Humanities Center
Location: Darryl’s Corner Bar and Kitchen / 604 Colombus Avenue, Boston
Cost: $3 cover; order food and drinks from menus
The Northeastern Humanities Center and Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen Presents A Celebration of Words and Music with Poets and Activists. E. ETHELBERT MILLER and BECKY THOMPSON with Jazz Drummer Bruce Owen and Vocalist Chantal Ambroise. Drop in anytime between 6-9pm. Order your own drinks and food from Darryl's menu.

6:00 p.m.

Reading, New Iranian American Fiction
Location: Boston University School of Theology Rm. 636, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Cost: Free
Reading and Discussion of the new anthology, Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers. With Editor, Persis Karim and contributors, Mehdi Okasi, Kevin Shushtari, Porochista Khakpor, and Marjan Kamali. Directions: http://www.bu.edu/sth/welcome/visiting-sth/

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Road Work: A Tribute to Jack Myers
Location: Boston Library, Downtown: Commonwealth Salon
Cost: Free
A tribute reading honoring the late, Boston-born poet. Featuring David Akiba, Scott Branks, Anne Bromer, Brian Clements, Allison Hedge Coke, Mark Cox, Tracy Daugherty, Richard Jackson, Sydney Lea, Tim Seibles, and others. Pre-reception at Bromer Booksellers, 607 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor, 4-5:30 PM.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

So You Want to be a Y.A. Writer
Location: Sonsie Wine Room, 327 Newbury St , Boston
Cost: Free
Paper Lantern Lit invites aspiring Young Adult fiction writers to mingle with the publishing and pre-publishing set and sign up for a FREE story consultation with a PLL Architect! The party is co-hosted by Figment, Open Book Publicity, Smith Publicity, Y.A. Review Network, Sucker Literary Mag, Red14Films, and The Roundtable Podcast. FREE drink tickets for the first guests to arrive!

6:30 p.m.

Author NIGHT @ STELLINA
Location: Stellina Restaurant 47 Main Street Watertown, Ma
Cost: FREE
ANN HOOD will discuss her new Novel "THE OBITUARY WRITER"..STELLINA will Provide Free appatizer..Cash Bar..Plan to stay for dinner...

7:00 p.m.

Arlington Writers' Salute to AWP: Reading by Eileen Myles and Jason Roush
Location: Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476
Cost: Free
Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose by Eileen Myles and Jason Roush, two writers with ties to the historic community of Arlington. Robbins Library is located directly on the #77 bus route from Harvard Square.

7:00 p.m.

AWP Women's Caucus Reading
Location: The Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Mass. Ave, Cambridge (Harvard Square)
Cost: Free
Alicia Ostriker, Eloise Klein Healy, Nicole Terez Dutton, and Susan Kusner Resnick will be reading.
Directions: By Public Transportation (Highly Recommended) On the subway (the "T"), take the Red Line to the Harvard stop, or take one of the buses that come to the Square. For more information about public transportation and schedules, visit the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) website at http://www.mbta.com. Take #1 bus in front of Hynes Convention Center T stop corner of Mass. Ave and Newbury Street, get off at last stop in front of Harvard University, cross the street, turn left and walk toward 1256 Mass Ave. or take Green Line inbound from Hynes Convention Center stop and change at Park Street for Red Line going toward Alewife. Get off at Harvard Square. See directions below. To get to the store from the Harvard Square T station: As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster Street and proceed along Mass. Ave. for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, J.P. Licks, and Leavitt & Peirce Tobacco. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.

7:00 p.m.

Cornelius Eady: Book of Hooks
Location: Cambridge Cohousing, 175 Richdale Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
Cost: Free
A celebration of music & poetry from Cornelius Eady's 2013 Kattywnompus Press CD/chapbook, with vocalists Cornelius Eady & Robin Messing; guitarist Charlie Rauh; violinist Concetta Abbate. Refreshments provided.

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Democracy, Poetry, and Prose: Book Launches for Gardening Secrets of the Dead, The Natural Takeover of Small Things, Magnetic Refrain, and Hotel Juarez
Location: The Democracy Center, Cambridge
Cost: Free
Join us for a celebratory evening of poetry and prose at The Democracy Center in Cambridge (Harvard Square, 3 miles from Boston) as we celebrate book launches for new books by Lee Herrick, Tim Z. Hernandez, Daniel Chacón, and Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, plus readings by Ilyse Kusnetz, Optimism One, Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Margaret Rhee, Leah Silvieus, Aimee Suzara, and Andre Yang. This reading is sponsored by Boston Korean Adoptees.

7:00 p.m.

Plume Poetry
Location: Porter Square Books
Cost: Free
Join Porter Square Books for a reading with contributors to The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2012. Almost seventy poets are represented in this inaugural volume representing a broad range of the best work by the best U.S. and international poets working today. The readers for this event will be Rafael Campo, Mark Irwin, Daniel Tobin, Martha Collins, Annie Finch, and David Rivard

7:00 p.m.

The Poetry of Engagement: a reading with Sharon Olds, Rae Armantrout and Frank Bidart
Location: The Castle at BU, 225 Bay State Road, Boston
Cost: Free

7:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Carve Magazine Friends and Fans Mixer
Location: Minibar (51 Huntington Avenue)
Cost: Free
Join the editors, staff readers, and past contributors of Carve magazine as we kick back and relax after the first frenzied day of AWP! Anyone is welcome to hang out and have a drink with us - come one, come all!

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Birds of a Feather Poetry Reading
Location: Elephant & Castle Pub
Cost: Free poems & appetizers, cash bar
Thrush Poetry Journal and Barn Owl Review invite you to kick off AWP 2013 with a delightful offsite poetry reading. Come unruffle your travel-weary feathers and listen to poems by Seth Abramson, Nin Andrews,Traci Brimhall, Hélène Cardona, Adam Clay, Brandon Courtney, Jehanne Dubrow, Bernadette Geyer, Amorak Huey, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, Sandy Longhorn, Michael Mlekoday, Rachel McKibbens, Emilia Phillips, Jacob Rakovan, Steve Schroeder, Sarah Sweeney, Eszter Takacs, Amber Tamblyn, Helen Vitoria, and a few surprise guests.

8:00 p.m.

Catenary Press & Convulsive Editions Reading
Location: Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA
Cost: FREE
The Catenary Press and Convulsive Editions present an AWP Off Site Reading featuring Jennifer Moxley, James Shea, Tanya Larkin, Margaret Ross, and Genevieve Kaplan. Join us to celebrate the release of James Shea’s Air and Water Show, Genevieve Kaplan’s settings for these scenes, Jennifer Moxley's Foyer States, and Margaret Ross's Decay Constant.

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

PSYCCity Boston!
Location: LIR (First Floor), 903 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Cost: $5 Suggested
Across the street from Hynes Convention Center! A Benefit Reading for BRIDGE, serving homeless and high-risk teens in Boston. Come hear Matthew Dickman, Dorothea Lasky, Lynn Melnick, and Corey Zeller read from their new books.

8:00 p.m.

Race in Your Face
Location: Boston Playwrights' Theater, 949 Commonwealth Avenue
Cost: Free to AWP attendees
The Tannery Series presents our most provocative event to date. With our nation integrated for less than 50 years, how does American writing reflect the complexities of our most intractable topic? David Mura (Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire), Jerald Walker (Street Shadows), Stephanie Powell Watts (We are Taking Only What We Need), and Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Nairobi Heat) will show us the subtly-evolving, 21st century American identity.

8:00 p.m.

U. Mass Boston & Plymouth University
Location: Pour House, 907 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Writers from the creative writing departments at Plymouth Univerisity (U.K.) and U. Mass Boston (U.S.) celebrate transatlantic connections through poetry and fiction.

Thursday

1:30 p.m.

Word Girls at Boston College
Location: Room 476S (English Department Seminar Room),Stokes Hall South, Boston College.
Cost: free
Word Press authors Meredith Davies Hadaway, Kim Garcia and Erin Murphy read from their poetry collections, and discuss poetry and the American landscape. Take the "B" Green Line to the Boston College stop and it is a ten-minute walk – ask at the Boston College main gate for directions to Stokes Hall. Stokes 476S is inside the English Department, fourth floor,Stokes Hall South.

2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Sock Monkey Press presents at MASS AVE TAVERN
Location: Mass Ave Tavern - 94 Massachusetts Ave
Cost: Free
Sock Monkey Press brings Brooklyn Writers, Elissa Schappell, Martin Kleinman, Corina Copp, Nicole Callihan, Terence Degnan, Kate Hill Cantrill, and Lauren Belski to Mass Ave Tavern. Fiction, poetry, and words.

2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Steel Toe Books Reading
Location: Dillons Restaurant and Bar, 955 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Readings by Steel Toe Books authors Mary Biddinger, Ron Salutsky, Martha Silano, Jeff Simpson, Gabriel Welsch, and more TBA.

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

The Independent International Scene: Two Launches and a Reading
Location: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square
Cost: Free
St. Petersburg Review joins with the New England Poetry Club, Dzanc Books’ DISQUIET Lisbon Program, Summer Literary Seminars, SABLE LitMag, and Tagus Press to bring you authors Kadija George (Irki), Irina Mashinsky, and Brian Sousa (Almost Gone) reading from their works. Elizabeth Hodges, Mikhail Iossel, and Jeff Parker introduce and comment on independent international literary networking and collaboration. Reception afterwards (5 p.m.) at City Bar with the first 25 people attending the reading receiving drink tickets.

4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

OMG & WTF: John Berryman's Legacy of Extreme Expression
Location: Forum Room, Lamont Library, Harvard University
Cost: Free
Poet-critics (Joy Katz, Kathleen Ossip, Rowan Phillips, Sasha Steensen & Heather Treseler) address John Berryman's abiding influence in contemporary poetry, exploring his Cold War social media (the séance, the therapy hour); his wildflower version of modernist confessionalism; and his upending of classical binaries in the Dream Songs. Rare audio recordings of Berryman will be aired, and you can venture over to the Poetry Room (across the hall) afterwards.

4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Queertopia!
Location: Club Cafe (209 Columbus Ave.)
Cost: Free
Join more than 30 LGBT writers, plus features by Bloom, Sibling Rivalry Press, Seven Kitchens Press, and the Milk and Honey anthology of Jewish Lesbian poets, as they perform cabaret style in the Moonshine Room. A full schedule, including an Open Mic from 4:00 - 5:00, is available on Facebook at Queertopia!

4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

a reading eXperiment presented by Festival of Language
Location: LIR, 903 Boylston Street
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Come and witness words and artistry in motion, distorting meanings and kicking expectation to the curb at Festival of Language’s first annual reading eXperiment conducted game show style with Jane L. Carman, Ryan Clark, Andy Farnsworth, Jenny Ferguson, Beth Gilstrap, Sonya Huber, Kathryn Kysar, R.B. Moreno, Theresa O'Donnell, Ted Pelton, Erin Rhodes, Anita Schmaltz, Sarah Stonich, Ben Tanzer, Meg Tuite, and Robert Vaughan.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Bayou Magazine & UNO Press Authors Reading
Location: Remington's (Comedy Vault)
Cost: FREE
Want to hang out with the friendliest people at AWP? We're from New Orleans, where everyone is always welcome to the party! Come join us for some home-made chowder, a cold beer from the generous selection on tap, and the literary stylings of Quinn White, Andy Young, Karen Gentry, Andrew Payton, and more.
Head downstairs to Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault in the cozy basement of Remington's @ 124 Boylston St, Boston, MA (http://boston.laughstub.com)

5:00 p.m.

Brown MFA Reading
Location: Cambridge Community Television
Cost: free!
Readings by Emily Abrons, Eric Adamson, Rebecca Ansorge, Mona Awad, Mimi Cabell, Josh Caffrey, Andrew Colarusso, Molly Faerber, Peter Giebel, Derek Gromadzki, Gargi Harithakam, Ari Kalinowski, Dong Li, Meredith Luby, Ben Luton, John Madera, Julia Madsen, Erica Mena-Landry, Benjamin Moreno-Ortiz, Vi Nguyen, Chris Novello, Nick Potter, and Kelly Puig. Directions: Take the #1 bus from the Hynes Convention Center T stop headed to Harvard Station via Massachusetts Ave. Get off at Mass Ave. and Sidney. Walk north to 438 Mass Ave (takes 10 minutes). The T: Take the red line to Central Square T stop and walk south.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Co-Book Launch: Shane McCrae and Matthew Salesses
Location: LIR, across from Hynes
Cost: Free
Join Shane McCrae, author of Blood (Noemi), and Matthew Salesses, author of I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying (CCM), for the double launch of their books. Warning: drinks will be drunk, books will be shared, and good times will be had.

5:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.

Diode & Blackbird Offsite Reading
Location: Sweetwater Tavern 3 Boylston Place
Cost: Free
Featuring: Traci Brimhall, Andrea Cohen, Erica Dawson, Tarfia Faizullah, Bob Hicok, Jamaal May, Catherine Pierce, Liana Quill, Brynn Saito, David Wojahn, C. Dale Young

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

VCCA Fellows Reunion
Location: McGreevy's Irish Pub, 911 Boylston Street in Boston, MA (Across the street from Hynes)
Cost: Free
Join fellow VCCA Fellows at McGreevy's Irish Pub for the AWP/Boston VCCA Fellows Reunion.

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Con Tinta Honoring Tino Villanueva
Location: Zocalo Cocina Restaurant. 35 Stanhope St, Boston, MA 02116. Phone: (617) 456-7849
Cost: FREE EVENT
Con Tinta Honoring Tino Villanueva: Cocktail & Cash Bar Celebration. Honoring Tino Villanueva in an hors d’oeuvres and book signing event at Zocalo Cocina Restaurant (15 min. walk from AWP).

5:30 p.m.

MadHat and Pen & Anvil Present
Location: Sherrill Library Atrium, Lesley University, 89 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Cost: free
A joint reading organized by MadHat (the organization that grew out of the late Carol Novack's Mad Hatters' Review) and the Pen & Anvil Press (an imprint of the Boston Poetry Union). Readers for MadHat include Katia Kapovich, Susan Lewis, Philip Nikolayev, Jonathan Penton, Annie Pluto, Larissa Shmailo, Teresa Svoboda, and Marc Vincenz; and for Pen & Anvil, Zachary Bos, Ellen Glassie, Matthew Kelsey, Ben Mazer, Thomas Simmons, and Sassan Tabatabai.

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

University of Cincinnati’s 35th Anniversary Celebration
Location: Dillon's (Back Room), 955 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Join us for a celebration of the 35th anniversary of the University of Cincinnati’s graduate program in creative writing. UC creative writing faculty, students, and alumni will be present. Drinks and light refreshments served. Located just one block from the convention center.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Anthology Reading & Artist Books Exhibit
Location: Cambridge Arts Council, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free
Readings from the new anthology, "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here," in conjunction with an exhibit of artists' books responding to the 2007 bombing of Baghdad's "Street of the Booksellers." With Kazim Ali, Alise Alousi, Amaranth Borsuk, Sarah Browning, Contributing Editor Persis Karim, Philip Metres, and Terese Svoboda. Reception to follow.

6:00 p.m.

THE BATTLE FOR BOSTON: Filip Marinovich Performs Robert Lowell & John Wieners
Location: Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Harvard University
Cost: Free
Venture to Harvard University to experience poet and provocateur Filip Marinovich (author of "And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow") as he presents "a carnivalesque gesturing toward the two mad saints of Boston poetry"--in the very library where John Wieners used to work and on the very campus where Robert Lowell used to teach.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

CAROLINA WREN & ETRUSCAN @ AWP: A READING W/ L. LAMAR WILSON, LEE ANN BROWN, REMICA L. BINGHAM, AND TIM SEIBLES
Location: Church of Boston
Cost: Free
Veterans Lee Ann Brown and Tim Seibles will read with and introduce award-winning, emerging poets L. Lamar Wilson and Remica L. Bingham, respectively, debuting new titles from Carolina Wren Press and Etruscan Press. "WHAT WE ASK OF FLESH, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It’s impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice," says Amy Gerstler of Bingham's second collection (http://remicalbingham.com/publications.htm). "Wilson's poems are as deeply felt as they are richly textured; his careful craft carries a heady, metaphysical freight. Look for his language to lick you: to bring you pleasure and to break you open. These are living words," says Evie Shockley of Wilson's debut collection, SACRILEGION (llamarwilson.com/publications.html). Brown, who selected Wilson's book for the 2012 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, has two books forthcoming: CROWNS FOR CHARLOTTE, set to be published this spring by Carolina Wren, and FAR FROM THE FIELDS OF AMBITION, from Lorimer Press and Lenoir-Rhyne University. She is the founder of Tender Buttons Press and is associate professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. Brown lives in both New York City and Marshall, North Carolina. Tim Seibles is author of several collections, most recently FAST ANIMAL, a 2012 National Book Award finalist, published by Etruscan (http://www.etruscanpress.org/shop/fast-animalby-tim-seibles).

6:00 p.m.

Gival Press Reading
Location: West End Branch Boston Public Libray, 151 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114
Cost: Free
Join us as Gival Press poets: Rich Murphy (Voyeur), Yvette Neisser Moreno (Grip) , John Gosslee (12: Sonnets for the Zodiac) and fiction writers: Perry Glasser (Riverton Noir), John Domini (A Tomb on the Periphery), and Lowell Mick White (That Demon Life) read from their award-winning work.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Grub Street and Small Demons Present: "Get Lit"
Location: Storyville - in the Copley Square Hotel - 90 Exeter Street, Boston
Cost: Free
Boston's own Grub Street and Richard Nash's Small Demons invite you and your friends to gather for drinks, music and refreshments. There will be no readings, no panels, no tchotchke, no interviews, no presentations, no signings, no Q&A, no pressure to be clever.

6:00 p.m.

New Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
Location: Crossroads Irish Pub, 495 Beacon Street (2nd floor)
Cost: free
readings by: James Arthur (Charms Against Lightning), Natalie Diaz (When My Brother Was an Aztec), Kerry James Evans (Bangalore), Tomas Morin (A Larger Country), Roger Reeves (King Me)

6:00 p.m.

Reading from THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY OF ENGAGEMENT
Location: Boston Public Library, Main Branch, Common Wealth Salon
Cost: free
Featuring poets Bruce Bond, Linda Gregerson, Timothy Liu, Raymond McDaniel, Phiip Metres, Kevin Prufer, and Lisa Sewell; hosted by anthology co-editor Ann Keniston

6:00 p.m.

Redivider's 10th Birthday Celebration and Reading
Location: Boston Beer Works (61 Brookline Avenue, Boston)
Come celebrate Redivider's 10th anniversary in the historic Fenway at Boston Beer Works! There will be birthday cake, party favors, and three of Redivider's issue 10.1 contributors reading selected work: Dan Boehl, Diane Cook, and Meghan Privitello.

6:00 p.m.

Sober AWP 12 Step Meeting
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Plaza Level, Room 105
Cost: free
Daily 12 Step meetings for sober writers. Anyone in recovery from anything is welcome. For more info contact: soberawp@gmail.com

6:00 p.m.

Stonecoast MFA Community Reading
Location: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Readers will include faculty members Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jaed Coffin, Aaron Hamburger, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Sholeh Wolpe, Stonecoast alumni Anthony D’Aries, Lexa Hillyer, Sandra McDonald, Thomas McDonald, and Stonecoast student Lady Zen.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

A Table X Reading: Anomalous, Les Figues, Gold Line, Tiny Hardcore, & Rose Metal Presses
Location: CCTV Studio, 438 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 0213938 (near Central Square)
Cost: Free as a bird
Anomalous, Les Figues, Gold Line, Tiny Hardcore, & Rose Metal Presses hosting a reading and book launch. Free snacks and drinks! Sandra Doller, Mike Schorsch, Liat Berdugo, and Sarah Tourjee reading from their forthcoming Anomalous books; Casey Hannan, Ashley Farmer, and James Tadd Adcox from Tiny Hardcore Press; Bradley Harrison, Matt Kirkpatrick, Heather Aimee O'Neill, and Glenn Shaheen from Gold Line Press; Adam Golaski and Aaron Teel from Rose Metal Press; and Melissa Buzzeo, Christine Wertheim, Harold Abramowitz, and Frances Richard from Les Figues Press.

6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Fifth Annual upstreet AWP Reading
Location: Map Room Cafe, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Six authors from upstreet #8--Jeana Burton, Peter Brown, Alan Feldman, Jeffrey Harrison, David Jauss, and Jodi Paloni--will read their work. This event, which will include refreshments, will be hosted by upstreet editor/publisher Vivian Dorsel.

6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

iO/Interrupture/Jellyfish Reading
Location: Sweetwater Tavern
Cost: $0
This year iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Interrupture, and Jellyfish are teaming up to host an off-site evening of poetry at AWP Boston in 2013! Head over to Sweetwater Tavern and hear a slew of terrific authors.

6:30 p.m.

Kale Soup for the Soul
Location: Portuguese Consulate, 699 Boylston Street - 7thFloor Boston, MA 02116 (around the corner from the convention center). Tel: (617) 536-8740
Cost: Free
Writers reading work about family, food, Portuguese culture and more. Plus, wine and refreshments. Line-up of Portuguese-American Writers: Tony John Roma, Paula Neves, Millicent Borges Accardi, Amy Sayre, Linette Escobar, Lara Gularte, Carlo Matos, Nancy Vieira Couto, and Brian Sousa; Luis Gonçalves, Moderator. Sponsored by the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston, the Boston Portuguese Festival (BPF), and CAMOES - Portuguese Institute for Cooperation and Language, I.P.

6:30 p.m.

The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare
Location: Samson Projects, 29 Thayer St, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Cost: Free
With readings by: Amaranth Borsuk, Julian Brolaski, Claire Donato, Timothy Donnelly, Susan Gevirtz, Karla Kelsey, Justin Marks, Kelli-Anne Noftle, Laura Moriarty, Rodrigo Toscano, Dara Wier, and others. Telephone Books, an imprint of Nightboat Books, presents its inaugural anthology The Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare, in which more than 154 contemporary poets offer their own startling and imaginative versions of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

6:30 p.m.

12 Good Readers
Location: Downstairs Cantab Lounge (738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA)
Cost: Free
12 GOOD READERS IS AN AWP READING. 12 PEOPLE ARE READING. 12 OF THEM ARE GOOD. 12 OF THEM ARE LISTED RIGHT NOW: Jack Christian, Heather Christle, Kate Greenstreet, Amelia Gray, Ben Hersey, Dorothea Lasky, Ella Longpre, Scott McClanahan, Ariana Reines, Abraham Smith, Dana Ward, Carolyn Zaikowski

7:00 p.m.

Arizona State MFA Alumni Reading
Location: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446
Cost: Free
Alumni of the MFA program at Arizona State University will read from their new work. Join us for fiction and poetry from Dexter Booth, Katie Cortese, Mathew Gavin Frank, Elizabyth Hiscox, Caitlin Horrocks, Todd Kaneko, Hugh Martin, Claire McQuerry, Michele Poulos, Robby Taylor, and Kathleen Winter. It's an easy trip: take the Green Line to Coolidge Corner station.

7:00 p.m.

Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Rescue Press, and Transom present:
Location: Harvard Advocate: 21 South Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Cost: Free
Buckets of Glorious: A Reading? Featuring Sommer Browning, Gregory Lawless, Madeline McDonnell, Peter Richards, Zach Savich, Mary Hickman, Bianca Stone, and Elizabeth Willis

7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Drunken Boat Book Party for Lisa Russ Spaar's "The Hide-and-Seek Muse"
Location: The Lily Pad Inman Square (1353 Cambridge St in Cambridge)
Cost: FREE
Join Drunken Boat, online journal of the arts, during AWP at Cambridge's Lily Pad to celebrate the launch of Guggenheim fellow and award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar's "The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations on Contemporary Poetry," featuring her memorable micro-essays on some of America's finest poets such as Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Wright, Carl Philips, Carol Muske-Dukes, Claudia Emerson, and Philip Schultz, and younger writers such as Kazim Ali, Kyle Dargan, and Paul Legault. The reading will feature contributors to the book including Debra Allbery, Talvikki Ansel, Jennifer Atkinson, David Baker, Jill Bialosky, Randall Couch, Kate Daniels, Monica Ferrell, Gabriel Fried, Rachel Hadas, Brenda Hillman, Jennifer Key, L. S. Klatt, Joanna Klink, Erika Meitner, Amy Newman, Meghan O'Rourke, Eric Pankey, Kiki Petrosino, Bin Ramke, Mary Ann Samyn, Allison Seay, Ravi Shankar, Ron Slate, Mary Szybist, Brian Teare, David Wojahn. Free and open to the public.

7:00 p.m.

Jamie Quatro and Megan Mayhew Bergman at Newtonville Books
Location: Newtonville Books
Cost: Free
A little southern heat for a Boston reading: Jamie will read from her debut collection, I Want to Show You More (Grove) and Megan from her novel-in-progress, Shepherd, Wolf (Scribner).

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Literary Wilderness: a literary reading and benefit
Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street (The Guild Room)
Cost: Free
Literary Wilderness is an evening of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction benefiting and highlighting several prison creative writing programs across the United States. Please join us for an evening of story themed WILDERNESS. Our lineup of writers includes: Matt Bondurant, Erin Celello, Lucy Christopher, Bronwen Dickey, Ann Wertz Garvin, Sarah Green, Daniel B. Johnson, Jill McDonough, Maggie Messitt, Jen Moore, Samuel Park, Suzanne Roberts, Liz Stephens, Kristen Millares Young, and Matthew Zapruder.

7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Merrimack Valley and Mississippi Delta Poets
Location: The Worthen House 141 Worthen St, Lowell, MA 01852
Cost: Free
A lively evening of poetry featuring Merrimack Valley and Mississippi Delta poets at the historic Worthen House, the oldest continuously operated pub in Lowell. While you'r in town, take a ride on Desire, a historic NOLA streetcar in Lowell with connections to the French Quarter.

7:00 p.m.

Mixed Fruit Reading
Location: Rattlesnake Bar & Grill,384 Boylston Street, Boston, 02116
Cost: Free
Join us as we hear a number of our talented contributors read their work. We'll be selling our first print issue, and poet Stacey Lynn Brown will be joining us as a guest reader.

7:00 p.m.

Ping Pong Party
Location: The Landsdowne Pub 9 Lansdowne Street Boston, MA 02215
Cost: FREE
Please join us for a marathon reading with free snacks. Readers include: Kim Addonizio, Lisa Bourbeau, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Matthew Burgess, Patrick Michael Finn, Joanna Fuhrman, Alina Gregorian, William Hastings, Tom C Hunley, Christine Kanownik, Ruth Lepson, Tanya Larkin, James Meetze, Mark Statman, J Hope Stein, Maria Garcia Teutsch and Eric Miles Williamson

7:00 p.m.

Screening of the film LEMON
Location: UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Ballroom
Cost: Free
Boston premiere: Three-time felon, one-time Tony Award winner, Lemon Andersen is an acclaimed poet who broke out on Broadway in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. But Lemon has landed back in the projects, is living with thirteen family members, and is desperate for a way out. He turns to the only things he has left, his pen and his story. A beautifully crafted film, LEMON follows one man’s journey to bring his life story to the stage while battling the demons from his past. Q&A with Lemon Andersen and the filmmakers Laura Brownson & Beth Levison, to follow.

7:00 p.m.

Sundress Publications / Connotation Press / Boxcar Poetry Review / Best of the Net Reading at The Greatest Bar
Location: The Greatest Bar | 262 Friend Street | Boston, MA 02114
Cost: Free!
Join us in Boston for a night of reading and general revelry in celebration of Sundress Publications, Connotation Press, Boxcar Poetry Review, and the release of the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology! Readers will include Traci Brimhall, Al Maginnes, Laura McCullough, Alex Pruteanu, Angela Woodward, Marcel Brouwers, Peauladd Huy, Doug Anderson, Sara Lippman, Danny M. Hoey, Jr., and more!

7:00 p.m.

32 Poems Party and Reading
Location: McGreevey's 911 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Cost: Free
Join us to celebrate 10 years of 32 Poems Magazine. Jennifer Militello, Alexandra Teague, Terri Witek, and others read from the new 32 Poems anthology.

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Tin House & Octopus Books Present:
Location: The Green Dragon, 11 Marshall Street
Cost: Free
Tin House and Octopus Books celebrate their new collaborative poetry series—and the release of several outstanding new titles—with a night of poetry, prose, drinking, carrying on, etcetera, etcetera, so on, and so forth. Featuring readings from Patricia Lockwood (Balloon Pop Outlaw Black), Brandon Shimoda (Portuguese), Michael Helm (Cities of Refuge), and Matthew Specktor (American Dream Machine), and presented to you by Elissa Schappell, Matthew Dickman, and Zachary Schomburg.

7:00 p.m.

U35 Poetry: Pritchard, Stotts, & Elkins
Location: The Marliave, 10 Bosworth St, Boston (Park Street)
Cost: Free
U35 is an acclaimed bi-monthly reading series in Boston dedicated to highlighting the work of young poets. Conceived as a space to build a stronger literary community across neighborhood and university boundaries, U35 was named one of “Boston's Best” event series by the Boston Globe in 2010. On Thursday, March 7th, we are pleased to feature poet and translator James Stotts, 2011 “Discovery” Poetry Prize winner Ansel Elkins, and U35 organizer Daniel Evans Pritchard.

7:30 p.m.

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal March Issue (#20) Launch Reading
Location: Fairbank Center, Harvard University, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Cost: 0
Featuring readings by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal contributors Eleanor Goodman, Bill Lantry, Kim Liao, Mai Mang, Tracy Slater, Marc Vincenz, and Nicholas YB Wong. Hosted by March issue guest editors Kaitlin Solimine and Marc Vincenz. Co-hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

7:30 p.m.

Devil's Lake & Black Lawrence Press present:
Location: Beacon Street Tavern, 1032 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
Cost: Free
A night of great readings and free drinks, featuring: Adam Prince, Charlotte Pence, David Rigsbee, TJ Beitelman, Claudia Cortese, Nicolas James Hampton, & Daniela Olszewska with Carol Guess. Join us in the Nite Cap Lounge inside the Beacon Street Tavern, just two stops on the Green Line from the Hynes Convention Center.

7:30 p.m.

The Salt Hill AWP Reading Extravaganza
Location: Fajitas & 'Ritas (25 West Street)
Cost: $1 donation (suggested)
Salt Hill is getting a whole slew of amazing contributors together for a night of poetry, fiction and margaritas. Readers will be glorious, books will be for sale (as will margaritas), fun will be had by all.

7:30 p.m.

Sycamore Review AWP Reading: "From the Midwest to the Middle East"
Location: Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub, Central Square, 472 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free
Join us for a reading featuring recent contributors to Sycamore Review, Purdue University’s internationally acclaimed literary journal. Take the subway (Red Line) or the Number 1 Bus (from Massachusetts Ave. at the Hynes Convention Center T Stop) to Central Square.

7:30 p.m.

Women in Action: A new wave of art, theatre, music, performance
Location: The Factory Theatre
Cost: Free
Ruth Margraff (leader in the new opera movement) will perform with her Café Antarsia Ensemble. Lisa Schlesinger (playwright/activist) and Magdalena Gómez (performance artist and Artistic Director, Teatro V!DA) will read from works in progress. Theatre scholar Heidi Bean (Bridgewater State University) will lead the post-show discussion.

8:00 p.m.

Alice James Books Off-Site Reading
Location: Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Cost: Free
Join us for a poetry reading by some of Alice James Books' 2012 authors! Stephen Motika (Western Practice), Matthew Pennock (Sudden Dog), Jane Springer (Murder Ballad, and Donald Revell (Tantivy) will share their work.

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Apocalypse Now: Poems & Prose from the End of Days AWP Release Party
Location: McGreevy's Bar, 911 Bolyston Street across the street from Hynes Convention Center
Cost: Free
Prizes! Zombie photo-booth! Fortune-telling! Come have a brew on us (first fifty guests!) and join a dozen of our authors from 8-10 PM at McGreevys Bar (across from Hynes Convention Center) for the AWP Release of Apocalypse Now: Poems & Prose from the End of Days. See website for more info.

8:00 p.m.

apt issue 3 party & reading
Location: Lir, 903 Boylston St, Boston
Cost: Free
Join us to celebrate the release of our third print annual! Featuring Michelle Cheever, Josh Denslow, Nicolette Kittinger, Steven LaFond, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Dolan Morgan, Lam Pham, Alexis Pope, and Denise Warren. Hosted by Carissa Halston and Randolph Pfaff.

8:00 p.m.

Barrelhouse, Hobart, PANK & Friends: Not Reading
Location: LIR, 903 Boylston St, Boston
Cost: Free
It's a quirky Cinderella story about three fashion-savvy, thrift-loving litmags who fell for rich, sumptuous AWP readings only to discover it's the partying they've loved all along. The threesome comes across many social obstacles, but things come together in the end thanks in large part to a ragtag group of unlikely friends, a Boston bar, and absolutely no pretense of readings or literary gimmickry whatsoever.

8:00 p.m.

Clayton Jones and The Bucks with Poet John Gosslee
Location: Sally O'Brien's
Cost: Free
Clayton Jones and The Bucks and Poet John Gosslee of the Fjords Review and Gosslee Books will perform in support of Jones's new album, Revolver and book of poetry, Steadily Fumbling Outwards.

8:00 p.m.

East / West Reading
Location: Bell In Hand Tavern, 45-55 Union Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Cost: Free
East Coast writers match off against West Coast: Pam Houston, Deb Olin Unferth, Joseph Salvatore, Matthew Vollmer, Scott Cheshire, Christopher Kennedy, David Hollander, Kim Chinquee, Sam Ligon, Lily Hoang, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, Robert Lopez, Aurelie Sheehan.

8:00 p.m.

Sarabande Books Reading
Location: LIR: 903 Boylston St
Cost: Free
Brief readings by Elena Passarello, Steven Cramer, Cleopatra Mathis, Lauren Shapiro, and L. Annette Binder. We'll be debuting Sarabande's signature bourbon cocktail. Free drinks!

8:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

Mission Creek Festival & the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
Location: Club Passim
Join Iowa's Mission Creek Festival and Johns Hopkins' The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review at historic Club Passim for words, music, and drink. Featured Author: Steve Almond. Featured Music: TBA.

8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

Their Peculiar Ambitions: A Night of Presidential Fiction Readings
Location: Sweetwater Tavern
Cost: Free
Hear original flash fiction about America's presidents, originally featured at Melville House. Readers include: Steve Himmer, Lincoln Michel, Matt Bell, Robert Kloss, Matthew Salesses, Tara Laskowski, Ben Loory, Aubrey Hirsch, James Tadd Adcox, Greg Gerke, Alan Stewart Carol, John Minichillo, Amelia Gray, Katrina Gray, Joseph Scapellato, Rion Amilcar Scott, Erin Fitzgerald, Tim Horvath, Laura Ellen Scott, Gabriel Blackwell, Christy Crutchfield, Mel Bosworth, Anne Valente, Sal Pane, Ben Tanzer, JA Tyler, Mike Meginnis, and Lauren Becker.

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

THE RALLY
Location: The Distillery, 516 East Second Street South Boston, MA 02127
Cost: Free
Birds, LLC; Factory Hollow; Immaculate Disciples; Rose Metal Press; Sixth Finch; & Wonder present: Ana Bozicevic, Sampson Starkweather, Bianca Stone, Luke Bloomfield, Heather Christle, Alex Phillips, Marisa Crawford, B.J. Best, Ryan Ridge, Gale Marie Thompson, Jenny Zhang, & Cecilia K. Corrigan. *Broadsides by Rye House Press in collaboration with the Rope-a-Dope Collective. ** Beer by Narragansett

8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

VIDA Prom: a Reading and Dance Party
Location: Daisy Buchanan's, 240 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116
Cost: $10 donation to VIDA at the door
Show off your prom dress, boa, and fascinator at the swankiest speakeasy dance party & reading during AWP! Headliners include: Cheryl Strayed, Robert Pinsky, Pam Houston, Alexander Chee, Roxanne Gay (more TBD). Schedule: Doors open at 8pm, Readers read at 9pm, Dance party from 10pm-midnight. Cash bar. Prom attire encouraged but not required. Feel free to wear your roaring ’20s gear and come out to support VIDA!

8:00 p.m.

Words & Music presented by Curbside Splendor, Other Voices Books, AGNI, Emergency Press, Counterpoint, Artifice
Location: 738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridgem MA
Cost: FREE
Readings and or music at Boston's iconic Cantab Lounge by: James Greer (Detective / Guided by Voices), Jessica Keener, Rob Roberge, Jillian Lauren, Joshua Mohr, Caroline Crew, Chris Fink, Ben Tanzer, Tyler McMahon. Word.

8:30 p.m.

Four Presses, No Boundaries: poetry from Canarium, Coach House, Green Lantern & House of Anansi
Location: 955 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Join us for a poetry reading that shatters the Canadian-U.S. border! Two of the best American indie presses (Canarium, Green Lantern) join forces with two of the best indie presses north of the border (Coach House, House of Anansi). In the spirit of cross-border literature, we'll feature short readings by Joel Craig, Brent Cunningham, Jeramy Dodds, Andrew Faulkner, Anthony Madrid, Sara Peters, Adam Sol, Matthew Tierney, Nick Twemlow and Lynn Xu, good times and amazing door prizes.

8:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

Intersecting Lineages Offsite Reading: Poets of Color on Cross-Community Collaborations
Location: make/shift - 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
Cost: Donation
Featuring Indigenous, African American, Arab American, Asian American and Latina/o poets engaging in creative exchange and solidarity across racial and ethnic communities. The purpose of this event is to showcase and strengthen ongoing work between these communities, including efforts by community organizations dedicated to nurturing emerging writers from these communities such as Cave Canem, Kundiman, Canto Mundo, and RAWI and Institute of American Indian Arts.

9:00 p.m.-Midnight

The Best Reading and After-Party Ever!
Location: Email for information
Cost: Free!
If you weren't there in Chicago, you certainly heard about it afterwards. The Best Reading and After-Party Ever is everyone's favorite reading and party series. We're at it in Boston and this time there will be a film crew. This year's readers are (in first name order): Annie Finch, Erica Dawson, G.M. Palmer, Heather O'Neill, Jessica Piazza, Michael Bobbitt, Nick Courtright, Rebecca Lindenberg, Tara Skurtu, Thaddeus Gunn

9:00 p.m.

Ink Node Reading
Location: Sweetwater Tavern, Downstairs Room, 3 Boylston Place
Cost: Free!
Ink Node celebrates its fourth birthday with a reading featuring Emily Kendal Frey, Zachary Schomburg, Adam Fell, Dora Malech, Hannah Gamble, Brittany Cavallaro, Nick Sturm, Wendy Xu, Sally Delehant, Brandon Downing, Eileen G'Sell, and Alisa Heinzman. Doors at 9pm, Reading 9:30-10:30pm, Reception to follow.

9:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

OVS Magazine Reading with the Berklee Slam Team
Location: Berklee College of Music -The Loft and it is on the 3rd floor of 921 Boylston Street, Boston, 02215
Cost: Free
We have a fantastic line up of OVS Magazine contributors from the past and present reading with special guests from the Berklee Slam Team! You will not want to miss the free food and poetry.

10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.

Poetry of Storm, Breathing, Love, & Whelming
Location: The Lilypad: 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
Cost: free
Poetry of the salt sea of us & the spark between molecules & mouths & moments in history. Poetry of scintilla & lakes. Elegy & lushness & index & love song. Poetry that carries knives & thread.-------> Featured Readers: LILLIAN YVONNE-BERTRAM, LISA FAY COUTLEY, DAWN LONSINGER, and REBECCA LINDENBERG ::: Opening Act: ADAM GIANNELLI reading from his translation of Uruguayan MAROSA DI GIORGIO's poetry.

Friday

12:00 p.m.

SPONTANEOUS SOCIETY: Experimental Walks with Jon Cotner
Location: Meets outside Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass.
Cost: free
Join Jon Cotner—co-author of TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS (Ugly Duckling Presse)—on an imaginative amble that celebrates and creates fleeting (yet meaningful) encounters between strangers. Setting out into two distinct landscapes—that of Back Bay (at noon) and Harvard Square (at 4:00pm), Cotner will present each participant with a series of seemingly ordinary sentences that will generate unexpected connections and foster a more "spontaneous society." Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Reservations Required: Five spaces are available for each 90-minute walk. To reserve your free spot, please send an email to davis2@fas.harvard.edu with the subject header: "Spontaneous Society Reservation" and the specific time you are interested in: We will inform you of your "enrollment" by March 5, 2013. The walks will occur rain or shine.

1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

A Celebration of New Issues Poetry
Location: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Copley Square-McKim Lower Level
Cost: free
Please join us for brief readings by New Issues' 2012-2013 poets, including: Corey Marks, Mark Irwin, Marni Ludwig, Jaswinder Bolina, Peter Covino, CJ Evans, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Shara Lessley. Feel free to come and go as needed to accommodate your busy AWP schedules!

1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Living Arts Press Kick-Off-Site Poetry Reading
Location: Mobius Gallery, 55 Norfolk St, Cambridge MA
Cost: $5-10 requested donation
The newly established Living Arts Press, in conjunction with the University of Tulsa, invites you to a reading by former and future readers in Tulsa: Peter Gizzi, kate greenstreet, Linda Russo, Rae Armantrout, Tim Bradford, Cheryl Pallant, Carla Harryman, Lea Graham, Jess Piazza, Sam Truitt, Grant Matthew Jenkins. The Mobius gallery is less than 2 miles from the AWP Conference site at the Boston Convention Center and will be featuring an exhibit of concrete poetry titled, "VERBI-VOCO-VISUAL: CONCRETE POETRY AND DERIVATIONS, 1972-2013.” Proceeds go to support the arts at Mobius. See more about the venue at mobius.org.

2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

AWP Heat
Location: Dillon's Restaurant and Bar
Cost: Free
Stories of burning up, burning out, and burning down the house. Join us for tales of combustible loves, inexhaustible passions and aches we just can't shake.

2:45 p.m.

Official AWP Tweetup
Location: Bookfair Lounge, Plaza Level of Hynes Convention Center
Cost: Free
An in-person gathering for attendees tweeting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair. Concessions, including the bar, will be open at this time. Come for a few minutes to say hello in-between panels or stick around to relax and chat with others. Use the hashtags: #AWP13 and #AWPTweetup

3:00 p.m.

Lunar Chandelier Press Presents a Reading in honor of Gerrit Lansig
Location: Poe's Kitchen at the Rattlesnake Bar & Grill
Cost: no charge
Lunar Chandelier Press presents a reading at 84 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116 646-438-5559 with readers Lynn Behrendt, Daniel Bouchard, Julian Talamentez Brolaski, Joe Elliot, Joanna Furhman, Pierre Joris, Gerrit Lansing, Eileen Myles, Tim Trace Peterson, Nicole Peyrafitte, Elizabeth Robinson, Prageeta Sharma, Toni Simonn and Christopher Stackhouse.

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Seneca Review Reading
Location: Goodlife Vodka Lounge 28 Kingston St
Cost: None
Readers from our new double issue: Chris Haven, Brenda Miller, Katharine Coles, Nicole Walker, Geoffrey Hilsabeck, Tessa Fontaine, Sharon Dolin, Matthew Gavin Frank, Brian Blanchfield, WM Lobko and Kim Adrian. Directions on facebook page

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sixth Finch and Vinyl at AWP!
Location: Boston Public LIbrary, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston St Boston, MA
Cost: FREE
Amazing line up of readers! Matthew Lippman, Dan Magers, Lynn Melnick, Robert Ostrom, Marc Paltrineri, Rebecca Hazelton, Sampson Starkweather, Paige Taggart, Emily Toder, Marcus Wicker, Phillip B. Williams, L. Lamar Wilson. Just 3 blocks from Hynes Convention Center.

3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Nashville Review Offsite Reading
Location: Back Bay Social Club 867 Boylston St. Boston, MA
Cost: free
Featuring poetry, fiction and nonfiction readings by contributors to the Nashville Review, including Bianca Stone, Ben Loory, Joellen Craft, Bryan Furuness and Rosanna Oh. Only half a block away from the Hynes Convention Center! The Nashville Review is an online literary arts magazine edited and produced by students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview

4:00 p.m.

Black Warrior Review//Yalobusha Review Reading
Location: Room B311, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Cost: Free
Black Warrior Review and Yalobusha Review are pleased to announce that we've teamed up for one awesome AWP Reading. Join us on Friday, March 8th, at 4 PM at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (room B311) to hear poetry and fiction from the likes of Amy King, Meg Pokrass, Tasha Matsumoto, Matthew Henriksen, A. Minetta Gould, Melissa Broder, and Jenn Marie Nunes. Hope to see y'all there! Directions: From the Hynes Convention Center, walk to the Prudential Station (on Huntington Ave). Take the Green Line three stops to the Museum of Fine Arts Station. Head right (northwest) along Ruggles St./Louis Prang St., then turn right on Evans Way. The reading will be held in room B311, on the third floor of the B side at the end of the hallway.

4:00 p.m.

SPONTANEOUS SOCIETY: Experimental Walks with Jon Cotner
Location: Meets outside the Harvard Coop, Cambridge, Mass.
Cost: free
Join Jon Cotner—co-author of TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS (Ugly Duckling Presse)—on an imaginative amble that celebrates and creates fleeting (yet meaningful) encounters between strangers. Setting out into two distinct landscapes—that of Back Bay (at noon) and Harvard Square (at 4:00pm), Cotner will present each participant with a series of seemingly ordinary sentences that will generate unexpected connections and foster a more "spontaneous society." Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Reservations Required: Five spaces are available for each 90-minute walk. To reserve your free spot, please send an email to davis2@fas.harvard.edu with the subject header: "Spontaneous Society Reservation" and the specific time you are interested in: We will inform you of your "enrollment" by March 5, 2013. The walks will occur rain or shine.

4:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Arts Press reading
Location: LIR bar
Cost: Free
Poets and fiction writers representing Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) will be reading at 4:30 at the LIR Bar, located directly across from the Hynes Convention Center. Readers will include Joe Pan, Christopher Hennessy, Carol Guess, John Buckley, Martin Ott, Jackie Clark, Martin Rock, Jen Besemer, Bill Rasmovicz, & Julia Cohen.

4:30 p.m.

Celebrating Dispatches
Location: The Corner Tavern, 421 Marlborough Street
Cost: Free
Please join The Common for an informal reading featuring contributors to Dispatches, our weekly online column. We'll be joined by contributors Curtis Bauer, Marie-Helene Bertino, James A. Gill, Stephen Haven, Katherine Hill, Julia Lichtblau, and Brian Simoneau.

5:00 p.m.

Cambridge Writers' Workshop Off-Site Reading
Location: Crossroads Pub, 495 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02215
Cost: Free
Learn about the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop literary salons, writing workshops, and Writing and Yoga Retreat at the Château de Verderonne in France (July 24-August 7, 2013). The CWW featured writers include Rita Banerjee (author of Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press) and Co-Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop), Diana Norma Szokolyai (author of Parallel Sparrows (Finishing Line Press) and co-director of the Cambridge Writers' Workshop), Pattabi Seshadri (whose poetry has appeared in Cincinnati Review, American Letters and Commentary, & TYPO), Ian Singleton (whose short story collection, Cussing, is forthcoming and whose work has been published in Asymptote, Midwestern Gothic, and Ploughshares), Leah Umansky (who is a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine and The Rumpus, and author of Domestic Uncertainties (BlazeVOX Books)), Gregory Crosby (who is co-creator of the EARSHOT Reading Series and Co-Editor of Lyre Lyre), Arto Vaun (whose first book is Capillarity (Carcanet Press) and whose first album is coming out in March), Lisa Marie Basile (who is the editor of Patasola Press and the author of Triste (Dancing Girl Press) and war/lock (forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press)), and Jane Chakravarthy (whose work has been published in The Fox Chase Review and who is working on her next book False Legend and Awakenings).

5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

BACK-LIT at VOLTAGE: An Electrifying Prose Reading
Location: Voltage Coffee & Art, 295 3rd St., Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: free
Laura Joyce Davis, Dorian Fox, David Goldstein, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Nicole Miller, Michael Noon, R.J. Taylor, and international authors Ralph Alcock and Marc Weinberg. Please join us for a scintillating evening of short stories, memoir, and flash fiction at Cambridge’s most elegant cafe. Cafe doors at 5pm; Reading begins at 5.30 pm. Coffee, tea, wine, and beer will be served at the bar. The Reading will be followed by an art opening and party. VOLTAGE COFFEE & ART is located A 3-minute walk from Kendall Square T stop, on the Red Line and a ten-minute walk from Lechmere Station, on the Green Line (E) train.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Beantown Happy Hour - BULL & Red 14 Films
Location: Ball and Buck (144 Newbury - 3 blocks from Hynes)
Cost: Free
Come share in some (free) spirits and get a shot at a shave at the slickest spot in Boston, Ball & Buck—just a couple blocks from AWP and Copley Square. No readings, just a good time. Come hang out, meet great people, have fun and enjoy yourself.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

POST ROAD Party
Location: subterranean bar at LIR
Cost: Free
Join the editors of POST ROAD for a party celebrating their latest issue.

5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

The Baffler and MAKE: A Literary Magazine present: Don't Forget to Eat.
Location: The Plough and Stars, 912 Massachusetts Ave
Cost: free
Come by Cambridge's most storied Irish pub and restaurant, order up some delicious food and pints, and be treated to performances by Ailish Hopper, Chris Janke, Fred Sasaki, Julia Story, John Summers, and Eugenia Williamson. Plus, music from Reid Coker and Kennedy Greenrod of Billy Blake and the Vagabonds.

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Bread Loaf Waiters Reading
Location: LIR
Cost: Free
Join the 2012 Bread Loaf waiters at LIR, a bar right across from the Hynes Convention Center, for a showcase of speed readings in poetry and prose.

6:00 p.m.

burntdistrict and Spark Wheel Press Reading
Location: LIR 903 Boylston St
Cost: Free
Join us for readings by burntdistrict poets including Ira Sukrungruang, Vikas Menon, CM Burroughs, Lee Ann Roripaugh, John Nieves, Eszter Takacs, and Steven Ostrowski, as well as Steven Schroeder, author of The Royal Nonesuch, forthcoming from Spark Wheel Press.

6:00 p.m.

Cave Canem Fellows Off-Site Reading at AWP
Location: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, Simmons College, (Third Floor of Main College Building) 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
Cost: 10
An all star line up of poets take the stage to raise funds for Cave Canem, North America's home for black poetry. Featuring Boston Poet Laureate, Sam Corninsh and Cave Canem poets Afaa M. Weaver, January Gill O’Neil, Lauren K. Alleyne, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Antoinette Brim, Jocelyn Burrell, CM Burroughs, Mary Easter, Chiyuma Elliott, Hafizah Geter, Juliet P. Howard, Douglas Kearney, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Jacqueline Jones Lamon, Robin Coste Lewis, Aisha Sharif, Kamilah Moon, Khadijah Queen, Maya Washington, Keith Wilson, L. Lamar Wilson, Ronaldo Wilson. $10 Admission to benefit Cave Canem.

6:00 p.m.

Clayton Jones and The Bucks with poet John Gosslee
Location: Middle East (upstairs), 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Cost: $10
Clayton Jones and The Bucks and Poet John Gosslee of the Fjords Review and Gosslee Books will perform in support of Jones's new album, Revolver and book of poetry, Steadily Fumbling Outwards. Members of Atlanta Hip-Hop band, Arrested Development, have joined The Bucks. 18+, 6pm doors, $10 cover; 18+ to enter / 21+ to drink. http://www.mideastclub.com/

6:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.

Crossing The Line: A Reading Co-Sponsored by The Drum Literary Magazine and the Boston Book Festival
Location: Storyville, 90 Exeter St.
Cost: Free
Come join us at the Storyville nightclub for tales of law-breaking, rule-bending, and genre-busting. The evening will feature bestselling/award-winning authors Matt Bell, Jenna Blum, Christopher Castellani, and Marie Myung-Ok Lee. There will be a short, fun (anonymous?) transgression-oriented questionnaire - best answer wins a free drink! Hosted by Dawn Tripp & Henriette Lazaridis Power

6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

The Event
Location: The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville, MA (Davis Square) - Accessible by subway on the Red Line (2 stops after Harvard)
Cost: Donation
SpringGun Press, Subito Press, The Cupboard, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, and Brave Men Press partner to bring you THE EVENT. Readers include: Sandra Doller, Mathias Svalina, Lily Ladewig, James Belflower, Courtney Maum, Drew Johnson, Adam Peterson, Michael Flatt, Melanie Hubbard, Marcus Pactor, Sara Renee Marshall, Lloyd Schwartz and Martha Collins.

6:00 p.m.

First Annual UNCW MFA Alumni Reading
Location: Sweetwater Tavern, 3 Boylston Place
Cost: FREE reading, with reception and drinks available for purchase.
Alumni of the UNCW MFA program will read from their latest work. Featuring Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, winner of the 2010 Rona Jaffe Writers Award and author of “The Man Who Danced with Dolls”; Xhenet Aliu, winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Prize in Fiction for her collection of stories “Domesticated Wild Things”; Yvette Neisser Moreno, winner of the 2011 Gival Press Poetry Award for her collection “Grip”; Jason Mott, author of two poetry collections and the upcoming novel “The Returned”; Ariana Nadia Nash, winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for her collection “Instructions for Preparing Your Skin”; and Jesse Waters, director of the Bowers Writers House and author of the poetry collection “Human Resources.”

6:00 p.m.

First Book Launch for Hugh Martin and Greg Wrenn
Location: Globe Cafe and Bar, 565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Cost: Free
Book Launch for Hugh Martin’s THE STICK SOLDIERS (BOA Press) and Greg Wrenn's CENTAUR (UW Press) at the Globe Bar and Cafe, a half-block from the Copley T stop and a 10-minute walk from the Sheraton Boston.

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

LIT Journal at MIT: Reading & Performance
Location: MIT, Building 6, room 120 (6-120)
Cost: free
Join us for the LIT 23 launch at MIT, featuring readings and multimedia performances by issue 23 contributors, including: Maria Damon, Ian Hatcher, Evelyn Hampton, Lydia Melby, Andrea Quaid, Ed Steck.

6:00 p.m.

Sober AWP 12 Step Meeting
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Plaza Level, Room 105
Cost: free
Daily 12 Step meetings for sober writers. Anyone in recovery from anything is welcome. For more info contact: soberawp@gmail.com

6:00 p.m.

TriQuarterly Books Reading
Location: Sherrill Library, Lesley University, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Please join us for a reading by frontlist authors from the TriQuarterly Books imprint: Teresa Cader (Lesley), Valerie Sayers, Jehanne Dubrow, and Randall Horton. Light refreshments will be served. Books are available for sale and signing.

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

University of Miami's Creative Writing Program
Location: Met Back Bay, 279 Dartmouth Street Boston, MA 02116
Cost: food and drinks, first come first served
Join the University of Miami's Creative Writing Program for drinks and food at AWP! Bring friends and come learn more about our fully-funded program in Miami!

6:30 p.m.

THE ARCADIA PROJECT: A Reading
Location: Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Cost: Free
ARCADIA PROJECT contributors Dan Beachy-Quick, Timothy Donnelly, Gabriel Gudding, Dana Levin, Brian Teare, and C.D. Wright present a reading from this “radical and needed” anthology of postmodern pastorals. Emceed by co-editor G.C. Waldrep. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and Ahsahta Press. Join us for our AWP panel at 3:00 p.m. and then venture to Harvard University for the reading.

6:30 p.m.

Counterpath Press Reading
Location: Mobius, 55 Norfolk St. Cambridge, MA, 02139
Cost: suggested donation
Readers include: Rachel Zucker, Kate Zambreno, Andrew Zawacki, Christine Wertheim, Ronaldo Wilson, Rodrigo Toscano, Jonathan Stalling, Christopher Stackhouse, Stephen Ratcliffe, Kevin Kopelson, Christine Hume, Joanna Howard, and others. Poets will also read from Jackson MacLow's 154 Forties.

6:30 p.m.

A Strange Object and Nouvella Buy You a Beer
Location: Back Bay Social Club, Upstairs, 867 Boylston St.
Cost: Free
The gals of A Strange Object and Nouvella want you to come have a Sam Adams with them. Come on. You're in Boston. Don't even think about not being there. (And get there early, because they're buying for the first 50 folks to show up.)

6:30 p.m.

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Marathon reading
Location: Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave
Cost: free
A reading and celebration of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson (Nightboat Books). Featuring 30 trans and genderqueer poets including Joy Ladin, Trish Salah, Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, Dawn Lundy Martin, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Eileen Myles.

7:00 p.m.

Affrilachians Poets Reading
Location: Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard St Brookline, MA 02446
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
A reading by the Affrilachian Poets, hHosted by Patricia Smith. Featuring: Mitchell Douglass, Jeremy Paden, Joy Gonsalves, Frank X Walker, Randall Horton, Kelly Norman Ellis, Asha French, Ellen Hagan, Parneshia Jones, Patricia Smith

7:00 p.m.

Hanging Loose Press Authors Reading
Location: Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, across from Copley Square park
Cost: Free
Off-site AWP poetry reading by Hanging Loose authors Pablo Medina, Joanna Fuhrman, Gerald Fleming, Cathy Park Hong, David Kirby, Joel Lewis, Bill Zavatsky, Jen Benka, Mark Statman, and Keith Taylor, as well as HL editors Donna Brook, Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak. Friday evening March 9 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at the Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets, 3 blocks from the AWP convention site.

7:00 p.m.

In The Tradition's 20th Anniversary Reunion and Reception
Location: MIT, Hayden Memorial Library Building 160 Memorial Dr. Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: Free
Join SONIA SANCHEZ and writers from IN THE TRADITION in celebration of this seminal anthology of young black writers. Hosted by PEN New England.

7:00 p.m.

The Offending Sequins
Location: Johnny D's: 17 Holland St., Somerville, MAA
Cost: free
The Offending Adam and Gigantic Sequins join forces to present THE OFFENDING SEQUINS: a night of poetry & music, featuring JASWINDER BOLINA, REBECCA HAZELTON, JOSHUA KRYAH, ALEX LEMON , KELLI ANNE NOFTLE , JANE WONG, & the musical stylings of DREW O'DOHERTY! To be guaranteed seating for dinner, make a reservation at 617-776-2004 Tue-Fri between 4-7pm. $12 food minimum applies. Any unreserved tables will be available, first come first serve, 15 minutes before the show begins.

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

TRIO HOUSE PRESS POETS: A READING
Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC
Trio House Press poets David Groff, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Matt Mauch will read from their recent collections published by Trio House Press. Also, reading, THP's 2012 judges, Michael Waters and Ross Gay. This event is free and open to the public.

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Zone 3 Press and University of Wisconsin Press Reading
Location: First Church of Boston Chapel 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Please join us for brief readings from Zone 3 Press authors: Andrew Kozma, Kate Gleason, John Pursley III, Amanda Auchter, Karen Skolfied, and Nicole Walker. Contributors from UWP's book, "Who's Yer Daddy?" Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, will read as well.

7:30 p.m.

Ahsahta Press at the Signet Society
Location: The Signet Society, Harvard University
Cost: Free
The Signet Society welcomes four Ahsahta authors from our 2012-2013 season: Carrie Olivia Adams (FORTY-ONE JANE DOE'S), Kate Greenstreet (YOUNG TAMBLING), Farid Matuk (MY DAUGHTER LA CHOLA), and Elizabeth Robinson (COUNTERPART).

7:30 p.m.

The Future Now
Location: The Factory Theatre
Cost: $15
A triple bill featuring a performance lecture by visual artist Alexia Stamatiou; Fufu & Oreos, a solo show written and performed by Obehi Janice; Tryouts a new play by Adara Meyers and diirected by Cecelia Raker

7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

The Inman Review reads at 1369 Coffee House
Location: 1369 Coffee House, Inman Square (1369 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02139)
Cost: Free
Inman Square's local literary review will present readers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at 1369 Coffee House, the over-caffeinated heart of this thriving, artistic Cambridge neighborhood. The coffee house is a fifteen minute walk from the Central Square T, and right on the 69 bus line. Get a free tea or small coffee to stay when you buy a copy of the Inman Review.

8:00 p.m.

Ampersand, YesYes, and Engine Books
Location: McGreevy's Irish Bar: 911 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Ampersand Books, Engine Books,and YesYes Books celebrate literature and mayhem with readings by Carrie Causey, Nan Cuba, Nicelle Davis, Luke Goebel, Darby Laine, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, Gregory Sherl, Nate Slawson, Gregory Spatz, J.A. Tyler, and Angela Veronica Wong

8:00 p.m.

Dream Horse Press Reading
Location: Aviary Gallery: 48 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Cost: Free
A reading from Dream Horse Press poets Jason Bredle, MRB Chelko, Matthew Guenette, Kyle McCord, Dan Rosenberg, and AE Watkins.

8:00 p.m.

Fjords Review Reading and Reception
Location: Carroll and Sons Art Gallery 450 harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118
Fjords Review celebrates its 5th issue featuring an interview with Billy Collins at the contemporary arts gallery Carroll and Sons and you are invited! A reception will follow the special guest reading from Danish poet and author Josefine Klougart and other contributors reading work from Fjords.

8:00 p.m.

George Saunders Reading
Location: Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre
Newtonville Books is a 15 minute subway ride from AWP. Take the Green Line from Hynes Convention Center, the D Train, toward Riverside, and get off at the Newton Centre stop. Plenty of restaurants and bars in the neighborhood, too, for after. First come, first seated. No phone calls please.

8:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.

No Thousands, Part 2: An Indie Press Event with Wave Books, McSweeney's, and Black Ocean
Location: Church of Boston Restaurant & Lounge, 69 Kilmarnock Street
Cost: Admission Free with AWP Pass
Join WAVE BOOKS, McSWEENEY'S, and BLACK OCEAN for a night of readings, music, cocktails, food, and dancing - readers Dan Chelotti, Rauan Klassnik, Dorothea Lasky, Rebecca Lindberg, Hoa Nguyen, Geoffrey Nutter, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson will be joined by the musical stylings of PINK THUNDER (Michael Zapruder). Dancing to follow. Food, full bar, and craft cocktails. Be there or be square.

8:00 p.m.

Pub Poetry with Zymbol & Anthony Madrid
Location: The Pour House, facing Hynes Convention Center
Cost: Free
Drop by for a drink with the loveliest bunch of literary loons ever anthologized: Zymbol is celebrating the launch of its first issue at The Pour House, directly across from Hynes Convention Center. Serving up snacks, drinks, and Anthony Madrid, author of I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say, one of the most talked-about poetry books of 2012.

8:00 p.m.

Video Essay Screening
Location: LIR: 903 Boylston St
Cost: Free
Featuring work from Ander Monson, John Bresland, Nick Twemlow, Robyn Schiff, Kristen Radtke, Eric LeMay, and Thomas Larson, across the street from the conference center. Sponsored by Ninth Letter and Iron Horse Literary Review: free drinks!

9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Sonora Review Double Release Reading
Location: Dillon's Restaurant and Bar, 955 Boylston Street, Boston
Cost: Free
Join the Sonora Review as it celebrates the concurrent release of its 62nd and 63rd issues, featuring readings by contributors to both issues. Drinks and light refreshments available. Dillon's is located approximately one block from Hynes Convention Center.

10:00 p.m.

The Journal 40th Anniversary Reading
Location: Sheraton Boston Suite
Cost: Free
Please join us in celebrating 40 years of The Journal! Readings will feature our 2012 contest winners and the lineup includes Antonio Elefano, Lee Martin, Leslie Parry, Emilia Phillips, Suzanne Richardson, and Marcus Wicker. Doors open at 10pm--please arrive early, as free booze is limited!

10:00 p.m.

Literature Party
Location: Spontaneous Celebration (45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain, MA.)
Cost: Free
For the third year in a row, there will be a Literature Party at AWP. Sponsored by HTMLGiant and Submittable and Publishing Genius. Featuring: Sermon by SCOTT McCLANAHAN, Responsive reading by MELISSA BRODER, Special music by MIKE YOUNG, and the evil deeds of Boston's own THE GREAT BURIERS. This year it's free / Beers and wines for cheaps

Saturday

9:00 a.m.-Noon

Wilderness House Literary Review
Location: Au Bon Pain - Davis Sq. Somerville
Cost: free
This will be a rare get together for anyone interested in meeting other writers published in the Wilderness House Literary Review. Davis Sq. is on the Red Line subway, 2 stops north of Harvard Sq. Davis Sq. is the primary stop for Tufts University.

11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Fuck Poems anthology Wet Brunch
Location: Lir - 903 Boylston St
Cost: Free
Just in case you get bored--(is it possible?)--with panels and corduroy, come for early AM drinks and abandon at LIR in Boston. Join editor Vincent Cellucci and contributors for readings from this most irreverent anthology (Lavender Ink 2012).

1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

The Logic of Yoo
Location: Boston University's Playwright's Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue
Cost: Free
The Logic of Yoo, a staged reading, adapted from the chapbook by Michael Broek and published by Beloit Poetry Journal. Featuring Dwayne Betts, Michael Broek, Martha Collins, Fred Marchant, John Rosenwald, and Lee Sharkey. With a special introduction by Nick Flynn and featuring a discussion of social justice and poetry.

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Functionally Literate: a literary function
Location: Dillon's Restaurant & Bar, 955 Boylston Street
Cost: Free
Flesh from Florida. Orlando's quarterly readings series comes to Boston. Featuring readings by Erica Dawson, James Fleming, Juliana Gray, Nathan Holic, Jeff Parker & Don Peteroy. Presented by Burrow Press and hosted by Jared Silvia.

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Local Author Day!
Location: Barnes & Noble, 96 Derby St. Hingham, Ma 02043
Cost: Free
Authors: Laura Thibodeau Jones, Alison McLennan, William J. Craig and Karin J. Goldstein will do a brief reading and sign their books.

3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Some of So to Speak's Favorite Feminists
Location: Sonsie, 327 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02115
Cost: Free ninety nine
To celebrate our 21st year, So to Speak is hosting a reading featuring some of our favorite feminist writers: Danielle Pafunda, Lara Glenum, Julie Marie Wade, and Moira Egan. The reading will be held on Saturday from 3:00-6:00 PM at Sonsie, in the wine room, just a few blocks from the conference. Sonsie is located at 327 Newbury Street, between Hereford Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Come have a drink with us as AWP comes to a close, celebrate great feminist writing, and wish a lady a happy birthday.

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Celebrating Hugh Fox's Life and Work
Location: Bloc 11 Cafe, 11 Bow Street, Somerville, MA
Cost: Free
The 2013 edition of the Pushcart Anthology is dedicated to Hugh Fox (1932 -2011), who helped found the prize and start the COSMEP organization, and also published more than 60 of his own books of fiction, poetry, anthropology, and mythology, including a memoir, Way, Way Off the Road (Ibbetson Street Press, 2006). This event will feature poems and reminiscences by family, friends, and colleagues, including his widow, Bernadete Costa-Fox, vocal artist and poet Lo Galluccio, poet Leonora Smith (Michigan State University, and poet John Roche (Rochester Institute of Technology). Doug Holder, Editor of Ibbetson Street Press and Steve Glines, editor of Hugh's memoir, will read from it. John Gosslee, Editor of Fjord's Review, will read from Hugh's last interview and show clips of Hugh's final reading. Marc Vincenz, Editor of Mad Hat Press, will read from Hugh Fox's posthumous poetry collection Primate Fox. Food will be available at the Bloc 11 Cafe. http://bloc11.com/

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Naugatuck River Review Off-Site Reading
Location: LIR 903 Boylston St. Directly across from Hynes Center!
Cost: FREE
Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, presents readers from the Winter 2013 contest issue. Readers include: Doug Ramspeck (2nd prize winner), John Victor Anderson, Lauren Alleyne, Thomas R. Moore, Taylor Mali, Judith Waller Carroll, Mary Leonard, Lisa Wujnowich, Leona Sevick, Paul Hostovsky, Mary Dingee Fillmore, Elizabeth Cohen, Martin Ott, Joel Moskowitz and Margaret von Steinen. Lori Desrosiers will host. Food and drink available for purchase.

4:30 p.m.

Brookline Bookstore Reading Featuring Steve Almond, and friends
Location: 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Cost: FREE
Chicago's Curbside Splendor and Other Voices Books (OVB) present an intimate reading with the following fantastic authors at Boston's Brookline Booksmith: Steve Almond, Amber Sparks, Rob Roberge, Thea Goodman, Stephen Dau. Wine and other goodies will be served.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Black Radish Books and Dusie
Location: OUTPOST 186 , 186 1/2 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: Free
Launch reading and party for Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, & Songs for Children, ed., Dana Teen Lomax, featuring Cathy Park Hong readings by Dana Teen Lomax, Elise Ficarra, Elizabeth Treadwell, Evie Shockley, Jennifer Firestone, Jill Stengel, Joan Larkin, Marthe Reed, Sarah Anne Cox, Sarah Rosenthal, and Susana Gardner.

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Country Dog Poets: A Reading
Location: Dillon's, 955 Boylston St.
Cost: Free
The Country Dog Review presents 8 past contributors: Mary Biddinger, Joan Schadt Biddle, Greg Alan Brownderville, Lisa Fay Coutley, Nick McRae, Jessica Piazza, Heather Price, Natalie Shapero. Just a block from the Sheraton! Bring some friends, split a bottle of wine, and listen to the work of these fine poets. Cash bar/food.

5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Get LIT! II: There Can Only Be Fun
Location: Napoleon Room at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave
Cost: Free
Presented by the Mental Marginalia Reading Series and LIT Journal, Get LIT! returns to the AWP offsite circuit with triumphant fanfare. The readers: Ian Hatcher, Ed Steck, Lydia Melby, Claire Donato, Cara Benson, Maria Damon, Andrea Quaid, Ray DeJesús, Allison Power, Keara Driscoll, Michael Lala, Amy Lawless, Eric Conroe, Kevin Walter, Lauren Hunter, Christine Kanownik, Farrah Field, Alina Gregorian, The LIT editorial staff, The Committee for the Organization of Mental Marginalia

5:30 p.m.

Literary Firsts
Location: Middlesex Lounge
Cost: Free
Join us for a special installment of Cambridge's sexiest reading series! Readers include: James Tadd Adcox, Sam Cha, Melissa Febos, Elisa Gabbert, Robert Kloss, Vanessa Veselka, Adrian Todd Zuniga, and John Cotter as the confessional reader! Hosted by Carissa Halston.

6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

The Event II
Location: The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville, MA (Davis Square) - Accessible by subway on the Red Line (2 stops after Harvard)
Cost: Donation
Poets from the following presses will be reading: Highway 101, Furniture Press Books, Parlor, La Alameda, Apogee, Lunar Chandelier, Flim Forum, Fact-Simile, Stockport Flats, Instance/EtherDome, Propolis Press and Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. Readers: Elizabeth Savage, Melanie Noel, Kimberly Lyons, Andrew Schelling, Pattie McCarthy, Belinda Kremer, Matthew Klane, Adam Golaski, Jennifer Atkinson, Christopher Kondrich, Ethel Rackin. Elizabeth Robinson, Brian Teare, Travis Cebula, Deborah Poe, Cara Benson, Lynn Behrendt, and Joe Elliot.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Off-Site Outta Sight
Location: All Asia, 334 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: $6 for guests over 21; $10 for guests 18-21
Jacob A. Bennett hosts authors Meghan Guidry, Kimberly Hawlena, Amelia Bentley, and Nicolas Destino-Hiler, who will read from their respective work. On the backend, Boston-area stalwarts Hot Molasses hold down the rock'n'roll fort.

6:00 p.m.

Sober AWP 12 Step Meeting
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Plaza Level, Room 105
Cost: free
Daily 12 Step meetings for sober writers. Anyone in recovery from anything is welcome. For more info contact: soberawp@gmail.com

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

WordTech Poets Reading and Celebrating
Location: LIR, 903 Boylston Street, across the street from the Hynes Center
Cost: Free
WordTech poets from across the country will read their poems at this convenient spot. Come at six, so you won't miss it! Food and drink available for purchase. Host: Shelby Allen

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Writing and social action: Empowering a community of writers working with at-risk populations
Location: TBD
Cost: Free
Come network with your peers in community-participatory writing and learn about innovative work in educational arts outreach with groups marginalized due to issues of poverty, mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, and other social issues. We will discuss current efforts throughout the country and how to build and strengthen our network--hosted by Julie Batten, Nathaniel Mohatt, Terry Ann Thaxton, and Just Kibbe.

6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Authors from VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas Writing Communities Share Their Work
Location: Make Shift Boston 549 Columbus Ave. Boston, MA
Cost: Free
To celebrate community and the forthcoming VONA anthology, readings from Cynthia Oka, Minal Hajratwala, Andrea Walls, Camille Acker, Torrie Valentine, Jenn De Leon, Ching-In Chen, Anna Alves, Vanessa Martir, Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, Seve Torres, Tanya Perez-Brennan, Gail Dottin, Dionne Irving Bremyer, Buki Papillon, Sunita Dhurandhar, Odilia Galvan Rodriquez, Melissa Rae Sipin-Gabon. Sponsored by Thread Makes Blanket and Dinah Press.

7:00 p.m.

An evening with The Sun
Location: Brookline Booksmith
Cost: Free
Join Sy Safransky, founder and editor of The Sun magazine, along with contributors Andrew Boyd, Krista Bremer, and Marion Winik for a free reading at the Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St.). The reading begins at 7:00 pm.

7:00 p.m.

Clayton Jones and The Bucks with Poet John Gosslee
Location: Cantab Lounge
Cost: $5
Clayton Jones and The Bucks and Poet John Gosslee of the Fjords Review and Gosslee Books will perform in support of Jones's new album, Revolver and book of poetry, Steadily Fumbling Outwards. Members of Atlanta Hip-Hop band, Arrested Development, have joined The Bucks.

7:00 p.m.

Horse Less, Coconut, 1913, Lost Roads Reading
Location: The Distillery (516 East Second Street)
Cost: Free, BYOB
Readers include Stephanie Anderson, Kate Schapira, Daniela Olszewska, Aubrie Marrin, Jessica Baran, Jane Lewty, Nathaniel Otting, & more TBA. Event is wheelchair accessible & BYOB.

7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Kraken Reading Series Reading
Location: Lilypad
Cost: $0
The Kraken Reading Series, based in Denton, TX, is hosting a reading to celebrate the end of the 2013 AWP conference in Boston. The event is free.

7:00 p.m.

There's Still Good in You!
Location: Daisy Buchanan's: 240 A Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116
Cost: Free
Heavy Feather Review, Big Lucks, Magic Helicopter Press, and Factory Hollow Press present There's Still Good in You! an AWP 2013 offsite reading, featuring Jensen Beach, Gabriel Blackwell, Rachel B. Glaser, Evelyn Hampton, W. Todd Kaneko, Seth Landman, Jordaan Mason, Caryl Pagel, Adam Robinson, and Amber Sparks.

7:00 p.m.

Write Bloody Publishing - SUPER READING
Location: The Community Church of Boston (565 Boylston St.)
Cost: $7, $5 Students & Veterans
This all-star author line-up does live literature like no other press in the world. The show will feature Derrick Brown, Cristin O'Keefe-Aptowicz, Taylor Mali, Mindy Nettifee, Anis Mojgani, Jon Sands, Laura Yes Yes, and so many more.

7:30 p.m.
workshop

8:30 p.m. performance

Cambridge Writers' Workshop/ChagallPAC Soundpainting with poetry, music, and dance
Location: The Boston Conservatory Theater 31 Hemenway rm 401, Hynes Convention Center T Stop, Green Line
Cost: FREE
The Garden Hosts ChagallPAC for Soundpainting Workshops in movement and music. Workshops: 7PM Soundpainting with Dance, Music, and Performance Poetry. This free workshop will present Soundpainting, an art of live composition, where Dennis Shafer shows performers of all disciplines how to work together to make spontaneous compositions. These workshops will prepare participants to perform in a live composition show with poets from Cambridge Writers' Workshop later the same evening!
Performance: 8:30PM The Garden hosts Cambridge Writers' Workshop & ChagallPAC for an evening of poetry reading with interdisciplinary performance of poetry, music, and movement. Poetry performance intertwined with the live composing art of Soundpainting will feature poets Diana Norma Szokolyai and Rita Banerjee (CWW directors), and Soundpainter Dennis Shafer as well as Boston Conservatory students.

7:30 p.m.

The Future Now
Location: The Factory Theatre
Cost: $15
A triple bill featuring a performance lecture by visual artist Alexia Stamatiou; Fufu & Oreos, a solo show written and performed by Obehi Janice; Tryouts a new play by Adara Meyers and diirected by Cecelia Raker

8:00 p.m.

No, Dear Magazine
Location: Middle East (upstairs), 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free
No, Dear Magazine with featured readers: Darin Strauss (NYU), Colin Winette (NYU), Iris Cushing, and Levi Rubeck. 18+, 8pm doors, FREE

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Six Party Talk
Location: LIR, lower floor, 903 Boylston St
Cost: FREE
Hosted by: Forklift, Ohio, H_NGM_N, Slope Editions, Spinning Jenny, Typecast Publishing, and YesYes Books. With readings by Bob Hicok, Dean Young, Danniel Schoonebeek, Lily Ladewig, Jerriod Avant, Erin Keane, Caroline Cabrera, C. S. Carrier, Corey Zeller, Layne Ransom, Adrian Kien, and Crystal Curry.

8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Ahsahta Press & Penguin Poets
Location: Aviary Gallery, 48 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Cost: Free
Readers include Carrie Olivia Adams, Susan Briante, Amy Gerstler, Noah Eli Gordon, Kate Greenstreet, Joanna Klink, Adrian Matejka, Farid Matuk, Ethan Paquin, Elizabeth Robinson, William Stobb, and Jasmine Dreame Wagner.

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Waywiser Press poetry reading
Location: McGreevy's Bar, 911 Boylston Street, Downtairs Lounge, across the street from Hynes Convention Center
Cost: free
Waywiser poets David Ferry, Morri Creech, Carrie Jerrell, Mark Kraushaar, Dora Malech, Eric McHenry, and Matthew Thorburn read from their work.

9:00 p.m.-12:00 midnight

ALTERED EGOS: Stonecoast MFA Masquerade & Open Mic
Location:The Sheraton Stonecoast Suite # 2309
Cost: free
Stonecoast MFA presents ALTERED EGOS, a Masquerade Party and Open Mic, co-hosted by ELIZABETH SEARLE (Stonecoast Fiction faculty) and MIHKU PAUL(Stonecoast alum). Stonecoast students and alums will give 3-5 minute readings; come dressed as yourself or as a favorite literary character or persona.