2018 AWP Conference Schedule

Join AWP's literary community for the following offsite events, hosted throughout the Philadelphia area and virtually during our conference.

The organizers of these events have agreed to ensure that the offsite venues listed here are accessible according to the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

These events are not produced, moderated, or curated by AWP, and AWP is not responsible for their quality or accessibility services. We list these events as a courtesy to the literary field.

If you have any questions or concerns about specific offsite events, please contact the organizers of the event directly.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Chaya Bhuvaneswar Dzanc Books Prize Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Come to a reading at the best indie bookstore in Tampa on your first night of AWP. Get elephant shaped cookies and tattoos at a lively reading by Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Dzanc Books Short Story Collection prize recipient, for White Dancing Elephants: Stories! Come by and get advance review copies. Praise from Diana Abu-Jaber: "Full of dark music, nuance, and intelligence, White Dancing Elephants takes readers on a thrilling journey. In sharp takes, Chaya Bhuvaneswar unfolds the complexities of race and gender, tragedy and eros. This unforgettable collection will hold you captive till the last page."
Contact: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Contact Email: chayab77@gmail.com

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Sail Pavilion, 333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Station Hill 6:34 Reading to the Sun
Cost: Free
The first evening of AWP is usually in part committed to orienting: It occurred to us a good way of doing that would be getting together with poets to hear from each a single poem to the sun(set) and have a drink. Located on the harbor, the Sail Pavilion offers a superlative sunset prospect. We'll secure tables on the Riverwalk so it'll be quieter - for a more fluid sun-to-speech continuum. While there's a few set readers - among others Caroline Crumpacker, Michael Ruby and Marc Vincenz - there'll be an open signup sheet. We're convening at 5:30 but come when you can.
Contact: The Institute for Publishing Arts
Contact Email: samtruitt@stationhill.org
Organization: Station Hill Press
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Reservoir Bar, 1518 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

5th Annual Rock and Roll Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
A dozen writers — including Brandon Taylor, Daniel Nester, Kristen Arnett, and Megan Giddings — will read rock-and-roll-inspired work for three to four minutes each, the length of a song. Amy Silverberg will MC.
Contact: Dan Hoyt
Contact Email: danhoyt@ksu.edu

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Northwestern University MFA Faculty and Student Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join students, faculty, and friends of Northwestern University's graduate creative writing program for an informal and festive reading from new works of prose and poetry. Participants include faculty members Juan Martinez and Simone Muench, along with several current students and recent graduates of the program.
Contact: Amy Danzer and Christine Sneed
Contact Email: sneedchristine@gmail.com
Organization: Northwestern University MA/MFA in Creative WRiting
Organization URL: website

Spain Restaurant & Toma Bar, 513 Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Vermont College of Fine Arts Reception and Reading
Cost: Free
Please join VCFA alumni and faculty, including Brian Leung, Robin MacArthur and Lauren Markham, for a program reception and reading. All alumni and current students are invited to read! 6:00-6:30pm: Reception, Tapas and Cash Bar 6:30-8:00pm: Reading Everyone welcome!
Contact: Ann Cardinal
Contact Email: Ann.Cardinal@vcfa.edu
Organization: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Bunker, 1907 N 19th St, Ybor City, FL 33605

8x8: Readings and Workshop
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Great readings require great audiences, and at this event, we hope to have everyone sharing work. From 6:00-7:30, join eight poets for eight-minute readings. Readers include Ruth Awad, Katie Condon, Christopher Costabile, Kimberly Grey, Rosalie Moffett, Raena Shirali, Amie Whittemore, and Shelley Wong. Allison Pitinii Davis hosts. After, please join in an optional workshop where we’ll continue to share and discuss writing as a collective group. If you’d like, please bring a poem of 20 lines or less to share.
Contact: Allison Pitinii Davis and Christopher Costabile
Contact Email: adavi201@vols.utk.edu

Patio at Pach's Place, The Tahitian Inn, 601 S Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33609

Tiferet Journal Author Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Featured readers include: Gayle Brandeis, Dawn Raffel, Donna Baier Stein, Yehoshua November, Rachel Warecki, Amy Shimshon-Santo, Rebecca Kuder, Terri Fuller, Courtney Harler, Suzanne Roberts, Ava Leavell Harmon, Daniel Tobin, and Tracy Brooks.
Contact: Gayle Brandeis
Contact Email: editors@tiferetjournal.com
Organization: TIFERET Journal
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 400 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Tupelo Press 30/30 Reunion Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
We're excited to host our second annual reunion reading for alumni of our Tupelo Press 30/30 Project! Please join us for the reading and learn about our project! Selected alumni read (names are listed on our Facebook event page) and all alumni are invited to meet and sell their books at a table afterward. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!
Contact: Kirsten Miles
Contact Email: kmiles@tupelopress.org
Organization: Tupelo Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

The Fountain, 238 E Davis Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

Monster Mags of the Midwest
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for a reading at Fountain Mediterranean & Sushi Bistro (featuring "the best of the 14 countries on the Mediterranean Sea") to celebrate writers who have been published in these midwestern monster mags: The Journal, The Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, and The Cincinnati Review. Readers (so far) include: Traci Brimhall, Shara Lessley, Kimberly King Parsons, Hanif Abdurraqib, and John Nieves.
Contact: The Journal
Contact Email: managingeditor@thejournalmag.org
Organization: The Journal, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Connie May Fowler Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Award-winning author and Florida native Connie May Fowler will read from her recently published memoir, A Million Fragile Bones, at Inkwood Books, Tampa's number one independent bookstore.
Contact: Inkwood Books
Contact Email: inkwoodbooks@gmail.com

The Sail Pavilion, 333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

MFA Student Lit Mag Editors Networking Event
Cost: Free
Florida Atlantic University's Swamp Ape Review and Florida International University's Gulf Stream Magazine cordially invite all MFA students involved in their programs' literary magazines to join us to meet and hang out – uh, we mean, network.
Contact: Emily Donovan
Contact Email: edonovan2017@fau.edu
Organization: Swamp Ape Review & Gulf Stream Magazine
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Jet City Espresso Seminole Heights, 5803 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33604

Tupelo Quarterly Reading and Party
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
We're excited to celebrate Tupelo Quarterly and honor our contributors. Please join us for a reading and party in Tampa. Featured readers will include: Mary Jo Bang, Jennifer Moore, Darcie Dennigan, Anne Champion, Denise Duhamel, Michael Martone, Shane McCrae, Henk Roussouw, and Tyler Mills. Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!
Contact: Kristina Marie Darling
Contact Email: kristina.marie.darling@gmail.com
Organization: Tupelo Quarterly
Organization URL: website

Daniel A. Cannon Memorial Library, Saint Leo University, 33701 State Road 52, Saint Leo, FL 33574

A Reading by Jessie van Eerden
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Jessie van Eerden will read from The Long Weeping (2017), a collection of portrait essays! A Q & A will follow directly after the reading. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Carol Ann Moon - email: carol.moon@saintleo.edu or phone: 352-588-8261. (Driving from the North or the South: Take I-75 to Exit 285. Head east on Highway 52 for about 4 miles. Saint Leo University will be on your left, across the street from the Abbey Golf Course. Follow signs to the Library, toward the lake.)
Contact: Carol Ann Moon
Contact Email: carol.moon@saintleo.edu
Organization: The Daniel A. Cannon Memorial Library (Saint Leo Univeristy)
Organization URL: website

Tampa Bay History Center, 801 Old Water St, Tampa, FL 33602

Centenarian Vision
Cost: Suggested $5 Donation
Event URL: website
The integration of our worlds, our life rhythms and pulses, is chaotic, violent, emergent, and constantly forming. How do writers in 2018 see through a century? Tampa Bay and San Francisco Bay authors from Keep St Pete Lit and Kelsey Street Press investigate how current realities play on the interpretation of 100 year old photographs from these 2 port town sites of immigration and industry. We hope to engage reflections on the effects of time on memory, to question the notion of history as an event in the past, and to comment on resonances between the US coastal boundaries 100 years ago.
Contact: Sabrina Dalla Valle
Contact Email: lotuswoman04@yahoo.com
Organization: Keep St Pete Lit
Organization URL: website

Gaspar’s Grotto, 1805 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Waxwing, Newfound, Salt Hill - Offsite Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Kick off your AWP with readings by authors published in Waxwing, Newfound, and Salt Hill Journal. The reading is at a pirate-themed bar/restaurant. Readers include Vievee Francis, C. Dale Young, Aviya Kushner, Nico Amador, Lucian Mattison, and more (see FB event page). The first 50 guests get a free drink. Argh.
Contact: Erin Stalcup, Justin Lightfoot Bigos, Todd Kaneko,
Contact Email: editor@newfound.org
Organization: Waxwing, Newfound, Salt Hill
Organization URL: website

Aloft Tampa Downtown, Tactic Meeting Room, 100 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33602

Plume Poetry Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Plume Poetry Reading Celebrating the launch of The Plume Poetry Anthology 6 Featuring the following readers: J. Allyn Rosser, Bruce Smith, Patricia Clark, Peter Cooley, Nicole Cooley, Daniel Tobin, Carrie Etter, Alice Friman, Steve Kronen, Michelle Bitting, Robin Behn, Bruce Bond, Angela Ball, and Leeya Mehta.
Contact: MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Contact Email: marc.l.vincenz@gmail.com
Organization: MadHat Press
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

University of South Florida Traditions Hall, Gibbons Alumni Center, 11810 USF Alumni Drive, Tampa, F

Cave Canem's Annual Fellows Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for Cave Canem’s annual offsite Fellows Reading, hosted by the University of South Florida’s Institute on Black Life and headlined by current and former Florida residents Yolanda Franklin, Natalie Graham, Breauna Larease, Jonathan Moody and Lolita White. Other Cave Canem poets will share innovative work in four-minute, rapid-fire intervals. Former Tampa resident Derrick Lynn Austin, recipient of the A. Poulin, Jr. Award for his debut collection, Trouble the Water, will emcee.
Contact: Nicole Sealey
Contact Email: nsealey@ccpoets.org
Organization: Cave Canem Foundation
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Franklin Manor, 912 Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Rutgers-Newark MFA Mixer and Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for a casual evening celebration and reading of fiction and poetry by students and alumni of the Rutgers University, Newark MFA program. We encourage potential applicants to come learn more about our program. All welcome.
Contact: Ananda Lima and Andy Gallagher
Contact Email: ananda.lima@gmail.com
Organization: Rutgers University, Newark MFA
Organization URL: website

8:30 pm

The Attic, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Suite 400, Tampa, Florida 33602

2018 Women's Caucus Reading in Tampa
Cost: Free; $10 suggested donation
Event URL: website
This year, set the bar high. Start AWP off right with the 2018 Women's Caucus Reading at AWP Tampa featuring Rita Dove, Leni Zumas, Natalia Sylvester, and Fatimah Asghar. Co-sponsored by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and Little A. Co-hosted by Women's Caucus VPs Hafizah Geter and Melissa Studdard. Open bar while supplies last *Free book with donation while supplies last, courtesy of Little A $10 Suggested donation to support VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
Contact: Hafizah Geter
Contact Email: haf.geter@gmail.com

9:00 pm to 10:30 pm

The Retreat, 123 S Hyde Park Ave, Tampa, FL 33606

Dive Stories at The Retreat
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Bridge Eight Press and Flock Literary Journal are proud to present Dive Stories— a kick-off event of quick, 3-5 minute stories and poems! This cross-genre sampler of works will flow in step with The Retreat's dive bar atmosphere. Over 10 authors will share their work in under 1 hour and after, we drink and hang as friends. RSVP on Facebook to be the first to get updates about authors and maybe some other cool things.
Contact: April Gray Wilder
Contact Email: editor@flocklit.com
Organization: Bridge Eight Press and Flock Literary Journal

Thursday, March 8, 2018

12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 North Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

New Writing From Atlanta!
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
A group reading featuring a variety of writers who call Atlanta their home: Regina Bradley, Molly Brodak, Anne Corbitt, Anthony Grooms, Valerie Smith, Kelsey Medlin, Anna Schachner, Sheila Smith McKoy, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Gray Stewart, and Ralph Wilson. Bring a brown bag and enjoy!
Contact: Tony Grooms
Contact Email: tgrooms@kennesaw.edu
Organization: MA in Professional Writing Kennesaw State University
Organization URL: website

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, 310 N Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

University of Tampa Low-Res MFA and Volt Books Cover Stories Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Jeff Parker, Terese Svoboda, Derek Nikitas, and Jane Dykema will read from Cover Stories, an anthology of reimaginings of classic short stories. The event is hosted by the University of Tampa Low Res MFA and Volt Books.
Contact: Stefan Kiesbye
Contact Email: skiesbye@gmail.com
Organization: University of Tampa Low-Res MFA
Organization URL: website

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL, 33602

Naugatuck River Review 10th Anniversary Reading!
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Naugatuck River Review is a print journal of narrative poetry with a yearly contest. This year's contest judge was Kaveh Akbar. Readers are from the past two issue, featuring 2017 contest winner Destiny Birdsong, 2017 finalist MB McLatchey, and 2018 finalists Robbie Gamble and Terry Blackhawk. Jane Rosenberg LaForge (Finalist 2012) will also be joining us. NRR editors Lori Desrosiers and Michael Mercurio will also read from their work.
Contact: Lori Desrosiers
Contact Email: naugatuckriver@aol.com
Organization: Naugatuck River Review
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Haunted Poetry, Writing the Ephemeral
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
There is a real difference in being haunted and trying to be haunted, as Emily Dickinson pointed out. What is self-conscious and what is real? What are the poems that happen after the Beloved dies? How does “haunting” allow us to approach the experience of a female embodied subject position in twentieth and twenty-first century American society? We may also make reference to the notion of the uncanny and the return of the repressed. Explore the unsaid in women's poetics. Poets presenting include: Lori Desrosiers, Issa Lewis, Christina Lovin, and Leslie Adrienne Miller.
Contact: Lori Desrosiers
Contact Email: thepoetrynews@gmail.com

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Black Earth Institute Reading
Cost: Free
The Black Earth Institute is a community of artists and scholars creating a more ethical world. BEI will sponsor a reading of its fellows and friends in the late afternoon from 4 PM-6 PM at the Attic on Kennedy. Readers include fellows Ann Fisher-Wirth, Patricia Spears Jones, Taylor Brorby, Melissa Tuckey, and Lauren Camp. Others will join us. Refreshments and beverages will be available.
Contact: Michael McDermott
Contact Email: mmcdermott75@outlook.com
Organization: Black Earth Institute
Organization URL: website

The Bad Monkey, 1717 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

This is Paradise: A Reading With Duane Locke and Las Vegas Writers
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for happy hour and a picnic under the trees! We will hear voices of resistance and rage, queerness and quietude, exuberant joy. Come celebrate the word with writers from UNLV’s MFA program and the legendary poet, Duane Locke (who, with over 6000 published poems, may be America’s most prolific living poet). We'll be on the back patio. Free sandwiches and half priced drinks!
Contact: Shannon Salter and Kayla Miller
Contact Email: shannon.salter@gmail.com

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

CAVU, 1601 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Finishing Each Other's Sentences: A Reading of Collaborators
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us post-panel, post-bookfair, and pre-dinner for a reading featuring collaborative writers, including Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich, Naadeyah Haseeb, Kelly Magee and Carol Guess, Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross, Aimee Parkison, and Joanna C. Valente. The reading will be followed by a brief Q&A and other fun, collaborative magic TBA.
Contact: Dana Diehl
Contact Email: michellenicolross@gmail.com

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Gaspar's Grotto, 1805 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

TN in Tampa: Off-Site Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
TN in Tampa is an off-site reading co-hosted by Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Nashville Review, and Zone 3 Journal & Press. Located at Gaspar's Grotto, the reading will feature recent contributors from all three publications.
Contact: Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Nashville R
Contact Email: gristeditors@gmail.com
Organization: Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Nashville Review, Zone 3 Press
Organization URL: website

Fly Bar & Restaurant, 1202 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Sundress/Flaming Giblet/Hyacinth Girl/Shelterbelt Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join Sundress Publications, Flaming Giblet Press, Hyacinth Girl Press, and Shelterbelt Press for an offsite reading and author celebration! This year's featured readers include Eloisa Amezcua, Liz Bowen, Sarah Chavez, Stephanie Dugger, J Bruce Fuller, Steven Sanchez, Danielle Sellers, MR Sheffield, Kimberly Ann Southwick, and James Warner.
Contact: T.A. Noonan
Contact Email: tiffany@sundresspublications.com

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

c.1949, 6905 N Orleans Ave, Tampa, FL 33604

Barrels Grimly Crashing into the Sun
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join Always Crashing, Barrelhouse, Grimoire, and Vestiges / Black Sun Lit at c.1949 Florida Beer Garden at 5pm on Thursday, March 8th for beer, readings, and a generally lovely time. Readers include: Elise Blackwell Gabriel Blackwell Dan Brady Emily Corwin Andy Farkas Erin Fleming Virginia Konchan Evan Lavender-Smith Michael Martone Vi Khi Nao Chris Tonelli
Contact: Always Crashing Magazine
Contact Email: alwayscrashingmag@gmail.com
Organization: Always Crashing Magazine
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Victory Coffee, 101 N 12th Street, Unit 101, Tampa, FL 33602

New from ASU: Arizona State MFA Alumni Read from New Books
Cost: Free
Alumni from the MFA program at Arizona State University will read from recently published books from 5-7 pm on Thursday, March 8th at Victory Coffee. Come out to hear from Kathleen Winter (I Will Not Kick My Friends, Elixir Press), Bojan Lewis (Currents, BkMk Press), Elizabyth Hiscox (Reassurance in Negative Space, Able Muse Press), Venita Blackburn (Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, University of Nebraska Press), Katie Cortese (Make Way for Her and Other Stories, University Press of Kentucky), Marian Crotty (What Counts as Love, University of Iowa Press), and more!
Contact: Jenny Irish
Contact Email: jennifer.irish@asu.edu
Organization: Arizona State University MFA Program
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Florida Writers
Cost: Free
Join us at Inkwood, Tampa's legendary independent bookstore now at a new location, to hear poetry and fiction by Florida writers Peter Meinke, Michael Hettich, Polly Buckingham, Lisa Birnbaum, and Greg Byrd.
Contact: Lisa Birnbaum
Contact Email: lbirnbaum@ut.edu

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Bay Harbor Hotel, 7700 Courtney Campbell Causeway, Tampa, FL 33607

Free Verse Editions Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Free Verse Editions is happy to sponsor an off-site reading that will feature a brilliant array of poetic talent by Bruce Bond, Matthew Cooperman, Allison Funk, Elizabeth Jacobson, L.S. Klatt, Brittany Perham, Donald Platt, Cole Swensen, Jon Thompson, and Felicia Zamora. Attendance is free and open to the public. The Bay Harbor Hotel will provide a striking backdrop on the water for the diverse talents represented by these Free Verse Editions authors.
Contact: Jon Thompson
Contact Email: jon_thompson@ncsu.edu
Organization: Free Verse Editions
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Splitsville, 615 Channelside Dr, Suite 120, Tampa, FL 33602

Five Oaks Press Poetry and Pool Party
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Free sushi and the first 25 people at our reading get a free drink (domestic draft, bottle beer, house wine, or well liquor). Come listen to a line-up of our authors read from their works (reading starts at 6 PM). We will be set up in the dining room of the Splitsville Bowling Alley located in the Channelside Bay Plaza. Featured authors include Emari DiGiorgio, Julie Hensley, Brendan Walsh, and others (TBA)!
Contact: Lynn Houston
Contact Email: editor@five-oaks-press.com
Organization: Five Oaks Press

Pokey's Rock & Rolls, 100 E Madison St, Tampa, FL 33602

Nasty Women Poets Anthology Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Come meet and mingle with contributors to Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017) and hear them read their nasty anthology poems. Hosted by co-editors Grace Bauer and Julie Kane. There will be a signup sheet on location for all contributors who want to read. Food and drink available. Located just 0.5 mile from the Convention Center.
Contact: Julie Kane and Grace Bauer
Contact Email: julkane@hotmail.com

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 400 N Ashley Drive, Cube 200, Tampa, Florida 33602

Submerging Writer Fellowship Book Launch Party
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for a celebration of the 2017 Submerging Writer Fellowship winner and finalists. The winner of the 2017 Submerging Writer Fellowship is Angelica Maria Barraza. Her chapbook will be available at the event and she'll be reading from her work. Our three finalists--Katie Burgess, Verna Zafra-Kasala, and Melissa Dias-Mandoly--will also read from their work.
Contact: Erin Dorney & Tyler Barton
Contact Email: fearnolit@gmail.com
Organization: Fear No Lit
Organization URL: website

Irish 31 Pub House & Eatery, 1611 W Swann Ave, Tampa, FL, 33606

WTAW Press Presents
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
WTAW Press & Why There Are Words are proud to present readings from Michael Collins (Appearances), Louise Marburg (The Truth About Me: Stories), Angela Mitchell (Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories), Tanya Perkins (People Are Naturally Attracted to You), & Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater: A Novel) with Peg Alford Pursell (Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow). Irish 31-"The People's Pub"-offers a full menu of cocktails & adult beverages, traditional Irish food, vegetarian options, Southern favorites, and classic comfort foods.
Contact: Peg Alford Pursell
Contact Email: wtawpress@gmail.com
Organization: WTAW Press & Why There Are Words
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:15 pm

Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, R.K. Bailey Arts Studio, 310 N Boulevard, Tampa FL 33606

University of Tampa Presents Brock Clarke and Patricia Smith: A Reading
Cost: Free
The University of Tampa's Low-Residency MFA presents a reading by Brock Clarke and Patricia Smith. Clarke is the author of multiple novels and story collections, including The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and Exley. Smith's recent poetry collections include Incendiary Art and Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, on UT's historical campus, is located downtown, just a short walk from the Convention Center. A book-signing will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Erica Dawson
Contact Email: edawson@ut.edu
Organization: The University of Tampa Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Bat City Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, & Subtropics reading
Cost: Free
Friends, fans, family, & strangers! Join us for a celebration of work from Sam Sax, Mary Jo Bang, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Erin Adair-Hodges, & more! We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll drink, we'll eat, we'll be merry. The first round is on us! Hope to see you there.
Contact: Eriel Fauser
Contact Email: marketing@batcityreview.org
Organization: Bat City Review
Organization URL: website

Felicitous Coffee Shop, 14204 N 42nd St, Tampa, FL 33549

Moon City Press Reading
Cost: Free
A reading featuring Moon City Press authors Kerri French (author of Every Room in the Body, winner of the 2016 MCP Poetry Award), Kim Magowan (author of Undoing, winner of the 2017 MCP Short Fiction Award), Michelle Ross (author of There's So Much They Haven't Told You, winner of the 2016 MCP Short Fiction Award), and Travis Mossotti (author of My Life as an Island, winner of the 2012 MCP Blue Moon Chapbook Prize).
Contact: Michelle Ross
Contact Email: michellenicolross@gmail.com
Organization: Moon City Press
Organization URL: website

Chez Faby, 500 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

A Reading from Gold Wake & University of Akron Press
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
We are so excited that University of Akron Press and Gold Wake Press will be teaming up this year to bring you a lineup of 12 writers. The venue---Chez Faby---is great, and we'll look forward to seeing you there! Aimée Baker Anne Barngrover Justin Bigos Nick Courtright Eileen G'Sell Matthew Guenette Kyle McCord Jennifer Moore Emilia Phillips Glenn Shaheen Sandra Simonds Erin Stalcup
Contact: Nick Courtright, Kyle McCord, Mary Biddinger, Amy
Contact Email: nmcourtright@gmail.com
Organization: Gold Wake Press & University of Akron Press
Organization URL: website

Spain Restaurant and Toma Bar, 513 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Thursday Thursday Thursday: A Reading
Event URL: website
Join us for a reading hosted by Switchback Books, Black Ocean, Saturnalia Books, Brooklyn Arts Press, Augury Books, and Bull City Press! Readers include Libby Burton, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Joe Hall, Stefania Heim, S. Whitney Holmes, Chloe Honum, Randall Horton, Jason Koo, Shayla Lawson, Peggy Munson, and Kathleen Rooney.
Contact: Alyse Knorr
Contact Email: editors@switchbackbooks.com

6:30 pm

Fancy Free Nursery, 1502 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

All-Star Book Release Reading with Copper Canyon Press!
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Raise a glass with this all-star lineup and their new poetry books! Wine and snacks will be served. Readers include Tyree Dave (River Hymns), Jenny George (The Dream of Reason), Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Oceanic), Lisa Olstein (Late Empire), Melissa Stein (Terrible blooms), and Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied).
Contact: Elaina Ellis
Contact Email: elaina@coppercanyonpress.org
Organization: Copper Canyon Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Oxford Exchange, 420 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Sweet, Diagram, & Saw Palm Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for a reading celebrating the work of Maggie Smith, Dinty W. Moore, Claire Wahmanholm, Chantel Acevedo, and Tim Seibles. We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact: Annalise Mabe
Contact Email: annalisemabe@mail.usf.edu
Organization: Sweet: A Literary Confection
Organization URL: website

Blind Tiger Cafe, 1901 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Spalding Low-Res MFA Gathering & Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
You’re invited to a Spalding MFA gathering & reading! Readings by Kathleen Driskell, K.L. Cook, Kiki Petrosino, Nancy Chen Long, Cole Bellamy, and Leah Henderson, plus time to catch up with friends. The event is free, ticketless, and open to all. Snacks and a drink on us! Nearby restaurants and bars abound for dinner afterward. Board the TECO Line streetcar outside the Convention Center. From the Ybor City Centennial Park stop, it’s a 2-minute walk to the Blind Tiger at the corner of 7th Avenue and 19th Street. Spalding MFA: Flexible. Affordable. International. Cross-genre.
Contact: Katy Yocom
Contact Email: kyocom@spalding.edu
Organization: Spalding's low-residency MFA in Writing Program
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Bamboozle Tea Lounge - Channel Side, 109 N 12th St, Tampa, FL 33602

Grey Book Press / Anhinga Press Offsite Poetry Reading
Cost: Free
This poetry reading features five readers each from Grey Book Press and Anhinga Press. Confirmed readers include: E. Kristin Anderson (GBP), Robin Beth Schaer (Anhinga), Ann Dernier (GBP), Yolanda J. Franklin (Anhinga), Kelle Groom (Anhinga), Hauntie (Anhinga), Gerry LaFemina (Anhinga), and Candice Wuehle (GBP).
Contact: Scott Sweeney, Kristine Snodgrass
Contact Email: kristine.snodgrass@gmail.com
Organization: Grey Book Press / Anhinga Press
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Red Hen Press Poetry Reading at Inkwood Books
Cost: Free
Featuring poets Peggy Shumaker, Davis Mason, John Barr, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, and Maurya Simon reading from their new collections.
Contact: Red Hen Press
Contact Email: publicity@redhen.org
Organization: Red Hen Press
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Lector Social Club: A Literary Wine Bar, 2307 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Saint Julian Press Poetry Event
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Saint Julian Press Poets, Family and Friends Poetry Reading including Aliki Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone, Elaine Fletcher Chapman, Elizabeth Cohen and others to be added.
Contact: Ron Starbuck, Publisher
Contact Email: elaine.fletcherchapman@gmail.com
Organization: Saint Julian Press
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:45 pm

Rialto Theatre Gallery, 1617 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Wide Receivers: A Reading of Poetry in Translation by Action Books and Friends
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
An offsite-AWP reading of poetry in translation translation hosted by Action Books & friends, featuring Don Mee Choi, Valerie Mejer Caso, Michelle Gil-Montero, Anna Deeny, Katherine Hedeen, Joahannes Goransson, & more.
Contact: Action Books
Contact Email: actionbooks2017@gmail.com
Organization: Action Books / LTI Korea
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Tampa Club, Rotunda Room, 101 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Terrapin Books Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Susanna Lang, Hayden Saunier, Karen Paul Holmes, and Geraldine Connolly will read from their new poetry books. Followed by a group reading from The Book of Donuts: Lynn Domina, Emily Rose Cole, Patricia Clark, Anne Harding Woodworth, Cal Freeman, Elizabeth O'Brien. Tina Kelley, Mira Rosenthal, Faisal Mohyuddin, Michael Northen. Complimentary Snacks, Cash Bar.
Contact: Diane Lockward
Contact Email: dslockward@gmail.com
Organization: Terrapin Books
Organization URL: website

Foundation Coffee, 1607 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

FC2 Flash Reading
Cost: Free
Please join us at Foundation Coffee for an evening of fiction, refreshments, and innovation. The event will feature flash readings by recently published authors of Fiction Collective Two. Featured readers include Aimee Parkison, Sarah Blackman, Vi Khi Nao, Michael Mejía, Jennifer Natalia Fink, Steve Tomasula, and more!
Contact: Rachel Levy
Contact Email: rjennifer.levy@gmail.com
Organization: Fiction Collective Two
Organization URL: website

Four Green Fields, 205 W Platt St, Tampa, FL 33606

The Southeast Review, Indiana Review, and The McNeese Review Reading
Cost: Free
Join The Southeast Review, Indiana Review, and The McNeese Review for a vibrant reading of poetry and prose at America's only thatched roof pub. Featuring contributors from all three journals, including: Roger Reeves, Tiana Clark, Amy Meng, Michael Torres, Shelley Wong, Brenda Peynado, and Aria Curtis.
Contact: Tessa Yang
Contact Email: inreview@indiana.edu
Organization: The Southeast Review, Indiana Review, The McNeese Review

5 Star Dive Bar, 1811 N 15th St, Tampa, FL 33605

Strange Theater: A Menagerie of Fabulists
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for a lively reading by writers who call the weird, magical, and surreal their stomping grounds. A magical raffle will be had and some books will be available for purchase. The pod: Anne Valente, Daniel Hoyt, Adrienne Celt, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Tessa Mellas, Jason Teal, Dana Diehl, Melissa Goodrich, Anca Szilagyi
Contact: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Contact Email: nagama1@stolaf.edu

Aloft Tampa Downtown, Tactic Meeting Room, 100 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33602

MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
MadHat Press and Plume Poetry present MadHat Press, Plume Editions and Plume Poetry authors for an evening of readings and literary madness. Featuring the following authors: Marilyn Kallet, Joyce Peseroff, Marc Vincenz, Philip Fried, Carol Moldaw, Kristina Bicher, Dzvinia Orlwosky, Danielle Blau, Adam Tavel, DeWitt Henry, Nancy Mitchell, Michael Anania, Terese Svoboda, and FJ Bergmann.
Contact: MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Contact Email: marc.l.vincenz@gmail.com
Organization: MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

The Hideaway, 1120 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

Defending Home: An Eco-Inclusive Reading
Cost: Free
Hear from a wide selection of poets and writers whose work deals with environmental themes, as well as Tampa locals involved in environmental advocacy. Readers include Shamala Gallagher, Nathan David Gehoski, Ben Rutherfurd, and Nathan Dixon.
Contact: Aviva Kasowski
Contact Email: aviva.kasowski@gmail.com

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Taps Restaurant Bar & Lounge, 777 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Measure Press Reading
Cost: Free
Join us for an evening of readings by Measure Press poets.
Contact: Paul Bone
Contact Email: pb28@evansville.edu
Organization: Measure Press
Organization URL: website

Creative Loafing, 1911 N 13th St, Ste W200, Ybor City, FL 33605

Indolent Books Launch & Celebration
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join Indolent Books as we celebrate the debut of TWELVE NEW TITLES by Lisa Andrews, Nicole Callihan, John Deming, James Diaz, Logan February, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Karen Hildebrand, Samar Abdel Jaber, J.G. McClure, Dante Micheaux, Laura Winberry, Stephen Zerance, and the 73 contributors to Poems in the Aftermath: An Anthology from the 2016 Presidential Transition Period. We will have readings, food, drink, music, and dancing—over and over and over again! But fear not—their will be world enough and time set aside for indolence too. What's a party without some slacker sleeping in a hammock?
Contact: Indolent Books
Contact Email: michael@indolentbooks.com
Organization: Indolent Arts Foundation, Inc.
Organization URL: website

4611 W Kensington Ave, Tampa, FL 33629

Sierra Nevada College and Guernica Magazine present: The Kiss - Intimacies for Writers
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
A celebration of The Kiss - Intimacies from Writers, Edited by Brian Turner. Food, drinks, readings from the anthology from writers including Nick Flynn, Camille Dungy, Tea Obreht & Dan Sheehan, Patricia Smith, Nickole Brown, Major Jackson, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, & John Schafer--the music from Pressurewave adding to the celebration! The Kiss: A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems, and graphic memoir, where writers explore the deeply human act of kissing.
Contact: Sophie Cherry
Contact Email: scherry@sierranevada.edu
Organization: Sierra Nevada College
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Waterside Grill, Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina, 700 S Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Queer Mixer!
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Okay Queers, here it is. The wait it over. Lambda Literary and the LGBTQ Writers Caucus will host yet another fantastic gathering of queer creatives and queer word lovers! You know how we do. So come take shade from the shade and catch up with all your nearest and queerest before conference chaos has us running from panel to panel. Queer Mixer! takes place directly AFTER the LGBTQ Caucus Meeting. Shall we go to the caucus meeting for business, then go to the mixer for some biznass? Oh yes, let's shall. We're also working on some sweet surprises. Watch our event URL for more info! #AWPLBGTQ
Contact: LGBTQ Writers Caucus
Contact Email: lgbtq.writers.caucus@gmail.com
Organization: Lambda Literary
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Bad Monkey in Ybor City, 1717 E 7th Ave. Tampa, FL 33605

Ahsahta Press Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Ahsahta Press and friends reading from their poetry. Lauren Russell, Julie Carr, Sasha Steensen, Jen Hyde, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and others help the press celebrate its 43rd year on the all-accessible bar patio at the Bad Monkey. Join us!
Contact: Janet Holmes
Contact Email: holmes.janet@gmail.com
Organization: Ahsahta Press
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Jet City Espresso & Wine Café, Seminole Heights, 5803 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33604

Wine & Words (Alternating Current) Offsite Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Offsite reading event, sponsored by Alternating Current Press. Featuring: Alexander Chee, Paul Lisicky, Jared Yates Sexton, Rion Amilcar Scott, Steph Post, Ruth Awad, Eric Shonkwiler, and Tabitha Blankenbiller. Free event, and we’ll have free swag and a free raffle to win autographed books and prizes throughout the night. Readers will sign. Specialty coffees, craft beer, wine, champagne, homemade sangria, smoothies, food, and snacks for purchase. Gluten-free and Paleo options. Facility is disability-friendly and all-ages.
Contact: Leah Angstman
Contact Email: alt.current@gmail.com
Organization: Alternating Current Press
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Anise Global Gastrobar, 777 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Live From the Mothership, presented by Argos Books & Mind the Bird Media
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Thursday, March 8 at 8pm, Argos Books and Mind the Bird Media present Live From the Mothership, a collection of Argos Books poets and special guests reading work that celebrates the personal, the political, and the pop-cultural; the strange, the wonderful, and the weird. Readings and astral projections from Argos Books poets Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, and Samantha Zighelboim, along with Megan Levad (Tavern Books), and Shayla Lawson (Saturnalia). Hosted by Iris Cushing.
Contact: Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Contact Email: elizabeth.clarkwessel@gmail.com
Organization: Argos Books
Organization URL: website

8:30 pm to 11:30 pm

The Attic, 1510 E 8th St, Tampa, FL 33605

Poetry and Jazz
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
An eclectic night of poetry from Edgar Kunz, Tiana Clark, Ciona Rouse, Eileen Rush, Ashley Keyser, and Lizabeth Yandel. The venue has a full bar and is located upstairs from Rock Brother's Brewing Co., just 2 miles from the Tampa Convention Center in the Historic Ybor neighborhood. Live original Jazz will wrap up the night. Come through!
Contact: Lisabeth Yandel
Contact Email: lisabeth.yandel@gmail.com

9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Oxford Exchange, 420 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

National Poetry Series Winners Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for a reading and celebration of the 2016 National Poetry Series Winners: William Brewer, Sasha Pimentel, Jeffery Schultz, Sam Sax, and Chelsea Dingman. As described by the Library Journal, these writers explore personal anguish and social issues in their poems.
Contact: Allyson Hoffman & Chelsea Dingman
Contact Email: aihoffman@mail.usf.edu
Organization: University of South Florida MFA
Organization URL: website

Rialto Theatre, 1617 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

PANK x Prelude x Yemassee
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Y'all are cordially invited to join PANK, Prelude, and Yemassee at the Rialto Theatre, a blue-doored, historic theatre, for an event that will surely warm your innards & fill you with glittering. We'll listen to gorgeous words, drink deeply, and cavort in the theatre's original stage space, a thing of incredible beauty. Our readers include Trace DePass, Maya Sonenberg, Laura Buccieri, Lindsay Turner, Jason Koo, Aaron Belz, Montreux Rotholtz, Taneum Bambrick, and DM Aderibigbe. There will be snacks and liquid refreshments!
Contact: Charlie Martin
Contact Email: editor@yemasseejournal.com

The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Suite 400, Tampa, FL 33602

SWWIM Rises Up
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
SWWIM Every Day joins the Rise Up Review for a reading that will break glass ceilings and light up the night. Hear poems of protest and rage, poems that push against social norms, poems that celebrate our small and great joys and mourn our torments, poems that are necessary for living in these difficult times. Readers include M.B. McLatchey, Jenny Molberg, and Caridad Moro-Gronlier. Hosted by Sonia Greenfield, founder/editor of the Rise Up Review (www.riseupreview.com), and Catherine Esposito Prescott and Jen Karetnick. co-founders/co-editors of SWWIM Every Day (www.swwim.org).
Contact: Jen Karetnick
Contact Email: Kavetchnik@aol.com
Organization: SWWIM Every Day and Rise Up Review
Organization URL: website

Friday, March 9, 2018

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Two Year College Caucus Reading
Cost: Free
Open mic for two-year college caucus members. New and established members welcome!!
Contact: Mary Lannon, caucus vice president-east
Contact Email: mary.lannon@ncc.edu
Organization: Two Year College Caucus
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Greatroom Bar, Marriott Waterside Hotel, 700 S Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Happy Hour with the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program
The University of Houston invites prospective candidates and applicants to stop by for a meet-and-greet with Creative Writing Program directors, faculty, and current students. Alumni welcome!
Contact: Giuseppe Taurino
Contact Email: gtaurino@uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston's Creative Writing Program
Organization URL: website

Zudar's on Platt, 201 W Platt St, Tampa, FL 33606

Gazing Grain and Switchback Reading
Cost: Free
Readings from authors at Gazing Grain Press and Switchback Press.
Contact: Lisa Hill-Corley
Contact Email: lhillcor@gmu.edu

Fly Bar & Restaurant, 1202 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Free Happy-Hour Snack & Drink with Blue River Review, Eyewear Publishing, & Gold Wake Live
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for a happy-hour reading filled with free snacks, drinks, and fresh air, via Fly Bar & Restaurant’s beautiful rooftop deck. Readers include Leah Umansky, Dustin Pearson, Steve Kronen, Frances Cannon, Kyle Flak, Hannah Stephenson, Ted Wheeler, Melissa Cundieff, and John Gallaher. The first 25 guests will receive a free drink.
Contact: Trey Moody
Contact Email: treymoody@creighton.edu
Organization: Creighton University MFA Program
Organization URL: website

Bamboozle Tea Lounge, 109 N 12th St, Ste #1101, Tampa, FL 33602

Bent Realities: Reading and Discussion by Micah Dean Hicks, Jim Minick, and Brenda Peynado
Cost: Free
Join Micah Dean Hicks (Electricity and Other Dreams), Jim Minick (Fire Is Your Water), and Brenda Peynado (stories and essays in Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere) as they read from their work and discuss how magical realism and fabulism shape their fiction.
Contact: Samara Rafert
Contact Email: rafert@ohio.edu
Organization: Ohio University Press
Organization URL: website

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, 5119 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33603

Carnegie Mellon University Press Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring seven Carnegie Mellon University Press authors reading from their late 2017 and early 2018 collections: David Yezzi, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Lauren Moseley, Virginia Konchan, Peter Cooley, Kathryn Rhett, and Brian Sneeden.
Contact: Virginia Konchan
Contact Email: konchan.virginia@gmail.com

4:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel, Riverview Room, 200 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Vermont College of Fine Arts Reception
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
You are invited to join staff, faculty, and alumni from Vermont College of Fine Arts for a reception and celebration of our writing communities. Information Session, Friday, March 9 4:30-5:30 - Learn more about VCFA's programs from admissions staff, alumni, and faculty, then join us for a VCFA cocktail party. 5:30-7:30 pm - Cash Bar RSVP: Ann.Cardinal@vcfa.edu
Contact: Melissa Hammerle, Director, MFA in Writing
Contact Email: ann.cardinal@vcfa.edu
Organization: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Foundation Coffee (patio), 1607 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Poetry of Urban Space: A Group Reading
Cost: Free
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Raphael Dagold, Deema Shehabi, and Eugene Gloria will read poems encountering cities/the city across countries and continents, visions and voices. Join us on the patio at Foundation Coffee for the news from Juarez and Peshawar, Detroit and Manila, Gaza and Bishkek.
Contact: Raphael Dagold
Contact Email: dagoldr@gmail.com

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602

Tupelo Press Reading and Party
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
We are excited to celebrate Tupelo Press and honor our authors. I hope you will join us for readings by Kazim Ali, Lise Goett, Sharon Wang, Eliza Rotterman, Mario Chard, Thomas Centolella, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Emily Jungmin Yoon. Light refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!
Contact: Kristina Marie Darling
Contact Email: kristina.marie.darling@gmail.com
Organization: Tupelo Press
Organization URL: website

Spain Restaurant and Toma Bar, 513 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602

Women of Resistance Launch Party
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join editors, poets, and friends in celebrating Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Rapid-fire readings by Mahogany Browne, Safia Elhillo, Dorothea Lasky, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Jenny Johnson and more. Refreshments and poetry will be served. Sponsored by Adelphi University's MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Contact: Danielle Barnhart
Contact Email: danielle7barnhart@gmail.com
Organization: Village of Crickets
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm

Four Green Fields, 205 W Platt St, Tampa FL 33606

Willow Springs and The Florida Review Patio Reading
Cost: Free
Fun, rage, and weeping in the sun. Join Willow Springs and The Florida Review for an outdoor patio reading. Readings by Kathryn Nuernberger, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Monica McFawn, Jessie Van Eerden, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Allison Adair, Darrell Nicholson, and David James Poissant.
Contact: Chris Maccini
Contact Email: willowspringsewu@gmail.com
Organization: Willow Springs and The Florida Review
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Inkwood Books, 1809 N Tampa Street, Tampa, FL 33602

Older Queer Voices: A Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival (edited by Sarah Einstein and Sandra Gail Lambert) is an anthology of prose and poetry that offers strategies for living in hard times. Barrie Jean Borich, Miguel M. Morales, Bonné de Blas, Brian Kornell, Penny Guisinger, Christopher Emerson, Kate Gray, Nic Leland, Patty Smith, and Eunice Tiptree will share their work. This event is co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Writers Caucus.
Contact: Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival
Contact Email: sandragaillambert@yahoo.com
Organization: Older Queer Voices and the LGBTQ Writers Caucus
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, 5119 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33603

Red Hen Press Omnibus Reading at Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe
Cost: Free
Join us for a reading featuring Red Hen's newest and forthcoming books!
Contact: Red Hen Press
Contact Email: publicity@redhen.org
Organization: Red Hen Press
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Victory Coffee, 101 N 12th St, Tampa, FL 33602

Emily Geminder, Jason Tougaw, Chaya Bhuvaneswar and Karissa Chen Read
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Karissa Chen (editor of Hyphen Magazine and Pushcart nominated essayist); Emily Geminder (prize winning author of Dead Girls (NYT: this "debut collection brims with life"); Jason Tougaw (brilliant memoirist, Queens College professor and author of The One You Get) with fiction writer Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize winner whose collection is forthcoming in Fall 2018. Gender and justice, grit and glamour, are the themes. Opening act for the reading = a surprise musical group from the University of South Florida. Please come enjoy music, reading and refreshments at 101 N 12th St, Tampa, FL 33602. Books, journals and Cubanos available for sale.
Contact: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Contact Email: chayab77@gmail.com

The Attic, 500 E Kennedy Blvd #400, Tampa, FL 33602

Ghost Fishing Eco-Justice Anthology Launch & Split This Rock 10th Anniversary Celebration
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Celebrate the launch of Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, while celebrating the 10th anniversary of Split This Rock, the national organization of social justice poets! Hosted by editor Melissa Tuckey, a co-founder of Split This Rock. Readers include Jennifer Atkinson, Sarah Browning, Camille Dungy, Kathy Engel, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Tiffany Higgins, Brenda Hillman, Philip Metres, Lenard Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Emmy Perez, Monica Sok, Danez Smith, Dan Vera, Javier Zamora, and more. Come celebrate with us!
Contact: Sarah Browning
Contact Email: browning@splitthisrock.org
Organization: Split This Rock
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Franklin Manor, 912 Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

TriQuarterly's Annual Reading
Cost: Free
Join us to celebrate Issues 151 and 152! Our annual reading is at Franklin Manor, a lounge near the Tampa Convention Center. Readings by: Paige Lewis, Alex McElroy, Michelle Ross, Ruben Quesada, Chelsea Dingman, Kerry Neville, Jorge Sánchez, Morgan Kayser. Northwestern faculty will be on hand to answer any questions about the MFA program. Drink tickets will be available!
Contact: TriQuarterly
Contact Email: amrjoian@gmail.com
Organization: TriQuarterly
Organization URL: website

Ferg's Live, 490 Channelside Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Creative Nonfiction Reading: Under the Gum Tree, Fourth Genre, River Teeth & Hippocampus
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join Under the Gum Tree, Fourth Genre, River Teeth & Hippocampus for a happy hour of telling true stories. Four magazines, all publishing exclusively nonfiction, are partnering on this event to bring you a line up of previous contributors. Grab your happy hour drink of choice from the cash bar and toast some true stories and a short & sweet storytelling lineup of readers. If nonfiction is your thing, we hope to see you. You'll meet the staff, hear some of what we've published, and get a peek at our current issue. Oh, and maybe even win a magazine (we'll be doing a raffle)!
Contact: Janna Marlies Maron
Contact Email: jms@jannamarlies.com

Metro West, 4030 W Boy Scout Blvd, #200, Tampa, FL 33607

Minerva Rising's Reclaiming "R" Time: Reading, Relaxing, Rising
Cost: Free
Reading and reception, hors d'oeuvres, and signature cocktails, door prizes and giveaways. All are welcome! Meet the editors, past and present contributors, fellow Minervas, old and new friends. Stop by Booth T611 for details and directions. Metro West is a short Uber ride from the Convention Center.
Contact: Kim Brown and Emily Shearer
Contact Email: emily@minervarising.com
Organization: Minerva Rising Press
Organization URL: website

Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, 601 Old Water St, Tampa, FL 33602

CLASH Books Reading in the Park
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
CLASH Books reading featuring fresh & original voices from the CLASH Media website, Zine, & books. Poetry, fiction, & non-fiction. Featuring: Joanna C. Valente, Sam Pink, Monique Quintana, Brian Alan Ellis, Stephanie Valente, Maxwell Bauman, Laura Diaz, Christoph Paul, Ashley Inguanta, Mckenzie Cassidy, Leza Cantoral, Josh Darling.
Contact: Leza Cantoral
Contact Email: lezacantoral@gmail.com
Organization: CLASH Books
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Bradley's on 7th, 1510 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Queer, Sweet Home: Foglifter Press & Co. Redefining Home
Cost: Free
How do queers negotiate their feelings of home when their nation has ceased being a place of comfort? Foglifter Press invites writers to claim their homestead. Featuring Arisa White, Tony Valenzuela, Frederick Spears, Sophia Starmack, Roberto Santiago, Maya Marshall, Temim Fruchter, Some Mei Sheng Frazier, Carson Beker, Kazim Ali, and perhaps others.
Contact: Foglifter Press
Contact Email: foglifter.journal@gmail.com

The Hub Bar, 719 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

University of Iowa's NWP Reading
Cost: Free
At the historic Tampa bar, The Hub, this reading will featuring alumni from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, each reading from a new book. Readers include Sandra Allen, Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Elena Passarello, Inara Verzemnieks, and Sarah Viren.
Contact: Sarah Viren
Contact Email: sarahviren@gmail.com
Organization: University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Gaspar’s Grotto, 1805 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Poets of The Baffler Reading
Cost: Free
Join The Baffler for a night of on-the-house drinks and poetry from Sam Sax, Patricia Smith, Kaveh Akbar, Francine J. Harris, and Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.
Contact: Nicole Terez Dutton
Contact Email: zach@thebaffler.com
Organization: The Baffler
Organization URL: website

Rialto Theatre, 1617 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

Interim and Barrow Street
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
We are co-hosting an offsite happening/literary salon/party at the beautiful, historic Rialto Theatre, located at 1617 N Franklin St, with readings from Interim and Barrow Street poets. Food, booze, and many gorgeous poems shall be consumed. A fun and chill time shall be had by all. Save the date and make certain to attend.
Contact: Interim: a Journal of Poetry and Poetics
Contact Email: interim1944@gmail.com

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Creative Loafing, 1911 N 13th St, Ste W200, Ybor City, FL 33605

The Iowa Review, Rescue Press, and CSU Poetry Center Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
A reading featuring writers Kiese Laymon, Amber Dermont, Lauren Haldeman, and Marcus Wicker from The Iowa Review; Andy Stallings, Stella Corso, Philip Sorenson, and Andrea Lawlor from Rescue Press; and Philip Metres, Shaelyn Smith, and Anna Maria Hong from Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Contact: Morgan Jones
Contact Email: morgan-jones@uiowa.edu
Organization: The Iowa Review, Rescue Press, CSU Poetry Center

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 400 N Ashley Dr, Cube 200, Tampa, FL 33602

Dear America: The Terrain.org 20th Anniversary Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Featured readers Taylor Brorby, Joy Castro, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sean Hill, Rose McLarney, Juan Morales, and Derek Sheffield will blow you and the rest of America away, literarily speaking, as we celebrate 20 years of publishing the finest place-based literature at Terrain.org. Join us at this amazing venue for a stellar reading, and enjoy free refreshments, broadsides, and literature!
Contact: Simmons Buntin
Contact Email: sb@terrain.org
Organization: The Michael Donnelly Faculty Award, Kansas State University

Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, 1505 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

An Evening with The Sun
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
On Friday, March 9, at 7 PM, Sy Safransky, editor and founder of The Sun, and contributors Krista Bremer, Gillian Kendall, and Heather Sellers will be reading and signing books at the Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library.
Contact: Molly House
Contact Email: molly@thesunmagazine.org
Organization: The Sun Magazine
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Sapphire Lounge, 905 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Prelude to a Debut
Cost: Free
Join three debut fiction writers for a reading from and celebration of their respective forthcoming short-story collections: Jamel Brinkley (A Lucky Man), Renee Simms (Meet Behind Mars), and Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Heads of the Colored People). Food and drinks available.
Contact: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Contact Email: nafissathompsonspires@gmail.com

The Portico, 1001 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Reading Queer: Poetry In A Time of Chaos Offsite Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, brings the LGBTQI community together in the spirit and solidarity of poetry at its finest and fiercest. “It is our gift to all conscious citizens. With love.” (Seaton & de la Flor) Readers include: Bryan Borland, Cathleen Chambless, Ching-In Chen, Gregg Shapiro, Jan Becker, Jericho Brown, J.P. Howard, Ruben Quesada, Sam Sax, Samiya Bashir, Shane Allison, Valerie Wetlaufer, and more!
Contact: Greg Shapiro, Kristine Snodgrass
Contact Email: kristine.snodgrass@gmail.com
Organization: Anhinga Press
Organization URL: website

Blind Tiger Cafe, 1901 E 7th Ave, Ybor City, FL 33605

Tarpaulin Sky + Essay Press + Reality Beach
Event URL: website
Join Tarpaulin Sky Press, Essay Press, and Reality Beach for an evening of readings by some of the most exciting voices in literature, featuring Piper Daniels, Jennifer S. Cheng, Johannes Göransson, Shira Dentz, Mary-Kim Arnold, Carrie Lorig, Amie Zimmerman, and Dylan Krieger. Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!
Contact: http://www.essaypress.org/
Contact Email: realitybeachlit@gmail.com
Organization: https://tarpaulinsky.com/
Organization URL: website

The Bunker, 1907 N 19th St, Ybor City, FL 33605

Kelsey Street, Belladonna, and Kore Press Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Ybor City Bunker Cafe Readings by three feminist, experimental poetry presses from New York City, Berkeley, and Tucson. Trolley runs direct every 20 min from the Tampa Convention Center to the event site. Belladona Press http://www.belladonnaseries.org/ Pamela Sneed Jennifer Firestone Celina Su Emily Skillings Caroline Crumpacker Kesley Street Press http://www.kelseyst.com/ Amber DiPietra Sabrina Dalla Valle Jasmine Dreamweaver Kore Press https://korepress.org/ July Westhale Ming Holden Jenny Gropp
Contact: Sabrina Dalla Valle
Contact Email: lotuswoman04@yahoo.com

Aloft Tampa Downtown, Tactic Meeting Room, 100 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33602

White Pine Press / MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
White Pine Press, MadHat Press, and Plume Poetry present an evening of readings by their authors. Readers include: Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Mary Easter Moore, Dora Malech, Chard deNiord, Wyn Cooper, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Janlori Goldman, Helene Cardona reading Diann Blakely, Marc Vincenz reading Klaus Merz, Tim Fitts, Larissa Shmailo, Cameron MacKenzie, Sam Truitt, Elizabeth Hodges, John Warner Smith.
Contact: MadHat Press / Plume Poetry
Contact Email: marc.l.vincenz@gmail.com
Organization: White Pine Press
Organization URL: website

Red Door No. 5, 1910 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

Queer Magic: A Reading + Celebration
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Copper Canyon Press and Lambda Literary present an all-queer, all-amazing celebration of queer literary magic, featuring: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ilana Masad, Natalie Sharp, Jericho Brown, Jenny Factor, and Rachel McKibbens. Brief readings! Party atmosphere! Learn more about Lambda Literary and take in some LGBTQ brilliance from Copper Canyon Press. Doors at 7:00pm Reading at 8:00pm
Contact: William Johnson and Elaina Ellis
Contact Email: elaina@coppercanyonpress.org
Organization: Copper Canyon Press and Lambda Literary
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

HCC Studio Theatre, 1411 E 11th Ave, Tampa, FL, 33605

4X4: Four Readers from Four Literary Organizations
Cost: Free
Come to HCC–Ybor City Performing Arts' Studio Theatre to hear four readers each from co•im•press, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review), & Veliz Books. Readers co•im•press Lisa Rose Bradford Katherine M. Hedeen Tim Jones-Yelvington Holms Troelstrup SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) Ewa Chrusciel Ji yoon Lee JD Scott Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora Kwoya Fagin Maples Leslie Ann Murray Ivelisse Rodriguez Ronaldo V. Wilson Veliz Books Lynn Schmeidler Tina Cane Trent D. Hudley Ana Patete
Contact: Laura Cesarco Eglin, Steve Halle & Minerva Laveaga
Contact Email: info@coimpress.com
Organization: co•im•press & Veliz Books
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

CAVU, 1601 N. Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602

Sinking Ground, Rising Voices
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Burrow Press, Catapult, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus proudly present Sinking Ground, Rising Voices! With readings from Marie-Helene Bertino, Ben Gwin, Lisa Ko, Alicia Mountain, Safiya Sinclair, and Javier Zamora. Sponsored by Submittable and Aevitas Creative Management. Doors open at 7 p.m., readings begin at 7:30 p.m., music and mingling to follow.
Contact: Marisa Siegel
Contact Email: marisa@therumpus.net
Organization: Burrow Press, Catapult, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Four Green Fields, 205 W Platt St, Tampa, FL 33606

UCF MFA Reunion/Reception
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us once again for our annual UCF MFA CRW Reunion/Reception. Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Friends will join together once again for an evening of remembering faces and raising a few glasses. All are welcome! The reunion will follow The Florida Review / Willow Springs Reading.
Contact: Terry Thaxton
Contact Email: terry.thaxton@ucf.edu
Organization: University of Central Florida MFA Program

7:30 pm to 11:45 pm

7venth Sun Brewery & Taproom, 6809 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33604

Books & Brews (Alternating Current) Offsite Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Offsite reading event, sponsored by Alternating Current. Featuring: Porochista Khakpour, Rilla Askew, Esmé Weijun Wang, Sonya Huber, Lincoln Michel, Franny Choi, Ryan Ridge, Aline Ohanesian, Ted Scheinman, and Jim Warner. Free event, and we’ll have free swag and a free raffle to win autographed books and prizes throughout the night. Readers will sign. There’s a huge assortment of 7venth Sun craft beer on tap, in cans, and in bottles for purchase, and we’ll have a food truck parked outside. Bar is open until 1 a.m. Facility is disability-friendly and all-ages.
Contact: Leah Angstman
Contact Email: alt.current@gmail.com
Organization: Alternating Current Press
Organization URL: website

Saturday, March 10, 2018

10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Bamboozle Tea Lounge, 109 N 12th St, Ste #1101, Tampa, FL 33602

Flash in the Morning
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
This event will bring together writers from several universities to read and share flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and poetry in order to to bring together various MFA, MA and PhD programs to create a vibrant literary community shared across the country. Students representing the MFA at the University of Central Florida, the Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, the MFA at University of Austin, the MFA at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the Ph.D. at the University of Southern California will all be in attendance to share work.
Contact: Brenda Peynado
Contact Email: brenda.peynado@ucf.edu
Organization: University of Central Florida
Organization URL: website

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

2924 W Pearl Ave, Tampa, FL 33611

Brunch for the Lizard People
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
This is a reading for hot-blooded (hungover) folk who need a pool dip, a breakfast sandwich, and a day drink. We'll have vegetarian sandwich options, bloody mary and mimosa drinks, and pool floats in various luxurious shapes ~ and these readers: Willie Fitzgerald, Kristen Arnett, Chase Berggrun, Jon Ruseski, Lauren Ireland, Sarah Galvin, and Anastacia-Renee.
Contact: Gramma
Contact Email: colleen@gramma.press
Organization: Gramma
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 5:15 pm

Old Tampa Free Public Library, 102 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33602

YellowJacket Press and Friends
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
YellowJacket Press (YJP), Florida's premier, independent poetry chapbook press hosts a lively "sampler" reading by 10 poets from across Florida. Held in Tampa's oldest library building, the reading will include Poet Laureate of Florida, Peter Meinke; Poet Laureate of Saint Petersburg, Helen Wallace; Poet Laureate of Hillsborough County, James Tokley, and Poet Laureate of Indian River County, Sean Sexton. The library's photographic collection by the famed Burgert Brothers will be on display. Book sales, signings and a reception follow. Get a taste of YJP in our hometown!
Contact: Gianna Russo
Contact Email: rgianna15@gmail.com
Organization: YellowJacket Press and Hillsborough COunty Public Library
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Fly Bar & Restaurant, 1202 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

UIC Alumni Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for a multi-genre rooftop literary reading featuring 17 University of Illinois at Chicago Program for Writers alumni. Food and drinks available. The venue is conveniently located in downtown Tampa's historic district.
Contact: Virginia Konchan
Contact Email: konchan.virginia@gmail.com

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Four Green Fields, 205 W Platt Street, Tampa, FL 33606

IU Alumni Reading
Cost: Free
Please join us for a happy hour reading featuring IU MFA alumni with recent books. Readers will include poets Marcus Wicker (Maybe the Saddest Thing, 2012; Silencer, 2017), Ife-Chudeni Oputa (Rummage, 2017), Leslie Marie Aguilar (Mesquite Manual, 2015), and Simeon Berry (Ampersand Revisited, 2013; Monograph, 2014), and prose writers Ming Holden (Refuge, 2018), Rachel Lyon (Self-Portrait with Boy, 2018), Bradley Bazzle (Trash Mountain, 2018), Michelle Ross (There's So Much They Haven't Told You, 2017),and Lana Spendl (We Cradled Each Other in the Air, 2017).
Contact: Rachel Lyon
Contact Email: rachellyon@gmail.com
Organization: Indiana University MFA
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Florida Museum for Photographic Arts, 400 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

Veteran Poetry & Art Performance
Cost: Free
Warrior Writers, Art2Action and Combat Hippies combine forces to present an amazing night of poetry and performance by talented veteran-writers from near and far. This special event at the close of AWP will create a meaningful cultural bridge between veterans and civilians. Our wonderful hosts at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) will also be showcasing a pop up show of photography by veterans. There will be a DJ and refreshments, this show is not to be missed!
Contact: Lovella Calica
Contact Email: warriorwriters@gmail.com
Organization: Warrior Writers
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Fly Bar & Restaurant, 1202 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602

First Book Rooftop Reading
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Please join us for a rooftop literary reading featuring 14 poets debuting their first full-length poetry collections. Food and drinks available. The venue is conveniently located in downtown Tampa's historic district.
Contact: Virginia Konchan
Contact Email: konchan.virginia@gmail.com

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd, Suite 400, Tampa, FL 33602

UNL First Books Alumni Reading
Cost: Free
Join the UNL Creative Writing Program at an AWP off-site event to celebrate alumni who have recently published a first book. Featured readers will include Jennifer Case, Sarah A. Chavez, Michelle Menting, SJ Sindu, and Nick White. Reception begins at 6:30; reading begins at 7:00.
Contact: Jennifer Case
Contact Email: jcase@uca.edu

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Four Green Fields at Curtis Hixon Park, 702 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

A Gathering with Bennington Review, Fence, and the Text Image MFA Program at Ithaca College
Cost: Free
Bennington Review, Fence, and the Text Image MFA Program at Ithaca College are hosting this reading and get-together featuring Natalie Eilbert, Anna Maria Hong, Christine Hume, Hilary Plum, Sandra Simonds, Analicia Sotelo, Catherine Taylor, and Rebecca Wolff.
Contact: Michael Dumanis, Rebecca Wolff, and Catherine Tayl
Contact Email: benningtonreview@bennington.edu
Organization: Bennington Review, Fence, and the Text Image MFA Program at Ithaca College
Organization URL: website

CoWork Ybor, 1901 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

New Delta Review and Bayou Magazine Offsite Reading
Cost: Free
Join two of Louisiana's finest literary journals, New Delta Review and Bayou Magazine, for a reading that can't be missed. The lineup features the following outstanding contributors: Layla Al-Bedawi, Taneum Bambrick, Dorothy Chan, Keith Donnell, Mary Anna Evans, and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint. Journals, books, t-shirts and more will be available to purchase. Don't forget to BYOB so you may toast stories and poems that are sure to leave you stunned and inspired!
Contact: Bayou Magazine and New Delta Review
Contact Email: bayoumagazine@gmail.com

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

HCC Studio Theatre, 1411 E 11th Ave, Tampa, FL, 33605

An Evening of Latin American Poetry in Translation
Cost: Free
An Evening of Latin American Poetry in Translation, presented by co•im•press Hosts: Kristin Dykstra, Steve Halle & Katherine M. Hedeen Place Studio Theatre at Hillsborough Community College–Ybor City Campus Performing Arts (1411 E 11th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605) Readers Alexis Almeida, Lisa Rose Bradford, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Aaron Coleman, Anna Deeny Morales, Carina del Valle Schorske, Kristin Dykstra, Michelle Gil-Montero, Katherine M. Hedeen, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Olivia Lott, Urayoán Noel, Guillermo Parra, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal & Special Guests
Contact: Steve Halle, Kristin Dykstra, Katherine M. Hedeen
Contact Email: stevehalle77@gmail.com
Organization: co•im•press
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Taps Restaurant Bay & Lounge, 777 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL 33602

TriQuarterly Books/Curbstone Reading
Cost: Free
Join Northwestern University Press for an exciting event featuring our authors M. Evelina Galang, Debra Dean, Marcelo Hernandez-Castillo, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Cynthia Dewi Oka, and Marcus Jackson, as they read from their latest works from our TriQuarterly and Curbstone imprints. Appetizers will be served and a limited number of free drink tickets will be available. The event will be taking place in the upstairs wine bar. We hope to see you there!
Contact: Greta Bennion
Contact Email: greta1082@gmail.com
Organization: Northwestern University Press
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Vaughn Center, 9th Floor, 200 UT Poe Pkwy, Tampa, FL 33602

Literary Death Match Tampa, Ep. 1
Cost: $10
Event URL: website
Literary Death Match's AWP Spectacular at the Vaughn Center — co-hosted by University of Tampa MFA — promises to be a life changer. Summer weather, literary-based comedy, and the perfect 90-minute distraction from the horror of American politics. Pre-order now to guarantee entry! Judges: Alissa Nutting (author of Tampa), Abraham Smith (5-time LDM champ) & Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl) Readers: Beth Ann Fennelly (Poet Laureate of Mississippi); Adrian Matejka (Poet Laureate of Indiana); Sandra Beasley (poet/memoirist) Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of Collision Theory)
Contact: Adrian Todd Zuniga
Contact Email: adriantoddzuniga@gmail.com
Organization: Burrow Press; Painted Bride Quarterly
Organization URL: website

Sunday, March 11, 2018

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Bookstore1Sarasota, 12 South Palm Ave, Sarasota, FL, 34236

Poetry Marathon
Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Poets include (thus far) Jeffrey Bean , professor of English & Creative Writing at Central Michigan University; Robin Becker, Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State University; Jim Daniels, Thomas Stockham University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Gardner, publisher and founding editor of Red Mountain Press; Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09; Bill O'Neill, New Mexico State Senator; Lisa Rosenberg, Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California; and Phil Terman, professor at Clarion University.
Contact: Bookstore1Sarasota
Contact Email: kate@sarasotabooks.com
Organization: Bookstore1Sarasota
Organization URL: website

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March 7-10, 2018
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