Cloud by Cloud Tree is an unofficial SXSW offsite reading, hosted by Cloud Tree Gallery in Austin, Texas, and co-sponsored by East Austin Writes. This event features music from Natalie Jane Hill, Hour, and others; and readings by Marissa Anne Ayala, Emily May, Kelly Schirmann, and Kyle Schlesinger. 7pm, donations suggested.

Celebrate the release of the latest issue of Camas, a journal of Environmental Writing published by the University of Montana. Reading is at Free Cycles in Missoula, featuring live music and local readers.

Join Black Ocean authors Anaïs Duplan, Kelly Schirmann, and Stacey Tran for a virtual reading and conversation hosted by Skylight Books in Los Angeles. Registration is free via Skylight Books. Event begins at 4pm PST (7pm ET).

Poets Anaïs Duplan and Kelly Schirmann come together at this virtual event to discuss their new hybrid collections of poetry and prose. Duplan’s Blackspace is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word "liberation," culminating with a personal essay meditating on his own journey of gender transition while writing the book. Schirmann’s The New World follows the attempts, failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental consequence. In five distinct sections, the book refracts, explores and investigates these global themes through the realm of the personal and private, asking “How do you write poems in a country like this?” Join Duplan and Schirmann for this compelling virtual discussion of their work!

Hosted by Greenlight Books, Brooklyn. Events starts at 7:30pm ET. Register for the event here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/ana%C3%AFs-duplan-kelly-schirmann

In this workshop, we'll investigate a variety of attempts at what I call "the poet's essay" -- a work of lyrical creative nonfiction that exists in the boundary between the two genres. We will read various examples as a group, discussing the different narrative and lyrical techniques at play in each one. These discussions will be punctuated by a series of short generative prompts, with the option to share your work or not. The goal of this workshop is to expand your understanding of what poetic nonfiction can resemble and accomplish, and to leave the session with a few 'starts' of your own. Open to writers of all levels, genres, and abilities. See litfuse.us for more info and to register.

Poetry is a way of rearranging common language to augment beauty, possibility, experimentation and sense. If poetry is about re-envisioning our world through language, how can we apply this practice in an era of profound environmental change? Through a series of generative writing prompts, we'll move through different modes of processing the realities of the anthropocene and its attendant language through poem-making, hopefully encouraging a shift in our own thinking in the process. See litfuse.us for more info and to register.

Join Diana Khoi Nguyen and Kelly Schirmann for a reading and discussion around the concept of listening. While poetry and lyric essay both share lineage with song-making and music, we might also consider poetry to be a study of soundlessness, or space. In this way, poetry strikes a balance between what is seen and unseen—the dead and the living, the said and the felt, what is here and what is missing. This conversation will explore what listening is or could be, and the ways we might attune, as artists and as humans, to what Tina Campt refers to as the "lower frequencies of transfiguration enacted at the level of the quotidian," and the "vibrations" present in, beyond, and behind the page.