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American Poet Magazine Launch Party! Housing Works

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 AT 7:00PM | Housing Works Cafe, NY | FREE Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month at this poetry reading launching the spring 2013 issue of American Poet,...

Blackbird Poetry Festival | HoCoPoLitSo

HoCoPoLitSo | Blackbird Poetry Festival The 2013 Blackbird Poetry Festival invites you to witness “Poetry Seen” – come explore the intersections of poetry and the visual arts. At 11am, our Festival...

National Poetry Month Kickoff! Westchester Poetry Festival 2013

The 3rd Annual Westchester Poetry Festival at The Masters School April 6 | 1-5:30 pm | Historic Estherwood Mansion | 29 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry Readings include: Richard Howard, Heather Christle,...

Taos Journal of Poetry & Art

Conversation on the Black Female Body with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (First Printed original version by VIDA)

Poem-A-Day Series | February 21

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Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton

Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton The poets Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths,...

Edwidge Danticat!

Edwidge Danticat selects Mule & Pear as a favorite book of 2012: “Mule and Pear, Rachel Eliza Griffiths: This reminds me why I need to read more poetry. The book...

Woman Without Umbrella

Woman Without Umbrella A visual poem based upon the poetry collection of the same title, “Woman Without Umbrella”, by Victoria Redel, published by Four Way Books, 2012. The visual poem...

UnBound | Art Film

UnBound Directed by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Inspired by FOOT | KNOTS (Joseph A.W. Quintela & Sarah McSherry) at Project Space Envelope

APR |November/December 2012

VIDA | November 2012

VIDA | “Breaking the Binary/Bi-Lateral Ideologies of Black Womanhood In Conversation Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

THE REVIVAL | October 2012

The Revival | October 13, 2012 | 7 – 9 pm Kay Spiritual Center | American University 4801 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20016 Special Welcome Home Concert w/ special guest feature Rachel Eliza...

September 28, 2012

DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL | September 2012 Outdoors: Bridge Park 2 (behind York Street F Train Station) | Dumbo, Brooklyn | 7:30 pm POEMobile: Poetry Out Loud & Writ Large: Cave Canem...

Brooklyn Book Festival 2012

September 23, 2012 | Brooklyn Book Festival | 2 pm St. Francis Screening Room (180 Remsen St.) Poetic Visions: Poets and artists Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Mule & Pear), Star Black (Velleity’s Shade), and Danny Simmons (Deep in your Best Reflection) discuss...

P.O.P : Ross Gay

P.O.P is an evolving conversation between and about poets. Each poet answers an anonymous questions by leaving a new question for another poet. Excerpts of P.O.P are taken from an ongoing...

Mule & Pear/Video

P.O.P : Terrance Hayes

P.O.P is an evolving conversation between and about poets. Each poet answers an anonymous questions by leaving a new question for another poet. Excerpts of P.O.P are taken from an ongoing...

Mule & Pear Book Release Signing & Reception, September 30

Mule & Pear Book Release Signing + Reception/ 10 River Terrace NY NY / 7 - 10 pm Featured Poets &...

Fall Reading Schedule 2011

September 8: Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word: Rachel Eliza Griffiths + Paulie Lippman One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge) / 76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st...

Mule & Pear, Available Now for Pre-Order!

“How dare the dead things return?” and “How did I end up/being a ghost of every/nothing?” asks Rachel Eliza Griffiths in this haunting debut. Smart, nuanced, lush in their...

Oprah.com

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is featured in the first-ever poetry issue of O magazine (April 2011)! Other featured poets include: Aracelis Girmay, Camille Rankine, Sarah Herrington, Suheir Hammad, Anna Moschovakis, and...

Upcoming Readings, Spring 2011

1 April: Brooklyn Historical Society 9 April: Busboys & Poets, Washington D.C. 18 April: Columbia University School of the Arts/Becoming a Poet 21 April: The Poetry Institute, New Haven CT 6 May: Willow...

Readings, 2010 – 2011 Fall/Winter

6 November: American Poetry Museum & Blank Space , Washington, D.C. 9 February: American Book Review/University Houston – Victoria, TX 11 February: Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center/ Texas State University 17 February:...

Running the Dusk & Miracle Arrhythmia : Debut Celebrations!

. . . Cafe Nijasol / 5 – 9 pm . 173 Montrose Avenue Brooklyn NY . Samantha Thornhill presents . Up Close Living Room . featuring Christian Campbell . & Rachel Eliza Griffiths .Special Guest...

louderARTS features Rachel Eliza Griffiths / 11.01.10

louderARTS/ bar 13/ 11.01.2010/7:30 pm 35 East 13th Street (at University Place) http://www.louderarts.com/

October 12 / Skin & Miracle /powerHouse Arena / 6:30 pm

skin & miracle : a cave canem reading Rachel Eliza Griffiths presents poems from Miracle Arrhythmia. powerHouse Arena / 37 Main Street Brooklyn NY / 6:30 pm . co-sponsored by Cave Canem...

Red Hen Press, October 10, 6 pm Cornelia Street Cafe

. . . . . . . . Red Hen Press Reading / October 10 / 6 pm / Cornelia Street Cafe Please join us for...

73 Poems for 73 Years: Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton

The Furious Flower Poetry Center and the Steger Poetry Prize Tuesday / September 21, 2010 / 7 pm Wilson Hall Auditorium James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia . . .

Starshine & Clay

Samiya Bashir / Rachel Eliza Griffiths / francine j harris September 16, 2010 / 7 pm Work Gallery , 306 S. State Street / Ann Arbor, MI Sponsored by the MFA Creative...

Seen: An Evening of Portraits and Poetry

. . . . . . . Seen: an evening of portaits and poetry Friday May 7th – 8pm Cracker Factory (35 Lehigh Street, Geneva NY) Poetry readings by Lauren K Alleyne, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Portaits...

Poets for Ayiti

. . . . . . . . ..Poets For Ayiti Presents a Reading From “For the Crowns of Your Heads” A Poetry Chapbook to Support the Rebuilding of Bibliotheque du Soliel Wednesday, April 28, 8 pm Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Featuring: Yolaine M....

Ars Poetica, Exhibit Opening

Ars Poetica, Photographs by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Exhibit Opening, March 18, 6 – 8:30, 20 Jay Street Suite 310-A DUMBO http://www.facebook.com http://alanwking.wordpress.com http://www.poetrysociety.org . Ars Poetica, Photographs by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Opening Reception:...

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