July Events for Promise
Jul
17
10:30 AM10:30

July Events for Promise

July 18 | Books and Books in Coral Gables| Miami | An Evening with Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Marie Vickles | 7–8 pm | Free | Open to the Public

https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-rachel-eliza-griffiths/

July 19 | East City Bookshop, Washington, D.C. | 7–8 pm | East City Bookshop Presents Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Teri Cross Davis | Limited Seating with Virtual Broadcast with Zoom Webinar

Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-event-rachel-eliza-griffiths-promise-with-teri-ellen-cross-davis-tickets-663856702267?aff=ECBwebsite

July 20 | Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, DE | An Evening with Rachel Eliza Griffiths | 6–8 pm | Free | https://delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/10893900

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SEEING THE BODY VIRTUAL TOUR INFO
Jun
11
7:30 PM19:30

SEEING THE BODY VIRTUAL TOUR INFO

6.11.20 | 7:30 pm EDT OFFICIAL LAUNCH Center for Fiction with Jacki Lyden* https://centerforfiction.org/event/online-event-rachel-eliza-griffiths-launches-seeing-the-body-with-jacki-lyden/

6.12.20 | 7 pm EDT The Strand with Natalie Diaz* https://www.strandbooks.com/events/event15

6.15.20 | 7:30 pm EDT Greenlight Books with Zoë Hitzig and Nick Flynn

6.17.20 | 7: 30 pm EDT This Wild & Precious Life with Dan Beachy Quirk, Dustin Pearson, & Meg Wade

6.20.20 | 7 pm EDT Books & Books with Edwidge Danticat

6.23.20 | 7:30 pm EDT Bloom Women Writers with Cheryl Boyce Taylor

6.26.20 | 2 pm EDT Furious Flower | FB Live

7.1.20 | 8 pm EDT A Reading Series with Kaveh Akbar*

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NOMAD Reading SeriesVol. 10: Martin, Griffiths, Kirby
Oct
6
5:00 PM17:00

NOMAD Reading SeriesVol. 10: Martin, Griffiths, Kirby

Here we are, folks. Final reading of the season. Let's make it beautiful:

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an artist. Her most recent collection of poetry is Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015). Griffiths' literary and visual work has been published widely. She lives in New York

Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet, essayist, and conceptual-video artist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House, 2017); Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books, 2011), A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007), and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Harper's, n+1, and elsewhere. Martin is Professor of English in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and Co-director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is the recipient of a 2018 NEA Grant in Creative Writing. 

aris~justine kirby is a charming rogue living by her wits in a corrupt society. She is the daughter of Louise Montalescot. She's 27 years old. She has chapbooks with Belladonna* [Daisy & Catherine] & Black Warrior Review [Sonnet Infinitésimal no.3 / Matérial Girl no. 8]. She’s published poetry with Vetch & Datableed. She is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts degree at Bard College.

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10th Annual Young Poets Reading at the National Arts Club
Apr
5
8:00 PM20:00

10th Annual Young Poets Reading at the National Arts Club

Literature

The Tenth Annual Dara Mandle Young Poets Reading

Tuesday, April 5
8:00 PM

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series, poets who have inspired us will return to read from their work and discuss their own sources of inspiration. Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist whose fourth collection of poetry is Lighting the Shadow. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including Yaddo and Cave Canem Foundation. Griffiths teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Adam Kirsch is the author of three books of poetry, including most recently Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. Jason Koo is the author of two collections of poetry, America’s Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. An Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Quinnipiac University, Koo is the founder of Brooklyn Poets. Meghan O’Rourke, author of the memoir The Long Goodbye and the poetry collections Once and Halflife, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Radcliffe Fellowship. She teaches at Princeton and NYU. Brenda Shaughnessy’s forthcoming collection of poems is So Much Synth. Her other books are Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar,and Interior with Sudden Joy. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

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AWP Los Angeles 2016
Mar
30
to Apr 3

AWP Los Angeles 2016

  • Los Angeles Convention Center and JW Marriott (map)
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Featured Presenter, at 2016 Los Angeles AWP

3/31 1:30 - 2:45 pm Poetry, Politics, and Place: A Reading and Conversation with Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Luis J. Rodriguez, Sponsored by Poets House.(Stephen Motika,  Naomi Shihab Nye,  Rachel Eliza Griffiths,  Luis J. Rodriguez) These leading poets read their poems and discuss their poetry-activism in New York, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and around the country. Each engages poetic practice and community building with projects that expand poetry's place in our lives and culture: Griffiths through photography, Nye through writing for children, and Rodriguez through publishing projects and political organizing. The transformative power of poetry brings these three together to talk about how we can make a better world.

 

4/1 10  11:30 a.m. FAWC Table | Come and meet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, who will be teaching her first workshop at FAWC in Provincetown this summer!

 

4/1  1:30 - 2:45 pm  Writing Race: Poets on the Complexity and Contradictions of Race in America. (Richard Michelson,  Rachel Eliza Griffiths,  Tim Liu) In the "postracial" Obama era, the nation remains racially polarized, as the tragedies and protests in Ferguson and elsewhere demonstrate. How can a poet write truthfully about the complexity and contradictions of race in America? How can a poet balance a poem’s message with the demands of poetry? How can a poet speak on behalf of his or her community, and yet empathize with other groups? How can a poet channel anger into art, risking the alienation of the audience for the sake of honesty?

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Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers Group Show
Mar
28
to Apr 29

Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers Group Show

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In Conjunction with the 13th National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College, CUNY March 31–April 3, 2016

Opening Reception
March 28, 2016 @ The Charles Evans Innis Memorial Library 1650 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers Photography Group Show Featuring:

  • Laylah Amatullah Barrayn,
  • Thomas Sayers Ellis,
  • Rachel Eliza Griffiths &
  • Marcia E. Wilson

 

The purpose of the exhibit “Provocateurs” is to present the linkage writers of African descent and their photographer counterparts share in rendering the Black experience and historical narratives. Images are fine examples of how they can inspire words for a poem, be an spark for a novel, or serve as the visual interpetation for an essay. In a similar manner, words can influence the mood for a painting or a photograph. The use of the word “Provocateurs” serves the belief that both writers and photographers use their art form to evoke a visceral action or reaction in the minds of both readers and viewers.

Four Brooklyn-based photographers, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Thomas Ellis Sayers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Marcia Wilson, will explore the ways in which the two disciplines of photography and creative writing expand our cultural narrative and connect us to our global selves.

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Johnson Museum of Art
Feb
25
5:15 PM17:15

Johnson Museum of Art

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of four poetry collections: Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015); Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), which was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus American Library Association; The Requited Distance (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2011); and Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010). Also a visual artist, she is the creator of Poets on Poetry (P.O.P.), a series of interviews that gathers more than fifty contemporary poets together in conversation to discuss poetry in relation to individual human experience and culture. Her honors include fellowships from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts residency, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Soul Mountain, and Vermont Studio Center. Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

This free public lecture is supported in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and held in conjunction with the Spring 2016 course “Embodying the Object: Writing with the Collection,” a collaboration between the Johnson Museum and the Creative Writing Program.

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Women of Letters Salon at Joe's Pub
Dec
9
7:00 PM19:00

Women of Letters Salon at Joe's Pub

Women of Letters is everyone’s favorite literary salon!

Every month, New York’s best and brightest women come together on stage to celebrate the lost art of letter writing. Expect laughter, tears, and camaraderie as host Sofija Stefanovic welcomes guests reading “A letter to my greatest gift”. Together on stage for the first time ever:

Beloved actress for film, television and stage MAMIE GUMMER

Bestselling author of “The Vacationers” EMMA STRAUB

Poet and author of “Lighting the Shadow” RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS

Acclaimed standup comedian MICHELLE BUTEAU

Managing editor of feminist blog “Jezebel” ERIN RYAN

Radio, television journalist, and author of “First Class” ALISON STEWART

The show attracts guests of the highest caliber, from all disciplines. Women of Letters veterans include: Molly Ringwald, Jean Grae, Megan Amram, Martha Wainwright, Kathleen Turner, Aparna Nancherla, Siri Hustvedt, Edie Falco, Susan Orlean, Alexis Okeowo, Mara Wilson, Amanda Palmer, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Suki Kim, JD Samson, Tavi Gevinson, Stoya, Ophira Eisenberg, Yael Stone, Jena Malone, Jenny Eliscu and many more.

Proceeds from Women of Letters shows are donated to charity, with over $750,000 being raised globally to date. December 9th’s show proceeds will be donated to the Millay Colonywww.millaycolony.org

"In our world which is becoming increasingly more disconnected by dependency on social media and our tendencies to live online, I feel that projects like Women of Letters are the antidote. Bringing people together in one room to hear people tell their stories is a powerful reminder of our humanity” — Molly Ringwald

“Women of Letters is the perfect alchemy of literary art-party and storytelling, with drinking and bonding for all genders of truth-seekers. Marieke and Michaela deserve a medal for creating this happening while we're on earth.” -Amanda Palmer

“You'll  bond with some crazy-talented women over diverse passions, intimate struggles, and of course, drinks.” -BUST Magazine

Hosted by acclaimed author and Moth StorySlam winner Sofija Stefanovic

Produced by Trish Nelson's BanterGirl

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First Person Plural Reading Series
Nov
10
7:00 PM19:00

First Person Plural Reading Series

Come out on November 10th, 7pm at Shrine in Harlem for an astoundingly great lineup!  We will welcome poet and visual artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Pulitzer Prize winning author Margo Jefferson, and fiction writers Victor LaValle and Emily Raboteau. This reading is not to be missed! Join us at 7pm at Shrine, located at 2271 Adam Clayton Powell (7th Ave) between 133rd and 134th in Harlem.  By subway: 2/3 to 135th, or B/C to 135th.  Admission is $5; bar is cash only.

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Sep
4
2:00 PM14:00

2015 Fall Poetry Readings with Rachel Eliza

September 15, 6:30 pm: Cave Canem and the Millay Colony for the Arts Reading                                     with LaTasha Nevada Diggs and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. 20 Jay Street Street 310-A Brooklyn, NY 11201 http://www.cavecanempoets.org/calendar

September 18, 7 pm: Brooklyn Poets Reading Series, Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend EventWith Natalie Shapero, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Gregory Pardlo          

                          St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn NY

http://brooklynpoets.org/events/reading-series

September 19, 2 pm: Poetry Society of America &

The New York Botanical Garden          

Frida Kahlo: LIFE ART GARDEN    Poetry For Every Season: Octavio Paz Poetry Walk      New York Botanical Garden, Ross Hall Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road

http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/events/nyc/#poetry-for-every-season-octavio-

September 20, 5 – 7 pm: Split This Rock, Sunday Kind of Love                                                 

With David Ebenbach and Rachel Eliza Griffiths                                                              

Busboys and Poets (14th and V)                                                                                            

2021 14th Street, NW                                                                                                    

Washington, D.C., 20009

for tickets: http://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/sunday-kind-of-love/

September 22, 7-8:30 pm: Bryant Park Reading Room, New York                                                  

With Michael Morse, Michael Klein, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Sean Singer

http://www.bryantpark.org/things-to-do/reading_room.html

September 28, 6 pm Union Square Slam                                                                                  

Bar 13, New York, NY

September 29, 5:30 - 7 pm: Writers At Newark Series                                                          

With Suki Kim and Rachel Eliza Griffiths                                                                                

Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rooms 255/256/257                                                              

350 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Newark, NJ 07102

http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/mfa-creative-writing/writers-newark-reading-series

October 1 - 4 Brattleboro Literary Festival, Vermont         http://brattleboroliteraryfestival.org/

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King's Books
Jun
10
7:00 PM19:00

King's Books

Poetry Reading with Josh Kalscheur, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Alicia Jo Rabins

 

Join us as we welcome four poets, Josh Kalscheur, Elizabeth T Gray Jr, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Alicia Jo Rabins, for a special night of poetry celebrating their new works.

Josh Kalscheur's new book Tidal is the winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. He has published poems in Boston Review, Slate, jubilat, Ninth Letter,Witness, Blackbird and Best New Poets 2013, among others. A graduate of Saint Olaf College and UW-Madison, he teaches classes at both UW-Madison and Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.'s new book is Series | India. She is a poet, translator, and corporate consultant. She has published translations from classical and contemporary Persian and is currently collaborating on the translation of a Tibeto-Mongolian oral folk epic. She has a BA and JD from Harvard University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist whose new book is Lighting the Shadow. She is the recipient of fellowships including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, and the Cave Canem Foundation. Griffiths is the creator and director of P.O.P (Poets on Poetry), a video series of contemporary poets featured by the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection of poetry, Mule & Pear, was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Currently, Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.

Alicia Jo Rabins's poetry manuscript, Divinity School, was awarded the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and will be published in September. Alicia's chapbook, The Girl Who Wants to be a Landscape, was selected by Mary Oliver for the Artscape Poetry Prize and published in 1995. Alicia holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and is the recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Grant, LMCC's Sarah Verdone Writing Award, and the New Delta Review 2013 Matt Clark Poetry Prize as well as three years of scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

 

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Hugo House
Jun
9
7:00 PM19:00

Hugo House

 

A Reading with Four Way Books Poets

June 9 at 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Four Way Books is an esteemed publisher—recently gaining major bragging rights due to Gregory Pardlo’s Pulitzer win—and we’re happy to host a reading with three of their poets: Josh Kalscheur, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. She is the recipient of fellowships including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, and the Cave Canem Foundation. Her visual and literary work has appeared widely. Griffiths is the creator and director of P.O.P (Poets on Poetry), a video series of contemporary poets featured by the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection of poetry, Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose), was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Currently, Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.

Josh Kalscheur has published poems in Boston Review, Slate, jubilat, Ninth Letter, Witness, Blackbird and Best New Poets 2013, among others. A graduate of Saint Olaf College and UW-Madison, he teaches classes at both UW-Madison and Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. is a poet, translator, and corporate consultant. She has published translations from classical and contemporary Persian, and is currently collaborating on the translation of a Tibeto-Mongolian oral folk epic. She was the founding CEO/Managing Partner of Conflict Management Inc. and Alliance Management Partners LLC, consulting firms that assisted global corporations and governments form, manage, and repair complex inter-organizational alliances. She has a B. A. and J. D. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College.

 

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2015 Emerging Fellows Reading at Poets House!
Jun
2
7:00 PM19:00

2015 Emerging Fellows Reading at Poets House!

A not-to-be-missed glimpse into the most exciting new poetry in New York City as the 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellows (Click names for bios and a sample of each poets work): Aziza Barnes, Rio Cortez, Ricardo Hernandez, Esther Lin, Yanyi Luo, Andriniki Mattis, Vikas K. Menon, Timothy Ree, Paul Tran and Aldrin Valdez read from their work.

The Emerging Poets Fellowship, now in its fourth year, assists emerging poets by providing excellent poetry writing instruction, mentorship, and access to Poets House’s world class poetry resources and programming. Hosted by 2015 Emerging Poets Fellowship workshop leader Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Presented with support from the Jerome Foundation

- See more at: http://poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/readings-and-conversations/2015-emerging-poets-fellowship-reading#sthash.siHLthZ4.dpuf

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