UPCOMING EVENTS
O, Miami Festival Cervecería Poesía | A writing workshop, April 6, 2023
7-9 pm
Led by Jen Karetnick, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Mary Block
Presented in Partnership with SWWIM
At Cervecería La Tropical
Live
Pay what you can ($15-$50)
Register here
O, Miami Festival Heroic Eco-Sonnet Reading: Community Reading with South Florida Poets, April 2, 2023
2 pm
Virtual
Free
Register here
O, Miami Festival Check out a Poet, April 1, 2023
2-5 pm EST
Books & Books Coral Gables
Live
Free
Recent Events
AWP Seattle, March 8-11, 2023
SWWIM Table, Conference Center Floor
Vermont Studio Center Table, Conference Center Floor
Word Thursdays, Bright Hill Press, November 18, 2021
7 PM EST
w/Jennifer K. Sweeney
John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, September 18, 2021
Panel 7B: Mixed Genre Session III (Room B)
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
w/ Kathryn Wohlpart and Adelia Gregory
Malaprop’s, July 4, 2021
3:00 PM EST
Popular Culture Association Reading
LANGSTON HUGHES, JUDGE JUDY, & OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE: POP CULTURE & POLITICS IN POETRY, June 3, 20201
Thursday, June 3, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:20pm EST
w/Katie Manning, Jason Paul Olsen, and James Henry Knippen
https://2021.pcaaca.org/meetings/virtual/oro6yEx7vJ5bqq3L
Zen and the Art of Barbecue, May 24, 2021
7-8 PM EST
https://www.thebetsyhotel.com/calendar/zen-and-the-art-of-barbecue
Watch: Getting to Net Zero – Community Celebration, April 10, 2021
9-11 PM EDT
With Solar entrepreneur and activist Dr. Hari Lamba, author of Brighter Climate Futures, and Jan Kirsch of 350.org Bay Area,
Poetry and prose from Lucille Lang Day, Jen Karetnick, Aqueila Lewis, Douglas Cole, and Margaret Churchill
Graphic novel illustration from Deidra Renkenberger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nRrpLORb07nk9bZ-XmPnMYUxq218WlOI/view
Watch: Wednesday Night Poetry, March 24, 2021
7 PM CST
w/Maria Nazos, Cristina Norcross, and Saddiq Dzokogi
Watch: She Persists: Rebounding from Rejection, March 8, 2021
Discussion and Reading
w/Celia Lisset Alvarez and Lesley Wheeler
Hosted by Prospectus: A Literary Offering
https://youtu.be/gAjKlo5boT8
AWP Reading
New Nature:
Rewriting Place in the Anthropocene, March 7, 2021
Premiere 5:10-6:10 PM EST
and on demand after that until April 3
w/Rosemarie Dombrowski, Wendy Oleson, Rachel Morgan, and moderator Crystal Gibbins
Watch: AWP Off-Site Reading
GRABBED Anthology, March 5, 2021
Wise Blood Booksellers, Kansas City
Wise Blood Live Stream
Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches, February 7, 2021
w/Michael Hettich
3 PM EST
Watch: Cultivating Voices Live, January 24, 2021
3:00 PM EST
w/Shira Dentz and Jennifer K. Sweeney
https://www.facebook.com/1449073028/videos/10219437002902953/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59TZYAALIds
Permafrost Issue Release Reading, January 22, 2021
7 PM EST
“I’m Speaking:” Poems to be Heard, January 10, 2021
w/Chen Chen, Spencer Reece, Clayton Stephens, Scott Ferry, Angela Karee, Joan Barasovska, Aldo Amparán, Megan Merchant, Richie Hoffman, Malaika King, Latif Ba, and Andreas Fleps
Watch: Iowa City Poetry “Today You Are Perfect” Series, December 29, 2020
w/Isabel Campos and Maxima Kahn
Watch: Poetry Square, Yuba Sutter Arts, December 17, 2020
w/Maxima Kahn, hosted by Diane Funston
https://yubasutterarts.org/events/
Open Mouth Reading Series, December 13, 2020
w/Sumita Chakraborty
Workshop and Reading
More at: https://www.openmouthreadings.com/
Watch: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium
Anthology Hanukkah Celebration, December 13, 2020
w/ Patricia Averbach, Wendy Barker, Bruce Bond, Julie R. Enszer, Pamela Epps, Alice Friman, David Greenstone, Marilyn Kallet, Nina Kossman (translated by Mary Jane White), Leslie Neustadt, Sass Orol, M.E. Silverman, Amy Small-McKinney, Carly Sachs, and Nomi Stone
Sponsored by BookStore1 Sarasota
Watch: About Place Journal, “Works of Resistance, Resilience Reading Series,” December 4, 2020
Watch: Miami Book Fair, November 18, 2020
Here in Florida | Poetry | Reading
and
on the interactive “Here in Florida” map highlighting local Florida authors
The Greatest Indoor Reading Series, November 13, 2020
Video TK
Listen: Split This Rock Virtual Open Mic,
November 13, 2020
“23andMe Says My Body Is a Sanctuary City”
Watch: Show Us Your Papers Anthology Premiere, November 6, 2020
Video TK
Watch: Airlie Press, October 14, 2020
Watch: Wild and Precious Life Series, Grabbed Anthology Launch, October 14, 2020
Watch: Wednesday Night Poetry Open Mic, October 7, 2020
Watch: The DMQ Salon, October 1, 2o2o
Watch: Tell Tell Poetry’s UGH COVID Reading Series, September 25, 2020
Watch: Bright Hill Press Open Mic, September 24, 2020
Watch: Redheaded Stepchild, September 10, 2020
Watch: SoFloPoJo Reading, 2017
Watch: Miami Book Fair Interview with SoFloPoJo, 2016
Watch: Books & Books Coral Gables Reading, 2014
CANCELED due to COVID-19
SPLIT THIS ROCK POETRY FESTIVAL
Raising Their Voices: Collaging as Confrontation (Homestead Detention Center)
Presenters: Catherine Esposito Prescott; Jen Karetnick; Mia Leonin; Caridad Moro
George Washington University’s Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052
New Nature: Rewriting Place in the Anthropocene
Split Rock Review celebrates eight years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. A Q&A session will follow the reading.
Presenters: Jen Karetnick, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Rachel Morgan, Wendy Oleson
Organizer/Moderator: Crystal S. Gibbins
Location: Room 006D, Henry B. González Convention Center
- February 22nd, 2020
- 7 pm
in the Old Northeast Neighborhood, St. Petersburg, FL
Florida’s poet laureate Peter Meineke, Jen Karetnick, and Carlos B. Andre
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU
Elizabeth Jacobson, Jen Karetnick, Elisa Albo
Monday, April 15, 2019
7 pm
301 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
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BOOKS & BOOKS SUNILAND
Jen Karetnick & Roy Luna, Featured Readers
& Open Mic for Five-Minute Pieces
Wednesday, March 13, 6pm – 8pm
11297 South Dixie Highway
Pinecrest, FL 33156
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NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL 2018
POETRY READING
Jen Karetnick, Jade Quinn, Valerie Wallace, Su Zi
New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave.
Mezzanine: 2nd floor, top of lobby stairs
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NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL 2018
PANEL
Coastal Poetics: Crafting Erosion and Absence
When poets live on a coast, they’re constantly observing change. Like life itself, what is landscape one day may be gone the next, swept away by storms or rhipped away, quietly and unseen. In these times of climate sickness, how do poets craft work about what will always, in a way, become either the absence or a source of the absence? Should they eulogize the coast? Should their work risk joy? Or are they required to medicate poems and aim them, arrows of foreshadowing, toward the chronically ill future? In other words, is the role of poets who live on dying coasts to give witness? If so, how do their poems reconcile and reflect these dichotomies—observation of loss, memorializing what’s left—in both content and form? Panelists, all widely published who live on coasts, read their work and discuss how writing in unstable environments is like moving through the stages of grief, considering whether they even have the choice but to gird their poems’ architecture with the stilts of dread, anger, urgency and mourning.
SWWIM Every Day/Rise Up Review off-site AWP SISTER reading
Hosted by editors Jen Karetnick, Catherine Esposito Prescott and Sonia Greenfield
Featured readers:
MB McLatchey (SWWIM)
Caridad Moro-Gronlier (SWWIM)
Jenny Molberg (SWIMM)
Sarah Carey (both)
Nicole Callihan (both)
Michele Leavitt (both)
Jessica Johnson (RUR)
Nickole Brown (RUR)
Arminé Iknadossian (RUR)
March 8, 9:00 PM
The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd., Tampa
***POETRY READING WITH:
About Place Journal, sponsored by the Black Earth Institute
along with their fellows and other contributors at this off-site AWP event
March 8, 4:00 PM
The Attic Cafe, 500 E Kennedy Blvd., Tampa
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
BOOK SIGNING WITH:
The Sagamore Miami Beach
Best “Room with a View”
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 6-9 pm
1671 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
Jen Karetnick 