Upcoming Poetry Events – February 2012

The poetry season is picking up in February, and here a bunch of the poetry events that will occur in the Rochester area in February. By the way Just Poets is now on Google +. If you are on Google +, why not add us to your circle. You can find us here: http://gplus.to/justpoets. (This list [...]

Forrest Gander at The Writers Forum (10-19-11)

Poet and translator Forrest Gander  will be reading at SUNY Brockport’s Writers Forum on October 19. A translator, essayist, novelist and poet, Forrest Gander is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novel As a Friend (2008); the poetry collections Core Samples from the World, a book of poems, haibun, and collaborations with three photographers; Eye [...]

Aimee Nezhukumatathil at The Writers Forum (9-28-11)

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil  will be reading at SUNY Brockport’s Writers Forum on Wednesday, September 28. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three collections of poetry: Lucky Fish, winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize; At the Drive-In Volcano, winner of the Balcones Prize; and Miracle Fruit, winner of the Tupelo Press Prize and the ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year [...]

Upcoming Poetry Events – September 2011

September is the month when the poetry activities in the Rochester, NY-area flourish, especially now that SUNY Borckport’s Writers Forum is back in session. So read below for all the events. Oh, and Just Poets is now on Google +. If you are on Google +, why not add us to your circle. You can [...]

Karla Linn Merrifield Reading (4-6-11)

On Wednesday, April 6th at 1 p.m., Karla Linn Merrifield will read at the SUNY Brockport Scholars Day event. Each year, SUNY Brockport celebrates its scholars and creative artists at the day-long Scholars Day event. As an emerita and an alumna, Merrifield will read at Hartwell Hall, Room 218, for Cancer Takes a Holiday: Up the [...]

Upcoming Poetry Events – April 2011

For the month of April, the Just Poets blog will host the “Favorite Poem Project.” Each day during National Poetry Month, we will post a Just Poets member’s favorite poem along with the member’s comment about the poem. This poems are scheduled to appear each day at 9:00 a.m. **** Monday, April 4, 2011, at 7:30 [...]

Jennifer Perrine at The Writers Forum (3-23-11)

Poet Jennifer Perrine will be reading at SUNY Brockport’s The Writers Forum on Wednesday, March 23. Jennifer Perrine’s first collection of poems, The Body Is No Machine, was published by New Issues in 2007 and won the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bellingham Review, Atlanta Review, [...]