The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up a number of opportunities for remote events. Below is a selection of remote events from Wesleyan University Press authors, including some video clips of readings and interviews. Enjoy!
October 22, 2021
Wendy Xu Reading
Downtown Writers Center
September 27, 2021
Wendy Xu at “Creative Thinking in Times of Crisis”
Rutgers University Writers House
September 20, 2021
Wendy Xu in conversation with Miller Oberman
Eugene Lang College First-Year Writing Program
July 8, 2021
JUPITER INVINCIBLE by Yusef Komunyakaa
A live radio play hosted by Stella Adler Center for the Arts
June 17, 2021
Minnie Bruce Pratt at Lesbian All-Star Extravaganza
Belladonna Books
May 22, 2021
A Body in Fukushima: Film and Performance
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
May 6, 2021
Artist Talk: Dearest Elephant––Collaboration between Ian Boyden and Tsering Woester
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
April 28, 2021
A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
April 22, 2021
Minnie Bruce Pratt Fireside Chat
University of Alabama’s LGBTQ Alumni Association
April 22, 2021
Katherine In-Young Lee at Samul Nori: Dynamic Rhythms from Korea
The Korea Society
April 19, 2021
Camille T. Dungy and Ed Roberson in conversation
The Seminary Co-op, 57th Street Books
April 19, 2021
Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Reckon Podcast
April 16, 2021
Minnie Bruce Pratt Reading
Downtown Writers Center, YMCA of Central New York
April 10, 2021
Dianne Bilyak at National Siblings Day Celebration
Wesleyan University
April 8, 2021
Abigail Chabitnoy Reading
Long Museum and Cultural Center
March 16, 2021
Minnie Bruce Pratt Magnified Publication Celebration
Sinister Wisdom
March 8, 2021
Socially Distant Verse featuring Dianne Bilyak
The Sacramento Poetry Center
March 4, 2021
“We’ll Give You Something To Laugh About: Navigating Disability Through Humor” featuring Dianne Bilyak
AWP Conference panel
March 3, 2021
“The Topical Poem” featuring Rae Armantrout
AWP Conference panel
February 25, 2021
Will Harris at Poets in Conversation
A Mighty Blaze
February 25, 2021
Hari Krishnan in conversation with Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
Bangalore International Centre
February 21, 2021
“Our Queer Lives, Stranger Than Fiction: A Writing Workshop” with Minnie Bruce Pratt
Sexual Minorities Archive
February 20, 2021
The Collectibles Series with Minnie Bruce Pratt
Headmistress Press
January 13, 2021
“The Dance Historian Is In” featuring Wendy Perron
Bennington College
January 10, 2021
“The Final Frontier: Space, Race, and Survival in Speculative Fiction” featuring Samuel Delany
MLA Convention panel
January 10, 2021
“Samuel R. Delany on Sex”
MLA Convention panel
January 8, 2021
“Presidential Plenary: Poetics of Persistence in Black Life” featuring Claudia Rankine, Fred Moten, N. Nourbese Phillip, and Evie Shockley
MLA Convention panel
January 7, 2021
“Law at the Border” featuring a presentation on Charles Baudelaire
MLA Convention Panel
January 3, 2021
Interview with Rae Armantrout
Poetry LA
December 15, 2020
Wendy Perron in conversation with Jed Bark and Barbara Dilley
PCG Studio
December 12, 2020
Rae Armantrout Reading with John Sakkis
The Segue Reading Series
December 7, 2020
Hafizah Geter Reading with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
The Poetry Project
December 5, 2020
Rae Armantrout at “In Brief: The Pleasures and Perils of the Short Poem
Masterclass at Poets House
November 30, 2020
Will Harris and Hafizah Geter Poetry Reading
Books Are Magic
November 21, 2020
Wendy Perron at “Conversation Without Walls: Barbara Dilley & Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project
November 19, 2020
Native American Heritage Month Poetry Reading
American Writers Museum
November 19, 2020
Rachel Blau Duplessis at “Close Readings in a Virtual Space”
The Flow Chart Foundation
November 15, 2020
Eiko Otake’s “Virtual Studio: An Artist’s Practice in the Year of Pandemic and Political Crisis”
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
November 13, 2020
Eve Kahn at “Mary Roger Williams: The Mary Cassatt You Never Heard Of”
The National Arts Club
November 6, 2020
Wendy Perron in conversation with Stephen Petronio
Virtual Bloodlines Festival
November 5, 2020
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers at “Phillis Wheatley Peters and African Lineage and Kinship in The Age of Phillis“
American Antiquarian Society
November 2, 2020
Ian Boyden at “Know Your Islanders: A Forest of Names”
San Juan Island Library