AWP- 2010 Conference- Off-site Events

2010 Things To Do Off-Site

2010 Annual Conference & Bookfair
April 7-10, 2010
Denver, Colorado
Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center

Last edited: March 16, 2010

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If the 500 exhibits of the Bookfair and the 300 events on the official schedule of the AWP Conference are not enough for you, you should consider a few of the off-site alternatives, listed below. Please note that your sobriety will be challenged at many of these venues. Post & find out about off-site events on our forums.

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Museum Of Contemporary Art
Location: 1485 Delgany, Denver Co 80202; 303.298.7554
Cost: $5 admission for all attendees and participants in the AWP conference
Website: http://www.mcadenver.org
MCA DENVER is an activator, content provider and immediate research vehicle of culture in the making—a museum without a front door—a place for public engagement. MCA DENVER has five distinct galleries, three spaces for education, multiple sites for special projects/commissioned works and one live art/lecture hall. MCA DENVER excites artists and visitors alike to enter into creative conversations that extend beyond our walls.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

7:30PM

An Evening of Poetry
Location: 1107 pearl Street, Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO
Cost: Free
Website: http://boulderbookstore.com
Reading by Richard Jackson, William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

4:00PM-8:30PM	DoubleCross Press, Lame House Press,and Slash Pine Press Presents A Poetry Marathon Location: Rackhouse Pub, 208 S. Kalamath St. Cost: None Website: http://www.slashpinepress.com/awp/ Whether for a happy hour of local microbrews, a good pub dinner, or the entire four+ hour reading, our presses invite you to the work of over thirty poets. Readers include Abraham Smith, Kate Greenstreet, Malachai Black, John Dermot Woods, Anne Shaw, Jen Tynes, Farrah Field, Gina Myers/Nate Pritts, Matt Hart, Claire Becker, Matt Rasmussen, Brian Oliu, MC Hyland, Nathan Hauke, Dolly Lemke, francine j. harris, among others. 8 minute drive or 20 minutes by light rail + walking.
5:30PM-7:30PM	Reading Location: Translation Gallery, 1743 Wazee Street, Denver, CO Cost: Free Event- No Pass Required Featuring Tarpaulin Sky Press, Fact-Simile, and Sidebrow Books
7:00PM-10:00PM	AHSAHTA / OMNIDAWN READING Location: The Magnolia Hotel Ballroom, 17th & Stout (Only 3 blocks from the Colorado Convention Center.) Cost: No charge for the event. Please join Ahsahta Press and Omnidawn Publishing for a reading. The readers will be: Christopher Arigo, Susan Briante, Dan Beachy-Quick, Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover, Gillian Conoley, Ben Doller, Lisa Fishman, Noah Eli Gordon, Richard Greenfield, Janet Holmes, Hank Lazer, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, G.E. Patterson, Craig Santos Perez, Bin Ramke, Don Revell, Elizabeth Robinson, Heather Sellers, Heidi Lynn Staples, Michelle Taransky.
7:00PM-9:00PM	"Breathing, In Dust" by Tim Z. Hernandez. A book release party and reading!! Location: CHAC - Chicano Humanities & Arts Council, 772 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204 (in the heart of Denver's arts district) Cost: FREE! Website: http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/americas.html http://coloradopoetscenter.com/poets/hernandez_tim/readings.html Join us as we celebrate the debut novel of American Book Award winning author Tim Z. Hernandez. The night will include guest authors Lee Herrick, Zulema Inai, and Michael Luis Medrano. Also, live music by Denver's own George Inai & The Curious Ghosts.
7:00PM-9:00PM	COUNTERPATH BOOKS / DRUNKEN BOAT / GUERNICA / PERSEA BOOKS / POOL PERFORMANCE Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St., Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202; 303.623.3001 Website: http://www.dikeoucollection.org Join five of the most innovative journals and literary publishers showcasing their contributors in multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and video installation. Performers include Laird Hunt, Steve Katz, Alexander Chee, Susan Taylor Chehak, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Irina Reyn, Robin Beth Schaer, Dean Rader, Karen Holman, Elizabeth Bradfield and Dylan Landis. Free and open to the public, and only minutes from the conference hotel.
7:00PM-10:00PM	Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza Location: at Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave. Denver, CO 80216 Cost: FREE! Everybody welcome! Website: http://controlgroupproductions.org/ Featuring: Bronwen Tate, Ann Bogle, Jennifer Karmin, Marthe Reed, Annie Finch, Amy King, Cara Benson, Mackenzie Carignan, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Poe, Ana Bozicevic, Teresa Carmody, Kate Durbin, Megan Volpert, Sarah Rosenthal, Krystal Languell, K. Lorraine Graham, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Robin Reagler, Cheryl Pallant, Shanna Compton, Lara Glenum, Deb Marquart, Elizabeth Searle, and Mel Nichols.
7:00PM	MARGO BERDESHEVSKY & ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING @ The Bookery Nook Location: The Bookery Nook: 4280 Tennyson Street. Denver, CO 80212 (303) 433-3439 Cost: free Website: http://thebookerynook.com/Events/ MARGO BERDESHEVSKY will be reading from her "Beautiful Soon Enough." In 23 brief, dreamy stories set in locales from Paris to Cuba, poet, actress and photographer Berdeshevsky remains transfixed by beauty and desire.
7:30PM	Diode Poetry Journal/Makeout Creek Reading Location: Jones Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1101 13th Street Cost: Free Website: http://diodepoetry.com/ Line-Up: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Tarfia Faizullah, Karyna Mc Glynn, Abayomi Animashaun, Kara Candito, Mary Biddinger, Clint Mc Cown, Allison Titus, Cynthia Lotze, Nate Slawson, G C Waldrep, Joshua Poteat, Keverlee Burchett, Sabrina Orah Mark
7:30PM-9:00PM	An Evening with Danielle Sellers, Heather Cousins, and The Country Dog Review Contributors Location: Common Grounds Coffee House, 1550 Wazee Poetry Reading with Danielle Sellers, Heather Cousins, Kate Northrop, Blas Falconer, Dora Malech, John Pursley, and Adam Million
8:00PM-11:00PM	Cave Canem/Kundiman Reading & Salon Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO 80205; (303) 294-9281 Cost: $3 suggested donation -- to benefit Cave Canem & Kundiman (no one turned away for lack of funds) Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=474228325544&ref=ss Join the Cave Canem & Kundiman Families for a Reading Featuring Toi Derricotte, Sarah Gambito, Cornelius Eady, Oliver de la Paz, Dawn Lundy Martin & Kazim Ali + a salon featuring Cave Canem and Kundiman fellows & family (bring a poem to share!) Emceed by Ching-In Chen & Tara Betts.
8:00PM	Naugatuck River Review Reading Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver Hosted by Lori Desrosiers, Publisher. Featured Poets (so far): Pam Uschuk, Shaindel Beers, Derek Sheffield, Ellen Waterston, Leslea Newman, Carol Willette Bachofner, Allen Braden, Melinda Palacio, Truth Thomas, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Christina Lovin, Lana Ayers, Laurie Junkins, Jeff Streeby, Caleb Barber, Wendy Green Simpson, Keith Leonard

Thursday, April 8, 2010

5:30PM-7:30PM	Colorado Writers Reading Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO 80205; (303) 294-9281 Readers include: Eleni Sikelianos, Noah Eli Gordon, Julie Carr, Michael Friedman, Maureen Owen, John-Michael Rivera, Tim Roberts, Sara Veglahn, Eric Baus, Steve Katz, Arda Collins, and others
5:30PM-7:30PM	Prairie Schooner "Baby Boomer" Reading Location: Common Grounds Downtown Coffee, 1550 17th St, Denver, CO Cost: Free A group reading by contributors to the special "Boomer" Issue of Prairie Schooner. Readers include: Hilde Weisert, Robert E. Wood, Harriet Millan, Marilyn Kallet, Paul Lisicky, Maureen Seaton, Stephen Gibson, A.E. Stringer, Sharon Dolin, Julie Kane, Annie Finch, Edward Falco, Michael Waters, Kate Sontag, Robin Becker, Susan Aizenberg, Charles Harper Webb, Ellen Doré Watson, Toi Derricotte, Dorothy Barresi, Donald Morrill, Christopher Howell, Ray Amorosi, Albert Goldbarth, Bill Lavender, and Marianne Boruch.
5:30PM-8:30PM	Con Tinta Celebration Location: Laguna's Mexican Bar & Grill, 1543 Champa St. Denver, CO 80202 / Phone: (303) 623-5321 Cost: Free Buffet / Cash Bar Website: http://www.lagunasmexicanbarandgrill.com/ 5th Annual Pachanga for the Chicano/Latino Literary community and its allies. Event will feature special recognition of our literary antepasados, presentation of Achievement Award, and short readings/tributes by members of our writing communities. For more information, contact Richard Yañez (ryanez4@epcc.edu).
6:00PM-8:00PM	Copper Nickel Presents 8 Debut Poets Location: Tivoli Turnhalle, 900 Auraria Parkway Cost: FREE Website: http://www.copper-nickel.org/2010/03/8-debut-poets.html Readings by Dan Albergotti, Jericho Brown, Stacey Lynn Brown, Michael Dumanis, Farrah Field, J. Michael Martinez, Alison Stine, and Allison Benis White, with a reception to follow.
6:00PM	Evil Companions Literary Award Location: The Oxford Hotel, 1637 Wazee Street, Denver Cost: $60 for AWP attendees, regular ticket price is $70 Website: http://www.dplfriends.org/events/evil.html Celebrate the written word and meet Bharati Mukherjee, author of The Middleman and Other Stories and recipient of the 2010 Evil Companions Literary Award. Proceeds benefit the Denver Public Library.
6:00PM-8:30PM	The Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas present Late Night Gallery: Art and Reading Location: MCA Denver. 1485 Delgany St (corner at 15th, two blocks from Union Station) / Denver, CO 80202. Tel 303 298 7554. Websites: www.mcadenver.org & www.litline.org/Mandorla Support contemporary art and enjoy a reading of literature from the Americas at the MCA café, which opens its doors for Mandorla at 6pm. Readings run from 6:30 to 8, and museum remains open until 9; don’t miss the MCA display of Samuel Beckett's historic video “Not I” (1971). Mandorla readers include Anne Waldman, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Tomasula, Dale Smith, Andrew Schelling, Kristin Prevallet, John Keene, Bhanu Kapil, Gabriela Jauregui, Duriel Harris, Mónica de la Torre, Daniel Borzutzky.
6:00PM-8:00PM	Unbridled Books Reception Location: Rack and Rye Gastro Pub, 1320 15th Street, Denver CO 80202 Cost: free and open to anyone with an AWP badge Website: http://unbridledbooks.com Unbridled Books is hosting a reception during AWP in honor of our authors.
6:00PM-8:00PM	University at Buffalo Alumni Reading Location: The Living Room, 1055 Broadway, Denver CO Cost: Free (drinks and food available for purchase) Join us for a reading of prose and poetry by writers who attended the SUNY/University at Buffalo English Department. Headlining will be Charles Baxter and Donald Revell, with Gwen Ashbaugh, Mary Cappello, Jim Morrison, Jean Walton and others also reading. If you have any questions, e-mail James Morrison at jmorrison@cmc.edu.
6:30PM-9:00PM	"HISTORIC FALCON" Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street; walking distance from the conference Cost: Free You should definitely come to this reading of six small presses: Birds, LLC; Brave Men Press; Harp & Altar; Immaculate Disciples Press; Mississippi Review Poetry Series; and New Issues Press. Poets include: Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Justin Marks, Linnea Ogden, Christopher Salerno, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sam Starkweather, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.
6:30PM	Robin Black, A Hot Off The Presses Reading Location: Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue (at Elizabeth Street) Website:More info available at robinblack.net Come hear Robin read from her brand new story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, which was described by the Louisville Courier Journal as "A wonderfully rich and rewarding collection by a debut writer that's not to miss for fans of Alice Munro or Lorrie Moore."
7:00PM-9:00PM	Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century Location: Wyncoop Brewery, 1634 18th St. Denver, CO Website: http://www.wynkoop.com/ Book release party / reading for White Pine Press anthology with Sherwin Bitsui, Kevin Goodan, Ilya Kaminsky, Maria Melendez, Malena Mörling, and Joshua Poteat
7:00PM-8:30PM	Born Magazine @ Gypsy House Location: Gypsy House Café, located at 1279 Marion Street (on the corner of 13th and Marion) Denver, CO 80218 Cost: Free Born Magazine and the Gypsy House Reading Series present an evening of experimental writer-artist collaborations on Thursday, April 8th from 7–8:30 PM at the Gypsy House Café. Please join us for a screening of Born projects, with readings by Ander Monson, Monica Drake, Esther Lee, Emma Ramey, Keetje Kuipers, and Thomas Crofts.
7:00PM	FC2 Flash Reading Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St, Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202 Matt Roberson, Rob Stephenson, Steve Katz, Vanessa Place, Lynn Kilpatrick, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Susan Steinberg, Brian Evenson, Brian Kiteley, Cris Mazza, Debra Di Blasi, Lance Olsen, Jan Ramjerdi, Steve Gutierrez, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jeffrey DeShell, Elisabeth Sheffield
7:00PM	Northwestern University Press / &NOW Books / Artifice Magazine Reading Location: The Celtic Tavern, 1801 Blake St, Denver, CO 80202 Cost: None Website:http://www.artificemag.com/events Join Northwestern University Press, &Now Books, and Artifice Magazine for an evening of readings. Three imprints at different ages showcase authors writing at the frontier of contemporary literature.
7:00PM	Plain View Press Reading and Reception Location: West Side Books, 3434 W. 32nd Ave, 303-480-0220 Cost: Free Website: http://plainviewpress.net Come and meet Plain View Press writers and poet/publisher, Susan Bright. Readers: Karen Douglass, Beth Paulson, Sandra Drake, Jennifer Burd, Sarah Zale, Lucia Galloway, H. Palmer Hall, Cathy Strisik, Eve La Salle Caram, Pamela L. Laskin, John Graves Morris, Diana Raab, Adrianne Kallfopoulou, Tony Zurlo, David Radavich.
7:00PM	Samples: A reading from 9 poets Location: PLUS Gallery, 2501 Larimer Street, Denver, CO 80205 (about one mile from the AWP events) Cost: Free!!! Wine and snacks will be served. Website: http://www.plusgallery.com/events/ Please join us for this event gathering 6 small presses (EtherDome Chapbooks, Instance Press, Woodland Editions, Shearsman Books, Film Forum Press and The Song Cave) and featuring readings from 9 poets including James Belflower, Caroline Crumpacker, Susan Dyckman, Jim Elledge, Jane Gregory, Jennifer Karmin, Susan Manchester, Jaime Robles and Sarah Suzor.
7:00PM	Small Press Party with Bloof Books, Cooper Dillon & Noemi Press Location: Green Spaces Colorado, 1368 26th Street, Denver CO Cost: FREE; books will be available for purchase Websites: http://bloofbooks.com, http://cooperdillon.com/, http://noemipress.org/, & http://greenspacescolorado.com/ Join Bloof Books, Cooper Dillon, and Noemi Press for a Thursday night off-site party at Green Spaces Colorado, with readings by Shanna Compton, Peter Davis, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Claire Hero, Jennifer L. Knox, Ada Limon, Gary L. McDowell, Danielle Pafunda, Nate Pritts, Shya Scanlon, and Sandra Simonds. 21 and over. Accessible first floor location, 1.3 miles from the conference hotel (special-needs guests requiring further info, please email info [at] bloofbooks [dot] com).
7:00PM	University of Colorado, Boulder/Off-site Party Location: Lola Coastal Mexican Restaurant, 1575 Boulder St., Denver 80211/(720)570-8086 Cost: Free Website: http://www.loladenver.com An evening of food, reunion and open readings for all alumni, current students and faculty of CU Boulder's CWP. Free food; buy your own drinks. Come out and celebrate our program's accomplishments!
7:30PM	Action Books, Litmus Press, and Nightboat Books poetry reading Location: The Thin Man Tavern, 2015 E 17th Ave Denver (just a quick cab ride or take the 20 bus at 17th Street & Welton Street, get off at 17th Street & Race Street) Featuring Paula Cisewski, Brenda Ijima, Sandy Florian, Lara Glenum, Johannes Göransson, Dawn Lundy Martin, Laura Moriarty, Abe Smith, Stacy Szymaszek, and Edwin Torres.
7:30PM	DOGZPANK Location: Forest Room 5 Cost: Free Website: http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/?p=2080 Short fiction reading comprised of joint DOGZPLOT and PANK contributors: Aaron Burch, Anne Valente, Beth Thomas, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Matt Bell, JA Tyler, Erin Fitzgerald, Molly Gaudry, Kathy Fish, Angi Becker Stevens, Matt Salesses, Pedro Ponce.
7:30PM-9:00PM	The Girls of Saturnalia Books & Painted Bride Quarterly Location: William Havu Gallery, 1040 Cherokee Street (between 10th and 11th Street) Downtown Denver, just a 15 minute walk (or 5 minute drive) from the AWP Convention Center Sexy, saucy, sassy, smart, seductive, spicy, and just plain sick. Saturnalia Readers: Sabrina Orah Mark, author of The Babies and Tsim Tsum; Sarah Vap, author of American Spikenard, Dummy Fire, and featured in Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics; Catherine Pierce, author of Famous Last Words; Kristi Maxwell, author of Realm 64 and Hush Sessions. PBQ Readers: Lynn Levin is the author of three collections of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour (2009), Imaginarium (2005), and A Few Questions about Paradise (2000), all published by Loonfeather Press; Teresa Leo is the author of The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editors' Prize; Elizabeth Scanlon is an editor of The American Poetry Review and her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares, and in the newly released anthology Starting Today: Poems for Obama's First 100 Days; Robin Beth Schaer is the recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, and Washington Square, among others, and recordings of her work are featured on From the Fishouse. WINE will be served Sponsored by Painted Bride Quarterly and Saturnalia Books.
7:30PM-9:30PM	Publication Party and Reading Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver Website: http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-You-Me-Breakup/dp/1590202821/ Publication party and reading for the anthology It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Break Up. Featuring Patricia Smith, Kim Addonizio, Jerry Williams, Angela Ball, Kevin Prufer, Martha Rhodes, and others.
8:00PM-10:00PM	Alice James Books and Four Way Books Reading Location: Common Grounds Downtown Coffee, 1550 17th St, Denver, CO Cost: free "Lightening Flash" readings by Alice James Books and Four Way Books authors: Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Joanna Fuhrman, Frank Giampietro, Kevin Goodan, Tom Healy, Meg Kearney, David Dodd Lee, Lesle Lewis, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Jamie Ross, Chad Sweeney, Sandy Tseng, and Monica Youn
8:00PM-9:45PM	FREE VERSE EDITIONS READING Location: Turnhalle of the Tivoli Student Union on the campus of the University of Colorado-Denver. Address: 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, CO 80204-1991 Cost: No charge for the event Please join Free Verse Editions for a reading which will follow the Copper Nickel poetry reading from 6:15-7:30PM. The readers will be: Molly Bendall, Brenda Hillman, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Cole Swensen and Jon Thompson
8:00PM-10:00PM	A Magazine Party: Colorado Review, The Normal School, Denver Quarterly, The Pinch Location: Wazee Supper Club, 1600 15th Street Cost: cash bar and apps Website: http://www.wazeesupperclub.com Come celebrate with some of your favorite magazines.
8:30PM-9:30PM	13 Younger Contemporary American Poets Anthology Reading Presented by Proem Press & Hosted by Mark Irwin and Andrew Wessels Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St. Cost: FREE! Come and celebrate the publication of 13 Younger Contemporary American Poets from Proem Press. Featured readers include Arda Collins, Tim Donnelly, Kate Greenstreet, David Mason, and G.C. Waldrep.
9:30PM	TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret Location: Mercury Cafe 2199 California St, Denver CO Website: http://www.typewritergirls.net The TypewriterGirls' Dada-bred performances are collage-work theatre formed from sketch comedy, poetry, music, whiskey games, collaborative writing, burlesque, and a little magic. In essence, they strive to embody the Comte de Lautréamont's creed "poetry must be made by all" with a play and a dance party. This event will feature some of Denver's finest poets and performers.
10:30PM-1:00AM	Genres and Generations Location: Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge, 930 Lincoln St, Denver, CO 80203 Cost: Free Event- No Passes Required Website: http://www.dazzlejazz.com Genres and Generations is featuring Tarpaulin Sky, Fact-Simile, Monkey Puzzle Press, Fast Forward, Bombay Gin, and Zero Ducats.

Friday, April 9, 2010

3:00PM- 4:30PM	DENVER QUARTERLY Reading and Publication Celebration Location: The Dikeou Collection, located in Downtown Denver: The Colorado Building, 1615 California Street (at 16th Street), Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202 (Only a two-block-walk from the Colorado Convention Center.) Cost: There will be free wine and snacks, and no charge for the event. Please join the Denver Quarterly and Coach House Press for a reading on Friday, April 9th, from 3-6pm at The Dikeou Collection. Featuring: Dan Beachy-Quick, Julie Carr, Malinda Markham, Martha Ronk, Cole Swensen, Brian Teare
3:30PM- 5:00PM	Pilgrimage Magazine Release Party & Reading Location: Tattered Cover Book Store--LoDo, 1628 16th Street at Wynkoop; exit Colorado Convention Center on 14th & California; go two blocks NE on California to 16th St.; hop on free 16th Street Shuttle (runs every few minutes) and ride 10 blocks NW to Wynkoop. Cost: FREE Website: http://pilgrimagepress.org Join new editor Maria Melendez and recent contributors to celebrate the publication of our latest magazine issue and our new anthology, Telling It Real. Readings, renga writing, refreshments, and a raffle. Ready?
4:00PM- 6:00PM	failbetter.com's 10th anniversary Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver Cost: No cover, cash bar failbetter.com celebrates its 10th anniversary with a cocktail party and reading, featuring: Sherman ALEXIE, Michael MARTONE, Terese SVOBODA
4:30PM- 6:00PM	COACH HOUSE PRESS: Cross-Border Avant-Garde Extravaganza Location: The Dikeou Collection, located in Downtown Denver: The Colorado Building, 1615 California Street (at 16th Street), Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202 (Only a two-block-walk from the Colorado Convention Center.) Cost: There will be free wine and snacks, and no charge for the event. Please join the Denver Quarterly and Coach House Press for a reading on Friday, April 9th, from 3-6pm at The Dikeou Collection. Featuring: Christian Bök, Jen Currin, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Rachel Levitsky, K. Silem Mohammad
5:00PM- 7:00PM	Black Warrior Review / Blue Hour Press Reading Location: Mario's Double Daughter's Salotto, 1632 Market St, Denver, CO 80202 Cost: Free Website: http://bwr.ua.edu/ & http://www.bluehourpress.com/ Start off your evening of off-site events at Double Daughter's (just an eight-block walk or free bus ride), where ten readers will share the work they've published in the physical pages of Black Warrior Review and the digital pages of Blue Hour Press: Christopher Cheney, Miriam Cohen, Shanna Compton, Nick Courtright, John Gallaher, James Grinwis, Emily Kendal Frey, Brian Kubarycz, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Alexis Orgera.
5:00PM- 7:00PM	The Southern Review 75th Anniversary Party Location: Blake Street Vault, 1526 Blake Street, 80202 Cost: No cover, Free hors d'oeuvres, Cash bar Website: http://www.lsu.edu/tsr/ Celebrate 75 years of great literature and great community with The Southern Review editors and writers.
6:00PM-19:00PM	Counterpath Press and Letter Machine Editions Reading Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO 80205; (303) 294-9281 Cost: Free; Full restaurant and bar Featuring: Brenda Hillman, Laynie Browne, Forrest Gander, Mei-Mei Berssendbrugge, Carol Snow, Barbara Freeman, Cole Swensen, Gillian Conoley, Stephen Ratcliffe, Martha Ronk, Paul Hoover, Travis Nichols, Aaron Kurin, Juliana Leslie, Farid Matuk
6:00PM-9:00PM	OW Press The Velvet reading Location: Leela's European Cafe, 820 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202-3209; (303) 534-2255 Cost: FREE. And, if you buy a drink at Leela's you'll get a discount on books purchased during the reading A reading featuring OW Website: http://www.outsiderwriters.org/ow-press-the-velvet-reading-april-9th Press (outsiderwriters.org) authors and writers from the writing community, The Velvet (welcometothevelvet.com). Readers include Rayo Casablanca (Very Mercenary, Kensington Press), Gordon Highland (Major Inversions), Caleb J Ross (Charactered Pieces, OW Press), Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate, forthcoming from Otherworld Publications), Nik Korpon (Stay God, forthcoming from Otherworld Publications), Gavin Pate (The Way to Get Here, Bootstrap Press), Bradley Sands (My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!, Raw Dog Screaming Press), Paul Eckert (editor, Sideshow Fables magazine) + more to be announced
6:30PM- 8:30PM	BOULEVARD MAGAZINE 25th ANNIVERSARY READING Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street; walking distance from the conference Cost: Free, free, free A reading celebrating BOULEVARD magazine's 25th anniversary. The readers will include D.A. Powell, Albert Goldbarth, Martha Collins, Jennifer Denrow, and Kevin Prufer. All will offer short poetry readings.
6:30PM-8:30PM	CSU Poetry Center & The University of Akron Press Poetry Reading Location: Paris on the Platte Cafe & Bar Cost: Free admission, Cash Bar Please join us for readings by Allison Benis White, John Bradley, Ashley Capps, Oliver de la Paz, Heather Derr-Smith, David Dodd Lee, Elyse Fenton, John Gallaher, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Helena Mesa, Mathias Svalina, & Allison Titus. Come by table A22 to pick up your invitation and map.
6:30PM-9:15PM	Mayapple Press Reading Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO 80205 Cost: Free to the public Website: http://.mayapplepress.com Open mic from 6:30-7:00, featured authors from 7:15-9:15. Bring your work to share and listen to Mayapple authors read their work! Featured readers include: Allison Joseph, Eleanor Lerman, Barbara Crooker, Judith Kerman, Robin Chapman, Jeri McCormick, Alice Friman, Susan Elbe, Gretchen Fletcher, Jane Hilberry, Don Cellini, Betsy Johnson-Miller, Tim Mayo, Amee Schmidt, and Matthew Falk.
6:30PM-9:00PM	“One Poem Festival.” Hosted by Momotombo Press and PALABRA Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St., Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202; 303.623.3001 Website: http://www.dikeoucollection.com Join us for this 3rd annual AWP offsite event. Twenty-eight poets read one poem each. Lineup includes Aaron A. Abeyta, Naomi Ayala, Oscar Bermeo, Richard Blanco, Xánath Caraza, Lorna Dee Cervantes, John Chávez, Mario Duarte, Juliana Aragón Fatula, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Diana Garcia, Liz González, Tim Z. Hernández, Lisa Jimenez, Sheryl Luna, John Michael Martinez, Michael Luis Medrano, María Meléndez, Carolina Monsiváis, Juan J. Morales, Kristin Naca, Emmy Pérez, Manuel Ramos, John-Michael Rivera, Carmen Giménez Smith, Gloria Vando, Dan Vera, Rich Villar.
7:00PM	Astrophil Press Off Site Party Location: 7 South Broadway (Hi-Dive) Cost: Free! Website: http://astrophilpress.com/index.php?id=15 A night of readings and music including: Laird Hunt, Selah Saterstrom, David Gruber, Joanna Howard, Keith Abbott, Sandy Florian, and Brett Ralph. Free door prizes include free drinks and books. A DJ and live bands will cap off the night! Come celebrate independent publishing!
7:00PM-9:00PM	Courting Risk Reading Series IV Loacation: Forza Coffee Company, 3013 W 104th Ave, Westminster, CO 80031-2351; Taxi-sharing arranged at the Hyatt, 6:30pm Cost: FREE Website: http://www.courtingrisk.com Multicultural, multi-genre reading series featuring work by women writers, writers of color, and LGBT writers. Readers include ariel robello, Francine J. Harris, Natalie Diaz, Layli Longsoldier, Naomi Benaron, Jamaal "Versiz" May, Anastacia Tolbert and others. Curated by Khadijah Queen; to RSVP or join our email list: support@courtingrisk.com
7:00PM-10:00PM	Creative Nonfiction Launch Party & MFA Program-Off Reading Location: The Shag Lounge, 830 15th Street, Denver, CO Cost: FREE Website: http://www.creativenonfiction.org After a long day at the conference, come relax with Creative Nonfiction and listen to readings from the finalists and winner of the MFA Program-Off Contest. Off-site event, but only three blocks from the convention center. Free copies of the newly redesigned CNF magazine, plus plenty of cheap drinks for all in attendance.
7:00PM-9:00PM	Lighthouse Writer's Workshop Location:The Jet Hotel, 1612 Wazee Street Cost: FREE Website: http://lighthousewriters.org Join us for drinks and a bit of native (Denver) wisdom with David Wroblewski and Kimberly McClintock and members of our local writing community: Mario Acevedo, Nick Arvin, Phyllis Barber, John Brehm, Shari Caudron, William Haywood Henderson, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Vicki Lindner, Laura Pritchett, Chris Ransick, David Rothman, and more. rsvp info@lighthousewriters.org subject: AWP party
7:00PM-9:00PM	Meadowlark Poetry Marathon Location: 2701 Larimer St., Denver 80205 Cost: Free Website: http://www.meadowlarkbar.com Poetry readings followed by disco dance party! Feat. Rachel Loden, Kate Greenstreet, Amy King, Aaron Belz, Arielle Greenberg, Daniel Borzutsky, Amy Guth, Ana Bozicevic, Susan Schultz, Peter Davis, Chad Parmenter, Katie Degentesh, Geoffrey Gatza, Janet Holmes, Tony Trigilio, Julie Dill, Tony Robinson, Reb Livingston, Ben and Sandra Doller, Steven Schroeder, Aaron Kunin, Kathy Ossip, Charles Alexander, Luc Simonic, Chris Davidson.
7:00PM-9:00PM	Poems in a Time of War: a reading by Wick Poetry Center award-winners, Edward Micus and Hugh Martin, and featuring Peace Stanzas, the community arts project Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany Street Cost: Free, cash bar Websites:http://vcd.kent.edu/travelingstanzas/, http://dept.kent.edu/wick/, & http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/exhibitions Join us for this unique reading, featuring Edward Micus (winner of the 2008 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for The Infirmary) and Hugh Martin (winner of the 2008 Ohio Student Chapbook Competition, for So, How Was the War?), as well as a multi-media presentation of our own Peace Stanzas--featuring the poems of Ohio grade school students, veterans, and senior citizens alongside the graphic designs of Kent State designers. Your ticket is FREE at the door, and includes entrance to the Museum of Contemporary Art. Less than a mile up 15th Street, this event is convenient, conscious, and very, very cool. See you there!
7:30PM-9:30PM	Barbed Wire Reading Series Location: Michelangelo's Coffee and Wine Bar, 1 Broadway Suite B Cost: No cover * Half price bottles of wine The International Reading Series! Come hear the literary work of artists from Denver, the Southwest, Latin America, and the Deep South at the long-running, multi-genre Barbed Wire Reading Series. In 2004, Barbed Wire was birthed from the University of Texas at El Paso bilingual MFA program, where it continues to the present. It spread to the University of Alabama in 2007. MCed by Denver’s own Trent Hudley, and Kevin Brown of the University of Alabama. *In keeping with the tradition of the Barbed Wire series in Tuscaloosa, AL, Michelangelo’s will be offering half price bottles of wine especially and exclusively for the Barbed Wire event.
7:30PM	Chiasmus Press/Fairy Tale Review Press/Les Figues Press Location: The Thin Man Tavern, 2015 E 17th Ave Denver (just a quick cab ride or take the 20 bus at 17th Street & Welton Street, get off at 17th Street & Race Street) Join us for a reading by the writers of three radical women-run presses—Chiasmus Press, Fairy Tale Review Press, and Les Figues Press—featuring Harold Abramowitz, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, Ashley McWaters, Alissa Nutting, Lance Olsen, Vanessa Place, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Kate Zambreno.
7:30PM	Pecan Grove Press Reading: In Celebration and Appreciation of H. Palmer Hall Location: West Side Books, 3434 West 32nd Avenue, Denver, CO 80211-3183; (303) 480-0220 Cost: $0 Website: http://westsidebooks.com & http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress/ Featured Readers will include H. Palmer Hall, Phoebe Reeves, Craig Challender and Joel Peckham. They will be followed by open-mike readings by any Pecan Grove authors in attendance.
7:30PM	Switchback Books hosts Artifice Mag, Coconut, and Tarpaulin Sky Press Location: Delaney's Bar/Celtic Tavern, 1805 Blake St. Website: http://www.celtictavern.com/modules/wfchannel/ Readings by Simone Muench, Monica de la Torre, Kathleen Rooney, Gina Myers, Davis Schneiderman, Marisa Crawford, Kim Gek Lin Short, Andrew Farkas, Shelly Taylor, David Welch, Tim Jones-Yelvington, and more. $3 beer specials and 17 beers on tap.
8:00PM-MIDNIGHT	25th Year Celebration: Colorado State University's MFA Location: Wynkoop's Brewery, 1634 18th St., 303-297-9999 Cost: cash bar, free apps Website: http://www.wynkoop.com Come celebrate 25 years of CSU's MFA. Alumni reading and party, including George Kalamaras, Mary Ann Cain, Matthew Cooperman, Leslee Becker, Neil Shepherd, Chris Arigo, Wendy Rawlings, John Bradley, Sandra Meek, Jacqueline Lyons and others.
8:00PM	Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers: a BOA Editions book release party and reading! Location: D'Vine Winery, 1660 Champa Street, Denver (just a block from the main hotel) Cost: Free Website: http://keetjekuipers.com Join us as we celebrate the debut poetry collection of Wallace Stegner Fellow Keetje Kuipers. The night will include other guest authors from BOA as well as a free bottle of wine to take home for the first 15 guests who buy a book!
9:00PM	MAKE it ANOTHER Afterparty hosted by MAKE: A Literary Magazine and ACM Location: (Secret) Gallery, 901 W 7th Ave, Denver, CO 80204 Websites: http://makemag.com & http://anotherchicagomagazine.net Featuring short, salon-style presentations/readings/ceremony and loot from ACM, Artifice Magazine, Canarium Books, Green Lantern Press, featherproof, MAKE, Rose Metal Press, Hobart, knee-jerk, and the 2nd Hand. Doors at 8:00 pm. Performances begin at 9:00 pm.
9:00PM-MIDNIGHT	WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) Goes Live: A Benefit Evening of Burlesque, Literature and Roller Derby Location: The Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place Cost: $10 Burlesque Performers Vivienne VaVoom & Cora Vette, both of Black Box Burlesque, join Readers Kim Adinozzio, Mary Akers, Erin Belieu, Ana Bozicevic, Jami Brandli, Barrie Jean Borich, Nickole Brown, Kara Candito, Mary Cappello, Ashley Capps, Jennine Capó Crucet, Carolyn Forche, Ru Freeman, Lara Glenum, Cathy Park Hong, Olivia Johnson, Lynn Kilpatrick, Amy King, Dorianne Laux, Roxanne Banks Malia, April Manteris, Cate Marvin, Carol Muske-Dukes, Antonya Nelson, Danielle Pafunda, Ann Pancake, Jennifer Park, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Patricia Smith, Susan Steinberg, Cheryl Strayed, Ann Townsend, Emily Warn, and Leni Zumas.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

1:00PM-2:00PM	Word Girls poetry reading (featuring Barbara Crooker, Kim Garcia, Meredith Davies Hadaway, and Erin Murphy) Location: Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver, Co. Cost: free Website:http://www.mercurycafe.com A poetry reading featuring four award-winning poets published by WordTech Press of Cincinnati, Ohio.
5:00PM	An Evening with The Sun: Reading with Sun authors Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, Colorado Cost: Free Editor and publisher Sy Safransky and Sun authors Lee Martin, Laura Pritchett, Ruth Schwartz, and Heather Sellers will read at 5 p.m. at the Mercury Cafe. Admission is free; seating is limited. We hope you'll join us.
5:00PM-7:00PM	Fence & 1913: Off-Site Salon Location: Mario's Double Daughter's Salotto, 1632 Market Street, Denver, CO 80202 Cost: Free! Website: http://www.fenceportal.org, http://www.journal1913.org, & http://www.doubledaughters.com Please join us for double-headed double-trouble, including readings from Fence's new season of books & 1913 a journal of forms' newest issue during Happy Hour Saturday at the Salotto! Off-site event but just a block from the conference happenings. Drink specials, parlor tricks, & other mayhem will surely ensue. Cabaret performances by: Macgregor Card, Bruce Covey, Ben Doller, Brandon Downing, Adrian Kien, Aaron Kunin, Richard Meier, Sara Mumolo, Josie Sigler, Edwin Torres, Catherine Wagner, Lynn Xu.
5:30PM-7:15PM	Colorado Writers Read Location: Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80204-2115; (303) 571-5260 Readers include: Matthias Svalina, Stephen Graham Jones, Laura Wright, Jake Adam York, Michelle Battiste, Steven Hayward, Matthew Cooperman, Aby Kaupang, and others.
6:00PM	Reading and Book Party for the Starting Today Anthology Location: Paris on the Platte Cafe, 1553 Platte Street, Denver, CO Cost: Free Website: http://www.rachelzucker.net/readings/ More than twenty contributors from the Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days anthology will read their poems and celebrate the release of the book. Readers include: Matt Rohrer, Sarah Vap, Cole Swenson, Catherine Wagner, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, John Gallaher, Laynie Browne, Matthew Zapruder, Sasha Steensen, Michael Dumanis, Martha Collins, Craig Morgan Teicher, Erika Meitner, Allison Joseph, Erin Belieu, Rachel Zucker, Patricia Smith, Jenny Browne, Lesléa Newman, Katy Lederer, Lindsey Wallace, Dara Wier, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Pimone Triplett, Robin Beth Schaer, Tony Trigilio , Catherine Barnett, Patrick Culliton, Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Cooley, Cate Marvin, Michael Morse, Prageeta Sharma and Mark Bibbins.
6:45PM	The Loudest Voice Presents: A Happy Hour & Reading with the University of Southern California Creative Writers Location: DIKEOU (pronounced DQ), 1615 California Street, Denver, CO 80202-3714 Cost: Absolutely Free Website: http://theloudestblog.blogspot.com/ Join the USC Creative Writing PhD program for a happy hour and reading hosted by Bryan Hurt and Amaranth Borsuk, featuring fantastic literary stylings, music that'll make you shake it, wine and snacks (to make the hour even happier), and of course, rockets and robots. Lots of rockets and robots. (Maybe.) Readers include special guests Dana Johnson, Carol Muske-Dukes and David Mason, plus Neil Aitken, Andrew Allport, Michael Busk, Fox Henry Frazier, Stewart Grace, Katherine Karlin, Bonnie Nadzam, Jessica Piazza, Josie Sigler and Cody Todd. Musical guest Greenhorse provides beats and snares for the partygoers.
7:00PM	A Reading Hosted by Apostrophe Books with Action Books, Black Ocean Press, Slope Editions and Tarpaulin Sky Press Location: Plus Gallery, located at 2501 Larimer Street, directly east of the Benjamin Moore Paint Factory Lofts and five blocks north of Lodo (About 18 blocks from the Convention Center). Website: http://www.apostrophebooks.org & http://www.plusgallery.com/events/ A small press reading featuring Johannes Göransson, Zachary Schomburg, Catherine Meng, Joe Hall, Paul Foster Johnson, Julie Doxsee, and many others….
7:00PM- 11:00PM	Naropa/Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Reading at the Mercury Café Location: Mercury Café: 2199 California Street, Denver Cost: FREE Website: http://www.mercurycafe.com/ Please join us for a reading and celebration with Kerouac School faculty and staff, past and present. Readers include Anne Waldman, Lisa Birman, Reed Bye, Amy Catanzano, J’Lyn Chapman, Jack Collom, Danielle Dutton, HR Hegnauer, Laird Hunt, Bhanu Kapil, Julie Kazimer, Maureen Owen, Michelle Naka Pierce, Elizabeth Robinson, Andrew Schelling, Eleni Sikelianos, Danielle Staniforth, Sara Veglahn, and more.
7:00PM- 11:00PM	Poetry from Ahadada Books & Unlikely Stories Location: Michelangelo's Coffee and Wine Bar, 1 Broadway Suite B Cost: Free Website: http://www.ahadadabooks.com/ & http://www.unlikelystories.org/ Ahadada Books & Unlikely Stories bring together avant-garde, surrealistic, and transgressive authors from five nations. Come witness this wild mixture of talents, this dance of the Muses, this summoning forth of the possibilities of literature for the 21st century. Readers featured will be: Janée J. Baugher, Tantra Bensko, Tom Bradley, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Amy Catanzano, León De la Rosa, Jesse Glass, Adam Halbur, Judy Halebsky, Michael Harold, Deb Hoag, Anne McMillen, Jared Schickling, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Judith Skillman, Dayana Stetco, Belinda Subraman, Violetta Tarpinian, Lawrence Welsh and special guests.
7:00PM	University of Colorado at Boulder / Off-site Reading Location: Forest Room 5, 2532 15th Street, Denver, CO 80211/(303) 433-7001 Cost: Free Enjoy readings by the Graduate Creative Writing Association from CU Boulder. Grab a zine on your way out showcasing the readers from the evening. Purchase food or drinks at your expense.
7:30PM- 9:30PM	Copper Nickel: An Audible Edition Location: Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Cost: FREE Website: http://www.copper-nickel.org/2010/03/audible.html An edited reading, arranged into a live edition of Copper Nickel, including Hadara Bar-Nadav, Alyson Hagy, James Hoch, Aurelie Sheehan and other contributors.
8:00PM- 10:00PM	Cracked Slab Books, University of Tulsa graduates, & other Midwestern Friends Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street Cost: Free Join us for a reading of poetry and prose. Readers include Sheila Black, Maxine Chernoff, Sloan Davis Paul Hoover, Grant Jenkins, Jennifer Karmin, Cheryl Pallant, Michele Taransky, Tony Trigilio, Hugh Tribbey & others.

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