January
1/19 BONK! Poetry & Music Series
6 PM, Racine Arts Council, Racine, WI
1/23 Common Good Books, with Dobby Gibson
7 PM, St. Paul, MN
February
2/20 Wordlab, with AT Grant & Maria Damon
7PM, Minneapolis Colleage of Art & Design, Gallery
March
3/6-9 AWP Boston
3/16 Mary Austin Speaker’s CEREMONY, Unity Church 7 PM
Our Flow Is Hard Reading Series
3/29, Cornell College Center for Literary Arts
“PoetryFor Your Momma” 6 PM
with Ashley Colley, Elisabeth Workman, Mary Austin Speaker, and Feng Sun Chen
3/30, Yoga Garden, Minneapolis
with John Colburn, 7:30 PM
April
4/5 Mission Creek Festival
5-6, Takanami (219 Iowa Avenue), Iowa City, IA
4/16: OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE OF THE FIRST FLAG
4/19 Soap Factory: Talking Image Connection
514 2nd St. SE, 8:00 PM
4.20 Biblio Bash: Coffee House Press
4/26 THE FIRST FLAG LAUNCH PARTY
An Interactive Multidimensional Psychomagical Experience
HONEY (205 E. Hennepin, Minneapolis) 8:00 PM
Henna Tattoos! I Ching! Guest Poet-Performers! Live Music! (featuring Alex Grant and Astronaut Cooper’s Parade) & Dance Party with DJ Last Word!
(Your perfect scenario: Start the night off at Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling, St. Paul, where Rain Taxi is hosting out-of-towners Kate Greenstreet, Richard Meier, & Elizabeth Treadwell—7 PM. Then hop on the Honey caravan after)
May
5/4 Unnameable Books NYC, with John Colburn & Franklin Bruno
hosted by Joanna Fuhrman. 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn 2:00 PM
5/5 ZINC BAR, with John Colburn, Dottie Lasky, and Jennifer Nelson
hosted by Brendan Lorber. 82 W. 3rd St., NYC 6:30 PM
5/14 Subtext, with Dennis McKenna (author of Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss)
165 Western Ave. N, St. Paul MN 7:00 PM
5/17 Woodland Pattern Poetry Center
720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee 7:00 PM
June
6/3 RingRing Poetry (call 612-223-POEM), with Fred Schmalz
6/18 Magers & Quinn Booksellers (with John Colburn)
3028 Hennepin Ave. South, Mpls 7 PM
July
Writer in Residence, American Craft Council Library (entire month of July) #chpinthestacks http://instagram.com/foxopomp#
7/11 Maeve’s Cafe, 7:30 PM
300 13th Ave NE (with Hazel & Wren, co-hosted by Matt Mauch)
August
8/22 American Craft Council, Library Salon Series 7 PM