This two-day poetry festival held at 10 Grand Central, 155 E. 44th St, 10th floor in NYC features DeeSoul Carson, David Groff, Edgar Kunz, Tariq Thompson, Rosanna Young Oh, and myself. Registration is required, but the event is free and open to all.

With Destiny Hemphill. A poetry reading themed around ecofeminism hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, co-sponsored by the Art and the (De)Colonial Garden working group and the Strange Life working group. Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse - 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, free and open to the public.

This is a panel discussion for members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community in connection with Terrance Hayes’s visit as the 2024 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence. If you’re a UNC person, please join me, Gaby Calvocoressi, Skylar Gudasz (singer and songwriter), Josh Hockensmith (visual artist), and Terrance at the Donovan Lounge in Greenlaw Hall for a discussion about our creative practices!

I’m delighted to be appearing with Dasan Ahanu for the Bull City Presents series at Mettlesome Theater in Durham! Mettlesome Theater in Golden Belt, 800 Taylor Street, Suite 9-156, Durham. Free and open to the public. Stay after for a comedy set from Golden Age in collaboration with me!

As part of the City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Festival, I (& one more poet whose identity I don’t know yet but am excited to meet!) will do a reading with a musical trio featuring Melanie Dryer, Mara Rosenbloom, and Kyoko Kitamura. The poetry set is typically 20-30 minutes, with 7-10 minutes per poet, and the musicians. Pittsburgh, PA. Further details TK!

Join me, Fred Joiner, and Khalisa Rae at Rofhiwa Books Cafe in Durham, NC to celebrate the launch of the brilliant Cynthia Manick’s new book, No Sweet Without Brine!

Join me, D.J. Rogers, and Katherine Wolfe at the Wayne County Public Library in Goldsboro, NC for an event celebrating National Poetry Month! Free and open to the public.

AWP Panel: Academic Worker Solidarity in Creative Writing
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
The times listed are in PST.

With Natalie Shapero, Lindsay Turner, and Grace Talusan.

In a form characterized by compression, what does it mean to write at length? Can such works cleave to standards of precision and concision as they extend beyond the standard one-pager? What kinds of world-building, expansiveness of thought, or complexity of experience might be achieved in multipage or even book-length poems? Panelists will read briefly from their work, discuss both formal and free-verse approaches to writing long poems, and offer strategies for generating and sustaining them.

AWP Panel: The Pocket Epic - Poets Writing at Length
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
The time listed is in PST.

With Melissa Crowe, Meg Day, and Paisley Rekdal.

In a form characterized by compression, what does it mean to write at length? Can such works cleave to standards of precision and concision as they extend beyond the standard one-pager? What kinds of world-building, expansiveness of thought, or complexity of experience might be achieved in multipage or even book-length poems? Panelists will read briefly from their work, discuss both formal and free-verse approaches to writing long poems, and offer strategies for generating and sustaining them.

Reading with memoirist Noé Álvarez at Hope College for the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series, courtesy of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Details TK!

Join Meg Day and me at So-and-So Books in Raleigh, NC! In person, ASL interpreted, masks encouraged. See their Facebook event as well if you’re Facebook-inclined.

Hosted by the The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College: “Join us on Thursday, October 6, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with poet Sumita Chakraborty and Skidmore Associate Professor of English Maggie Greaves. Greaves, a co-curator for Parallax: Framing the Cosmos, will be in discussion with Chakraborty about the poet’s creative and scholarly work on the intersections of outer space, ecology, race, and gender. Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants.” Free and open to the public!

This headline event for the Emily Dickinson Museum is both in person and online, and is part of the 2022 installment of their annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival. See this event’s information here, and the full festival lineup here. Festival registration is required, but registration is FREE.

Join me and Rachel Mennies to celebrate the launch of Sara Eliza Johnson’s second collection, Vapor! Free, virtual, and available to the public, hosted by the lovely Literati in Ann Arbor. https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-sara-eliza-johnson-w-sumita-chakraborty-rachel-mennies

For the Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, I’ll be speaking with a couple other panelists about publicity and publishing. Come from the advice, stay for the mutual keening about production in late capitalism! Retreat details here. Open to retreat attendees.

As part of the Five Bodies Series—a collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary—I will be giving a reading with Karen McCarthy Wolf. While this reading is closed to participants in the Five Bodies program, you can find more information about this workshop and the series more broadly here (for our reading) and here (for the series as a whole). Please note all times on those linked sites are in BST; I am listing the times here in EST. Free and open to the public.

As part of the Five Bodies Series—a collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary—I’m offering a workshop titled How to Care for the Dead. While this workshop is closed to participants in the Five Bodies program, you can find more information about this workshop and the series more broadly here (for my workshop) and here (for the series as a whole). Please note all times on those linked sites are in BST; I am listing the times here in EST.

Please join me and Dana Levin for a reading and conversation for LOGOS, a project of EcoTheo Collective. Free and open to the public. Click here for all details. (Note that on EcoTheo’s website, all times are in CST; I have the time listed here in EST.)

I’m very excited to be reading with Cornelius Eady, Samiya Bashir, Wendy Xu, and Devonaire Ortiz, hosted by Cynthia Manick! This event is free and open to all; register at Eventbrite.

Hosted by Grand Valley State. Join myself and Nandi Comer for a reading and a Q&A. At this time, this event is an in-person event. Details here: https://www.gvsu.edu/writing/grand-valley-writers-series-12.htm

Open to all attendees of ASAP/12: a roundtable titled “We who?: Mutuality and Poetic Address” organized by Kim Quiogue Andrews, including Gillian White, Brian Glavey, Brandon Menke, Kamran Javadizadeh, Dominick Knowles, and myself! Find more information about the conference here.

Presented by The Detroit Writers’ Guild and Poets & Writers, Inc. Reading with Indran Amirthanayagam, Zilka Joseph, and Kirun Kapur. More information here.

I can’t wait to read with Krysten Hill and Kurt Klopmeier for this series hosted by Michael Mercurio. Further details to come!