Join us for an evening of readings from four excellent poets from around the country.

Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize and is a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Award in poetry. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Narrative, and Kenyon Review, and have received the W. B. Yeats Prize, Frontier Poetry’s prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review. Her work has received support from the Boston Athenaeum and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.

Alyse Knorr is an associate professor of English at Regis University, co-editor of Switchback Books, and co-producer of the Sweetbitter podcast. She is the author of the poetry collections Ardor (2023), a Lambda Literary Award finalist, as well as Mega-City Redux (2017), Copper Mother (2016), and Annotated Glass (2013). She also authored the video game history books GoldenEye (2022) and Super Mario Bros. 3 (2016) and four poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, POETRY Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, and The Georgia Review. She received her MFA from George Mason University.

Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of Easy Does It (2021) and The Veronica Maneuver (2015), both from the University of Akron Press, and a chapbook of centos, Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Interim, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing and Director of the Honors Program at Ohio Northern University and lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), and Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022). Coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), and recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.

Like Picasso's monochromatic work of the early 20th century, winter can be a bit...somber. All the more reason to join together with the literary Picassos of today—especially when all of them are women!

This offsite AWP reading is multi-genre and held at the beautiful Blue Gallery, only a *ten minute walk* from the Convention Center. Reading poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, the following authors are taking the stage (a glorious fuchsia throne on the gallery floor): Marcela Fuentes, Deborah Taffa, Amanda Gunn, Jen Moore, TaraShea Nesbit, JoAnna Novak, and Khaliah Williams. Eileen G'Sell hosts in a playful blue dress.

For some writers, rules are rules. For others, rules are meant to be broken! In this AWP offsite reading in the backroom of the downtown Made in KC Cafe, from 5-7ish pm, 3 fiction writers, 1 non-fiction writer, and 3 poets, will all read a short piece or excerpt for 5-7 minutes that breaks some sort of "rule" of writing, and then explain what rule they are breaking. Featuring Gwen Kirby, Jennifer Pullen, Sarah Einstein, Brad Aaron Modlin, Joy Baglio, Jennifer Moore, and Annah Browning. For the first 18 guests there will be a free drink ticket!

Domestic Fabulism: The Supernatural Home

Virginia Konchan, Jennifer Moore, Carolyn Oliver, Caryl Pagel

Moderator Molly Fuller

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What happens when the familiar and the surreal collide? This panel explores how poets might interweave fabulist elements—including myth, magic, and dreams—with domestic and pastoral modes, complicating and enriching received notions of labor, landscape, gender, ritual, performance, and observation, resulting in transformative and singular realities.

Join us at Sanger Branch Library for a writing workshop on lyric intimacy and lyric invention, lead by Ohio Northern professor Jennifer Moore. We'll talk about the "I" and the "you," read a few examples of short lyric poems, and do an exercise or two focused on turning memories into lyrically resonant poems. Open to all!

WritersShop Writing Workshop is hosted by Lucas County Poet Laureate, Jonie McIntire, meeting once a month. For August, September and October, we will be at Sanger Branch Library.

To some artists, rules are actually challenges! At this event seven published writers will briefly explain what “rule” they are breaking and read a piece that in some way breaks a rule. Maybe in form or style, or simply through a character that doesn’t play by the rules. Come listen, drink tasty coffee, and chat with writers!
Featuring:
• Jennifer Moore, poet, professor, author of Easy Does It
• Matt Bell, novelist, professor, author of Appleseed
• Katie Berta, poet, and editor extraordinaire
• Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, memoirist, professor, author of My Life as Laura
• Josh Davis, poet, teacher, author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black
• Alyse Bensel, poet, professor, author of Rare Wonderous Things
• Jennifer Pullen, fiction writer, professor, author of A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue

Reading with Jennifer Moore, Dan Denton, Skaidrite Stelzer, and Steve Henn. The Attic on Adams (Toledo), 3-6pm.

This poetry workshop will focus on the possibilities available to authors when writing in a persona, or mask. We will explore definitions of “persona” consider the advantages and techniques of this mode, read examples of persona poems, and spend time drafting poems through various writing prompts.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 3, 6pm EST

Featuring authors Shannon Gibney & Ellen Birkett Morris, poet Jen Moore, & music from bassist Stephan Crump

Drop a note to demand4poetry@gmail.com and you will receive a ZOOM link, or watch LIVE on the Writers Guild at Bloomington Facebook page

Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association – Indiana

2020 begins in the most wonderful way! Join us for featured readers:

Lawrence Coates
Jen Moore

Donations of $5 suggested at the door, to keep the lights on and spaces available for events like these. Giving more (or less) when you can is always appreciated. Snacks, coffee and wine offered.

Let’s start off our year in a communion of words!

When

Thursday March 14, 2019 - 8:00 pm

Where

Taylor Little Theatre, Mercyhurst Campus, Erie, Pennsylvania

Mercyhurst University’s annual Literary Festival opens with a reading by poet Jennifer Moore, a Mercyhurst graduate. She’ll read from her work on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in Taylor Little Theatre. The event is free and open to the public. Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (University of Akron Press, 2015) and her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Artsmith and the Jentel Arts Foundation, and residencies with the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. An associate professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. 

Monthly poetry reading series in Toledo, Ohio, featuring local artists and writers.

Your favorite indie press at your favorite indie bookstore! Open mic signup at 5:30pm. Featured reader (Jen Moore) reads at 6pm. 

Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (The University of Akron Press, 2015), and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Please join us for a wildfire offsite AWP reading, featuring new work by 19 (19!) alumni of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Program for Writers PhD program. The readers: Simone Muench, Brooke Wonders, Jen Moore, Virginia Konchan, Mary Biddinger, Jackie White, Matthew Corey, Megan Milks, Andy Farkas, Erica Bernheim, Snezana Zabic, James Tadd Adcox, Laura Krughoff, AD Jameson, Sara Tracey, Tyler Mills, Brianna Noll, Annah Browning, and Beth McDermott.

We are so excited that University of Akron Press and Gold Wake Press will be teaming up this year to bring you a lineup of 12 writers!

Aimée Baker
Anne Barngrover
Justin Bigos
Nick Courtright
Eileen G'Sell
Matthew Guenette
Kyle McCord
Jennifer Moore
Emilia Phillips
Glenn Shaheen
Sandra Simonds
Erin Stalcup

We're excited to celebrate Tupelo Quarterly and honor our contributors. Please join us for a reading and party at AWP 2018 in Tampa. Featured readers will include:

Mary Jo Bang
Jennifer Moore
Darcie Dennigan
Anne Champion
Denise Duhamel
Michael Martone
Shane McCrae
Henk Roussouw
Tyler Mills

Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!

Join us for a retrospective look at Rikki Ducornet's art and writing as local poets--including Ross Gay, Chris Mattingly, and Jennifer Moore--share her work and theirs at the I Fell Gallery in Bloomington, IN. February 2nd, 6-8pm. 

Those in upstate NY or willing to travel, come out for a night of diverse poetries, inspired by a Poetry & Mythology panel at Marist College the following day!

The readers are:

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2017 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry, a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she teaches writing at Stockton University in southern New Jersey.

Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015) and a forthcoming chapbook, Imaginary Weather (Hermeneutic Chaos, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Leah Umansky lives in New York City and is the author of The Barbarous Century, (Eyewear Publishing, 2018), Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox 2012) and two chapbooks, the dystopian themed Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016) and the Mad Men inspired Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press 2014). A graduate of the MFA program in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, she is also the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in New York City. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry Magazine, Magma, Barrow Street, Salamander, Pleiades, and Plume.

Heather Treseler, winner of the Frank O’Hara poetry prize (2016), is an associate professor of English at Worcester State University where she teaches creative writing and American literature. Her poems and essays appear in Boston Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, Boulevard, Worcester Review, Missouri Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Poetry Review, among other journals. She has also published essays in four scholarly books about postwar American poets Elizabeth Bishop and John Berryman, among others. In 2017-18, she is a Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, finishing a collection of poems that recasts stories from classical mythology. Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Virginia Konchan is the author of a collection of poetry, The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018), a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017), and two chapbooks, including That Tree is Mine (dancing girl press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Best New Poets, and her honors include an NEH fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Award. Co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary, and Associate Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, she teaches at Marist College.

A poet and critic, Sarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collection Queer Fish, a winner of the Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared recently in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches in the department of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany-SUNY.