I'll be doing a Q&A with Gail Mazur following her Alumnae reading at Smith College. The event will be on Facebook and YouTube. Go here for information. https://www.smith.edu/academics/poetry-center/gail-mazur

Reading with other poets, followed by Q&A. More info TBA.

What's in a Word? For the first hour of this Zoom workshop, I'll present and discuss some published poems that call our attention to single words: poems that build on a single word, that "play" with words, that repeat words, that omit words, that listen to words. And also some poems "about" words. The remainder of the workshop […]

New England Poetry Club Summer Reading Series at the Longfellow House in Cambridge

Reading in the First and Last Word poetry series with two wonderful poets! Open mic follows.

Racism, economic inequality, the climate crisis, trauma: from the global to the personal, from headlines to history, our times and lives present us with troubling issues that may seem hard to address in poems. This workshop will discuss ways to enter these difficult territories, and poetic strategies to use when you get there.

Reading for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where I'll be teaching all week. Details at https://fawc.org/events/collins_chen/

Annual Gregory Stockmal Poetry Reading