Events
AWP Offsite Reading: Serious Poets, Playful Poems
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An AWP offsite reading at the legendary American Visionary Art Museum, including private after hours access to the exhibits.
Readers include: ​
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Rita Dove
Kim Addonizio
Dorothy Chan
Chen Chen​
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Benjamin Garcia
Mickie Kennedy
Timothy Liu
Matthew Olzmann
Paul Tran
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Friday, March 6, 2026 at the AVAM
Reception/exhibit access starts at 6pm;
Reading starts at 7pm
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Worth Burning Book Signing at AWP Baltimore
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Mickie Kennedy will be signing his new book, Worth Burning (Black Lawrence Press), at the AWP Book Fair in March 2026.
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AWP Book Fair
Date and Time TBD
AWP Panel - Tickled Pink: Humor in Queer Poetry
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For decades, queer poets have used humor as a cutting rhetorical tool. Humor as survival, seduction, subversion. Throwing jokes like bricks in the face of oppression. This panel will explore humor as a serious element of craft—often overlooked but central to queer poetics. Wit, camp, sarcasm, raunch, gallows humor: What do they do on the page? Pulling from their own work, this panel will explore humor as shield, scalpel, and sucker punch.
Moderator: Mickie Kennedy; Presenters: Kemi Alabi, Topaz Winters, James Hall, Dorothy Chan
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Saturday, March 7, 2026​
Room 325, Level 3, Baltimore Convention Center