Events
Baltimore Reading
Mickie Kennedy will be reading 7pm on Thursday, April 9, 2026 at Fadensonnen Upstairs
3 W. 23rd, Baltimore, MD 21218
Also reading: Molly Dektar, Kate Read Petty, and Jimin Seo.
PAST EVENT AWP Panel - Tickled Pink: Humor in Queer Poetry
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
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Room 325, Level 3, Baltimore Convention Center
PAST EVENT AWP Offsite Reading: Serious Poets, Playful Poems
SOLD OUT — An AWP offsite reading at the legendary American Visionary Art Museum's Jim Rouse Visionary Center, including private access to select local exhibits.
Readers include:
Rita Dove
Kim Addonizio
Dorothy Chan
Chen Chen
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Benjamin Garcia
Mickie Kennedy
Timothy Liu
Matthew Olzmann
Paul Tran
Friday, March 6, 2026 at the AVAM
Jim Rouse Visionary Center (two buildings down
from AVAM)
Reception/exhibit access starts at 6:30pm;
Reading starts at 7:15pm
PAST EVENT Worth Burning Book Signing at AWP Baltimore
Mickie Kennedy will be signing his new book, Worth Burning (Black Lawrence Press), at the AWP Book Fair in March 2026.
AWP Book Fair
Date and Time TBD
