Chicago: Pilsen Community Books with Daniel Borzutzky and Jose-Luis Moctezuma
Details here: https://pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/31464
Virtual: Book Launch for Diego Báez w/Laura Cresté & C.E. Wallace
Book Launch for Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White. Link to come!
Kansas City: Turnsol Books with Joy Priest, Sahar Muradi, and Paul Hlava Ceballos
A reading with the past four winners of the Donald Hall Prize
Kansas City: Wave Books and Univeristy of Chicago Press at the Kemper Museum with Wave
Wave Books and the Phoenix Poets to host a reading at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for: Aaron Coleman, Tracy Fuad, Annelyse Gelman, Douglas Kearney, Katie Peterson, Srikanth Reddy, Timothy Donnelly, Prageeta Sharma, Edwin Torres, Matt Rohrer, Tyehimba Jess, Tisa Bryant, and more to be announced.
Contact: Wave Books and Phoenix Poets
Contact Email: publicity@wavepoetry.com
Widening the Circle: Queer/Trans SWANA Writers on Navigating Space and Self
With Bobuq Sayed, Pınar Yaşar, Mahru Elahi and Nancy Agabian.
Room 2102A, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
MIZNA Issue Launch: the Experimental Issue
Details & registration here: https://mizna.org/event/the-experimental-issue-launch/
Backyard Reading with Anthony Thomas Lombardi + Meryem Uzumcu
This is an in-person, outdoor, limited capacity event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn! Tickets can be purchased here (suggested donation $10; all proceeds go to mutual aid relief in Yeme).
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series with Ross Gay and Simone Kearney (virtual event)
Details and registration here!
Provincetown Book Launch Party with East End Books
This is an in-person event in Provincetown, Massachusetts, co-hosted by East End Books Ptown & the Fine Arts Work Center. Register here!
Mass Poetry: U35 Reading at Trident Books (in-person event in Boston)
Details here: https://www.tridentbookscafe.com/event/u35-poetry-reading-8
Reading with White Whale Books with Laura Kolbe, author of Little Pharma (virtual event)
Register online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-aboutblank-by-tracy-fuad-little-pharma-by-laura-kolbe-registration-168745914573. Hosted by White Whale Books in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Rutgers Newark MFA Alumni Reading (virtual event with with Antonio Lopez, Cheswayo Mphanza, and Ana Portnoy)
Virtual event celebrating 75 years of Rutgers-Newark. Four graduates of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program will read from their recent debut books. Register here: https://alumni.rutgers.edu/get-involved/events/run75-mfa-alumni-authors-event/
Co-Launch for about:blank (with Ananda Lima, Như Xuân Nguyễn, KC Trommer, and Allison Albino)
Co-launch reading and celebration for Tracy Fuad and Ananda Lima. In person event at Von Bar in New York City (3 Bleecker Street at Bowery). Proof of vaccination is required!
Inaugural Workshop Reading at a.p./Callie's (Berlin)
New poetry from workshop participants Rebecca Leyton, Jesse Darling, Elijah Jackson, Patricia Nash, Maru Mushtrieva, and Tracy Fuad.
RAWI Fest: Kurdish American Poets in Conversation (on online panel & discussion) 1 PM EST
Register for RAWI Fest here!
From the program: Holly Mason and Tracy Fuad are two queer, Kurdish-American poets. They will read from their forthcoming collections and follow with a conversation, with a special interest interested in how our partial, hyphenated, and modified identities fit into the broader conversation about intersectionality, assimilation, diaspora, and language, especially as they relate to our artistic work as poets and writers.
Kurdish Radio Festival with Space 21
I will be reading a radio-adaption of a poem from PITH along with other radio and sound art pieces. The program will be broadcast on small FM radio transmitters in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as streamed online. Read more here: https://space21.nu/
Book Party : DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD
A potluck in honor of fathers and my weird new book. More details later!
AWAY MESSAGE at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park
WWW.KURDCHAT.COM will be included as part of this drive-in audio exhibition.
402 Fabrication Street, Dallas, TX
Washington Square Review Launch
At the NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House with Sally Wen Mao
Know Wave at Picture Room (Recorded)
http://listen.know-wave.com/episode/picture-room-carly-dashiell-has-invited-poets-ariel-yelen-tracy-may-fuad-rami-karim-asiya-wadud-and-katherine-duckworth
Freya Project Benefit for the Refugee Women's Network (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
The Freya Project is a monthly fundraising series that donates money to small non-profits located in communities that do not embrace the vital work they perform.
www.freyaproject.com/calendar.html
Living Conditions Vol. 1: A CUNY Clear Benefit Reading
At HECK in Bushwick, Brookyn. RSVP here.