Past Readings & Events
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The Rapture of Being Alive: Spring Workshop at Write on, Door County
Reading with Heather Swan at
Page Against the Machine 2714 4th Street, Long Beach CA
November 5, 2023 5p.m.
Join us online for an amazing two-plus days of poetry readings, conversations, and craft talks. Faculty includes Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, Donna Hilbert, Sean Hill, Su Hwang, Ed Bok Lee, Denise Low, January Gill O'Neil, and Michael Torres. Keynote addresses by Naomi Shihab Nye and Kwame Dawes.
The conference starts with a reading by four of our presenters on Friday, April 23, 6 pm Central Time followed by social time for participants. Saturday and Sunday feature conversations and craft talks with our poets and keynote talks.
Saturday evening features another reading by four presenters followed by social time for participants. Sunday evening features an open mic reading for conference participants. Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 9am - 4pm
WRITING THE CATASTROPHE:
Singing in Dark Times with Donna Hilbert
"We all carry them: stories of loss and regret so overwhelming and painful we cannot find an entry point from which to write. Yet, we cannot put the stories behind us. Sometimes we nurture the illusion that we might write one Big Poem and then be done with it. I have found that the Big Poem plan seldom works. This workshop will take the opposite approach. Our strategy will be to examine one anecdote, dream, memory, or 'telling detail' at a time with the aim of writing a suite of short poems on a weighty subject. We will begin with a generative exercise and look at exemplary poems."
Write On, Door County
4177 Juddville Rd
Fish Creek, WI 54212
More info
Saturday, July 28, 2018, 8pm
Donna reads at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90291
More info
Sunday, October 8, 2017, 5pm
Donna reads at Rattle Reading Series
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
1010 Foothill Blvd
La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 7pm
Donna reads at The Last Bookstore
453 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 7pm
Donna Hilbert reads
With Caroline Goodwin, plus open mic
Cafe Society
522 Main St
Half Moon Bay, CA
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 7 pm
Publication reading for anthology Just a Little More Time
Flintridge Bookstore
1010 Foothill Blvd.
La Canada, CA
Friday, May 26, 2017, 9am-3:30pm
Write, Glue, Stitch: A Poetry & Book Arts Workshop
Donna Hilbert & Diane Le Blanc
Write On, Door County, Door County Wisconsin
More information at: www.writeondoorcounty.org
Monday, June 19, 2017, 7pm
Chicon Street Poets
Donna Hilbert, plus open mic
1808 E. 12th St.
Austin, Texas 78702
More information at: www.chiconstpoets.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2017, 1pm
Donna reads at Spoken Word Club of Laguna Woods
Laguna Woods Community Center
24351 El Toro
Laguna Woods, CA
Thursday, April 7th, 6:30 PM
Katie Wheeler Library
13109 Old Myford Road, Irvine, CA 92602
View PDF for more information
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Donna Hilbert reads
at
dA Center for the Arts
252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766
Eric Morago and Christopher Trevilla 5:20 - 5:40
Donna Hilbert 5:40 - 6:00
Tony Barnstone 6:00 - 6:20
More information and directions at:
The 2014 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival
Wednesday, February 26, 7:00pm
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Queen Anne Book Co
1811 Queen Anne Avenue
Seattle, WA 98109
Reading form "The Widow's HandBook"
Kent State University Press
Along with Tess Gallagher and others
Thursday, April 17
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Laguna College of Art and Design
"Distinguished Author Reading Series"
2222 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Donna Hilbert, Gerald Locklin, Charles Webb
Thursday, May 22, 2014, 7PM
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Gatsby Books
5535 E Spring St.
Long Beach, CA 90808
(562) 208-5862
Publication Party Reading for "The Widows' Handbook"
Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 3PM
Donna Hilbert reads, along with
Stephanie Barbe� Hammer and Bonnie ZoBell
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 6:30PM
Donna Hilbert
at Katie Wheeler Library, Irvine Ranch
13109 Old Myford Road, Irvine, CA
Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 3PM
Reading for the Cadence Collective Anthology
Donna Hilbert & Other Contributors
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Monday, September 22, 2014 at 8PM
Hosts of the Long Beach Poetry Festival Read Their Poetry
Traxx Bar at Union Station
800 N Alameda St
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7PM
Donna Hilbert & Open Reading
Bank Heavy at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:30PM
Donna Hilbert & other Southern California contributors
Swallow Dance: A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Friday, October 3, 2014 at 7PM
Donna Hilbert & other Southern California contributors
Swallow Dance: A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks
dA Center for the Arts, Pomona
252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766
Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 2PM
Donna reads, along with
Kristine Shorey Forbes and Florence Weinberger
reading for The Widows� Handbook
at Bank of Books
29169 Heathercliff Rd. #109, Malibu, CA
Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7PM
Donna Hilbert & Tamara Madison reading for Cadence Collective plus open mic
Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
February 18, 2015
Celebration of Your Daily Poem with editor Jayne Jaudon Ferrer.
February 28, 2015
The Search For Meaning Book Festival
"�Writing Through Grief,� a discussion with four contributors to the new anthology, The Widows� Handbook.� (with Kristine Shorey Forbes, Susanne Braham, Connie Fisher, and Abigail Carter)
Description of Presentation: In our grief, we write to process, and sometimes it is practical matters that can fill our heads. What to do with their ashes, their belongings, your wedding rings, with your dreams of him, with your feelings of vulnerability, with your photos of you together, and in general, with yourself without him? We participating contributors will talk about how our writing helped us think through these matters, and in the end, helped us heal.
Location: Pigott 103
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Biography: Donna Hilbert�s latest book is The Congress of Luminous Bodies, from Aortic Books. The Green Season, World Parade Books, a collection of poems, stories and essays, is now available in an expanded second edition. Ms. Hilbert appears in and her poetry is the text of the documentary �Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story,� a Christine Fugate film. Earlier books include Mansions and Deep Red, from Event Horizon, Transforming Matter and Traveler in Paradise from PEARL Editions and the short story collection Women Who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them from Staple First Editions and published in England. Poems in Italian can be found in Bloc notes 59 and in French in La page blanche, in both cases, translated by Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli. New work is in recent or forthcoming issues of 5AM, Nerve Cowboy, PEARL, RC Muse, Serving House Journal, Poets & Artists, California Quarterly, A Year of Being Here, and Zocalo Public Square. She is a frequent contributor to the online journal Your Daily Poem.Her work is widely anthologized, most recently in The Widows� Handbook, Kent State University Press.
Seattle University
More info here
Download PDF
Tuesday, March 17 2015
Workshop at the Katie Wheeler Library, Irvine.
6-8pm in the community room
13109 Old Myford Rd, Irvine, CA 92602
Phone: (714) 669-8753
More info
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
Donna Hilbert will read along with editor Jacqueline Lapidus and other contributors to The Widows' Handbook
Eastern Point Lit Center
261 Main St.
Gloucester MA
4pm
Friday, September 25, 3:30 PM
West Tisbury Public Library
Martha's Vineyard
Saturday, September 26, 3:00 PM
Woods Hole Public Library
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The Rapture of Being Alive: Spring Workshop at Write on, Door County
Reading with Heather Swan at
Page Against the Machine 2714 4th Street, Long Beach CA
November 5, 2023 5p.m.
Join us online for an amazing two-plus days of poetry readings, conversations, and craft talks. Faculty includes Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, Donna Hilbert, Sean Hill, Su Hwang, Ed Bok Lee, Denise Low, January Gill O'Neil, and Michael Torres. Keynote addresses by Naomi Shihab Nye and Kwame Dawes.
The conference starts with a reading by four of our presenters on Friday, April 23, 6 pm Central Time followed by social time for participants. Saturday and Sunday feature conversations and craft talks with our poets and keynote talks.
Saturday evening features another reading by four presenters followed by social time for participants. Sunday evening features an open mic reading for conference participants. Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 9am - 4pm
WRITING THE CATASTROPHE:
Singing in Dark Times with Donna Hilbert
"We all carry them: stories of loss and regret so overwhelming and painful we cannot find an entry point from which to write. Yet, we cannot put the stories behind us. Sometimes we nurture the illusion that we might write one Big Poem and then be done with it. I have found that the Big Poem plan seldom works. This workshop will take the opposite approach. Our strategy will be to examine one anecdote, dream, memory, or 'telling detail' at a time with the aim of writing a suite of short poems on a weighty subject. We will begin with a generative exercise and look at exemplary poems."
Write On, Door County
4177 Juddville Rd
Fish Creek, WI 54212
More info
Saturday, July 28, 2018, 8pm
Donna reads at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90291
More info
Sunday, October 8, 2017, 5pm
Donna reads at Rattle Reading Series
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
1010 Foothill Blvd
La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 7pm
Donna reads at The Last Bookstore
453 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 7pm
Donna Hilbert reads
With Caroline Goodwin, plus open mic
Cafe Society
522 Main St
Half Moon Bay, CA
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 7 pm
Publication reading for anthology Just a Little More Time
Flintridge Bookstore
1010 Foothill Blvd.
La Canada, CA
Friday, May 26, 2017, 9am-3:30pm
Write, Glue, Stitch: A Poetry & Book Arts Workshop
Donna Hilbert & Diane Le Blanc
Write On, Door County, Door County Wisconsin
More information at: www.writeondoorcounty.org
Monday, June 19, 2017, 7pm
Chicon Street Poets
Donna Hilbert, plus open mic
1808 E. 12th St.
Austin, Texas 78702
More information at: www.chiconstpoets.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2017, 1pm
Donna reads at Spoken Word Club of Laguna Woods
Laguna Woods Community Center
24351 El Toro
Laguna Woods, CA
Thursday, April 7th, 6:30 PM
Katie Wheeler Library
13109 Old Myford Road, Irvine, CA 92602
View PDF for more information
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Donna Hilbert reads
at
dA Center for the Arts
252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766
Eric Morago and Christopher Trevilla 5:20 - 5:40
Donna Hilbert 5:40 - 6:00
Tony Barnstone 6:00 - 6:20
More information and directions at:
The 2014 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival
Wednesday, February 26, 7:00pm
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Queen Anne Book Co
1811 Queen Anne Avenue
Seattle, WA 98109
Reading form "The Widow's HandBook"
Kent State University Press
Along with Tess Gallagher and others
Thursday, April 17
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Laguna College of Art and Design
"Distinguished Author Reading Series"
2222 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Donna Hilbert, Gerald Locklin, Charles Webb
Thursday, May 22, 2014, 7PM
Donna Hilbert reads
at
Gatsby Books
5535 E Spring St.
Long Beach, CA 90808
(562) 208-5862
Publication Party Reading for "The Widows' Handbook"
Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 3PM
Donna Hilbert reads, along with
Stephanie Barbe� Hammer and Bonnie ZoBell
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 6:30PM
Donna Hilbert
at Katie Wheeler Library, Irvine Ranch
13109 Old Myford Road, Irvine, CA
Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 3PM
Reading for the Cadence Collective Anthology
Donna Hilbert & Other Contributors
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Monday, September 22, 2014 at 8PM
Hosts of the Long Beach Poetry Festival Read Their Poetry
Traxx Bar at Union Station
800 N Alameda St
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7PM
Donna Hilbert & Open Reading
Bank Heavy at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:30PMDonna Hilbert & other Southern California contributors
Swallow Dance: A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks
at Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
Friday, October 3, 2014 at 7PMDonna Hilbert & other Southern California contributors
Swallow Dance: A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks
dA Center for the Arts, Pomona
252-D South Main Street
Pomona, CA 91766
Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 2PM
Donna reads, along with
Kristine Shorey Forbes and Florence Weinberger
reading for The Widows� Handbook
at Bank of Books
29169 Heathercliff Rd. #109, Malibu, CA
Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7PM
Donna Hilbert & Tamara Madison reading for Cadence Collective plus open mic
Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA
February 18, 2015
Celebration of Your Daily Poem with editor Jayne Jaudon Ferrer.
February 28, 2015The Search For Meaning Book Festival
"�Writing Through Grief,� a discussion with four contributors to the new anthology, The Widows� Handbook.� (with Kristine Shorey Forbes, Susanne Braham, Connie Fisher, and Abigail Carter)
Description of Presentation: In our grief, we write to process, and sometimes it is practical matters that can fill our heads. What to do with their ashes, their belongings, your wedding rings, with your dreams of him, with your feelings of vulnerability, with your photos of you together, and in general, with yourself without him? We participating contributors will talk about how our writing helped us think through these matters, and in the end, helped us heal.
Location: Pigott 103
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Biography: Donna Hilbert�s latest book is The Congress of Luminous Bodies, from Aortic Books. The Green Season, World Parade Books, a collection of poems, stories and essays, is now available in an expanded second edition. Ms. Hilbert appears in and her poetry is the text of the documentary �Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story,� a Christine Fugate film. Earlier books include Mansions and Deep Red, from Event Horizon, Transforming Matter and Traveler in Paradise from PEARL Editions and the short story collection Women Who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them from Staple First Editions and published in England. Poems in Italian can be found in Bloc notes 59 and in French in La page blanche, in both cases, translated by Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli. New work is in recent or forthcoming issues of 5AM, Nerve Cowboy, PEARL, RC Muse, Serving House Journal, Poets & Artists, California Quarterly, A Year of Being Here, and Zocalo Public Square. She is a frequent contributor to the online journal Your Daily Poem.Her work is widely anthologized, most recently in The Widows� Handbook, Kent State University Press.
Seattle University
More info here
Download PDF
Tuesday, March 17 2015
Workshop at the Katie Wheeler Library, Irvine.
6-8pm in the community room
13109 Old Myford Rd, Irvine, CA 92602
Phone: (714) 669-8753
More info
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
Donna Hilbert will read along with editor Jacqueline Lapidus and other contributors to The Widows' Handbook
Eastern Point Lit Center
261 Main St.
Gloucester MA
4pm
Friday, September 25, 3:30 PM
West Tisbury Public Library
Martha's Vineyard
Saturday, September 26, 3:00 PM
Woods Hole Public Library
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