Collateral 8.1 (Fall 2023) Launch!
Collateral will launch its fifteenth issue on November 1. Check it out virtually at collateraljournal.com, any time, without charge. Want to submit your own literary visual art that examines the impact of violent conflict beyond the combat zone? Submissions are also free, and Collateral reads year round. For more info, click “Submit” at www.collateraljournal.com.
Collateral 8.2 (Spring 2024) Launch!
Collateral will launch its sixteenth issue on 1 May 2024. Check it out virtually at collateraljournal.com, any time, without charge. Want to submit your own literary or visual art examining the impact of violent conflict beyond the combat zone? Submissions are also free, and Collateral reads year round. For more info, check out our guidelines here: www.collateraljournal.com/submit.
How to Sing in the Dark: A Workshop
Time and location TBD. Sponsored by the Tioga Arts Council.
Participants in this workshop will be treated to poems born in times of struggle and carry clarity, light, and the doggedness of hope. We’ll explore the poetry of political upheaval and war, as well as familial and personal grief; in doing so, we’ll rediscover the techniques good listeners and writers have used for centuries in order to create poems that help us persevere. Prompts generated by the work at hand will get us writing, and poets will leave with drafts to carry onward through the dark.
Auburn Celebrates National Poetry Month 2024
Hosted by Abby E. Murray, the city of Auburn WA will celebrate National Poetry Month by releasing a chapbook of poems from its current and former poets laureate, including Dick Brugger, Marjorie Rommel, Susan Landgraf, James Rogers, and Mateo Acuña. The evening includes a reading and panel discussion. For more information, click here.
Reading with Subhaga Crystal Bacon at Browsers!
Abby E. Murray will be reading with Subhaga Crystal Bacon, whose book Transitory was recently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Books, including Hail and Farewell, will be available for purchase.
Reading on Bainbridge Island
This series blends one featured reader’s work with an open mic at the Kitsap Regional Library on Bainbridge Island. Abby will read new work as well as poems from the Washington State Book Award finalist manuscript, Hail and Farewell. Books available for sale at the event!
Get Lit! Festival
Join Abby for a discussion of Women Writing War (with writers Lauren Johnson, MaxieJane Frazier, and more). Exact date and time TBD. For more information: https://inside.ewu.edu/getlit/
Poetry at the Postmark
Poetry nights are returning to Auburn! The City of Auburn is hosting a poetry reading series on the first Wednesday of each month at Auburn's new Postmark Center for the Arts on Auburn Avenue. March 6 will feature Abby E. Murray as well as the regularly scheduled open mic writers.
Poetry Hour @ Kings Manor
This generative poetry workshop is open only to residents of Kings Manor assisted living facility.
Reading with SWWIM, NELLE, and Whale Road Review
Abby E. Murray is a featured reader for MER, in a collaborative reading with SWWIM, NELLE, & Whale Road Review. (Catch Abby reading briefly with Perugia Press, too, on the same night, just two blocks away!)
Perugia Press Poets
Abby E. Murray will read with Perugia Press poets in collaboration with CavanKerry Books, Flower Song, and Acre Books. Perugia’s time slot starts at 6:55PM sharp, so don’t be late!
New Ohio Review AWP 2024 Off Site Reading
Featured readers from recent issues of New Ohio Review will read at Big Rip Brewery on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 8 @ 6pm.
Poetry Hour @ Kings Manor
This generative poetry workshop is open only to residents of Kings Manor assisted living facility.
Poetry Hour at Kings Manor
Abby will offer a poetry workshop to residents at Kings Manor. December’s theme is peace.
Poetry Hour at Kings Manor
Abby will offer a poetry workshop to residents at Kings Manor. November’s theme is— by request— end stops and enjambment.
Poetry Hour at Kings Manor
Abby will offer a poetry workshop to residents at Kings Manor. October’s theme is día de los muertos and remembrance.
San Francisco LitQuake
Abby will discuss the “new wave of military writing” with authors Lauren Kay Johnson, Andria Williams, Steven Moore, Liam Corley, and Matt Armstrong as part of San Francisco’s literary festival. Registration is free at litquake.org!
Mothers on Motherhood: Poets' Corner Reading
Join poets Katherine Hagopian Berry, Sonia Greenfield, Abby Murray and Meghan Sterling as they look closely at the role of mother, reading their poems that celebrate, and reveal, the complex experience of motherhood.
The Art of Bad Poetry (2 Sessions)
Abby E. Murray will offer a 2-part poetry workshop that benefits writers of all levels and experiences. Sessions are online and require registration. More information to follow soon.
The Art of Bad Poetry (2 Sessions)
Abby E. Murray will offer a 2-part poetry workshop that benefits writers of all levels and experiences. Sessions are online and require registration. More information to follow soon.
The Knife and the Needle: Poetry That Wounds, Poetry That Heals
“The Knife and the Needle: Poetry That Wounds, Poetry That Heals” is part of So Say We All’s veterans masterclass series. Join us for a two hour discussion and workshop regarding poetry’s reputation as healing. For more information: sosayweall.com
Note: this workshop is virtual and times listed here are on Eastern Time.
Incandescent with Feminine Rage: A Reading
Abby E. Murray joins Sonia Greenfield, Kendra DeColo, Diamond Forde, and Rachel McKibbens for a reading. 12:10-1:25PM Pacific / Seattle Convention Center / Rooms 435-436, Summit Building
Disrupting the Veteran Writer Stereotype: More than Males, More than Wars
Abby E. Murray joins Rebecca Evans, Jacqlyn Cope, Jan LaPerle, and Mariette Kalinowski for a panel discussion on the impact of military life on women. 3:20PM Pacific / Seattle Convention Center / Room 327, Summit Building
Beerhall Bookfair
This free event actually lasts from 4-11pm at Optimism Brewing Company in Seattle (note that Perugia poets, including Abby, will be reading at 7pm Pacific time, not Eastern). Join a powerhouse lineup of readers from a variety of presses hosted by Papeachu.
Rattlecast
Abby E. Murray joins Tim Green for Rattle’s weekly podcast: a reading slash interview slash open mic. For more info, click here.