Upcoming Events
Babbitt & Cowles Read at RIT
Babbitt & Cowles Read for the Navas-Robbins Reading Series at RIT University
Come hear award-winning poets Kathryn Cowles and Geoffrey Babbitt read from their brand-new books, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Books, 2025) and A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (University of Nevada Press, 2025). Free letterpressed broadside for the first 20 attendees!
Babbitt & Macarty: Poetry at Piper Writer's House
Geoffrey Babbitt & Jami Macarty Read at Piper Writer’s House at Arizona State University
Geoffrey Babbitt with Jami Macarty & Chloe Bliss Snyder at Rediscovered Books in Boise
Geoffrey Babbitt, Jami Macarty, & Chloe Bliss Snyder Read at Rediscovered Books in Boise, ID
Babbitt, Macarty, & Wilkinson Read at Weller in Salt Lake City
Geoffrey Babbitt, Jami Macarty, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson Read at Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 28th, from 3:00–5:00pm.
Four Poets Read at SUU in Cedar City, Utah
Geoffrey Babbitt, Kathryn Cowles, Cindy King, & Jami Macarty
Four Poets Read at UTU in St George, Utah
Geoffrey Babbitt, Kathryn Cowles, Cindy King, & Jami Macarty
Geoffrey Babbitt Reading w/ Kathryn Cowles in Vegas
Geoffrey Babbitt and Kathryn Cowles read for Interim Magazine and the UNLV Creative Writing Program at the Writer’s Block in Las Vegas, Nevada. Book signings and Q&A to follow.
AWP 2026 Offsite Reading
AWP Offsite Reading
Friday 3/6 7-9pm
David & Dad's Cafe
115 N Charles St.
Featuring:
Geoffrey Babbitt
Claudia Keelan
Helen Han Wei Luo
Jami Macarty
Grace Spulak,
Emily Uecker
Andie Weber
Interim, Black Mountain Institute,Witness
Louisville Reading
Group Reading, featuring Rae Armantrout, Geoffrey Babbitt, Norman Finkelstein, Jennifer Moxley, Peter O'Leary, Donald Revell, and John Yau.
Each poet will read for 10 minutes each, afterward a lineup (TBA) of many more poets will read for 2–3 minutes apiece.
HWS Book Launch
Geoffrey Babbitt & Kathryn Cowles launch their books together! In the Blackwell Room in Demarest Hall on the HWS campus in Geneva, NY. See poster for further details.
Writers & Books Visiting Author Series
Geoffrey Babbitt will read with Kathryn Cowles for Writers & Books’s Visiting Authors Series at Ampersand Books in Rochester, NY. Starting at 7:00pm. Each poet has a newly released book. Babbitt’s A Grain of Sand in Lambeth was released on December 2, 2025, and Cowles’s The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor was released on January 20, 2026. The reading will be followed by a brief discussion, a Q&A with the audience, and a reception. For more, please go to Ampersand’s website.
2025 Poetry in the Bowl at Highland Park
An evening of poetry in the Highland Park Bowl, in Rochester, NY
AWP Offsite Reading
AWP 2025 Off-Site Reading
Featuring…
Madina Tuhbatullina
Arel Wiederholt
Taylor Wright
Shannon Salter
Nik de Dominic
Kathryn Kruse
Geoffrey Babbitt
Jami Macarty
Writer’s & Books’ Literary Conference Kick-Off Reception Reading
KICK-OFF READERS
Featuring Geoffrey Babbitt, Ralph Black, Kathryn Cowles, Doug Curry, Anastasia Nikolis, and Jessica Pavia.