Moonstone Reading Series
This event will also be streamed live online. Zoom registration link here
Courtney Bambrick teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. She was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories until 2024. Her own poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Landlocked, Pinhole, Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, and more. Her chapbook World Without is available from Bottlecap Press.
Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Water Guest, the Editors’ Selection for the 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series. She is also the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press), which won the 2019 X. J. Kennedy Prize, and the chapbook Dream of the Lake (Bull City Press). Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, a member of Rabble Collective, and serves on the board of Friends of Writers. She is a longtime ninth grade health educator in her hometown of San Francisco, and lives in Oakland, CA. She has been granted residencies at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and Storyknife, among others. You can find her online at carolinemar.com
Robert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University. Poet, critic, and historian, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo, both published by Moonstone Press.
Reading & Conversation in support of WATER GUEST
Join Eleanor Wilner, Somayeh Shams, Adrienne Perry, & Carrie Mar for a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of Carrie’s new collection, Water Guest, at Big Blue Marble in Philadelphia, PA.
A Rabble-ful event (we’ll miss Francine, currently based in Sweden!) with our Rabble elder, the iconic Eleanor Wilner. This is my east coast *launch,* the first real event of my book tour, and with this incredible group of thinkers it is sure to be a fabulous evening of conversation and love.
WATER GUEST Launch!
A charming bookstore. A bar with excellent cocktails. Snacks. Seems like the right place! I’ll be reading and chatting with Perry Janes, author of the recent debut Find Me When You’re Ready, and I’m so excited to see all my Bay Area folks out for this event! Do I have to teach the next day? Yes. Will I go to bed early? Hell no! Come as an early bday gift to me!
#AWP25
I’ll be at AWP signing books, doing readings, attending panels, and of course, socializing! Come find me!
Presence on the Page: Rabble at the CD Wright Conference for Women Writers
Rabble Collective will present a creative reading followed by a panel discussion exploring the theme of presence. Presence can mean many things — the now, the way a person carries herself, a tense for writing. To our collective, presence means radical hope, honesty, resistance, and the practice of a love ethic. Presence also means responding to the urgent challenges of our times, whether the climate crisis, technological developments with Al, threats to democracy, or the epidemic of loneliness.
C.D. Wright was certainly a poet of presence - being present in a moment, with language, with an idea - or, as she once phrased it, "Uncommitted people don't hold my interest period." As we consider presence, we ask, "What is important to commit our attention to as writers? How might we pay attention to it in our art?" Through this reading and panel we seek to examine and engage with our audience about the meaning of presence in poetry and prose, including the literal, metaphorical, abstract, and associative.
Meet Author David Haynes
Meet Author David Haynes
in a conversation about teaching and writing with Caroline Mei-Lin Mar
Freedoms Found: Writers Speak to the Art of Raymond Saunders
Poet and author Caroline M. Mar has assembled an outstanding line-up of Bay Area writers representing the diverse experiences of our region. Each has composed an original work inspired by Oakland-based artist Raymond Saunders. The featured poets and writers performing are Mar, Tongo Eisen-Martin, who is currently poet laureate of San Francisco, Tijanna O. Eaton, and Mildred Thompson.
Reading and Conversation with Natalie Baszile
Join us for a reading and conversation with our board member Natalie Baszile on October 13th 2022 at 7 pm EDT via Zoom, hosted by board member Caroline M. Mar. Natalie’s new non-fiction book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, brings together essays, poems, conversations, portraits, and first-person narratives to tell the story of Black people’s connection to the land from Emancipation to the present. Her previous novel, Queen Sugar, was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. It is currently being adapted for a seventh television season by writer/director Ava DuVernay, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Click here to register for Natalie’s reading!
Dream of the Lake Launch Party
A reading and party to celebrate the launch of my chapbook, Dream of the Lake!
Join us for a stellar reading featuring Carrie alongside a lineup of her fellow BIPOC Writing Party members Christine Hsu, danny ryu, Lorraine Bonner, Mildred Thompson, Miles Johnson, Susan Ito, Tijanna O. Eaton, and Yeva Johnson.
Books will be available for sale. No cover, 21+.
Bootleg Reading Series 2022
Autumn House Press, Bull City Press, & Four Way Books come together again for the Bootleg Reading Series 2022! Free with registration here.
Bridging the Divide with Writing/Art
Join us for the launch of the 19th annual Irish-American Crossroads Festival on Saturday, March 5th! In "Bridging the Divide with Writing/Art," we will explore how writing and art articulate disconnections, and make way for connection and even repair. We will hear readings/conversation with writer, poet and educator Caroline M. Mar, novelist and short-story writer Ethel Rohan and poet, essayist and critic Tess Taylor.
Queer Rain Launch Party
Queer Rain’s launch party will feature artists, writers, and a DJ set - all in a covid-safe outdoor setting at San Francisco’s beloved El Rio.
Writers of Discontent III
Writers of Discontent III
This event is a fundraiser event to benefit Stop AAPI Hate hosted by the University of San Francisco. We hope to have your presence in this space of community and activism. This event is free and open to the public and we encourage everyone to come. If you can donate here is the link to do so. Any size donation is greatly appreciated. You must also register to attend this event.
Friends of Writers 45th Anniversary Reading: CA Event
To celebrate 45 years of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and 30 years of Friends of Writers (FOW) scholarship support, we are hosting a series of (virtual) literary events across the country. Each is hosted and presented by regional writers but available nationally. Our goal is to raise funds with these regional events to support our ongoing mission to cultivate new and vital literary voices, and to celebrate the community and mutual support of writers. Specifically, your participation will contribute to scholarships and to Grants for Change to benefit BIPOC writers.
California reading: May 29, 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET
Register here
Hosts: Angela Narciso Torres, Chloe Martinez, Karen Llagas, and Peg Alford Pursell; music by Alicia Jo Rabins + raffle of signed books donated by the authors
Learn more about the whole lineup of events to support FOW here!
Cal Calamia and Caroline M. Mar: Reading & Conversation @Booksmith
Booksmith is thrilled to present an evening of readings and conversation with Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education).
An Evening of Poetry & Discussion hosted by SCCLA
Smith College Club of Los Angeles presents an evening of poetry and discussion with a diverse group of Smith alum poets. They will each read a few of their works and then we will have a moderated Q&A discussion with the group.
“How Do We Get Free?” Rabble Collective Panel at AWP Conference
Rabble Collective will be at #AWP21 this year with a panel asking “How do we get free?” First inspired by the Combahee River Collective and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor’s book How We Get Free, Rabble has spent several years engaging with this question as artists, and now shares that conversation with you!
Link to view will be available until April 3, 2021. Registration for AWP required.
Caroline M. Mar & Tommye Blount: Reading & Conversation at Smith College
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College will host poets Carrie Mar ‘05 and Tommye Blount for a virtual reading and conversation. Blount was a National Book Award finalist for his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020). Mar’s debut collection, Special Education (Texas Review Press, 2020) was the winner of the 2019 X. J. Kennedy Prize. The poets and friends will discuss their paths to first books, their poetic educations (which for Mar included her first workshop at the Poetry Center), and read from their work.
Thursday, January 26, 7:30-9:00PM ET
Link to register here.
Texas Review Press 2020 Poetry Releases Reading
Texas Review Press will celebrate its six 2020 poetry releases with a reading featuring Jose Hernandez Diaz, Thomas V. Nguyen, Richard Boada, Mary Morris, James Jabar, and Caroline M. Mar.
Writers of Discontent II
Writers of Discontent II: a BLM fundraiser hosted by the Creative Writing Dept at University of San Francisco.
This event is a fundraiser for Glide Memorial Church that will be featuring both professional and student writers. With the upcoming election, this is a wonderful opportunity to hear the work of some prolific and inspirational writers that really speak to the power of writing. We hope to have your presence in this space of community and activism. This event is free and open to the public and we encourage everyone to come. If you can donate here is the link to do so. Any size donation is greatly appreciated. You must also register to attend this event.
VSC Writer to Writer: Caroline M. Mar & Francine Conley
Join me and my Rabble sister Francine Conley for Vermont Studio Center’s Writer to Writer: Conversations on Craft & Featured Readings.
The second stop on my “book tour” - and the place where this book first really became a book.
Register here for the free online event (link to event will be provided).
BIPOC Writing Party Reading Series
Join me and my #bipocwritingparty fam for the fourth installment of our reading series! This time, I will be one of the four featured readers as I kick off my “book tour.”