REBECCA HART OLANDER

My tail-end-of-August post begins with a couple of pictures from July readings that took place after my July blog, both of which were a real joy to take part in. The Phosphorescence Reading (pictured second) was a virtual event that was recorded live in the Emily Dickinson Museum, from the Dickinson parlor. Here’s the link to that reading on the museum’s YouTube channel if you didn’t get a chance to tune in live. I had one reading in August, last week at the beautiful Book Love in Plymouth, MA with the Good Harbor Poets writing collective. In September, I have five events, including a rescheduled class visit and reading with…

I hope the summer has been good to you and yours so far. I’m happy to share details on my upcoming three readings in July, the latest podcast and review in support of Singing from the Deep End, and other recent poetic highlights. This afternoon, Saturday, July 11, I’ll be reading at a book launch event for Tim Mayo’s fifth collection, Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster, held at 118 Elliot Street in Brattleboro, VT (doors at 4pm, reading at 4:30). The event features Mayo with Carlene Kucharczyk and me and is supported by ByWay Books. We hope to see you there! Next up will be the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading…

Still flying about like a June bug doing events to celebrate Singing from the Deep End! Here is my June & July schedule, with the first-up reading on the list TONIGHT, at Mocha Maya’s in Shelburne Falls. Hope to see you on the road this summer! Abundant thanks to reviewers Amanda Holmes Duffy (Washington Independent Review of Books) and Amanda Auchter (The Indianapolis Review) for their readings of Singing from the Deep End. Reviewing is a labor of love, and I so appreciate the time and care taken to support this collection. I’m also really appreciative of the places that offer or highlight my collection. Poetry Daily keeps a “Hot…

I’m so honored and excited to participate in AWP and The Writer’s Chronicle’s next TWC Live! conversation: Marketing Your Poetry Collection – this Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm ET (virtual). I’ll be joining Natasha Kane of Trio House Press, Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity, and Karisma “Charlie” Tobin of TRP: The University Press of SHSU to discuss ways for poets to connect with readers, good marketing strategies for poetry collections, and how marketing can be less scary. Join us for this free offering, during which there will be time for Q & A with our live audience. I have two in-person readings coming up in the first half…

Here are a few group pictures from the shower of April events I participated in – when it rains, it pours! Many thanks to the venues, hosts, fellow readers, and audiences who came out to share community this Poetry Month. Scroll down for what I’ll be up to in May! I also had the privilege and pleasure of being on several podcasts in April. It’s such an honor to have space made for my new book Singing from the Deep End, and to get to read and talk about poems in its pages, as well as poetry practice and community, the joy and pride of running Perugia Press, and even…