Founded by Larissa Shmailo, Jonathan Penton, and Marc Vincenz
Founded by Larissa Shmailo, Jonathan Penton, and Marc Vincenz
Most Saturdays at 5pm US East Coast Time
LIT BALM is a biweekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, and Cassandra Atherton of Westerly Magazine. Most Saturdays at 5:00 pm East Coast time expect great writing, panels, open mic, and you!
Upcoming Readings
Saturday, December 11: The release of spoKe 8 with guest MC Kevin Gallagher: Clark Coolidge, Helen Ivory, Wang Ping, and Marc Vincenz
Sunday, Decembe 26: Founders' Reading with special guests to be announced
Saturday, January 15: Special Feature on the life and work of Michael Anania featuring Robert Archambeau, Reginald Gibbons, Nathaniel MacKay, John Mathias, CS Gyscome, Jeffrey Allen, Lea Graham, Mary Biddinger and more!
Previous Readings and Panels
April 4, 2020: Founders' Reading: Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, and Jonathan Penton
April 11: John Warner Smith and Celestine Woo
April 18: Indran Amirthanayagam and Carol Frost
April 25: Annie Finch and Hari Alluri
May 2: Donald Revell, Joseph Lease, & David Blair
May 9: Norman Finkelstein, Terese Svoboda, and Kristina Andersson Bicher
May 16: The New Orleans Poetry Festival: Bill Lavender and Megan Burns
May 23: Amy King, Kevin Gallagher, and Joanna Solfrian
May 30: Founders’ Reading: Jonathan Penton, Larissa Shmailo, and Marc Vincenz with special guests Paul Hoover, Maria Baranda, and Alexandria Peary
June 6: Looking Back on the Future of Poetry: Robert Archambeau, Mark Scroggins and Sally Connolly
June 13: Richard Jeffrey Newman, Patricia Spears Jones, and Dean Kostos
June 20: Aidan Rooney, Eddy Toussaint Tontongi, Mary O'Donoghue and Daniel Tobin
June 27: Nicole Cooley, Vincent A. Cellucci, Christopher Shipman and Maura Way
July 4: Founders Reading: Jonathan Penton, Larissa Shmailo, and Marc Vincenz with special guests Jerome Sala, Elaine Equi and John Yau
July 11: The Russian Panel: Irina Mashinski, Philip Nikolayev, Alexander Skidan, and Matvei Yankelevich
July 18: Fiction Night: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Daniel A. Olivas, and Michael C. Keith
July 25: The Lower East Side Poets: Ron Kolm, Thad Rutkowski, and Jeffrey Wright
August 1: CA Conrad, Anna Halberstadt, Tara Campbell and Bill Yarrow
August 8: Emerging Poets: Karina van Berkum, Noah Burton, Lisa Rosinsky and D. Eric Parkison
August 15: The Gaudy Boy Showcase: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Jenifer Sang Eun Park and Paula Mendoza
August 22: Australian Poets: Cassandra Atherton, John Kinsella, Shastra Deo, and Judith Crispin
August 29: Founders’ Reading: Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, and Jonathan Penton with special guests Quincy Troupe and Keith Flynn
September 5: Rae Armantrout, Wang Ping, Lee Ann Brown, and Rion Amilcar Scott
September 12: Translation Panel: John Taylor, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Alexander Dickow, and Lea Graham
September 19: Open Mic in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change
September 26: Janet Hamill, Maureen Owen, Mark Statman and Bob Holman
October 3: The Epic Rites Showcase: William Taylor Jr., Wolfgang Carstens, Julie Valin, and Todd Cirillo
October 10, Week One of the Lit Balm ZOOMATHON: Guest Moderator Tara Campbell and readers Charles Bernstein, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Andrei Codrescu, Alison Hedge Coke, Martha Collins, Annie Finch, Joanna Fuhrman, Christopher Gonzalez, Erica Jong, Mark Pawlak, Lloyd Schwartz, John Skoyles, Timothy Steele, Terence Winch, and Damon Young!
October 17, Week Two of the Lit Balm ZOOMATHON: Guest Moderator Indran Amirthanayagam and readers John Wall Barger, David Blair, Hugo Burnham, Stephanie Burt, Jiwon Choi, Peter Cooley, Stuart Dischell, Camille Dungy, Martin Espada, Luis Francia, Nick Hakim, Jack Hirschman, Dorothea Lasky, Sara Cahill Marron, Roy Nathanson, David Rivard, Maurya Simon, and Baron Wormser!
October 24, Week Three of the Lit Balm ZOOMATHON: Guest Moderator Patricia Spears Jones and readers Kazim Ali, Margo Berdeshevsky, Chard deNiord, Mark Doty, Cornelius Eady, Carolyn Forché, Rachel Hadas, Kimiko Hahn, Tim Z. Hernandez, Denize Lauture, Dick Lourie, Jamie Manrique, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jennifer Rathbun, Elaine Sexton, Mervyn Taylor, Anne Waldman, Chavisa Woods, and Sandy Yannone!
October 31: The Halloween Party: Patricia Carragon, Michael Anania, Big Mike, and Robert Archambeau with his daughter Lila
November 7: Mark DuCharme, Allison Joseph, Richard Peabody, Maxine Chernoff, and Kelli Stevens Kane
November 14: Steven Cramer, Joyce Peseroff, Gail Mazur, and Enzo Surin
November 21: Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte
Sunday, November 22, 5pm US East Coast Time: A Special Episode in conjunction with Arts and Letters journal: "The Literary Bohemian," poems and conversation with Robert Archambeau, Amish Trivedi, Penelope Rosemont and Michael Gregory Stephens
November 28: Daphne Gottlieb, Dawad Philip, Laura Mullen, and Mark Spitzer
December 5: Anthony Madrid, Dara Wier, Johannes Göransson and Timothy Liu
December 12: Anne Elezabeth Pluto, Pui Ying Wong, Tim Suermondt, and Gloria Mindock with guest MC Karina van Berkum
December 19: Stephen Dunn, Maurya Simon, Susana H. Case, and Margo Taft Stever with guest MC Indran Amirthanayagam
December 26: Founders’ Reading: Marc Vincenz, Jonathan Penton, Cassandra Atherton and Larissa Shamilo with special guests Grace Cavalieri, Joshua Corey and Kayla Rodney
January 2, 2021: New Year's Party with Lloyd Schwartz, Kristina Marie Darling, Rick Lupert, Jessica Wilkinson, and Willis Gordon
January 16: Little Mr. Prose Poems: A Russell Edson Tribute, with Readings of Letters and Prose Poems, featuring Nin Andrews, Denise Duhamel, Chard deNiord, Maxine Chernoff, Gian Lombardo, Jeff Friedman, Mary Koncel, Peter Johnson, and Cassandra Atherton
January 30: New Zealand Poets: Iain Britton, Lisa Samuels, and Jen Crawford
February 13: Barrelhouse Magazine showcase: Meghan Pipe, E.J. Schwartz, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Naomi Ayala, and John Mark Brown with guest MC Tara Campbell
February 20: MadHat Press New Writers showcase: Kimberly L. Becker, Roy Nathanson, MG Stephens, Joshua Corey, John Warner Smith, Joanna Solfrian, and DeWitt Henry
February 27: Michael T. Young, Nandini Bhattacharya, Jeannine Ouellette, Carrie Farley, and Mitchell L. H. Douglas with guest MC Rodney A. Brown
March 13: Rooms and Spaces: Holly Iglesias, Rodger Kamenetz, Paul Hetherington, and Jane Monson
March 27: Lyn Hejinian, Jeff Friedman, Nin Andrews, and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Sunday, March 28: The Poets of the New Orleans Poetry Festival: Kataalyst Alcindor, Jessica Kinnison, Izzy Oneiric, and Amanda Emily Smith
April 10: In cooperation with the New Orleans Poetry Festival: Singapore-Connected Authors: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Marylyn Tan, George Szirtes, and Ranjit Hoskote with guest MC Alvin Pang
April 17: In cooperation with the New Orleans Poetry Festival: Dominican Poets: Rhina P. Espaillat, Jose Enrique Delmonte, Soledad Alvarez, and Juan Matos with guest MC Susan Dickey
April 24: In cooperation with the New Orleans Poetry Festival: The Magic Show: Dorianne Laux, Andrew Joron, Bruce Bond, Hank Lazer, and Ruth Lepson
May 8: Matthew Zapruder, Vahni Capildeo, Andre Bagoo, and Timothy Gager
May 15: The Writing Resilience Showcase: Ann Bogle, Lydia Cortes, Paula Curci, Sandra Kleven, and Meg Tuite
May 22: Mags Webster, Jennifer Barber, Sharmistha Mohanty, and Joel Chace
June 5 at 7pm Eastern: The Ecopoetics reading: Gary Snyder, Wang Ping, John Kinsella, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, and Tracy Ryan
June 19: Diane K. Martin, Helen Ivory, Alyson Miller, and Fred Marchant
June 26: The Launch of New American Writing 39: Paul Hoover, Elizabeth Robinson, Wang Ping, Huang Fan, Mark Statman, Efrain Velasco Sosa, David Blair, and Karla Kelsey
July 10: Timothy Donnelly, Valzhyna Mort, Danielle Blau, and Chase Twichell
July 17: Founders’ Reading with Special Guests Martin Figura, Jane Clarke, and t thilleman
Saturday, July 31: The Surrealist Extravaganza part 1: Dean Young, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Clayre Benzadon, Dominique Hecq, dan raphael, and George Kalamaras with a panel by Andrew Joron, Penelope Rosemont, Dean Young, and the Jeffrey Cyphers Wright Surrealist Puppet Show
Sunday, August 1: The Surrealist Extravaganza part 2: Will Alexander, Penelope Rosemont, Charles Kell, Tony Bailie, Oz Hardwick, Eugen Bacon, and Ruby Truitt’s Surrealist Multimedia Show
Saturday, August 7: The Surrealist Extravaganza part 3: Charles Alexander, Luke Beesley, Andrew Joron, Maxine Chernoff, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Stuart Ross, FJ Bergmann, Linda Black, and Dahlia Fatale’s Contortionist Show
Sunday, August 8: The Surrealist Extravaganza part 4: Andrew Joron, Charles Bernstein, Robert Archambeau, Carrie Etter, Paul Hoover, Sam Truitt, Michael Ruby, Nikki Javicilo, Ciaran O'Driscoll, and Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte
Saturday, August 14: The Women of Hanging Loose Press: Jiwon Choi, Keri Smith, Caroline Hagood, and Joanna Fuhrman
Saturday, August 28: The Pirates of Poetry: Michael Rothenberg, Adeena Karasick, Dylan Krieger, Davis Schneiderman, and bart plantenga
Saturday, September 4: Linda Pastan, Rose Solari, Jeanne Nordhaus, and Karren Alenier
Saturday, September 11: DeWitt Henry, Bob Heman, Cindy Hochman, Ralph Culver, and Jon Wesick
Saturday, September 18: Dan Chiasson, Maureen N. McLane, Sandra Lim, and Katie Peterson with guest MC David Blair
Saturday, October 2: Hannah Sullivan, Kathleen Ossip, Julia Story and Peter Campion with guest MC David Blair
Saturday, October 9: Full-Length Open Mic in Memory of Paul E. Sexton III
Saturday, October 16: The Poetry on the Move Festival spotlights Canberra: Kimberly Williams, Jen Webb, Paul Munden, Shane Strange, Gemma Nethercote Way and Paul Hetherington
Saturday, October 23: Mervyn Taylor, Sara Cahill Marron, Jennifer Rathbun, and Indran Amirthanayagam
Saturday, October 30: Halloween Party with Horror Poetry emceed by FJ Bergmann with Linda D. Addison, Denise Dumars, Ken Poyner, Jon Reinhart, and Stephanie M. Wytovich
Saturday, November 6: Major Jackson, Didi Jackson, DA Powell and Sam Witt with Guest MC David Blair
Saturday, November 20: Julie Metz, Ian Seed, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, and Clifford Garstang