I’m delighted to feature with Lime Square Poets, an intimate and supportive community of Irish and international poets. This is one of the most enjoyable and supportive online reading series I’ve attended and I’m very much looking forward to sharing my new work. Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.

More information soon as to who I am reading with.

I am reading with the poets Arden Levine, Cynthia Manick, Sue Mell, Sahar Muradi and Eric Sasson.

https://www.hillstead.org/event/2018-sunken-garden-poetry-eamon-grennan/

In partnership with Limerick Civic Trust, I'm delighted to invite to you the launch of my second book, Santiago Sketches. The reading will be held at St Munchin’s Church, Church Street, King’s Island, Limerick City. (Please note: this is the disused Church of Ireland church, not St. Munchin’s Catholic church on Clancy’s Strand.)

Time and Date: Friday, 22nd December at 6 p.m.
Refreshments and canapés will be served. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Reading in my beloved West Kerry, guest at the Siar O'Thuaigh open mic sesssion, Tigh Uí Catháin (Kane's Pub), Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry (West Kerry)

A reading to raise funds for RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network), the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, featuring Aziza Barnes, Emily Brandt, Thomas Dooley, Camonghne Felix, Lizzie Harris, Venessa Marco, David McLoghlin and Paul Tran.

Donate to RAINN here: https://fundraise.rainn.org/PoetsAgainstSexualViolence

Aziza Barnes is blk & alive. Born in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi. You can find her work currently or forthcoming in PANK, pluck!, Muzzle, Callaloo, Union Station, Phantom Limb, The Rumpus, The Offing, and The Breakbeat Poets, among other journals and collections. Her first chapbook, me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun, was the first winner of the Exploding Pinecone Prize and published by Button Poetry. Her first full length collection of poems, I BE, BUT I AIN'T (2016), is the winner of the 2015 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books.

Emily Brandt is the author of three poetry chapbooks. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear and Web Acquisitions Editor for VIDA. For many years, she directed Take Back The News, an organization that confronted the under- and mis-representation of sexual assault by mainstream media.

Thomas Dooley is the author of Trespass, a winner of the National Poetry Series. His poetry, collaborations, and interviews have appeared on NPR,  Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, and “PBS NewsHour.” A practitioner of narrative medicine, Thomas works at the bedsides of hospitalized teens and has presented internationally on the subject of pediatric illness narratives. He is the Artistic Director of Emotive Fruition, a New York-based collective of poets and actors that works to change the way artists and audiences engage with live poetry. A member of the creative writing faculty at New York University, Thomas lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Camonghne Felix is a poet, political speechwriter and essayist. She is an MA Candidate in Arts Politics at NYU, a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, and the 2013 recipient of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women. You can find her work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like Apogee, Union Station, and Poetry Magazine. She is also the author of the chapbook Yolk, published via Penmanship Books in March 2015 and in May of that year was listed by Black Youth Project as a “Black Girl From the Future You Should Know.”

Lizzie Harris’s debut collection, Stop Wanting (CSU Poetry Center, 2014), was selected by Tracy K. Smith and named one of Cosmo’s “10 Books by Women You Have to Read This Spring.” Her poems appear in All Hollow, Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, Phantom Limb, Sixth Finch and VICE.com. She was born in southern Arizona, raised in Pennsylvania and currently resides in Brooklyn, where she’s a poetry editor for Bodega Magazine.

Venessa Marco is an Afro-descendent writer by way of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Marco has been featured on the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Upworthy and The Feminist Wire. She was allocated the Cora Craig Author Award for young women writers and her book is forthcoming in Penmanship Books. 

David McLoghlin's The middle section of Brendan, “Digesting a Scorpion,” addresses experiences of disassociation and silencing resulting from clerical sexual abuse—and exhorts us to “hold the line” in the fight against erasure. The manuscript for his third collection, Crash Centre, continues and extends that concern.

Paul Tran is a Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net-nominated poet. Their work appears in Prairie Schooner, MTV, RHINO, which gave them an Editor's Award, & elsewhere. They received fellowships & residencies from Kundiman, VONA, Poets House, Lambda Literary, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Home School Miami, Vermont Studio Center, The Conversation, & Palm Beach Poetry Festival. They are the first Asian American in 19 years to represent the Nuyorican Poets Cafe at the National Poetry Slam & Individual World Poetry Slam, where they placed Top 10. Paul lives in Brooklyn, where they serve as Poetry Editor at The Offing and Poet In Residence at Urban Word NYC.

University of Missouri, Kansas City, Session 12C: Chancellor’s Dining Room

Moderator: Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College

With:

Mary Madec, Villanova University

Ray McManus, University of South Carolina at Sumter

Ann Neelon, Murray State University

Donna Potts, Washington State University

Thomas Dillon Redshaw, University of St. Thomas (New Hibernia Review)

Drucilla Wall, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri-St.

Louis Julie Henigan, Independent Scholar

Session 6A: Room: MNL 121, Miller Nichols Learning Center, 800 East 51st Street, Kansas City, MO, Chair: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, City University of New York / Kingsborough

Poetic Relationships and the Creative Process

David McLoghlin, Independent Scholar and Poet, "A Transatlantic Menagerie: The Animal Poetry of Bishop, Lowell, Heaney, and Grennan" (Originally published in Poetry Ireland Review issue 119, autumn 2016.)

Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University, "Derek Mahon and J.G. Farrell: A Friendship and its Artistic Fruit"

So Young Park, Gustavus Adolphus College, "Poetry and Ornithology: Yeats, Tynan, Ussher, and Warren"

With poet Michael Jennings and novelist Julie Shigekuni

Roots Reading Series at Roots Cafe. Time: 8 - 10 p.m.

639A, 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, 11215.

https://www.facebook.com/rootspoetryseries

Reading with Beth Bachmann, Rico Frederick and Cynthia Manick, BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn

The Literary Tent, at the Hudson Valley Irish Festival, Peekskill, NY. Time: 1:45 p.m.

Directions: www.hudsonvalleyirishfest.com/location/

The Manhattan Review Reading Series, featuring NY-based poets published by Salmon Poetry: Patricia Brody, Philip Fried, David McLoghlin, Bertha Rogers, Neil Shepard and Estha Weiner. The Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street (2nd Floor), Lower East Side, NYC, Free Admission

With Ciaran Berry and Eamon Grennan, at NYU's Lillian Vernon Creative Writers' House, New York City, 29th January, 2016, 5 p.m.

With Timothy Liu and Linda Sue Jackson

With Jay Deshpande

With Jay Deshpande

With poets Catherine Barnett and Anthony Carelli

With Adrienne Brock, Amanda Calderon, Richard Prins and Melissa Swantkowski

With Anthony Carelli and Emily Toder