PAST EVENTS

Calabash Literary Festival

Thu, May 31, 20188:00 PM Mon, Jun 4, 20189:00 PM

Pivot Reading Series Season Finale with Safiya Sinclair

  • Friday, May 18, 2018

  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

  • The Tranzac (map)

Safiya Sinclair will be giving the final reading of the season for the Pivot Reading Series at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto.

Kwame Dawes & Safiya Sinclair: Natural Mystic: A Poetic Celebration of Reggae

  • Monday, February 5, 2018

  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM

  • Folger Shakespeare Library (map)

On this evening of poetry, Ghanaian born, Jamaican-raised poet Kwame Dawes is joined by Jamaican-born and raised rising poet Safiya Sinclair. The two poets will, through their work, celebrate reggae music and pay tribute to one of its most acclaimed singer/songwriters, Robert Nestor Marley, the day before what would have been his 73rd birthday. 

Greenlight Poetry Salon

  • Thursday, February 1, 2018

  • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM

  • Greenlight Bookstore (map)

Fort Greene store:
Thursday, February 1, 7:30 PM
Greenlight Poetry Salon!
Featuring poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Natalie Eilbert, and Safiya Sinclair!
Hosted by Angel Nafis
Wine reception to follow

Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight’s Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for an intense and joyful evening of wine, poetry, and performance. For February, the Salon is honored to host Hanif Abdurraqib, author of the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us and the poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award); Safiya Sinclair, author of the poetry collection Cannibal and winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award, among other honors; Natalie Eilbert, the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press's 2016 Poetry Prize, as well as the poetry collection, Swan Feast.

Writer's Foundry Master Lecture at St. Joseph's College

  • Wednesday, January 31, 2018

  • 5:00 PM 6:30 PM

  • St. Joseph's College (map)

Safiya Sinclair will give a Master Lecture at St. Joseph's College.

Reading at Wellesley College

  • Monday, October 23, 2017

  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

Harrisburg Book Festival - OPENING NIGHT POETRY KICK-OFF FEATURING SAFIYA SINCLAIR & SHARA MCCALLUM

  • Thursday, October 12, 2017

  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

  • Midtown Scholar Bookstore (map)

Award-winning poets Safiya Sinclair and Shara McCallum kick off the 2017 Harrisburg Book Festival for an evening of spoken word to remember. With an introductory and closing musical performance from Harrisburg's own, Shawan Rice, Sinclair, and McCallum will perform selected poetry readings from their most recent collections — Cannibal and Madwoman. This event is proudly presented by Festival Sponsor Messiah College's School of Humanities.

Safiya Sinclair and Shara McCallum will be available to sign copies of their books immediately following the reading.  

Ricardo Hernandez + Safiya Sinclair | Zinc Bar | Saturday, 07. October 2017

  • Saturday, October 7, 2017

  • 4:30 PM 6:30 PM

  • Zinc Bar (map)

Safiya Sinclair was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of a Whiting Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and an ALA “Notable Book of the Year.” Sinclair is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California

Reading with Natalie Diaz at the College of New Rochelle
Friday, October 6, 2017
6:30 PM 8:00 PM
College of New Rochelle
(map)

Safiya Sinclair and Natalie Diaz will give a poetry reading and be in conversation. Moderated by Mitchell S. Jackson. 

Northwestern University Reading and Conversation with Bettina Judd
Thursday, October 5, 2017
12:30 PM 2:30 PM
Northwestern University
(map)

Safiya Sinclair and Bettina Judd: "On Black Feminist Poetics"

This event will feature poetry readings by two acclaimed contemporary poets, Safiya Sinclair and Bettina Judd, who will read from their debut collections. This reading will be followed by a conversation on the topics of Black feminist poetics, scientific racism, and the archive (themes which both authors treat at length).

COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION: SAFIYA SINCLAIR, TIPHANIE YANIQUE, AND ELIZABETH NUNEZ

  • Wednesday, August 2, 2017

  • 6:00 PM 9:30 PM

  • Brooklyn Museum (map)

PEN America is partnering with the Brooklyn Museum to present an evening of cocktails and conversation centering Caribbean women writers.

This evening, the first in our two-part series presents Elizabeth Nunez, Trinidadian-American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY; Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair; and Caribbean writer, poet, and essayist Tiphanie Yanique, in conversation.

Schedule:
6 pm Cocktail hour
7 pm Conversation with Elizabeth Nunez, Safiya Sinclair, and Tiphanie Yanique
8:15 pm Live jazz by Jazz Foundation of America

Tickets are $16 and include Museum admission. VIP tickets are $50 and include Museum admission and an open bar. 

Part of A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at Brooklyn Museum.

92Y New Colossus Poetry Reading
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
6:30 PM 7:30 PM

After a week of poems from 19 poets imagining ‘A New Colossus’ online, (92y.org/new-colossus), join the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and Poets House on Tuesday, August 1st at 6:30pm for our culminating event: an open-air reading featuring seven of the festival contributors:

Amanda Calderon
Gala Mukomolova
Lynn Melnick
sam sax
Safiya Sinclair
Paul Tran
Jenny Xie

The event is free and open to the public.

BOCAS Lit Fest - The Trinidad and Tobago Literary Festival
Wed, Apr 26, 201710:00 PM Sun, Apr 30, 201711:00 PM

Red Hen Press/USC Reading at Annenberg Beach House
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Annenberg Beach House
(map)

LA Times Festival of Books Reading
Saturday, April 22, 2017
5:00 PM 5:20 PM
Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5
(map)

Safiya Sinclair reads from her debut collection, Cannibal. 

Sinclair is the author of Cannibal, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and named one of the American Library Association's Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation, Oxford American, and elsewhere. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literarture and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

LA Times Festival of Books Panel
Saturday, April 22, 2017
2:00 PM 3:00 PM
Andrus Gerontology Center
(map)

The Edge of Identity: Race and Gender in Contemporary Poetry
With Safiya Sinclair, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Phillis Levin, and Chris Santiago. Moderated by Carol Muske-Dukes. 

Saturday April 22, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Andrus Gerontology Center, Signing Area 2

Reading at Centre College of Kentucky
Friday, April 21, 2017
4:30 PM 5:30 PM

MassArts Visit and Reading
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
6:00 PM 7:00 PM

Hosted by Liberal Arts Department
Reception 6:00pm
Lecture 6:30pm

Rising poet Safiya Sinclair will read from her award-winning poetry collection Cannibal (Nebraska Press, 2016), and discuss her inspiration.  Safiya was born and raised in Montego Bay,  Jamaica. She received her MFA in Poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

Safiya Sinclair's book Cannibal will be available for sale. 

Reading at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco
Monday, April 3, 2017
7:30 PM 8:30 PM
Green Apple Books on the Park
(map)

National Poetry Month Reading Series
Whiting Award winner Safiya Sinclair reads from her debut collection of poems, Cannibal.

Reading at Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes, California
Sunday, April 2, 2017
6:00 PM 7:00 PM
Point Reyes Books
(map)

National Poetry Month celebration with Safiya Sinclair and friends

Whiting Award winner Safiya Sinclair reads from her debut collection, Cannibal. Safiya will be joined by a handful of Bay Area poets for a celebration of National Poetry Month

Reading at Soka University
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
7:00 PM 8:00 PM

A POETRY READING WITH SAFIYA SINCLAIR

Soka University of America
Ikeda 4th Fl Reading Room

Reading at the Poetry Foundation: Poetry off the Shelf - Safiya Sinclair
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Poetry Foundation
(map)

At the Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission

Reading at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tue, Mar 14, 20176:00 PM Wed, Mar 15, 20177:00 PM

Poets in Conversation at the Yale Beinecke Library
Friday, March 10, 2017
10:00 AM 11:30 AM
Yale University, Beinecke Library
(map)

A roundtable discussion with the visiting poets, Safiya Sinclair, Layli Long Soldier, and Tonya Foster, and the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group. Chaired by Camille Owens and Maryam Parhizkar at Beinecke Library.

Reading at the Yale Beinecke Library
Thursday, March 9, 2017
4:00 PM 5:00 PM
Yale Beinecke Library, Yale University
(map)

5pm: Public Reception at Beinecke Library

Writers on Writing: Reading at Brown University
Thursday, February 23, 2017
5:30 PM 6:30 PM
McCormack Family Theater
(map)

Safiya Sinclair, author of "Cannibal," and Ishion Hutchinson, author of "House of Lords and Commons" and "Far District," will read from their work in the Writers On Writing Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Literary Arts.

Literary Death Match
Saturday, February 11, 2017
8:05 PM 9:45 PM
Black Cat
(map)

For our AWP Spectacular, Literary Death Match heads to Black Cat in the nation's capital, as we team with with Painted Bride Quarterly for a magical night of literature, witticisms and enough absurdity to momentarily distract from the horrors happening over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Trust us when we say: this one's not to be missed.

JUDGES: 
Literary Merit: Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn
Performance: TBA
Intangibles: Alexandra Petri, Washington Post blogger and columnist 

READERS:
Round 1: 
* Roger Reeves
* Mitchell S. Jackson

Round 2: 
* Safiya Sinclair
* Elena Passarello

Prairie Schooner 90th Anniversary Reading at AWP
Friday, February 10, 2017
4:30 PM 5:45 PM

TriQuarterly AWP Reading
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30 PM 8:00 PM

University of Virginia MFA Alumni Reading at AWP
Thursday, February 9, 2017
5:00 PM 6:00 PM