Events

10 city tour – throughout months of April and May Click here to view an Interactive Map
NEW YORK Launch Event
•	April 3, 2006, New York City New York University 5:30pm NYU Dean's Lecture Series American Poetry and the Impulse to Make it New by David Lehman A celebration of the new Oxford Book of American Poetry College of Arts & Sciences Silver Center for Arts & Science Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102 100 Washington Square East New York, NY Lehman to give dean’s lecture with a book signing following/open to students, faculty, alums, and the public; cocktail reception for living poets and media following
Signings/Readings
•	March 2, 2006, New York, NY Poets House
•	March 8, 2006, West Point, NY West Point
•	March 21, 2006, New York, NY Fordham University at Lincoln Center 7:30pm Poets Out Loud Lincoln Center 113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023
•	March 29, 2006, New York, NY New School University 6:30pm Mark Strand Poetry Forum 66 West 12th St., Room 510 New York, NY Guest: Mark Strand
•	April 6, 7 and 8, 2006, New York, NY New School University 6:00pm John Ashbery Festival New School 66 West 12th Street New York, NY
•	May 1, 2006, New York, NY KGB Bar 7:30pm 85 East 4th Street New York, NY (212) 505-3360 Poetry night at KGB Bar
•	May 1, 2006, New York, NY The Bitter End 5:00pm 147 Bleeker Street New York, NY Speakeasy Poetry Reading: Also featuring Richard Howard
•	May 24, 2006, New York, NY Borders 7:00pm 461 Park Avenue @ 57th Street New York, NY Reading, Q&A, signing Poets Richard Howard and Katha Pollitt will also be participating in this event.
•	September 28, 2006, New York, NY Barnes and Noble Time: TBA Union Square New York, NY Reading, Q&A, and signing with Billy Collins.
ST. LOUIS
•	March 18-19, 2006 St. Louis Poetry Center 567 North and South, #8 St. Louis, MO 63130 60th Anniversary Benefit Reception
SEATTLE
•	April 20, 2006, Seattle, WA Village Books 5:00pm 1210 11th Street, NW Bellingham, WA 98225
•	April 21, 2006, Seattle, WA University Bookstore 7:00pm 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 Poet David Wagoner will also be participating
WASHINGTON D.C.
•	April 26, 2006, Washington, DC Chapter's Bookstore 7:00pm 445 11th Street NW Washington, DC 20004 Dana Gioia of the National Endowment of the Arts will also be participating
MASSACHUSETTS
•	April, 29, 2006, Amherst, MA Juniper Festival 3:00pm University of Massachusetts Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
PHILADELPHIA
•	(Details to come)
NASHVILLE
•	March 23-24, 2006, Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University 1:00pm 2201 West End Avenue Wilson 103 Nashville, TN 37235 Contact: Mark Jarman mark.jarman@vanderbilt.edu (615) 322-7311 (main number) 4:00pm The Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program Spring Symposium: Writer and Critic 2201 West End Avenue Buttrick 101 Nashville, TN 37235 Contact: Mark Jarman mark.jarman@vanderbilt.edu (615) 322-7311 (main number)
NASHVILLE
•	April 29-30, 2006, Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts event/poetry festival. The Oxford Book of American Poetry will be for sale by the local which is sponsoring the event.
ILLINOIS
•	September, 7, 2006 Poetry Foundation Newberry Library Chicago, IL Poetry Foundation to sponsor an event with Lehman and poets included in the anthology.
FLORIDA
•	May 26, 2006, Coral Gables, FL Books and Books 7:00pm 265 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134
SAN FRANCISCO
•	Friends of the San Francisco Library (details to come)