2.4.12: I'm reading with a bunch of contributors to Issue 2 of The Rattling Wall. The Standard, Hollywood. 8300 Sunset Blvd. 7 pm.

9.11.11: I'm participating in a panel at Vroman's in Pasadena to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Granta and PEN Center USA host. David Ulin moderates. 4-6 pm. 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA

8.2.11: I'm reading at the Annenberg Beach House at 6:30 PM tonight, with Matthew Shenoda and Ilya Kaminsky. (Thank you, Red Hen Press.)

4.30.11 & 5.1.11: I'll be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at 3:30 PM on Saturday, reading poems from "Crossing State Lines: An American Renga," a coast-to-coast multi-player poem dreamed up by CA poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes and Bowery Poetry Club founder Bob Holman. Sunday at 12:30 PM I'll be empanelled with Matthew Zapruder and Nick Flynn and moderator David St. John, which will be great fun.

10.20.10: I'm reading at the launch of Eating Our Words, a reading-and-eating series that is the brainchild of Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Heather Taylor. What you should be excited about: Patricia Tsai, the chocolatier behind ChocoVivo, will be there, with treats. The event will be held at Taylor's gallery, Taylor de Cordoba, 2660 S. La Cienega Blvd, at 7 pm.

10.3.10: I'll be talking with Neil Gaiman at The New Yorker Festival. 1:00 pm, Directors Guild Theatre, 110 West 57th Street, N.Y., N.Y.

Here's the profile of Gaiman I published in the magazine earlier this year.

And here's the full Festival schedule.

That's next weekend, people. And Figment gets to be part of it. We're doing a flash-fiction contest in the Teen Zone at the Beverly Hills Public Library (444 N. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210) from 12 pm to 2 pm on Saturday, June 5. Ten contestants, selected randomly from the audience, will compete for glory and other rewards. Come on out to compete and vote! Go to www.publicartparty.com or text "pARTy" to 21534 for a full schedule.

4.12.10: Funny thing at Skylight Books: I'm reading with Joyce Maynard, at an event hosted by Canteen (a wonderful San Francisco-based literary magazine), and then competing with audience members in a short, spontaneous fiction-writing contest. How terrifying. But come anyway—it's Canteen's first L.A. event and they want to meet you. Skylight Books is at 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027. The reading starts at 7:30 PM.

4.10.10: I'll be on a panel at AWP in Denver with a great group of writers (Dinah Lenney, Amy Gerstler, Billy Giraldi, and Sven Birkerts), some of whom are my colleagues in the MPW program at USC. The topic: Criticism for Its Own Sake. 10:30 AM, somewhere deep inside the convention hall.

3.1.10: I'm reading with a thrilling group of poets—Tom Healy, Cecilia Woloch, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Carol Muske-Dukes, and the Get Lit Players—as part of California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes's Magic Poetry Bus program. We'll be reading at 5 pm in the Davidson Conference Center at USC. 3540 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90007. Enter the campus through Gate 4 at Jefferson Blvd. and Royal St.; parking is $8.

1.22.10: Late notice! I am reading at Book Soup tonight with some of my students from USC's Master of Professional Writing Program. The theme is "Lessons Learned: The Wisdom of Baby New Year." 8818 W. Sunset Blvd, LA, CA 90069. Reading starts at 7:30 pm.

10.18.09: I'm reading at the Mandrake, with Anthony McCann of Machine Project. Brigid McCaffrey will show two short films. 7692 S. La Cienega Blvd., LA, CA 90034. 7 PM.

6.27.09: Writing conference at USC! 7:30 am to 8 pm. Register online.

5.5.09: I'm giving a talk on cell-phone novels at the Japan Society in New York. The program, with Mark West, a professor of Japanese law at the University of Michigan, is called Lovesick Japan: Stories of Intimacy from Courts to Keitai (Cell Phone) Novels. 333 E. 47th Street, N.Y., N.Y. 6:30 PM. Tickets are $10.

4.25.09: I'll be reading, signing books, and moderating a panel at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Reading at 10 AM in the poetry tent; signing books from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the USC Master of Professional Writing booth (Zone E, booth 532); and moderating a panel with Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Cole Swensen, and Connie Voisine at 12:00 PM in Young Hall, CS 24.

4.21.09: I'm reading at the National Arts Club in New York, with Emily Moore and Cathy Park Hong. 8 pm. 15 Gramercy Park South, N.Y., N.Y.

4.4.09: I'm reading with August Kleinzahler and Amy Gerstler at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibit "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures." The program is called "Late Night Art: Berlin 1945-2009"; there will be art, video, music, poems, and a DJ from Berlin. The whole thing starts at 8:00 pm. I'm reading from 10-10:30 pm. $10 at the door or in advance till April 3rd (call 323-857-6010 or order online). BP Grand Entrance, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

2.16.09: Moderating a conversation with Tony Hoagland, Camille Dungy, and James McMichael in the Red Hen Press/Poetry Society of America's Readings & Conversation series. 7:30 pm at the Geffen Playhouse. 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles.

2.14.09: Valentine's Day show! Two wonderful LA poets, Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Douglas Kearney will be reading; Rob "Martini Shot" Long will be there; there will be music; there will be stories; it will be fun. 9:30 pm at the Little Room at Largo at the Coronet, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Tickets are $15 (cash) at the door; the proceeds will be donated to My Friend's Place, a center for homeless teenagers in Hollywood.

2.3.09: Reading with Matthew Zapruder in the Poetry Society of America's Poems & Pints series. 6:30 pm at the Fraunces Tavern. 54 Pearl Street (corner of Broad Street), N.Y., N.Y.

1.21.09: Reading with Gabriel Fried and Carol Muske-Dukes. 4:30 p.m. at Doheny Memorial Library, Feuchtwanger Special Collections Room (DML 206), University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

12.20.08: Dana Goodyear Presents an evening of song, verse, and delightful prose, with surprise guests and California's new Poet Laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes. 9:30 pm at the Little Room at Largo at the Coronet, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.

12.04.08: Reading with Mark Doty and Timothy Steele in the PSA Spotlight Series, co-sponsored by ALOUD at Central Library. 7:00 pm at the Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library. 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles. Update: here's the link to a podcast of the reading; here's for Part II.