Kim Addonizio

writer musicmaker maquisard

Kim Addonizio is the author of six poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. Her latest books are Mortal Trash: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress (Penguin). She recently collaborated on a chapbook, The Night Could Go in Either Direction (Slapering Hol Press) with poet Brittany Perham. Addonizio also has two word/music CDs:  Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, a companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems & Portraits, featuring woodcuts by Charles D. Jones. She teaches and performs internationally

 
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 Readings, Conferences, Retreats

Latest on BBC Radio: California Burning: Jack Kerouac inspires poet Kim Addonizio to spend time as a forest fire watcher - scanning for smokes from a lookout tower high above the giant sequoias of California. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bz6l

EXIT OPERA is just out!
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I’ll be touring to celebrate the new book through the fall and winter. Hope to see you at a reading!

Thursday, Sept 19, 5:30pm College of the Florida Keys, Key West, Tennessee Williams Theatre, with guitarist Danny Caron, free

Wednesday, Sept 25, 7pm, Washington, DC The Line Hotel, Fall Salon sponsored by Lost City Bookstore. Tickets here

Thursday, Sept 26, 7pm P&T Knitwear, 280 Orchard St, NYC, with guitarist Danny Caron. Tickets here

Sunday, Sept 29 Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY (1:30-3:30pm workshop, 4pm reading) Workshop Tickets here Reading Tickets here

Friday, Oct 4, 6pm, San Francisco, Golden Sardine Wine Bar, 362 Columbus Ave, North Beach

Thursday, Oct 10, 7pm, Berkeley, w/Jan Beatty & Brittany Perham. Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave, 2 blocks North of Ashby BART

Friday, Oct 11, 7pm, Litquake Reading, Makeout Room, San Francisco

Thursday, Nov 21, 7pm, Berkeley, Pegasus Books with Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar

Friday, Nov 22, 8pm, Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque Reading with Cynthia Good, Dorianne Laux, Michelle Bitting

Saturday, Nov 23, 11am-2pm, Los Angeles Beyond Baroque Critique Workshop with Kim and Dorianne

 

(with Danny Caron at the Port Townsend Writers Conference, July 2023)