Events
Join Unbound Edition Press authors at the readings, panels, or receptions scheduled below.
Books are often available at the events, though it’s best to order a copy in advance through our store.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series Featuring Angie Estes & Bianca Stone
March 30, 2026 | 8:00 pm EST
Angie Estes will read from her new collection, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, with Bianca Stone, whose new book is The Near and Distant World.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. Admission is $5, tickets are available at the door.
Estes’s new collection, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, brings together three decades of Angie Estes’s extraordinary linguistic alchemy. Opening with selections from her 2025 collection, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, and including selections from her acclaimed previous books, the poems illuminate connections between art, memory, and desire.
Stone’s latest poetry collection is The Near and Distant World. She is currently serving as the Vermont poet laureate.
Blacksmith House Poetry Series Featuring Alan Shapiro & Wyn Cooper
April 6, 2026 | 8:00 pm EST
Blacksmith House Poetry Series welcomes Alan Shapiro who will read from his 16th collection of poetry, Diver, with Wyn Cooper, reading from his new collection, The Unraveling.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. Admission is $5, tickets are available at the door.
In Diver, Alan Shapiro plunges into the profound depths of mortality, memory, and the human condition with his signature blend of philosophical rigor and emotional clarity. These poems navigate the liminal spaces between life and death, presence and absence, offering meditations on aging, loss, and the strange persistence of love.
Recent Events
Rolling Reading Series presents Tyler Mills
March 26, 2026 | 6:00 pm EST
Don’t miss poet, essayist, and educator Tyler Mills at the Penn State University Rolling Reading Series. Her memoir, The Bomb Cloud, (Unbound Edition Press, 2024) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was awarded a Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC Literature Award and has been excerpted in AGNI, Brevity, Bennington Review, River Teeth, and The Rumpus, and won the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize in Prose. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry.
“A book of history, family, art, and legacy, The Bomb Cloud is as much about destruction and loss as it is about creation.” – Chet’la Sebree
Tyler Mills is also the author of a poetry guidebook, Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets (University of Akron Press, 2024) and the poetry books City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press, 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press, 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions, 2021).
Map: Penn State University
Foster Auditorium
Paterno Library
University Park, PA
An Evening with Aimee Parkison
March 25, 2026 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
Free Event
Oklahoma State University
Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room-
Edmon Low Library
Body of Evidence crosses boundaries between story and confession in a haunting speculative collection that confronts the aftermath of gendered violence by blurring the divide between fiction and nonfiction.
Structured as exhibits in a case file, this hybrid mosaic challenges traditional storytelling to make invisible wounds visible. Each piece functions as both artistic exploration and cultural investigation, questioning how silence operates in survival. Through the constraint of compression, Body of Evidence demonstrates how micro-narratives can serve as witness and testimony.
Aimee Parkison is widely published and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. She has published 11 books, including 2 chapbooks, 2 novels, and 7 story collections on presses such as FC2, BOA Editions, Unbound Edition, and other independent publishers. She currently teaches creative writing in the MFA/Ph.D. program at Oklahoma State University, where she has received a Regents Distinguished Research Award and has been named a DaVinci Institute Creativity in Education Fellow.
European Day of the Arts, Featuring Angie Estes
March 25, 2026 | 4:00 pm CST
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign European Union Center and Department of English will be hosting a European Day of the Arts on Wednesday, March 25. This event will feature a poetry reading by the esteemed poet and professor Angie Estes. All are welcome!
Estes’s new collection, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, brings together three decades of Angie Estes’s extraordinary linguistic alchemy. Opening with selections from her 2025 collection, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, and including selections from her acclaimed previous books, the poems illuminate connections between art, memory, and desire.
Angie Estes is the author of seven previous books of poems. Among her many honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poetry, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her book Tryst was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. She has received fellowships from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Author Talk with Christian Bancroft
March 12, 2026 | 2:00-3:30 pm EST
Boniuk Library
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for an intimate author talk in the Boniuk Library with Houston local Christian Bancroft.
Bancroft will be sharing from his debut book of poetry A Ghost Has No Fantasies. Through haunting poetry and prose, A Ghost Has No Fantasies illuminates the forgotten voices of LGBTQ+ individuals who suffered under Nazi persecution. Drawing from archival documents, survivor testimonies, and Gestapo files, Christian Bancroft weaves together the intimate stories of those imprisoned under Paragraph 175 and beyond — gay men, lesbians, and transgender individuals whose experiences have long remained in the shadows of Holocaust memory.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event with a credit card.
Map: Holocaust Museum Houston
Lester and Sue Smith Campus
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
Howard Altmann at Von Bar
March 11, 2026 | 6:00 pm EST
Acclaimed Poet Howard Altmann will read from and discuss his new collection, Infinite Sky Divided downstairs at Von Bar: 3 Bleecker Street near Bowery.
There will be refreshments.
Please note: this event is located on a lower floor, down one flight of stairs. There is no elevator.
Howard Altmann is an acclaimed international poet whose work has been translated into Portuguese and Hebrew — original collections published in 2019 and 2021 — and German, in addition to two prior collections in English. A frequent contributor to The Guardian’s ‘Poem of the Week’ series, his poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, Poetry, TLS and elsewhere. A native of Montreal, he holds degrees from McGill and Stanford and lives in Brooklyn.
Map: Von Bar
3 Bleecker St (@ Bowery)
New York, NY 10012
AWP 2026 Reception
March 6, 2026 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST
Unbound Edition Press is thrilled to be exhibiting at the 2026 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Baltimore, MD. Come visit us at Booths 454 & 456.
This year we are pleased to welcome authors, readers, and others interested in our work to a reception held the evening of Friday, March 6. Whether an emerging writer or an established voice, please join us for an important series of announcements regarding future opportunities with the press.
From debuts to reviews to new open calls, the press and its journal, Revel, are looking to meet literary writers and critics to discuss what might be possible together.
Special offers are available to attendees.
Map: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel
Maryland Ballroom E, Fifth Floor
Session Code: F225
202 E Pratt St.
Baltimore, MD 21202