News
Thanks to Major Jackson and everyone at The Slowdown for featuring my poem “Thirteen” from Flutter, Kick!
Flutter, Kick named a Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library
Flutter, Kick has been named winner of the 2023 Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry by the Boston Authors Club
Thank you to Nina McLaughlin for including me in this review of Leaning Towards Light, Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them in The Boston Globe
Thank you to Diana Whitney for shouting out Flutter, Kick in her latest edition of Girl Trouble
Flutter, Kick: A Review by Jennifer Martelli in Southern Humanities Review
Flutter, Kick reviewed by Nina MacLaughlin in The Boston Globe: “New poetry from Anna V. Q. Ross…”
Recent & Upcoming Events
AWP 2024, Kansas City, February 7-10:
2/7, 6:30-10:30, Charlotte Street Foundation Black Box Theater, 3333Wyoming St., Kansas City: Wednesday Night Poetry Live!
2/8, 5-7pm, Cheval on Main, 3940 Main St., Kansas City: Braving the Body anthology launch
2/8, 7-8:30pm, Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City: Leaning Toward Light anthology launch
2/9, 7-10pm, The Bauer, Kansas City: “Off site. On Purpose,” a reading with contributors to Mom Egg Review, SWWIM, NELLE, & Whale Road Review
Past Events
2023
Wednesday, 11/29, 7pm Maxima Book & Gift Center, 1717 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA
Anna reads with Morgan Baker, author of Emptying the Nest
Saturday, 11/4, C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
“What Boils Up: The Art of Sequence Poems” w/ Iris Jamal Dunkle, Hyejung Kook, Charlotte Pence, and Anna V. Q. Ross
“The Persona Poem: Navigating Our Emotional Landscapes by Inhabiting Another World” w/ Frances Donovan, Jennifer Martelli, and Anna V. Q. Ross
Saturday, 10/14, 7pm, A Common Sense Reading Series, Kansas City Art Institute Campus Gallery, Kansas City, MO
w/ Hyejung Kook, Jenny Mohlberg, and Anna V. Q. Ross
Tuesday, 10/3, 7:30pm, Columbia University Alumni Poetry Series, Columbia University, School of the Arts, NYC
w/ Patrick James Errington, India Lena Gonzalez, Anna V. Q. Ross, & Tiffany Troy
Monday, 10/2, 7pm, Innovative Explorations: 5 Poets, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
w/ Lynn Xu, Anna V. Q. Ross, Flávia Rocha, Endie Bogue Hartigan, & Desirée Alvarez
Tuesday, 9/19, 7pm, Amherst College Book & Plow Farm, Amherst, MA
w/ Tess Taylor, Hannah Fries, Catherine Newman, Anna V. Q. Ross, & Brian Simoneau
Sunday, 9/17, 4pm: Leaning Toward Light anthology launch, Long Hill, Beverly, MA
w/ Tess Taylor, Patty Crane, Cleopatra Mathis, January O’Neil, Anna V. Q. Ross, & Brian Simoneau
Tuesday, 9/12, 6:30pm: Leaning Toward Light anthology launch, Boston Public Library, Copley Sq.
w/ Tess Taylor, Kirun Kapur, January O’Neil, Anna V. Q. Ross, & Brian Simoneau
Saturday, 8/5, 2:30pm: Roxbury Poetry Festival, Bruce C. Bolling Building, 2300 Washington St., Boston, MA 02119
S(Mothering): a reading & discussion with Crystal Valentine, Yara Liceaga-Rojas, & Anna V. Q. Ross.
Tues., 7/25, 6pm: Pop-Up Poetry @ Remnant Brewing, 2 Bow Market Way, Somerville, MA
Anna reads w Quintin Collins, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Ewa Chrusciel, and Timothy Liu.
Thurs., 7/13, 7pm: Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI
Anna reads with THE MATRIX
Sunday, 5/21, 3pm: SEAM Poetry Reading (online via Zoom & Facebook Livestream)
Anna reads w/ Marilyn Chin & Dean Rader hosted by Kathleen Ossip and Kristina Andersson Bicher
Thurs., 5/25, 6:30-8:30pm: Flutter, Kick 6-Month Birthday Book & Goodbye Party
@ Homestead Cafe, 1448 Dorchester Ave., Fields Corner, MA
Join Anna, Rajiv Mohabir, & Isabel Galleymore to celebrate Flutter, Kick’s half birthday and wish Rajiv and Izzy well before they leave Boston next month!
Sunday, May 7th, 2pm: Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
Poets on Parenting panel w/ Anna, Allison Adair, Ben Berman, & Regie Gibson
Wednesday, 4/26, 6-7pm: Odyssey Bookshop
The Village Commons, 9 College St., South Hadley MA 01075
Anna reads w/ Andrea Lawlor
Friday, 4/21, 6:30pm: Poetry Open Mic Night @ River Bend Bookshop
161 Park Rd., West Hartford, CT 06119
Poetry Open Mic Night featuring Julie Choffel & Anna
Thurs., 4/20, 7-8pm: Cary Library Poetry Series
Large Meeting Room, Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA 02420
Anna reads w/ Jason Tandon & Lisa Usani Phillips, with an introduction by Cammy Thomas
4/2, 2pm, Poetry at the Library, Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main St., Concord, MA
Anna reads with Jason Tandon (This Far North)
3/31, 6:30pm, Forbes House Museum, 215 Adams St., Milton, MA
Anna reads with Martha Collins (Casualty Reports)
3/22, 6pm, Barnes & Noble UConn, 18 Front St., Hartford, CT
Anna reads w/ Julie Choffel (The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love) and Danielle Pieratti (Approximate Body)
Anna’s events @ AWP, March 8-11, 2023, Seattle, WA
Weds, 3/8, 8-10pm: Wednesday Night Poetry Offsite Reading @ Cafe Racer, 1510 11th Ave, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
Thurs, 3/9, 12-1: Flutter, Kick book signing, Red Hen Press, Booth 920/922/924, Seattle Convention Center
Thurs, 3/9, 5-8: Sunset Reading w/ Anna V. Q. Ross, Nicole Callahan, Brenda Cardenas, & Catherine Esposito Prescott, Seattle, WA (message for address)
Friday, 3/10, 12:10-1:25: The Body Politic, Poetry of Motherhood, Trauma & Sexuality w/ Anna V. Q. Ross, Rio Cortez, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Keetje Kuipers, & Erika Meitner, Summit Rm. 443, Seattle Convention Center
Friday, 3/10, 6-8: Red Hen Press Omnibus @ Rhein Haus Seattle, 912 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Saturday, 3/11, 11:30-12:30: Flutter, Kick book signing, Red Hen Press, Booth 920/922/924, Seattle Convention Center
Thursday, January 19, 2023, Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, MA
Anna reads w/ Joan Naviyuk Kane, Julie Choffel, and David Blair
2022
Thursday, December 15, 2022, Hundred Pitchers of Honey, online
Poetry Reading
Wednesday, December 14, 6pm, 2022, Boston Athenaeum, 10-1/2 Beacon St., Boston, MA
Performances by poets, Regie Gibson, Jeffrey Harrison, Megan Marshall, Anna V. Q. Ross. & Lloyd Schwartz, with vocalists Sarah Chalfey & Jonathan Woody, and composer Scott Wheeler
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 7pm Grolier Poetry Bookshop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA
Anna reads w/ Martha Collins
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Hudson Valley Writers Center, online
Anna reads w/ Joan Kwon Glass, Lauren Camp, and Edwin Torres
Monday, November 28, 2022 8pm, Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Cambridge Center for Adult Ed.
Friday, November 18, 5-8pm, Boston City Hall Plaza Reopening Ceremony, Boston City Hall
Anna reads as part of the Reopening Ceremony of Boston’s City Hall Plaza emceed by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola with and a digital projection and lighting installation illustrating her poems by Jeff Grantz/ILLUMINUS Boston featuring images by Artists for Humanity that will light up the building.
Saturday, November 5, 2022, C.D. Wright Women Writers’ Conference, University of Central Arkansas Poetry Reading & Panel: “The Body Politic: Motherhood, Trauma, and Sexuality” w/ Anna, Julia Dasbach, Hyejung Kook, Keetje Kuipers, and Eugenia Leigh
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 3:45-4:45, Boston Book Festival, Newsfeed Cafe, Boston Public Library, Copley Sq. Poetry Reading: The Future is Now: Motherhood & the Body in a Post-Roe World. Anna read w/ Jennifer Millitello, and Joan Naviyuk Kane
Sunday, October 9, 2022, Grolier Poetry Book Shop 95th Anniversary Reading, 52 Brattle St (in front of Toscano), Harvard Sq., Cambridge Celebration of the historic Grolier Poetry Book Shop’s 95th Anniversary with an all-day reading from 11am-6pm. Anna reads at 11:30 am. Other readers include Peter Balakian, Porsha Olayiwola, Gloria Mindock, Christina Davis, Martha Collins, George Kalogeris, Richard Fein, Sandra Lim, Stephanie Burt, Chen Chen, Fred Marchant, Jennifer Barber, Steven Cramer, Danielle Legros Georges, Dara Barrois/Dixon, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Loyd Schwartz, Robert Pinsky, Gail Mazur.
July 23, 2022, 1:30pm, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Poetry reading as part of the Opening Celebration of On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America