Events

 
 
 
 
 

Upcoming Events 2025

Online Events: February

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 6pm Central, 5 PM Eastern. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW INVISIBLE STRINGS: A Not-Just-for-Swifties Reading. Molly reads her poem with Kristie Frederick Daugherty, editor of Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift and with these stellar poets: Stephanie Burt, Christopher Citro, Lisa Fay Coutley, Teri Ellen Cross David, David Groff, January Gill O'Neil, Jeannine Ouellette, Ruben Quesada, Susan Rich, Natasha Saje, Evie Shockley, Carey Solano, Christopher Solano, Diane Seuss, and Leah Umansky. Introduced by Jeremy Schraffenberger, editor at the University of Northern Iowa’s venerable journal. Register.

Sunday, February 23, 2025 3-4:15pm Eastern. MEND-A-BROKEN-HEART with Molly, Ashley and Leah. A-Buy-a-Book Reading in cooperation with THE CORNER BOOKSTORE, New York City & BEN MC NALLY BOOKS, Toronto. For the last Sunday of Mend-a-Broken-Heart Month, Molly reads from The Widow’s Crayon Box (W.W. Norton) with Ashley Mabbitt Author of  A Self, a Frame, a Look in Through (Kelsay Books) and Leah Umansky, author of Of Tyrant (Word Works Press), Three Binghamton University grads get together to mend hearts!

This Online Buy-a-Book Reading has a registration format in two steps: First, buy one of the books by either Mabbitt, Peacock or Umansky at either of the bookstores in Canada and the US. (In the fortunate event that you have all three, the bookstore will order any other book of poems for you.) Second, after you purchase, you will receive the Zoom link to the event. (We’re trying this North American effort to mirror some of the wonderful Buy-the-Book events in the UK and Ireland.)

Buy a book in the US from The Corner Bookstore: orders@cornerbookstorenyc.com or call: 212-831-3554

Buy a book in Canada from Ben McNally. info@benmcnallybooks.com or call: 416-361-0032

Ben McNally provides three links to order online;

Molly's book: https://shop.benmcnallybooks.com/item/KbKT8pcwmPVZbJwkN-1YLQ

Ashley's book: https://shop.benmcnallybooks.com/item/c6_cNuQXcieKPJ6pujLaMQ

Leah's book: https://shop.benmcnallybooks.com/item/c6_cNuQXcidsOBCvCj7lsA

YOUR REGISTRATION LINK COMES AFTER YOU PURCHASE A BOOK.

In Person in Toronto Event: March

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 12:15-2:15pm Eastern. Luncheon Talk at the Women’s Art Association. Molly with Megan Hutton, author of the memoir I Remain. Join Molly and Megan for a delicious lunch provided by Saffron Catering at the iconic WAAC, 23 Prince Arthur St. Toronto. Introduced by Bronwyn Drainie. After lunch, Molly and Megan will explore memory in poetry and memoir itself as they reveal the undercurrents in The Widow’s Crayon Box and I Remain.

Online Classes: March-April-May

POETRY WITH MOLLY PEACOCK “From All Over the Place to Someplace” at 92NY, Sundays, March 23 and 30, April 27 and May 4 3-5pm Eastern. SOLD OUT.  

TO BE ON A WAIT LIST, contact: molly@mollypeacock.org Please put All Over the Place in the Subject Line,

Study how creative journeys result in poems—through your own drafts as well as those of the instructor. This limited enrollment class will map the evolution of jottings into poems, watching Molly Peacock write as you write.  As online visual art classes demonstrate by drawing, Peacock will show, in real (and replicated) time, how All-over-the-place notes can coalesce into poems. Each class will model the back-and-forth of intuition with technique decisions.  This is a studio-workshop, with time to write in class. Join us as we arrive at Someplace.  

Class 1: Inheritance. Class 2: Personal Objects. Class 3: Love and Memory. Class 4: Participant Draft Showcase.

In Person New York Event: April & June

Carmine Street Metrics Reading Series @ The Jefferson Market Library, Sunday, April 6, 2-4:30pm Eastern. Molly reads with Dan Simpson and Cherise Pollard. Jefferson Market Library is located at 425 Sixth Avenue between West 10th Street and Greenwich Avenue, New York City.

Bryant Park Reading Series, June 17. 6pm Eastern. Molly reads with Phillis Levin, introduced by Jason Schneiderman. Bryant Park is located behind the New York Public Library, Main Branch, West 42 St between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City. Info for rain date to come.

Past Events 2024

 

Toronto, New York, Midwest. Online.

Friday, December 6, 2024 AWE (Art Gallery of Windsor): 10:30AM-noon, Seniors Program: “The Grotto of Memory” 401 Riverside Drive West, Windsor, ON Free with museum admission, or for Museum Members. Open to adults and seniors 55 +.

Thursday, December 5, 2024 BIBLIOASIS BOOKSHOP Molly reads with Vanessa Shields: 7 PM, 1520 Wyandotte St E. Windsor, ON Come for the swag: Widow’s Crayon Box fridge magnets and Crayon-shaped cookies!

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 POETS & PIES Molly reads with Cindy Frenkel, Dawn McDuffie and Christine Rhein, 6-7:30pm, Sponsored by WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, THE DETROIT WRITERS’ GUILD and THE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Monday, November 25, 2024 ART BAR: A Reading with Ricardo Sternberg, 7 PM, Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street , Toronto.

Sunday, November 24, 2024,3:00PM EST: A HUNDRED PITCHERS OF HONEY VIDCASTMolly in Conversation with Donna Vorreyer and poet Dana Delibovi, translator of the poems of St. Theresa of Avila.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: Molly Peacock in Dialogue with Dana Delibovi, “Afterlives: A Poet and Translator Consider the Many Ways of Living On” 3:30 PM, 53 East 79th Street
, New York, NY

Saturday, November 16, 2024 BROOKLYN POETS: A Reading with Nicole Callihan, Jennifer Franklin, and Ashley Mabbitt, 7 PM, 144 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY

Thursday, November 14, 2024 LAUNCH READING: The Corner Bookstore at 6 PM, 1313 Madison Avenue at 93rd Manhattan, NY

November 10, 2024 LAUNCH READING: at Cirillo’s Academy, 2-4 PM, 118 The Esplanade, corner Market St by the St Lawrence Market. Books sold by Ben McNally Books – come for a 21st-century updated tea party!

Sunday, November 3, 2024 5:00pm EST 2:00pm PST: MASSY VOICES from the literary series curated by MASSY ARTS BC
 Molly, Nicole Louie and Therese Shechter in conversation about The Widow's Crayon Box and Others Like Me. I met Brazilian Nicole who now lives in Dublin on what was then Twitter, and a profound friendship developed! Listen to us talk about our books, moderated by the brilliant documentary filmmaker Therese Shechter of Trixie Films. What does my widowhood have to do with Nicole's many interviews worldwide with women who chose not to have children?  A LOT!  (Nicole is also a poet, so we have much to say. )  Register here.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 MOURNING INTO LIGHT
Sadie Beyl and Emily Thiroux Threatt, are the hosts of a Grief Summit.The mission of this fifth edition of their online emails-to-interviews-in-your-inbox is to share insights, tools, and strategies to guide those who are navigating through the contradictions of  losing individuals beloved to us.   The speakers’ stories are revelatory and riveting.  Endurance, purpose, and a little joy on the way.


Thursday, September 19, 2024 BOOK DRUNKARD FESTIVAL: A Reading with Hollay Ghadery, 7 PM, Blue Heron Books, 62 Brock St. West, Uxbridge, ON

Sundays, March 10, 17, 24 and April 7, 2024, 92NY POETRY WITH MOLLY PEACOCK: AMERICAN WOMEN POETS AT THE AMERICAN WING 2:00- 5:00pm EST online and Monday, April 8 at 10am in-person at the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Wing, New York City, for those who wish to attend.

Saturday, April 6, 2024, 2-4pm EST. Voices of Poetry. In Person. Molly reads at Poets House, with Antoinette Brim-Bell, Chard DeNiord & Cornelius Eady, hosted by Neil Silberblatt. Poets House: 10 River Terrace, NY, NY 10282

Thursday, January 18, 2024, 7:00- 8:00pm EST FLOWER DIARY: A QUESTION-PROVOKING PAINTING BY GEORGE AGNEW REID RETURNS HOME w/Molly Peacock. Virtual Huron County Museum. A virtual webinar about Wingham-born painter George Agnew Reid with poet and biographer Molly Peacock.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 1:00-3:00pm EDT Portraits of Friendships: Poetry Workshop with Molly Peacock at Muskoka Chautauqua, Windemere, Ontario. In person. Poetry in a Northern Ontario setting. Muskoka Chautauqua is worth a look!

August 15, 2023 New Books Network podcast with Megan Wildhood goes live. Join Molly as she speaks about A Friend Sails in on a Poem with Megan Wildhood.

August 18, 2023, Sound Lens podcast with Louise Fagan and Gillian Wise.Join Molly as she’s interviewed about creativity by the amazing mother-daughter team, Fagan & Wise. Listen to the interview here.

 

Sundays, March 12, 19, 26 and April 2, 2023, 2:00- 5:00pm EST

Poetry with Molly Peacock at 92NY

This online seminar-workshop will take as its inspiration the Morgan Library exhibit, She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C. as well as the Temple Hymns of Enheduanna. Inspired by the prayer-poems, stories and postures of figurines created over five thousand years ago, this class will involve writing poems, and, for those poets who are also visually inclined, creating images that spring from reactions to this ancient work. For more information, please visit the course page at 92NY.

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 12:00pm EST

The Paper Garden with the Newport Museum Reads Book Club

Join Molly Peacock and the Newport Museum’s book group for art enthusiasts as they discuss The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72. Registration information is available here.

Sunday, November 13, 2022, 2-4pm EST,

A Friend Sails in on a Poem at the Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto

Palimpsest Press celebrates A Friend Sails in on a Poem at the Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince St., Toronto. Stay tuned for more information!

 

Tuesday, November 8, at 7:00pm EDT

Molly Peacock & Phillis Levin In Conversation, WordsFest London

Join Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin as they discuss A Friend Sails in on a Poem, online through WordsFest in London. Information is available here.

 

Thursday, November 3, at 6:00pm EDT

Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin at the Corner Bookstore, New York City

Join Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin for a discussion of their unparalleled friendship in poetry at NYC’s mecca for book-hungry readers, the Corner Bookstore. Information available here.

 

Thursday, October 27, 2pm EDT (Online)

Flower Diary at Art Your Service, a Virtual Community for People 55 or Better

Join Jen Tindall and Molly Peacock for a discussion on creative aging and FLOWER DIARY: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door. Registration information is available here.

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7pm EDT

“My So-Called Selfish Life” at Innis Hall, Toronto

Toronto friends, you are cordially invited to a screening of “My So-Called Selfish Life,”
followed by a Panel featuring filmmaker Therese Shechter and guests, including Molly Peacock. Information on obtaining tickets is available here.

 

Thursday, October 20, at 3:30pm EDT

Two Poets at the Table: Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin, Society Library, New York City

The Writing Life Daytime Talk Series resumes with Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin presenting Two Poets at the Table: A Dialogue Between Friends Sharing Poems & Food. The event is free but requires advance registration. Information is available here!

 

Friday, October 14, 2022, 7pm EDT (Online)
The Penguin Book of the Sonnet at the White Whale Bookstore

The White Whale Bookstore invites you to a virtual celebration for the 20th Anniversary of the Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Editor Phillis Levin is joined by guests Bruce Bond, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock & Jason Schneiderman. Registration info is here.

 

Saturday, August 20, at 5:00 pm, EDT

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Lit Balm hosts a special online event with leading poets and writers Marge Piercy, Carol Muske-Dukes, Molly Peacock, Larissa Shmailo, and Annie Finch.. If you missed this event, a recording is available here!

 

Sunday, July 17 at 2:00 pm, EDT

Poetry and Music with Molly Peacock, Cornelius Eady, and the Cornelius Eady Trio, presented with Voices of Poetry at the Sandisfield Arts Center, MA.

On Sunday, July 17 at 2 PM, we join with Voices of Poetry for an extraordinary afternoon of poetry, music, and conversation. The in-person afternoon program features Cornelius Eady, Molly Peacock, Hilde Weisert and Neil Silberblatt. Information can be found on the Sandisfield Arts Center website.

 

Wednesday, July 6 at 1:00 pm, EDT

Radical Poetry Reading with David Mills Featuring Rose Auslander, Molly Peacock, and Rosebud Ben-Oni

David Mills curates the The Brooklyn Rail’s 93rd Radical Poetry Reading, online via Zoom. Video available here.

 

Saturday, June 4, at 2:00pm EDT

Bluebird Encounter at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, performed by Madeleine Brown and directed by Kathy Chin: Bluebird Encounter is a ten-minute monologue, blending poetry and prose, adapted by Madeleine Brown from the writings of poet and biographer Molly Peacock including her critically-acclaimed The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 and Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries, & Opens a Door. Inspired by and staged in Michèle Karch-Ackerman’s exhibition Ghost Seamstress, Bluebird Encounter originally premiered in 2018 in Toronto’s Campbell House Museum as part of Bluebird Dress Factory. The performance is followed by a conversation with Molly Peacock, Michèle Karch-Ackerman, Karthy Chin and Madeleine Brown (moderator). Attendees will then have the opportunity to visit Ghost Seamstress, and purchase and have signed a copy of Flower Diary. Info here: https://agp.on.ca/events/bluebird-encounter/

 

Sunday, June 5 at 3:00 pm

Poetry Reading with Carmine Street Metrics

Join Carmine Street Metrics for a reading with Peter Daniels, Molly Peacock, and Ellen Rittberg. Register through Eventbrite or by emailing carminestreetmetrics@gmail.com.

 

Tuesday, June 14 at 6:00 pm

Live Poetry Reading at the Bryant Park Reading Room

Molly’s putting on her lipstick for an in-person poetry reading with Rosebud Ben-Oni, David Mills and James Hoch, and hosted by Jason Schneiderman! For more information, visit https://bryantpark.org/events/2022/06/14/poetry

 

Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30pm EDT

23rd Archibald Lampman Poetry Reading with Molly Peacock: Please join the Friends of the Library for their annual poetry reading with Molly Peacock. The reading is open to the Trinity College community and anyone who appreciates or wants to learn more about poetry. Information about this virtual event is available here.

 

Friday, March 25, 3:00pm EDT

Celebrating Michael Groden: A Public Tribute at The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Co-sponsored by the Dublin James Joyce Summer School; Edward Everett Root Press; The Groden, Helper-Morris, Reisman, and Schwartz-James Families; International James Joyce Foundation; James Joyce Literary Supplement; James Joyce Quarterly; James Joyce Society; Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y; Western Libraries; Western University; and the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. For information on the event and to register, please visit the event page.

 

Sundays, March 6, 13, April 3, 10, at 2:00pm EST/EDT

92nd St Y Poetry Seminar: Poetry and Miniatures with Molly Peacock: From a radish to a sequin to a zipper on a backpack, we will examine and write poems devoted to small subjects that suddenly grow in significance. Students will also explore a variety of short forms from the haiku to the cinquain.

Register online through the 92nd Street Y. UPDATE: All spots are booked. Stay tuned for a one-day intensive class and recordings!

 

Tuesday, March 1 at 7:00pm EST

PRESENTING FLOWER DIARY with Eldredge Public Library, Chatham Mass. with the Chilmark Public Library and Yarmouth Town Libraries: Join us for a talk on FLOWER DIARY.

 

Thursday, February 3 at 6:00pm EST

THE PAPER GARDEN VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB: Burchfield Penney, Buffalo

Join me and the voracious readers of the Burchfield Penney Book Club to discuss THE PAPER GARDEN: AN ARTIST BEGINS HER LIFE’S WORK AT 72.

Register through the Burchfield Penney website. More details shortly!

 

Wednesday, January 19 at 11:00am PST

Poet and baker Mika Maloney of A Small Batch will read "Gusto" on her episode of Small Batch Poetry, airing at TPG Radio.

 

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 EST

Wordsfest: The Art of Resilience: Featuring: Dr. Jillian Horton, Dr. Ronald Epstein, and Molly Peacock and hosted by Dr. Shannon Arntfield. Molly Peacock discusses The Analyst, which describes the state of ambiguous loss (where a loved and respected person is still alive, but no longer the same) and celebrates the restorative process of painting.

 

Thursday, November 4 at 6:30pm Pacific,7:30pm Mountain; 9:30pm Eastern

BOOKS IN COMMON NW: Paulina Springs Books, OR; Madison Books, WA; & Country Bookshelf, MT

THE MAKING OF FLOWER DIARY: Donna Bailey Nurse interviews Molly.  Her question: How do you get the confidence to write an interpretive biography? Video recording available online.

 

Monday, October 25, 2021, 7:00-8:00pm EDT. Online

Westport Public Library, Westport, Connecticut: Hear how Mary Hiester Reid fought to be a professional artist during the 19th century when Molly Peacock discusses Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door with local artist Dale Najarian. Video recording available online.

 

Friday, October 15, 2021, 2:30pm EDT. Online.

92nd Street Y Online:  Flower Diary, a Biography & Friday Tea Illustrated Talk

Molly Peacock reads from Flower Diary:  In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door and shows the luscious paintings of an American-Canadian artist you’ve never heard of – till now.

 

Friday, October 8, 2021, 5-8pm EDT.  In Person!

Toronto Launch:  The Women’s Art Association of Canada and ECW Press cordially invite you to the launch of Flower Diary:  In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door. In collaboration with the opening of the exhibition Her Century at Last:  21st century Artists Celebrate Mary Hiester Reid and the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death.

 

Monday, October 4, 2021, noon EDT. Online.

Art at Noon—The Determined Life of Mary Hiester Reid:  The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in this special Art at Noon, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the death of Mary Hiester Reid and author Molly Peacock's brand new publication on the esteemed artist. Video recording available online.

 

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at 4pm EDT. Online.

Art in the Spotlight:  The Art Gallery of Ontario presents Molly Peacock in conversation with Kathleen Foster (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Georgiana Uhlyarik (Art Gallery of Ontario) for an online launch of Flower Diary:  In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door. Video available online.