Book Launch House Party, Sept 6

On the occasion of the publication of Something To Live Up To by Benny Andersen and The Water Farm by Cecil Bødker. By invitation.

Benny Andersen and his American translator

Poesiens Hus Copenhagen, Denmark

Benny Andersen and I will read excerpts from the new dual-language volume of poetry and talk about our experiences working together. This is the first translation of his poetry published in the US in over forty years.  

DKK50

30 Poems in November Celebration

Although I usually read from my Danish translations, Thursday December 14 at 7pm, I will read from my own original poetry as part of the end celebration for 30 Poems in November, a fundraiser for the Center for New Americans. The event will take place at Smith College, Wright Hall. Link here: http://centerfornewamericans.weebly.com/30-poems-in-november.html

Free

Straw Dogs Anthology of Local Poetry, Book Release Party

Florence Civic Center 90 Park St., Florence, MA, MA, United States

I will be reading at this event to launch this anthology of poems which all have their settings in the Pioneer Valley. Hosted by Jane Yolen.

Free

Poetry Critique Meet-up

MA, United States

Join me and other poets at the Northampton Center for the Arts for an informal but productive sharing and critiquing of our original work. Each poet brings one poem to share and get feedback about. I do a short monologue in the middle of the sessions which run 2 1/2 hours, usually 1-3:30pm on a […]

$5

Dependency: A story of impulse and addiction

MA, United States

Join me at Smith College's Poetry Center for a presentation of the Penguin Classic DEPENDENCY, which I translated.  There will be refreshments followed by a reading and discussion of the book. Dependency: A story of impulse and addiction Translator Michael Favala Goldman picked up the memoir GIFT by renowned Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen in the Copenhagen Airport […]

Free

Unbuttoned presents: Michael Goldman, Sept 15, 6pm

You're Invited to a Virtual Panel Discussion on The Copenhagen Trilogy

Join me and Easthampton City Arts+ for an evening of poetry on zoom. https://www.facebook.com/events/1600482260111471  

Poetry Critique Meet-up

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Michael moderates the Poetry Critique Meet-up which is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance. Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word.

$5

Copenhagen Trilogy Book Launch & Virtual Event

Online Event

American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual panel discussion on Tove Ditlevsen’s The Copenhagen Trilogy, in celebration of its publication in English translation by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman beginning January 26. In this event, translator Michael Favala Goldman and authors Morten Høi Jensen (A Difficult Death), Rachel Kushner (The Mars Room), and Ben Lerner […]

Fools in Love

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I will be reading three love poems at this event. Event Details: Fill your heart and soul during an evening marrying romance and comedy with the PVS and some of your favorite Valley artists from Happier Valley Comedy, Enchanted Circle Theater and Straw Dog Writers’ Guild. Together we’ll explore heartache and romance through singalongs, improv, […]

$15

Meat for Tea: The Valley Review

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I’ll be reading a translated short story at this video premiere. This is event is hosted by Meat For Tea, Flywheel Arts Collective and Les Dérailleurs.

The Writers Imagination

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Some of us look at a piece of paper and it is blank; others of us look at the landscape of a blank page and are inspired to create. For close to a year, our individual and collective imaginations have been fed by solitude, by injustice, and by the recognition that our communities of neighbors […]

$25