November 6, 2025
P&T Knitwear Bookstore
New York, NY
With Cecily Parks & Michael M. Weinstein
7:00 p.m. ET

November 8, 2025
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
Poetry at the Intersection of Body, Race, and Identity
With C. Prudence Arceneaux
10:45 a.m. CT

November 8, 2025
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
Poetry Reading & Discussion With Douglas Kearney
3:45 p.m. CT

November 13, 2025
Porter Square Books
Cambridge, MA
With Matt Donovan & Nathan McClain
7:00 p.m. ET

November 14, 2025
Downtown Writers Center
Syracuse, NY
With Ellen Austin Li
7:00 p.m. ET

November 19, 2025
Chicago Poetry Center
Blue Hour Reading Series
Chicago, IL
With Keetje Kuipers
7:30 p.m. CT

December 4, 2025
Unnameable Books
Turners Falls, MA
With Matt Donovan & Nathan McClain
6:30 p.m. ET

December 7, 2025
Hudson Valley Writers Center
Sleepy Hollow, NY
4:00 p.m. ET

December 19, 2025
Adverse Abstraction Reading Series
Otto's Shrunken Head
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. ET

January 2025
Lasell University
Solstice MFA Faculty Reading
Auburndale, MA
7:00 p.m. ET

January 30, 2026
Big Red Books
Nyack, NY
With Carey Salerno
6:30 p.m. ET

February 3, 2026
Poetry at Artifact
Cincinnati, OH
7:00 p.m. ET

April 9, 2026
Rider Univerity
Lawrenceville, NJ
Time TBD

June 10, 2026
An Beal Bocht
Poor Mouth Reading Series
Bronx, NY
Time TBD

 

 

For booking, please email:

iain dot pollock at gmail dot com

"If the spirit is generous, and the balance between living and letters match, a fine book of poems sings the author and the reader free."

—Cornelius Eady

"Beyond the bracing intelligence in these poems, beyond the surges of joy and trouble, beyond the poet’s awe in this split second, he plunges with imagination into the timeless work of loving witness, resonant with high style and the blues."

—Brooks Haxton

"We all hear a personal music, and it’s up to us to create the moves to go with it. Pollock listens well, and his dance is all strut and stomp, wild and wooly, and filled with the stories he’s seen, heard, and lived. Focusing on themes of racial identity, romance, the everyday things in life, and ever-looming mortality, these poems are built on jazz, troubles, pain, gunfire in the night, blues. . ."

—Louis McKee, Library Journal

Iain Haley Pollock © 2025