On September 19, 2009, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York hosted a launch reading for Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, edited by Maria Damon and Ira Livingston. 

Penn Sound has posted audio clips of the event.

Readers include Ira Livingston, Maria Damon, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, Amitava Kumar, Renato Rosaldo, and Pierre Joris.