READINGS / Events
~ upcoming ~ ( contact if you’d like to read with me in 2024! Especially California; Los Angeles / Bay Area )
~ past ~
February 2024, Kansas City, MO: AWP CONFERENCE events/panels, events Thursday the 8th through Saturday the 11th)
Thursday: 2:00 - 3:00 PM, book signing for There Is Only One Ghost in the World — FC2 / Fiction Collective 2, Table 823 in Bookfair, KC Convention Center
3:00 - 4:00 PM, book signing with other contributors to Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance — Grand Ballroom A, Level 2, KC Convention Center
Friday: 10:35 - 11:50 AM : The Against Tradition Tradition: Contradiction & the Prose Poem ( with Leslie Sainz, Dana Levin Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Olatunde Osinaike)
Room 2504AB, Level 2 ~ ~ ~ Originating in nineteenth-century France as a subversive form “supple . . . and rugged enough to adapt . . . to the lyrical impulses of the soul,” prose poems are now taught in writing classrooms across the globe. Has their popularity changed their capacity for surprise, radicalism, and (non)sense? How are contemporary poets troubling the contradictions inherent in the form’s name? This diverse panel of poets will consider these questions and trace their relationships to the indefinable prose poem.
3:20-4:35 PM: Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Ecstasy & Agony of Collaborative Books (with Rochelle Hurt, Cynthia Arrieu-King, W. Todd Kaneko, and Vi Khi Nao)
Room 2502B, Level 2 ~ ~ ~ Collaboration is a deeply enriching, inspiring, and challenging experience for writers seeking creative connection and growth. The exchange of ideas and trust within a collaborative book project is intimidating, but it can have transformative effects on writers' voices and visions. In this panel, five authors of collaborative books across a range of genres will shed light on the process of writing, editing, and publishing collaboratively.
Saturday: 2 - 4:00 PM - Crossroads Reading with Henrietta Goodman, Becca Klaver & more! Turnsol Books, 1664 Broadway Blvd ( 0.2 miles from KC Convention Center)
7 - 9:00 PM - Fiction Collective Two’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Reading, w/ many FC2 authors! TapRoom @ Torn Label, 1708 Campbell Street (1.0 miles from KC Convention Center)
19 November 2023 (Sunday): Miami, FL, Miami Book Festival
11 AM: You’ve Got a Ticket To Ride with Nicole Tallman and Mervyn Taylor - Bldg. 8, 3rd floor, Rm. 8303
2 PM: Poetic Prose with Kelle Groom and Julie Marie Wade - Bldg. 8, 2nd floor, Rm. 8203
7 June 2023: Pittsburgh, PA, White Whale Bookstore, with Jim Daniels
20 May 2023: Lincoln, NE, Francie and Finch Bookshop, 4:30 PM
13 October 2022: Chapel Hill, NC @ UNC—Chapel Hill (Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall 223) 3:30 PM - Open to the public
11 april 2021: online for Alaska Quarterly Review, with Victoria Chang and Kimiko Hahn
22 feb 2020: Hillsborough, NC: The House Party Series (Bull City Press) with Dorianne Laux, Cassandra J. Bruner, & Joseph Millar
18 jan 2020: Spartanburg, SC The (Patio) Sessions, Queer Writers Edition w Aidan Forster & Kamden Hillard
10 march 2019: Pittsburgh, PA: Free Association Reading Series @ City of Asylum
26 feb 2019: Lewisburg, PA: Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts with A. Van Jordan
8 feb 2019: NYC: COUPLET Reading Series w Donika Kelly, Catherine Barnett, & friends
22 june 2018: Lincoln, NE: The Aliens Reading Series, Parrish Studios
20 april 2018: Houston, TX: Brazos Bookstore
6 april 2018: Marfa, TX: Blue Mountain Reading Series w Ryan Paradiso & Morgan Eldridge
2 dec 2017: Pittsburgh, PA: White Whale Bookshop w Rachel Mennies & Lauren Russell
18 nov 2017: Miami, FL: Miami Book Fair: "Writing The Unanswerable: Poets on The Body's Journey" (reading & panel)
23 sept 2017: Kansas City, MO: A Common Sense Reading Series, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, w Valerie Hsuing & Mark Tardi
24 may 2017: Pittsburgh, PA: White Whale Bookshop, w Toby Altman & friends
18 may 2017: Brooklyn, NY: Berl's Poetry Bookshop
17 feb 2017: Washington DC; AWP reading w YesYes Books authors, MLK Library