ARchive Of events
2024
March 19, 2024, 8:30-9pm: Hosting FIRE SIDE reading on Zoom
March 16, 2024, 7pm: Reading for the Michigan Quarterly Review: SomaFlights with Megan Milks, Olivia Muenz, Lorraine Schein & Bishakh Som at Dear Friend Books, Brooklyn.
March 6, 2024, 7-10pm: Reading at The Weird Sister Collection launch party at 3 Dollar Bill, Brooklyn.
February 9, 2024, 7-9pm: Reading for the Michigan Quarterly Review’s SomaFlights issue, with Megan Kaminski, Ronaldo Wilson, Ginger Ko, Teresa Carmody, Angela Peñaredondo, Bishakh Som, Olivia Muenz, Jameelah Lang, Vidhu Aggarwal, and Petra Kuppers, at the Smalter Gallery, Kansas City.
February 9, 2024, 12-1pm: Signing copies of The Weird Sister Collection at The Feminist Press (booth 737) at the AWP Book Fair in Kansas City.
January 28, 2024, 9-9:30pm CST: Reading at the 30th Annual Woodland Pattern Book Center Poetry Marathon, online. January 28. Watch recording here!
January 1, 2024: Reading at the 50th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, The Poetry Project, NYC. Watch recording here or here!
January 1, 2024: Reading at the Alternative New Year's Poetry Marathon, Westbeth Community Room, NYC
2023
November 18, 2023: Hosting LINEAGE #10 featuring Sophia Giovannitti, Monica McClure, Kim Rosenfield at Wendy’s Subway, 7pm
September 16, 2023: reading for After Hours Editions at Verbatim III text & sound expo @ Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY.
September 5, 2023: reading in support of Amy Berkowitz’s new book, Gravitas, with Marisa Crawford, Leila Ortiz & Matt L. Roar @ Unnameable Books in Brooklyn
August 28, 2023: cohosting Poets Who Love Poets with Ashna Ali at Blinky’s @7pm
July 1, 2023: reading for subTEXT x SAM: textual re:newal, at Singapore Art Museum
June 8, 2023: hosting LINEAGE at Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn @ 7pm - Join via Zoom link here
June 4, 2023: launching No, Dear issue #29: CHRONIC at Blinky’s in Brooklyn @ 2pm
May 5, 2023: UNDELETE - a screening of Temp.Files video art produced over the past two seasons, including videos by Emily Brandt, Christine Cheung, Tusia Dabrowska, Kerry Downey, Rah Elah, Kara Hearn, Nung-Hsin Hu, Michelle Levy, Sunita Prasad & Rachel Stevens at Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn, @ 7pm
April 14, 2023: reading at Lyrics, Lit & Liquor with C.M. Soto & Jonathan Taubes, plus performance by Mary-Elaine Jenkins at Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn @ 7pm
February 8, 2023: Reading for Sarka online @ 8:30pm EST
January 24, 2023: Reading with Christina Chalmers, Suzanne Goldenberg, Lisa Jarnot & Addy Malinowski at Molasses Books @ 8pm
2022
November 30, 2022: Hosting the Fall Poetry Series #2, Seeing the Stars When the Sun is Shining, featuring Safia Jama, Christine Shan Shan Hou & imogen xtian smith at The Center for Book Arts @ 6:30pm
November 23, 2022: Hosting the Fall Poetry Series #1, Seeing the Stars When the Sun is Shining, featuring Laura Henriksen, Matt L Roar, & Matthew Williams at The Center for Book Arts @ 6:30pm
September 20, 2022: Co-hosting Yellow Wallpaper—featuring Ashna Ali, Peach Kander, Lola Lorber & Blythe Roberson at Baba Cool Williamsburg, 7pm
September 1, 2022: Hosting LINEAGE #8 featuring Jive Poetic, Rico Frederic & Terrance Hayes at Wendy’s Subway, 7pm
July 17, 2022: Reading at Gavagai Music & Reading Series
June 11, 2022: Co-hosting No, Dear Issue 28: WATER launch at Branch Ofc, 2pm
June 2, 2022: Co-hosting Yellow Wallpaper & The Phoenix reading—featuring Wo Chan, t’ai freedom ford, Holly Melgard, & Samantha Zighelboim— at dear friend books, 5:30pm
2021
September 4, 2021: Reading at CRUSH #27, with Kimberly Alidio, erica kaufman, Shanekia McIntosh, Stacy Szymaszek & Nora Treatbaby @ 7pm at Woodbine in Kingston, NY
June 17, 2021: Hosting LINEAGE, featuring Mónica de la Torre, xesxa despentes, & Ted Dodson @ 7pm on Zoom.
February 23, 2021: Hosting LINEAGE through Wendy’s Subway, featuring readings by Rasheed Copeland, Candice Iloh, & Jason Reynolds, @7pm on Zoom.
January 12, 2021 @7-8pm: Reading with Chia-Lun Chang, E’mon Lauren, & Nilah Foster for the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Reading Series. Video here!
2020
December 31, 2020 @7pm: In conversation with Cynthia Manick for New Year’s Eve with Saltonstall, via Zoom webinar. Additional conversations between Lorrie Fredette & Beth Giacummo; John Hampshire & Lisa Lebofsky; and Ama Codjoe & Nkosi Nkululeko.
December 3, 2020 @ 4PM: Reading & discussion on WGXC, with Eric Amling, Lawrence Giffin, Sarah Jean Grimm & JoAnna Novak
November 2, 2020 @ 6:30PM: Reading in the Reproductive Rights Marathon Reading, hosted by Mahogany L. Browne via Bowery Poetry. Donations for this event go to National Abortion Fund Network.
September 6, 2020 @ 7pm: Reading for the Fahrenheit series with Bianca Stone
April 18, 2020 @ 3:05pm: Facilitating Bring Your Fam: an intergenerational, digital poetry workshop for O, Miami
March 3, 2020 @ 7-9pm: Reading with Emily Skillings in the One Bleecker Series @ Codex Books
February 21, 2020 @ 7:30pm: Reading with Joshua Escobar, Sophia Le Fraga & JoAnna Novak @ Poetic Research Bureau in Los Angeles
February 15, 2020 @ 6:30pm: Reading at the Parlor Reading Series @ Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles
February 13, 2020 @ 7pm: Release Reading for Falsehood with t’ai freedom ford & Julia Guez @ Quimby’s Bookstore in Brooklyn
February 9, 2020 @ 8pm: Reading at Dead Rabbits Series at DTUT in Manhattan
February 1, 2020 @ 4pm: Launch Party for Falsehood @ Reclamation in Brooklyn - featuring antipasti, drinks & reading with alex cuff, t’ai freedom ford, Nicole Lanzillotto, Cynthia Manick & Leila Ortiz. RSVPS required
January 31, 2020 @ 7pm: Hosting LINEAGE: a reading series, featuring Anne Carson, Wo Chan & Cathy Che, in collaboration with Wendy’s Subway @ The Poetry Project in Manhattan.
2019
Poem featured in Emotive Fruition at Caveat in Manhattan, on November 18, 2019 @ 7pm
Hosting LINEAGE: a reading series, featuring Julia Guez, Kat Laskowski & Kate Thorpe @ Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn, on Friday, November 1, 2019 @ 7pm.
Reading with Ashna Ali, Paul Aster Stone-Tsao & Tyler Morse at The Second Saturdays Reading Series, on Saturday, September 14, 2019 from 7-9pm.
Hosting LINEAGE: a reading series, featuring S. Erin Baptiste, t’ai freedom ford, & Cheryl Boyce Taylor @ Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn, on Friday, June 7, 2019 @ 7pm.
Teaching Open Language: Intuitive Writing Workshop at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sundays, May 5-June 2, 2019 from 12-2pm weekly for 5 weeks.
Reading at New Orleans Poetry Festival on April 20-21, 2019.
Hosting LINEAGE: a reading series, featuring Wayne Koestenbaum, Sara Jane Stoner, Andriniki Mattis @ Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn, on Thursday, April 4, 2019 @ 7pm.
Reading with Small Presses: Fence, Information as Material, No, Dear, and Wendy’s Subway w/ Safia Jama, Christina Olivares, and more, at Ace Hotel Lobby in Portland Oregon, on Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 7-9pm.
Reading for Tammy Journal in Portland, Oregon on Friday, March 29 @ 9pm. PM for location.
Hosting the launch of LINEAGE: a reading series, featuring Erica Hunt, r. erica doyle, and Elisabet Velasquez @ Wendy’s Subway in Brooklyn, on Saturday, March 9, 2019 @ 7pm.
Poem featured in Emotive Fruition Valentine’s Show at Caveat in Manhattan, on February 12, 2019 @ 7pm
2018
Reading at Welcome to Boog City 12 at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, on Saturday, September 22, 2018 @ 2:30pm.
Reading at the launch of Alex Cuff's Family, A Natural Wonder at Branch Ofc in Brooklyn, on Sunday, August 26, 2018 @ 4pm.
Reading for EMPIRE Reads at Art Cafe + Bar in Brooklyn, on Friday, March 23, 2018.
Teaching MENTOR MEDITATION: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD at Wendy's Subway in Brooklyn on Thursday evenings, from March 22-April 19 from 7-9:15pm weekly.
Panelist for Bread on the Waters: How Giving to the Community Gives Back, at AWP Tampa, on Saturday, March 10, 2018 @ 12pm.
Reading for Gigantic Sequins at Lector Wine Bar in Tampa, with Eloisa Amezcua, Emrys Donaldson, and more, on Thursday March 8, 2018 from 4-6pm.
Reading at the No, Dear 10 Year Anniversary Dance Party, with Alex Cuff, t'ai freedom ford, Leila Ortiz & more, at Ace Hotel NYC, on Friday, February 9, 2018 @ 8pm.
2017
Reading at the launch of inheriting the War, with Cathy Linh Che, Martha Collins, Brandon Courtney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gardner McFall, Josephine Rowe, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, and host Laren McClung, at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, on November 10, 2017 @ 5pm.
Reading for Gigantic Sequins at the New York City Poetry Festival Chumley Stage on Governor's Island, on July 30, 2017 @ 12pm.
Reading for The Eagle & The Wren Fundraiser for NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, with Aziza Barnes, Thomas Dooley, Camonghne Felix, Lizzie Harris, Venessa Marco, David McLoghlin, and Paul Tran at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on Saturday, April 29, 2017 @ 7pm.
Reading for Rec League Fest at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on Friday, April 7, 2017 @ 7pm.
Reading for SOLO at Wendy's Subway, on February 25, 2017 @ 7:30pm.
Poem featured in Emotive Fruition We Make Sin a Good Hymn at Botanic Lab in Manhattan, on February 8, 2017 @ 7:30pm
Reading at the 43rd Annual New Year's Day Marathon at The Poetry Project, on Sunday, January 1, 2017 from 3pm-2am
2016
Giving a Tiny Talk on MAGIC called "Yeats, The Second Coming, and the Trumps" at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on Saturday, December 10, 2016 @ 3pm
Reading at the Washington Square Review Launch at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, on Friday, October 21, 2016 @ 7pm
With Cynthia Manick, facilitating Poetry for Every Season: Kiku: Haiku Writing Workshop at the New York Botanical Garden on Saturday, October 15, 2016 @ 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30
Reading at Lit Crawl NYC at Metrograph Theatre on Saturday, October 1, 2016 @ 7pm
Reading with JP Allen, Wren Hanks, Bill Lessard, Michelle Meier, and Yanyi Yuo at Dead Rabbits September at DTUT in Manhattan on Saturday, September 11, 2016 @ 8pm
Reading at Maria Brandt / Brooklyn Book Tour with Maria Brandt, Mirene Arsanios, Thomas Dooley, Ricardo Maldonado and Joseph Salvatore at Pete's Candy Store, on Thursday, August 18, 2016 @ 6pm
Reading with Emerging Poets Fellows at Poets House in NYC, on Tuesday, June 7, 2016 @ 7pm. Audio recording here.
Reading at The Recluse #12 Launch at Poetry Project in NYC, on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 @ 8pm
Reading with Cheryl Clarke, Iris Cushing and Elizabeth Zuba at Bushel in Delhi, NY, on Friday, May 27, 2016 @ 7pm
2015
Reading for Tammy at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on Nov 21, 2015 @ 7pm
Chapbook launch reading with Marisa Crawford and Matt L Roar at The Penthouse, on Nov 14, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading with Horse Less Press poets at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on Nov 11, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading at the Weird Sister Turns One Halloween Party at Greenpoint Heights in Brooklyn, on October 30, 2015 @ 8pm
Poem featured in EmoFru All Star Show at Botanic Lab in Manhattan, on October 21 & 22, 2015 @ 7:30pm
Reading at Golden West Service/Wanda and Wonder record release party in Brooklyn, on Sept 19, 2015 @ 8pm
Reading at Poetry & Pints in Grand Rapids, on Sept 6, 2015 @ 8pm
Reading at We’ll Sleep Together Beneath Stars at Poets House in Manhattan, on August 21, 2015 @ 5pm
Reading at Amy’s Kitchen Organics in San Francisco, on August 7, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading at NYC launch of Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points at Berl’s, on July 23, 2015 @ 7pm
Poem featured in EmoFru at Botanic Lab in Manhattan, on June 24, 2015 @ 7:30pm
Reading for Poets at the Yard in Brooklyn, on June 17, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading at Apogee Issue 5 Launch at Raw Space in Harlem, on May 28, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading at FEM CHAP CON at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, on May 22, 2015 @ 7pm
Poem featured in EmoFru at Botanic Lab in Manhattan, on April 22, 2015 @ 7:30pm
Reading with Saltonstall Arts Colony Alumni at Housing Works in Manhattan, on April 16, 2015 @ 7pm
Reading at Girl Friday at Honey in Minneapolis, on April 10, 2015 @ 7pm
Presenting at CUNY ChapFest in Manhattan, on April 2, 2015 @ 11am
Reading at dancing girl press night at Over the Eight in Brooklyn, on March 23, 2015 @ 6pm
Reading at Readings in Color at Color Bklyn in Brooklyn, on January 10, 2015 @ 7pm
2010-2014
92nd St Y * Atlas Reading Series * AWP Boston * Berl’s Poetry Bookshop * Bluestockings * BookCourt * The Bowery Poetry Club * Brooklyn Ladies Text-based Salon * The Buzzard’s Banquet * The Cairo, Seattle * Cake Shop * The Center for Book Arts * The Center for Fiction * Cornelia Street Cafe * Doomsday Film Festival and Symposium * The Eagle and the Wren Reading Series * Earshot * emotive fruition * Feminist Urgent Roundtable * Fireside Follies * Girls Write Now * International Center of Photography * Jackson Heights Poetry Festival * KGB * The Last Reading on Earth * Manhattanville College’s Summer Writers’ Week * Mellow Pages Library * Mental Marginalia * Metropolitan Museum of Art * New York City Poetry Festival * NYPL * Picasso Machinery * Polestar Poetry Series * Readings in Color * Renegade Reading Series * Saltonstall Arts Colony * Split This Rock Poetry Festival * Tri Lengua Series * Wendy’s Subway * White Swallow Reading Series