Past Readings

2023

2022

2021

  • 01.13.21 – Words Together Worlds Apart series (virtual)
  • 02.23.21 – Temple Emanuel (Roanoke, VA – virtual)
  • 02.27.21 – Book release for Wild Kingdom by Jehanne Dubrow (virtual)
  • 03.03.21 – AWP Panel: “The Futures of Documentary and Investigative Poetries” (w/ Tyehimba Jess, Layli Long Soldier & Phil Metres – virtual)
  • 03.05.21 – AWP Panel: “Beyond the Brady Bunch: Reinventing the Poem of the American Family” (w/ Geffrey Davis, Blas Falconer, Keetje Kuipers & Oliver de la Paz – virtual)
  • 03.08.21 – Book release for City of Sky Papers by Marcela Sulak hosted by Bar-Ilan University (virtual)
  • 03.14.21 – Women’s League Reads with Erika Dreifus, Alicia Ostriker & Alicia Jo Rabins (virtual)
  • 03.18.21 – Virginia Festival of the Book, with Kiki Petrosino & Brian Teare (Charlottesville, VA – virtual)
  • 04.06.21 – The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College (Northampton, MA – virtual)
  • 04.07.21 – Words Together Worlds Apart – Poetry for Yom HaShoah (virtual)
  • 04.16.21 – Book release for If This is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni (virtual)
  • 04.29.21 – poetry reading for Bethany Arts Community (Ossining, NY – virtual)
  • 04.29.21 – Books are Magic – book release for I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World by Kendra DeColo, with Eloisa Amezcua, Adrian Matejka, Erika Meitner & José Olivarez (Brooklyn, NY – virtual)
  • 05.06.21 – White Whale Bookstore with Adrienne Su & Kazim Ali (Pittsburgh, PA – virtual)
  • 05.24.21 – Jewish Poetry Series, JCC Buffalo (Buffalo, NY – virtual)
  • 07.20.21 – Bryant Park Reading Series with Chen Chen & Erica Jong (NYC – in person)
  • 9.10.21 – Night::{Call} – Rosh Hashanah Poetry Reading with 15 Jewish poets (virtual)
  • 9.18.21 – Night::{Call} – Defunct Magazine Reading with 8 poets from Queens (virtual)
  • 9.22.21 – Words Together Worlds Apart series on “Survival” (virtual)
  • 10.21.21 – Georgia Tech – Poetry@TECH & The Breman Museum – with Afaa Michael Weaver & Eleanor Wilner (Atlanta, GA – virtual)
  • 10.24.21 – The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art (Tulsa, OK – virtual)
  • 11.02.21 – Georgetown University, Lannan Center (Washington, DC – virtual)
  • 11.03.21 – Writers of Discontent: Stop AAPI Hate benefit reading, sponsored by USF (San Francisco, CA – virtual) 
  • 11.08.21 – Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT – virtual class visit)
  • 11.20.21 – Greenwich Library (Greenwich, CT – in person) 
  • 12.10.21 – Waterproof: A Reading, O Miami (virtual)

2020 / in-person

  • 01.10.20 – “Saving the World Through Literature: Three Poets and a Diplomat” – w/ Christopher Merrill, Daniel Khalastchi & Elizabeth Powell (The Hermitage Artist Retreat – Manasota Key, FL)
  • 02.20.20 – Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
  • 03.20.20 – CANCELLED – Virginia Festival of the Book, The Haven (Charlottesville, VA) w/ Kiki Petrosino & Brian Teare
  • 03.27.20 – CANCELLED – Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC) – Jewish Poets on Liberation and Obligation (w/Rosebud Ben-Oni, Joy Katz, Rachel Mennies & Jason Schneiderman)
  • 05.13.20 – 05.16.20 – CANCELLED – Newcastle Poetry Festival (UK)

2020 / virtual

2019

  • 1.8.19 – Pen Parentis Literary Salon – The Killarney Rose Hideout (NYC)
  • 1.9.19 – Same Page Reading Series – KGB Bar / The Red Room (NYC) – w/ Laura Eve Engel & Sonya Huber
  • 2.1.19 – Wor-Wic Community College (Salisbury, MD)
  • 2.27.19 – College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) – w/ Dave Lucas
  • 2.28.19 – Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
  • 3.5.19 – National Jewish Book Awards (NYC)
  • 3.6.19 – National Jewish Book Awards panel and luncheon at Touro College
  • 3.7.19 – Salem State University (Salem, MA) – w/ January Gill O’Neil
  • 3.13.19 – National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists’ Reading at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium
  • 3.14.19 -National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium
  • 3.21.19 – Margin Shift Reading Series at Common Area Maintenance (Seattle, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis & Dave Welch
  • 3.22.19 – Spark Central via Get Lit! (Spokane, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.23.19 – writing workshop on the American Family for Get Lit! (Spokane, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.23.19 – Book People (Moscow, ID – co-sponsored by the University of Idaho) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.24.19 – Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Bainbridge Island, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.25.19 – Open Books (Seattle, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.26.19 – Village Books (Bellingham, WA) w/ Keetje Kuipers & Geffrey Davis
  • 3.27.19 – The Stacks Coffeehouse (1831 N Killingsworth – Portland, OR) w/ Alicia Jo Rabins, Tess Taylor, Keetje Kuipers & Airea D. Matthews
  • 3.29.19 – AWP Conference (Portland, OR) – Between the Margins and Mainstream: Liminal Spaces of Jewish American Literature (w/ Alicia Jo Rabins, Jacob Appel & Aaron Tillman)
  • 3.29.19 – Celebrating 60 Years of Poetry Northwest at The Nightwood Society (Portland, OR) w/ Geffrey Davis, Erika Meitner, Keetje Kuipers, Leila Chatti, Alix Ohlin, Nancy Lee, and David Hernandez, along with music by Ed Skoog’s bluegrass band The Hill Williams
  • 3.30.19 -AWP Conference (Portland, OR) – Taking It All Off (w/ Camille Dungy, Kathryn Miles, Suzanne Roberts, & Sholeh Wolpe)
  • 3.30.19 – 1-2pm – Book signing for Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions table, AWP Bookfair)
  • 3.30.19 – Commonplace Podcast Offsite Reading, Passages Bookshop (Portland OR) w/ Jericho Brown, Morgan Parker, Janine Joseph, Tommy Pico, TC Tolbert, & Yanyi
  • 4.10.19 – Manhattan College, O’Malley Library, Room 100 (Bronx, NY) 
  • 4.11.19 – New York University, Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House (NYC) – w/ Ilya Kaminsky
  • 4.12.19 – Adelphi University (NY)
  • 4.12.19 – National Poetry Month Edition of Couplet Reading Series – Red Room (NYC) – with Sarah Gambito, Adam Giannelli, Raena Shirali, and Meghan O’Rourke
  • 4.25.19 – AWPI: The Writer’s Voice Conference – University College Dublin (Dublin Ireland) – Plenary Session: “Crossing the Atlantic: Irish and American Poetic ‘Cross-Pollination'”
  • 4.26.19 – Reading at Boston College Ireland (Dublin, Ireland) w/ Wayne Miller for Maynooth University
  • 4.27.19 – Reading at The Book Bar at Accidental Theatre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) w/ Wayne Miller
  • 6.5-6.9.19 – Research Trip (Miami, FL)
  • 6.16-6.21.19 – Sarah Lawrence Summer Seminar for Writers (Bronxville, NY)
  • 6.24-6.29.19 – VQR Summer Writers Conference (Charlottesville, VA)
  • 7.14.19 – St. Leo University low-residency MA program (St. Leo, FL)
  • 8.5-8.18.19 – Residency at The Hermitage (Englewood, FL)
  • 9.18.19 – Belmont University, Bell Tower Patio (Nashville, TN)
  • 10.3.19 – John Carroll University, Rodman A (Cleveland, OH)
  • 10.24.19 – Columbus College of Art & Design, Canzani Center Auditorium (Columbus, OH)
  • 11.3.19 – CityLit Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival – “Oh, But My Heart is Wild & My Bones are Steel: Women Poets Take the Stage with Pique Collective” – Pier 5 Hotel
  • 11.4.19 – Jewish Book Council Reading & Tribute to Gerald Stern at The Harvard Club (NYC) w/ Alicia Jo Rabins
  • 11.6.19 – The Poetry Project (NYC) w/ Philip Metres
  • 11.21.19 – St. Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN)
  • 12.5.19 – “Writers as Witness: When Reporting is Personal,” Scuppernong Books (Greensboro, NC)

2018

  • 2.4.18 – The Jewish Museum of Florida (Miami Beach, FL)
  • 2.5.18 – Miami Dade College (Miami, FL)
  • 2.6.18 – Valencia College (Orlando, FL) 
  • 2.7.18 – College of Central Florida (Ocala, FL) 
  • 2.8.18 – Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL)
  • 3.8.18 – AWP Conference (Tampa, FL) – Tikkun Olam: Jewish Poets on Mending the World (with Robin Beth Schaer, Joy Katz, Sam Sax, Chanda Feldman and Jason Schneiderman)
  • 4.19.18 – Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC) – The Poet as Parent: Inoculating For and Against the World / Reading (with Mario Chard, Camille T. Dungy, and David Thacker)
  • 4.20.18 – Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC) – No F*cks to Give: Women Poets and Dark Humor / Reading (with Kendra DeColo, Tyler Mills, Lillian Yvonne-Bertram, and Shara McCallum)
  • 5.5.18 – Mass Poetry Festival (Salem, MA) – Reading with Duy Doan & Jeffrey Harrison
  • 5.6.18 – Mass Poetry Festival (Salem, MA) – Craft Talk: “Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules”
  • 5.10.18 – Private workshop (Jerusalem, Israel)
  • 5.14.18 – Eleventh Memorial International Creative Writing Conference of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv, Israel) – Workshop with Marcela Sulak on Hybrid Forms
  • 5.15.18 – Eleventh Memorial International Creative Writing Conference of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv, Israel) – Conversation & Reading with Ilana Kurshan moderated by Ilana Blumberg
  • 7.25.18 – The Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA) – Great Jewish Books Summer Program
  • 9.11.18 – Radford Public Library (Radford, VA) with Matthew Vollmer
  • 9.13.18 – Poetry World Series at Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe (NYC), emceed by Mahogany L. Browne, with judges Mark Doty & Patricia Smith, & poets Chen Chen, Adrian Matejka, Tomas Q. Morin, Erika L. Sanchez, & Melissa Stein (a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event)
  • 9.14.18 – Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY) with Blas Falconer & Nicole Cooley
  • 9.28.18 – New Dominion Bookshop (Charlottesville, VA) with Emilia Phillips
  • 9.29.18 – Flyleaf Books (Chapel Hill, NC) with Emilia Phillips
  • 10.4.18 – University Bookstore, UVA (Charlottesville, VA) with Mary Ann Samyn & Hannah Pittard
  • 10.11.18 – 7pm – Blacksburg Library (Blacksburg, VA) with Matthew Vollmer
  • 10.13.18 – Howl! Happening (NYC) for Poet’s Country No. 4 launch with Hettie Jones, Anton Yakovlev & Carlie Hoffman
  • 10.19.18 – Berl’s (Brooklyn, NY) with Nicole Cooley, BK Fischer & Carmen Gimenez Smith
  • 10.20.18 – Poet’s House (NYC) with E.G. Asher, Carmen Gimenez Smith & Natalie Eilbert
  • 11.2 – 11.4.18 – ALSCW Conference, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
  • 11.17.18 – Miami Book Fair (Miami, FL): Poets on the Human Condition w/ Stacey Lynn Brown, Libby Burton & Jodie Hollander; Moderator for Celebrating the 2017 National Poetry Series winners w/ Lindsay Bernal, Jos Charles, Dominique Christina, J. Michael Martinez & GennaRose Nethercott
  • 11.19.18 – KGB Bar Series (NYC) with Kai Carlson-Wee & Hillary Adler
  • 11.20.18 – College of Staten Island, Schwerner Writer Series (Staten Island, NY) 
  • 11.29.18 – Poetry Foundation (Chicago, IL) with Chen Chen & Geffrey Davis
  • 11.30.18 – Monsters of Poetry – with Lauren Haldeman, Brandon Taylor &  Meghan O’Gieblyn
  • 12.30 – 12.31.18 – Panel, Reading & Craft Talk – Randolph College MFA Program (Lynchburg, VA)

2017

  • 2.9.17 – AWP 2017 Conference (Washington, DC) – Hellbender AWP Offsite Reading w/ Big Bell, Forklift, Ohio; H_NGM_N Books, Poetry City U.S.A. and Slope Editions, The Dew Drop Inn (2801 8th St NE)
  • 2.10.17 – AWP 2017 Conference (Washington, DC) – “(Not) Just the Facts: Teaching Docupoetry and Investigative Poetics” (w/ Rosa Alcala, Susan Briante, Tyehimba Jess, and Phil Metres)
  • 2.11.17 – AWP 2017 Conference (Washington, DC) – “Practicum and Beyond: Publishing Courses and Literary Citizenship” (w/ Phong Nguyen, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Lisa Roney, Ron Mitchell)
  • 3.7.17 – San Antonio, TX – house party reading, with Barbara Ras
  • 3.8.17 – San Antonio, TX – Trinity University
  • 3.28.17 – Lynchburg, VA – Randolph College Visiting Writers Series with Wayne Miller – Smith Memorial Building / Alice Ashley Jack Room
  • 4.12.17 – Radford, VA – Radford University – “Refuge: Speaking up for Refugees and Finding Home” with Cody Kour & Anuradha Bhowmik (sponsored by Peace Studies & Appalachian Studies)
  • 4.22.17 – Bronxville, NY – Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival – Craft Talk, Slonim Living Room – Reading with Jeffrey Harrison, Heimbold Auditorium
  • 5.25.17 – Boston, MA – American Literature Association Annual Conference – “The Ethics and Limits of Representation in American Documentary Poetics” (with Catherine Gander, Whitney De Vos, & Christopher Lewis)
  • 6.3.17 – Reykjavik, Iceland – NonfictioNOW 2017 Conference – “Third Narratives: Beyond ‘fiction’ and ‘nonfiction'” (with Laurie Stone/chair, Margo Jefferson, Elizabeth Kendall, and Amy Butcher)
  • 7.15-7.27.17 – Amherst, VA – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (residency)
  • 10.11.17 – Amherst, VA – Sweet Briar College Writers Series, Mary Helen Cochran Library’s Reahard Learning Gallery
  • 10.12.17 – Brooklyn, NY – Franklin Electric Reading Series w/Jason Schneiderman – 650 Franklin Ave.
  • 10.27.17 – Dallas, TX – Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Annual Conference, University of Dallas (Chair, “What Poetry Documents” – w/ Meg Tyler, Jenny Browne, Piotr Gwiazda, Caitlin Doyle, Mark Scroggins, & Susan Somers-Willett)
  • 11.6.17 – Ft. Myers, FL – Florida SouthWestern State College, Visiting Writer Series, Thomas Edison Campus / Rush Auditorium (Building J)
  • 11.7.17 – Tampa, FL – University of Tampa, Writers at the University Series, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
  • 11.8.17 – St. Leo, FL – St. Leo University, Literature for Lunch Series, TECO Hall (School of Business)
  • 11.12-11.14.17 – Miami, FL – Writer’s Room Residency at The Betsy Hotel in conjunction with JAHLIT
  • 11.12.17 – Miami, FL – Panel on Artistic Creativity & Yiddishkayt as part of Reclaiming the World of Yiddish: Recovering a Heritage Rooted in Exile (in partnership with the Florida International University Exile Studies Program) at The Betsy Hotel
  • 11.14.17 – Miami, FL – Poetry Reading at The Betsy (free & open to the public)

2016

  • 3.17.16 – Charlottesville, VA – Virginia Festival of the Book w/ Lesley Wheeler & Gary Dop – 2pm – New Dominion Bookshop (404 E Main St)
  • 3.30.16 – AWP 2016 Conference (Los Angeles, CA) – 1-2pm, book signing at the BOA Editions Table
  • 4.1.16 – AWP 2016 Conference (Los Angeles, CA) – 4:30-5:45pm, Room 501 / LA Convention Center: “The Poem You’ll Write Tomorrow: How to Teach Vision” (w/ Traci Brimhall, Natalie Diaz & David Kirby)
  • 4.23.16 – Madison, WI – Monsters of Poetry w/ Mark Levine, Emily Wilson, Josh Bell, & Emilia Phillips – 8pm – Arts + Literature Laboratory (2021 Winnebago St.)
  • 4.25.16 – Madison, WI – UW-Madison MFA Workshop visit
  • 4.25.16 – Madison, WI – Edgewood College – Reading and Q&A – 6:30pm – 329 Predolin
  • 4.26.16 – Platteville, WI – UW-Platteville 2016 Creative Writing Festival – 4pm – The Nohr Art Gallery (Ullsvik Hall)
  • 7.5.16 – NYC – Poetry with BOA Editions in Bryant Park w/ Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Aracelis Girmay, Craig Morgan Teicher, & Michael Waters – 7:00-8:30pm – Bryant Park Reading Room
  • 9.12.16 – NYC – KGB Bar Reading Series w/ Jason Schneiderman – 7pm – 85 E. 4th Street
  • 9.28.16 – Lexington, VA – Washington & Lee University – 4:30pm – Hillel House Multipurpose Room
  • 9.29.16 – Hampden Sydney, VA – Hampden-Sydney College – 4:30pm – Library, 4th floor lecture area
  • 11.9.16 – Blacksburg, VA – Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies – “Intersections: interdisciplinary conversations around social justice and the built environment / The Local” w/ C.L. Bohannon and Michael Borowski – 4:00pm – Art & Architecture Library, 100 Cowgill

2015

  • 2.11.15 – Reading/Craft Talk: Queen’s University Belfast (Belfast, NI), School of English Research Seminar Series (PFC 02/025)
  • 3.18.15 – Reading with John Hall as part of The Lifeboat series at the Sunflower Public House (65 Union Street, Belfast, NI)
  • 3.24.15 – Seminar on contemporary American poetry, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
  • 3.24.15 – Reading with Enda Wyley at Books Upstairs (17 D’Olier Street, Dublin, Ireland)
  • 3.25.15 – Seminar on documentary poetry, Mater Dei/UCD (Dublin, Ireland)
  • 4.23.15 – Reading with Margot Backus at the Crescent Arts Centre, (Belfast, NI) for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, QUB
  • 4.30.15 – Reading with Fiona Benson at Burdall’s Yard (Bath, UK) for the Bath Spa University Stand Up Poetry Series
  • 5.7.15 – Reading and Performance event (music!) with Mattu Noone at MAKERS @fablablimerick (Rutland Street, Limerick, Ireland) for the LANDscape research cluster at University of Limerick
  • 5.27.15 – Reading with Philip Metres and Sinead Morrissey at No Alibis Bookshop (Belfast, NI)
  • 6.22-6.26.15 – Seamus Heaney Centre – Poetry Summer School (Belfast, NI), with Ciaran Carson, Leontia Flynn, Sinead Morrisey, Paul Maddern, and Emma Must
  • 11.7 & 11.8.15 – Geen Daden Maar Woorden Festival (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
  • 11.11.15 – Colby College Visiting Writers Series (Waterville, ME) – 7:00pm, Robinson Room, Miller Library
  • 12.7.15 – Blacksburg Public Library (Blacksburg, VA), with Matthew Vollmer – 7:00pm

2014

  • 1.3.14 – The University of Tampa – Reading with Mary Biddinger, Falk Theater (428 W. Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, FL)
  • 1.4.14 – Seminar with Mary Biddinger on “Writing the Taboo” for the University of Tampa MFA Program
  • 2.27.14 – AWP 2014 Conference (Seattle, WA) – “Daydreaming at the Mini-Mart: The Suburbs and Literary Imagination” (with Dana Johnson, David McGlynn, Michael Downs, and Tom Zoellner)
  • 2.28.14 – AWP 2014 Conference (Seattle, WA) – offsite reading for Muzzle Magazine & Vinyl Poetry – Lucid Lounge
  • 3.1.14 – AWP 2014 Conference (Seattle, WA) – “The Long Run: Anhinga Press 40th Anniversary Reading” (with Diane Wakoski, Keith Ratzlaff, Anna Ross, and Gerry LaFemina)
  • 3.27.14 – Reading, Creighton University (Omaha, NE) – Room 3028, Harper Center
  • 6.8.14-6.14.14 – faculty at New Harmony Writers Workshop (New Harmony, IN)
  • 7.21.14-7.23.14 – Washington College/Rose O’Neill Literary House – Jewish Poetry Salon (Chestertown, MD)
  • 7.22.14 – Reading, Washington College/Rose O’Neill Literary House (407 Washington Avenue – Chestertown, MD) – with Jehanne Dubrow, Julie Enszer, Benjamin Lowenkron, Mira Rosenthal, Jason Schneiderman, and Yerra Sugarman
  • 9.11.14 – Speakeasy Reading Series, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) – Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Conference Center, with Ed Falco
  • 10.9.14-10.11.14 – Anhinga Press 40th Anniversary Poetry Celebration & Festival (Tampa, FL) | Reading, Friday October 10 at 4:15pm with Frank X. Gaspar | Panel, Saturday October 11 at 2:45pm: Poetry in the 21st Century (with Donald Morrill, Ariana Nash, Philip Deaver, & David Kirby)
  • 10.24.14 – Reading/Literary Salon, WriterHouse (508 Dale Avenue – Charlottesville, VA) – 7pm – with Kevin McFadden
  • 10.25.14 – Seminar: Poetry Taboos and You, WriterHouse (508 Dale Avenue – Charlottesville, VA) – 9am-1pm
  • 10.29.14 – Reading, All-College Hour Speaker Series, SUNY Geneseo, MacVittie College Union Ballroom 206 (Geneseo, NY)
  • 11.3.14 – Roanoke Reading Series, Roanoke Main Library, sponsored by the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University –  (706 South Jefferson Street – Roanoke, VA)
  • 11.12.14 – Class Visits, Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • 11.14.14 – Reading, Borough of Manhattan Community College, English Department 2014-15 Working Writers Reading Series, Richard Harris Terrace, 1-2pm
  • 11.14.14 – Reading, 502 4th Street b/w 7th & 8th Avenues (Park Slope, Brooklyn) – 7:30pm with Rachel Zucker
  • 11.24.14 – Reading, UMBC (Library Gallery), sponsored by the Judaic Studies Department (Baltimore, MD) – 7pm

2013

  • 2.18.13 – A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series, Marshall University (Huntington, WV) with Ross Gay, Smith Hall 154
  • 3.07.13 – AWP 2013 Conference (Boston, MA) – 3-4:15pm – “Ploughshares Reading” (with Major Jackson, Alice Hoffman)
  • 3.09.13 – AWP 2013 Conference (Boston, MA) – 9-10:15am – Panel: “On Labor: Junior Women Faculty in Creative Writing Programs” (with Susan Somers-Willett, Jenny Browne, Yona Harvey, & Rachel Zucker)
  • 4.11.13 – Loyola University Chicago, (Chicago, IL) 7:30pm with C.M. Burroughs, Cudahy Hall 207

2012

  • 1.05.12 – Open Books (Seattle, WA), 7:30pm – poetry reading with Nicole Cooley & Beth Ann Fennelly
  • 3.01.12 – AWP 2012 Conference, (Chicago, IL) – 1:30-2:45pm – “Out of the Stacks and onto the Market: The MFA Poetry Thesis Gets Serious, and Faculty Members React” (with Beth Ann Fennelly, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Mary Biddinger, and Alan Michael Parker)
  • 3.01.12 – AWP 2012 Conference, (Chicago, IL) – 9:00-10:00pm – 32 Poems/Smartish Pace offsite reading – Topics, 2122 N Halsted St, Chicago (with Todd Boss, Geoff Brock, Victoria Chang, Carolina Ebeid, Luke Johnson, Rebecca Lindenberg, Mary Quade, Natalie Shapero & Eric Smith)
  • 3.02.12 – AWP 2012 Conference, (Chicago, IL) – offsite reading for Diode and Barn Owl Review, 7pm, Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Rebecca Hazelton, Matthew Guenette, GC Waldrep, John Gallagher, Jason Bredle, Sandy Longhorn, Traci Brimhall, Brent Goodman, & Alison Pelegrin)
  • 3.16.12 – University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO) – 7:00-9:00pm, with Nils Michals, LIBR M549 (British & Irish Studies Room)
  • 4.10.12 & 4.11.12 – Roanoke College (Salem, VA) – poetry reading on 4.11 from 7:30-9:00pm
  • 5.12.12 – A Season in Poetry Reading with Tom Sleigh & Benjamin Paloff (Bronx, NY) – 4pm, Perennial Garden, The New York Botanical Garden (co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America)
  • 5.24.12 – Featured Poet for Poetry & Spoken Word Night (Christiansburg, VA) – 7:00pm, Christiansburg Barnes & Noble
  • 9.12.12 – Virginia Tech Visible Scholarship Initiative, 3-4pm, 2md Floor News Corner, Newman Library, Virginia Tech (sponsored by University Libraries & CLAHS)

2011

  • 2.03.11 – AWP 2011 Conference (Washington, DC) – 2:00-3:00pm – Book Signing at the Anhinga Press table
  • 2.05.11 – AWP 2011 Conference (Washington, DC) – 10:30-11:45am, Thurgood Marshall North, Marriott – Virginia Tech MFA Faculty Reading (with Matthew Vollmer, Ed Falco, Lucinda Roy, and Fred D’Aguiar)
  • 2.05.11 – AWP 2011 Conference (Washington, DC) – 12:00-1:15pm, Delaware Suite, Marriott – Poetry as Multimedia Documentary (with Natasha Tretheway, Kwame Dawes, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and Ted Genoways)
  • 2.05.11 – AWP 2011 Conference (Washington, DC) – 7:00pm, Monster Mags of the Midwest Offsite Reading at Bread & Brew (1247 20th St NW) for Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review (with Cate Marvin, Bob Hicok, Kevin Wilson, and Lucy Corin)
  • 2.09.11 – Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
  • 2.10.11 – University of Maine Farmington (Farmington, ME) – 7:30pm, The Landing, UMF Olsen Student Center
  • 3.07.11 – KGB Bar Reading Series (85 East 4th Street, NYC), 7pm
  • 3.10.11 – Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA), Kimball Theater, 7pm
  • 3.19.11 – Virginia  Festival of the Book (Charlottesville, VA) – New Dominion Bookshop, 2pm (404 East Main Street) with Jehanne Dubrow and January Gill O’Neil
  • 3.25.11 – University of Indiana/Indiana Review (Bloomington, IN), Under the Blue Light Reading Series – 7:00pm, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union with Steve Scafidi and Curtis Bauer
  • 4.04.11 – Columbus College of Art & Design (Columbus, OH), 11:00am, Canzani Center Auditorium, downtown at Cleveland Ave & E Gay St
  • 4.10.11 – The Writers’ Center (Bethesda, MD), 2:00pm, 4508 Walsh Street, with novelist Candace Katz
  • 9.13.11 – University of West Georgia (Carrollton, GA), 7:30pm, Ingram Library
  • 9.14.11 – University of Georgia (Athens, GA) – Vox Reading Series, 7:30-9:30pm with Matthew Henriksen, Upstairs at the Globe, 199 N. Lumpkin Street
  • 10.17.11 – River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series (St. Louis, MO), 7:30pm with Travis Mossotti, 392 North Euclid Avenue (article in St. Louis Magazine about the reading here)
  • 10.18.11 – SIU Edwardsville (Edwardsville, IL) – 7:00pm (article about my reading here)
  • 10.22.11 – Tenth Annual Wisconsin Book Festival (Madison, WI) – 8:00pm-9:30pm, with Stuart Nadler
  • 11.07.11 – Writer’s Harvest Reading – University of South Florida (St. Petersburg, FL) – 7:00pm, Ella’s Folk Art Cafe
  • 11.08.11 – Writers at the University – University of Tampa (Tampa, FL) – 7:00pm, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
  • 11.10.11 – Sturm Speaker, Phi Beta Kappa Luncheon – Virginia Tech
  • 11.17.11 – Words to Say It Visiting Writers Series, Coastal Carolina University (Conway, SC) – 4:30pm, Wall Auditorium
  • 12.01.11 – Blacksburg Jewish Community Center (Blacksburg, VA)

2010

  • 4.09.10 – AWP 2010 Conference (Denver, CO) – Reading, 3-4:15pm – From the Fishouse Anthology Contributors (with Major Jackson, Adrian Matejka, Oliver de la Paz, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, & Jeffrey Thompson)
  • 4.10.10 – AWP 2010 Conference (Denver, CO) – Panel, 12-1:15pm – The Evolution of the MFA: The 21st Century Student (with Mary Biddinger, Julie Carr, Eric Morris, Serena Chopra, & Raina Fields)
  • 4.10.10 – AWP 2010 Conference (Denver, CO) – Offsite Reading – 6:30pm at Paris on the Platte to celebrate Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days
  • 9.16.10 – Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), 7pm, Pamplin 30
  • 9.21.10 – Group Reading/Tribute to Lucille Clifton – 7pm – Wilson Hall Auditorium – 73 (!) poets will be reading – sponsored by the Furious Flower Poetry Center and the Steger Poetry Prize (at James Madison University – Harrisonburg, VA)
  • 9.23.10 – RopeWalk Reading Series – University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN) – 5pm, Kleymeyer Hall in USI’s Liberal Arts Center
  • 10.03.10 – Poetry in the Garden (Cleveland, OH) sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve, 12:00pm-4:00pm at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, 11030 East Boulevard (with Ilya Kaminsky, Phil Metres, Kazim Ali, & Michael Dumanis) – Note:  I’ll be reading from 1-1:50 and 2-2:50 with Kazim Ali and we’ll be rotating between the Japanese Garden and the Rose Garden.
  • 10.04.10 – Craft Talk & Poetry Reading – University of Akron (Akron, OH) with Mary Biddinger, 1:30-3:00pm, Room 130 of the UA Student Union:  “Poetry Taboos and You; Or, How to Break the Rules, and Why”
  • 10.07.10 – Sweet Briar College, with Colin Cheney (Amherst, VA) – Q&A at 4:30-5:30pm in the Library Browsing Room – Reading at 8:00-9:30pm in the Pannell Gallery
  • 10.08.10 – reading at The Bridge, with Colin Cheney (Charlottesville, VA), 6pm, 209 Monticello Road
  • 10.21.10 – Reading from Ideal Cities atBarnes & Noble (Manhasset, NY), 7:30pm, 1542 Northern Blvd. (more info here)
  • 10.22.10 – NYU, with Colin Cheney and Julie Carr (New York, NY), 5:00pm at the Lilian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St (btwn 5th & 6th Aves) – (audio podcast of the reading is up here)
  • 11.04.10 – Millsaps College with Mary Biddinger (Jackson, MS) – 10-11am Craft Talk; 7:30pm Reading (publicity in The Clarion-Ledger here)
  • 11.11.10 – Reading & Craft Talk – Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC); Poetry Craft Talk at 1:00-2:00pm in the Assembly Room, 3rd Floor, Gramley Library; Reading at 7:00-9:00pm in Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts Center
  • 11.12.10 – Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, UNC Greensboro, 5pm, UNCG Faculty Center (Greensboro, NC)
  • 11.22.10 – louderARTS Reading Series (NYC), Open Slam featuring me, 7:30pm at Bar 13 (35 East 13th Street, corner of 13th & University, 2nd Floor)

2009

  • 2.11.09 – 2.14.09 – AWP Conference, Hilton Chicago (Chicago, IL) – “Jewish Poetry vs. Poetry by Jews” (with Eve Grubin, Sharon Dolin, Carly Sachs, and Joy Katz)
  • 2.11.09 – 2.14.09 – AWP Conference, Hilton Chicago (Chicago, IL) – “Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections” (with Rachel Zucker, Joy Katz, Valerie Martinez, Kristin Prevallet, and Beth-Ann Fennelly)
  • 11.04.09 – Luncheon Reading & Talk – Festival of Jewish Books & Authors – Simon Family JCC (Tidewater, VA)

2008

  • 10.03.08 – NYU Writers’ House, NYC – launch of Women Poets on Mentorship anthology
  • 10.26-10.27.08 – The 21st Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University (Omaha, NE) – “Rites of Passage:  How Today’s Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate”
  • 12.21-12.23.08 – Association for Jewish Studies, 40th Annual Conference (Washington, DC) – Grand Hyatt Washington

2006

  • 9.21.06 – The Magnet Theater “Under the Influence” Poetry & Improv show (I read, they improv) – 254 West 29th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues (NYC)
  • 9.18.06 – louderARTS Reading Series, 13 Bar|Lounge – 35 East 13th Street @ University Place, 2nd Floor (NYC)
  • 7.11.06 – The Joaquin Miller Cabin Series, Rock Creek Park, Picnic Area #6, Beach Drive at Military Road Overpass (Washington D.C.) – with Yoko Danno and James Hopkins
  • 2.09.06 – Chop Suey Books, 1317 West Cary Street (Richmond, VA) – with Joshua Poteat

2005

  • 2.05.05 – Paterson Poetry Prize Reading, The Poetry Center (Paterson, NJ) – The Hamilton Club Building, with Kevin Young, Jim Daniels, Charles Johnson, Mohja Kahf & Alison Townsend
  • 3.17.05 – Virginia Festival of the Book (Charlottesville, VA) – UVA Bookstore, with Sharmila Voorakkara and Dana Roeser
  • 3.18.05 – Charlottesville High School (Charlottesville, VA) – as part of Virginia Festival of the Book
  • 4.05.05: SUNY Geneseo (Geneseo, NY)

2004

  • 2.05.04 –  Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) – Wren Room, Sanborn House, with Deborah Schupack – pictures from February Dartmouth and Wordsworth readings here
  • 2.07.04 – Wordsworth Books (Cambridge, MA) – with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  • 2.12.04 – University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) – Featured Reader for The Kinetic Poetics Project, Porter College, Dining Hall
  • 2.19.04 – University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) – Merrill College, Room 102
  • 2.25.04 – University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) – Turnstile Poetry Reading, Kresge College, Room 159, with Kasey Mohammad and David Swanger
  • 2.29.04 – Radio:  KUSP: The Poetry Show (Santa Cruz, CA) – 88.9 FM, or listen live on the web, 8-9pm (PST)
  • 3.06.04 – Cabrillo College Theater (Aptos, CA) – “In Celebration of the Muse” benefit for the Cabrillo College Fast Track to Work program, 6500 Soquel Drive
  • 3.17.04 – SUNY Fredonia (Fredonia, NY) – 7pm, G-26 McEwan, in conjunction with Women’s History Month
  • 3.18.04 – Penn State Erie (Erie, PA) – 7pm, Reed Union Building 117, as part of The Creative Writer’s Speaker Series
  • 3.19.04 – Talking Leaves Books (Buffalo, NY) – 7pm, 3158 Main Street, with Sean Thomas Dougherty
  • 3.23.04 – Avol’s Books (Madison, WI) – 7pm, 315 West Gorham at State St.
  • 3.26.04 – Associated Writing Programs Conference (Chicago, IL), Parlor B – 10:30-11:45am, “Say Cheese:  A Reading by Former Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Poetry Fellows” with Beth Ann Fennelly, Jon Loomis, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Chicu Reddy, and Kathy Whitcomb
  • 4.08.04 – Capitola Book Cafe (Capitola, CA) – 7:30pm, 1475 41st Avenue, with Julia Alter
  • 4.28.04 – Radio: KKUP Out of Our Minds (Cupertino, CA) – 91.5 FM,  8-9pm (PST), hosted by J.P. Dancing Bear
  • 4.29.04 – Not-Quite-May Day Spoken Word Celebration (Santa Cruz, CA) – 7:30pm, Next Door, 1207 Soquel Avenue also featuring Julia Alter, Dee Roe, Jenny D’Angelo, Kari Moss, Kathleen Flowers, Kristi Vanderhoof, Nancy Redwine, and Patti Sirens
  • 5.16.04 – Poetry Flash @ Cody’s (Berkeley, CA) – 7:30pm, Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue at Haste, with Sean Thomas Dougherty
  • 11.11.04 & 11.12.04 – University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) – Axton Reading Series, with Gabriel Gudding, Martha Serpas, and Brian Teare – Readings 11.11 & 11.12, 7:30pm, Bingham Poetry Room & Humanities 300.  Workshops and Roundtable Discussions 11.11 & 11.12, 10am-2pm, Humanities 300.

2003

  • 7.24.03 – Sewanee Writers Conference (Sewanee, TN) – 10am, with Graeme Gillis and Karen McKinnon
  • 8.20.03 – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (Charlottesville, VA), 8pm, with Heather Brown and Rachel Horsely
  • 8.24.03:  Check out Dennis Morton reading some of my poems on his radio show, 8-9pm (PST) KUSP, 88.9 FM (Santa Cruz, CA)
  • 10.11.03 – Check out WMNF (88.5 Tampa, FL) online for a live interview & reading, 11:30am (EST), with Mary Glenney & Arlene Engelhardt, hosts of The Women’s Show (an eclectic feminist/womanist radio magazine)
  • 10.14.03 –  The Living Writers’ Series, University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) – 6pm, 321 Kresge
  • 10.16.03 – University of Tampa Writers at the University Series (Tampa, FL) – 8pm, Scarfone/Hartley Galleries
  • 10.17.03 – Urban Think Bookstore (Orlando, FL), 7pm, 625 E. Central Blvd (read an interview with me in the Orlando Sentinel)
  • 10.20.03 – Stetson University (DeLand, FL)
  • 10.21.03 – Florida State University Visiting Writers Series (Tallahassee, FL) – 8pm, with Stephen Corey at the Warehouse (read an article about the series, or a review of my book in the Tallahassee Democrat)
  • 12.28.03:  Poetry Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), 7:30pm with Melody Lacina at the Actors’ Theater, 1001 Center Street
  • 12.12.03 – New Dominion Bookshop (Charlottesville, VA), 6:30pm, 404 East Main Street
  • 12.17.03 – Bowery Poetry Club (New York, NY) – 5-7pm, NYC Book Release Party!  (reading at 6pm) 308 Bowery, after-party at Pioneer Bar, 218 Bowery (between Prince & Spring)