Upcoming Events
13 February 2026, 7:00 pm (Eastern): Chapter and Verse Reading Series, hosted by Jamaica Pond Poets. Online (Zoom); register here.
Past Events
Concord Free Public Library Poetry Series | Concord, MA (December 2025)
Solstice Poetry Reading at Mount Auburn Cemetery | Watertown/Cambridge, MA (June 2025)
Panel: The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness at the Mass Poetry Festival | Salem, MA (May 2025)
Panel: On Being Ill: The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness at the Mass Poetry Festival | Salem, MA (May 2025)
WCPA Ninth Annual Women’s Reading | Online (May 2025)
Poetry Festival, Gleason Public Library | Carlisle, MA (May 2025)
A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Artist-in-Residence Program | Watertown/Cambridge, MA (April 2025)
NEPC Reading | Worcester, MA (February 2025)
In conversation with Hannah Larrabee for The Notebooks Collective | Online (January 2025) [Recording]
Persona, Erasure, Epistle: Summoning Ancestors through Poetic Forms (Panel and Generative Workshop; recorded presentation), Lit Youngstown | Youngstown, OH (October 2024)
NEPC Annual Prizewinners’ Reading | Online (October 2024)
Thirsty Lab Reading Series, sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association | Online (September 2024)
Summer Solstice celebration, Mount Auburn Cemetery | Cambridge/Watertown, MA (June 2024)
WCPA Reading | Worcester, MA (May 2024)
“Dear Friend, Let’s Meet”: A Roaming Poetry Reading at Mount Auburn Cemetery, | Cambridge/Watertown, MA (April 2024)
“Dear Friend: Writing Letter-Poems”: Workshop at Mount Auburn Cemetery | Cambridge/Watertown, MA (March 2024)
Amesbury Poet Laureate/Whittier Home Reading Series | Online (February 2024)
Red Wheelbarrow Launch Reading | Online (February 2024)
Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature: A Reading, AWP Conference | Kansas City, MO (February 2024)
Bancroft School Young Writers Conference | Worcester, MA (January 2024)
Thirsty Lab Reading Series, sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association | Online (September 2023)
Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence Virtual Panel presented by the Friends of Mount Auburn | Online (August 2023)
The Poetorium at Starlite | Southbridge, MA (July 2023)
hexliterary.com presents: a backyard poetry reading | Worcester, MA (June 2023)
Bancroft School Young Writers Conference | Worcester, MA (April 2023)
Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series: Celebration of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology | Online (March 2023)
NEPC Reading at the Fruitlands Museum | Harvard, MA (February 2023)
Colloquium, University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT (February 2023)
Agha Shahid Ali Reading, University of Utah, with Matthew Olzmann | Salt Lake City, UT (February 2023)
Poets at Gale Free Library, with Jennifer Freed and Therese Gleason Carr | Holden, MA (December 2022)
Clemente Worcester Speaker Series, in conversation with Therese Gleason Carr | Worcester, MA (December 2022)
Sundress Academy for the Arts, Poets in Pajamas Reading Series | Online (October 2022)
University of Utah Press Reading to Launch Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble | Online (September 2022)
Wild and Precious Life Series: | Online (August 2022)
Mass Poetry: Hard Work of Hope Reading | Boston, MA (June 2022)
Poetry Society of New Hampshire: On Epistolary Poems | Online (May 2022)
Porter House Review/Texas State MFA For the Love of Poetry Reading | Online (February 2022)
NEPC Annual Prizewinners’ Reading | Online (September 2021)
Chautauqua Institution On the Porch series, spotlight reader | Online (August 2021)
Radar Issue 30 Launch Reading, Hosted by Pittsburgh’s White Whale Books | Online (July 2021)
Wild and Precious Life Series: Limp Wrist Tribute to Dolly Parton | Online (January 2021)
WCPA Reading for National Poetry Month | Worcester, MA (April 2020) [canceled due to COVID-19]
Mass Poetry: 5 Under 35 Reading | Boston, MA (November 2019)
Frank O’Hara Prize Winners Reading, Worcester County Poetry Association | Worcester, MA (September 2019)
Writer’s Block Festival, Louisville Literary Arts | Louisville, KY (November 2018)
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