Upcoming Events
9 May 2024, 6:30 pm: WCPA Reading, Worcester, MA.
21 June 2024: Summer Solstice celebration, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, MA.
October 2024: Lit Youngstown Workshop/Panel, Youngstown, OH.
Past Events
13 April 2024, 2:00 pm: Dear Friend, Let’s Meet: A Roaming Poetry Reading. In person at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown Massachusetts.
23 March 2024, 12:30 pm: Reading of new ekphrastic poem in celebration of artist Resa Blatman’s “Uncontained: Painting the Imagined World of Moss.” Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts. Event details here. [Moved to video due to weather.]
16 March 2024, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: “Dear Friend: Writing Letter-Poems.” Workshop at Mount Auburn Cemetery (in person). Registration required.
28 February 2024, 6:30 PM (Eastern): Amesbury Poet Laureate/Whittier Home Reading Series (Zoom). Registration required.
13 February 2024: Red Wheelbarrow Launch Reading (Zoom)
AWP | 9 February 2024
Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature: A Reading
10:35 am, Room 3501AB
Kansas City, MO
26 September 2023
Thirsty Lab Reading Series, sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association
7 pm EST. Online (Zoom). Free; registration required.
14 August 2023
Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence Virtual Panel presented by the Friends of Mount Auburn
26 July 2023
The Poetorium at Starlite
Southbridge, MA
15 June 2023
hexliterary.com presents: a backyard poetry reading
Worcester, MA
Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series: Celebration of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Online, Zoom), 16 March 2023
Harvard, MA: NEPC Reading at the Fruitlands Museum, 26 February 2023
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Agha Shahid Ali Reading, 2 February 2023; Colloquium, 3 February 2023
Holden, MA: Gale Free Library, with Jennifer Freed and Therese Gleason Carr, 8 December 2022
Worcester, MA: Clemente Worcester Speaker Series, in conversation with Therese Gleason Carr, 6 December 2022
Sundress Academy for the Arts, Poets in Pajamas Reading Series, 16 October 2022 (Online, Facebook)
University of Utah Press Reading, 13 September 2022, (Online, Zoom)
Wild and Precious Life Series, 31 August 2022 (Online, Zoom)
Mass Poetry: Hard Work of Hope Reading, Boston, MA June 2022
Poetry Society of New Hampshire: On Epistolary Poems, 10 May 2022 (Online)
Porter House Review/Texas State MFA For the Love of Poetry Reading, 18 February 2022 (Online)
NEPC Award Winners 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]
5 Under 35, Mass Poetry: 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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