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UPCOMING EVENTS​
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PAST EVENTS
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024 / 8p eastern
Port Veritas Reading Series
via zoom
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 / 5p eastern
Yetzirah Reading Series
via zoom (register here)
with Sharon Dolin and Ira Sadoff
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​Saturday, September 21, 2024 / 5p
Brooklyn Poets Book Launch: Ellen Kombiyil
Brooklyn Poets, 144 Montague Street, 2nd fl, Brooklyn
with Donna Masini, Jennifer Franklin and Angel Nafis
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 / 9:30p
Let Me Say This Anthology Concert
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, NYC
Saturday, February 10, 2024 / 12:10p
AWP Panel: When the Old Names Fail Us
Room 2502B, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2, Kansas City, MO
with Diannely Antigua, Matt Miller, Kimberly Ann Priest, and Octavio Quintanilla
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 / 7:30p
Zachary Pace presents I Sing to Use the Waiting
Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn
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Thursday, October 5, 2023 / 11 am
Poetry Reading
JCC Mid-Westchester, 999 Wilmot Rd, Scarsdale, NY
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 / 6p
Bryant Park, NYC, NY
with Mark Doty, Octavio Gonzalez, and Martha Rhodes
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Friday, May 26, 2023 / 9a workshop & 7:15p reading
Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival
Brooklyn, NY
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Sunday, April 23, 2023 / 12 pm
LA Times Festival of Books - ticket info
Session Title: Arts & Culture: Music Gets Me Through
University of Southern California campus:
Ronald Tutor Campus Center - Signing Area 3
with Stephanie Clifford, Margo Price, and Mikael Wood
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 / 7 pm
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn
with Rebecca Faulkner and Eugenia Leigh
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Monday, April 3, 2023 / 7 pm (est)
O'Miami Poetry Festival (virtual)
with Dustin Brookshire
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Monday, March 13, 2023 / 2:30 pm
Austin Convention Center, Room 10 AB, Austin, TX
with Emily McCullar
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Monday, December 5, 2022 / 1 pm eastern
Des Moines Area Community Colleges
Celebration of the Literary Arts (virtual -- register here)
with January Gill O'Neil
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 / 6 pm eastern
Literati Bookstore (virtual -- link here)
with Hanif Abdurraqib
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Thursday, November 17, 2022 / 6 pm
65 Scotland Rd, South Orange
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 / 7 pm
Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N. Clark St., Chicago
with Jessica Hopper
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Friday, November 4, 2022 / 6 pm
144 Montague St, Brooklyn
with Luther Hughes and Carl Phillips
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Sunday, October 29, 2022 / 5p eastern
Lit Balm Series: On Creativity & Monstrosity
(Virtual Link here)
with Shira Dentz, Caroline Hagood, and Erika Wurth
Thursday, October 20, 2022 / 7p eastern
I'VE HAD TO THINK UP A WAY TO SURVIVE VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH!!!!
92NY via Zoom (register here)
with Deborah Paredez
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022 / 7:30 pm
I'VE HAD TO THINK UP A WAY TO SURVIVE NYC BOOK LAUNCH!!!!
632 Flatbush Avenue (at Fenimore), Brooklyn
with Hafizah Augustus Geter
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022 / 8pm eastern
The Adroit Journal Issue 42, release reading
via zoom
with Janan Alexandra, Jackson Bliss, Rio Cortez, Ethan Luk, Nandita Naik, Peter Streckfus, & Jennie Xie
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Thursday, July 28, 2022 / 7 pm
WORD bookstore for The Long Devotion anthology
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn
with Sherine Gilmour, Euginia Leigh, Emily Pérez, and Nancy Reddy
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Thursday, May 26, 2022 / 7 pm
WORD bookstore
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn
with Carley Moore
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Monday, May 16, 2022 / 7 pm
KGB Poetry Series
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St., NYC
with Erika Meitner
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022 / 6:30 pm
Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto, book launch
The People's Forum, 320 W 37th St, NYC
with Christopher Soto, Andrea Abi-Karam, Che Gossett, Sally Wen Mao, and Denne Michelle
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Sunday, April 17, 2022 / 7pm
Mercy Street Readings
via zoom
with Derrick Austin, Michael Dumanis, Serge Neptune, Richard Newman,
and Alexis Sears
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POSTPONED!! Wednesday, April 13, 2022 / 7 pm
Threes Brewing Greenpoint, 113 Franklin Street, Brooklyn. $5 or book
with Carley Moore
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Friday, April 8, 2022 / 8 pm
A Dolly Parton Birthday Celebration (rescheduled from January)
Jalopy Theater 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. $15
Emceed by Lloyd H. Miller, featuring burlesque performances by Nancy No Good and Miss Frankie "Reigning Miss Coney Island" Eleanor, readings from author Lynn Melnick from her upcoming book, I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, and another packed line-up of great musicians performing Ms. Parton's compositions.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022 / 7 pm et
Across Time: Writing Personal and Generational Trauma
South Orange Public Library via Zoom
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Thursday, March 24, 2022 / 6:30 pm
YesYes Books "Together Again" Poetry Reading
Calloway Archery, 446 N. 12th St., Philadelphia
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Friday, March 25, 2022 / 1-2 pm
REFUSENIK book signing
AWP Book Fair, YesYes Booths # 654 & 656, Philadelphia
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022 / 7p-8p et
REFUSENIK BOOK LAUNCH!!!!
New York Public Library via Zoom (register here)
with David Ulin
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Saturday, February 12, 2022 / 12:30-4:30 et
Braiding and Brainstorming: Writing Your Pop Culture Memoir
Hudson Valley Writers Center via Zoom (register here), $124
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Tuesday, December 21, 2021 / 7pm
Poetry Reading
The Institute Library, MOVED TO ZOOM,
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcemhqDMrG9wiqk6srhGXVYwc5jbx-8Ye
with Dan Alter and Elizabeth Powell
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Saturday, December 18, 2021 / 2pm et
Women Writers In Bloom
via Zoom
with CM Burroughs, Keli Stewart, and Kelly Norman Ellis
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 / 9:30 pm et
Words Together Worlds Apart
via Zoom (register tk), $5 suggested donation
with Lindsay Lusby, Rachel Mennies, Heidi Seaborn, Tariq Thompson
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Thursday, October 14, 2021 / 5 pm et
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Poetry, Identity, and Coming of Age
via Zoom (register here)
with Leslie Marie Aguilar, Joy Ladin, and Diana Whitney
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Friday, September 10, 2021 / 7:30 pm et
Nightcall Series: Rosh Hashanah Reading
via Zoom (link here)
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Wednesdays, April 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2021 / 6-7:30 pm et
Love is Like a Butterfly: A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop
via Zoom (register here), $120 (for 4 classes)
via Poetry Well
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Monday, April 26, 2021 / 8:30 pm et
Generative Workshop/Write Here, Write Now: Writing Truth from Memory
via Zoom (register here), $5
via Arizona State University's Virginia C. Pipers Center for Creative Writing
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 / 7 pm et
Thursday, April 8, 2021 / 7 pm et
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 / 7 pm et
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 /7 pm et
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 / 7 pm et
Thursday, July 22, 2021 / 7 pm et
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 / 7 pm et
Thursday, October 14, 2021 / 7 pm et
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 / 7 pm et
Poetry Writing Workshops Inspired By "The New Colossus"
via Zoom (register here), free! Come to one or all!
via American Jewish Historical Society
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 / 7:30 pm et
Wild and Precious Life Reading Series
via Zoom (link here)
with Rosebud Ben-Oni, Joy Ladin, Rachel Neve-Midbar
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 / 8:30 pm et
Book Launch for Joanna Klinks' The Nightfields
Prairie Lights via Zoom
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Sunday, March 22, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Living Room Series
Costura Creative via Zoom
with Diana Khoi Nguyen, Raquel Salas Rivera, sam sax, and Paul Tran
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Friday, March 6, 2020 / 7:00 pm
Offsite NYC: A Reading
Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams St, DUMBO, Brooklyn
with Catherine Chen, Bernard Fergusun, Carlie Hoffman, Maya C. Popa, and R. A. Villanueva
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Monday, November 18, 2019 / 7:00 pm
Emotive Fruition, a collaborative reading series where actors work with poets to bring new poetry to the stage
Caveat, 21A Clinton St., NYC
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Friday, November 1, 2019 / 7:00 pm
Book Party Turn Around BRXGHT XYXS
Langston Hughes House., NYC
with Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Vincent Toro, Bakar Wilson, Grisel Acosta, Yesenia Montilla, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Jarel Harel, Joanna Sit, Joe Pan, Juliet P. Howard
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Monday, September 9, 2019 / 7 pm
Indelible in the Hippocampus Book Launch
McNally Jackson bookstore, 52 Prince Street, New York City
with Hossannah Asuncion, Gabrielle Bellot, Hafizah Geter, Samantha Hunt, , Syreeta McFadden, Shelly Oria, Nelly Reifler, Quito Ziegler, and Courtney Zoffness
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Sunday, July 28, 2019 / 2:30 pm
New York City Poetry Festival
Governor's Island, NY
with Dorothea Lasky and Javier Zamora
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 / 5:30 pm
East Hampton Poetry Festival
Barn at Mulfard Farm Museum , 10 James Lane, East Hampton, NY
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 / 6 pm
Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series
Indiana State University, University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 / 5:30 pm
Poetry Reading
NYPL, Morris Park Branch, Bronx
with Ricardo Maldonado
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 / 7 pm
Poetry Reading
Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn
with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Diane Mehta
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Saturday, March 30, 2019 / all day
Brookstown Inn, Winston-Salem, NC
with Kaveh Akbar, Renee Emerson. Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Nelson, & Annemarie Ní Churreáin
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Thursday, March 28, 2019 / 7:15 pm
panel: Women's Caucus
AWP Conference, E145, OR Convention Center, Level 1, Portland, OR
with Kelly Forsythe, Hafizah Geter, Jenn Givhan, & Melissa Studdard
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Thursday, March 28, 2019 / 9 am
panel: SaferLIT: Fighting Sexual Misconduct in the Literary World
AWP Conf, B110-112, OR Convention Center, Level 1, Portland, OR
with Jen Benka, Jeffrey Leppendorf, Deborah Paradez, & Elissa Washuta
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Thursday, February 28, 2019 / 4:30 pm
New Writing Series, Poetry Reading
University of Maine, English Dept, Allen & Sally Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104), Orono, ME
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 / 4 pm
Workshop on Rape Culture (and what to do about it!)
University of Maine, Writing Center, Orono, ME
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 / 7:00 pm
Emotive Fruition, a collaborative reading series where actors work with poets to bring new poetry to the stage
Caveat, 21A Clinton St., NYC
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 / 8:30 pm
Poetry Reading
An Beal Bocht Cafe, 445 West 238th St., Bronx
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Sunday, October 28, 2018 / 7 pm
Fruit Geode launch
14th St. Y, NYC
with Becca Clarren and Alicia Jo Rabins
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Saturday, October 13, 2018 / 3:45 pm
Poetry Reading
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Centre Church, Brattleboro, VT
with Vievee Francis
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Friday, October 5, 2018 / 7 pm
Bodies, Boundaries, and Making a Mess: a reading
Bluestocking Bookstore, 172 Allen St., NYC
with Melissa Febos, Dorothea Lasky, and Carley Moore
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Monday, October 1, 2018 / 2:30 pm
#saferLIT Presentation
LitTAP Facing Pages Conference, Hotel Henry, Buffalo, NY
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Thursday, September 20, 2018 / 8 pm
Washington University, Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201, St. Louis, MO
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Monday, September 17, 2018 / 7 pm
RAICES Benefit Reading
Book Culture LIC, 26-09 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY
with Sean Frederick Forbes, Nadra Mabrouk, and Joseph O. Legaspi
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Sunday, September 16, 2018 / 12 pm
Poetry and Politics: reading and discussion
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Historical Society Great Hall, 128 Pierrepont Street
with Eve L. Ewing, Terrance Hayes, and Raquel Salas Rivera
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Friday, September 14, 2018 / 7 pm
Toxic Masculinity: Where Do We Go From Here?
Celeste Auditorium, NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Bldg, 476 5th Ave, NYC
with Donna Freitas, Yahdon Israel, and Brendan Kiely
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Thursday, June 28, 2018 / 7 pm
Who Will Speak for America? Reading
McNally Jackson bookstore, 52 Prince Street, New York City
with Melissa Febos, Stephanie Feldman, Bassey Ikpi, Cynthia Oka, and Nathaniel Popkin
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Monday, June 18, 2018 / 6-7:30 pm
Poetry Reading
The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City
with Mario Chard, Brandon Courtney, Meg Day, and Matt Miller
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Friday, April 20, 2018 / 1:30 pm
panel: Poetics in the Wake of Sexual, Gendered, and Inherited Violence
Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington, DC
Charles Sumner Museum and Archives
Richard L Hurlburt Memorial Hall
1201 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
with Marina Blitshteyn, Cathy Linh Che, Tanya Paperny, & Chet'la Sebree
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Saturday, March 17, 2018 / 4 pm
Poetry Reading
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts
with Stephanie Burt
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 / 10:30 am
panel: Learning Curve: The Challenge of Building Inclusive Communities
AWP Conference, Marriott Waterside, Grand Salon C, Tampa, Florida
with Hafizah Geter, Amy King, Hector Ramirez, & Katherine Sullivan
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 / 6 pm
panel: Women's Caucus
AWP Conference, Convention Center, Room 14, Tampa, Florida
with Gabirelle Bellot, Hafizah Geter, Amy King, & Melissa Studdard
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Friday, March 9, 2018 / 7 pm
YesYes Books Reading
Stone Soup, Tampa, Florida
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018 / 7 pm
Poetry Reading
Spoonbill & Sugartown Books,
99 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn
with Jennifer Firestone & Rosamond King
Friday, February 23, 2018 / 7:30 pm
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series
100 Bogart Street, Brooklyn
with Natalie Eilbert & Shane McCrae
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018 / 8 pm
Poetry Project Reading Series
St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York City
with Genya Turovskaya
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Monday, December 11, 2017 / 7 pm
Monday Night Poetry
KGB, 85 East 4th Street, New York City
with Joanna Klink
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Friday, December 8, 2017 / 7:30 pm
Empire Reading Series
Art Cafe + Bar, 886 Pacific Street, Brooklyn
with zakia henderson-browne, Cynthia Manick, & Wendy Xu
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Saturday, November 18, 2017 / 4:30 pm
Berl's Poetry Bookshop, 141 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn
with tba
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 / 7:30 pm
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
with Lucy Ives & Melissa Ragsly
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Sunday, November 12, 2017 / 8 pm
Dead Rabbits Reading Series
DTUT, 1744 2nd Avenue, at 91st Street, New York City
with Marwa Helal, Dan Hoyt, Cynthia Manick, Kwame Opoku-Duku III,
& Emily Skillings
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 / 7 pm - 11 pm
BOOK LAUNCH for LANDSCAPE WITH SEX AND VIOLENCE
A Public Space, 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn
with Mark Bibbins, Hafizah Geter, Amy King, Ricardo Maldonado,
& Camille Rankine
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 / 6:30 pm
Galactic Pinwheel Showcase
The Overlook Place, Chicago Illinois
with Brandon Courtney, Mónica Gomery, Raena Shirali, & Nate Slawson
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 / 7 pm
Shelterbelt Reading Series
University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
with Brandon Courtney & Raena Shirali
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Monday, October 16, 2017 / 7 pm
Wesley House Reading
Drake University, 2718 University, Des Moines, Iowa
with Brandon Courtney & Raena Shirali
Saturday, October 14, 2017 / 7pm
COUPLET Reading Series
The Delancey, 168 Delancey Street, New York City
with Liz Axelrod, Cortney L Charleston, Miranda Field, sam sax, & Erica Wright
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Friday, October 13, 2017 / 7pm
Free Water Reading Series
KGB, 85 East 4th Street, New York City
with Claudia Cortese, Armando Jaramillo Garcia, & Leila Ortiz
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Thursday, September 28, 2017 / 8pm
A Night of Poetry
Molasses Books, 770 Hart Street, Brooklyn
with Caroline Crumpacker and Katy Lederer
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
A New Colossus reading
Poet's House, 10 River Terrace, New York City
with Amanda Calderon, Gala Mukomolova, sam sax, Safiya Sinclair, Paul Tran & Jenny Xie
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Brooklyn Poets Anthology Reading
Berl's, 141 Front Street, D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn
with Farrah Field, Purvi Shah, Chris Slaughter, Leigh Stein, Mervyn Taylor, Charles Theonia & Jared White
