Readings and Events

IWTJ ~ I Was the Jukebox
DKTBG ~ Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl

Tuesday, March 13 - 7 PM - Reading at Colorado State University-Pueblo (LARC Auditorium, Room 109) in Pueblo, CO.

Tuesday, March 20 - 7 PM - Reading at Burke Centre Community Library in Burke, VA.

Saturday, March 24 - Noon - “How We Cope”: Reading for DKTBG along with Matt Paxton, author of The Secret Lives of Hoarders, for The Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA.

Sunday, March 25 - 1 PM - Seminar on “Projecting Your Voice on the Page” at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. [ENROLLMENT REQUIRED]

Tuesday, March 27 - 7 PM - Point Park University Poetry Series at Point Park University (Lawrence Hall, 3rd Fl Ballroom) in Pittsburgh, PA.

Thursday, March 29 - 5:30 PM - Reading as part of the Alfred Literary Festival in Alfred, NY.

Tuesday, April 3 - 7:30 PM - UTLC Gallery at Lawrence Technological University in Detroit, MI. [With a 4-5 PM Q&A on publishing]

Wednesday, April 11 - 7 PM - Reading from DKTBG for the American University Alumni Book Club in Washington, DC.

Thursday, April 12 - Presenting as part of the 4th Annual Poetry Expo for Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, VA.

Wednesday, April 18 - Poetry reading for Bourgeon Writes in Washington, DC.

Friday, April 20 - 7:30 PM - Reading from DKTBG with Glen Finland, author of Next Stop, as part of the Writer’s Center showcase for the Bethesda Literary Festival in Bethesda, MD.

Saturday, April 21 - Annapolis Book Festival at the Key School in Annapolis, MD.

Sunday, April 22 - 1 PM - Seminar on “Gyroscope of Form: Sestinas Past, Present, and Future” at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. [ENROLLMENT REQUIRED]

Saturday, April 28 - 3 PM - “Experience Poetry in Vicksburg” at Lorelai Books in Vicksburg, MS.

Tuesday, May 1 - “Projecting Your Voice on the Page” seminar & reading at Savannah College of Art & Design’s Atlanta campus.

Thursday, May 17 - 7 PM - “Everyone’s Issue: The Reality of Food Allergies” at The Adult Program in Great Neck, NY. [ENROLLMENT REQUIRED]

Thursday, July 26-Sunday, July 29 - The Nightsun Creative Writers Conference in Frostburg, MD. [Leading a workshop in Creative Nonfiction; ENROLLMENT REQUIRED]

-Past readings-

Illini Union Bookstore (March 2012); Charis Books (February 2012); Georgia Southern University (February 2012); Monday Night Poetry & Music (February 2012); BloomBars (February 2012); WriterHouse (January 2012).

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse (December 2011); Monsters of Poetry (December 2011); Madison College (December 2011); Literary Death Match (November 2011); Miami Book Fair International (November 2011); You, Me, Them, Everybody: 8×8 (November 2011); The Bookstore in Lenox (November 2011); Arts Club of Washington (November 2011); TurnRow Book Co (October 2011); Millsaps College (October 2011); Indian Springs School (October 2011); Fairfield Woods Branch Library (October 2011); Boston Book Festival (October 2011); Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (October 2011); Hockessin Book Shelf (October 2011); Iota Reading Series (October 2011); Three Tents Series with Mathias Svalina, Nick Demske, and Daniel D’Angelo (October 2011); New Dominion Bookshop (September 2011); 510 Reading Series (September 2011); Chop Suey Books (September, 2011); Reading & sestina seminar for the Poetry Society of South Carolina in Charleston (September 2011); AJC Decatur Book Festival (September 2011); First Friday with The Writer’s Center Leesburg (September 2011); Lemuria Books (July 2011); Square Books (July 2011); Politics & Prose (July 2011); Barnes & Noble (July 2011); Minas Gallery (May 2011); Adelphi University (April 2011); National Poetry Month Celebration at Southwest Tennessee Community College (April 2011); Reading at the Circular Congressional Church in Charleston (April 2011); Coastal Carolina University’s “The Words to Say It” Series (April 2011); Little Grassy Literary Festival at SIU Carbondale (April 2011); Sweet Briar Creative Writing Conference with John Casteen (April 2011); Ronald E. Moore Poetry Symposium Reading with Arthur Smith (April 2011); “These Fine Mornings” Staged Reading (playing Elizabeth Bishop) with Dana Gioia, Rose Solari, and David Gewanter (March 2011); Reading at the Festival of the Book with Kyle Dargan and Daniel Groves (March 2011); Jefferson Literary & Debating Society at the University of Virginia (February 2011); LegalArt Open Studios (February 2011).

Music/Words performance with Inna Faliks and Oni Buchanan at Cornelia Street Cafe (November 2010); Celebrating E. Ethelbert Miller’s Project 60 (November 2010); Emory University for the What’s New in Poetry? Series with Chad Davidson and Alka Roy (November 2010); Thacker Mountain Radio (October 2010); Memphis Davis-Kidd Booksellers (October 2010); Visiting Writer stint at Charlotte Country Day School (October 2010); The Annapolis Bookstore (October 2010); The Best American Poetry 2010 Launch at the New School (September 2010); Cleveland State University’s Imagination Conference (July 2010); Reed’s Gum Tree Bookshop (July 2010); Nashville Davis-Kidd Booksellers (July 2010); Square Books (July 2010); The Word for Word Series in Bryant Park with David Eye, Maya Funaro, and Jack Lynch (June 2010); Busboys & Poets (June 2010); “The Corner of Poetry & Main” Reading at Zu Coffee (May 2010); Coral Gables Books & Books (May 2010); Chop Suey Books with Susan Settlemyre Williams (May 2010); Politics & Prose (May 2010); New Dominion Bookshop (April 2010); requency Series at the Four-Faced Liar with Dora Malech (April 2010); Washington & Jefferson College with Jason Koo (April 2010); Barnard College with Joy Harjo (April 2010); Reading with Deborah Ager and Valzhyna Mort at Catholic University of America (March 2010); Marymount University (March 2010); 17 Poets at the Gold Mine Saloon in New Orleans (February 2010); “Art After Hours” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (January 2010); Release Party for the i.e. reader (January 2010).

“Typewriter Girls Save the Libraries” (December 2009); Reverso Bilingual reading at the Mexican Cultural Institute (October 2009); Boog City Festival (September 2009); “TypewriterGirls Gone Biblical” (August 2009); Jentel Presents (July 2009); Artomatic reading hosted by Smartish Pace/Barrelhouse (June 2009); louderARTS with Mazz Swift (June 2009); Gist Street with Ron MacLean (May 2009); McNally Jackson bookstore with New Issues poets Myronn Hardy, Martha Rhodes, Alexander Long and Elaine Sexton (March 2009); Cornelia Street Cafe with New Issues poets Myronn Hardy, Alexander Long, Elaine Sexton and Matthew Thorburn (March 2009); Festival of the Book with Elizabeth Hadaway, Joseph Legaspi, and Philip White (March 2009).

Kensington Row Bookshop Series with Kathi Wolfe (December 2008); “A Space Inside” with Brandel France de Bravo at Riverby Books (November 2008); Northern Michigan University (November 2008)l SUNY Stony Brook Reading (October 2008); Maureen Egen Exchange Award Reading (October 2008); American University Visiting Writers Series with Barbara Goldberg (October 2008); University of North Carolina-Greensboro Reading Series (September 2008); What’s New in Poetry Series with Dorine Preston and Terita Heath-Wlaz (September 2008); Cafe Muse with Susan Settlemyre Williams (September 2008); Poetry Cafe with Temple Cone (September 2008); Busboys & Poets Featured Reader (August 2008); Sewanee Writer’s Conference with Michael Dumanis (July 2008); The Arts Club of Washington with Sarah Browning (June 2008); Politics and Prose with Barbara Goldberg (June 2008); A Launch for Drunken Boat #9 at the KGB Bar in New York (May 2008); The Iota Poetry Series (May 2008); A Celebration of 32 Poems Magazine with Bernadette Geyer, Deborah Ager, and music by The Caribbean (May 2008); The i.e. series with Les Wade and Kristi Maaxwell (April 2008); The Writer’s Center with Kyle Dargan (April 2008); Fountain Bookstore with Susan Williams (April 2008); Long Island University Poetry Center Series with Meghan O’Rourke (April 2008); POESIS Series with Sydney March (March 2008); Foxcroft Poetry Festival with Joanna Lin Want (January 2008);

d.a. levy lives Series with Big Game Books (November 2007); Iota Poetry Series with Ellen Cole (May 2007); Kensington Row Reading Series with Nick Johnson (October 2006); Burlesque Poetry Hour with Christopher Salerno and Karl Parker (July 2006); Nora School Poetry Series (April 2006); Virginia Festival of the Book (March 2006); Riverby Books “A Space Inside” (February 2006); Library of Congress “Poetry at Noon” (December 2005); Mother Fool’s Coffee House with Stephanie Rearick and Natalie Illum (October 2005); Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series (July 2005); Cafe Toulouse Reading Series (May 2005); Brookland Poetry Series (May 2005); Three Words House Concert with Rose Polenzani and Sharon Lewis (October 2004); Visiting Writer Series “Pablo Neruda Centennial Celebration” at American University with Ilan Stavans and Galway Kinnell (September 2004).