Readings and More
I do readings and workshops specializing in poetry of the body and poetry of disability. If you would like me to do a reading or workshop at your venue, university, or school, please use the contact form on this website.
COMING UP
READING
With: Gretchen Primack
When: 26 October 2019
Where: White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA
PAST
bridge series: a benefit for bethlehem haven
With: Jen Ashburn, Toi Derricotte
When: 26 June 2019
Where: Ace Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
book launch for ava cipri's leaving the burdened ground
With: Angele Ellis, Ava Cipri
When: 19 May 2018, 6pm
Where: Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA
Deaf poets' society reading at split this rock
With: Jay Besemer, Sari Krosinsky, Maria R. Palacios, Divya M. Persaud, Naomi Thiers
When: 19 April 2018, 3:30pm
Where: National Housing Endowment, Washington, DC
AWP Panel: #criplit: writing our truths
With: Suzanne Bair, Marlena Chertock, Minadora Macharet, Nicole Oquendo
When: 08 Mar 2018, 1:30pm
Where: Tampa Convention Center, Room 22
WORKSHOP: writing poems from the body
When: 06 Nov 2017 - 03 Dec 2017
Where: Poetry Barn > register here
Pittsburgh Poetry Review Summer Roadshow
With: Kelly Andrews, Luci Brown, Jennie Frost and Brynn Martin
When: 20 Jul 2017 at 7PM
Where: Nied's Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
A.E. Stringer visiting writers series
With: Gary Dop
When: 03 Apr 2017 at 7:30PM
Where: Marshall University
AWP- Not Invisible: Editors of Literary Journals Speak Out on Disability
and Building Inclusive Writing Communities
With: Marlena Chertock, Michael Northen, Sheila McMullin, and Sheryl Rivett
When: 10 Feb 2017 at 3-4:15PM
Where: AWP Conference, Room 204C, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
bonfire Reading series
With: Ellen McGrath Smith, The Singing Nettles
When: 12 Nov 2016
Where: Black St., Pittsburgh, PA
STAGHORN CAFE READING SERIES
With: Blaine Martin, Laurin Wolf
When: 27 Aug 2016
Where: Staghorn Café, Pittsburgh, PA
SUNDRESS POETS READ AT HEMINGWAY'S
With: Margaret Bashaar, Jennifer Jackson-Berry, and Erin Elizabeth Smith
When: 12 Jul 2016
Where: Hemingway's Café, Pittsburgh, PA
SOUTH SIDE ART CRAWL
With: Tess Barry, Bri Griffith, Laurin Wolf, + 8 more...
When: 6 Jun 2016
Where: Carnegie Library, SouthSide Branch, Pittsburgh, PA
SUITES FOR THE MODERN DANCER BOOK LAUNCH
With: Angele Ellis, Ellen McGrath Smith
When: 2 Jun 2016
Where: Té Café, Pittsburgh, PA
CRIPPING THE INTERSECTIONS: READINGS PROBING DISABILITY AND IDENTITY
With: Jim Ferris, Mike Northen, L. Lamar Wilson, Kathi Wolfe
When: 14 Apr, 2016
Where: Split This Rock Conference, Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives, Washington, DC
SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS AT AWP
With many amazing Sundress authors!
When: 31 Mar, 2016
Where: The Lexington, Los Angeles, CA
WRITING POEMS FROM THE BODY: A WORKSHOP
Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative
When: 2-29 Nov, 2015
Where: Enroll here.
Class size: 12
HEALTH & MEDICINE, BODY & MIND
With: Gail Goepfert , Teresa McMahon, Katy Richey, Alix Anne Shaw, and Ranee Zaporski
When: 2 Aug, 2015
Where: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
HEMINGWAY'S READING SERIES
With: David Ades, Joan Bauer, Gene Hirsch, Sheila Carter Jones, and Joseph Karasek
When: 14 Jul, 2015
Where: Hemingway's Bar, Pittsburgh, PA
prosody radio series
When: 18 Apr 2015
Where: 90.5 WESA (NPR affiliate), Pittsburgh, PA [podcast]
WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE TWO YEAR BIRTHDAY PARTY at AWP
With: Sarah Chavez, Sarah Henning, Larissa Schmailo, Madeline Wiseman, and 9 more
When: 11 Apr, 2015
Where: The Crooked Pint, Minneapolis, MN
QUAINT ISSUE 4 LAUNCH PARTY AT AWP
With: Julie Brooks Barbour, Jean Ho, Sara Leavens, Sarah Xerta, and 9 more
When: 10 Apr, 2015
Where: Address TBA, Minneapolis, MN
RED DOG READING SERIES
With: Sheila Carter-Jones
When: 7 Apr, 2015
Where: Pitt Book Center, Pittsburgh, PA
ART+POETRY: A LES FEMMES FOLLES SALON
With: Sarah Chavez, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Sally Deskins, and 3 more
When: 23 Mar, 2015
Where: Morgantown, WV
MADFRIDAYS READING SERIES
With: Emily Mohn-Slate
When: 13 Feb, 2015
Where: Delanies, Pittsburgh, PA
WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE READING, INDIANA WRITERS' CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE
With: Shevaun Brannigan, Meg Day, Sara Henning, Larissa Shmailo, Mary Stone, Laura Madeline Wiseman
When: 11 Oct 2014
Where: Hilton Garden Inn, Merillville, IN
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO IF I COULDN'T SPEAK MY MIND
With: Ervin Dyer, Jay Carson, Sheila Squillante and 32 more
When: 14 Sep 2014
Where: City of Asylum, PIttsburgh, PA
MADWOMEN ANTHOLOGY RELEASE PARTY
With: Doralee Brooks, Kay Comini, and ten more
When: 2 May 2014
Where: Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
HUNGRY SPHINX READING SERIES
With: Arlan Hess
When: 18 Mar 2014
Where: Sphinx Café, Pittsburgh, PA
WRITERS' CAFÉ SERIES (WORKSHOP: WRITING THE BODY)
With: Katie Booth
When: 7 Feb 2014
Where: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
ENCHANTED GARDEN READING SERIES
When: 11 Sep 2013
Where: Enchanted Garden, Pittsburgh, PA
VERSIFY READING SERIES
With: Renee Alberts, Michelle Stoner
When: 17 Aug 2013
Where: East End Book Exchange, Pittsburgh, PA
MADFRIDAYS READING SERIES
With: Bernadette Ulsamer
When: 18 Jan 2013
Where: Delanie's, Pittsburgh, PA
PROSODY RADIO SERIES
With: Ellen McGrath Smith (discussing Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability)
When: 8 Sep 2012
Where: 90.5 WESA (NPR affiliate), Pittsburgh, PA [podcast]
STRANGE ANIMALS READING SERIES: TWO BLIND POETS
With: Andrew Sydlik
When: 8 Jul 2012
Where: Hambones, Pittsburgh, PA
HEMINGWAY'S READING SERIES
With: Tim Esias, Roberta Hatcher, Joseph Karasek, Richard St. John
When: 3 Jul 2012
Where: Heminway's, Pittsburgh, PA
EQUANIMITY: PEACEMAKERS POETRY SERIES
With: Angele Ellis, Roberta Hatcher, Liane Norman
When: 14 Jun 2012
Where: Big Idea Books, Pittsburgh, PA
HUNGRY SPHINX READING SERIES
With: Shaina Bazyk
When: 10 Apr 2012
here: Sphinx Café, Pittsburgh, PA
2X4 READING
With: Angele Ellis, Jessy Randall, Daniel Shapiro, and two more
When: 7 Apr 2012
Where: Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA