Reading on Martha’s Vineyard Summer 2018
Readings & Teachings – Forthcoming
Oh yes!! I am profoundly excited to announce that the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is back for 2024!!! And I’ll be returning as faculty, teaching seminars in poetry, the lyric essay, and publishing, along with awesome fellow faculty for an inspiring week of creative writing on the island. Come join us for an experience you’ll cherish. Registration is open now!
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Readings & Teachings – Past (Selected)
Sunday March 5, 2023 at 7pm ET – Online reading
Steve Castro, (and extra special guest Sarah Ruhlen), and I read our poetry and fiction at via Zoom.
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Sunday March 5, 2023 at 12:30 pm – In-person reading
In-Person Reading at Syracuse Stage!
Whitman on Walls August 18, 2022 in Syracuse
Syracuse-area friends! I’m reading a newly comissioned poem next Thursday Aug 18, as part of Whitman on Walls, a fun film and poetry event at the Everson Museum of Art. Come by, bring a lawn chair, enjoy a food cart dinner, and listen as local poets respond to short films inspired by “Song of Myself.” Yes yes!
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Sunday April 10, 2022 – I’m delighted to be reading my poetry Sunday April 10 for Uncloistered Poetry Online along with the wonderful Shutta Crum, Rick Christiansen, and Aleathia Drehmer! Plus there’s an open mic after the featured readers! Register for the Zoom link and join us. Yay National Poetry Month! 😀
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2021 AT 7 PM – 8 PM ET –
I’m reading poems from my new book on December 29 with the awesome Ae Hee Lee and Chaya Bhuvaneswar! Come join us for some pre-New Year’s literary festivities, thanks to the Sundress Reading Series!
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Friday December 10, 2021 @ 7:30 ET – I Zoom-read my poetry along with the awesome Mary Biddinger, Noah Falck, Jessica Q. Stark & Issam Zineh for the David Has Zoom Pro For a Few Months Reading Series! You can watch a recording of the whole reading here!
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I’m delighted to be teaching a one-off generative Zoom workshop on Voice in poetry, as part of the Literary Bit of Reflection Festival run by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in Oxford, Mississippi!
I’m teaching the same class twice, at noon on October 29 and at 3:30 on October 30. It costs only $5 to attend. Come on by!
To register visit https://oxfordarts.com/literarybitof
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July 28, 2021 – I taught a generative poetry workshop tomorrow Wed July 28 2021 from 4:30-6 pm EDT. Thanks to the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard for hosting!
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June 6-13, 2021 – I’ll taught, paneled, and read at the Virtual Summer Conference for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.
On Wednesday June 9, I’m reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, for the Institute. Anyone can attend the reading! Just register for your free Zoom link via the bitly address in the image below. You don’t have to be attending the Institute to attend the reading! It’s open to the public. Plus you get to hear the awesome Matthew Gavin Frank! Come on by!
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Saturday May 1, 2021 at 5 pm EDT
On May 1st Dustin Nightingale and I are reading/discussing our poetry collaborations as part of a Collaborative Writing Zoom event with Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and hosts Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. We’ve never done a collaborative reading, and we’re really excited about this! Join us! Email Meg for the Zoom link at megpokrass(at)gmail(dot)com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1876772249167828/
See the video of me reading with my collaborator Dustin Nightingale on my YouTube page:
Watch the complete event here:
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April 23, 2021 – Zoom Reading!
I’ll be Zoom reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, on April 23 via The Downtown Writers Center of Syracuse, New York. Come help me celebrate the release of my book! I’ll be reading along with the awesome poet Shira Dentz! Yay! The reading is free, but you gotta register ahead of time to get the Zoom link. Info HERE.
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Poetry reading and creative writing class on the “hermit crab” essay February 29, 2020 at the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard. Thank you everyone who came out and made these events such a joy!
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Reading & Teaching at Cayuga College as their Fall Visiting Writer November 11-12, 2019.
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Teaching & Reading at Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks June 22-29, 2019.
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Teaching & Reading at The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (10th Year Anniversary!) June 9-15, 2019.
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Reading at The Brewerton Center for the Arts north of Syracuse, New York, Saturday, April 27, 2019.
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Teaching & Reading at FOCUS on the Arts at Highland Park High School outside Chicago, IL, Friday April 12, 2019 – a multi-day festival celebrating the arts held every 2 years at Highland Park High School.
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February 9, 2019 – Reading at the LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the YMCA in Syracuse, New York.
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January 25-26, 2019 – Poetry Reading and Lyric Essay Workshop, Oak Bluffs Public Library, Martha’s Vineyard.
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September 21, 2018 – Reading and Literary Publishing Panel Moderation at Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio.
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June 10-16, 2019 – Teaching and Reading at The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing – my sixth summer on faculty!
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February 17, 2018 – Reading at the LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the YMCA in Syracuse, New York.
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March 4, 2017 – Reading at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, New York.
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October 5, 2016 – Reading at Kent State University to celebrate Nothing to Declare: a Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pines Press, 2016) – Co-sponsored by the NEOMFA and the Wick Poetry Center.
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Images from past years teaching at reading at The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.
francine j harris, me, Alexander Weinstein, Matthew Gavin Frank in 2016
me, Amy Meng, Phong and Sarah Nguyen, Tony Ardizzone