Readings and Live Appearances
Upcoming 2025
More coming soon
Past Courses
“Structuring the Memoir, a Theatrical Perespective”, Kearney Public Library, September 10, 2024
“Structuring the Hybrid Memoir, a Theatrical Perespective”, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Saturday, March 23, 2024
“Exploring narrative and poetry in The Elk in the Glade,” Kearney Public Library, Kearney, Nebraska, April 4, 2023
Past Appearances
2025
February 28, Couplet Series, KGB Red Room, 85 East 4th Street, NYC, hosted by Leah Umanksy. Also featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, Tina Cane, Darren C. Demaree, Jennifer Martelli, and Elizabeth Scanlon
February 19, Publishing Triangle, Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, at The Center, 208 West 13th Street, NYC, 10011.
2024
November 17, Queens Public Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432, at 2pm, with open mic
October 7, First Floor Walk Up, One on One, Houston and First Avenue, New York, with Perry Brass, Christopher Heffernan, Misa Levey and Peter Radley
September 29, Brooklyn Book Festival with Poets Wear Prada
September 10, Reading and signing, Kearney Public Library, Kearney, NE
September 12, Reading and signing, Francie and Finch Bookshop, Lincoln, NE
September 19, Reading and signing, ArtBank, 108 West D Street, McCook, NE,
August 6, Bryant Park Poetry Series, New York, NY, 6pm, with Mary Brancaccio, Michael Klein, and Shelley Wong
July 18, Barnes & Noble Bridgehampton, with Austin Geer and Lucas Hunt, 2044 Montauk Hwy Space 6, Bridgehampton, NY 11932, 4pm.
July 21, John Jermain Public Library, Sag Harbor, NY, with Tyler Allen Penny and Leah Umansky, 2pm
July 14, New York Poetry Festival, Blackbird Theatre, with Poets Wear Prada, Governors Island, with Jason Morphew, Sarah Sarai and Chocolate Waters, 4pm
July 14, Poets of Queens Anthology Launch, Grove 34, 31-83 34th St, Queens, NY 11106, 7pm
July 10, An Beal Bocht Cafe, 445 W 238th St, Bronx, NY 10463, 7:45pm
June 30, Persistence of Cormorants Series, with Scott Hightower, Dan Kaplan, and Sarah Sarai, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, 2pm
June 21, Kew and Willow Books, 81-63 Lefferts Boulevard, Kew Gardens, Queens, 7pm.
May 9, Poetry Salon, Pineider, Rockefeller Center, 59 W 49th St, New York, NY 10112, 6:30 pm. Launch of Good Housekeeping with special friends. See “Video and More” page to view event.
May 2, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011, 7pm, Poets of the Archipelago with gigi and Kelsea Valentine.
April 27, Brownstone Poets, online reading with Cornelius Eady and Sarah Sarai , on Zoom, 2 PM.
April 20, Rainbow Book Fair, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011, 12noon to 1 PM.
April 7, Maple Grove Cemetery, Victorian House, Lefferts Blvd and Kew Gardens Road, Queens, 1pm with Jennifer Baker and Nicole Hartounian.
March 25, First Floor Walkup, One and One, 76 E. 1st St., at 1st Ave, New York, NY 10009, 7:00pm
March 15, Adverse Abstraction, Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009, 6pm
March 5, East Village Wordsmiths, Book Club Bar,
January 2024, “Late Blooming Livng” podcast with Yvonne Marchese
January, 2024 “In Other Words” SpoFest podcast, with James Bryant and Lee Eric Freedman
2023 Media Appearances
July 23 Storytelling on Orchard Street, interview with Pete Solomita, on YouTube.
April 3 NTV The Good Life, television interview.
March 31 Nebraska Public Media The Good Life, radio interview.
Prior Media Appearances
September 12, 2021 Fringe Benefits Theatre, video reading of “Sunday Mornings,” July 2021, on YouTube.
July 15, 2020 Truth to Power Show, Episode 125, “The Power of Theatre,” interview with Vijay R. Nathan.
Past Readings 2024
March 23, “Structuring the Hybrid Memoir, a Theatrical Perespective”, Hudson Valley Writers Center
March 15, Adverse Abstraction, Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009
February 15, Galinsky’s Poetry in New York , Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009,
January 23, East Village Wordsmiths, Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009
January 21, The Marbled Sigh, Issue 2 launch, on Zoom, 5pm Eastern. Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xehsy3n. I will be reading “Days of 1981”, after James Merrill.
Past Readings 2023
November 20 KGB Monday Night Poetry, with Jean Gallagher and Scott Hightower
October 25 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
October 10 Poetry at 555 West 42nd Street, hosted by Eric Krebs, 7pm
October 9 “Live Poetry Society, Theatre for a New City, hosted by Lissa Moira, 7pm
September 19 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
August 29 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
August 19 Launch reading of American Graveyard anthology, online
July 29 New York City Poetry Festival 2023, Governors Island, NY, Algonquin Stage, Poets Wear Prada.
July 25 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
June 11 A Persistence of Cormorants, The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, Brooklyn, NY, with Anthony Cappo, Barbara Elovic, and Myra Shapiro.
June 6 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
Nebraska Tour Events for The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks
April 23 The Bookworm, Omaha, NE.
April 22 Barnes & Noble, Lincoln, NE.
April 20 Museum of the High Plains, McCook, NE.
April 17 Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, NE.
April 13 Dawson County Historical Society Museum, Lexington, NE, gopening of exhibition of Jennie Hicks show, “Paintings and Poetry.”
April 6 Francie and Finch Bookshop, Lincoln, NE.
April 4 Kearney Public Library, Kearney, NE
Prior Appearances and Readings, 2023
March 28 East Village Wordsmiths, The Book Club Bar, New York, NY.
March 19 West-East Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond, with Risa Denenberg, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Mervyn Taylor, online.
March 13 First Floor Walk Up Presents Readings of Poetry and Prose at P&T Knitwear Books and Café, New York, NY, with Patricia Carragon and Roxanne Hoffman.
2022
December 12 Phoenix Poets, Shades of Green Pub, New York, NY, with Yuyutsu Sharma.
December 2 Kew and Willow Bookstore, Kew Gardens, NY, with Olena Jennings.
November 29 Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY, book launch for The Elk in the Glade, hosted by Cynthia Cathcart.
June 24 Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, New York, NY, I Just Wanna Be Loved By You, launch reading with Alexander Cavaluzzo, Patricia Carragon, Matthew Hittinger, Lynn McGee, and others.
June 12 A Persistence of Cormorants, The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, Brooklyn, NY, guest author with Austin Alexis, Lynn McGee, and Jason Schneiderman.
June 12 Creative Expressions Salon, online.
April 13 Poets of Queens, QED, Astoria, NY, with Linda Kleinbub, Vikas Menon, JE O’Leary, and Leslie Seldin.
March 19 I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, with Rae Armantrout, Dorianne Laux, Claudia Serea, and Gerald Nicosia, among others, online
February 14 KGB Bar, New York, NY guest author for formal launch of I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, hosted by Susanna H. Case and Margo Taft Sever with Joel Allegretti, Patricia Carragon, Robert Gibbons, Elaine Sexton, and others.
2021
October 23 Nine Cloud Journal, King Manor, Jamaica, NY, paid engagement, with Jack M. Freedman, Michael H. Perlman, Christina M. Rau, Ben Sumrall, and Jeanne C. Valente, hosted by Vijay R. Nathan.
July 11 A Persistence of Cormorants, The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, Brooklyn, NY, with Hilary Sedaris and Sarah Sarai.