Upcoming
Bear River Writers Conference | Camp Michigania | Boyne City, MI | May 2026
Read by Miami Poetry Films Premiere | The Bass Museum of Art | Miami Beach, FL | April 2026
Loyola Alumni Authors Program | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago, IL | February 2026
Kingsley Tufts Prize Week-in-residence, multiple events | Claremont Graduate University | Claremont, CA | October 2025
Shannon-Clark Lecture & Retreat | Washington and Lee University | Lexington, VA | September 2025
Bear River Writers Conference | Camp Michigania | Boyne City, MI | September 2025
Sunday Reading Series | Hungry Brain | Chicago, IL | December 2024
Sidewalker Reading Series | College of Staten Island | Staten Island, NY | November 2024
Launchapalooza | AWP offsite reading | Kansas City, MO | February 2024
Echoes & Visions Reading Series | Wor-Wic Community College | Salisbury, MD | virtual reading | February 2024
English as a Second Language book launch | Books & Books | January 2024
Be Well Reading Series | Miami, FL | virtual reading | December 2023
Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival | New York, NY | November 2023
Bear River Writers Conference | Camp Michigania | Boyne City, MI | September 2023
Keynote Reading | Summer Poetry Teachers Institute, Poetry Foundation & O, Miami | University of Miami, Miami, FL | July 2023
Bear River Writers Conference | Camp Michigania | Boyne City, MI | June 2023
Copper Canyon 50th Anniversary Celebration | Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle, WA | March 2023
Bear River Writers Conference | Camp Michigania | Boyne City, MI | June 2022
Schuster Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in Literature | Carleton College | Northfield, MN | April 2022
Wells College Visiting Writers Series | Wells College | Ithaca, NY | April 2022
Allium publication release reading | virtual reading with Vic Chavez, Eve Talley, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Beth Konkoski, and Alexis Berry | April 2022
Raymond Carver Reading Series | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | November 2020
Storytime for Grownups | Bookleggers Library | Miami, FL | October 2020
The Author Series | Green Apple Books | San Francisco, CA | June 2020
Of Color Book Launch: in conversation with Paisley Rekdal | Literati Bookstore | Ann Arbor, MI | May 2020
Online Poetry: Medicine for the Soul | The Stockbridge Library | Stockbridge, MA | May 2020
Miami Book Fair | Miami-Dade College | Miami, FL | November 2019
Wonderland @ IAAC Literary Festival | Hagop Kevorkian Center | New York, NY | October 2019
Books & Books Reading Series | Books & Books | Coral Gables, FL | August 2019
Omnidawn Spring Book Launch | Moe’s Books | Berkeley, CA | April 2019
Two Seasons Visiting Writers Series | Palm Beach State College | Palm Beach, FL | March 2019
Multiple appearances | AWP Conference | Portland, OR | March 2019
For Freedoms Town Hall Salon | The Gallery @ The Betsy Hotel | Miami Beach, FL | December 2018
The Mastheads Writers’ Residency | Pittsfield Public Library | Pittsfield, MA | July 2018
Persona of the Personal | AWP Conference | Tampa, FL | March 2018
Writer as Activist Panel | Creative Nonfiction Conference | Pittsburgh, PA | May 2017
Writing Beyond Stereotypes Panel | Creative Nonfiction Conference | Pittsburgh, PA | May 2017
Protean Acts: The Art of Reinvention Panel | AWP Conference | Washington, DC | February 2017
Social Justice and Poetic Communities Panel | AWP Conference | Washington, DC | February 2017
Idyllwild Faculty Reading | Idyllwild Writers’ Week | Idyllwild, CA | July 2016
Kundiman Faculty Reading | Fordham University Lincoln Center | New York, NY | June 2016
Poetry and Paella | AAAS offsite reading | Miami, FL | May 2016
Pleiades Press | AWP offsite reading | Los Angeles, CA | April 2016
CSCC Writer’s Conference | Columbus State Community College | Columbus, OH | May 2015
Decorous: Art & Poetry Series | Des Moines, IA | April 2015
Sarasota Poetry Festival | Sarasota, FL | April 2015
Deering Estate Festival of the Arts | Miami, FL | April 2015
O, Miami Poetry Cruise | Miami, FL | April 2015
Oberlin Poetry Festival | Oberlin College | Oberlin, OH | December 2014
Literary Series | Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton, FL | November 2014
Visiting Writers Series | University of Texas at Arlington | Arlington, TX | October 2014
Poetry and Race Roundtable | Museum of Science | Miami, FL | April 2014
Under the Influence | O, Miami Poetry Festival | Miami, FL | April 2014
Daytona Beach Reading Series | Daytona Beach, FL | February 2014
Ibis Reading Series | University of Miami | Miami, FL | September 2013
Frostic Reading Series | Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, MI | April 2013
Pleiades Visiting Writers Series | University of Central Missouri | Warrensburg, MO | April 2013
The Offending Sequins reading @ Johnny D’s | Somerville, MA | March 2013
A Celebration of New Issues Poetry | Boston Public Library | Boston, MA | March 2013
Columbia College Chicago AWP reading | Chicago, IL | March 2012
Cave Canem AWP offsite reading | Chicago, IL | February 2012
Barrow Street West Reading Series | Highlands, NJ | November 2011
Art + Poetry + Prose | Athens, OH | November 2011
One Book, One Chicago: Chicago as Literary Muse | Chicago, IL | October 2011
The Dollhouse Reading Series | Chicago, IL | July 2011
U.P. Book Tour, multiple events | Upper Peninsula, MI | July 2011
Quarter After Eight Benefit | Ohio University | Athens, OH | April 2011
Antenna Gallery | New Orleans, LA | October 2010
Little Willie’s | University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | October 2010
Bozart’s Gallery | Waterville, MS | October 2010
Beep Beep Gallery Reading Series | Atlanta, GA | October 2010
Columbia College Reading Series | Chicago, IL | September 2010
Packingtown Review Benefit | Chicago, IL | August 2010
Ohio Northern University | Ada, OH | April 2010
AWP Conference | Denver, CO | April 2010
Bon Mot/ley Reading Series | Cincinnati, OH | February 2010 | audio recording
New Wave Café | AWP offsite reading | Chicago, IL | February 2009
New York University | AWP offsite reading | New York, NY | February 2008
Zell Visiting Writers Series | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | January 2008
Rabbit Light Movies | Episode 5 | November 2007 | watch on YouTube
Washington University | St. Louis, MO | November 2007
Loyola University Chicago | Chicago, IL | November 2007
Prairie Lights Books | Iowa City, IA | March 2007
Colorado State University Reading Series | Ft. Collins, CO | March 2007
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