Upcoming Readings & Events

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Upcoming

TK

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2021

• Monday, October 18, 2021. Whale Fall, New York Theatre Workshop Mondays at 3 Reading Series, NY, NY.
• Friday, October 22, 2021. Whale Fall, The Poetry Project, NY, NY.

2020

• November 21 and 22, 2020. Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like, Producer’s Club (live via Zoom), New Ohio Theatre, NY, NY.

2019

• October 22 and 23, 2019. Oedipus in the District Act I , The Tank, NY, NY.

• Mon. & Tues. 3/18-19/2019. Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Spring Symposium w/ Cecilia Vicuña, Jonah Mixon Webster, and angela rawlings (talk and reading). Naropa University, Boulder, CO.

2018

• Oedipus in the District (opera) at OperaComp, The Juilliard School, NY, NY
• Oedipus in the District (opera) at Brooklyn Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
• Infinite Odyssey (sound installation) at the Contemporary Temporary::Sound Works and Media Spatial Sound Studio, Pioneer Works (Second Sundays), Brooklyn, NY
• The Poetry Project New Years Marathon, the Poetry Project, NY, NY
• No, Dear 10th Anniversary Reading, the Poetry Project, NY, NY

2017
• Exit Theater Northern Tour (USA/Canada)

• The White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA

• The Jam Handy, Detroit, MI

• Absinthe & Zygote, TriTriangle Gallery, Chicago, IL

• The Robin Theatre, Lansing, MI

• knife | fork | book, Toronto, ON

• Temps Libre Mile End, Montreal, QC

• Anne Carson's The Third Muse, The 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, NY, NY
• The Poetry Project (Wed. Night Series), NY, NY
• The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• The Potter's House, Washington, D.C.
• Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington, D.C.
• Colorado State University Creative Writing Series, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO
• Innisfree Poetry Bookstore/Café, Boulder, CO
• Tattered Cover Bookstore (Colefax), Denver, CO
• Literature is Alive @ Emory Univ. Bookstore, Atlanta, GA
• Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, CA
• NYU Bookstore, NY, NY
• Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
• Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, CA



2016
• Exit Theater Southern Tour (USA)

• Federal Dust Reading Series, The Crown, Baltimore, MD

• Poetrio, Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, Asheville, NC

• So and So Reading Series, So and So Books, Raleigh, NC

• Say It with Words, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA

• Blood Jet Poetry Series, BJ's in the Bayou, New Orleans, LA

• Malvern Books, Austin, TX

• Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX

• Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX

• Nightbird Books, Fayetteville, AR

• Trobar Ric Reading Series, Oxford, MS

• Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH

• Exit Theater Release, Idio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Greenlight Poetry Salon, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
• New York University Creative Writers Series, Lillian Vernon Creative Writers' House, NY, NY
• In the Gun Cabinet Release, La Sala, Brooklyn, NY

2015
• DittoDitto Books, Detroit, MI
• Earshot Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY
• Leverage (Eric Nelson) Release, Mellow Pages, Brooklyn, NY
• Atlas Reading Series, Local 61, Brooklyn, NY

2014
• A Very Mellow NYE, Mellow Pages Library, Brooklyn, NY
• Does Not Love (James Tadd Adcox) Release, Mellow Pages Library, Brooklyn, NY
• Migration to the Interior (Phong Bui and Rail Curatorial Projects), Red Bull Galleries, NY, NY
• AWP Offsite (for Singing Saw Press), Cairo, Seattle, WA
• Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, New York University, NY, NY

2013
• “Matisse: In Search of True Painting,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Static, Robert Sestok Solo Show, Cave Gallery, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit
• AWP Offsite for Lit Magazine / Mental Marginalia, Boston, MA
• Allyson Paty, Eric Nelson, and Mike Lala, Mellow Pages Library, Brooklyn, NY
• Cornelia Street Graduate Reading Series, New York, NY
• The New York Poetry Festival (for Singing Saw Press), Governor’s Island, NY
• KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series, New York, NY

2012
• Southern Writers Reading Series, Happy Ending, New York, NY
• Polestar Reading Series, Cakeshop, New York, NY
• [sic] Reading Series, Omnicorp, Detroit, MI
• Diner Journal, Diner, Brooklyn, NY
• The Highwaymen Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY
• No, Dear Issue 9 Release, Brooklyn, NY
• HOWL Festival, NY, NY
• Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
• The New York Poetry Festival, Gov. Island, NY
• Popsickle Poetry Festival, Brooklyn, NY
• Mental Marginalia Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY

2010 - 2011 
• Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
• Northeast Kingdom, Brooklyn, NY,
• Numu Arts Collective, Brooklyn, NY
• The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
• 5C Cafe and Cultural Center, New York, NY
• A-Space, Philadelphia, PA
• Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, PA
• Cyclops Books, Baltimore, MD
• Blood and Pudding (Katelan Foisy) Release, Bluestockings, New York, NY
• Hexagon Space, Artscape Arts Festival, Baltimore, MD
• Eastern Seaboard Showcase, Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, PA
• (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
• Polestar Poetry Series, Cakeshop, New York, NY
• Tongue and Groove New York, KGB Bar, New York, NY
• 1441 Release, Word Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
• The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega, Brooklyn, NY
• The New York Poetry Society Fundraiser, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
• Mixer Reading Series, Cakeshop, New York, NY
• [sic] Reading Series, Leopold’s Books, Detroit, MI
• Brooklyn Invades Manhattan, Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY