readings

2023

9/23, In-Person Launch for it skips a generation at A Novel Idea, Philadelphia

9/15, Queer Reading, Inkwood Books in Haddonfield NJ

8/26, Philly Bookstore Crawl at A Novel Idea, Philadelphia

8/5, Thirty West Salon at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

7/20, Muse 'n Monsters Reading, Asbury Park

7/1, Odes to Our Undoing Reading Series, on Zoom

6/17, @ Hilltop Books, Chestnut Hill PA

6/14, 2nd annual Night of So Many Queer Poets, Main Point Books, Wayne PA

5/21, Coffee & Words Asbury Park at Asbury Park Roastery

5/18, Eat Your Words, or, Would Thou Like to Live Deliciously? Blue Stoop Workshop

Let’s bring all of those sensory and sensual details to the page! This generative workshop will encourage participants to reflect on their favorite (or least favorite) foods and food memories. We’ll read both prose and poetry, and maybe even consider how film about food can serve (no pun intended!) as inspiration. You’ll walk away with inspiration and the beginning of some new work!

5/7, Pen & Pencil Club for the Really Serious Book Release, Philadelphia PA

4/30,  A Celebration of National Poetry Month at the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center

4/29, Indie Author Reading, Inkwood Books, Haddonfield NJ

4/18, Sinister Wisdom 128 Launch, Virtual

Gather with issue editors and contributors for a celebration of Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms on April 18 at 7 P.M. ET. This celebration will both be a vibrant reading of works published and a riveting discussion with a portion of the editorial collective that brought this issue to life. The editors will discuss the origins of the issue, touch on the hardships associated with assembling the theme, and reflect on the broader importance of Trans/Feminisms.

Members of the editorial collective participating in the event include: Red Washburn, Sara Youngblood Gregory, Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez, and Cassidy Scanlon.

Featured contributors reading from their works published in Trans/Feminisms include: Diandre Williams, Joan Angel Estrada, Ursh Skeet, Alison Lubar, EF Schraeder, Samantha Sapp, and Joe Kadi.

4/16, CLASH! Creator Celebration & Poetry Reading, Virtual

4/11, Mad Poets Society's Living on Luck Series, West Chester PA

3/15, Moonstone Arts' Featured Reader at Fergie's, Philadelphia PA

3/12, Lot 49 Books, Philadelphia PA

3/11, (non)AWP Workshop, Reading to Write Poetry, Virtual

Join us for a fake AWP panel reading and discussion with Brown Bag Lit co-founder Chloe Yelena Miller and special guest poets! Poets are readers of poetry. When we’re stuck, we read to understand what others have created and better understand our own potential. Each poet will share 1-2 poems that helped them to write their own poetry followed by their original poems.

3/3 Poemocalypse Now, Long Branch NJ

Poets' Row at LMNO, Philadelphia PA

The Lore of Genealogy: Reimagining Our Pasts, Blue Stoop Workshop, 2/16

26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology Reading, Philadelphia PA

2022

Wednesdays on the Stoop workshop with Blue Stoop, "Writing at the Intersection"

TMom's for Amy Saul-Zerby's Launch of Choose Your Own Beginning

Pocono Cinema & Cultural Center for Popcorn Poetry November Feature

Moonstone Poetry, "Stretching Forms: Poetry to Prose" Reading & Panel

Barnes & Noble in Bethlehem, PA for Noble Quills Poetry Showcase

Asbury Park, Feature for Coffee & Words

Rowan University, feature for Glassworks Issue 25 Launch

Feature for great weather for MEDIA's Arriving at a Shoreline Anthology October Celebration

Mad Poets Festival, Media PA

Cleaver Magazine's 39th Issue Contributors Reading

Philosophers Know Nothing About Love signing at  A Novel Idea, Philadelphia

Poetry Here and Now Feature, Saint Joe's University

Reader at the launch of thrum, A Novel Idea, Philadelphia

Delco Writers & Friends, Feature, Swarthmore

Wednesdays on the Stoop workshop with Blue Stoop, "[Untitled] on Purpose" watch here

Whitman on Walls! in response to "The Journey," Venice Island Performing Arts Center

Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Voicemail Poems Feature, Tattooed Mom's, Philadelphia

610Poetry #4 Feature, Emmaus PA

NJ Poetry Renaissance presents Puff Puff Poems Series, Feature, NJ

An Evening with So Many Queer Poets Feature, Main Point Books, PA

Feature for Poetry Sundays at the Pen & Pencil Club, Philadelphia (video to follow)

Feature for Moonstone Arts Center, Fergie's Pub, Philadelphia

Feature at launch for Those Who Scream (and I wrote chapter 13!)

Thirty West PH Spring Chapbook Launch Feature, and launch for Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, virtual

Revolute Issue .003 Launch

Interview on Arts Calling Podcast (link to follow)

Wednesdays on the Stoop workshop with Blue Stoop, "Mythology as Methodology" watch here

Celebrate 845's April Showcase

Glassworks Reading Feature, off-site for AWP

"Fixation on the Small," a smolfair reading, Feature

Mad Poets Society 1st Wednesday Reading Feature, Swarthmore

2021

Apiary Magazine's Issue 12 Launch, West Philadelphia

Open Sound Lansdowne

Mad Poets Festival, Media PA

Celebrate .845's CELEBRATION 2021 Festival Showcase

Mad Poets Society Local Lyrics Interview (link to follow)

2020

Green Street Poetry Open Mic Feature,

Apiary Magazine's Issue 11 Launch Party,

CelebrateWomxn845's Virtual Open Mic Feature

Pass the Mic: Creator Series, co-host & feature

2019

MK Apothecary Open House Art Show performer, Collingswood NJ

Glassworks Fall Issue Launch, Rowan University

Glassworks' Looking Glass, discussion of "To the Bone" (link to follow)

Feature for Thirty West Publishing House's Launch of Blue Bucolic, Philadelphia

Feature for Thirty West Presents #22, Philadelphia

2018

great weather for MEDIA's Spoken Word Sundays, NYC

great weather for MEDIA's Suitcase of Chrysanthemums Launch, NYC