readings
& interviews & podcasts & classes
2024
8/27, moderator for Blue Stoop's Office Hours with Jessamine Chan & Crystal Hana Kim, Virtual
8/22, Bullshit Lit's 3rd Anthology Launch, Philadelphia
8/22, Summer Healing: Gentle Yoga & Sound Bowl Meditation, A Novel Idea
8/15, Hapa House Salon, IG Live
8/10, Thirty West Day, B&N Bethlehem, PA
7/24, Baskethouse Poetry Series @ Barney Love Books, Woodstown NJ
7/19, Noble Quills at Barnes & Noble, Bethlehem PA
7/17, december magazine Poetry Prize Reading, Virtual
7/14, Fertile Grounds Workshop @ the William Way Center, Philadelphia
7/9, Livin' on Luck Poetry Series, sponsored by Mad Poets' Society
6/25, A Night of So Many Queer Poets, Main Point Books
6/23, Arts by the People Spotlight, Madison Community Arts Center, NJ
6/9, Coffee & Words APR, Asbury Park NJ
6/2, A Reading for Pride, Hilltop Books, Chestnut Hill PA
5/24, Space1026 for John Leo and Kristin Esser Slentz's launches, Philadelphia
5/18, Meter: Experiments in Poetry, Music, & Movement, Studio 34, Philadelphia
5/4, Frames of Reference at The HUB, poetry as part of Justin Hamm's collage exhibit
5/2, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: a Revision Workshop, Blue Stoop, Virtual
4/26 @ The MAAS Building & 5/4 @ CHI Movement Arts, After the Assault poetry & dance hybrid performance, Philadelphia
4/20, Philadelphia Stories' National Poetry Prize Reception, Philadelphia
4/14, Launch for Miriam Kramer's Built By Storms, Plainsboro NJ
3/29, Lehigh Valley Virtual Poetry Reading Feature
3/19, Firefly Project, Redbank NJ
3/10, Feature @ the Pen & Pencil Club, Philadelphia
3/9, Feature @ Evermore Coffee, NJ
3/7, Poet's Row Feature, The Trestle Inn, Philadelphia
2/25 Moonstone Arts' Featured Poets Reading, Philadelphia @ Penn's Rotunda
2/23, Sip City NJ Feature & Emcee @ Inkwood Books, Haddonfield NJ
2/9, Poetry Party Feature, Space 1026, Philadelphia
2/8, A Writer's Party Panel, Virtual
1/17, Winter Out East, an Online Reading with Thirty West Publishing House, Virtual
1/12, Feature @ The Tavern at the Sun Inn, Bethlehem PA
1/11, Cannonball CRASH @ Fringe Arts
2023
11/9, WXPN's Live at the Kelly Writers House Episode 158 - listen here
11/1, Launch for Jonathan Koven's Mystic Orchards at A Novel Idea, Philadelphia
10/20, Lehigh Valley Poetry Festival
10/1, Mad Poets' Festival, Media PA
9/23, In-Person Launch for it skips a generation at A Novel Idea, Philadelphia
9/15, Feature & Emcee for 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