[2021]

Thursday, December 2, 9:00am CT
|The Tamron Hall Show
Mixed Feelings

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Wednesday, March 3, 4:10pm - 5:50pm CT
AWP: Tribute to Linda Gregg
with Timothy Liu, Paisley Rekdal, David Semanki, & Tree Swenson

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Thursday, March 18, 7:00 p.m. ET
Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: Together

The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading
Reading from second collection of poems

Cornell University, Department of English

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[2020]

AWP Conference, San Antonio

Friday, March 6, 12:10pm-1:25pm

A Common Language: Writing the Multiracial Experience
with Tina Chang, Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, & Adrian Matejka

Henry B. González Convention Center
Room 301, Ballroom Level

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Thursday, April 2, 8pm

A Tribute to Linda Gregg

with Tessa Gallagher, Jorie Graham, Saskia Hamilton,

Robert Hass, Boni Joi, Timothy Liu, Alice Quinn,

David Semanki, and Tracy K. Smith
92nd Street Y, Buttenweiser Hall
New York, NY

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[2017]

AWP Conference:

Thursday, February 9

11:30am-2:30pm: Book Signing at Cave Canem Foundation Table 307

6pm-8pm: Poetry Reading at HEMPHILL Fine Arts, with Ari Banias, Carolina Ebeid, and Rosalie Moffett

1515 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005

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Friday, February 10

12pm-1pm: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Reading, with Bruce Bond and Cynthia Huntington

2:30pm-3:30pm: Book Signing at Crab Orchard Series in Poetry / SIU Press Tables 100-101

5pm-7pm: Day One - Little A’s Off-site at THE LOFT at 600F, with Ned Hayes, Adriana Ramirez, and Matthew Salesses

600 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004

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Sunday, March 5, 7:00pm

Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop
with Kaveh Akbar
141 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn

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Tuesday, March 7, 7:00pm

NYC Book Launch for INTO EACH ROOM WE ENTER WITHOUT KNOWING

with Robin Coste Lewis and Yusef Komunyakaa
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282

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Thursday, March 16, 7:30pm
with Javier Zamora
Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael

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Tuesday, March 21, 7:00pm

Ditmas Lit Reading

Sycamore Bar & Flower Shop
1118 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn, NY, 11218

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Wednesday, March 22, 7:00pm

The Adroit Journal Reading at University of Pennsylvania

with Julia Dasbach and Alex Dimitrov

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Wednesday, March 29, 7:00pm

Writers Speak Wednesdays at Stony Brook University

with Stacey Waite

MFA in Creative Writing & Literature, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968

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Thursday, March 30, 7:00pm

Cave Canem Presents: with Joshua Bennet and Patricia Smith

Lillian Vernon Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, NYC, NY 10011

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Tuesday, April 4, 7:00pm

University of Baltimore

MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts

1415 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201

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Wednesday, April 12, 6:30pm

Wallace Stegner Reading Series

with Ruchika Tomar

Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford University

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Thursday, April 13, 2:00pm

Little Grassy Literary Festival

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Award Reading

with Allison Joseph

Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium

Southern Illinois University

Carbondale, Illinois 62901

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Sunday, April 16, 2:00pm

Poetic Jolt, with Sonya Smith, James Cagney and Stewart Shaw

San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco, CA

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Tuesday, April 18, 7:00pm

Deisel Bookstore

with Morgan Parker

5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA

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Friday, April 21, 7:00pm

Poetry World Series

with Zubair Ahmed, Julia Levine, Brynn Saito, Devorah Major, and Roy Mash

Mill Valley Library

375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA

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Monday, April 24, 4:00pm

Writers at Rutgers | Charif Shanahan

Rutgers University--New Brunswick, Department of English

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Thursday, April 27, 7:00pm

Yale University, English Department

Graduate Poetry Series

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Monday, May 22, 4:15pm

Reading & Public Conversation with Dr. Therí Pickens

Bates College

2 Andrews Rd, Lewiston, ME 04240

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Sat-Sunday, June 3-4

Panel & Reading: "Who is American Poetry?"

with Layli Long Soldier and Michael Shewmaker

Moderated by Matthew Zapruder

Bay Area Book Festival

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Friday, June 9, 6:30pm

Sweetwater Sessions: Black Writers Series

In conversation with Arisa White

Impact Hub

2323 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612

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Wednesday, June 21, 7:30pm

Lyrics & Dirges Reading Series

Pegasus Books

2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA

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Thursday, July 6, 5pm

Community Voices: The Ease of Fiction

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105

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Friday, July 7, 7pm

Laurel Bookstore Poetry Series

with Michael Shewmaker

1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA

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Tuesday, July 11, 12:30pm

Poetic Tuesdays

with Brian Komei Dempster, MK Chavez, and Matthew Siegel

Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens

Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts.

San Francisco, CA

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Saturday, July 22, 4pm

40th Anniversary Celebration

The Frost Place Fellows Reading

158 Ridge Road - Franconia, NH

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Monday, July 24, 7:00pm

Books Beneath the Bridge

Greenlight Poetry Salon

with Kevin Coval, T'ai Freedom Ford, Patricia Smith, and Phillip Williams

Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Thursday, July 26

Red Room Poetry Series @ KGB Bar

with Loma and Laura Buccieri

85 E 4th St, New York, NY

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Tuesday, August 1, 8pm

The Frost Place

with Christina Hutchins

158 Ridge Road - Franconia, NH

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Thursday, August 17, 6:30pm

MoAD Museum

685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105

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Saturday, August 19, 3:30pm & 5pm

"White Noise / Black Mask"

with Tongo Eisen-Martin, Juba Kalamka, Arisa White, and Marvin K. White

The Forum @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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Thursday, August 24, 7:30pm

Pegasus Books Downtown

with Brynn Saito, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and Javier Zamora

2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

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Fri-Sun, August 25-27

Tent Revival: A Black LGBTQ Performance, Poetics, Prophetics and House Music Festival

with Preachers & Sermonic Performers: Sharon Bridgforth, Omi O. Jones,

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Julia Sangodare, Roxanne Wallace, Darnell L. Moore,

DJ Jamez L Smith, Dora Silva Santana, Marvin K. White, and Amanda Johnston

Austin, TX

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Thursday, September 7, 7pm

Chevalier Books Poetry Series

with Victoria Chang

126 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004

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Friday, September 8, 8pm

Four Pairs @ #90X90LA

with F Douglas Brown, Tk Le, Muriel Leung, Morgan Parker,

Joseph Rios, Charif Shanahan, and Vickie Vertiz

post & beam

3767 Santa Rosalia Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90008

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Wednesday, September 13, 7pm

Poetry Foundation

with Kaveh Akbar

61 W Superior St, Chicago

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Friday, September 15, 7:00pm

Open Books: A Poem Emporium

with Carolina Ebeid

2414 N 45th St, Seattle

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Friday, September 22

Friday Seminar Reading Series

California College of the Arts

1111 Eighth Street, (b/t Hooper and Irwin)

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Monday, October 10, 7pm

Housing Works: 'First Books'

with Ife-Chudeni Oputa, Erika Sanchez, & Sam Sax

126 Crosby Street, NYC 10012

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Friday, October 13, 7pm

Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop

with Jay Deshpande, E.C. Belli, Marina Blitshteyn & David McLoghlin

141 Front Street, D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn

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Tuesday, November 21, 6:30pm

Poetry Reading & Class Visit

Berkeley City College

2050 Center Street, Berkeley

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Tuesday, December 5, 7:30pm

Green Apple Books on the Park

with sam sax

1231 9th Avenue, SF CA 94122

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Sunday, December 10, 7pm

VERSO / : "Uprising"

with Charif Shanahan

Mezrab - Eastern Docklands

Vegastraat 164 | 1-33 JA

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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[2018]

Thursday, January 11, 12pm

MUNI ART Project Reading & Press Conference

with Juan Felipe Herrera, Diane di Prima, Kay Ryan, and Brynn Saito

Polk Street Steps of City Hall

San Francisco, CA

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Thursday, January 11, 5:30pm

MUNI Art Reading

with poets Diane di Prima, Brynn Saito, Kim Schuk &

visual artists Donavon Brutus, Mara Hernandez, Tsungwei Moo, Randi Pace, & Janet Rumsey

Koret Auditorium

San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street

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Thursday, January 25, 10am

Books on Review

with Leslie Berlin, Alison Carpenter Davis, and Laura McBride

Shadelands Arts Center

111 Wiget Ln, Walnut Creek, CA 94598

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Friday, February 2, 5pm

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Amherst College

CHI Think Tank - Frost Library

Amherst, MA

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Wednesday, February 21, 6:30pm

East Palo Alto Library

2415 University Avenue

East Palo Alto, CA 94303

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Saturday, March 17, 7pm

Alley Cat Books

with Caleb Luna, Tommy Pico, Jennifer Tamayo, & Arisa White

3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

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Tuesday, March 27

Reading for Poetry Society of America

SF Public Library--North Beach

850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133

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Wednesday, April 25, 7pm

Publishing Triangle Awards Finalist Reading

with Frank Bidart & Maureen McLane, among others

BGSQD: Bureau of General Services--Queer Division

208 W 13th St #210, New York, NY 10011

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Wednesday, May 23rd, 7pm

Lambda Literary Award LA Finalist Reading

West Hollywood Library, City Council Chambers

625 N San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood CA, 90069

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Sunday, July 22nd, 3:30pm

SF Art Book Fair, Rena Bransten Gallery

Jonathan Calm: The Green Book / Artist in Conversation with Charif Shanahan

1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107

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Friday, September 28, 7pm

Moe's Books, with Cyrus Cassells

2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA

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Saturday, October 13, 8pm

LitQuake - Grace Cathedral Reading

1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108

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[2019]

Tuesday, February 19, 7pm

Poetry Reading for Black History Month

Belmont Library

1110 Alameda de las Pulgas

Belmont, CA 94002

Wednesday, February 20, 6:30pmPoetry Reading for Black History Month

East Palo Alto Library

2415 University Avenue

East Palo Alto, CA 94303

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Thursday, February 28, 7pmThe Poetry Center, with Morgan Parker

reading and in conversation

HUM 512, San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Saturday, March 9, 6:30pm

The Parlor, Building 10

Mount Saint Mary's University — Doheny Campus

Los Angeles, CA

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AWP Conference

Thursday, March 28, 5pmMorgan & The Husbands

with Morgan Parker, Jay Desphande, Danez Smith, & others

Ace Hotel—Portland

1022 Southwest Harvey Milk Street, Portland, OR 97205

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Thursday, March 28, 7pmAWP Portland Off-site Reading

with Iain Halley Pollock & Marcus Jackson

TC O'Leary's 2926 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR