Past Events
February 13 | Wednesday | 6:30pm
Launch of Philadelphia Stories winter 2019 issue
Philadelphia City Institute
Free Library of Philadelphia (1905 Locust St)
March 30 | Saturday | 5pm
Reading a poem in response to
“She/Shield/Sheath” (sculpture by Ravenna Taylor)
with Vasiliki Katsarou, Shannon K. Winston, John Timpane and others
Ravenna Taylor’s studio: 233 N. Union Street
Lambertville, Pennsylvania
April 14 | Sunday | 7:30pm
Reading at Random Name Poetry Series
with Tim Fitts and David Jones
Dahlak Paradise (4708 Baltimore St)
Philadelphia
April 24th | Wednesday | 7pm
Philadelphia Launch of The Mean Game
Special guest readers: Ernest Hilbert, Vasiliki Katsarou,
Cris Iacoponi, Tim Fitts, Kyle Brown-Watson
Emcee: Fayyaz Vellani
A NOVEL IDEA Bookstore (1726 E Passyunk Ave)
Philadelphia
May 1 | Wednesday | 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Poetry Reading with Five Poets
St. John Neumann Shrine (1019 N. 5th Street)
Philadelphia
May 4 | Saturday | 1pm
Reading with Leonard Gontarek
Satterlee Hospital poems read in Clark Park
West Philly
May 5 | Sunday | 6pm
Reading at Why There Are Words (WTAW-NYC)
Bowery Poetry Club
New York City (308 Bowery)
May 9 | Thursday | 7pm
Reading at Atomic Books (3620 Falls Rd)
Baltimore, Maryland
May 15 | Wednesday
Reading with marvelous Painted Bride Quarterly editors
Hosted by The Hatchery
The Monkey Club
Kensington, Philadelphia (2101 E York St)
May 18 | Saturday | 10:30 am – 4:30pm
Co-leading a chapbook workshop with Vasiliki Katsarou
Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ)
May 22 | Wednesday | 6-9pm
Duende Workshop
Writers Federation of Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 23 | Thursday | 7pm
Halifax Launch of The Mean Game
Cempoal Cafe
Agricola Street, Halifax
May 24 | Friday
Reading at: Lexicon Salon
w/ trombonist Andrew Jackson
Lexicon Books (125 Montague St)
Lunenburg, NS
June 2 | Sunday | 7:30pm
Reading at The Lit Live Reading Series
Hamilton, Ontario
June 5 | Wednesday | 6:30pm
Reading at LOMP Reading Series
Brown and Dickson Bookstore
London, Ontario (203 Dundas St)
June 6 | Thursday
Palimpsest Launch
Another Story Bookshop
Ronsesvalles, Toronto
June 8 | Saturday | 2-5 pm
Workshop on The Underglimmer
Sponsored by VERSeOttawa/VERSeFest
Carleton University Library
MacOdrum Library 583 (Archives & Special Collection)
Ottawa, Ontario
June 12 | Wednesday | 5:30-7:30
Co-leading a workshop with Stephanie Yorke
Atwater Library (1200 Atwater Ave, Westmount)
Montreal, Quebec
June 12 | Wednesday | 8pm
Palimpsest Launch
Argo Bookshop (1915 Ste. Catherine St. West)
Montreal, Quebec
June 13 | Thursday | 7pm
An Evening of Verse, Prose & Song
with Carolina Echeverria, Ilona Martonfi, John Wall Barger, H. Nigel Thomas, Mike Di Sclafani, Geneviève Lacombe, Shaheen Munir (music), Domenic Marinelli, Sheryl Halpern
Argo Bookshop (1915 Ste. Catherine St. West)
Montreal, Quebec
June 16 | Sunday | 2pm
Reading at Audrey’s Books (10702 Jasper Ave)
Edmonton, Alberta
June 17 | Monday | 6:30pm – 9:00pm.
Workshop on The Underglimmer
artsPlace Canmore
Canmore, Alberta
June 20 | Thursday | 7pm
Reading at Single Onion
Shelf Life Books (1302 4 St SW)
Calgary, Alberta
June 26 | Wednesday| 2pm
Interview on Wax Poetic (Co-op Radio)
Vancouver, BC
June 27 | Thursday | 7pm
Reading at Bastion Books
with John Barton
Victoria, BC (14 Bastion Square)
June 28 | Friday
Reading at Poetry Gabriola Reading Series
Gabriola Island, BC
June 29 | Saturday | 2:00 – 4:30pm
Workshop on Duende
Kevin Spenst’s house (message us for location)
Vancouver (West End), BC
June 29 | Saturday | 7pm
Reading with Kevin Spenst and Alex Leslie
Kevin Spenst’s house (message us for location)
Vancouver (West End), BC
September 9 | Monday
Reading at Painted Bride Quarterly series
with Keetje Kuipers, James Arthur and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
The Black Sheep Pub (247 S 17th St)
Philadelphia
September 17 | Tuesday| 6pm
Reading at Green Line Poetry Series
Book launch with Eli Goldblatt
Green Line Cafe (4426 Locust St)
Philadelphia
October 6 | Sunday | 3pm
Reading at Manayunk Roxborough Art Center
with Vasiliki Katsarou and Bernadette McBride
Philadelphia (419 Green Ln # RR)
Oct 22 | Tuesday | 8pm
Reading at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center
with Leonard Gontarek
7 Lock St, Philadelphia
Nov 10 | Sunday | 10:30 am
Reading of chapter 110 of Moby-Dick
with other fine readers
The Rosenbach
Independence Seaport Museum (211 S. Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia)
November 14 | Thursday | 12.45pm
Reading at La Salle University Art Museum
(1900 W Olney Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19141)
January 12 | Sunday
The HOT L Poets Series
Reading with Luke Stromberg and Don Berger
Host David Yezzi
Bird in Hand Bookshop (11 E. 33rd Street)
Baltimore, MD
January 16 | Thursday
Reading with Ernest Hilbert
Shakespeare and Co, Philadelphia
March 4-7
Various readings at AWP
San Antonio, Texas
Henry B. González Convention Center
with Alaska Quarterly Review [CANCELED: CORONAVIRUS]
Wednesday, March 4, 6:30-8 pm
La Villita Cafe
with The Hopkins Review / Literary Matters [CANCELED: CORONAVIRUS]
Friday, March 6, 12:30-2:30 pm
Location TBA
April 25
Reading with Luke Stromberg [CANCELED: CORONAVIRUS]
The Cathedral of All Saints church
62 S Swan St, Albany, NY 12210
May 19-22
Poetry by the Sea [CANCELED: CORONAVIRUS]
with Marilyn Nelson (Keynote Speaker)
The Mercy by the Sea Center, Madison, Connecticut
May 10 | Sunday | 5:30pm PST
The Bunker reading series
Hosted by Really Serious Literature and Thirty West Publishing House
with Anna Suarez, B. Dani West, and others
Zoom Meeting ID: 830 8549 1852 PW: eggs
June 15 [CANCELED: CORONAVIRUS]
Poetry at the Port
with Yvette Neisser and Carol Volk
7912 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
July 19 | Sunday | 1pm (EDT)
The Irish-Canadian Poetry Expo
On Facebook Live
with Carmine Starnino, Robin Richardson, Alvin Wong, Khashayar Mohammadi, and others
July 26 | Sunday | 4pm (EST)
Presentation / Celebration of The Migrant States
New book (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) by Indran Amirthanayagam
On Zoom and Facebook Live
with Susana H. Case, Enrique Bernales, Chema Paz Gago, and others
