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Past Events

2023

Whispers of Rhythm: Emergence. November 7 & 8.

Jared Harel’s Queens Book Launch. September 8.

Word Shed. NYC. June 11.

City of Asylum. May 28.

Poets on Community & Catharsis. Hudson Park Library. April 27.

WWA Poetry Reading for National Poetry Month. April 25.

Performance With Fuji|||||||||||ta & Claire Rousay. National Sawdust. April 6.

Utica University. Honors Program & Jackson Lunch Hour Reading Series for Science, Technology, and Society. April 4-5th.

“How to Write Your Best Poetry: on Craft, Technology, & Lifestyle.” Writers.com. March 27.

BOOK SIGNING. Immediately following AWP Featured Event. March 11.

AWP FEATURED EVENT. Mutant, Monster, Misfit, Myself: Writing the Disabled / Chronically Ill Body, Sponsored by AWP. Seattle, WA. March 11.

AWP Off-Site Reading. Honey Literary Reading. Seattle, WA. March 10.

AWP Event.“Surprised by Joy”: The Generative Writing Workshop. Seattle, WA. March 10.

The Science and Medicine Middle School. Brooklyn, NY. February 8.

Salomé Ureña Leadership Academy. New York, NY.  February 3.

We Are Here Concert. In commemoration of International Holocaust Memorial Day. Carnegie Hall, NYC. January 26.

2022

Jewtina & Co. Hanukah Reading. December 20.

Reading Series at Georgia Tech, in collaboration w/Atlanta Jewish Museum. September 22.

Reading for Elul. Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. September 14.

Inaugural Yetzirah Reading. Sunday, September 11.

NYC Poetry Festival Afterparty. The Guild Complex presents Exhibit B. September 10.

KGB Reading. August 31.

All of the Sky: Five Poets, Five Saturdays, in collaboration with the group exhibition, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. August 6.

Brooklyn Poets Grand Opening. July 23.

Brooklyn Rail Reading. July 6.

New York Public Library. Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. June 21.

Bryant Park Reading Room. June 14.

White Whale Bookstore. May 28.

Stockton University. May 18.

In Conversation with Darrel Alejandro Holnes. April 28.

Keynote Speaker and Featured Poet for SUNY Morrisville. April 12.

Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival. Sarah Lawrence College. April 8 - 10.

AWP 2022. Reading: An Alice James Quartet. March 26.

AWP 2022 Off-Site Event. Second Acts. March 25.

AWP Off-Site Reading. Women’s Caucus Reading. March 25.

AWP Book Signing. The Adroit Journal table. AWP Book Fair. March 25.

AWP Off-Site: The Hopkins Review + Mercy Street Readings + University of the Arts. March 24.

AWP 2022. Speaker at Women’s Caucus. March 24.

Smol Fair. Get Fresh Books Reading. March 19.

Reading + Conversation with Jojo Compton. February 9. (RECORDED)

2021

Words Together, Worlds Apart Farewell 2011 Reading. December 21.

Poetry Wales Holiday Reading Series. December 21.

Poetry Panel & Reading on Diaspora & Homecoming. 14th Street Y. December 20.

Launch Party for Dorothy K. Chan’s Babe. December 9.

Florida Atlantic University. October 28.

Texas Book Festival. HORSE GIRLS. October 26.

Rhino Poetry Forum. October 24.

Featured Poet. Farmington Visiting Writers Series. University of Maine. October 21-22.

Keynote Speaker & Featured Poet. Diversity Day Reading. Merrimack College. October 20.

Keynote Speaker for Latinx Heritage Month. Ohio University. October 14.

Featured Poet. Inaugural National Hispanic Heritage Month Reading. Writers Guild at Bloomington. October 6.

80 Years After Babi Yar. Words Together, Worlds Apart. September 30.

Featured Poet. Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series. Indiana State University. September 23-24.

Night{Call} Reading. September 18.

City Artist Corps Riverside Park Reading. September 18.

Rosh Hashanah Reading. September 10.

The 10th Annual New York City Poetry Festival. Reading with Alice James Books. Governor’s Island. July 24.

Brooklyn Poets Yawp with Rosebud Ben-Oni. July 12,

Mercy Street Reading. July 11.

Women Writers in Bloom. June 26.

Simulations :: RE{SKINNED} Mix Reading. June 25.

National Hispanic Cultural Center. “The Science of Poetry Workshop.” June 21.

Kitchen Table Reading Series. June 20.

UCLA Publication Reading. June 9.

Hispancedotes Reading. June 4.

Visiting Author. Writers & Books. June 3. (RECORDED. Watch here.)

Divine | Deviations: A Poetry Reading. May 28.

Featured Poet. Dwelling Project: Poets & Scientists Panel. Ohio State University. May 21.

Words Together Words Apart Latinx Reading. May 12.

¡PRESENTE! New Latinx Poetry Reading. Columbia University. May 4. (RECORDED. Watch here.)

Magma 79 Reading (Launch 2). May 1.

Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. April 25.

Threads Project. Reading + Exhibition. Bliss on Bliss Studio. April 25.

New Orleans Poetry Festival. Prose/Poetics: Writers on the Line between Prose & Poem. April 23.

{Online Talk & Workshop - University Visit} Ohio State University. April 17.

BOOK LAUNCH FOR IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY. With Roberto Carlos Garcia, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Erika Metiner, Jennifer Militello, Yesenia Montilla, Ruben Quesada and Jihyun Yun. April 16.

UNIDAD Reading. Sarah Lawrence College. April 15.

THREADS Project Reading. Garden at Flux Factory. Long Island City, NYC. April 10.

Multiverses Reading. April 9.

Yom HaShoah Reading for Words Together Worlds Apart. April 7.

Red Door Series Reading. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Jackson Heights, NYC. April 7.

Otherworld(ly) : A Reading of Reimaginings. April 2.

AWP 2021. Meet & Greet at Catapult Booth. March 6.

AWP 2021 Panel. Writing Through Wounds: Myth, Fantasy, and Trauma in the Work of Five Poets. March 6.

AWP 2021. Hybrid Jewish American Poetry, An Intersectional Reading. March 4.

VIRTUAL BOOK SIGNING AWP 2021 for If This Is the Age We End Discovery Alice James Virtual Booth. March 4.

University Visit. Lyrical Inquires: At the Crossroad of Poetry & Science. Salem State University. February 17.

Poetry of Peculiar Joys Reading. January 15.

Words Together Worlds Apart: New Year Poetry Showcase. January 13.

Space Odyssey Poetry Reading. January 6.

2020

Words together, Worlds Apart Reading. December 9.

Get Fresh Books Presents Friendsgiving Reading. Wednesday, November 25.

The Speakeasy Project's Agency Launch & Reading. November 22.

“Literature as Resistance: Writing and Reading Race and the Environment.” Yale University. November 12.

Poetry as Overwinter: Wakefulness in a Time of Stillness & Big Sleeps. Hudson Valley Writers Center. November 1.

First National Latinx Writers Gathering, “Sembrando y Soñando.” Science & Prose Poetry workshop. October 17.

Elegy as Epiphany: How Grief Leads to Illumination Workshop. CBAW in Partnership w/Strathmore. October 15..

A Reading by Rosebud Ben-Oni from 20 Atomic Sonnets. October 10.

Poets of Queens Anthology Launch. October 4.

Featured Poet. The Sonnets from the American Symposium. October 1.

Featured Poet. Taking Remote Control: Hope Votes. September 30.

Black Warrior Review Secret Boyfriend Launch Reading. September 29.

Eighth Annual Bisexual Book Awards Reading. September 26. (Recorded. Watch on YouTube here.)

Wild and Precious Life reading series. September 23.

Featured Poet. Summer 2020 New England College Reading Series. July 15. 

Featured Poet. Virtual Summer Poetry Festival. Presented by The New England Poetry Club and Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. July 12.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 {Poetry Reading} Stockton University. June 17.

GFB Presents: Instagram Live Reading. May 29.

CBAW in Partnership with Strathmore: Self-Portrait and Belonging With Rosebud Ben-Oni. May 21.

GFB Presents: Instagram Live Reading. May 15. (Recorded. Watch on Instagram Here.)

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival. Poetry Workshop & Craft Talk. April 30.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival. Featured Poet. April 24-26.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Reading. April 21.

Featured Poet. Girls Write Now’s 1st Public Salon. April 17.

Performance Anxiety Reading. April 2. (Recorded. Watch on YouTube Here.)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - {University Visit} University of Mississippi at Oxford. April 1 - 5:

• 27th Oxford Conference for the Book. “Poetry in the Gallery.” With Julian David Randall. Southside Gallery, Oxford Square. April 2.

• Book Signing. Lyric Theatre. April 2.

• The Glitterary Festival. “The Queer Domestic.” Lamar Hall 130. Saturday, April 4.

Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon March 28.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2020 Reading. “Our Bodies as Land: Destruction and Renewal.”  Marvin Center 402. Washington DC. March 28.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2020 Reading. “An Intersectional Feminist Resistance Reading.” With Wendy Chin-Tanner, Shira Dentz, Allison Joseph and Venus Thrash. Marvin Center 308. Washington DC. March 28.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2020 Panel. “Jewish Poets on Liberation and Obligation.” With Joy Katz, Erika Meitner, Rachel Mennies and Jason Schneiderman. Marvin Center 308. Washington DC. March 27.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - {Poetry Reading} With Alonso Llerena, John Manuel-Arias, Monica Sok, Lynne Schmidt & Seema Yasmin. Big Bear Cafe. 1700 1st St NW, 2nd floor. Washington DC. March 28.

Further Notice Virtual Reading Series. March 17.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 {Poetry Reading} With Jason Myers, Esteban Rodriguez & Celeste Guzman Mendoza. Malvern Books. March 13.

Poetry Reading with Jasminne Mendez, Lupe Mendez, Leslie Contreras Schwartz & Stalina Villarreal. Casa Ramirez. Houston, Texas. March 10.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - AWP 2020 Panel. “Pre-Apocalyptic Writing.” Panelist. With Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Paisley Rekdal & Ching-In Chen. Moderated by Danielle Pafunda. Henry B. González Convention Center, Room 207, Meeting Room Level. San Antonio, TX. March 6.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - AWP Offsite Reading. MOB THE OCHO for The Adroit Journal, The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review & Pleiades. Ocho Bar at The Havana Hotel. 1015 Navarro Street, San Antonio, Texas. March 5.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - AWP Offsite Reading. One Poem Festival Doors. With Cantomundo poets Benjamin Garcia, Juan Luis Guzmán, . Urayoán Noel, Lupe Mendez, Paula Neves & Norma Elia Cantú. San Antonio Central Library, 600 Soledad Street. San Antonio, Texas. March 5.

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - AWP 2020 Panel. “The Possibility of You: Bi+ Visibility in Poetry.” Panelist. With Ruth Awad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Trace Peterson. Moderated by Emilia Phillips. Henry B. González Convention Center, Room 302, Ballroom Level. San Antonio, TX. March 5.

Poetry Reading. Columbia University. Hosted by Deborah Paredez. W/Cynthia Cruz & Diana Delgado. February 26

The Resources for QTPOC Artists Panel. Columbia University. February 20.

LIC Readings Series. With Rye Curtis, Safia Jama, & Stephanie Jimenez. Carriage House, LIC Bar. February 11.

“In Celebration of Tu BiShvat: A Poetry Reading.” With Justin Boening, Shamar Hill, Lynn Melnick, Miller Wolf Oberman & Devon Walker-Figueroa. Book Culture LIC. LIC, NY. February 10.

Queens Poets Night. With Jared Harél, Safia Jama & Richard Jeffrey Newman. Astoria Bookstore. Astoria, NYC. February 5.

Poetry Reading with Ryan Black, Jan-Henry Gray, & Nicole Steinberg. A Novel Idea. Philadelphia, PA. January 24.

Razor Blade Readings. Tannat Wine & Cheese. NY, NY. Sunday, January 19.

Inkwell Reading Series with Shira Erlichman. WORD Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY. January 15.

2019

{Poetry Reading} From Across the Waters series. Voices for Immigration. Haverford College. Haverford, PA. November 21.

{Poem Featured} EMOTIVE FRUITION’s Theatrical Production. Caveat. NY, NY. November 18.

{Poetry Reading} Poets of Queens. Book Culture, Long Island City, Queens, NYC. November 5.

BOOK LAUNCH for turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. Langston Hughes House, New York, NY. November 1.

CCNY Reading Series. Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY, October 26th.

{Poetry Reading} Reading with Martha Collins, Malcolm Tariq & Shamar Hill. Shakespeare & Co Bookstore (UWS). October 23.

{Panel Discussion} Embodiment: the Body in Space. The Center for Women Writers at Salem College. Winston-Salem, NC. October 18.

{Radio Interview} Truth to Power Show. Radio Free Brooklyn. September 30.

Couplet’s 8th Anniversary Poetry Reading. Reading with Jericho Brown, Faisal Mohyuddin, Dante Di Stefano & Regan Good. Hosted by Leah Umansky. KBG Bar Red Room. September 20.

{Featured Guest} Brooklyn Book Festival. “Oracular Spectacular." In partnership with The Common, American Short Fiction, Black Warrior Review, The Offing, & The Margins--Asian American Writers Workshop. September 19.

Slice Literary Writers' Conference. Panelist. “The Opposite Is Also True: Poets On Writing About Contradictions Within & Around Us.” September 7.

{Poetry Reading} Same Page Reading Series. KBG Bar Red Room. June 12.

{Poetry Reading} Cream City Review: CCR Live! University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 18.

{Poetry Reading} Halfway Reading Series. Red Eye Cafe. Montclair, NJ. April 15.

{Poetry Reading} Community Bookstore. With Diane Mehta, Lynn Melnick & Minna Proctor. April 11.

{Poetry Reading} Guernica Live: The Personal is Political. New York , NY. February 20.

{Reading & Performance} Kith & Kin Presents the Poets of Queensbound. Astoria, NY. February 3.

2018

{Poetry Reading} “Intergalactic Evening of Jewish Poetry” In Celebration of Heaven and Earth (Yiddish Cosmos) Art Exhibit. Unnameable Books. Brooklyn, NY. December 8.

{Poetry Reading} Agape Press Reading. NY, NY. December 6.

{Poetry Reading} WEIRDD Reading Series.Brooklyn, NY. November 27.

{Featured Reader"} Women Writers Bloom Workshop & Reading Series. Brooklyn, NY. Nov 25.

{Poetry Reading} Literary Sundays Readings Series. Victorian House in Maple Grove Cemetery. Queens, NY. November 4.

{Poetry Reading} Queensbound. 7 train (first car) at Hunters Point Avenue. Reception to follow at Queens Museum. November 3.

{Poem Featured} EMOTIVE FRUITION’s Theatrical Production, "Everyday We Get More Illegal." Caveat. NY, NY. October 29.

{Poetry Reading} Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism Anthology Reading. Artbook, MoMA PS1. LIC, New York. September 29. 

Slice Literary Writers' Conference. Moderating: "We Will Not Sit Quietly: How Writers Are Using Their Words to Ignite Change." Brooklyn, NY.  September 8.

{Poetry Reading} “Night with Newtown.” Sunnyside Shines’ Beats in Bliss Plaza program.  Queens, NY.  July 10.

{Poetry Reading} Reading with Virginia Konchan, Leah Umansky, Klara Du Plessis and Todd Portnowitz. La Sala. Astoria, NY. April 23.

{Poetry Reading} ALICIA BORINSKY, NATASHA HAKIMI, ROSEBUD BEN-ONI, CHRISTOPHER SANTIAGO, JUSTIN BOENING. Brooklyn, NY. April 21.

{Poetry Reading} Soul Sister Revue Anniversary Reading. NYC. April 17.

{Poetry Reading} Poets in the School. Queens Vocational & Technical High School. March 29

{Poetry Reading} Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America Book Launch. Bowery Poetry, NYC. March 18.

{Poetry Reading} Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Strand Bookstore, NYC. March 13. 

AWP 2018 Panel. "Tikkun Olam: Jewish Poets on Mending the World." Tampa, FL. March 8.

{Poetry Reading} KGB Reading Series. NYC. February 26.

{Poetry Reading} Latinas: Struggles and Protest in 21 Century USA Book Launch. Columbia University, February 23rd. 

{Poetry Event} Valentine's Day Celebration: Writing Love Poems for Garden-Goers. The New York Botanical Garden. February 10 & 11.

{Poetry Reading} EMPIRE Reads. Art Bar + Cafe. Brooklyn, NY. February 9.

2017

{Poetry Reading} Latinx Poetry Reading. Bronx Community College, December 7.

{Reading & Talk} Howl Gallery. NYC. October 25.

{University Visit} Quinnipiac University. Poetry reading & panel discussion. October 19.

{Poetry Reading} Queens Writers Resist. Elmhurst, NY. September 27.

{Poetry Reading} FREE WATER #20. NYC. August 18.

{Poetry Event} "When the Towers Fell." 9/11 Memorial & Museum. NYC. May 16.

{Poetry Reading} Pure Products of Miscegenation. Brooklyn, NY. May 6.

{Poetry Reading} Dead Rabbits Reading Series. NY, NY. April 23.

{Poetry Reading}  Newtown Literary Reading at Queens Library. April 22.

{Poetry Reading} Roots Poetry Series. Roots Cafe. Brooklyn, New York. April 21.

{Poetry Reading} Official Book Launch for Resist Much / Obey Little. Queens Museum. April 16.

{Poetry Event} Poetry in Motion featuring The Poet is In. Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Station. April 7.

{University Visit} National Poetry Month at Marist College. Poughkeepsie, NY.

• Panel: “The Poetics of Resistance," Monday, April 3. 

•  Poetry Reading. Tuesday, April 4.

{Poetry Workshop} "Code-Switching: Writing from Multiple Selves." Elmhurst, NY. April 1.

{Poetry Reading} KGB Reading Series. NYC. March 20.

{Poetry Reading} Poets Vigil for NEA at Trump Tower. NYC. March 15.

{Poetry Event} Valentine's Day Celebration.The New York Botanical Garden. February 12.

AWP 2017 Panel. "I Survived--and Thrived: Conference Veterans Discuss the Benefits and Drawbacks of Writing Conferences." Washington, DC. February 10.

Book Signing of Solecism. AWP Conference Bookfair. Latino Caucus Booth #103, Washington, DC. TFebruary 9.

AWP 2017 Panel. "Liberate Literature: Creating an Artistic Culture outside of Academia." Washington, DC. February 9.

{Poetry Reading} Parkside Lounge, New York, NY. January 31.

{Poetry Reading} Latinxs Against Everyone: Poetry and Protest. Brooklyn, NY. January 28.

{Poetry Reading} DAY ONE: A Poetry Reading. INAUGURATION DAY. Poet's House, NYC. January 20.

2016

{Panel & Reading} "Queens Activism Now." Queens Museum. November 20.

{Talk} "Hello from the Other Side: On Poetry & (Dis)Place(Ment)" Tiny Talks series. Brooklyn, NY.  November 16.

{Poetry Reading} Book Release Party for Empire Wasted. Brooklyn, NY. November 12.

{Poetry Reading} Prelude 3 Launch. Brooklyn, NY. November 10.

{Panel} "The Power of Poetry in a Complex World." NYC. November 9.

{Poetry Reading} Bedlam Reading Series. NY, NY. October 25.

Dodge Poetry Festival. CantoMundo Reading. Newark, NJ. October 22.

{Poetry Reading} Book Release Party for The Art of Work. NYC.  September 15.

{Poetry Reading} Dodge Poetry Program's Military Park Lunchtime Reading Series, Newark, New Jersey. Tuesday, August 23rd.

Queens Book Festival. {Panel Discussion} MARQUEE STAGE. Both and Neither - Rethinking Our Approaches to Multicultural/Multiracial Identities. With Taye Diggs, Monica McClure and Miko Branch, Kaufman Astoria Studios, NYC. August 7.

{Poetry Reading} Q-Boro Lit Crawl. Forest Hills, NY. April 28th.

{Poetry Reading} Poets in the Drunken Round. Brooklyn, NY. April 24.

SPLIT THIS ROCK Festival. Washington DC, April 14-17, 2016. Two readings: 

• Queer Pan-Latinidad: A LBGTQ Latina/o Poetry Reading, April 15.

• Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. Saturday, April 16.

{Poetry Reading} Queens Library, Flushing, NYC. April 16.

{Poetry Reading} FPP Harlem Reading Series. Harlem, NY. April 12th.

{Poetry Reading} Q-Boro Lit Crawl. Long Island City, NY. April 7th.

{Poetry Reading}Brooklyn Poets Reading Series. Brooklyn, NY. February 12th.

{Poetry Reading} Love and Empires. Brooklyn, NY. February 6th.

2015

{Guest Poet} The DreamYard Project. Poetry Workshop & Reading. The Bronx, NY. December 17th.

Dumbo's First Thursday Gallery Walk. NYFA Fellows Reading. NYFA’s Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.  December 3rd.  

30th Anniversary NYFA Book Show. NYFA’s Gallery, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn, NY.  Opening Reception: Friday, November 13th, from 6pm - 8pm. Runs until Friday, February 12th.

{Poetry Reading} Poor Mouth Poetry reading. Bronx, NY. November 11.

{Poetry Reading} "This Ain’t No Love Story." La Casa Azul Bookstore. NYC. November 5.

{Production} Quimera on the Storm. Directed by Bob Teague. Part of FIT College's Hispanic Heritage Month. October 14.

Brooklyn Book Festival. Happiness UN Anthology. St. Ann's Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, NY. September 21. 

{Poetry Reading} 99 in the Shade: A Latina/o Poetry Reading. Molasses Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY. August 17.

NYC Poetry Festival. Read for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, LUNA LUNA and Oh, Bernice!, NYC. July 27.

{Poetry Reading} CantoMundo Fellows Reading, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX. July 18.

{Poetry Reading} The Twig Bookstore.  San Antonio, TX. July 14.

{Poetry Reading} Weird Sister at the Popsickle Six Festival. NYC, June 20.

{Poetry Reading} Jubilant Thicket Reading Series. Head House Books. Philadelphia, PA. June 14.

Bryant Park Reading Room."Word for Word Series" NYC. June 2.

{Poetry Reading} Mental Marginalia: Firestone/Basile/Ben-Oni/Nelson, NYC. May 26.

AWP Panel: Latina/o Poets as Publishers: A CantoMundo Roundtable. April 11.

{Reading} AWP Off-Site Event: Storyscape & Sakura Review Reading. April 9.

AWP Panel: Hybridity as Origin: Writing from Multiracial Experience. April 9.

{Poetry Reading} Red Sofa Reading Series. Philadelphia, PA. March 20.

{Poetry Reading} Launch of Happiness: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, United Nations, Main Building, NYC. March 19.

{Poetry Reading} First Tuesdays Reading Series, Terraza Cafe. NYC. March 3. 

{Poetry Reading.} RESPOND: Brooklyn Poets Rally curated by Brooklyn Poets.  February 8. 

2014

{Poetry Reading} Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: A CantoMundo Reading. NY, NY. December 15, 2014. 

{Poetry Reading} Meet the Author: Paragraphs Bookstore. South Padre Island, Texas. November 15th.

Visiting Writer at University of Texas at Brownsville. November 13-15, 2014. 

{Poetry Reading} Women in the Arts. University of Missouri-St. Louis. November 8th.

{Poetry Reading} Lambda Literary/Cantomundo Reading for Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color. New York University, NYC. August 21.

{Poetry Reading) Random Poetry Night at Enigma.  NYC. July 29.

{Poetry Reading} The New York City Poetry Festival. Five [Quarterly] reading. Chumley's Stage, Governors Island, NYC. July 26th. 

{Poetry Reading} CantoMundo Fellows Reading, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center,  Austin, TX. Saturday, July 12th.

{Reading} Storyscape Launch Reading. Cakeshop, NYC.  June 17th.

{Poetry Reading} Enigma Bookstore, 33-17 Crescent St, Astoria, NY 11106. May 23rd. 

{Poetry Reading} Mr. Hip Presents: Reading Series. UFORGE Gallery. Boston, MA. May 17th.

{Poetry Reading} Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Peabody Essex Museum. Salem, MA. May 3.

{Poetry Reading} Harlem CoWorkers. The Leroy Neiman Arts Horizon Center. NY, NY. April 26.

{Poetry Reading} REZ Reading Series. Kew Gardens, NY.  April 10th.

{Nonfiction Reading} Shelf Life Reading Series. Hullabaloo Books. Brooklyn, NY. April 1st.

{Poetry Reading} Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Human Rights Campaign. Washington D.C. March 29.

AWP Panel: "So You Want To Build A Platform: But What Is It & Why Do You Need One? Women Writers & Editors Speak Out." Washington State Convention Center. March 1.

{Reading} AWP Off-Site Event: StoryQuarterly & MEAD Reading. Velocity Dance Center. Seattle WA. Feb. 28. 

{Reading} AWP Off-Site Event: Barnes & Noble. Seattle, WA. Feb. 28. 

{Reading} AWP Off-Site Event: Bayou Contributors Reading. The Bottle Neck Lounge. Seattle, WA. Feb. 27th,

{Production} AWP Off-Site Event: Book-It Repertory Theatre. Feb. 27th.

{Poetry Reading} In Celebration of The Year of the Horse.  Bliss on Bliss Studio. Sunnyside, NY. February 2nd.  

{Poetry Reading} Stories & Queer. Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. New York, NY.  January 6. 

{Poetry Reading} Couplet Reading Series. The Delancey, LES, NYC.  January 4th.

2013   

{Poetry Reading} Trajectories: words and music. Astoria, NY. December 12th.

{Poetry Reading} Latin@ Poetry Reading at Berl's Poetry Shop. Brooklyn, NY. December 7th.

{Poetry Reading} Oh Bernice Reading Series. Astoria Bookstore. Astoria, NY. November 16th.

{Poetry Reading} Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop's Grand Opening. Brooklyn, NY. November 2nd.

{Poetry Reading} Enigma Bookstore. Astoria, NY. October 19th.

{Poetry Reading} Boundless Tales Readings Series. Waltz-Astoria. Astoria, NY. October 17th.

{Poetry Reading} Medgar Evers College. Brooklyn, NY. October 9th.

{Poetry Reading} Wordstock Festival, Portland, OR. October 6th.

{Workshop} Female Character Creation. Wordstock Festival, Portland, OR. October 5th.

{Panel} BANNED/Papercut Press's Nerd Grrrl series. Bluestockings Bookstore. New York, NY. September 18th.

{Poetry Reading} Molasses Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY. July 17th.

{Poetry Reading} CantoMundo Fellows Reading, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center,  Austin, TX. June 29th.

{Production} Nikita. Piney Fork Theater Festival. Alvin Ailey Auditorium. New York, NY. June 29th.

{Production} Quimera on the Storm. Up Theater. New York, NY. June 5th - 16th.

{Poetry Reading} Brazos Bookstore. Houston, TX. June 14th.

{Poetry Reading} WORD Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY, June 5th.

{Poetry Reading} Book Thug Nation. Brooklyn, NY. May 31st.

{Poetry Reading} The Fox Chase Reading Series at Ryerss Museum and Library. Philadelphia, PA. May 19th.

{Poetry Reading} Bluestockings Bookstore. New York, NY. May 11th.

{Poetry Reading} Sunday Salon (in Celebration of National Poetry Month). New York, NY. April 21st.

{Poetry Reading} LIM College, Marcuse Lecture Series. New York, NY April 11th.

{Poetry Reading} Casa Azul Bookstore. New York, NY April 6th.

{Poetry Reading} KaBoom Bookstore. Houston, TX, March 30th.

{Poetry Reading} BookWoman. Austin, TX. March 28th.

{Poetry Reading} Berkshire Festival of Women Writers. MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA. March 22nd.

{VIDA} AWP with HER KIND & VIDA: Women in Literary Arts;  here too. Boston, MA. March 6th - 9th.