UPCOMING

For inquiries around readings, class visits, workshops, and talks for Fall ’24 and Spring ’25 – click here.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 – UC Irvine Poetry Reading. Reading alongside Mai Der Vang. UC Irvine at 5:30pm. Irvine, CA. More info. 

Previous Readings

Thursday, February 1, 2024 – Jean and Louis Janzen Visiting Writer’s Series Reading. Fresno Pacific University. Fresno, CA. 

Sunday, December 3, 2023 – Howard Zinn Book Festival – Against Amnesia. Reading and Conversation with Chaun Webster. San Francisco, CA. 

Saturday, December 2, 2023 – A Poetics of Now: Reading alongside Mai Der Vang and  Chaun Webster. Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore. San Francisco, CA. 

Monday-Friday, November 13-17, 2023 – Writer in Residence at Brown University, “Writers on Writing”. Providence, RI. 

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 – Poetry Reading. University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 – Poetry as Radicalization and Liberation for BIPOC & Marginalized People Conversation Series, a conversation with Felicia Zamora. University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH.

Thursday, October 12, 2023 – Respite by the River Reading. San Joaquin River Parkway Trust. Fresno, CA.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 – Reading for Kelly Writers House Series alongside Jena Osman. University of Pennsylvania. On YouTube. Philadelphia, PA. 

Thursday, September 21, 2023 – Poetics Plus Reading, SUNY, Buffalo. Virtual. Buffalo, NY 

Saturday, September 16, 2023 – Fresno Writers Summit Reading alongside Kathy Fagan. Fresno State. Fresno, CA.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 – Lyrics and Dirges: A reading alongside Walter Ancarrow, Maw Shein Win, and Natalie Khankan; hosted by MK Chavez. Pegasus Books. Berkeley, CA.

Thursday, July 6, 2023 – Con Safos Reading Series: Featured reading alongside Chaun Webster. Arté Americas. Fresno, CA.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 – Radcliffe’s Roosevelt Reading Series: A featured reading and conversation with Douglas Kearney for Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Harvard University.

Sunday, June 11, 2023 – Omnidawn Spring 2023 Author Book Launch alongside Kimberley Reyes, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Craig Santos Perez, Walter Ancarrow, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Pattie McCarthy hosted by Booksmith.

Saturday, June 2, 2023 – LA Review, LATINX DIGITAL POETICS Reading. Reading alongside J. Michael Martinez, Vickie Vertiz, and heidi andrea restrepo rhodes; with a special appearance by Luis J. Rodriguez. Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. Event Info.

Friday, May 26, 2023 – Poets & Writers Workshop: Mapping the Maze, a Writers Journey. A conversation on writing and growing as a writer. Virtual. Event Info.

Saturday, May 6, 2023 – Poetry and the Archives of History: A conversation and reading with Paisley Rekdal, moderated by Tess Taylor.  Bay Area Book Festival 2023. Berkeley, CA.

Sunday, May 7, 2023 – Poetry at the end of the World: A reading with CJ Evans, John Freeman, Saeed Jones, and Tess Taylor. Bay Area Book Festival 2023. Berkeley, CA.

Friday/Saturday, April 22-23, 2023 – LA Times Festival of Books 2023. USC, Los Angeles, CA.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022 – Reading with Mai Der Vang for Marin Poetry Center. Marin Poetry Center, Mill Valley, CA. 

Saturday, November 19th, 2022 – Southern California Poetry Festival. “With(out) Borders,” a reading and conversation alongside Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Omar Pimienta, and Sehba Sarwar.  Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022 – Breakout Writers Series at Black Mountain Institute.UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Monday, October 31st, 2022 – Keynote Speech – Lit + Luz Festival: “Variations on Revision”. Virtual. Chicago, IL.

Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 – Brooklyn Book Festival: Genre & Exploding Form, presented by Whiting Foundation. Reading and conversation alongside Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl), and Nana Nkweti (Walking on Cowrie Shells), writers who are dissolving genre boundaries to bring new life to familiar literary forms. Moderated by Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout). Brooklyn, New York.

Thursday, August 11, 2022 – Poetry Center Summer Residency Reading alongside Mai Der Vang. University of Arizona, Tucson.

For an exhaustive history of the my previous readings, events and workshops, please visit my event archive.