2024
Reading for the Northwest Indiana Women in Poetry Creative Innovations Week, April 17 at Michigan City Library. Dinner first at 5:30p. Free!
My poem “Carnelivarium” won the Poetry Prize for the Australian Anthology “Confidence 2”, forthcoming in May 2024.
2023
Watermark, the literary journal of California State University-Chico chose my poem “Small Seams” for their 10th anniversary issue.
2022
Australia’s ABC Radio News Breakfast asked me to read a poem from HOUSE OF MCQUEEN for their Friday series, to follow Katie Somerville, Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles, National Gallery of Victoria who spoke about their new Alexander McQueen exhibit. You can hear me read “McQueen’s Bop with the Interviewer” here.
My poem Examining the Phytolith has been published in POETRY.
They also featured in on Instagram, where it has received over 1K likes!
“Other shadows have gone in there and” was selected by guest editor Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for Navigations: A Place for Peace issue of About Place Journal, Spring 2022 and is up here.
2021
June
June 16, 6pm
2021 Ragdale Ring – as part of the evening’s festivities, I’ll interview Ellen Blum Barish about her new memoir
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Tickets and more information – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ragdale-ring-tickets-156669880831
April
April 11, 1pm – Four Way Books/Seminary Co-op Bookstore (Zoom)
I’ll be the interlocutor for Tommye Blount and Sarah London to celebrate their new books of poetry
2019
September
September 4, 7pm
The Nightingale
Reading with the Chicago Flagship reading/fundraiser for Writers for Migrant Justice—Chicago: Reading and Fundraiser
https://www.facebook.com/events/2115408355418779/
August
August 1-3 – Mendocino Writers Conference
Poetry Scholarship Winner
Saturday, August 17, 9:30 – 11:00 am
Northwestern University’s Summer Writers’ Conference
Workshop and manuscript consultation
Workshop: Strange Animals: Prose Poems
Wieboldt Hall, 339 E. Chicago Ave | Chicago
Manuscript consultations by appointment
July
Review of HOUSE OF MCQUEEN in Misfit, by Charles Rammlekamp – Read here
June
Saturday, June 22, 7pm – with John James and Hugh Schwartzburg
Myopic Books, :1564 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
I’ve been named a “Writer to Watch” by the Guild Literary Complex!
A celebration and benefit is June 26 – read more and grab your ticket here
May
Thursday, May 23, 7:00 pm
Eloquent Poem book launch
Poetry Foundation | Chicago
Friday, May 31, 7:00 pm
Salon-style reading and conversation at the home of Jenene and Tom Ravesloot
5822 N. Campbell Ave. | Chicago
RSVP to Valerie or Jenene
April
Sunday, April 14 12:30:PM–1:00:PM | Poetry Stage
Los Angeles Times Book Festival, University of Southern California – LINK
March
My review of Landan Osman’s Exiles from Eden appears in the Spring 2019 issue of The Adirondack Review.
The Mendocino Writers’ Conference has awarded me a poetry scholarship!
Saturday, March 23, 4:00 pm – with Bruce Willard
Beyond Baroque Venice, CA
March 28-30 | AWP Writers Conference | Portland, OR
Friday, March 29, 9:00 pm |Literary Bingo at The Big LegrowskiHosted by Lilla Lit
February
Thursday, February 21, 7:00 pm
Authors Guild Chicago Chapter Midwinter Reading + Open Mic Night
The Red Lion Pub, 2446 North Lincoln Ave., Chicago
January
Sunday, January 12, 2:00 pm
“In With the New” Party – with Underline Poetry
The Book Stall
811 Elm Street, Winnetka