Upcoming Appearances
Monday, April 15, 2024, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT. Writers Can Read Open Mic and Reading Series, Heritage Station (210 11th Street downtown), Huntington, WV.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 6 pm EDT. West Virginia Writers, Inc. Launch Reading (with Joel Peckham), Cicada Books, 604 14th St W, Huntington, WV
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 6:15 pm CDT. Lincoln University (with Ron Austin), Pawley Theater, Martin Luther King Building, Jefferson City, MO
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5-7 pm EDT. Poetry on the Plaza, Kanawha County Public Library, 123 Capitol St., Charleston, WV
Friday, April 26, 2024 2-3 pm EDT. Authors Read Aloud, Cabell County Public Library, 455 9th St, Huntington, WV
Saturday, April 27, 2024. “The Moments That Make Us: Writing Grief, Joy, and Healing Through Poetry” (workshop), Kanawha County Public Library
Dunbar Branch (10:30-12:30 pm EDT), 301 12th St, Dunbar, WV
Main Library (2 pm-4 pm EDT), 123 Capitol St., Charleston, WV
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7-8 pm EDT. Spoken & Heard Series (with Angela Jackson-Brown) [Virtual] Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
Friday, May 17, 2024, 7 pm EDT. Women Speak Anthology Reading, Women of Appalachia Project, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 7-8:30pm ET. New Book Celebration & Reading-Conversation with Kai Coggin, Lynne Thompson, Lisa Fay Coutley, Anna Leahy, & Sara Henning, sponsored by Tabula Poetica, the Center for Poetry at Chapman University [Virtual]
Saturday, June 1, 2024. National Writing Project Summer Institute, Shepherd University
June 7-9 2024. 2024 Annual Spring Conference, West Virginia Writers, Inc., Cedar Lakes Conference Center, 82 FFA Dr, Ripley, WV 25271, Ripley, WV
June 28-July 7, 2024. Summer 2024 MFA Residency, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 3 pm EDT/2 pm CDT. A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series (with Molly Spencer, Ae Hee Lee, Jill Koury) [Virtual] Hosted by Donna Vorreyer
July 18-21, 2024. West Virginia Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University
October 22, 2024, 12 pm EDT. Wheeling Reading Series (with Rachael Peckham), Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St, Wheeling, WV Hosted by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman
Past Appearances
2024/2023
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2-5 pm EDT. Launch Reading, Booktenders, 621 Central Ave, Barboursville, WV
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 1-3pm EDT. Women Speak Anthology Reading, Women of Appalachia Project, Loyal Jones Appalachian Center (Stephenson Hall), Berea College Hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour
March 7-9, 2024. Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Western Carolina University
Saturday, February 10, 2024. 9:00 am to 10:15 am (CST). “Vision & Re-Vision: Teaching Revision in University & Community Workshops,” AWP Conference (Kansas City, MO), Location: Room 2101, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
January 1, 2024. West Virginia Wesleyan Visiting Writers Series (Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing) Video Recording
February 23, 2023. Little Kanawha Reader Series, Glenville State University Video Recording
2022
November 8, 2022. June Elizabeth Tate Memorial Author Series, Concord University
October 27, 2022. Literally Speaking, hosted by the Vermillion Literary Project, University of South Dakota [Virtual]
October 20, 2022. Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series, Indiana State University
September 6, 2022. Fall 2022 Visiting Writers Series, Brevard College Video Recording
April 14, 2022. Echoes and Visions Reading Series, Wor-Wic Community College [Virtual]
April 5, 2022. Magers & Quinn Booksellers (with Cyrus Cassells and Jenn Givhan), Minneapolis, MN. [Virtual]
March 31, 2022. South Dakota State University
March 30, 2022. Augustana University
March 29, 2022. Dakota State University
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2021
February 27, 2021. Crab Orchard Review Reading Series (with Josh Woods), Southern Illinois University [Virtual]
Video Recording
February 6, 2021. Acceptance Reading, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, Paterson, NJ. [Virtual]
Video Recording
January 27, 2021. Sundress Reading Series (with Chloe Martinez and Joanna Eleftheriou) [Virtual]
Video Recording
2020
November 24, 2020. Wild & Precious Life Series (with Seema Reza, Emma Trelles, & Dare Williams) [Virtual]
Video Recording
Saturday, November 14, 2020. The Rural Speculative: a Reading, South Atlantic MLA. [Virtual]
November 13, 2020. Scandalous Poets! Reading, South Atlantic MLA. [Virtual]
November 10, 2020. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith [Virtual]
October 15, 2020. South Dakota in Poems book launch, South Dakota Festival of Books. [Virtual]
Video Recording
July 3, 2020. Secluded: a Virtual Writing Conference, Burlesque Press [Virtual]
January 2, 2020. Appearance on “In the Moment,” with Lori Walsh, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Sioux Falls, SD
Video Recording
2019
November 11, 2019. Nilsen Visiting Writers Series, Southeast Missouri State University
October 5, 2019. South Dakota Festival of Books (with South Dakota Poet Laureate Christine Stewart), Deadwood, SD
October 2, 2019. Great Plains Writers Tour, Mount Marty College,
October 1, 2019. Phil Hey Reading Series, Briar Cliff University
July 16-28, 2019. Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Scholar Reading), University of the South
April 18, 2019. Poetry Society of America Annual Awards Ceremony, New York, NY
April 16, 2019. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
March 16, 2019. Poets in Print Series, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI (with Marcus Jackson)
February 21, 2019. Poetry Reading, University of Louisiana-Monroe
January 31, 2019. James Hoggard Reading Series, Midwestern State University
2018
November 15-16, 2018. Lamar University
October 24-26, 2018. Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival, Southern Illinois University
April 7, 2018. “Neo-Confessional Poetics in the Twenty-First Century,” College English Association, Saint Petersburg, FL
2017
February 23, 2017. Visiting Faculty Poetry Reading. Stephen F. Austin State University
February 22, 2017. Pegasus Reading Series. Kettle Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
February 9, 2017. RHINO Launch Party and Reading. AWP Conference, Washington, DC
2016
October 29, 2016. John R. Milton Writers' Conference, University of South Dakota
October 27, 2016. University of South Dakota Alumni Reading. John R. Milton Writers' Conference, University of South Dakota
April 26, 2016. Yankton Federal Prison Camp. National Endowment for the Arts' Interagency Initiative with the Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons, Yankton, SD
April 22, 2016. Tumbleweed Graduate Reading Series. University of South Dakota
April 21, 2016. Corroborations Exhibition Reading. University of South Dakota Art Galleries, University of South Dakota
April 8, 2016. South Dakota State University
February 25, 2016. Literary Festival. Vermillion Literary Project, University of South Dakota
2015
November 20, 2015. "Writing What's Difficult: Prose Poetry, Hybridity, and the Language of Trauma." The Writing Club, Wayne State College
November 19, 2015. Plains Writers Series. Wayne State College
November 12, 2015. Visiting Writers Series. Dakota Wesleyan University
October 10, 2015. "Prairie Fire: A Reading and Discussion of Midwestern Feminism(s)." Steel Pen Creative Writers' Conference, Indiana Writers' Consortium, Merrillville, IN
October 9, 2015. "The Darkness in the Body That Redeems: a Reading of Poetry." First Friday Wordsmiths, Purdue University Calumet
September 25, 2015. Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago, IL
September 24, 2015. Six Points Reading Series, Poetry Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL
June 7, 2015. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Saturday, April 11, 2015. Offsite #AWP15 reading of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Minneapolis, MN
April 10, 2015. Lavender Ink/Gold Wake Press Reading, Minneapolis, MN
April 10, 2015. “The Bigness of the Small Poem,” with Sandy Marchetti, Vandana Khanna, & Erin Elizabeth Smith. 2015 AWP Conference & Book Fair, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN
April 9, 2015. Offsite #AWP 2015 RHINO Launch Party and Reading, Minneapolis, MN
April 8, 2015. Festival of Language 2015, Minneapolis, MN
March 8, 2015. Sundress Academy for the Arts Reading Series, Knoxville, TN
February 22, 2015. Taproom Poetry Series, Lawrence, KS
2014
November 16, 2014. Poetry and Pints Reading Series, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
November 13 - 16, 2014. “Fabricating the Body” panel with Sarah Hemsel-Burcon, Laura Madeline Wiseman, and more. MMLA, 56th Annual Convention, Detroit, MI
October 11, 2014. Women Write Resistance Reading, Indiana Writers' Consortium's 2014 Creative Writing Conference and Book Fair, Merrilville, IN
October 10, 2014. Women Write Resistance Reading. Off-site Event for Indiana Writers' Consortium's 2014 Creative Writing Conference and Book Fair, Purdue University, Hammond, IN
September 13, 2014. Women Write Resistance Reading, Omaha Lit Fest, Omaha, NE
September 2, 2014. Wit Rabbit Reading Series, Chicago, Illinois
August 29, 2014. RHINO Reads! Poetry Series, Evanston, Illinois
August 18, 2014. River Styx Hungry Poet Reading Series, St. Louis, MO
August 17, 2014. Poets in the Parlor Reading Series, Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, Springfield, IL