Upcoming Events
2024
Mar. 19—7 pm EST (6pm CST)—Virtual Launch Norwich Bookstore, Andrea Cohen / Rodney Terich Leonard / John Gallaher / Sasha West REGISTER HERE
Mar. 21—7 pm Writers League of Texas, Third Thursday, BookPeople, Austin TX, “Dedicated: Who We Write for and Why” with Roger Reeves and Liz Garton Scanlon
Mar. 26—6 pm Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series, St. Edward’s University, Carter Auditorium, Austin TX
April 19—7 pm BOXES: A work in progress by Amanda Johnston, Museum of Human Achievement, reading with Amanda to celebrate the exhibition, Austin TX
April 21—6 pm Alienated Majesty Books with Lisa Olstein, Austin TX
May 19—2pm CST Ceclia Woloch and Friends with Cyrus Cassells, Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdeitrz4rG9doTPYcPIRMWHWA8Eq6fIn3?#/registration
June 18—6 pm Bryant Park Reading Room series, New York City, with Cyrus Cassels, Carlie Hoffman, and Miller Wolf Oberman
July 30—”Tools for Writing Difficult Material”, lecture for Writers League of Texas
Aug. 21—Gemini Ink, Big Texas Read (zoom)
Oct. 12—Santa Fe, NM, Collected Works Bookstore in conversation with Jenn Shapland
Oct. 16—”Awake in the Dark” by Hammonds + West, Gallery talk, Fine Arts Gallery, St. Edward’s University, TX
Oct. 19—Verso Frontera, San Antonio, TX
Oct. 29—Praisesong for the People, Writers League of Texas, Radio, Austin, TX
Nov. 7—Rice University, guest of Center for Environmental Studies, Fondren Library and the English Department
Nov. 8—TXSER Conference, Featured reader with Lacy Johnson and Jenny Browne, Houston, TX
Nov. 15-17—Texas Book Festival with Julie Poole and Jennifer Chang, Austin, TX
Dec. 3—One Page Salon, line-up to be announced
Jan. 18—Bookwoman, reading with Radha Marcum
2023
Texas Book Festival—Moderator (DK Nnuro), November
“Dust Portals,” Prizer Arts & Letters, December
“Awake in the Dark: Writing Grief and Hope in the Natural World,” Poetry Festival at Round Top, April
Reading for The Long Devotion anthology (with Carrie Fountain, Amanda Johnston, and Emmy Pérez), Crash Box Theater, Austin, TX, February 25
Reading for The Long Devotion anthology (with Jasminne Mendez, Yesenia Montenilla), Basket Books and Arts, Houston, TX, February 24
2022
Columbus College of Art and Design—Reading and Gallery Opening, Awake in the Dark (exbibition with Hollis Hammonds) November 17th
Texas Book Festival—Moderator (Roger Reeves, Jimmy Santiago Baca), November 6th, 1:30-2:15 pm
San Antonio Book Festival—Moderator “Tequila and Blues: Troubadours of Texas,” (Lupe Mendez, Barbara Ras, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson), May
Under One Roof, Austin Public Television / Torch Literary Arts, April 2022
AWP off-site—Reading for The Long Devotion anthology (with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Erika Meitner, Keetje Kuipers, Camille Guthrie, Remica Binham-Risher), The Head and The Hand Bookstore, March 2022
2021
Women & Their Work—“Fresh from the Studio” December
Poetry Festival at Round Top—“Awake in the Dark: Writing Grief and Hope in the Natural World,” (workshop), April
Inprint—Gala reading (keynote: George Saunders), February
2020
Writers’ League of Texas—“Genre Session Poetry,” UnConference, June
Writers’ League of Texas—“Well Versed: Reading and Writing Poetry,” Third Thursday, May
AWP—Associated Writers and Writing Programs—“Strangers in a Changing Land: Poets on Living and Working in Texas” (panel chair and presenter), San Antonio, TX (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019
Writers’ League of Texas—“Sharpening Your Descriptive Powers,” Texas Writes in Austin, Writers’ League of Texas, November
Texas Book Festival—Introducer/Interlocutor “Poet Jericho Brown: The Tradition”
LOGOS Poetry Collective (with Jonathan Lowell)—Lazarus Brewing Co., July
SEU Faculty Reading (organizer/reader), Malvern Books, April
ACC Literary Coffeehouse—Malvern Books, February
Writers’ League of Texas—“Sharpening Your Descriptive Powers,” Texas Writes at Wimberley Village Library
2018
One Page Salon/Writers’ League of Texas—North Door, TX, December
Public Poetry—“Power” anthology launch, Clayton Library, Houston, November
Texas Book Festival—Moderator “Place of Verse: Poetry of the Earth,” (Traci Brimhall, Cyrus Cassells, Aimee Nezhukumatathil)
Lit Crawl's “Oracular Spectacular" (organizer and host) (Laurie Filipelli, Niki Herd, Analicia Sotelo, Tommy Pico) -- November -- Texas Book Festival -- Austin, TX
Gemini Ink Writers Conference—“Vulnerability as a Radical Act” (panel chair and presenter)
AWP—Associated Writers and Writing Programs—“The Politics of Craft” (panel chair and presenter), “Writing Assignments for the Anthropocene,” (presenter) AWP, Miami, FL
SEU Faculty Reading (organizer/reader), Malvern Books, March 2018, April 2019
Borderlands issue launch—Malvern Books, January
Museum of the Big Bend—“Echoes off a Canyon Wall : Images of the Western Cordillera,” Jim Bones Exhibition, Alpine, TX, January
2017
Lit Crawl's “Oracular Spectacular" (organizer and host) (Chen Chen, Eileen Myles, Erika Sanchez, Matthew Zapruder) -- November -- Texas Book Festival -- Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival—Moderator “Why Poetry?,” (Jill Bialosky, Matthew Zapruder)
Writers’ League of Texas—“Making Meaning,” Week-long Workshop
Revel (chamber music), “Time Will Dim the Moon,” 4th Tap, Austin, TX, June
Malvern Books—Reading with Chloe Honum, Jennifer Cheng, May
Lit Crawl/Texas Book Festival Reading, Fusebox Festival, Al Volta’s Midnight Bar, April
Poetry Festival at Round Top—“Straight Up: Honing the Craft of Being Overt” (workshop)
PEN USA/Writers Resist—BookPeople, January
2016
BookWoman—Featured Reader, Open Thurs Series Hosted by Cindy Huyser, December 2016
Lit Crawl's “Oracular Spectacular" (organizer and host) (Eileen Myles, Safiya Sinclair, Orlando Ricardo Menes, J. Scott Brownlee, Carmen Tafolla) -- November -- Texas Book Festival -- Austin, TX
Texas Teen Book Festival—“Using Allegories and Celebrities”
Gemini Ink—Tacoland Reading Series, San Antonio, TX, November
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference -- Fellows Reading -- Thursday, August 11-- 4:15 pm -- Little Theater, Bread Loaf campus, Ripton, VT
Gemini Ink Writers' Conference -- "Emerging Texas Poets" -- July 23, 3:30 pm -- San Antonio, TX
Badgerdog/Austin Public Library Foundation Celebration -- July 14th 6:30 pm -- Recycled Reads, Austin, TX
Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference -- “Single Shots: What to Do with Stories, Essays, and Poems" -- June 25 -- Austin, TX
Poetry Festival at Round Top (workshop “Using Allegories and Celebrities for Drafting;” reading; and panel with Maurice Manning, Rosemary Catacalos, and Dorianne Laux) -- April 15-17 -- Round Top, TX
AWP—“Gulf Coast: 30 Years in the Life of a Student-Run Journal,” (panel chair) Washington, DC
Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers’ Series -- February 10 -- St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2015
Austin Poetry Society -- Reading -- Austin. TX
Lit Crawl's “You Should Know These Poets" (organizer and host) (Cyrus Cassells, Carrie Fountain, Tomas Morin, Paul Otremba, Juliana Spahr) -- October -- Texas Book Festival -- Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival “The Poets,” (panel chair for Gregory Pardlo, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths) -- October -- Austin, TX
BookWoman -- Fierce Visionaries (reading with Robin Davison, Carol Denson, and Susan Wood) -- July -- Austin, TX
BookWoman -- Strange Pilgrims (reading with Carrie Fountain, Laurie Filipelli, Lisa Olstein, and Laurie Saurborn) -- May -- Austin, TX
Writers’ League of Texas—Poetry Panel, Third Thursday Event -- May -- Bookpeople -- Austin, TX
Houston Seminar—Lecture: “Introduction to the Poetic Line” -- series with Tony Hoagland and Ed Hirsch -- April -- Houston, TX
Poetry Spectacular (reading with Chad Bennett, Jason Bayani, Derrick Brown, Loyce Gayo; curated by Sam Sax) -- March -- Austin Java -- Austin, TX
2014
Public Poetry Series—Prize Winners Reading with Jason Schneiderman -- January -- Menil Collection -- Houston, TX
Public Poetry-- “Presence and Absence: A Workshop on Erasures” -- January -- Menil Collection -- Houston, TX
Texas Book Festival (moderator) -- “A Poetic Reworking of History” (Jericho Brown and Tess Taylor) -- October -- Austin, TX
NASPAA Conference -- “Syntax as a Tool for Shaping Thought,” November -- Albuquerque, NM
BookPeople -- Book launch and reading -- January -- Austin, TX
Houston Poetry Fest featured poet-- October -- Houston, TX
Radio KOOP—"Writing on the Air," Borderlands issue launch
Borderlands launch -- September -- Malvern Books -- Austin, TX