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Upcoming readings
Stay tuned--more readings are in the works! __________________________ Past readings 2019 Sunday, September 29, 1 pm with Francesca Bell Orinda Books Friday, September 20, 7:30 pm With Hayden Saunier Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA Sunday, September 22, 7 pm Stable Cafe, San Francisco Thursday, March 21 Speakeasy at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Friday, March 22 with Maggie Anderson and Kevin Prufer Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville Friday, April 6 Poetry World Series Mill Valley Public Library, CA Sunday, March 3 with Esther Lin, Amos White, and Austin Smith Bazaar Writers Salon Bazaar Café, San Francisco Wednesday, March 13 with Matthew Zapruder, Shanthi Sekaran, and Sophia Shalmiyev The Bindery, San Francisco 2018 Thursday, December 13 with Vanessa Hua, Rae Gouirand, and more Why There Are Words Sausalito, CA Sunday, December 2, 5:30-7:30pm Flight of Poets: Pairings for the Senses with Sam Sax, Joseph Rios, and Julia Bouwsma Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Thursday, November 1, 8pm with Julia Levine John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA Wednesday, October 17, 7pm Poetry World Series Litquake with Tongo Eisen-Martin, David Tomas Martinez, Brittany Perham, Brynn Saito, and Sam Sax The Make-Out Room, San Francisco Saturday, October 20, 7pm with Alicia Jo Rabins, Kisha Schlegel, Anis Mojgani, Sophia Shalmiyev, and Ryan Mills Airstream Poetry Festival Seaview, WA Wednesday, October 24, 8pm with Maya Dorn, Elana Isaacs, Kim Lembo, Willa Mamet, Anne-christine d'Adesky, and DJ Ladyfinger The Ivy Room, Albany, CA Thursday, October 11, 6pm with Margo Kahn, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, and Tara Conklin Women Writing about Home, Seattle LitCrawl Ollie Quinn, Seattle Friday, October 12, 7pm with Sarah Galvin and Robert Lashley Open Books, Seattle Saturday, October 13, 7:30pm Poetry World Series Seattle with E. J. Koh, Bill Carty, Fernando Perez, Keetje Kuipers, and Quenton Baker Hugo House, Seattle Tuesday, October 9, 7pm Well-RED Series, with Myles Forman & Mark Heinlein Works/San José, San José, CA Wednesday, September 26 with Maw Shein Win Rebound Books, San Rafael, CA Tuesday, September 25 USF class visit San Francisco Monday, September 17, 7pm with Matthew Zapruder and Sandra Simonds KGB Bar, New York City Thursday, September 13, 7pm Poetry World Series New York with Mahogany L. Browne, Mark Doty, Patricia Smith, Chen Chen, Adrian Matejka, Erika Meitner, Tomas Q. Morin, and Erika L. Sanchez Housing Works Bookstore Café, New York City Wednesday, September 12, 7pm with Tomas Q. Morin Penn Book Center, Philadelphia Tuesday, September 11, 7:30pm with Maw Shein Win, Miriam Bird Greenberg, and Margaret Stawowy Bird & Beckett, San Francisco Thursday, June 21 Powell's Books on Hawthorne Portland, OR Saturday, May 26 Saturday Night Special Nick's Lounge, Berkeley Thursday, May 17 with C. Dale Young Moe's Books, Berkeley Saturday, May 12 with Paul Hoover and Rebecca Patrascu WordTemple Poetry Series Sebastopol Center for the Arts Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m. Copper Canyon Press reading with Dana Levin and Dean Rader Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA Saturday, April 28, 3pm Reading and workshop Union City Library Union City, CA Wednesday, April 25 Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Wednesday, April 18, 7:30pm Terrible blooms launch party! The Bindery, San Francisco Saturday, March 10, 1pm AWP Panel: The Worst Writing Advice I Ever Got with Mark Doty, Ada Limon, Chris Abani, Min Jin Lee Ballroom C, Tampa Convention Center Friday, March 9, 2-3pm Author signing for Terrible blooms at Copper Canyon Press table Booths 917, 919, 921, Tampa Convention Center Thursday, March 8, 6:30pm AWP offsite: Copper Canyon Press Book Launch with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Olstein, Jenny George, Javier Zamora, Tyree Daye Fancy Free Nursery, Tampa, FL 2017 Saturday, October 14, 6:30-7:30pm LitCrawl reading with Dean Rader, Victoria Chang, and Javier Zamora Craftsmen and Wolves, 746 Valencia Street, San Francisco Saturday, September 23, 7pm Reading at book release party for Know Me Here: An Anthology of Poetry by Women Sebastopol Center for the Arts Saturday, February 11, 3pm AWP panel: I Did It My Way: Writing Who We Are With Roxane Gay, Kevin Young, Ed Falco, and Celeste Ng Washington Convention Center, Room 204AB, Level Two, Washington, D.C. Thursday, February 9, 12pm AWP panel: We All Have to Start Somewhere: How Bad Writing Gets Good Richard Bausch, Tayari A. Jones, Nick Flynn, Aimee Nezhukumatathil Washington Convention Center, Room 207A, Level Two, Washington, D.C. 2016 Saturday, October 29th, 7:30pm with Rebecca Foust Florey's Books, Pacifica, CA * Saturday, October 15th, 6pm LitCrawl reading with Narrative Magazine with Vikram Chandra, Dean Rader, Carol Edgarian, Edan Lepucki, and Debra Spark Valencia Gardens Community Room, San Francisco * Thursday, September 15th, 7pm with Dean Rader Bookswap 2.0, The Booksmith, San Francisco * Wednesday, May 25, 7pm with Peter Kline, Miah Jeffra, and JK Fowler Martuni's Bar, San Francisco * Saturday, April 2, 10:30pm AWP Panel: What's the Big Idea? Intention vs. Intuition in the Writing Process with Mark Doty, Kevin Young, Kimiko Hahn, and Victoria Chang Los Angeles Convention Center * Thursday, March 31, 12pm AWP Panel: Writing around the Block: How to Keep the Words Flowing with Susan Orlean, D. A. Powell, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Chris Castellani JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angelels * Wednesday, March 30, 7-9pm AWP offsite reading for 32 Poems, Pleiades, and Tupelo Quarterly Opulen Studios, Los Angeles 2015 Saturday, October 24, 7pm with Marcia Falk Kehilla Synagogue, Piedmont, California * Tuesday, September 29, 7pm with Matthew Dickman and Alicia Jo Rabins Hugo House, Seattle * Saturday, April 19th, 7pm Poetry World Series, Mill Valley Edition with Dean Rader, Indigo Moor, Hollie Hardy, Anhvu Buchanan, and Tiffany Higgins Mill Valley Public Library * Monday, March 2, 7pm with Daniel Handler Bookshop Santa Cruz * Wednesday, February 4, 7pm with Dean Rader and Brendan Isaac Jones Bazaar Writers Salon Bazaar Café, San Francisco * Monday, January 19th, 7:45pm with Ladan Osman The Lit Slam Shelton Theater, San Francisco 2014 Sunday, December 14, 5pm with Benjamin Wachs and Maw Shein Win Chemical Wedding: Quiet Lightning, The Emerald Tablet, and Name Drop Swamp Records Doc's Lab, San Francisco * Friday, November 21, 8pm Sunday, November 23, 4pm My poems "Want Me" and "Allergy" were performed by the choral group Volti in San Francisco and in Oakland, and I read the poems as well. More info. * Saturday, October 11, 4:30pm San Rafael Litquake Reading! with Troy Jollimore, Heather Altfeld, and Kathleen Winter West End Café, 1131 4th Street, San Rafael * Friday, May 16, 7-9pm Poetry World Series, with Rebecca Foust, Troy Jollimore, Heather Altfeld, Amy Glynn, Judy Halebsky, and Robert Thomas. Emceed by Will Durst: I judged with Brian Murphy and Dean Rader Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA * Sunday, May 4, 3pm Poetry Flash Reading with Susan Cohen, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Colleen McKee, Julia Levine, Amrit Chima, and Lucille Lang Day Diesel Bookstore, Oakland, CA * Thursday, April 10, 7pm Why There Are Words with Susan Cohen, Lisa Gluskin-Stonestreet, Colleen McKee, Lee Slonimsky, Julia Levine, and Lucille Lang Day Studio 333, Sausalito, CA * Saturday, March 8, 7pm with Daniel Alarcon, Katie Crouch, Robin Sloan, and Molly Antopol Babylon Salon Cantina SF, 580 Sutter Street, San Francisco * Saturday, March 1, 9am Hip Lit: How Innovative Reading Series Are Revamping the Literary Scene (Panel) with Stephen Elliott, Adrian Todd Zuniga, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, and Eric Lorberer AWP Conference, 09:00:AM - 10:15:AM Room 618/619/620, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6 * Sunday, January 19, 2pm with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Susan Cohen, Lucille Lang Day, Colleen McKee, and Julia Levine Bird & Beckett Bookstore, San Francisco 2013 Thursday, January 10, 2013, 7pm Why There Are Words, Anniversary Show with Matthew Zapruder, Dean Rader, Cary Tennis, Carolyn Cooke, Glen David Gold, Julie Bruck, and Lewis Buzbee Studio 333, Sausalito, CA * Friday, January 25th, 7pm with Matthew Zapruder, Jesse Nathan, Jesus Castillo, and Evan Karp San Francisco * Thursday, March 7th, 7pm start 32 Poems Magazine Anthology Reading with 18 other fabulous poets! Players' Lounge, McGreevy's AWP Conference, Boston, MA * Saturday, March 9th, 4:30pm Hating Your Writing: A Love Story (AWP panel) with Richard Bausch, Molly Peacock, Daniel Nester, and Chad Sweeney AWP Conference, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA * Wednesday, March 20, 7:30pm Lyrics & Dirges Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA * Thursday, March 21, 7:30pm Poetry Writing Groups: Secrets of Success (Panel) with Robert Thomas, Idris Anderson, and Beverly Burch Marin Poetry Center, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA * Sunday, April 14, 7-9pm Poetry World Series, with CJ Evans, Keith Ekiss, Rebecca Foust, Julie Bruck, and Dean Rader Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA * Wednesday, August 21st, 7:30pm Lyrics & Dirges Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA * Tuesday, October 15, 6:00pm Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition Hosted by Will Durst; with Matthew Zapruder, Dean Rader, Jamaal May, Troy Jollimore, and Alexandra Teague... AND Susan Orlean, Cristina Garcia, and Troy Jollimore! The Make-Out Room, San Francisco 2012 Tuesday, February 7, 7:30pm 126 Voorhies, University of California at Davis * Friday, March 2, 1:30pm First Things First: What It's Really Like to Win a Book Contest (AWP panel) with Keetje Kuipers, Nick Lantz, J. Michael Martinez, and Iain Haley Pollock Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor, Red Lacquer Room, Chicago * Friday, March 2, 3:00pm The APR/Honickman First Book Prize Celebration Reading with Elizabeth Scanlon, Dana Levin, Gregory Pardlo, and Nathaniel Perry (AWP reading) Waldorf, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Chicago * Sunday, April 22, 7-9pm Poetry World Series with Daniel Handler, Gillian Conoley, Ada Limon, Troy Jollimore, Dean Rader, Robin Ekiss, and more! Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA * Sunday, May 13, 4-6pm with Susan Cohen Valona Deli Poetry Series 1323 Pomona Street, Crockett, California * Wednesday, July 11th, 8pm Tin House Writers Conference, Portland, Oregon with Elissa Schappell and Steve Almond * Tuesday, July 31st, 12:30pm Jessie Square, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Litquake reading at Yerba Buena Gardens with Chana Bloch, Matthew Siegal, and Jacqueline Berger * Wednesday, September 12, 7pm Well-RED Series Poetry Center San José, San José, CA * Friday, October 26, 7pm with Michael Medrano Pinot Wine Bar and Bistro, Fresno, CA * Sunday, December 9, 2pm Performers Under Stress: You Need to Read Poetry with Pireeni Sundaralingam Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco 2011 Friday, January 28th, 7:30pm Earshot Reading Series at Rose Live Music, Brooklyn * Sunday, January 30th, 5pm Polestar Poetry Series at Bruar Falls, Brooklyn * Monday, February 7th, 7pm Cafe Muse Literary Series, Chevy Chase, MD * Tuesday, February 8th, 9:30am Community College of Philadelphia * Thursday, February 24th, 7:30pm with Matthew Zapruder Mrs. Dalloway's, Berkeley * Friday, February 25th, 2pm The Moe Green Poetry Discussion Hosted by Tracy Darling, blogtalkradio * Monday, February 28th, 7:30pm with Sharon Campbell Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento * Sunday, March 6th, 2pm with Rebecca Foust and Dean Rader Bird & Beckett Books and Records, San Francisco * Saturday, March 19th, 7:30pm Writers With Drinks, The Make-Out Room, San Francisco * Wednesday, March 23rd, 8-9pm J.P. Dancing Bear's "Out of Our Minds" radio show, KKUP 91.5 FM * Monday, April 4th, 7pm Quiet Lightning w/ Litquake's Epicenter, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco * Wednesday, April 6th, 7pm with Joan Gelfand and Mary Mackey Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333, Sausalito * Saturday, April 23rd, 7pm with Paul Hoover and Pui Ying Wong WordTemple Poetry Series, Sebastopol, CA * Thursday, April 28th, 7pm with Nava EtShalom Big Blue Marble Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA * Saturday, April 30th, 6pm with Mark Doty and Pascale Petit Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City * Sunday, May 15th, 3pm The Exquisite Reading with Shane Book, Jennifer L. Knox, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Ada Limon (exquisitereading.com) Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA * Monday, May 16th, 7pm louderARTS reading at Bar 13, New York City * Tuesday, May 24th, 7pm Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show with Robert Thomas, Catlyn Fendler, Daniel Polikoff, Julia Vose, and Claire Blotter Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA * Tuesday, June 14th, 7:30pm with Lisa Allen Ortiz Poetry Santa Cruz, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA * Friday, August 12th, 4:15pm with Benjamin Hale and Caitlin Horrocks Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ripton, VT * Wednesday, August 17th, 7pm Katherine Hastings's WordTemple radio show on KRCB, 90.9 FM; streaming at krcb.org/wordtemple * Sunday, September 11th, 4pm with Thirteen Ways poetry group (Robert Thomas, Diane Martin, Lisa Gluskin-Stonestreet, Beverly Burch, George Higgins, Zack Rogow) The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA * Friday, September 23rd, 7pm with Katherine Hastings and Lee Slonimsky Rebound Bookstore, San Rafael, CA * Saturday, September 24th, 7pm with Helen Benedict and Chella Courington Bernal Yoga Literary Series, San Francisco * Tuesday, September 27th, 7pm with Camille Dungy and Marie-Elizabeth Mali The Depot Bookstore & Cafe, Mill Valley, CA * Wednesday, October 5th, 6pm The First Annual Poetry World Series with Matthew Zapruder, Ada Limon, Troy Jollimore, Robin Ekiss, and Dean Rader...with special guests Michael Krasny, Daniel Handler, and Michelle Tea! Latino Room, San Francisco Public Library * A New Cadence Poetry Series, Santa Cruz, CA * Saturday, October 15th, 8:30pm Poetpalooza, with Dilruba Ahmed, Derek Mong, Ingrid Browning Moody, Lisa Allen Ortiz, and Joshua Rivkin Lit Crawl, Love & Luxe, San Francisco * Sunday, October 23rd, 4pm with John Beer Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Portland, OR * Monday, October 24th, 8pm Poetrynight, The Amadeus Project, Bellingham, WA * Wednesday, October 26th with Peter Mountford Everett Community College, Everett, WA * Friday, October 28th, 7:30pm with Carl Adamshick Open Books, Seattle, WA * Saturday, October 29th, 6pm Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues Reading Series, with Matthew Nienow, Carter Sickels, Ed Skoog, Melissa Stein, Urban Waite, Zachary Watterson Faire Cafe, Seattle, WA 2010 Sunday, September 12th, 4pm BOOK RELEASE PARTY! The Booksmith, San Francisco * Saturday, September 18th, 7:30pm with Diane K. Martin and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Pegasus Books Downtown, Berkeley * Saturday, September 25th, 3pm Sonoma County Book Festival, Santa Rosa * Saturday, October 2nd, 12-1pm Litquake event: "Off the Richter Scale" Variety Preview Room Theatre, San Francisco * Sunday, October 17th, 7:30pm with Dean Rader and Jonathan Silverman Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA * Monday, October 18th, 7pm with John Fox California State University, Fullerton * Thursday, October 28th, 6pm with David Moolten Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia * Saturday, October 30th, 7:30pm with Gregory Pardlo Unnameable Books, Brooklyn * Tuesday, November 2nd, 12:45pm United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD * Thursday, November 4th, 7:30pm with Chad Sweeney Poetry Flash at Moe's Books, Berkeley * Thursday, November 11th, 7pm with Ada Limon Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA * Sunday, December 19th, 9-10pm The Poetry Show, KSUP, 88.9FM (central CA coast) |
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