Readings & Events
Upcoming Events
Thursday, March 24th, 2023: 6:00 PM ET. Thayer Magazine Issue 1 Release. New York, NY.
2022
Thursday, September 29th, 2022: 7:00 PM ET. Naming the Ghost Poetry Launch with Emily Hockaday.
Kew and Willow Books. Kew Gardens, NY.
Sunday, September 18th, 2022: 7:00 PM ET. Gavagai Music + Reading Series. Footlight Underground at the
Windjammer. Ridgewood, Queens.
Past Events
2021
Saturday, March 26th, 2022: 7:30 PM EST. Tolsun Books Press Reading (Offsite at AWP). The Pen and Pencil Club.
Philadelphia, PA.
Friday, March 25th, 2022: 6:00 PM EST. Office Hours & Bespoke Crossover Reading (Offsite at AWP).
Tabu Lounge. Philadelphia, PA.
Thursday, March 24th, 2022: 8:30 PM EST. Tolsun Books SMOLFair Reading (Virtual at AWP).
Register here.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022: 7:00 PM EST. Wednesday Night Poetry Reading (Offsite at AWP). The Fire.
Philadelphia, PA.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. The Bellevue Literary Review: "How Words Can Heal."
Tuesday November 16th, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. The Literary Cypher. Register here.
Sunday, November 7th, 2021 at 3:00 PM-5:00 PM EST. Della Reading and Book Release Part Deux! Della’s backyard. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021: 4:00 PM EST. Be Not Afraid Solo Exhibition Launch Reading. Olympia Gallery. New
York, NY.
Wednesday, October 27th: 7:00 PM EST. Union of Concerned Scientists: The Poetry of Science. Register here.
Sunday October 24th, 2021: 6:00 PM EST. NYC Cultural Affairs: How Have You Been Coping? Register here.
Tuesday October 12th, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. Generation Women Storytelling. Caveat, NY.
Thursday October 7th, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. Inspired Word NYC Feature. Parkside Lounge, NY.
Tuesday August 3rd, 2021: 6:00 PM EST. Bryant Park Reading Room Series. Bryant Park, NY.
Saturday July 31st, 2021: 4:00 PM EST. Women Writers in Bloom Feature. Register here.
Tuesday June 1st, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. The Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony. Register here.
Monday May 10th, 2021: 7:00 PM EST. The Publishing Triangle Awards Reading. BGSQD. Register here.
Wednesday January 6th, 2021: 7:30 PM EST. Wednesday Night Poetry Series. Facebook Event.
Saturday January 9th, 2021: 3:30 PM EST Office Hours LGBTQ+ Broadsides Gallery Exhibition & Reading. Zoom Link.
2020
Thursday December 17th, 2020: 6:00 PM EST. Queer Writers Speaking Across Borders. BGSQD. Register here.
Friday November 13th, 2020: 8:00 PM EST. NYU MFA Alumni Reading. Zoom Link.
Sunday October 25rd, 2020: 4:50 PM EST. Tolsun Books PRIDE Fundraiser Read-a-Thon. Tolsun Books Facebook Live.
Friday October 23rd, 2020: 7:00 PM EST. Devil’s Lake Exhibition Broadside Reading. RSVP for Zoom Link.
Friday August 28, 2020: 5:00 PM EST. EOD Reading & Q & A with Raluca Albu via BOMB Magazine. Instagram Live.
Wednesday August 13th, 2020: 8:00 PM EST. Devil’s Lake Book Launch via Tolsun Books. Instagram Live.
Tuesday August 12th, 2020, 7:00 PM EST. Devil’s Lake Book Launch featuring Anne Carson, CAConrad, Moncho Alvarado, Omotara James, and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado via Literati Bookstore. Zoom Link.
Friday June 12th, 2020 1:00 PM: The Brooklyn Rail: The New Social Environment: Lunchtime Conversations with Artists, Writers, Filmmakers, and Poets. Zoom Link.
Tuesday June 7th, 2020 1:00 PM: Backroom Broadsides Reading. Zoom Link.
Friday May 29th, 7:00 PM: Office Hours Spring 2020 Showcase Reading. Zoom Link.
Thursday April 2nd, 2020, 10:00 PM: Remotely Personal Greetings Online Reading Series. Zoom Link.
Saturday February 22nd, 2020, 4:15 PM: Listen Here, Jackalope: A Tolsun Books Reading. Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. Tempe, AZ.
Monday January 27th, 2020, 7:30 PM: Twelve Labors Reading Series. Hercules Art Studio Program. New York, NY.
2019
Friday November 8th, 2019, 2:00PM-4:00 PM: NYU MFA Literary Magazine Panel. Lillian Vernon Writers House. New York, NY.
Wednesday November 6th, 2019, 7:00 PM: Gender Reveal Party Reading Series. KGB. New York, NY.
Saturday October 12th, 2019, 7:30 PM: Houston Poetry Festival at University of Houston-downtown. Houston, TX.
Monday September 23rd, 2019, 6:30 PM Break Out: A Movement to (re)Integrate Incarcerated Writers Into Literary Community with Big Words, etc. 61 Local. Brooklyn, NY.
Friday September 6th, 2019, 7:30 PM: Renegade Reading Series. Café con Libros. Brooklyn, NY.
Wednesday June 19, 7:00 PM: Pride Poetry Extravaganza with Indolent Books. BGSQD. New York, NY.
Saturday June 15th, 2019, 6:30 PM: Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading. Poets House. New York, NY.
Friday June 14th, 2019, 7:00 PM: Big Salmon Series Pride Reading. Pete’s Candy Store. New York, NY.
Tuesday June 11th, 2019, 6:30 PM: Rebel Rebel: A Pride Poetry Show Celebrating Revolutionary Lives and Radical Love presented by Emotive Fruition. Caveat. New York, NY.
Wednesday April 24th, 2019, 6:00 PM. NYU Expository Writing Faculty Reading. NYU EWP. New York, NY.
Thursday February 21st, 2019, 7:00 PM: By the Way Reading Series with LA Warman and Maya Martinez. Codex Bookstore. New York, NY.
Tuesday February 12th, 2019, 6:30 PM: Emotive Fruition: HEARTBREAKER / VERSE MAKER Valentine’s Day Special. Caveat. New York, NY.
2018
Wednesday November 14th, 2018 4:00 PM: NYU Expository Writing Faculty Reading. Bern Dibner Library at NYU-Tandon. Brooklyn, NY.
Friday October 19th, 2018, 7:00 PM: ESL Or You Weren’t Here Book Launch with Aldrin Valdez, Rio Cortez, Paolo Javier, Jimena Lucero, and Josh Wizman. Spoonbill Warehouse. Brooklyn, NY.
Tuesday October 16th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Risk of Discovery Series. Blue Cups. Woodside, NY.
Thursday October 11th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Talking in the Library: a National Coming Out Day Reading with Candace Williams, Irene Villaseñor, and Bakar Wilson. School of Visual Arts Library. New York, NY.
Thursday September 27th, 2018, 7:00 PM: WEIRDD Reading Series with Irene Villaseñor, Roberto Montes, and Nikay Paredes. The Future Project. New York, NY.
Monday September 24th, 2018, Boog City Poetry Festival. Unnameable Books. Brooklyn, NY.
Sunday August 26th, 2018, 3:00 PM: Della Reading Series. Della. Brooklyn, NY.
Sunday July 8th, 2018, 6:00 PM: Why There Are Words Reading Series. Bowery Poetry Club. New York, NY.
Saturday June 23rd, 2018, 3:00 PM: Poets & Writers Seventeenth Annual Connecting Generations Reading. Barnes & Noble Union Square. New York, NY.
Saturday June 9th, 2018, 12:00PM: AmpLit Fest in collaboration with Lamprophonic and Summer on the Hudson. New York, NY.
Friday May 4th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Chimera Literary Magazine Issue Launch. Edinborough University of Pennsylvania. Edinboro, PA.
Friday April 20th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Office Hours Spring Showcase Reading. BGSQD. New York, NY.
Friday March 16th, 2018, 7:30 PM: No, Dear: Poets Who Love Poets Reading. Beryl's Poetry Shop. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday February 17th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Bessie Presents: Office Hours Reading Series. Bessie's Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday February 10th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Bessie's Poetry Night. Bessie's Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday January 13th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Snow Bunny Chalet Reading. Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday January 11th, 2018, 7:00 PM: Franklin Electric Reading Series Reunion Reading. Work Heights. Brooklyn, NY.
2017
Sunday December 31st, 2017, 6:00 PM: NYE at Bessie's. Bessie's Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday December 21st, 2017, 6:30 PM: Queens Library Featured Poet. Queens Library at Forest Hills. Queens, NY.
Saturday December 16th, 2017, 7:30 PM: GAMBA Forest Holiday Edition Poetry Reading. GAMBA Art Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
Friday December 8th, 2017, 8:00 PM: Office Hours Workshop Fall Showcase at Bar Thalia. New York, NY.
Friday November 3rd, 2017, 7:00 PM: No, Dear Issue #20 LABOR. Reading at La Sala. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday October 13th, 2017, 7:30 PM: Houston Poetry Fest at University of Houston-downtown. Houston, TX.
Saturday July 29th, 2017, 2:00 PM: Queer Art Organics at Governor's Island Poetry Festival with Trae Durica & Aldrin Valdez. New York, NY.
Friday July 28th, 2017, 8:00 PM: Lamprophonic Series Coordinators Reading. Bar Thalia. New York, NY.
Monday July 24th, 2017, 6:00 PM: Big Words Reading Series presents "Backslide." 61 Local. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday June 17th, 2017, 7:00 PM: Office Hours Workshop Spring Showcase. BGSQD. New York, NY.
Wednesday June 14th, 2017, 8:00 PM: Having a Whiskey Coke With You Reading Series. Brooklyn, NY.
Tuesday April 4th, 2017, 8:00 PM: Fox & Crow Reading Series. Fox & Crow. Jersey City, NJ.
Friday March 24th, 2017, 6:30 PM: Pershing Field Garden Friends Benefit. Choc O Pan. Jersey City, NJ.
Wednesday February 8th, 2017, 7:30 PM: Emotive Fruition Valentine's Day Special. Botanic Lab. New York, NY.
2016
Sunday November 27th, 2016, 3:30 PM: Bowery Poetry Workshop Reading. Bowery Poetry Club. New York, NY.
Sunday October 23rd, 2016, 4:00 PM: great weather for MEDIA Reading. Parkside Lounge. New York, NY.
Friday September 30th, 2016, 7:00 PM: The Heart Wants & The Ghost Assembly Line Book Launch with Christina Quintana, Keith Taylor, and Raymond McDaniel. Literati Bookstore. Ann Arbor, MI.
Friday September 9th, 2016, 7:00 PM: The Ghost Assembly Line Reading. Edinboro University of PA, Reeder Hall. Edinboro, PA.
Thursday June 22nd, 2016, 7:30 PM: Emotive Fruition featuring Lambda Literary. Botanic Lab. New York, NY.
Thursday May 26th, 2016, 7:00 PM: The Ghost Assembly Line Reading. Nicola's Books. Ann Arbor, MI.
Saturday April 30th, 2016, 7:00 PM: The Birthday Suit Reading. BGSQD. New York, NY.
Wednesday April 20th, 2016, 7:00 PM: Palimpsest: Yale Graduate Literary & Arts Reading. William L. Harkness Hall 309. New Haven, CT.
Friday March 25th, 2016, 7:00 PM: Oleander Review Issue 1 Launch Reading. Literati Bookstore. Ann Arbor, MI. [See Review of Reading HERE].
Tuesday March 22nd, 2016, 6:00 PM: Big Words Reading Series. 61 Local. Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday March 10th, 2016, 7:30 PM: Franklin Electric Reading Series. Work Heights. Brooklyn, NY.
Sunday January 8th, 2016, 3:30 PM: The Home School Reading. Miami Beach Women's Club. Miami, FL.
2015
Sunday December 6, 2015, 8:00 PM: Dead Rabbits Reading Series. DTUT. New York, NY.
Tuesday October 7, 2015, 7:00 PM: Queer Art Organics. Dixon Place. New York, NY.
Tuesday August 11, 2015, 8:00 PM: Having a Whiskey Coke With You Reading & Performance Series. Freddy's Bar. Brooklyn, NY.
Tuesday June 30, 2015, 7:30 PM: Emotive Fruition & NPR's Radiolab Present Poems About the Periodic Table of Elements. The Bell House. Brooklyn, NY.
Sunday June 28, 2015, 7:00 PM: Eagle and the Wren Reading Series. BookCourt. Brooklyn, NY.
Wednesday June 24, 2015, 7:30 PM: Emotive Fruition & NPR's Radiolab Present Poems About the Periodic Table of Elements. Botanic Lab. New York, NY.
Friday May 22, 2015, 7:00 PM: Atlas Review Issue 5 Launch. BookCourt. Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday March 28, 2015, 6:00 PM: Mr. Hip Presents: Reading Series. UFORGE Gallery. Jamaica Plain, MA.
Wednesday February 11th, 2015, 8:30 PM: Emotive Fruition: a Theatre Collective of Poets & Actors, Botanic Lab. New York, NY.
2014
Opening Thursday December 4th, 2014, 8:00 PM: Hand(s): a Play Charting the Many Lives of Hands. Co-written with Tyler Rivenbark in Alphabet Arts: Puppets & Poets. December 4-7th. Dir. West, Amber & Neelam Vaswani, Brooklyn, NY.
Friday July 18th, 2014, 8:00 p.m: Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Reading Series, New York, NY.
2011
Friday June 10th, 2011, 7:30 PM: Earshot Series, Brooklyn, NY.
2010
Friday February 5th, 2010, 7:00 PM: NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series, KGB Bar, New York, NY.
Tuesday October 26th, 2010, 6:00 PM: Cornelia Street Reading Series, Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY.