events.
upcoming.
2021
Jan 18 - 23 Palm Beach Virtual Poetry Festival
Feb 17. 7 pm ET Canio's Books
Feb 21. 3 pm CT Malvern Books
Feb 25. 7 pm ET Shakespeare & Co.
Feb 28. 4:30 pm ET The Loom Reading Series
Mar 3 - 6 AWP 2021 offsite readings with Four Way Books
May 3. 7 pm ET KGB Bar
selected past events.
2020
September 30, 5 pm EDT - Lee University Writers' Series
September 2, 7 pm EDT- Wild and Precious Life Series with Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, and Allison Benis White
June 27 - 30 - The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching - Guest teacher with Didi Jackson
May 27 4 pm PDT - Sundress Academy Reading Series
January 20-25, 2020 - Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Individal conference faculty
2019
DECEMBER 12, 6 pm ET. Dali Poetry Series with Brooke Sadler
OCTOBER 11-12 - JAPAN WRITER'S CONFERENCE with Naoko Fujimoto. "The Inside Story: Preparing a Poetry Manuscript for Publication."
OCTOBER 2 - SWWIM ANNIVERSARY READING, The Betsy Hotel, Miami.
MAY 16-19 - Guest Teacher New England Young Writers Conference
APRIL 13, 9 am-12pm CT. GUEST TEACHER, Second Saturday Workshop, Northwest Cultural Council.
APRIL 11, 7 pm CT. TANGELO READING SERIES, CHICAGO with Gail Goepfert, Marty McConnell, and Sam Herschel.
APRIL 1, 6 pm ET. READING AND AWARDS CEREMONY FOR YEATS POETRY PRIZES. Barnes and Noble, Union Square, NY.
FEBRUARY 10, 3 PM ET. Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches. Poetry Reading with Elizabeth Jacobson. The Book Cellar, Lake Worth, FL.
FEBRUARY 6, 7 PM ET. SWWIM POETRY READING with Beth Ann Fennelly, The Betsy Hotel, Miami.
2018
August 9, 2018. Palabra - an evening of poetry in historic Barrio Logan, San Diego.
June 10, Sunday 4:30 pm. Book Talk/Reading at Women's Museum of California, San Diego, CA.
April 7, Saturday 6:30 p.m. Poetry & Art Series 2018 with Francisco Bustos, Sharon Elise, Viet Mai, Alexis Ng, Pilar Rodriguez Aranda, and Ted Washington. San Diego Art Institute, 1439 El Prado, San Diego
March 17, 2018 Pinay Gathering in Celebration of Women's History Month. Philippine Expressions Bookshop. San Pedro, Ca. 3-6 pm. With Cecilia Brainard, Prosy de la Cruz, Tessie Jayme, Irene Suico Soriano, Angela Narciso Torres, and Marianne Villanueva.
2017
October 15, 2017 - Woman Made Poets Come to Pilsen with Toni Asante Lightfoot, Marty McConnell, Marilyn Nelson, Angela Narciso Torres, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. Curated by Nina Corwin.
October 10, 2017 - Whittier College with Bill Yarrow. Hosted by Tony Barnstone.
May 18-21, 2017 - Guest Teacher - New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf Campus, Middlebury, VT.
May 15, 2017. Poets Resist! With Roger Reeves, Tyehimba Jess, Simone Muench, Marilyn Nelson, Nina Corwin, Barbara Barg, Paul Breslin, Michael Gregory Stephens and Michael Nabors at Second Baptist Evanston.
April 29, 2017. Reading with RHINO Reads! at the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka
January 15, 2017. Women Writers Resist! at Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL.
with Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Susanna Lang, Dipika Mukherjee, Kee Stein, Kimberly Marie Ousley, Dina Elenbogen, and Freesia McKee.
2016
November 19, 2016. Women of Willow Book Tour - The Book Cellar, Chicago IL
Reading with Willow Books Authors Heather Buchanan, Sahar Mustafa and Cole Lavalais. Event details here.
November 18, 2016. Women of Willow Reading at RHINO Reads! Brothers K Coffeehouse, Evanston, IL. with Heather Buchanan, Cole Lavalais, and Sahar Mustafa
NOVEMBER 15, 2016 - Featured Reader, TUSITALA Teller of Tales Festival
with Parneshia Jones and Ladan Osman.
OCTOBER 26, 2016 -CARL SANDBURG LITERARY AWARDS with Scott Turow, and Amina Gautier.
May 19 - 22 - Guest Workshop Leader, Reader
New England Young Writers' Conference 2016. Middlebury College, VT.
May 7, 6:30-8 pm Reader, Evanston Lit Fest. with Max Barry, Jim Warner, Ann Hudson, Ralph Hamilton, Kenyatta Rogers, Jacob Saenz
April 30. Independent Book store day at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court. Reading and Rhino Writes! Poems-to-Go!
April 21-23: San Francisco, CA. Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): A project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala, Javier Juerta, Urayoán Noel, Aimée Suzara, Lehua Taitano,
March 18, Thursday. Lake Forest College, Reading and Class Visit
March 31 - April 2: AWP 2016 Los Angeles, CA Panel: Creating Opportunities for Writers of Color: A Continued Urgency.
With Reginald Flood, Diem Jones, Elmaz Abider, Angie Chuang
February 20, Saturday. The Dollhouse Reading Series #46
7 PM - 10 PM With Clutch Fleischmann and Caryl Pagel
February 18, Thursday. Franklin College, Reading and Class Visit
2015
November 21 - RHINO Reading at the Chicago Book Expo with Ladan Osman, Pablo Otavalo, Chris Green, Katie Hartsock, Jacob Saenz, Joe Eldridge, Keith Wilson, Donna Vorreyer, Valerie Wallace, Kenyatta Rogers, and Rachel Jamison Webster.
September 26 - 100 Thousand Poets for Change.1-5 pm The Book Market with MARC FRAZIER, LOIS P. JONES, SANDRA MARCHETTI, RALPH HAMILTON, JOAN COLBY, HELEN DEGEN COHEN, RUTH GORING, and BILL YARROW.
August 9, 2015. The Baldwin Protocols @Le Maison Negritude with Krista Franklin and Angela Davis Fegan
August 11-22, 2015. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry and workshop assistant to Terrance Hayes.
Aug. 18 - Craft Class: POETRY, EXILE, AND THE SELF: Exploring Identity and the Idea of Home in the Poems of Barot, Olzmann and Nezhukumatathil
Aug. 20 - Fellows Reading . Little Theatre, 4:15 pm with Maggie Shipstead and Vu Tran
June 20, 2015 Poets and Writers LIVE! Chicago: Agents and Editors RESOURCES FOR WRITERS IN CHICAGO AND THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY. With Bonnie Rose Marcus, Kevin Coval, Kelly Norman Ellis, Haki Madhubuti. Instituto Cervantes
May 28, 2015. Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm The Mingle with Suzanne Scanlon, Lana Orndorff, and Christian TeBordo. Ravenswood Used Books
May 16, 2015 3:00-4:30
RHINO Reading at the Evanston Literary Festival
With Heather Cox, John McCarthy, Ruth Goring, Lisa Croneberg, Virginia Bell, Helen Degen Cohen, and Dina Elenbogen.
April 6, 2015 6:30-8:30 pm Chicago, IL The Alphabet of Distant Harbors. Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Gallery
Curated by Dipika Mukherjee. With Toni Nealie and Nicholas Wong.
2021
Jan 18 - 23 Palm Beach Virtual Poetry Festival
Feb 17. 7 pm ET Canio's Books
Feb 21. 3 pm CT Malvern Books
Feb 25. 7 pm ET Shakespeare & Co.
Feb 28. 4:30 pm ET The Loom Reading Series
Mar 3 - 6 AWP 2021 offsite readings with Four Way Books
May 3. 7 pm ET KGB Bar
selected past events.
2020
September 30, 5 pm EDT - Lee University Writers' Series
September 2, 7 pm EDT- Wild and Precious Life Series with Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, and Allison Benis White
June 27 - 30 - The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching - Guest teacher with Didi Jackson
May 27 4 pm PDT - Sundress Academy Reading Series
January 20-25, 2020 - Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Individal conference faculty
2019
DECEMBER 12, 6 pm ET. Dali Poetry Series with Brooke Sadler
OCTOBER 11-12 - JAPAN WRITER'S CONFERENCE with Naoko Fujimoto. "The Inside Story: Preparing a Poetry Manuscript for Publication."
OCTOBER 2 - SWWIM ANNIVERSARY READING, The Betsy Hotel, Miami.
MAY 16-19 - Guest Teacher New England Young Writers Conference
APRIL 13, 9 am-12pm CT. GUEST TEACHER, Second Saturday Workshop, Northwest Cultural Council.
APRIL 11, 7 pm CT. TANGELO READING SERIES, CHICAGO with Gail Goepfert, Marty McConnell, and Sam Herschel.
APRIL 1, 6 pm ET. READING AND AWARDS CEREMONY FOR YEATS POETRY PRIZES. Barnes and Noble, Union Square, NY.
FEBRUARY 10, 3 PM ET. Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches. Poetry Reading with Elizabeth Jacobson. The Book Cellar, Lake Worth, FL.
FEBRUARY 6, 7 PM ET. SWWIM POETRY READING with Beth Ann Fennelly, The Betsy Hotel, Miami.
2018
August 9, 2018. Palabra - an evening of poetry in historic Barrio Logan, San Diego.
June 10, Sunday 4:30 pm. Book Talk/Reading at Women's Museum of California, San Diego, CA.
April 7, Saturday 6:30 p.m. Poetry & Art Series 2018 with Francisco Bustos, Sharon Elise, Viet Mai, Alexis Ng, Pilar Rodriguez Aranda, and Ted Washington. San Diego Art Institute, 1439 El Prado, San Diego
March 17, 2018 Pinay Gathering in Celebration of Women's History Month. Philippine Expressions Bookshop. San Pedro, Ca. 3-6 pm. With Cecilia Brainard, Prosy de la Cruz, Tessie Jayme, Irene Suico Soriano, Angela Narciso Torres, and Marianne Villanueva.
2017
October 15, 2017 - Woman Made Poets Come to Pilsen with Toni Asante Lightfoot, Marty McConnell, Marilyn Nelson, Angela Narciso Torres, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. Curated by Nina Corwin.
October 10, 2017 - Whittier College with Bill Yarrow. Hosted by Tony Barnstone.
May 18-21, 2017 - Guest Teacher - New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf Campus, Middlebury, VT.
May 15, 2017. Poets Resist! With Roger Reeves, Tyehimba Jess, Simone Muench, Marilyn Nelson, Nina Corwin, Barbara Barg, Paul Breslin, Michael Gregory Stephens and Michael Nabors at Second Baptist Evanston.
April 29, 2017. Reading with RHINO Reads! at the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka
January 15, 2017. Women Writers Resist! at Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL.
with Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Susanna Lang, Dipika Mukherjee, Kee Stein, Kimberly Marie Ousley, Dina Elenbogen, and Freesia McKee.
2016
November 19, 2016. Women of Willow Book Tour - The Book Cellar, Chicago IL
Reading with Willow Books Authors Heather Buchanan, Sahar Mustafa and Cole Lavalais. Event details here.
November 18, 2016. Women of Willow Reading at RHINO Reads! Brothers K Coffeehouse, Evanston, IL. with Heather Buchanan, Cole Lavalais, and Sahar Mustafa
NOVEMBER 15, 2016 - Featured Reader, TUSITALA Teller of Tales Festival
with Parneshia Jones and Ladan Osman.
OCTOBER 26, 2016 -CARL SANDBURG LITERARY AWARDS with Scott Turow, and Amina Gautier.
May 19 - 22 - Guest Workshop Leader, Reader
New England Young Writers' Conference 2016. Middlebury College, VT.
May 7, 6:30-8 pm Reader, Evanston Lit Fest. with Max Barry, Jim Warner, Ann Hudson, Ralph Hamilton, Kenyatta Rogers, Jacob Saenz
April 30. Independent Book store day at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court. Reading and Rhino Writes! Poems-to-Go!
April 21-23: San Francisco, CA. Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): A project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala, Javier Juerta, Urayoán Noel, Aimée Suzara, Lehua Taitano,
March 18, Thursday. Lake Forest College, Reading and Class Visit
March 31 - April 2: AWP 2016 Los Angeles, CA Panel: Creating Opportunities for Writers of Color: A Continued Urgency.
With Reginald Flood, Diem Jones, Elmaz Abider, Angie Chuang
February 20, Saturday. The Dollhouse Reading Series #46
7 PM - 10 PM With Clutch Fleischmann and Caryl Pagel
February 18, Thursday. Franklin College, Reading and Class Visit
2015
November 21 - RHINO Reading at the Chicago Book Expo with Ladan Osman, Pablo Otavalo, Chris Green, Katie Hartsock, Jacob Saenz, Joe Eldridge, Keith Wilson, Donna Vorreyer, Valerie Wallace, Kenyatta Rogers, and Rachel Jamison Webster.
September 26 - 100 Thousand Poets for Change.1-5 pm The Book Market with MARC FRAZIER, LOIS P. JONES, SANDRA MARCHETTI, RALPH HAMILTON, JOAN COLBY, HELEN DEGEN COHEN, RUTH GORING, and BILL YARROW.
August 9, 2015. The Baldwin Protocols @Le Maison Negritude with Krista Franklin and Angela Davis Fegan
August 11-22, 2015. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry and workshop assistant to Terrance Hayes.
Aug. 18 - Craft Class: POETRY, EXILE, AND THE SELF: Exploring Identity and the Idea of Home in the Poems of Barot, Olzmann and Nezhukumatathil
Aug. 20 - Fellows Reading . Little Theatre, 4:15 pm with Maggie Shipstead and Vu Tran
June 20, 2015 Poets and Writers LIVE! Chicago: Agents and Editors RESOURCES FOR WRITERS IN CHICAGO AND THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY. With Bonnie Rose Marcus, Kevin Coval, Kelly Norman Ellis, Haki Madhubuti. Instituto Cervantes
May 28, 2015. Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm The Mingle with Suzanne Scanlon, Lana Orndorff, and Christian TeBordo. Ravenswood Used Books
May 16, 2015 3:00-4:30
RHINO Reading at the Evanston Literary Festival
With Heather Cox, John McCarthy, Ruth Goring, Lisa Croneberg, Virginia Bell, Helen Degen Cohen, and Dina Elenbogen.
April 6, 2015 6:30-8:30 pm Chicago, IL The Alphabet of Distant Harbors. Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Gallery
Curated by Dipika Mukherjee. With Toni Nealie and Nicholas Wong.
photos.
SWWIM Reading with Beth Ann Fennelly (left) at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, February, 2019.
Women Writers Resist! at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. January 15, 2017.
Tusitala Teller of Tales Festival, Nov. 15, 2016, Lake Forest College
RHINO Reads! at the 2015 Chicago Book Expo
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2015. Aug 11-22, Middlebury VT. With poet Karin Gottshall.
Bread Loaf 2015 Fellows
July 2015.
RHINO Reads! at Roscoe
Chicago, IL
August 9, 2015. The Baldwin Protocols Reading Series feat. Angela Narciso, Krista Franklin and Angela Davis Fegan. La Maison Negritude, Chicago, IL.
August 2015. The Baldwin Protocols Reading Series.
Poets & Writers Live! Chicago: Agents and Editors. With Bonnie Marcus, Kevin Coval, Kelly Norman Ellis, and Haki Madhubuti
Reading at KGB Bar, NYC
Reading with Suzanne Scanlon at The Mingle Reading series @Ravenswood Used Books, Chicago. May 2015.
Reading at a Guild Complex Event with Toni Nealie and Nicholas Wong. Chicago Cultural Center, April 2015
RHINO Reads at First Night Evanston. Dec. 31, 2014 with Heather Cox, Timothy Cook, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Ralph Hamilton, John McCarthy, Kenyatta Rogers, Angela Narciso Torres, Rachel Webster
August 2014-Molly Malone's
Curated by Nina Corwin and Al Degenova
 July 10, 2014 - Sausalito, CA - RHINO Poetry @Why There Are Words Reading Series, 7 pmFeaturing RHINO contributors Roy Mash, Daniel Suarez, Kevin Simmonds, Cintia Santana, Karen Llagas, Julia B. Levine, and RHINO senior editor Angela Narciso Torres
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 July 20, 2014 - Reading with Sarah Carson, Steve Halle, & Josie Kearns
Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
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June 27, 2014 - Manila Book Launch: Authors in Residence Series at Writers' Bar,
Raffles Hotel, Makati, 5-7 pm. Hosted by Krip Yuson.
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 June 14, 2014 - Reading for Brooksday @PrintersRow Lit Fest, Chicago IL 12:30 pm
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April 30, 2014,11-2 pm
Downers' Grove North High School
Reading with Helen Degen Cohen
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Palo Alto, CA. - April 25, 2014, 7:30 pm
Peninsula Literary Series
Featured Reader with John Evans
Gallery House, 320 South California Avenue, Palo Alto
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 San Francisco, CA - April 26, 2014, 12 pm
PAWA Presents Pin@ys' First Books
Reading with Aimee Suzara and Jason Bayani
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
Chicago, IL - April 16, 2014 7 pm
Local Author Night - Poetry Edition: Featuring Richard Fox, Angela Narciso Torres, and Robert McDonald
The Book Cellar
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West Haven, CT -April 9, 2014. 6:30 pm
Arts@UNH Series, Univ. of New Haven
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April 19, 2014, 2-4 pm Reading with Angie Chuang and Rich Villar (Private Party in Glenview, IL)
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 Glenview, IL - April 12, 2014 1-3 pm
National Library Week Author Meet-and-Greet
Glenview Public Library
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Lake Forest, IL - March 22, 2014 1-5 pm
Reading and Workshop at Ragdale Foundation: Finding Home - Writing and Publishing in A Global Community. With Angie Chuang and Heather Buchanan of Willow Books.
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 Bloomington-Normal, IL - March 19, 2014. 7-9 pm
Re:Verse Reading Series with Sarah Carson
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Reading at The Seattle Public Library. Seattle, WA - February 27-March 1, 2014
Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP)
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 Poetry Out Loud Chicagoland Regional Final
Chicago, IL - February 20, 2014
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Milwaukee, WI. February 15, 2014 7:30 pm
Cream City Live
with Emilia Phillips, Nick McRae, and Tom WIlliams
Union Art Gallery, UW-Milwaukee
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 With fellow artists-in-residence at the first 2014 winter residency at Ragdale Foundation.
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Chicago, IL - January 8, 2014, Wed 7:30 pm
Women & Children First Bookstore
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 Chicago, IL - Dec. 8. 2013 1:30-3:30 pm
Woman Made Gallery Reading Series
Readers (l-r): Divya Rajan, Michelle Regalado Deatrick, Sharon Dornberg-Lee, Donna Vorreyer
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Chicago IL - Nov. 20, 2013, 7:30 pm
Women and Children First
with Debby Rosen
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 Winnetka, IL - November 19, 2013, 7 pm
The Book Stall at Chestnut Court
811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL, 60093
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Ann Arbor, Michigan - November 14, 2013, 6 pm
Bookbound Open Mic and Share series - Featured Reader
Bookbound
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October 19, 2013, 6-7 pm
2013 San Francisco LitCrawl @ LitQuake
With Randall Horton, editor of Aquarius Press, Lita Hooper (Willow Books author of Thunder in Her Voice), Heather Buchanan, owner and publisher of Willow Books, and Derrick Harriell, Willow author of just-released Ropes.
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October 11, 2013, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Willow Writers on Tour
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September 27, 2013, 6:45 – 7:30 pm
Blood Orange BOOK LAUNCH at Rhino Reads!
Brothers K Coffeehouse
Willow Books Literature Awards Ceremony with Heather Buchanan of Willow Books, Angie Chuang, Fiction Prize winner, and finalists.
