Readings & Presentations
2025
2024
Please join me on Sunday, November 9th, for a book launch reading of this moving anthology. If you would like to attend, please send me a message through Messenger, and I will send you a Zoom link. More information about this anthology can be reached at this website: :https://www.nature-culture.net/the-black-river-death-poems
Coming up soon: September 5 at Broadway Books
- Tune in on Sunday, September 1st--5-5:30 Mountain Time; I will be in conversation with Daphne Stanford at KRBX Radio Boise / The Poetry Show; We will be discussing These Hollowed Bones
- Featured Reader for Boston Poetry Slam at Cantab Lounge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 7, 2024
- Featured Reader for Sea Crow Press, Sturgis Library at Barnstable Village, Massachusetts, August 6, 2024
- Workshop for Oregon Humanities, “Embracing Creativity Through the Senses,”
Four Rivers Cultural Center, July 20, 2024 - Featured Reader at Milwaukee Poetry Series, Ledding Library, Portland, Oregon, June 12, 2024
- Workshop at An Inland Northwest Poetry Salon Workshop, Spokane Public Library, June 1, 2024
- Workshop at Arts Center East, “Beyond the Sonnet,” May 30, 2024
- Featured Artist at Annie Bloom’s Bookstore, Portland, Oregon, January, 2024
2023
- Featured Artist at Holden Hearts, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, November 25, 2023
- Featured Reader at Paulina’s Bookstore, Sisters, Oregon, November 16, 2023
- Featured Reader for Poetry Box, Zoom Presentation, November 11, 2023
- Featured Reader at Cook Memorial Library, November 9, 2023
- Featured Reader and Artist at Art Center East, November 1, 2023
- Teaching a workshop, “Science in Poetry; Poetry in Science,” Write on the Sound Conference,
Edmonds, Washington, 2023 - Teaching a workshop, “Ekphrastic Poems based on the Art of Jessica Plattner,” Art Center East
- Jan’s Paperback Bookstore, Reading with Airlie Press, August 12, 2023
- Get Lit! Festival, author presenter, 2023
2022
- Beaverton Library, Reading with Connie Soper, and David Pickering, June 7, 2022
- Mother Foucault’s Books, Reading with Tiel Aisha Ansari, May 28, 2022
- SMOL Fair, Airlie Press Reading and Conversation, March 20, 2022
2021
- Portland Book Festival, Home and Inheritance, and interview with Teresa K. Miller and Erica Stevens, Nov. 13, 2021
- LitFuse Presentation, Rhyme and Reason: The Art of Assembling a Poetry Manuscript, September 25, 2021
- Featured Reader at First Draft, Pendleton Center for the Arts, 2021
- AWP Airlie Press panelist, The Cooperative Press in a Time of Social Change, 2021
- Featured Reader at Salem Poetry Project, April 29, 2021
- Feature Reader at Art Center East, April 21, 2021
- Pacific University Visiting Writers Series, March 14, 2021
- Featured Reader for McMinnville Public library February 4, 2021
2019
- Salem Public Library, Ancestral Voices, a three-woman panel, 2019
- Art Center East, Writing Project, La Grande, OR. 2019
- Featured Reader at First Draft, Pendleton Center for the Arts, 2019
2018
- Le Bebe Cakes Bakery and Café, La Grande, OR. 2018
2017
- The Poet’s Passage, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2017
- Dudley’s Bookshop Café, Bend, OR. 2017
- Salem Public Library, Salem, OR. 2017
- Free Range Poetry Reading Featured Artist, Portland, OR. 2017
2016
- Video with Peter Sears, recorded in Portland, OR. 2016
2015
- Pendleton Word-Round up with Peter Sears. 2015
1980
- Women of Color Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1980