EVENTS!

Public Reading CDBF: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival: 2025 Haiku contest    September 7, 2025 

Sloan’s Lake Park, Denver at the 360 Stage. https://www.cdbf.org

Poem: Un Año Nuevo along el Río: Honorable Mention for “First Line Magic” 

Guest Judge: Poet Morgan Liphart

Mirror the sky, blue

 Desert sages green piñón 

Snow, where have you gone? 

Public Reading with Tiny Spoon: An Experimental Literary Magazine   May 31, 2025

East Window Gallery: 4550 Broadway St. Suite C. Boulder, CO 80304 – 7-9pm

Poem: “Moth Clutched Loosely” in “Superstition/Divination.” Tiny Spoon. # 13. (Pp 90). www.TinySpoon.org  

Open Mic with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Mukamal Camp   May 6, 2025

Lauren Camp continued her state-wide project, “The Epic Poem” in which she prompted her audience to participate by incorporating their own lines.  Therein the audience was asked to the mic.  I read my poem, “After All Our Cantankerous Prayers”. 

Taos Center for the Arts: www.tcataos.org 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571 

Reading of Creative Nonfiction: “Nautical Map, Perforated Fold”  April 17, 2025

Guest Speaker in Claire Boyle’s “Nature and Society” Course for Western Colorado University’s MFA Graduate Program in Creative Writing – Nature Writing.

Poetry Slam and Public Reading   February 15, 2025

A Western Colorado University Reunion of sorts during the Fort Collins Festival of the Book.  Faculty, students, and alumni gathered to perform their work at “Speak Cheesy” a local venue that supports the arts.  I read “Hen & Buck” and “Carry: A Spell Poem”. www.focobookfest.org

A Reading of my poem “Slider Door”   June 9, 2024

Moonstone Center for the Arts www.moonstoneartscenter.org   Philadelphia, PA

An On-line Reading and Anthology in celebration of World Environmental Day, which is annually held on 5 June. This event encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. 2024 focused on land restoration and drought resilience, which marks the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

A Collaborative Reading:  April 17, 2024

A Public Reading with Poet Erica Reid, author of Ghost Man on Second (2023) which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.  I was invited to introduce her by reading four of my poems: “I wait for the loveliness”, “I’ve Come into Plains Country”, and “With Eyes Wide Open”: A Broken Sonnet Series at The Read Queen Bookstore in Lafayette, CO.

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