Selected Readings, Features, and Presentations
2025
Hemicrania reading, New England Poetry Club 2025 Prizewinners Reading, November 16, 2025
Hemicrania reading, craft talk, and interview with Kimberly Casey, Pacific University’s At the Desk, PACT Desk Set Series. September 9, 2025
“‘On Being Ill:’ The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness,” panel at Mass Poetry, Salem, MA, May 31, 2025
“Exploding Head: Writing Migraine and Other Manifestations of the Wayward Brain,” panel at Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, February 21, 2025
2024
Virtual launch party of Hemicrania, hosted by Maria S. Picone of Chestnut Review, with guest readings by Rita Maria Martinez, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, and Sarah M. Sala and a presentation by Shee Gomes, cover artist for Hemicrania, December 11, 2024
Poetry at the Manse/New England Poetry Club, The Old Manse, Concord, MA October 27, 2024
“‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’: Writing Migraine,” panel at Lit Youngstown, Youngstown, OH, October 17-20, 2024
“Late to the Table: The pleasures and challenges of “emerging” as a poet in your 40s and beyond,” panel at Lit Youngstown, Youngstown, OH, October 17-20, 2024
“Persona, Erasure, Epistle: Summoning Ancestors Through Poetic Forms,” panel at Lit Youngstown, Youngstown, OH, October 17-20, 2024
“Micro Marvels” (performer/reader of work by writer not in attendance), Salem Litfest, Salem, MA, September 7, 2024
2023
“Witches All the Way Down: Persona, Archive, Incantation,” panel at 2023 Mass Poetry Festival, Salem, MA, May 5, 2023
Feature, Poetorium at Starlite Lounge, Southbridge, MA, May 25, 2023
2022
Feature, Artists Who Are Poets, Poets Who Are Artists series, Tidepool Bookshop, Worcester, MA, August 2, 2022
2021
Reading and Brief Discussion of Yo También, Rattle Poets Respond, Rattlecast 106, August 15, 2021
2019
Elizabeth Bishop Tribute Reading, Bedlam Book Café. Worcester, MA. October 10, 2019
“Readings on Pregnancy and Birth,” with Jim Cocola. The Trouble with Pregnancy – A Forum on Art and Reproduction. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. October 18, 2019
Feature, Listen: Poetry Series at Nick’s Worcester. Worcester, MA. March 31, 2019
Women’s Reading. Princeton Public Library, Princeton, MA. March 20, 2019
Feature, Thirsty Lab Poetry Series. Princeton, MA. February 25, 2019
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