Events
2024
April 2: Riffraff Bookstore + Bar w/ S. Fey and Carrie Oeding (Providence, RI)
March 19: Carlow University (Pittsburgh, PA)
March 7-10: “I saw the frontiers gleaming of his mind”: Hart Crane’s The Bridge and a Surplus of Democratic Modernism and “You can’t turn unhappiness into happiness as simply as that”: The Rant and Excess as Prelude to Creativity in Thomas Bernhard’s Concrete. NeMLA (Boston, MA)
March 6: Grolier Poetry Book Shop w/ C. Francis Fisher and Shangyang Fang (Cambridge, MA)
February 7-10: AWP reading; Thursday, 2/8 at Torn Label Brewing Company (Kansas City, MO)
2023
December 2: Lit Balm
November 11: Bottom Feeder Books (Pittsburgh, PA)
November 9: Loganberry Books w/ Philip Metres and Lindsay Turner (Cleveland, OH)
November 1: Visit / reading with Timothy Liu’s class at SUNY New Paltz (New Paltz, NY)
September 16-17: Kafka on the Shore: Herman Melville and Franz Kafka as Interlocutors and Intertextual Shipmates. International Conference of Poetry Studies (Oxford, England)
September 7-11: Montana Book Festival (Missoula, MT)
July 18: KGB Bar w/ Timothy Liu and Robert Ostrom (New York, NY)
July 11: 1-Week Critique Salon Reading w/ Clayre Benzadón
July 5: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum w/ Kevin McLellan (St. Johnsbury, VT)
July 1: Rarities Books & Bindery (Wakefield, RI)
June 25: Imago Foundation for the Arts w/ Peter Covino and Kevin McLellan (Warren, RI)
June 24: lala Books w/ Kevin McLellan (Lowell, MA)
June 10: Books on the Square w/ Kevin McLellan and Daisy Bassen (Providence, RI)
June 4: Trident Bookstore w/ Liza Katz Duncan and Kevin McLellan (Boston, MA)
May 5-7: Celebrating 25 years of Autumn House Press: Writing the Tough Stuff w/ Sheryl St. Germain, Shayla Lawz, and Michael Walsh, Massachusetts Poetry Festival (Salem, MA)
April 28: Book Release Party w/ Matthew Shenoda, Timothy Liu, and Kate Colby at the CIC (Providence, RI)
April 23: Toadstool Bookshop w/ Meg Kearney and Kevin McLellan (Peterborough, NH)
April 1: Balin Books w/ Meg Kearney and Kevin McLellan (Nashua, NH)
March 23-26: An Aesthetics of Hidden Things: Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space as Influence and Interlocutor. NeMLA (Niagara, NY)
March 8-11: AWP reading; Friday, 3/10: book signing from 10:30 am to 11:00 am (Seattle, WA)
2022
December 8-9: “A silence that thrilled him”: Melancholy, Guilt, and the Longing for Family in Percival Everett’s Walk Me to the Distance. 7th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia“
International Interdisciplinary Conference (Gdańsk, Poland)
November 11-13: Cascando: Toward a Fragmented Carceral Poetics. SAMLA (Jacksonville, FL)
September 29: Wor-Wic Community College: Echoes and Visions Reading Series (Salisbury, MD)
September 23-25: Hollihock Writers Conference (New Bedford, MA)
July 31: Thirteen Million Pillars of Grass: The Tennis Court Oath at 60 & John Ashbery at 95, (Hudson, NY)
March 26: Outside of Class: Tentative Outlines and Turning Paths w/ Natalie Homer, Michael Wang, Anna Caritj, Chad Abushanab, AWP (Philadelphia, PA)
2021
November 6: Vanishing Work and Communities in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener.” MMLA, (Milwaukee, WI)
September 10: Book launch for Kevin Risner’s Do Us a Favor
August 1: Lit Balm, The International Surrealist Poetry Extravaganza
March 7: Figure, Image, Form: Diverse Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetry w/ eric tran, makalani bandele, Jane Satterfield, Katherine Barret Swett
March 5: Bootleg Reading Series with Bull City Press and Four Way Books
2020
April 9: Reading for Symposium Books at Providence Waterfire with Timothy Liu and Robert Ostrom (Providence, RI)
April 2: Rocky River Public Library (Rocky River, OH)
March 4-7: AWP Offsite with Autumn House Press, Bull City, and Four Way Books at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex. Book signing at AWP (San Antonio, TX)
February 25: Visit / reading with Aaron Smith‘s class at Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)
January 21 Winter Poetry at Bryant Park with Autumn House Press, w/ S. Brook Corfman, Jane Satterfield and Sheryl St. Germain (New York, NY)
2019
November 21 Reading at Bricks Bar (Cranston, RI)
November 19 Reading at the Community College of Rhode Island w/ Sussy Santana and Afua Ansong (Warwick, RI)
November 9 Autumn House Press Reading at brillobox (Pittsburgh, PA)
November 1 Reading at The People’s Forum w/ Timothy Liu and J. Mae Barizo (New York, NY)
October 24 Reading at Savoy Bookshop & Cafe (Westerly, RI)
October 17 Book Release Party w/ Nathalie Handal, Aaron Smith and special guest Mairéad Byrne at RISD (Providence, RI)
October 6 Reading at Nick’s Bar (Worcester, MA)
September 21 Autumn House Press Reading at Unnameable Books (Brooklyn, NY)
September 12-16 Montana Book Festival (Missoula, MT)