Readings
Upcoming Readings & Panels
Past Readings
In Your Ear Reading Series, DCArts Center, Washington, DC (September 2011); d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, ACA Galleries, NYC (November 2010); Monday Night Poetry Season at KGB Bar, NYC (November 2010); Chapter & Verse Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA (July 2010); Poetry Lab at The Soundry, Vienna, VA (July 2010); Meadowlark Poetry Marathon, Denver, CO (April 2010); What’s New in Poetry Reading Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (April 2010); Gallery Neptune, Bethesda, MD (March 2010); Bard College, Hudson River Valley, NY (March 2010); Articles Press Hour, Iota Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA (February 2010); Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD (December 2009); Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (October 2009); Fall for the Book, Fairfax, VA (September 2009); Artomatic, Washington DC (June 2009); Sunday Kind of Love at Bus Boys & Poets, Washington DC (June 2009); Busboys & Poets, Alexandria, VA (March 2009); Sova, Washington, DC (March 2009); Myopic Books, Chicago, IL (February 2009); In Your Ear Reading Series, DCArts Center, Washington, DC (December 2008); Cheryl’s Gone, Washington, DC (July 2008); Cadmium Text Series, Kingston NY (April 2008); MicroPress Poetry Pageant, Stain Bar, Brooklyn, NY (February 2008), The So and So Series, Boston, MA (December 2007); Dire Literary Series, Cambridge, MA (December 2007); KGB Bar, NYC (December 2007); What’s New In Poetry Series (Emory University), Atlanta, GA (February, November 2007); Earshot at The Lucky Cat, Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY (November 2007); Emergency Reading Series at Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA (November 2007); Towson Arts Collective, Towson MD (October 2007); Frequency Series, NY, NY (October 2005, May 2006, May 2007); series A, Chicago, IL (May 2007); Mt. Vernon Poetry Festival at George Washington University (April 2007); Apache Cafe, Atlanta, GA (March 2007); PUSSIPO at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA (February 2007); The Ordinary Evening Reading Series, New Haven, CT (December 2006); Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT (December 2006); Behind the Egg: A reading series, Albany, NY (December 2006); i.e. Poetry series, Baltimore, MD (June, July 2005, January, December 2006); MiPO Reading Series; NY, NY (October 2006), Soon Productions, Albany, NY (August 2006); Grace Church Poetry Coffee House, Washington, DC (March 2006), LIT/Redivider/Kitchen Press Reading, Austin, TX (March 2006); MiPOesias Reading, Miami, FL (November 2005); Carrboro Poetry Festival, Carrboro, NC (May 2005); Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA (July 2002); Bennington College (January 2001); Cafe Con Amore, St. Paul, MN (October 1999); Borders Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA (May 1998), Enlightenments on WRCT, 88.3 FM; Pittsburgh, PA (1993), Prosidy on WYEP, 93.1 FM; Pittsburgh, PA (1992)
Past Panels
“What Editors Love and Hate,” Conversations and Connections Conference, Washington, DC (April 2011); “A Conversation with Mary Karr and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon” (moderator), Folger Theatre, Washington, DC (March 2011); “Writing the Beltway: Four Washington, DC Publishers Navigate the Capital” (Associated Writers Program Conference, Washington, DC, February 2011); “Publishing in Local Journals” (Fall for the Book, George Mason University, September 2009); “Rethinking Methods in Poetry Publishing Panel” (Conversations and Connections Writer’s Conference, John Hopkins, Washington, DC, April 2009); “New Media and Publishing Creative Writing Panel” (Fiction Seminar, George Mason University, February 2009); “Publishing” Marist Writing Institute, (Marist College, Poughskeepsie, NY, August 2008); “Web Markets and Marketing” (Conversations and Connections, Washington, DC, April 2008); “Small Press Publishing” (The New School, New York, NY, March 2008); “Online Publishing” (Writing by Degrees Conference, Binghamton, NY, September 2007); “Making Connections: Networking and the Business of Writing” and “Writers and the Web: Markets, Tools, and Connections” (Conversations and Connections, Bethesda, MD, May 2007); “DIY Publishing: Chapbooks, Zines, Webzines, Blogs, Collectives & Etc.” (Associated Writing Program Conference, Austin, TX, March 2006); “Literary Magazines” (F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference (Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, October 2005); “Songs of Myself” and “Everyone’s Blogging--Should You?” (James River Writers Conference, Richmond, VA, September 2005); “Literary Journals” and “Literary Blogging” (Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 2005); “Literature on the Web” (Bethesda Literary Festival, Bethesda, MD April 2005)
Invited Speaker
University of California-Riverside (Palm Springs, June 2011); California College of the Arts (Berkeley, CA, April 2010 & December 2007); University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA, April 2009); Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY April 2008); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, March 2008)
Audio of poems can be heard at the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, Out of Our Minds with J.P. Dancing Bear; Joe Milford Poetry Show, PennSound, Emergency Reading Series and From the Fishouse





