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Events

Featured Reader
Poetry Night at the Outdoor Cafe
3257 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago, IL 
TH August 1, 2019
7:00 pm

Featured Reader
The Book Stall
811 Elm St., Winnetka, IL
January 12, 2019
2:00 pm

Featured Reader
Oakton Community College
Wed., October 10, 2018
​6:00 pm

Featured Reader
Sunday Salon
The Riverview Tavern
1958 W. Roscoe St.
Chicago, IL
Sunday, March 25, 2018
7:00 pm

Featured Poet
Illinois State Poetry Society
Brewed Awakening
Westmont, IL
Sunday, January 28, 2018
12:30-2:00 pm

Poetry Reading with Luisa Igloria
Normal Public Library
Normal, IL
​July 6, 2017

Poets Resist/Evanston Literary Festival
The Celtic Knot 
626 Church St.
Evanston, IL
May 7, 2017
​7-8:30 pm

Tiger Room Salon
Evanston, IL
Feb. 11, 2017

Tuesday Funk Prose Reading Series
Hopleaf Bar
September 6, 2016

         
Glass Lyre Press "100 Thousand Poets for Change"
The Book Market
September 24, 2016    


​Featured Reader: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, Maryland
March 24, 2016
​2:00 pm

First Night Evanston Featured Reader & Poetry Contest Judge
​December 31, 2015

​Poets Look at Paintings, Poetry Center of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, November 18, 2015.

First Annual Evanston Literary Festival, 2015.


AWP conference presentation
“Teaching Experimentation: The Freedom in Constraints”, with Shailen Mishra, Ryan Clark, and Michelle Naka Pierce
Minneapolis, MN, 2015.

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 5-7 pm
Poetry Reading with Angela Narciso Torres, Ladan Osman, Sarah Carson, and Heather Cox
Theme: Crossing Borders
City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL

Featured Reader, Jenene Ravesloot and Tom Roby's "Salon", May 2014.

“RHINO: 37 Years of Charging Forward.”  AWP. Seattle, Washington, March  2014.

Reading with Sibling Rivalry Press, Seattle, Washington, March 2014.

Illinois State Poetry Society, Brewed Awakening, March 2014.

Woman Made Gallery, Featured Poet, September 2013.

WGLT Poetry Radio, Featured Poet, 2013.

Takoma Park, MD Poetry Reading Series, Jan. 17, 2013.

Illinois Wesleyan University, Featured Poet and Guest Lecturer, Oct. 25, 2012.

Pushcart Prize Nomination: “Skinned Mammals.”  Sibling Rivalry Press 2012.

Top Shelf Poets, Powell’s Bookstore, Oct. 14, 2012.

The Ragdale Foundation, Lakeforest, IL, June 3, 2012.

Molly Malone’s Reading Series, Oak Park, IL, Summer 2011.

Northwest Cultural Council, Palatine, IL, 2010 and 2011.

Wordslingers Radio Program, FM, 2010.

Brothers K Coffeehouse, Evanston, IL, 2008, 2010, 2012.

St. Paul Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2009.

The Café, Chicago, IL, 2008

The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD, 2006.




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photo by Marc Monaghan
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