EVENTS
2025-
Thanksgiving “Leftovers” Poetry Festival hosted by Justin Hamm. More info TBA.
With Dorsia Smith Silva, Bonafide Rojas and Sahar Muradi. (Word Up!) New York City, NY. Nov. 22nd. 7pm.
With Raina Leon, Ysabel Gonzalez, Kimberly Reyes, Jane E. Alberdeston. (Lit Balm) 5:30 ET. (Virtual)
Introducing Nnedi Okorafor. (University of Missouri-Columbia) 7pm.
Eastern Illinois University-Sept. 10 (all day visit) (Charleston, IL.)
June 28th- New Material Books (7pm) Kansas City, MO.
May 14th—with Valentina Mena, Fabienne Jospahat Merritt, YAEL VALENCIA ALDANA. Books & Books 7pm. (Miami, FL)
April 11th-Center for African American Poetics & University of Pittsburgh. 1pm (Pittsburgh, PA)
April 8th-Illinois College, Visiting Writer.
April 24, 2025- Rainy Day Books. With Eric Doise in celebration of Saara Rappana. (Kansas City, MO)
April 9th, 3pm EST-Potomac College, WVU. (Remote)
March AWP Events TBA.
February 18th- with Yael Valencia Aldana (Remote), City Lights Publishers.
February 21st (Remote) The Writer’s Place. Kansas City, MO.
2024
12/7- with Hadara Bar-Nadav, for the Bear Review. 7pm. 21(c). Kansas City, MO.
11/21- Puerto Rican Poets Heritage Month (arranged by Sharon Velez Diodnet.) (IG Live at 6 EST).
11/23-24. Miami Book Fair. “Mending the Rift: The Poetics of Healing”) with Emily Jungmin Yoon and Sara Daniele Rivera. Miami, FL. 3:30pm.
11/16-17. Texas Book Fair. “Cross Cultural Identities in Short Fiction”. with Amina Gautier. Austin, TX. 12:00pm.
9/1- Reading with Hadara Bar-Nadav and Jenny Molberg at Swordfish’s Tom’s. 7pm. Kansas City, MO.
1/2- Reading and Lecture. Carlow University, Carlow MFA Low-Res. Pittsburgh, PA.
1/17- Reading and Craft Talk. Eckerd College, Writers in Paradise Conference. St. Petersburgh, FL.
2/26 at University of Houston—Downtown, with Natasha Carrizosa. 12pm.
4/3 at University of Toledo. Time TBA. Toledo, OH
4/5th atTwenty-Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book in Oxford, MS/Ole Miss.
2023
Friday 2/3 6:30pm CT- In-Person event at Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX) with Oindrila Mukherjee
Tuesday 2/7 7pm ET, In-Person event at Books & Books (Miami, FL) with Anjanette Delgado
Thursday 2/9 7:00 pm ET, Virtual Event with Cafe Con Libros (Brooklyn, NY) with Ivelisse Rodriguez
Friday 2/17, 12:30 PM CT, In-Person event at Lone Star College, (Kingwood, TX)
Thursday 3/2 7pm ET In-person event at Left Bank Books with Janelle M. Williams (St. Louis, MO.)
Thursday 3/9 with Cheryl A. Head at Kindred Stories. (Houston, TX) Time TBA
Friday 3/17 3/17 7:00pm ET, In-Person event at White Whale Bookstore (Pittsburgh,PA)
4/22 Unbound Book Festival (Columbia, MO)
5/6- Montclair Book Festival (Montclair, NJ) with Claire Jimenez and Melissa Boss Aquino
9/28-29-University of Arkansas Little Rock & Sixth Bridges Festival
11/19-Miami Book Fair, in-person event at Miami Dade College Rm. 8201