2024 Readings & Events
December 21 Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House and new poems from A FIRE IN HER BRAIN for Voices of Poetry at Poets House, with Tina Cane, Michael Klein, & Matthew Throburn, Saturday December 21, 3-5pm eastern, $15 suggested donation.
2025 Readings & Events
April 30 Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House and new poems from A FIRE IN HER BRAIN at Big Red Books, 120 Main Street, Nyack, NY.
May 4 Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House and new poems from A FIRE IN HER BRAIN for Carmen Street Metrics at Jefferson Market Library hosted by Anton Yakovlov & Wendy Sloan.
September 13 Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House and new poems from A FIRE IN HER BRAIN for Woodstock Poetry Society with Lucia Cherciu hosted by Philip X. Levine, Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498 USA 2pm .
2024 Readings & Events (past)
February 24: Butterfield Library, Cold Spring, NY with Mary Lou Buschi & Lily Greenberg, 1pm, (in person)
March 22: Big Red Books, 120 Main Street, Nyack, NY with Iain Haley Pollock & John Hoppenthaler, 6:30pm, (in person)
March 27: An evening celebrating four years of the Wild & Precious Life Series hosted by Dustin Brookshire. Readers include Julie E. Bloemeke, Jennifer Franklin, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Yalie Saweda Kamara, Kevin Prufer, Patricia Smith, Donna Vorreyer and more, 7:30pm EST, Zoom
April 3: Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 with Nicole Callihan & Chenda Bao 7pm, (in person)
April 17: Jacar Press hosts poets from over 20 independent presses who published a book in 2023. I will read three poems from If Some God Shakes Your House. Wednesday April 17, 7pm. ET.
April 18: In conversation with Leah Umansky about her new book, Of Tyrant (The Word Works, 2024), Book Culture, West 112, off Broadway, 7:30pm ET
April 25: Harbor Editions Virtual Launch for Braving the Body, Facebook, 6:30pm EST
April 27: Online reading with Lise Goett & Frank Paino for Verse Virtual hosted by Robbie Nester, 2pm EST
May 15: Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) Anthology Reading for Wild & Precious Life Series hosted by Dustin Brookshire, 7:30pm EST, Zoom
Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87360853858
May 21: Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) Anthology NYC LAUNCH hosted by Nicole Callihan, Chenda Bao, & Jennifer Franklin, Swift Hibernian Lounge, 34 East 4th Street, 6-8pm, in person
May 23: Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) Anthology Reading, A Hundred Pitchers of Honey hosted by Donna Vorreyer
July 16: South Florida Poetry Journal Reading Series with Jim Daniels hosted by Judy Ireland, 7pm Eastern, Zoom
September 12: Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House with Angela O’Donnell for Italian American Writers Association, hosted by Maria Lisella, John D. Calandra Institute, 25 w 43rd St, Manhattan 6pm, in person
September 21: Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House for Ellen Kombiyil’s book launch for Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone Press, 2024) with Donna Masini, Lynn Melnick, & Angel Nafis, Brooklyn Poets, 6pm, in person
September 28: Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) Anthology Panel "I am afraid to own a Body—”: Contemporary Poets continue Dickinson's Legacy of Braving the Body, at the Tell It Slant Festival, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA, 3:30PM ET [Hybrid] Click here to join “I am afraid to own a Body”: Continuing Dickinson’s Legacy
October 17: Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) Anthology Boston launch at Brookline Booksmith with Eileen Cleary, Nadia Colburn, Martha Collins, Fred Marchant, Jennifer Martelli, Jennifer Millitello, introduced by reader Anna V.Q. Ross.Attend in person or watch the livestream on the Brookline YouTube Channel.
October 26: Braving the Body Workshop at Mass Poetry Festival/Boston Book Festival with Chenda Bao, 12:30-1:30pm, in person.
November 16: Reading from If Some God Shakes Your House for Ashley Mabbit’s book launch for a self, a frame, a look in through with Molly Peacock, Brooklyn Poets.
2023 Readings & Events
March 9, AWP Seattle, Four Way Books 30th Anniversary Reading, 7-9, Seattle Beer Co.
March 15, Four Way Books Spring 2023 launch with Rushi Vays, Rob Schlegel, and Eugenia Leigh, with WORD Books, Brooklyn, (via Zoom)
March 16, Brookline Booksmith with Maya Pindyck, Dehorah Leipziger & Adrienne Marie Barrios, 7pm, 279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
March 17, YMCA of Central New York , 7-8pm (via Zoom)
March 21, NYC Book Launch at Shakespeare & Co. (2020 Broadway) with D. Nurkse & Mervyn Taylor, 6:15-8pm, RSVP to Jennifer limited to 50 people
March 22, Wild & Precious Life Reading Series, with Dustin Brookshire & L.J. Sysko with special guest host Ben Kline.
April 3, New Hampshire Poetry Society Conversation hosted by Jimmy Pappas with Fred Marchant, Brian Komei Dempster, Julia Guez, Connie Post & Rushi Vays, 7pm Eastern
April 8, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Virtual panel on writing political poems in the 2020s with Martha Collins, Jennifer Jean, Jennifer Martelli, and Cindy Veach , 7pm Eastern (online only)
April 10, with Dean Rader, online for Travelling Mollys hosted by Nina Corwin (Zoom only).
April 12, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, with Jennifer Jean, Dzvinia Orlowsky & Annie Pluto, introduction by Fred Marchant, 7pm Eastern (in-person & online).
April 14, The Pocantico Center in Tarrytown, NY, with Cynthia Manick & Jenny Xie, 6:30pm, $15 (in person only)
April 19, Columbia Alumni Reading Series, Dodge Hall, 7:30-9pm. (in person only)
April 20, Book Culture, 112th & Broadway, with Rachel Hadas, 7pm. (in person only)
April 23, Four Way Books 30th Anniversary Reading with Abigail Wender, Daniel Tobin, Daniel Wolff, Julia Guez, Yesenia Montilla, Yerra Sugarman, Ricky Maldonado, and Soren Stockman at HVWC, Philipse Manor Train Station, 4pm. (in person only)
April 29, Westchester Poetry Festival at The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry with Ilya Kaminsky, Patricia Smith, Katie Farris, Tina Cane, and Farnaz Fatemi, 1-4pm (in person only). This event is sold-out.
May 12, COUPLET Reading Series at KGB Bar Red Room, with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Iain Haley Pollock, Martín Espada, & Lauren Schmidt hosted by Leah Umansky, 7-9pm Eastern. (in person & online).
May 13, with Suzanne Frischkorn, Jennifer Martelli, Julia Guez, & Soren Stockman, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, 7pm. (in person only).
May 24, WordShed Reading Series NYC with David Groff, P&T Knitwear Bookstore, 180 Orchard Street, hosted by Leah Kogen-Elimeliah, 7pm (in person only).
May 25, A Mighty Blaze with Ange Mlinko hosted by Allison Adair, 4pm EST (Zoom only).
June 2, Lily Poetry Reading with Dzvinia Orlowsky & Karen Friedland, hosted by Eileen Cleary, 7pm (Zoom only).
June 10, Ossining Books for Humanity with Iain Haley Pollock & Sean Singer, 7pm (in person only).
June 15, at KGB Bar with Nicole Callahan, Tina Cane, Julia Dasbach, & Donna Spruijt-Metz, 7pm, (in person only).
June 17, at Carson McCullers House with Isabella DeSendi, hosted by Lily Greenberg 7pm, (in person only) 131 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960
July 9, W-E (West-East and Beyond) Poetry Reading Series, with Karen Friedland & Dorainne Laux hosted by Lynn McGee, Susana H. Case, Carolyne Lee Wright, & Sandy Yannone, 7pm eastern (Zoom only).
July 10, "A Garden of Verse" at Keeler Tavern Museum with Sean Singer hosted by B. Fulton Jennes, 152 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877, 7pm, (in person only).
July 16, Poetry Flash with Diane Seuss hosted by Joyce Jenkins, 3pm Pacific, 6pm EASTERN (Zoom only).
July 21, Adverse Abstraction Reading Series with Michael Tyrell & Jimmy Grzelak hosted by Kristine Esser Slentz & Matt Gahler at Otto’s Shruken Head , 6-8pm (in person only).
August 1, Bryant Park Reading Series with Abigail Chabitnoy, Rebecca Hart Olander, Elizabeth Scanlon hosted by Nathan McClain & Jason Schneiderman, 6-7:30pm, Bryant Park, (in person only).
August 12, Women Writers in Bloom hosted by JP Howard with Cynthia Manick, Amber Flame, & Dorothy Randall Gray. Brooklyn Public Library, 286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn Heights, BK, 12:30-4:30pm (in person only).
August 13, A Persistence of Cormorants Reading Series with Patricia Spears Jones, Arden Levine & Joanna Solfrian, hosted by Gerald Wagoner 1:30-3:30pm, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, Brooklyn, (in person only).
September 23, Meet the Author Series at Dobbs Ferry Library hosted by Sara Bramble with Silvina Lopez Medin, 3:30pm, (in person only).
October 16, Phoenix Poetry Series with Sarah Arvio hosted by Jennifer Juneau, Shades of Green Pub, 125 East 15th Street, 6:30pm (in person only).
October 17, The Writers Studio Craft Class, Guest Poet with Philip Schultz, Lisa Bellamy & Sherine Gilmour, online only.
October 19, Twenty Stories Bookstore, with Julie Danho & Tina Cane, 134 St Ives St. Providence, R.I., 6pm (in person only).
November 4, White Plains Library, with Suzanne Cleary, hosted by Harriet Shenkman, 100 Martine Ave. White Plains, NY 10601, 2-4pm (in person only).
November 15, Next Year’s Words, Hybrid Reading at Elting Memorial Library, New Platz.
December 16, Voices of Poetry with Martha Rhodes, Philip F. Clark, Aaron Fischer, David Dephy, hosted by Neil Silberblatt, 3pm, Jefferson Market Library (in person only).
2022 Readings
March 5, 2pm EST with Brian Komei Dempster hosted by Luisa Cayceda-Kimura, free, on zoom.
March 30, 7-9 pm KGB: Hosts of NYC Reading Series, with Lonely Christopher, Leah Umansky, and Melinda Wilson, hosted by Bill Lessard
June 5, 4pm Voices of Poetry at The Mount, with Antoinette Brim-Bell Amy Dryansky, Gloria Monaghan, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Anthony Walton, hosted by Neil Silberblatt, $15
September 25, 5-7pm EST, Lit Balm Reading Series featuring HVWC Poets: Fred Marchant, Nathan McClain, Joan Kwon Glass & Sean Singer, Zoom, free
2021 Readings
February 13, 3pm Women Writers in Bloom hosted by JP Howard & Cynthia Manick on Zoom with Carla Cherry, Janice Lowe, Regina Jamison
March 9, 6:30pm EST Visiting Writers Series with Oliver de la Paz, hosted by Suzanne Parker, free
March 17, 7:30pm EST Wild & Precious Life Reading Series with Brian Komei Dempster, celeste doaks, & Courtney LeBlanc, hosted by Dustin Brookshire
April 4, 7:00pm EST Mercy Street Reading Series, hosted by Ruben Quesada, with Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Grace Lau, Spencer Reece. Brad Richard, and Matthew Lippman on Zoom
April 15, 6:00pm EST Poetry & Narrative Medicine at Stockbridge Library, hosted by Owen Lewis, with Rebecca Foust, on Zoom
April 18, 3:00pm EST Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Series, Slapering Hol Press Zoom Reading with Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, and Margo Taft Stever, curated by Sandy Yanone
April 22, 6:00-7:00pm EST “Phosphorescence” Poetry Reading Series at the Emily Dickinson Museum with Fred Marchant, Mervyn Taylor, and Philip F. Clark, free on Zoom
May 14, 3:00-4:00pm EST Massachusetts Poetry Festival with Fred Marchant, Oliver de la Paz, and Justin Wymer
May 26, 6:30pm The Red Door Reading Series curated by Spencer Reese (& Mr. Coconut) and KC Trommer
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (socially distanced, masks required)
33-50 82nd St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
June 29
The Risk of Discovery Reading Series hosted by Micah Eaton Zevin on Zoom, 6:30-8:15pm ET
Sunday September 12, 1:30pm ET
A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading with Susana H. Case & Lynn McGee, Brooklyn
Reading will be outdoors at the Gowanus open shoreline at Gowanus Canal as we witness the EPA conduct their SuperFUN/d cleanup program. Sunday, 1:30pm to 3:30pm ET
Saturday September 18, 2pm ET
Riverside Poetry Festival (live) with Keynote readers: Nick Flynn, Alicia Ostriker, Donna Masini, Deborah Paredez, Iain Haley Pollock, JP Howard, Sean Singer, Mervyn Taylor, Susana H. Case, Rosebud Ben Oni, Chris Campanioni, Silvina Lopez Medin, Ellen Kombiyil, Leah Umansky, Philip F. Clark, Spencer Reece, Frances Richey, Owen Lewis, Arden Levine and emerging poets! Sponsored by 2021 City Artist Corp Grant & NYFA.
Sakura Park at 122nd Street & Riverside Drive.
2020 Readings
10.08.20, 6pm Voices of Poetry Back in the Village
via Zoom free
with Keisha-Gaye Anderson Robert Carr Philip F. Clark Aaron Fischer, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths
2.15.20 Voices of Poetry at Thompson Square Library
331 East 10th Street
NY, NY 10009
with Nick Flynn, Michael Klein, and Nicole Cooley
Free
6.7.20 Slapering Hol Press Presents a Reading with the co-editors
via Zoom
with Peggy Ellsberg & Margo Taft Stever
Free
2019 Readings
1.15 Four Way Books Salon, 7pm
New York, NY
with Ben Purkert, Marcia Pelletiere, and the Bookshop Band
2.8- COUPLET Winter Edition,
Red Room @ KGB Bar, 6pm
85 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY
with Monica Ferrell, Catherine Barnett, Donika Kelly, and Sophie Klahr
2.17- Bloom Reading Series, 5pm
West 183rd Street, The Lounge Hudson View Gardens
Washington Heights, NY
with Iain Haley Pollock, Rio Cortez, and Maya Doig-Acuña
2.28 - NYU Bookstore, 7pm
450 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY
with Sally Bliumis-Dunn
3.29-AWP, 7pm
Off-site Four Way Books Reading
Portland, OR
4.6- The Westchester Poetry Festival, 1pm
49 Clinton Ave, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
with Victoria Chang, Monica Ferrell, Meghann Plunkett, and Jenny Xie
4.8.-KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series, 6pm
85 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY
4.15 Red Eye Cafe
Montclair, NJ
with Rosebud Ben-Oni, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Jill Rosenberg, and Rakesh Satyal
4.25 Kill Genre Reading Series with Four Way Books Authors hosted by Folio
630 9th Avenue Suite 1101
New York, NY 10036
Monica Ferrell, Panio Gianopoulos, and Eileen Pollack
10.21.19 Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
with Lauren Acampora
11.2.19 Manhattanville Poetry Festival
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577
with Fred Marchant, Michelle Whittaker, and Suzanne Parker
11.7.19 upstreet Reading
NYC
with Daniel Lawless, Frances Richey, Sally Bliumis-Dunn
11.18.19 Emotive Fruition 6:30pm
Caveat
21 A Clinton Street
NY, NY 10002
curated by JP Howard & Lynn Melnick, directed by Nikki M. James featuring twenty-five women poets
Summer 2018 Readings
7.22 - East Hampton Library, 3pm 159 Main Street
East Hampton, NY
Fall 2018 Readings
9.4 - Cornelia Street Cafe, 6pm
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
with Martha Rhodes
9.13 - Book Culture, 7pm
450 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY
with Cynthia Cruz, Blas Falconer, Michelle Whittaker, and Tom Thompson
10.06 - Bottoms Up Wines & Spirits, 7-8pm
731 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
A Lit Crawl Brooklyn event with Four Way Books authors: Monica Ferrell, Miranda Field, Tom Thompson, & Ben Purkert
10.11 - Franklin Electric, 7pm
650 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
with Nick Flynn & his band, KILLDEER, & Fred Marchant
10.12 - Hudson Valley Writers Center , 7pm
300 Riverside Drive
Sleepy Hollow, NY
with Fred Marchant & Cynthia Cruz
10.18 - Berl's Poetry Shop, 7-8pm
141 Front Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY
with Iain Haley Pollock, Mervyn Taylor, and Dawad Phillips
10.28 - Suffolk University Poetry Center, 3pm
73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108, Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor
with Four Way Books Poets Daniel Tobin & Joan Houlihan
11.4 - Why There Are Words Series by Michael Collins, 6pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY
with Four Way Books poets: Monica Ferrell and Kate Colby, & Rachel Z. Arndt, Hélène Cardona, John FitzGerald
11.6 - Cornelia Street Cafe Reading Series, 6pm
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
with Susana H. Case. Michael Collins, and Cal Freeman
12.9 - Queens Library, 2-4pm
Featured Reader at Open Mic for Poets
89-11 Merrick Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11432
with Michael Collins