2022
- Inverted Syntax, Issue 4 Publication Reading, CO (online)
2021
- Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine Reading, Book Club, New York, NY
2020
- Fifteenth Anniversary Reading Series, Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, MA
- The Ocean State Review Publication Launch, University of Rhode Island, RI
2019
- The First and Last Word Poetry Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- Pure Product Reading Series, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Boston National Poetry Month Festival, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
- Midway Meets Manhattan, KGB Bar, New York, NY
- Teaching Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Workshop, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
2018
- Comm(unity): On the Purpose of Building Community and the Value of Active Engagement within, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, Henniker, NH
- Midway Meets Manhattan, KGB Bar, New York, NY
- The Inaugural Poetry in the Park, Herter Park, Allston, MA
- Somerville Community Growing Center Reading Series, Somerville, MA
- Boston National Poetry Month Festival, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
- Chapter and Verse Reading Series, Jamaica Plain, MA
- Poetry in the Parlor, The Old Manse, Concord, MA
2017
- Old Media Poetics: On Writing through Collaboration and Technologies, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, Manchester, NH
- Midway Meets Manhattan, KGB Bar, New York, NY
- Emotionality: Harness or Whip, Mass Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
- Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain: Are Literary Magazines too Secretive About Slushpile Submissions?, AWP Conference, Washington, D.C.
- Archive of Longings, Aeronaut Brewery, Somerville, MA
- The First and Last Word Poetry Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- Cervena Barva Press Reading Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- Boston National Poetry Month Festival, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
- New England Poetry Club, Members with New Books Reading Series, Harvard Yenching Library, Cambridge, MA
- St. Rocco’s Reading for the Dispossessed, Albany NY
2016
- From Midway To Manchester, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, Manchester, NH
- Craft & Publishing, Boston National Poetry Month Festival, Boston, MA
- Limited Resources, Big Dreams: How to Mine the Rush of Online Lit Journals, AWP Conference, Los Angeles, CA
- Cervena Barva Press Reading Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- The Art of Words: Mike Amado Memorial Poetry Series, Plymouth, MA
- Newton Writing and Publishing Center, Newton, MA
- East Meets (Mid)West: Cervena Barva Poets Read, The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
- Pennel, Sutphen, Rhiel, and Keifer, Mager’s and Quinn Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN
2015
- The First and Last Word Poetry Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- New Hampshire Poetry Festival, Manchester, NH
- First and Last Word Poetry Series, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
- Belt it Out, Courtside Sports Pub, Cambridge, MA
- Dire Literary Series, Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Stone Soup Poetry Reading Series, Out of he blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
- C’Mere Honey, AWP Conference, Minneapolis, MN (2015)
2014
- Newton Free Library Poetry Series, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA
- Bagel Bards Anthology 10th Anniversary Reading, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA
- Hip Presents, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
- Like One, Lit Week, District Hall, Boston MA
2013
- Small Publishers Panel. The Writer’s Conference, Hunter College, New York, NY
- It’s All in the Wrist: A Perspective on Navigating Publishing and Publishers in the New Media Era. Emerson College, Boston, MA
2012
- How Online Journals and Social Media Transform Poetics. Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
- Living a Life in the Arts after Graduation. Lesley University, CHUMS 1100, Cambridge, MA
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web: featuring Midway Journal, Drunken Boat, Blackbird, Memorious, and failbetter.com. AWP Conference, Chicago, IL
2011
- Ask Not What the Internet Can Do for You: Shifting Our Perspective on Internet Publishing as an Alternative to Major Market Publishing. AWP Conference, Washington, D.C.
2010
- A Pictures Worth: Navigating the Intersection of Picture and Word. Emerson College, Boston, MA
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