Events, Readings and Classes
Crestone Poetry Festival
February 2022
Featured reader alongside Aaron Abeyta, John Calderazzo, Joshua Concha, Juliana Aragon Fatula, Barbara Ford, CMarie Fuhrman, Judyth Hill, Pam Uschuk, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and more
Trickster Ridge Presents: A Confluence in celebration of poetry, music and the sciences
September 2021 on the Western Slope
Featured reader alongside Daiva Chesonis, Craig Childs, Uche Ogbuji, Art Goodtimes, Rachel Kellum, Rebecca Mullen, Danny Rosen, Rick Kempa, Peter Anderson, Wendy Videlock and more
Drawing in the Deep: A Retreat
October 2019 in Telluride, Colorado
Featured writer alongside Lisa Allen Ortiz and Sam Roxas-Chua
Centennial poem for historic Sherbino Theatre
2015 in Ridgway, Colorado
Commissioned to write and perform a centennial poem for the historic Sherbino Theatre
Reading with poets Wendy Videlock and Jennifer Hannock
2015
Telluride Literary Festival: Literary Burlesque
2014 and 2015 in Telluride, Colorado
Commencement Speaker at Pacific University
2014 MFA Commencement speaker in Forest Grove, Oregon
Featured Reader at Ziggies
2014 featured reader at Denver’s oldest Blues Bar
Demimonde Historical Talk “Girls on the Line”
2014 at Poetry and Telluride’s Red Light District and the Historical Museum
Open Bard Poetry Series
2013-present, Open Bard Poetry Series with co-director, Beth Paulson, in Ridgway, Colorado
“Editor-in-Sheaf”
2013 “Editor-in-Sheaf of Ridgeway Alley Poems in Ridgway, Colorado
Poetry in EEEmotion—”water”
2013 performance with Luis Lopez in Grand Junction, Colorado
Featured Poet “Ekphrasis” at Strong House Studios & Gallery
2012 ekphrastic poetry printed on the gallery walls in Telluride, Colorado
Judge for Mark Fischer Poetry Prize
2012
Twenty by Telluride featured Poet
2012
Poetry performer Telluride Arts Telethon
2011 and 2012 in Telluride, Colorado
Judge for High School Poetry Contest
2006 in Ridgway, Colorado
Featured Writer, After Long Silence: New Voices
2000 in Seattle, Washington