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