Events
2024
September 20
7 pm ETRapid Reading
Punch Bucket Literary FestivalWortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville, NC
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September 21
10–11:15 am ETThinking With the Climate Crisis
With Belle Boggs, Sharon Kunde, Kristi Maxwell, and Sarah Rose NordgrenPunch Bucket Literary Festival
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville, NC
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September 21
4–5:15 pm ETHow We Work and What We Love: Perspectives from Five Literary Magazines
With Ayse Erginer, Terry Kennedy, Mark Powell, and Alyson SinclairPunch Bucket Literary Festival
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville, NC
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2023
March 6–April 10
Reclaiming Meter: Strategies for Contemporary Poem-Making
AWP virtual panel, with Chad Abushanb, Jenna Le, and Sophia StidDetails and panel outline
April 27
6 p.m. ETWilliam Matthews Prize Poetry Reading
Malaprops Books/Asheville Poetry Review virtual readingRegister here
July 18–30
2022
February 6
3–5 p.m. ETMay 24–27
Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference
Guest Editor, June 16–18Apply by March 15
Artseed, Residency No. 48, Marble House Project
Presentation, reading, and open studioFree and open to the public
Marble House Project, Dorset, VT
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Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Master class: Reclaiming Meter, July 23Apply by March 15
Reading at Randolph College
Alice Ashley Jack Room, Smith Memorial BuildingEvent Information
North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference
Beautiful Cacophony: Poetry Master Class
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Event Information
2021
April 7–10
April 16–18
April 18
3 p.m. ETApril 18
7 p.m. ETJuly 9
7 p.m. ETJuly 22–26
November 11–13
Transformation: Evolving Approaches to Teaching, Poetry, and the Natural World
Keynote speaker Virtual conference
Call for work
2020
September 24
7 p.m. ETSmaller Songs chapbook launch
Featuring St Brigid Press print-shop tourVirtual event
UNCW writeup
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October 25
4 p.m. ETPast Events
Poetry on the Riverwalk: A Reading with Quarterly West, 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others, Casa Rio, AWP San Antonio, March 2020
Don’t Mess with Text: A Reading with Florida Review and Willow Springs, the Palace Room at Smoke, AWP San Antonio, March 2020
Readings to launch A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia: Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC (organizer); Malaprops Bookstore, Asheville, NC; Union Avenue Books, Knoxville, TN; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, November–December 2019
Reading and sonnet-making workshop, with Eric Smith, Pomegranate Books, Wilmington, NC, May 2019
Counter-Desecration: Collective Remedying Release Party, AWP offsite, Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, 2019
Hopkins Review and Literary Matters Lunch Poems and Prose, AWP offsite, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, 2019
House Party Reading Series, Bull City Press, Hillsborough, NC, February 2019
Author Talk Series, Athenian House, Wilmington, NC, May 2018
Virginia Festival of the Book, reading at New Dominion Bookshop, March 2018
Holler Salon, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Knoxville, TN, July 2017
Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2017
Ornament book launch, Satellite Bar and Lounge, May 2017
Guest editor, South Carolina Writers Association conference, April 2021
Literary Matters reading, with George David Clark, Ishion Hutchinson, Didi Jackson, Marcia Karp, Oliver de la Paz, David Yezzi, and featured reader Major Jackson, ALCSW Conference, October 2019
Faculty/Alumni Reading Series, with Daniel Tobin, Emerson College, Boston, MA, November 2018
Reading by honorable mention recipients in the Brockman-Campbell Book Award, NC Poetry Society annual meeting, Southern Pines, NC, 2018
Reader and printer, Vandercooked Poetry Nights, Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, NC, October 2018
Guest editor, Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference, Middlebury, VT, June 2018
Reading and guest lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, March 2018
Reader and panelist, University of Mount Olive Literary Festival, Mount Olive, NC, March 2018
The Natural World: Environmental Racism, Reproductive Justice & Creative Writing, panel & reading with Danielle Purifoy, Earth Feathur, & Tammy Gomez, Salem College Center for Women Writers, Winston-Salem, NC, November 17, 2017
Reading, writing workshop at college farm, and guest lectures on poetry and nonfiction, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, September 2017
The Regulars’ Table feat. Anna Lena Phillips Bell and José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, a project of Detroit Research, Salon De’troit and the Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, 2017
“Rise Up, Go, Ladies! Remaking Ballads,” C.R.A.F.T. Fest, West Chester University, April 2021
“Ecopoetics in the Classroom,” Craft(ing) the Classroom: Poetry and Pedagogy virtual conference, West Chester University, February 2021
“‘This resonant, strange, vaulting roof’: Contemporary Sonnets Beyond Iambic Pentameter,” Sonnets from the American symposium, October 2020
Editing the Last Wild Places, panelist, with Elizabeth Dodd, Juan J. Morales, Tom Payton, and Laura-Gray Street, AWP, San Antonio, TX, March 2020
Love Poems in Place: Ecotone Poets in Fourteen Lines, panel organizer, AWP, San Antonio, TX, March 2020
Uncanny Activisms: Poems as Spells, Curses, Prayers, and Blessings, panelist, C. D. Wright Women Writers’ Conference, Conway, AR, November 2019
“Sustained Attention: Writing, Printing, Editing,” on panel Art and Activism, Poetry and Editing: Helping to Build “Paradise,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference, Davis, CA, 2019
Editing Literary Magazines, panelist, Poetry by the Sea conference, May 2019
Dear Lit Mag Editors: Now What?, panelist, with Carolyn Kuebler, Lindsay Garbutt, Harilaos Stecopoulos, & Tracy O’Neill, AWP, Portland, OR, 2019
Editing Patriarchy: Women Editors Respond to Historic & Restorative Publishing, panelist, with Rachel Morgan, Sumita Chakraborty, Lauren Slaughter, & Melissa R. Sipin, AWP, Portland, OR, 2019
First Books Reading, West Chester poetry conference, 2018
Sweet, Fraught South: Readings and Incitements to Write from Place, panel chair and reader, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, 2018
Vassar Miller Poetry Prize 25th Anniversary Reading, reader, AWP, Tampa, FL, 2018
A Woman’s Place: Ecotone Essayists Expand the Boundaries of Place-Based Writing, panel chair, AWP, Tampa, FL, 2018
In Her Place: An Ecopoetical Reading and Incitement to Write from Where We Are, panel chair, reader, and designer of zine with prompts from readers, C. D. Wright Women Writers’ Conference, 2017
Ecotone Poets of Place, panel chair and designer of zine with prompts from readers, Poetry by the Sea, Madison, CT, 2017
New books panel, Poetry by the Sea, Madison, CT, 2017
The Craft of Editing Poetry: Practices and Perspectives from Literary Magazine Editors, panel chair, Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, Washington, DC, 2017
