Events: CLASSES, FESTIVALS, AND HAPPENINGS

Tuesday, November 26th, Creative Writing Program, New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tuesday, December 3rd Invisible Strings Book Launch with Kristie Dougherty (Zoom)

5:00 PM Wednesday, December 4th West Coast release of Invisible Strings with Dean Radar (on-line)

6:00 PM Wednesday, March 19th WordsWest pop-up celebrating Katie Ellis and HaroldTaw

Saturday, April 12th, 2025 Pelican Bay Books, PBB Madrona Poetry Series, with Linda Bierds, Port Angeles, Washington

Past Events:

Saturday, November 2nd, reading at MONA, for Empty Bowl’s Madronna Project

October 18th - 20th Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro VT with January Gill O’Neil, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson —- and many more!

7 PM Monday, October 21st at Jack Straw Writers- Alumni Series

6:00 PM Tuesday, October 29th, Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) (on Zoom)

11 AM November 9th Verse-Virtual with Michelle Bitting (Zoom)

Friday-Sunday, October 3rd-5th

Featured Poet, Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Conner, WA (in-person) with Ellen Bass, Elizabeth Austen, Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, etc.

Sunday, Oct. 13th Cultivating Voices with January Gill O’Neil, Isobel Basombrio, Hoban and Morag Anderson

4:30 PM (Pacific) Wednesday, September 18th Wild and Precious Life Series curated by Dustin Brookshire

with Subhaga Crystal Bacon and Michael Duchain (On Zoom)

7:00 PM Monday, September 23rd, in celebration of Martha Silano’s new book. This One We Call Ours, 3rd Place Book Seward Park.

Friday, September 6th - Sunday September 8th, 2024

Poets on the Coast with Jane Wong and Michele Bombardier

6:00 - 8:00 PM. Thursday, June 20th, Soul Food, Redmond, WA with Cindy Veach

4:00-7:00 pm, (PST) THIS Tuesday, June 11th, Poetic Alchemy: Creating New Poems, with Kelli Russell Agodon

7:00 PM Monday, May 20th Desperate Books, Madrid, Spain

5:30 PM (Pacific) Wednesday, May 8th What the Universe Is (Zoom)

Reading hosted by Michael Mecurio with Cynthia Manick

7 PM Thursday, May 2nd Third Place Books, Seward Park Location

with Erin Malone and Jeanine Walker

7 PM Wednesday, May 1st, WordsWest Pop-up!

with Katy E. Ellis and Harold Taw at C & P Coffee Company, Seattle, WA

6:30 - 8:00 PM Tuesday, April 30th, with Merna Skinner, Head for the Hills Poetry Series

West Hills Universalist Sanctuary 8470 SW Oleson Rd., Portland, OR (doors open at 6 PM)

2:00 PM, Sunday, April 28th, Chaparral Books with Merna Skinner

5210 South Corbet AVE, Portland, OR 97239

7 PM Monday, April 29th, Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capital Hwy, Portland, OR

with poet, Jack Hayes and Storyteller, Gail Pasternack

Sunday April 21st at the LA Book Festival, PoetryStage.

1 pm Book Signing at the Red Hen Press table followed by reading at 2:40 reading.

4 PM, Monday, April 22nd, First Press Reading Series with Brynn Saito

Woodbury University, 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA 91504

7:30 pm Friday, April 12th, Chapter and Verse Reading Series with Martha Collins

Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA

5:00 pm Sunday, April 14th, with poet and prose writer, Elizabeth Bradfield

East End Books, Boston Seaport, MA (in-person and live streamed)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2024, Live Reading with Kirun Kapur and January Gill O’Neil

Anchor House, 518 Pleasant Street Northampton, Massachusetts

7 pm Thursday, April 18th, 2024, Live Reading at brookline booksmith

Third Thursday Poetry Series, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline Massachusetts

7:00 pm, Thursday Poets Reading Series, April 11th, with Jack Giaour @ GALA Galleries at Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA

1:00 pm Friday, April 12th, SWS Brookline High School with Robbie Gamble

Brookline, Massachusetts (in-person)

3 pm, Tuesday April 9th, 1455 Author Series, Reading and Interview with Sean Murphy on FB Live!

7:00 pm, Monday, April 8th, BLUE ATLAS Book Launch Reading & Conversation with January Gill O’Neil

Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle WA (in-person)

5 pm, Tuesday, April 2nd, Blue Atlas with Diane Seuss (Zoom) Presented by Two Sylvias Weekly Muse with Kelli Russell Agodon - open to all!

5:30 pm Wednesday, February 21st Soul Bone Festival panel on Writing and Intuition with 4 other amazing poets & writers.

5:30 pm, Tuesday, February 20th, Soul Bone Festival reading with January Gill O’Neil (Zoom) Event brite link here:

6:00-8:30 pm, Friday, February 9th Red Hen Press AWP Book Launch

@The Parlor, 1707 Locust Street, Kansas City, Kansas (in-person)

4:30 pm, (Pacific) Sunday, December 4th, 2023 Reading

Cafe Muse Anthology Reading with Naomi Carlson (Zoom)

Sunday, November 26th, 4:30 for the Weekly Muse

Demystifying the Manuscript with Kelli Russell Agodon (Zoom)

Saturday, October 21st, 2023 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Modesto Poetry Center

Generating New Work: The Surreal and the All-Too-Real (Zoom)

Friday September 8th to Sunday, September 10th, 2023

Poets on the Coast, La Connor (with Jessica Gigot and JaneWong)

Thursday, May 18th, 2023 The BARN, Bainbridge Island, WA

Featured Reader, w/Michelle Bombardier (MC)

Thursday, April 27th On-line Converation with Sean Murphy

FB Live Event, video forthcoming

7:00 PM April 15th, 2023 Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA

Poetry reading with Kathleen Flenniken and Claudia Castro Luna

2 PM, Saturday, April 8th, Seattle Public Library

Launch celebration of I Sing the Salmon Home edited by Rena Priest, from Empty Bowl Press

Friday, March 10th, 2023 (AWP Conference)

2:30 PM Book signing at Salmon Poetry (Booth 911)

3:20 -4:30 PM P.R. in a (Nearly) Post COVID World

Rooms 427-429, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4

7:00 pm One Poet, One Poem, sponsored by Image Journal

St Paul’s Episcopal, 15 Roy Street, Seattle

Saturday, March 11th, 2023 (AWP Conference)

11:00 AM Book signing at the Two Sylvias Table (Booth 1529)

12:10 - 1:25 Get Lit on Campus: Developing Literary Journals

Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3

10 am to 2 pm, January 28th, with Kelli Russell Agodon

Generating New Poems for the New Year (Zoom)

7:00 pm Thursday, November 3rd,

Margin Shift, Seattle, WA with Jane Wong

Wednesday, October 26th

The Grolier Bookshop, Cambridge, MA

7:30 pm Thursday,October 27th

Gloucester Writers Center, Gloucester, MA with Jennifer Martelli

Friday, October 9th - Sunday October 11th

Skagit River Poetry Festival, La Connor, WA

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 7pm

WordsWest Re-Reunion with Katy E. Ellis & Harold Taw.

C & P Coffee Company, West Seattle

Friday, September 9th - Sunday, September 11th, 2022

12th Annual Poets on the Coast , La Conner, WA

Thursday, September 8th, 2022

It’s About Time Series, Seattle Public Library

3:30-4:30 PM Saturday, July 30th, 2022 - Book Signing

Open Books Poem Emporium, Seattle WA

6:30 Friday, June 24th, 2022 — Poetry Reading

St. Nicholas Church, Over the Edge, Galway, Ireland (in-person)

Monday, June 13th, 2022 — Poetry Reading

O’Bheal Reading, The Haymarket Bar, Cork, Ireland (in-person)

2:00-3:30 PM Saturday, June 18th, 2022 — Poetry Reading

Salmon Bookshop Garden Reading with Frances McCue and Geraldine Mills

7:00-9:00 PM Wednesday, May 25th

Launch with Katy Ellis and Harold Taw, C&P Coffee Company

7:00 - 8:00 PM Friday, May 20th, 2022

Portland Literary Arts with John Silbey Williams

6:00 PM Wednesday, May 18th, 2022

Olympia Poetry Network Featured Reader

7:00 PM Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Raven Chronicles Conversation with Harold Taw /Zoom

11:00- 3:00 PM Saturday, April 23rd, 2022

Risking It! Generating New Work with Kelli Russell Agodon

5 PM, (PST) Thursday, April 14th, 2022

What the Universe Is Reading, Amherst, MA

7:00 PM Thursday, April 7th, 2022

Book Launch with Kelli Russell Agodon, Elliot Bay Book Co.

1:10 PM Sunday, March 27th, 2022

The Surrealists Toolkit: Accessing the Subconscious

Richard Hugo House, Seattle (Zoom)

AWP Panels and Readings, Philadelphia, PA

Thursday, March 24th to Saturday, March 26th

10:00 am - 2:00 pm, Sat, February 5th, 2022

Writing Outside the Norm: Generating New Work

September 10-12, 2021

Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women

August 15th, 2021

The New Surrealism: Reading and Generating Work, Hugo House

May 1, 2021

The Surrealists Toolkit: Generating Poems from the Unconscious World

March 7, 2021

The Book of Jewish Poets: Exploration and Creation, Hugo House

March 10, 2021

Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

February 13th, 2021

Demystifying the Poetry Manuscript - Register in Advance

January 30th, 2021

Writing the Surreal and the Sensual, Hugo House, Seattle

December 3rd, 2020

1455 AUTHOR SERIES: ALONE TOGETHER, A READING AND CONVERSATION

November 17th, 2020

Raven Chronicles Reading, Seattle, WA (Zoom)