I will have a table with my books for sale—2013–2017: Sonnets (LJMcD Communications, 2024) and perhaps one copy of The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015)—at Author Expo 2025 in Oneonta, New York on Sunday, October 12 from 2:00–4:00 p.m. at the Foothills Performing Arts Center (24 Market St, Oneonta, NY 13820).
Author Expo 2025 is put on by the Writers Salon at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta and the Huntington Memorial Library.
I’ll be reading a small handful of poems with some other poets on Saturday, July 5 from 1:00–3:00 p.m. at The Gatehouse, 129 Main Street, Morris, New York. Hosted by Julene Waffle, also reading will be Robert Bensen, Racheal Fest, Julie Suarez-Hayes, Vicki Whicker, and Teresa Winchester.
To make up for missing the issue 48 Contributors Reading because I was sick, Cleaver has kindly asked me to read for their issue 49 Contributors Reading.
On Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to issue 49: Sarah C. Baldwin, Brian Benson, Andrea Bishop, Lisa K. Buchanan, John Calderazzo, Jocelyn Jane Cox, Adam Doniger, Jeff Friedman, Vicki Mayk, Ess Pokornowski, Rachel Talbot, Matt Thomas, Gretta Trafficante, and Robyn Wheelock.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/r3sThAH-R7K8aLsV_SNYEw.
Update June 2, 2025
A recording of the reading is now available on YouTube. I’m the first reader:
UPDATE: I’m recovering from a nasty flu and won’t be able to make the reading tonight.
On Sunday, February 2 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to the issue: David Lydon-Staley, Christopher David Rosales, Tracie Adams, Sinclair Cabocel, Eden Royce, Connor Fisher, Jeff Gabel, Coleman Bigelow, Jeffrey G. Moss, Krista Puttler, Herman Beavers, and Kiely Todd Roska.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mSovtLTCRmmjkSMqEZkqFg#/registration.
I recently published a book, 2013–2017: Sonnets (LJMcD Communications, 2024), the first in an ongoing sonnet sequence. I have written the next book in the sequence, 2018–2024: Sonnets, and I’ve started the third, 2024–20XX: Sonnets, and I will be reading poems from these two most recent projects at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO)’s Writers Salon at the Wilber Mansion on 11 Ford Ave. I promise a poem about the election (writing it right now).
In addition to this year’s Oneonta Literary Festival, at which Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ross Gay, Anna Kornbluh, and many others will be speaking, the Hartwick College and the Department of Literature, Media, and Writing will present three readings in the 2024–25 Visiting Writers Series. Readings take place at 7:00 in the Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
I will be reading on Wednesday, September 24, 2024 from my new book, 2013–2017: Sonnets (LJMcD Communications, 2024).
Libby Cudmore will be reading from her new book, Negative Girl (Datura, 2024), on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
And Amish Trivedi will be reading, including from his newest book FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021), on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
For more information, visit the Visiting Writers Series webpage.
In support of my new book, 2013–2017: Sonnets, I will be giving three readings this fall in and around Oneonta, NY.
On Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., in collaboration with the Green Toad Bookstore, there will be a book launch for 2013–2017: Sonnets at Roots Public Social Club.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., I will be reading more poems from 2013–2017: Sonnets, along with poems from its (already completed) sequel 2018–2024: Sonnets, at Hartwick College for the 2024–25 Visiting Writers Series.
And on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., I will be reading a range of poems, including a variety of my newest work (including from Postrock), at the Writers Salon at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO).
At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, I’ll be reading poems—including some new ones (never before heard!)—at the Bushel Collective as part of a release event for the State University of New York at Delhi’s literary journal, Agate Literary and Arts Magazine. Bushel is located at 106 Main Street in Delhi, New York.
Update
Here’s a picture of my reading at Bushel. Thanks to Peter W. Brusoe for the pic.
On July 12, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. (EDT), as part of the Significant Others Reading Series—a “series dedicated to new books and the shadow texts that inspired them”—I’ll be giving an online reading of some of my sestinas from the latest issue of Always Crashing along with some of the poems in their background radiation. Mary Biddinger and Day Heisinger-Nixon will also be reading. Get the link to the reading here and order the issue here.
On July 16, 2020, I took part in the fourth of ten readings around the release of the Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming 2020), originally published as a special issue of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars edited by Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan. Other readers are: Cara Chamberlain, Petra Kuppers, Andrew Melrose, Eléna Rivera, Arthur Sze, and Jen Web. My reading of “Dead Horse Bay” and “Blason III” starts around 29:30 in the July 16 reading .
To find more about the series, visit the Ecopoetics Anthology Facebook page.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 