Upcoming Readings & Appearances
2019-2020
January 31 Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY
February 20-22 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville, KY
February 25 Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC
March 5 AWP Author Signing, Milkweed Table, San Antonio, TX
March 6 AWP Panel: “Science at the Source: Poetic Methods,” San Antonio, TX
March 6 AWP offsite reading: Saving AWP, The Amp Room, San Antonio, TX
March 13 InKY Reading Series, Louisville, KY
March 20 Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
March 26 After the MFA Panel, Columbia University, New York, NY
March 27 Deep Green Enquiry Exhibition Reading, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
April 14 KY Great Writers Series, Carnegie Center, Lexington, KY
April 26 Second Wind Reading Series, Missoula, MT
Now booking for spring and summer 2020. Check back soon for more updates!
Conference Presentations
“Hybrid Ontologies: Visual Poetics of Artificial Nature” | Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900. February 21, 2019.
“Made Future: William Blake’s Political Ecology” | Exhaustion: Tired Bodies, Tired Worlds. University of Chicago. November 15, 2018.
“Blake’s Debt: Artisanship and the Future of Labor” | Debt in History. University of Toronto-Scarborough. May 19, 2018.
“Ecology and the Tyrannies of Form: John Clare’s Melancholic Enclosures” | Victorian Preserves. NAVSA. Banff, Alberta. November 18, 2017.
“Pastoral Futurism: William Blake’s Millenarian Making” | Posthuman Materialisms: Knowledge, Economy, Ecology. Georgetown University. April 8, 2017.
“Poetry of Surveillance in the Middle Eastern Diaspora: Philip Metres’ Sand Opera and Solmaz Sharif’s Look” | American Literature in the World. Yale University. April 6-7, 2017.
“Walcott’s Sea: Memory, History, and the Dimensions of a New World Aesthetic” | Inter/Connections: Examinations of Diaspora through Contemporary Perspectives. Howard University. April 1, 2016.
“Transcendent Realities: Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’” | Normalcy and Its Discontents: Transgressions, Disruptions, Eruptions. Georgetown University. February 20, 2016.
“Metaphoricity and the Genealogies of Trace: Hybridity as Historical Intertext” | Border Crossings Symposium. George Washington University. February 12, 2016.
“Authorial Bricolage: Poetry of Mediation in the Age of Surveillance” | Words Unofficial: Gossip, Circulation, Mediation. University of Chicago. November 20, 2015.
Past Readings
City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco, CA, December 2019
Open Books, Seattle, WA, November 2019
The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, November 2019
Bazaar Writers’ Salon, San Francisco, CA, November 2019
KGB Bar, New York, NY, October 2019
Book Culture (112th St Location), New York, NY, October 2019
Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, CA, October 2019
E.M. Wolfman Books, Oakland, CA, October 2019
Poetry & Pints Reading Series, Davis, CA, September 2019
Head House Books (via Blue Stoop), Philadelphia, PA, September 2019
Columbia University, New York, NY, September 2019
Lannan Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, September 2019
The Potomac School, McLean, VA, September 2019
The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA, September 2019
Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, September 2019
Bridge Street Books, Washington, DC, August 2019
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, July 2019
Wild Fig Books & Coffee, Lexington, KY, July 2019
Carmichael’s Bookstore, Louisville, KY, July 2019
Writers Gild at Bear’s Place, Bloomington, IN, July 2019
Myopic Poetry Series, Myopic Books, Chicago, IL, June 2019
The Milk Hours Release Party, Butchertown Social, Louisville, KY, June 2019
Riff Raff Books and Bar, Providence, RI, June 2019
Provincetown Public Library, Provincetown, MA, June 2019
The Living Gallery Outpost, New York, NY, June 2019
Antidote Books, Putney, VT, June 2019
Ruth Stone Foundation Reading Series, Wishbone Collective, Winooski, VT, June 2019
Berkeley Rhetoric Society, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, May 2019
AWP Offsite, Crush Bar, Portland, OR, March 2019
Night of Literature (for Western Humanities Review), Portland, OR, March 2019
Saving AWP, Base Camp Brewing, Portland, OR, March 2019
Poetry Juice Reading Series, Manny’s, San Francisco, CA, March 2019
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, University of Louisville, February 2019
Holloway Poetry Series, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 2019
Sunday Kind of Love, Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, February 2018
Best American Poetry Launch, The New School, New York, NY, September 2017
The Black Squirrel, Washington, DC, May 2016
Ledge Mule Press Reading Series, I Fell Gallery, Bloomington, IN, June 2015
Columbia Faculty Selects Reading Series, KGB Bar, New York, NY, May 2015
Chthonic NYC Release, 61 Local, Brooklyn, NY, May 2015
Chthonic Louisville Release, Decca, Louisville, KY, May 2015
CutBank AWP Reading, AWP Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 2015
Portland Poetry Series, McQuixote Books, Louisville, KY, April 2015
InKY Reading Series (featured reader), The Bard’s Town, Louisville, KY, March 2015
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2015
Double Vision Show Reading, PYRO Gallery, Louisville, KY, February 2015
Green Fuse Press Release Reading, Decca, Louisville, KY, October 2014
Best New Poets 2013 Launch, Subterranean Books, St. Louis, MO, December 2013
Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue Release, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (Online), December 2013
InKY Reading Series (special guest), The Bard’s Town, Louisville, KY, September 2013
Shine Wellness Center, Louisville, KY, May 2013
Holler Poets Series, Al’s Bar, Lexington, KY, January 2013
Subterranean Phrases, Decca, Louisville, KY, January 2013
Stone Soup Reading Series, The Bard’s Town, Louisville, KY, September 2012
Blue Angel Reading Series, Blue Angel Wines, Brooklyn, NY, January 2012
Columbia Writer-Translator Series, The Underground Lounge, New York, NY, April 2011
Two Nights of Poetry and Prose, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY, March 2011
Gallery Reading Series, Columbia University, New York, NY, January 2011
Cornelia Street Café Reading Series, New York, NY, January 2010
Earshot NYC Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, January 2010