Events
EVENTS
2026
Saturday 26 September
Riffraff Bookstore with Elizabeth Metzger
Thursday and Friday 8 & 9 October
Center for African American Poetry & Poetics and Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University with Jenny Xie
Tuesday 9 November
Smith College
PAST EVENTS
2022
Greenlight Bookstore with Sharon Olds
Prairie Lights with Evie Shockley and Donika Kelly
Skylight Books with Aleshea Harris and Ashaki M. Jackson
Loyalty Bookstores with Ross Gay
Trinity College
Hartford, CT
The Poetry Project with John Keene
New York, NY
Cave Canem with Maya Marshall
Books Are Magic & Brooklyn Poets with Zakia Henderson-Brown, Aracelis Girmay, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Michelle Whittaker, & Jenny Xie
Brooklyn, NY
2023
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
YMCA of Downtown Syracuse
University of Houston with francine j. harris
92nd Street Y with Carl Phillips
New York, NY
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) with Yona Harvey
San Francisco, CA
New York University with Rio Cortez
New York, NY
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center
Table of Contents
New York, NY
The Poetic Line at the Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Bryant Park Reading Room
New York, NY
Jackson-Madison County Public Library
Jackson, TN
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) with Jared Jackson and India Lena González
Brooklyn, NY
New York Public Library with Terrance Hayes and Nicole Sealey
New York, NY
Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poetic License
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Books Are Magic with Simon Shieh
Brooklyn, NY
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Case Western Reserve
Cleveland, OH
Hauser & Wirth
The Flesh of the Earth | curated by Enuma Okoro
New York, NY
2024
Passaic Community College
Paterson Poetry Prize Winners and Finalists Reading
Paterson, NJ
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Great Barrington, MA
Waltham Public Library
Waltham, MA
SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, NY
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
“Poet Explores Identity with Art” by Kathleen Armstrong
University of Maryland with Hanna Pylväinen
College Park, MD
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
The Clifton House
Baltimore, MD
People’s Book | Green Way Reading Series with Sacha Marvin and Tyree Daye
Takoma Park, MD
Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival with Hanif Abdurraqib and Rachel Swearingen
Youngstown, OH
2025
The Poetry Project
Bodily Haptic Realities | Deep Study Session
LHUCA Literary Series
Lubbock, Texas
Brockport Writers Forum
Rochester, NY
P&T Knitwear with Donika Kelly, Marie Howe, Ladan Osman, and Melissa Febos
New York, NY
Brooklyn Academy of Music | Education
Brooklyn, NY
2026
Riffraff Bookstore with Cate Lycurgus and John Howard
Providence, RI
Santa Fe International Literary Festival with Rick Barot and Leah Ollman
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Community of Writers
Olympic Valley, California