I’ll be reading as a part of the Rozzie Reads Series again. This time with Jennifer Jean and Jason Tandon at Roslindale House.

I’m fortunate to be joining Jimmy Pappas for a conversation about the varying poetic form in said the Frog and the scorpion. These include

• traditional free verse

• Q&A formats

• a bingo board

• erasure poetry

• multiple choice quiz

• sonnets

• call and response poems

I will be returning to Weston Public Library to read from said the Frog to the scorpion . This time I will be joined by the wonderful Hannah Larrabee.

Hannah’s Wonder Tissue won the Airlie Press Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for a Massachusetts Book Award. Her chapbook, The Observable Universe, is out now from Lily Press. Hannah wrote poetry for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope program and read her work at Goddard Space Center. She participated in the Arctic Circle Artists Residency in 2022. Hannah received an MFA from the University of New Hampshire where she studied with Charles Simic and she is currently an editor at Nixes Mate Review. 

Some advance press about the reading from The Weston Owl.

I’ll be reading from said the Frog to the scorpion at Open Doors Center for the Arts with Matthew Porto and David R. Surette.

Refreshments will be served and an open mic will follow.

I’ll be returning to Tidepool Bookshop in Worcester (MA) to read from said the Frog to the scorpion.

I’m proud to be reading with Quintin Collins and Sarah Kersey at Newton Public Library.

Wayne-Daniel Berard and Sara Letourneau host Pour Me a Poem on the second Thursday of each month, and I will be the featured reader in December.

Join me online for a reading from my new collection, said the Frog to the scorpion, this Thursday night at 8pm. I’ll be joined by Kai Coggin and Maya Williams.

Cancelled due to snow storm. Tentatively rescheduled for March 26th

I’m proud to be reading with Quintin Collins and Sarah Sarah Kersey

On the Frontlines/School Matters: K-12 Teachers Writing the Classroom

Panelists: Mahru Elahi, Marguerite Sheffer, Brittany Rogers, Matthew E. Henry, and Davon Loeb

Panel Description:

In-person event At a time when public educators are increasingly under political pressure, panelists will explore what it means to portray complex truths, dispel myths, and talk honestly about how to stay creative within top-down school systems as they find form and language for their experience with youth in the classroom. This multiracial and geographically diverse panel centers writers, editors and activists who put their K-12 classroom experience in conversation with their writing across multiple genres.

Join for a virtual reading from River Heron Review’s Poems for Now series on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. (EST).

I'm honored to be reading at Grolier Poetry Book Shop alongside Dale Cottingham and April Ossmann, with an introduction by Tom Daley. 

THERE ARE ONLY 20 SPOTS AVAILABLE. RSVP NOW

This hybrid Launch Celebration will feature readings from a diverse array of contributors and a dinner of vegan Indian food.

In person: Northeastern University's Boston campus in the Sacred Space, 203 Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue. Or join via Zoom

I’ll be reading at Firefly Farms: Holler Salon with Vincente Perez & Erin Hoover

A reading and theological discussion of The Third Renunciation at The Book Shop of Beverly Farms.

I’ll be returning to Open Doors, this time to read from The Third Renunciation.

I’ll be reading with poet Kevin Gallagher as part of the Gloucester Writers Center Reading Series.

Location change

Due to flooding, Boston Poetry Slam will meet at Starlight Square at Central (84 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139)

I have the pleasure of being a guest reader

for the virtual book launch of Maurya Kerr’s new collection MUTTOLOGY

I’ll be reading at Boneshaker Books at 6pm

I will be a part of a panel at the Roxbury Poetry Festival with Quintin Collins, Imani Davis, and Sarah Kersey entitled Culture as Container: How Identities Serve as Forms for Writing

Identity and ancestry can create recurring signatures in writing. Plot lines, images, and other craft elements take on some unique approaches, creating containers that the writers find themselves within or rail against from piece to piece. Four writers will read from their poetry and discuss how their cultural backgrounds serve as forms for their work, highlighting specific craft elements in their own work and work of their kin writers, as well as distinct aspects of craft that they see as originating from within their communities. 

Jimmy Pappas has invited me back, this time to read from and discuss poetry and theology through my new full length collection The Third Renunciation.