Upcoming/Recent Events

Selected Past Events

Readings & Performances

  • Harpy Hybrid Review Reading – 2021 – Online
  • Community & World Literary Series – 2021 – California State University San Marcos, CA – Online
  • New Writing Series – 2020 – UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (postponed due to COVID-19)
  • New Orleans Poetry Festival (Conference) – CLASH Books Reading – 2020 – New Orleans, LA (postponed due to COVID-19)
  • Writers for Migrant Justice – 2019 – San Diego, CA
  • AWP CLASH Books Reading – 2019 – Portland, OR
  • Non-Standard Lit Reading Series – 2017 – San Diego, CA
  • Poetry Foundation & The Art Institute of Chicago – 2016 – Chicago, IL
  • Poetry Foundation – 2015 – Chicago, IL
  • Myopic Reading Series – 2015 – Chicago, IL
  • Bonk! – 2013 – Racine, WI
  • Myopic Reading Series – 2012 – Chicago, IL
  • The Poetry Center of Chicago – 2012 – Chicago, IL
  • Days and Nights Festival – 2011 – Big Sur, CA – collaborating with Philip Glass
  • Italian Cultural Institute – 2010 – Chicago, IL
  • Woodland Pattern Book Center – 2010 – Milwaukee, WI
  • Marick Press, Poetry Meets Kalamazoo – 2010 – Kalamazoo, MI
  • Chicago Calling Arts Festival – 2010 – Chicago, IL
  • ROCKPILE, with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg – 2009 – Chicago, IL
  • Series A – 2009 – Chicago, IL
  • Upstairs at Erika’s – 2009 – New York, NY
  • UniVerse: Festival of International Poetry, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts – 2009 – Chicago
  • Myopic Reading Series – 2008 – Chicago, IL
  • From Sham to Shame, Woman Made Gallery – 2007 – Chicago, IL

Conference & Workshop Presentations

  • 2020 – New Orleans Poetry Festival (Conference) – What Lit Witchcraft Can Do For You, panel – New Orleans, LA (postponed due to COVID-19)
  • 2019 – Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference – Arsenal/Sin Documentos book signing and Q&A – Portland, OR
  • 2016 – Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years Conference – Semi-peripheral (3D) – State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • 2016 – Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference – Creative Writing: Poetry section – Arsenal/Sin Documentos – St. Louis, MO
  • 2015 – Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference – Digital Humanities section – When Worlds Collide: A 3D Videogame Exploration of Poetry and Critical Theory – Columbus, OH
  • 2014 – David Foster Wallace Conference – Weird Pretty Hand: A Mash-up of Found Language -Bloomington, IL
  • 2014 – Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) Conference – Digital Literature as Praxis – Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
  • 2014 – Allerton English Articulation Conference – Digital Literature as Praxis – Monticello, IL
  • 2013 – Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference – Digital Humanities section – My Sunset Gun: from content first/design last to born digital – Milwaukee, WI
  • 2012 – Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference – Emerging Digital Genres: A Relational Investigation panel – Chicago, IL
  • 2011 – Cultural Studies Association Conference (CSA) – Fly Into the Streets: Documentary Poetics and Urban Culture Studies panel – Chicago, IL
  • 2010 – War, Literature & Art, United States Air Force Academy – Cinépoetry presentation – Colorado Springs, CO
  • 2010 – Split This Rock Poetry Festival – Documentary Poetics panel – Washington, D.C.
  • 2009 – &Now Festival of Innovative Writing – New Media Poetics presentation – SUNY, Albany, NY
  • 2009 – Series A: Conference on Poetics – New Media Poetics panel – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
  • 2006 – World Can’t Wait – The Artist’s Role in Resistance panel – Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  • 2006 – Midwest Literary Festival – Poetry as Social Engagement presentation – Naperville, IL