On March 15, at 6pm, I will be reading with Ted Jonathan, Monique Ferrell, and Maria Lisella at Kinokuniya Bookstore (1073 Avenue of the Americas) near Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. Join us!

October 21 at 6pm I will be reading at Alice’s Tea Cup Chapter II (156 E 64th Street, New York, NY 10065) with Michael Montlack, John Goode, and Vincent Czyz. Come out, New Yorkers!

This Sunday, October 11, I will be reading poetry with Brian Fanelli, Ali Pica, and Lawrence Pugliese at the Synaesthesia Social with Doug Smith’s jazz group playing and artists drawing the whole shebang. Come out! It’s a guaranteed good time. It’s at the Old Brick Theatre in Scranton, PA. (Drawing by Ted Michalowski)

Come to Poets Wednesday on August 12, 2015! Raymond Hammond and I will be running a workshop at 7pm then reading poems at 8pm at the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge, NJ on August 12, 2015. Barron Arts Center is at 582 Rahway Avenue and can be reached at 732.634.0413.

August 9, 2015 @ 6pm Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

Jenna Le, Doug Treem, Diane Lockward, and Editor-in-Chief Raymond Hammond read poems. Not to be missed!

The American Scholar is doing a wonderful crowd-sourcing poetry experiment with lines selected by David Lehman. Check out my winning line from this week’s acrostic poem:

Let’s be misunderstood . . .

Prick of the Spindle interviewer Cynthia Reeser asks NYQ authors Anis Shivani, Michael Montlack, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and myself some questions:

Prick of the Spindle Interview

Please join me for a great reading with Tony Gloeggler, Urayoan Noel, Bunkong Tuon, and myself this upcoming Monday at 6:30. For more details, go here:

NYQ Reading at Bowery Poetry Club

Monday: WCW’s “The Young Housewife”

Tuesday: Respect for Nature; Respect for Us

Wednesday: Relativism in Reading

Thursday: No Martyrs

Friday: Design?

Please see my poem “Swallowed Whole” on The The Poetry Blog:

The The Poetry Blog Poem of the Week