Readings & Events
2024
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Making Poems, Making Books
A Workshop co-taught with Anita Steen
Abiquiu, NM
Oct. 13-18
Ghost Ranch Agape Center
Poetry Reading
With Anita Steen and Joan Loge
Abiquiu, NM
Oct. 16 at 4 pm
Peter White Public Library
Workshop
Writing in the Intersection: Where Poetry and Micro Nonfiction Meet
Marquette, MI
July 30 from 1 -3pm
Peter White Public Library
Reading
Marquette, MI
July 29 at 7 pm
FILMETRY
Film Adaptations of Poems
The Fledge
Lansing, MI
Friday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m.
Poetry Society of Michigan
Hackely Public Library
Talk & Workshop
Muskegon, MI
Saturday, April 13 at 1:15 p.m.
2023
Brain Candy Reading Series
Green Brain Comics
Dearborn, MI
Monday, December 18
Seminary Co-op/57th Street Books
Reading & Talk
Hyde Park, IL
October 27 at 6 p.m.
Using Art to Make Art
A week of readings and workshops
Hessel School House
Hessel, MI
June 26 - June 30
Spies Public Library
Reading & Talk
Menominee, MI
May 11 at 6 p.m.
Roethke House
Virtual Poetry Workshop
"Turning Sighs into Songs"
April 11 at 7 p.m.
East Lansing Public Library
Reading
100th Anniversary Community Celebration
March 11
East Lansing Public Library
Youth Poetry Workshops
East Lansing, MI
February 21 & March 21
2022
Literati Bookstore
Reading with Anne-Marie Oomen, Ellen Stone, and Keith Taylor
Ann Arbor, MI
Nov. 7
Pages Bookshop
Reading with M.L. Liebler and Diane DeCillis
Detroit, MI
September 27
POSTPONED
Using Art to Make Art
A week of readings and workshops
Hessel School House
Hessel, MI
August 22 - August 26
POSTPONED
North45East Reading at Art in the Loft
With Marc Sheehan and others
Alpena, MI
July 21
Book Arts Workshop
Richard & Jane Manoogian Art Museum
Mackinac Island, MI
July 20
Peter White Public Library
Reading
Marquette, MI
July 11
East Lansing Public Library
Reading
East Lansing, MI
June 1 at 6 pm
Roethke House
"Cuttings: When Sprouts Break Out"
A reading of new work inspired by old work
With Jim Daniels, Kathleen McGookey, Thomas Lynch, and Anita Skeen
Saginaw, MI
May 23 at 5:30 pm
Detroit Writing Room
Reading with Peter Markus
Via Zoom
Tuesday, April 26 at 7 pm
Peter White Public Library
Reading with Lynn Domina
Marquette, MI
April 24 at 7 pm
Lily Poetry Salon
Reading with Suzanne Edison
Via Zoom
Sunday, January 30 at 7 pm
2021
Hay Memorial Library
Sackets Harbor, New York
Workshop & Reading via Zoom
Saturday, May 22 from 10 am - Noon
Cambridge Common Writers
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Readings from the Anthology Voices Amidst the Virus
Via Zoom with Editors and Contributors
Tuesday, June 8 at 7 pm
The Broad Art Museum at MSU
Readings from The American Road
Via Zoom with other Short Edition Contributors
Wednesday, May 19 at 7 pm
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, NM
Reading via Zoom with Anita Skeen and Colleen Anderson
Wednesday, April 28 at 7 pm
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, NM
Visting Workshop Leader via Zoom
Wednesday, April 28, Noon - 2 pm (Eastern)
Michigan State University Filmetry Festival
via Zoom
Co-founder with Peter Johnston
April 21 at 7 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
Nantucket, MA
Reading via Zoom with Several Poets
Wednesday, April 7 at 7 pm
2020
Wayne State University Press
Reading and Talk
with Brian Gilmore and Jeff Kass
May 13 at 7 pm
Hay Memorial Library
Sackets Harbor, New York
Workshop & Reading
Saturday, April 25 from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Postponed due to COVID
Penn State Altoona
Altoona, PA
Tuesday, March 31
Cancelled Due to COVID
2019
RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University
Readings from RESPECT: Poetry of Detroit Music
Theater in Snyder/Phillips Hall, East Lansing, MI
Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
Delta Township Public Library
Lansing, MI
Tuesday, October 29 at 12:30 p.m.
BookSuey Bookstore
Hamtramck, MI
Saturday, November 9 at 2 pm
Windsor BookFest
With M.L. Liebler, Jim Daniels, and W.D. Ehrhart
School of Creative Arts (SoCA)
Windsor, Ontario
Friday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
Two Books Two Communities
Marquette & Munising, MI
September 19 at 7 p.m. at Peter White Public Library
September 20 at 6 p.m. at Munising Public Library
Stony Lake Summer Speaker Series
Camp Miniwanca, MI
Saturday, August 10 at 7 p.m.
Royal Oak Public Library
Royal Oak, MI
Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
Wellspring Literary Series
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m.
2018
St. Ignace Public Library
St. Ignace, MI
Thursday, September 6 at 6:30 p.m.
New Buffalo Public Library
New Buffalo, MI
Tuesday, August 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Montague Public Library
Montague, MI
August 1, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Pickford Community Library
Pickford, MI
Tuesday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Hackley Public Library
Muskegon, MI
Monday, June 4 at 6 p.m.
Devereaux Memorial Library
Grayling, MI
Thursday, May 24 at 5 p.m.
Chesterfield Township Library
Chesterfield, MI
Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m.
St. Clair County Library
Port Huron, MI
Thursday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Fremont Public Library
April 12, 2018
Night for Notables Celebration
Library of Michigan
Lansing, MI
Saturday, April 7
2017
Detroit Public Library -- Main
Explorers' Room
5201 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI
Tuesday, December 5 at 6 p.m.
Harbor Springs Festival of the Book
Harbor Springs, MI
Friday, September 29 - Sunday, Oct.1
New Hampshire Poetry Festival
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Saturday, September 23
Panal Presentation ("All the New Thinking Is About Loss")
With Karin Gottshall and Karla Van Vliet
Kerrytown BookFest, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday, September 10
With Keith Taylor, ZG Tomaszweski, and Robert Fanning
The Courthouse Gallery & Studios/Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre
Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
Mackinac Island
Wednesday, July 19
Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI
Tuesday, July 18
With Thomas Lynch and John Smolens
SubText Bookstore
6 West Fifth St., St. Paul, MN
Saturday, July 8, 7 p.m.
Moon Palace Books
3260 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Friday, July 7, 6:30 p.m.
Bookstore at Fitger's
Duluth, MN
Wednesday, June 14, 6:30 p.m.
Apostle Islands Booksellers, Bayfield, WI
Sunday, June 11
Roethke House, Saginaw, MI
Thursday, June 8, 6 p.m.
Ransom Public Library, Plainwell, MI
Thursday, May 18, 7 p.m.
With Kathleen McGookey
BookBug, Kalamazoo, MI
3019 Oakland Dr.
Thursday, May 11, 7 p.m.
With Kathleen McGookey and Nancy Nott
Michigan Poetry Night, hosted by Times Herald Newspapers
Exquisite Corpse Coffee House, Port Huron, MI
Thursday, April 27, 7 p.m.
RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University
Theater in Snyder/Phillips Hall, East Lansing, MI
Wednesday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Eastern Market, Detroit, MI
Power of the Press Fest
Signal-Return, Shed 5
Sunday, April 9, 1:15 p.m.
With Keith Taylor and Laura Thomas
Ferndale Public Library, 222 E. 9 Mile Rd., Ferndale, MI
Wednesday, April 5, 7 p.m.
With Thomas Lynch
57th Street Books and The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL
Tuesday, March 7, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
With Elizabeth Arnold
Kresge Mansion, 74 Arden Park Blvd., Detroit, MI
Saturday, February 25, 2017, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
With Keith Taylor and Jim Daniels
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Making Poems, Making Books
A Workshop co-taught with Anita Steen
Abiquiu, NM
Oct. 13-18
Ghost Ranch Agape Center
Poetry Reading
With Anita Steen and Joan Loge
Abiquiu, NM
Oct. 16 at 4 pm
Peter White Public Library
Workshop
Writing in the Intersection: Where Poetry and Micro Nonfiction Meet
Marquette, MI
July 30 from 1 -3pm
Peter White Public Library
Reading
Marquette, MI
July 29 at 7 pm
FILMETRY
Film Adaptations of Poems
The Fledge
Lansing, MI
Friday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m.
Poetry Society of Michigan
Hackely Public Library
Talk & Workshop
Muskegon, MI
Saturday, April 13 at 1:15 p.m.
2023
Brain Candy Reading Series
Green Brain Comics
Dearborn, MI
Monday, December 18
Seminary Co-op/57th Street Books
Reading & Talk
Hyde Park, IL
October 27 at 6 p.m.
Using Art to Make Art
A week of readings and workshops
Hessel School House
Hessel, MI
June 26 - June 30
Spies Public Library
Reading & Talk
Menominee, MI
May 11 at 6 p.m.
Roethke House
Virtual Poetry Workshop
"Turning Sighs into Songs"
April 11 at 7 p.m.
East Lansing Public Library
Reading
100th Anniversary Community Celebration
March 11
East Lansing Public Library
Youth Poetry Workshops
East Lansing, MI
February 21 & March 21
2022
Literati Bookstore
Reading with Anne-Marie Oomen, Ellen Stone, and Keith Taylor
Ann Arbor, MI
Nov. 7
Pages Bookshop
Reading with M.L. Liebler and Diane DeCillis
Detroit, MI
September 27
POSTPONED
Using Art to Make Art
A week of readings and workshops
Hessel School House
Hessel, MI
August 22 - August 26
POSTPONED
North45East Reading at Art in the Loft
With Marc Sheehan and others
Alpena, MI
July 21
Book Arts Workshop
Richard & Jane Manoogian Art Museum
Mackinac Island, MI
July 20
Peter White Public Library
Reading
Marquette, MI
July 11
East Lansing Public Library
Reading
East Lansing, MI
June 1 at 6 pm
Roethke House
"Cuttings: When Sprouts Break Out"
A reading of new work inspired by old work
With Jim Daniels, Kathleen McGookey, Thomas Lynch, and Anita Skeen
Saginaw, MI
May 23 at 5:30 pm
Detroit Writing Room
Reading with Peter Markus
Via Zoom
Tuesday, April 26 at 7 pm
Peter White Public Library
Reading with Lynn Domina
Marquette, MI
April 24 at 7 pm
Lily Poetry Salon
Reading with Suzanne Edison
Via Zoom
Sunday, January 30 at 7 pm
2021
Hay Memorial Library
Sackets Harbor, New York
Workshop & Reading via Zoom
Saturday, May 22 from 10 am - Noon
Cambridge Common Writers
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Readings from the Anthology Voices Amidst the Virus
Via Zoom with Editors and Contributors
Tuesday, June 8 at 7 pm
The Broad Art Museum at MSU
Readings from The American Road
Via Zoom with other Short Edition Contributors
Wednesday, May 19 at 7 pm
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, NM
Reading via Zoom with Anita Skeen and Colleen Anderson
Wednesday, April 28 at 7 pm
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, NM
Visting Workshop Leader via Zoom
Wednesday, April 28, Noon - 2 pm (Eastern)
Michigan State University Filmetry Festival
via Zoom
Co-founder with Peter Johnston
April 21 at 7 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
Nantucket, MA
Reading via Zoom with Several Poets
Wednesday, April 7 at 7 pm
2020
Wayne State University Press
Reading and Talk
with Brian Gilmore and Jeff Kass
May 13 at 7 pm
Hay Memorial Library
Sackets Harbor, New York
Workshop & Reading
Saturday, April 25 from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Postponed due to COVID
Penn State Altoona
Altoona, PA
Tuesday, March 31
Cancelled Due to COVID
2019
RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University
Readings from RESPECT: Poetry of Detroit Music
Theater in Snyder/Phillips Hall, East Lansing, MI
Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
Delta Township Public Library
Lansing, MI
Tuesday, October 29 at 12:30 p.m.
BookSuey Bookstore
Hamtramck, MI
Saturday, November 9 at 2 pm
Windsor BookFest
With M.L. Liebler, Jim Daniels, and W.D. Ehrhart
School of Creative Arts (SoCA)
Windsor, Ontario
Friday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
Two Books Two Communities
Marquette & Munising, MI
September 19 at 7 p.m. at Peter White Public Library
September 20 at 6 p.m. at Munising Public Library
Stony Lake Summer Speaker Series
Camp Miniwanca, MI
Saturday, August 10 at 7 p.m.
Royal Oak Public Library
Royal Oak, MI
Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
Wellspring Literary Series
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m.
2018
St. Ignace Public Library
St. Ignace, MI
Thursday, September 6 at 6:30 p.m.
New Buffalo Public Library
New Buffalo, MI
Tuesday, August 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Montague Public Library
Montague, MI
August 1, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Pickford Community Library
Pickford, MI
Tuesday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Hackley Public Library
Muskegon, MI
Monday, June 4 at 6 p.m.
Devereaux Memorial Library
Grayling, MI
Thursday, May 24 at 5 p.m.
Chesterfield Township Library
Chesterfield, MI
Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m.
St. Clair County Library
Port Huron, MI
Thursday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Fremont Public Library
April 12, 2018
Night for Notables Celebration
Library of Michigan
Lansing, MI
Saturday, April 7
2017
Detroit Public Library -- Main
Explorers' Room
5201 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI
Tuesday, December 5 at 6 p.m.
Harbor Springs Festival of the Book
Harbor Springs, MI
Friday, September 29 - Sunday, Oct.1
New Hampshire Poetry Festival
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Saturday, September 23
Panal Presentation ("All the New Thinking Is About Loss")
With Karin Gottshall and Karla Van Vliet
Kerrytown BookFest, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday, September 10
With Keith Taylor, ZG Tomaszweski, and Robert Fanning
The Courthouse Gallery & Studios/Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre
Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
Mackinac Island
Wednesday, July 19
Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI
Tuesday, July 18
With Thomas Lynch and John Smolens
SubText Bookstore
6 West Fifth St., St. Paul, MN
Saturday, July 8, 7 p.m.
Moon Palace Books
3260 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Friday, July 7, 6:30 p.m.
Bookstore at Fitger's
Duluth, MN
Wednesday, June 14, 6:30 p.m.
Apostle Islands Booksellers, Bayfield, WI
Sunday, June 11
Roethke House, Saginaw, MI
Thursday, June 8, 6 p.m.
Ransom Public Library, Plainwell, MI
Thursday, May 18, 7 p.m.
With Kathleen McGookey
BookBug, Kalamazoo, MI
3019 Oakland Dr.
Thursday, May 11, 7 p.m.
With Kathleen McGookey and Nancy Nott
Michigan Poetry Night, hosted by Times Herald Newspapers
Exquisite Corpse Coffee House, Port Huron, MI
Thursday, April 27, 7 p.m.
RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University
Theater in Snyder/Phillips Hall, East Lansing, MI
Wednesday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Eastern Market, Detroit, MI
Power of the Press Fest
Signal-Return, Shed 5
Sunday, April 9, 1:15 p.m.
With Keith Taylor and Laura Thomas
Ferndale Public Library, 222 E. 9 Mile Rd., Ferndale, MI
Wednesday, April 5, 7 p.m.
With Thomas Lynch
57th Street Books and The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL
Tuesday, March 7, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
With Elizabeth Arnold
Kresge Mansion, 74 Arden Park Blvd., Detroit, MI
Saturday, February 25, 2017, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
With Keith Taylor and Jim Daniels