Upcoming Events
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellows’ Reading
Little Theatre, Ripton, VT
with Matthew Neill Null and Danzy Senna
August 16th, @4:15pm
“Scriptures, the Word: Activating Text as Liberation”
Otion Front Studio, Bushwick, BK
September 17th, @8pm
Brooklyn Book Festival Featured Reading
Main Stage (Cadman Plaza East), Downtown Brooklyn
with Camille Rankine, Ocean Vuong and Monica Young.
September 18th, @12:00pm
Social Awareness and Change Poetry Reading
KGB Red Room, New York, NY
with 8-10 poets.
September 24th, @7:00pm
Sarah Lawrence College Author Visit
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
October 5, @11:30pm
Levis Reading Prize Reading
VCU Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University
October 11, @7:00pm
Dodge Poetry Festival
Downtown Arts District, Newark, NJ
October 20-23, @ Various Time
Tales of Two Americas
Symphony Space, New York, NY
with Roxanne Gay
October 26, @TBA time
American Stanzas: 2006 – 2016
Poets House, TBA
with Rachel Eliza Griffiths and others
November 3rd, @TBA time.
SEGUE Reading Series
Zinc Bar, New York, NY
November 12, @$4:30pm
Writers at Newark Reading Series
Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University in Newark
with Ocean Vuong
November 15th, @5:30pm
Selected Past Events
Jealous Moon Tour Reading
Berl’s Poetry Shop, Dumbo, NY
with Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Yesenia Montilla, and Mahogany L. Browne
January 28, 2015, @7:00PM
An Evening With TJ Jarrett & Rickey Laurentiis
Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Tarrytown, NY
with TJ Jarret
January 29, 2015, @7:30PM
An Evening with Rickey Laurentiis
Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
February 16, 2015, @6:00PM
Alumni Poetry Reading
Washington University, St Louis, MO
with Phillip B. Williams
February 18, @8:00PM
New Writers Literary Festival Featured Reading
New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
March 10, @8:00PM
Poetry and Race in America: How the Humanities Engage with Social ProblemsUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
with Terrance Hayes, Toi Derricote, Ross Gay, Nate Marshall and more.
March 21, @7:00PM
Queertopia or Bust: Thoughts on Intersectional Queer Poetics
Association for Writers/Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles, CA
with Jason Schneiderman, Julie Enszer, Viet Le, and Trace Peterson
March 31, @12:00PM
Rainbow Fair Featured Reading
TBA, New York, NY
April 9th, @TBA
Pride Month Reading at Princeton University
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
April 15th, @8:00PM
Publishing Triangle Awards Finalist Reading
Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, New York, NY
April 20th, @7:00PM
One Pause Poet: Emerging Poets Series
TBA, Ann Arbor, MI
with Airea Dee Matthews, Ladan Osman and more
April 28th, @7:00PM
Featured Reading at Trinity’s Poet/ry Festival
St Paul’s Chapel, New York, NY
May 1st, @1:30pm
“Scratching through the Dark: Rough Thinking on Race in Poetry and Art”
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
May 3, @2:00PM (Craft Talk)
Lambda Literary Award Finalist Reading
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
May 4, @6:30PM
Pitt Poets at Bryant Park Reading Series
Bryant Park, New York, NY
June 7, @7:00PM
Visiting Writer Featured Reading
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
June 22, @7:00PM
Emotive Fruition & Lambda Literary’s Pride Poetry Show
Botantic Lab, 96 Orchard St
June 23, @7:30PM
Solstice MFA Program’s Summer 2016 Residency Poetry Reading
Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
July 10, @7:30PM
Nepantla Reading
Berl’s Poetry Shop,126A Front St
with t’ai freedom ford, Tommy Pico and Lara Lorenzo
August 8th, 2015, @7:00PM
Hello Mr. Magazine’s Desert Island Reading: Poems You Can’t Live Without
One Grand Books, 8 Fulton Street
with Bianca Stone, Jameson Fitzpatrick and Tommy Pico
August 26th, 2015, @7:00PM
Kundiman Word for Word Bryant Park Reading
Bryant Park Reading Room, 6th Avenue and 42nd Street
with Lo Kwa Mei-en, Wendy Xu and Brenda Shaughnessy
September 1st, 2015, @7:00PM
Boy with Thorn Reception
Civitella Ranieri, 28 Hubert St
September 2015, Invite Only
Word Bookstore Reading
Word Bookstore, 123 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ
with Vincent Toro, Amy King and Melissa Adamo
September 13, 2015, @5:30PM
Betsy Fagin’s Book Release Party
Torn Page Parlour, West 22nd Street
October 6th, 2015, @7:00PM
Fire & Ink: Witness (Panel)
Cobo Center, Detroit, MIC
October 8-11th, 2015
Reading with Four Way Books
Cornelia Street, 29 Cornelia St
with Eugenia Leigh and Mahogany Browne
October 15, 2015, @7:00PM
Reading at the Poetry Project
St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street
with Jaime Shearn Coan
October 16, 2015, @8:00PM
The Eagle and Wren Featured Reading
Bookcourt, 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
October 18, 2015, @7:00PM
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
with Mahogany L. Browne and Jee Leong Koh
November 5, 2015, @7:00PM
Riverwood Poetry Festival
Mark Twain House, Hartfoord, CT
November 7th, 2015 @7:00PM
The Poetry Society of America Readings at McNally Jackson
McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street
with Richie Hoffman
November 10, 2015, @7:00PM
Columbia University Faculty Reading
Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway
with CU Faculty
November 11, 2015, @8:00PM
Moby-Dick: A Marathon Reading
Whitney Museum, Fifth Floor Galleries
November 14, 2015, @9:00PM
Dead Rabbits Reading Series
DTUT Bar & Cafe, 1744 2nd Avenue
with Tommy Pico
November 15, 2015, @8:00PM
Poetry Salon
Grennlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, BK
with Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mahogany L. Browne and more
November 16, 2015, @7:30PM
Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading (Public Launch)
Lillian Vernon House @ NYU, 58 W 10th Street
with Raina Fields and Terrance Hayes
December 3, 2015, @7:00PM
High School Reading
Ethical Culture Fieldston School Home, Bronx, NY
with Joey De Jesus
December 8, 2015
Page Meets Stage
Celebration of Whimsy, 21-A Clinton Street
with Janae Johnson
December 9, 2015, @7:00PM
Admission: $12 @ door, $6 online
Free Water #10
KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St
December 18, 2015, @7:30PM
Fence Issue #30 Launch Party
Babycastles, 137 West 14th St, 2nd Fl
June 25 2015, @7:00PM
Nathaniel Rosenthalis’ Chapbook Launch
The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street
July 19, 2015, @7:00PM
Boston Review 40th Anniversary Reading
AWP Conference, Minneapolis, MN
with Carmen Giménez Smith, Robyn Schiff, John Koethe, and Susan Wheeler
April 10th, 2015 @ 10:30 AM
TARGET First Saturday’s Crossing Brooklyn Poetry Reading
Brooklyn Museum, Crown Heights, NY
with Corina Copp, Charles North, and Patricia Spears Jones.
January 3rd, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Frank O’Hara Poetry Festival
Fire Island Pines, Long Island, NY
with Edmund White, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Muldoon and others.
July 12th, 2014 @ Noon
“In the Life”: A Reading of Works by Black Gay Men from the 1980/90s.
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
with John Keene, Glenn Ligon, Robert Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed and more.
April 19th, 2013 @ 7:00PM