poetry for black lives: a reading and conversation
November 11, 2020
with Sequoia Maner, darlene anita scott, Emily Ruth Rutter
boston public library
copley square
VIA ZOOM
visionary New England exhibition
oct 8, 2020 – March 14, 2021
Sam Durant commission
decordova museum
Lincoln, ma
Bridgewater state American poetry class
November 10, 2020
with Professor John mulrooney
bridgewater state university
bridgewater, MA
home: reading and workshop series
November 6 + 7, 2020
curated by porsha olayiwola
Haley house cafe
Roxbury
VIA ZOOM
Mother Tongue Books/ Matènwa Learning Community Fundraiser
February, 2020
Lunder Art Center
Cambridge
Launch for spoKe 6
December, 2019
With editor Kevin Gallagher, and Amanda Cook, Philip Nikolayev, John Mulrooney, and Meg Tyler
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Cambridge
School Street Sessions
November, 2019
Readings from What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump with editor Martín Espada, and Doug Anderson, Everett Hoagland, Richard Michelson, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, and Lauren Marie Schmidt
Omni Parker House
Boston
Boston Originals Reading Series
November, 2019
With Chibụìhè Obi Achịmbá, Kristen Case, Amanda Cook, Suzanne Mercury, Oliver Strand, and Janaka Stucky
Woodbury Poetry Room
Harvard University
Boston Book Festival
October, 2019
Immigrant Literature Panel with Juliet Grames and Ruvanee Villhauer
Boston
Black Words Matter Project
October, 2019
Workshop: 21st-Century African Poetry
Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences
University of Massachusetts—Boston
Poetry is a Bridge: A Celebration of Poetry in Translation and in Many Languages
September, 2019
With Mark Schafer, José Zepeda and George Abraham
Frugal Books, Roxbury
Writers for Migrant Justice: Poetry Reading and Fundraiser
September, 2019
With Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Anna V.Q. Ross, Oliver de la Paz, Alana Folson, Natalie Shapero, Martín Espada, Grace Talusan, Nicole Terez Dutton, Pablo Medina, and U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
Arlington Street Church
Boston
FEMS x Boston Immigrant Writers Salon
August, 2019
Reading and Workshop
Boston
Boston Poetry Marathon
August, 2019
30th Annual American Literature Association Conference
May, 2019
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era roundtable with editors, Emily Ruth Rutter and Tiffany Austin
Boston
The Art of Translation
May, 2019
With Martha Collins, Jim Kates, and Emma Ramadan
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline
Women’s Lunch Fundraiser
April, 2019
Introduction of National Youth Poet Laureate, Patricia Frazier
Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston
Boston’s New Poet Laureate Welcome
January, 2019
Emerson College, Paramount Theater
Boston
Violence Against Women Conference
November, 2018
Still I Rise: A Reply to American Violence in the Writings of Contemporary Black Women Poets
Lesley University
Cambridge
Leipziger Literarischer Herbst 2018
October, 2018
Readings and Workshops
Leipzig
Discussing Literature, Ethics, and Social Justice
October, 2018
With Sonia Sanchez, Meg Tyler, and Gerald Vizenor
Boston University
real people, real stories: mattapan, exhibition launch
June, 2018
With photographer Jennifer Waddell and participants Arthur Kitty, Ashley Rose, Cassandra Cato-Louis, Chanel Thervil, Cornell Coley, Cynthia Spearman-Hall, Gerard Georges, Joanne Daley, Johane Alexis-Phanor, Marjorie Saintil Belizaire, Mia Willis, Pascale Martineau, Robert Peters, Robyn Gibson Shaina Gilbert, and Viviane Alexis
boston public library
mattapan
historic new England
june, 2018
articulations of America: the poetry of what it means to be American
eustis house
milton
Isabella Stewart gardner museum
maY, 2018
the living room project initiated by lee mingwei
Boston
Resistance mic
april, 2018
With Kate appleton, Artress Bethany White, Youth Underground, Amy Siskind, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy
oberon/american repertory theater
cambridge
bocas literary festival
april, 2018
Take Two: Haiti in All my Dreams with Katia D. Ulysse and Ibrahim Ahmad
Crossing Tongues with Adalber Salas Hernández, Loretta Collins Klobah, and Vahni Capildeo
port-of-spain
boston athenaeum
april, 2018
poetry group reading + presentation
Boston
Suffolk poetry center
april, 2018
who’s there? a reading of new translations in French and English with Jennifer barber, Peter brown, David ferry, Emmanuel merle, marjorie Salvadon, and Caroline talpe
Suffolk university
boston
the ruth and carl j. shapiro celebrity lectures
FEbruary, 2018
introduction of artist/activist harry Belafonte
museum of fine arts
boston
American literary translators association conference
october, 2017
translating haitian literatures: practice, publication, and circulation with siobhan meï, corine tachtiris, j.t. mahany, and Susan kilter
minneapolis
city of notions anthology launch
july, 2017
with Linda carney Goodrich, Maggie dietz, haywood fennell sr., kevin Gallagher, holly guran, krysten hill, Timothy liu, jennifer militello, and anna ross
Boston public library
boston
New England poetry club
july, 2017
I, immigrant: poetry on the immigrant and refugee experience with Alan smith soto
longfellow historic house
cambridge
institute of contemporary art/boston
july, 2017
Eva Respini with Danielle Legros Georges on Dana Schutz
Boston