awp conference
February 10, 2024
readings from wheatley at 250: black women poets re-imagine the verse of phillis wheatley peters, with artress bethany white, evie shockley, tara betts, and kiki petrosino
panel: a celebration of the work of afaa michael weaver, with enzo silon surin, tara betts, bro. yao, and afaa Michael weaver
kansas city, mo
institute of contemporary art/ Boston
ica forum: a Caribbean Boston
January 19, 2024
moderator of panel discussion featuring Boston cultural leaders and innovators Althea blackford, Anthony febo, Julia mejia, and Gabriel Sosa
book launch for tè mwen renmen / this land, my beloved anthology
October 28, 2023
with editors and contributors
cambridge public library central branch
cambridge, ma
the colonial society of massachusetts
phillis wheatley symposium
october 21, 2023
with Artress Bethany white and l’merchie Frazier
Boston
Boston book festival
Haitian literature in the u.s.
october 14, 2023
panel moderated by Milady auguste, with Charlot Lucien and eddy toussaint
copley square
letters for phillis
september 14, 2023
a reading in honor of Phillis Wheatley, organized by porsha Olayiwola, with Kyrsten hill, Tatiana Johnson-boria, letta neely, and kyara andrade howell
museum of african american history Boston
the American library in Paris & the center for the art of translation
september 14, 2023
readings from elektrik: francophone literature in glittering translations, with Marie-Célie Agnant, gaël Octavia, moderated by Myriam chancy
the center for fiction
15 lafayette avenue
brooklyn, ny
mass poetry festival
may 6+7, 2023
words in space | panel with Mary Buchinger, Martha collins, and David donna
pangyrus: where poet lives | reading with Cheryl clark vermeulen, cynthia bargar, Jennifer Martelli, and others
translation today | a conversation with Jennifer jean and dzivinia orlowsky
salem, MA
salon d’ayiti | a Haitian literary series
April 28 +29, 2023
book signings, readings, and panels with haitian writers and books on haiti
the center for fiction
15 lafayette avenue
Brooklyn, NY
first & last word poetry series
April 18, 2023
with Eileen Cleary and Wendy Drexler
virtual
menino arts center reading
april 13, 2023
with tom daly and Matthew Henry
26 Central Avenue
Hyde Park, MA
Xit the Bear Readings in the Press Room
April 2, 2023
with John Mulrooney
90 Oxford street
somerville, ma
fluid vessels reading
march 27, 2023
with Elena croituru and redd ryder
mcgill university
montreal
virtual
transition magazine issue 133 launch
february 16, 2023
with Ariana benson, Elizabeth giorgis, and Joseph Ndukwu
hutchins center
Harvard University
Cambridge, ma
spoke magazine issue 9 launch
january 20, 2023
with Susan Eisenberg, and Suzanne Mercury–and with an introduction by Kevin Gallagher
grolier poetry bookshop
6 Plympton street
Cambridge, ma
the tea leaf poetry invitational reading
december 10, 2022
with Patrick Sylvain
THE TEA LEAF parlor & art gallery
487 Moody Street
waltham, ma
the transnational literature series
november 10, 2022
with Sylvie kandé
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
Bridgewater state university readings
October 24 +25, 2022
with professor John mulrooney’s classes
bridgewater, ma
virtual
middlesex community college reading
October 19, 2022
with professor tom Laughlin’s classes
middlesex community college
Bedford, ma
the tell it slant poetry festival
september 25, 2022
does translation tell it slant?, panel with Ilan stavans and regina galasso
Emily Dickinson museum
Amherst, ma
hollihock writer’s conference
September 24, 2022
literary translation conversation
+
a celebration of June Jordan, panel with Janet Aalfs and Nicole Young-Martin
New Bedford, ma
Julia de burgos reading
july 28, 2022
with Sean Frederick Forbes
julia de burgos park
willimantic, CT
matwaala: south Asian diaspora Poet’s collective, a Caribbean poets reading
july 8, 2022
With Marianela Medrano, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Bessy Reyna
virtual
A Celebration of Brister Freeman, a Thoreau society + Robbins house reading
July 9, 2022
Robbins House, 320 Monument Street
Concord, MA
voices of refugees: stories from our neighbors – panel
june 14, 2022
historic newton and newton public library
virtual
Three Leaves: A Conversation on Haitian Poets with Danielle Legros Georges
may 7, 2022
mattapan public library
mattapan, ma
Newburyport literary festival
april 29 – may 1, 2022
newburyport, ma
with Geoffrey brock
virtual
Live at brookline booksmith! 4×4 reading
April 28, 2022
hosted by Jennifer barber, brookline poet laureate
with George kalogeris and fred marchant
NOTE: this reading has pivoted to Virtual
AWp conference 20th Anniversary Reading for Barrow Street Press
march 26, 2022
With Peter Covino, Sharon Dolin, Sally Ball, Claudia Keelan, and Timothy Liu
Virtual
new England poetry club reading
february 13, 2022
with jennifer markell and Lloyd Schwartz
virtual
brookline poetry series
january 16, 2022
with Gail Mazur
public library of brookline
brookline, ma
chapter and verse reading series
december 10, 2021
with Jennifer Markell and jan Schreiber
Jamaica plain, ma
virtual
phosphorescence poetry reading series
October 28, 2021
with Somrita Ganguly
Emily dickinson museum
Amherst, ma
virtual
critical intentional conversations series
OCTOBER 12, 2021
with professor sara-anne semedo
cape cod community college
west barnstable, ma
virtual
longfellow house national historic site | 2021 virtual summer poetry festival
AUGUST 8, 2021
with jean Dany joachim
Cambridge, MA
virtual
an evening with boston poets
July 8, 2021
with Kendra DeColo, Peter Filkins, and Peter Shippy
brookline booksmith
virtual
the evolution of traka (documentary) talk-back with jean appolon and company
june 8, 2021
isabella Stewart gardner museum
boston
virtual
laguagua poetry festival virtual reading series
may 1, 2021
with Zeina Hashem Beck, Deborah Bennett, Samir Delgado, Alexis Díaz-Pimienta, Rhina P. Espaillat, Audrey Henderson, Michael Leong, Pablo Medina, Philip Nikolayev, Pedro Poitevin, Patrick Sylvain, Taty Hernández Durán, Leonardo Nin, Jean Dany Joachim, Daisy Novoa Vásquez, Peo Tuy and Octavio R. González, organized by Willy Ramirez
virtual
what tells you ripeness: black poets on nature launch + reading
april 22, 2021
with Nikki Wallschlaeger and others
sponsored by pangyrus
virtual
the power of poetry wgbh panel
april 12, 2021
with Chen Chen, Porsha olayiwola, Dara Wier, moderated by Eliza new
in collaboration with Mass poetry
virtual
visionary New England exhibition
october 2020
– march 2021
sam durant commission
decordova museum
Lincoln, ma
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
VIrtual
Bridgewater state American poetry class
November 10, 2020
with Professor John mulrooney
bridgewater state university
bridgewater, MA
virtual
home: reading and workshop series
November 6 + 7, 2020
curated by porsha olayiwola
Haley house cafe
Roxbury
VIrtual
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