April 2021
Community Church of Boston: Sunday Reading
Zoom reading with David Gullette, Lloyd Schwartz, Fred Marchant, Amanda Shea, and Ani Gjika to celebrate the return of spring and our lives as poets. Details, including Zoom link, will follow.
Find out more »Boston National Poetry Month Festival Opening Night
I'm the opening reader for the 2021 Boston National Poetry Month Festival, beginning Thursday April 15 and running through Saturday April 17. Info, including Zoom, at event website
Find out more »Reading: Pursuing Change – American Poets on Racism and Healing
Zoom reading and discussion with Philip Metres, Oliver de la Paz, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Iain Haley Pollock. Register here
Find out more »Newburyport Literary Festival
I'll be reading for the Festival, postponed from 2020 and coming this year on Zoom, with Ernest Hilbert. You can register now at the Festival website
Find out more »Couplet Reading Series
COUPLET Reading Series - National Poetry Month Edition. I will be reading with Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers, Laura Cronk, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Nathan McClain, and Rebecca Morgan Frank. Go here to register now.
Find out more »May 2021
Maine Book Launch for the late Lee Sharkey
I’ll be introducing ten poets, mostly from Maine, who will be reading from I Will Not Name It Except to Say, completed in the last weeks of Lee’s life. Sponsored by Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. For Zoom invitation, go (later) to mainewriters.org
Find out more »Cambridge Reading from Lee Sharkey’s new book
Porter Square Books Reading with Denise Bergman and Fred Marchant from Lee Sharkey's I Will Not Name It Except to Say, forthcoming from Tupelo in May. Lee completed the book in the last weeks of her life, last October. Zoom details will follow, or check portersquarebooks.com Details about the book are here
Find out more »Tupelo Press Reading for Lee Sharkey’s new book
I will introduce readers Philip Metres, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Janice Harrington, and Eleanor Wilner in a reading from the late Lee Sharkey's new book, I Will Not Name It Except to Say, completed in the last weeks of the author's life and published by Tupelo on May 1. Details to follow, or go to tupelopress.org and click Events.
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