CALENDAR OF READINGS
2025
to be announced
2024
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Book Launch with Philip Littel, Elliott Douglass, Brendan Constantine, and Matthew Mars
Poetry Idiots at the Ugly Mug, Orange CA
William Epes’s Tuesday Duets with Yvette R. Murray: “Enough Room”
Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Festival, Charleston
SELECTED READINGS
2023
The Poetry Society of South Carolina, with Rebecca Aronson
2020
Carolina Poets, with Quraysh Ali Lansana and Jaki Shelton Green
The Poetry Society of SC Seminar Series: Report from Colrain. Supported by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs.
2016
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA, role of “The Original Swallow” in a table reading of The Red Bowl by Holaday Mason
2013
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, Tongues Aflame Poetry Series, with Long Table Poets
2012
Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Festival, Charleston
Loyola Marymount University, Westchester CA
2010
City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Contemporary Charleston 2010: Influence
2009 Beyond Baroque, Venice CA, with Frank Gaspar. (Fred Dewey declared this to be the best reading of 2009 at Beyond Baroque.)
Monday Night Poetry & Music, Charleston
Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach SC
2008
Charleston County Library Main Branch
2007
Sotto Voce Poetry Festival with Richard Garcia, Shepherdstown WV
2006
Charleston County Library, with the Long Table Poets
2005
Monday Night Blues, Charleston SC
Callanwolde Arts Center, Atlanta, with Richard Garcia
Rhapsodomancy at the Good Luck Bar, Hollywood CA
2004
The Ugly Mug, Orange, CA
Monday Night Blues, Charleston SC
Java Monkey Cafe, Atlanta GA
Village Books, Pacific Palisades CA
2003
Redondo Poets, Redondo Beach CA
Mount San Antonio College, Walnut CA
2002
The Ugly Mug, Orange CA
Sunland-Tujunga Library, Tujunga CA
2001
Curators’ Choice Gala Reading, Los Angeles Poetry Festival, with BH Fairchild and Richard Garcia
Valley Contemporary Poets, Canoga Park CA
Sunland-Tujunga Library, Tujunga CA
2000
Valley Contemporary Poets, N. Hollywood Library, CA
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
KXLU FM 88.9, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1999
Al’s Bar, Los Angeles
Action Space, Los Angeles
1998
Galeria Otra Vez, East Los Angeles CA
Laguna Poets, Laguna Beach CA
1996
KXLU FM 88.9, Loyola University, Westchester CA
1995
Midnight Special Poetry Slam, Santa Monica CA, First Place
1994
KXLU FM 88.9, Loyola University, Westchester CA
1993
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice CA
2023, The Soapbox at Chico Feophoto: Jimmy Dowds
2015, PSSC, Charleston Library Society.photo: JJ Lundy
2004, Venicephoto: author
2001, Idyllwild Poetry Festivalphoto: Cecilia Woloch
1994, Lothar’s house, Venicephoto: Erzsebet Csendesi