Upcoming Events
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Breaking news: there will be an online release reading for my new and previously unannounced chapbook, Breaking Crown, as a pop-up publication from Collapse Press. Thank you so much, Collapsers!
on zoom
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6:30 pm Pacific
Joining the celebration and gracing us with adamant language will be Eike Waltz from Aptos, CA, Rhea Melina from Seattle, WA, and Tammy Melody Gomez from Fort Worth, TX.
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I’ll read the text of the chapbook, which is a crown of sonnets addressing resistance in our currently broken culture.
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Hosted by Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman-Roberts.
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The book will be available for purchase.
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If you’d like to read a little more about the book, click here to go to its page on my website.
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Thursday, October 8, 2026
AT THE WALL
400 – 26th Street
Oakland, CA
5 – 9 pm
The Wandering Ensemble, the performance troupe I’ve been working with, will take part in an event sponsored by the Network of Ensemble Theaters at the SUMUD Mural, a.k.a. the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural, located in Uptown Oakland on 26th Street between Broadway and Telegraph Avenue. Here is their description from the NetWeek page of their website.
There’s a wall in Oakland that’s been holding it down for two years. Thursday night, the collective holds it up.
It stands on 26th Street, painted across a working auto body shop parking lot: Indigenous, Black, and Palestinian liberation as interdependent. Sumud is Arabic for steadfastness: staying rooted to your land and your people when everything around you is built to remove you from both.
We begin in circles on the concrete, small groups devising and building performances from their own stories underscored by live music from local artists. Circles of grief, belonging, power, and pain bring us together, because solidarity is a thing we make with our bodies in spaces where nothing is meant to grow.
Live music, art shares, street food, vendors. Bring your people, stay for the celebration and the dancing.
If you click on Register Now for the event on the NetWeek page, you’ll see a choice of three amounts to pay, the lowest of which is $9. I don’t think there’s any tiered seating or admittance, just a choice of how much to support the project.
Can’t wait to participate in this!
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Past Events
(for a full list of readings prior to July 2026, click here)
NOTE: As of August, 2026, I’m starting fresh here, so none of the fourteen gigs I’ve had so far this year are listed. Don’t believe me? Just click on the darn link and get the scoop!
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I am grateful to be taking part in a memorial reading for Khalifa Mitchell (RIMFP, poet-brother!) as part of Kim Shuck’s ongoing Poetry Jam at the San Francisco Public Library
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on the lower level of
San Francisco, CA
starting promptly at 6 pm.
The full lineup is yet to be announced.
Hosted by (as implied) Kim Shuck.
Free of charge
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
I will be a co-conspirator in the Collapse Press takeover of the ripe-for-the-pickin’ Lyrics & Dirges reading series in ingenuous old downtown Berkeley. Okay, maybe I’m joshing a bit, but Collapse is curating this month and has foolishly asked me to join in the romp
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Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA
7 pm.
Also participating in the melee will be the aflame Han Raschka (!) in from Wisconsin, the sublime Taneesh Kaur from the West Bay, the marvelous Kim Shuck who marvels and marvels us, co-founder of Collapse Press and banshee-about-town Paul Corman-Roberts from Everywhere at Once, and quite possibly special guests from the inside of your mind!
Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts (see above)
Free of charge
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