Readings

UPCOMING READINGS/WORKSHOPS:

  • May 31, 2024; Featured Poet: Chillicothe Arts Festival; Chillicothe, Ohio; 5-9pm
  • April 21, 2024; Featured Poet: Poetry Marathon at the Bexley Public Library; 2411 E. Main Street; Bexley, Ohio; 1:30 pm
  • March 28, 2024; Featured Poet, Natonal Popular Culture Association Conference; Chicago Marriott Downtown; Chicago, Illinois; 4:45 pm
  • March 21, 2024; Featured Poet; Jewish Poetry Reading Series;  Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo; Virtual Only; 7pm
  • February 8, 2024; Featured Poet; I Aim to Misbehave:  Annie Oakley & Other Defiant Historical Women; Virtual Only; 5pm
  • October 14, 2023; Ohio Poet of the Year Reading; Troy Hayner Cultural Center; 301 West Main Street; Troy, Ohio; 1pm
  • October 10, 2023; Artist Talk: “Entering the Imaginal Space”; Bexley Public Library; 2411 E. Main Street; Bexley, Ohio; 7pm
  • August 26, 2023; Featured Poet; Gramercy Books’ Local Author Festival; Bexley Public Library; 2411 E. Main St.; Bexley, Ohio; 2-4pm
  • July 20, 2023; Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond; Heights Arts; 2175 Lee Road; Cleveland, Ohio; 7pm
  • July 14, 2023; Featured Poet;  Iconik Coffee Roasters; 1600 Lena Street; Santa Fe, NM; 7pm
  • June 24, 2023; Eat Our Words; Comfest; Peace Stage; 6:15-7:15 pm
  • June 10, 2023; Eat Our Words; Columbus Arts Festival; Atrium of the Columbus Cultural Arts Center; 3-4pm
  • May 18, 2023; Book Launch Reading (Resurrection Letter: Leonara, Her Tarot, and Me); Cultural Arts Center; 139 W. Main St.; Columbus, Ohio; 7:30pm
  • May 11, 2023; Book Launch Reading (Resurrection Letter: Leonara, Her Tarot, and Me); Kaiser Gallery; 2418 Professor Ave.; Cleveland, Ohio; 7pm
  • May 6, 2023; Book Launch Reading (Resurrection Letter: Leonara, Her Tarot, and Me); Household Books; 2533 Gilbert Avenue; Cincinnati, Ohio; 5-7pm
  • May 2, 2023; Featured reader with Concrete Wink; Sitwell’s Coffeehouse; 324 Ludlow Ave; Cincinnati, Ohio; 7pm
  • April 29, 2023; Workshop Leader; Lights, Camera, Poetry; South-Euclid-Lyndhurst Library; 1876 S. Green Road; Cleveland, Ohio; 1:30-5:00 pm
  • April 26, 2023; featured poet; An Evening of Poetry; Columbus Metropolitan Library; 98 S.Grant Avenue; Columbus, Ohio; 7pm
  • April 6, 2023; featured poet; “Pop Goes Poetry with Ventriloquism, Fashion, and The Twilight Zone”; Popular Culture Association National Conference; San Antonio, Texas
  • April 5, 2023; featured poet; The Twig Bookshop; 306 Pearl Parkway; San Antonio, Texas; 5:30-7:00 pm
  • March 11, 2023; host and featured poet; Call & Response: Intersections of Art & Poetry; Pennington Custom Art Services; 3047 Indianola Avenue; Columbus, Ohio 5:30-7:00 pm
  • February 22, March 8, 22, April 12, 26, 2023; Workshop Leader, Creative Aging Movie Series; Gahanna Senior Center; 480 Rocky Fork Blvd; Gahanna, Ohio; 1-4 pm
  • January 15, 22, 29, 2023; Workshop Leader, Creative Aging Movie Series; Bexley Senior Center; 420 North Cassidy; Bexley, Ohio; 1-4 pm
  • December 11, 2022; Featured Reader; Uncloistered Poetry Live; The Attic on Adams; 1701 Adams Street; Toledo, Ohio 43604; 3pm
  • December 9, 2022; Featured Reader; 11th Annual Solstice Poetry Reading; Vernet Ecological Center; 400 Corry Street; Yellow Springs, Ohio; 7-9 pm.
  • October 20-21, 2022; Featured Reader and Workshop Leader; Lights, Camera, Poetry; Fall Literary Festival/Lit Youngstown; Youngstown, Ohio.
  • September 30, 2022; Featured Reader; Epic Book Shop; 232 Xenia Avenue; Yellow Springs, OH 45387; 6:30 pm
  • September 24, 2022; Concrete Wink; Visible Voice Books; 2258 Professor Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113; 7pm
  • September 16, 2022; Featured Poet; Last Exit Books; 124 East Main Street; Kent, Ohio 44240; 8pm
  • September 9, 2022; Workshop Leader; How to Grow a Multi-Faceted Diamond:  Writing the Poem Sequence (Book-length or Otherwise!); 2022 Inkubator Writing Conference at the downtown Cleveland Public Library; 3:30-5pm
  • September 8, 2022; Featured Poet, Loganberry Books; 13015 Larchmere Blvd.; Shaker Heights, Ohio 44210; 7pm
  • August 4, 2022; Featured Poet, Ohio Poetry Showcase at the Ohio State Fair; Cox Fine Arts Center; 5pm
  • July 31, 2022; Workshop Leader, Lights, Camera, Poetry! (featuring Slam); Columbus Metropolitan Public Library; 96 S. Grant Ave.; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 1:30-4:30 pm.
  • June 30, 2022; Featured Poet; YWCA Women Artists; 25 W Rayen Ave, Youngstown, OH 44503; 6pm
  • June 25, 2022; Workshop Leader; How to Grow a Multi-Faceted Diamond:  Writing the Poem Sequence (Book-length or Otherwise!); 2022 Annual Convention of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Nationwide Hotel & Conference Center, 100 Green Meadows Dr., Lewis Center, OH, 43035. 3-5pm
  • June 12, 2022; Featured Poet; Word is Art (Poetry Showcase) Columbus Arts Festival; Cultural Arts Center Stage; 2-3pm
  • May 22, 2022; Workshop Leader, Lights, Camera, Poetry! (featuring Il Postino); Columbus Metropolitan Public Library; 96 S. Grant Ave.; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 1:30-4:30 pm.
  • May 21, 2022; Featured Poet, Edith Chase Reading; Wick Poetry Center Garden; Kent, Ohio; 4pm.
  • May 7 & 8, 2022; Featured Poet; ; Columbus Alternative Art Book Fair; Weinland Park; 1280 Summit Park; Columbus, Ohio 43201.
  • April 24, 2022; Workshop Leader, Lights, Camera, Poetry! (featuring A Quiet Passion); Columbus Metropolitan Public Library; 96 S. Grant Ave.; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 1:30-4:30 pm.
  • April 23, 2022; Reading and Writing Workshop; CONCRETE WINK; Lawrenceburg Public Library; 150 Mary Street; Lawrenceburg, Indiana 47025; 10:30 am-3 pm
  • March 27, 2022; Workshop Leader, Lights, Camera, Poetry! (featuring Paterson); Columbus Metropolitan Public Library; 96 S. Grant Ave.; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 1:30-4:30 pm.
  • March 26, 2022; Featured Reader, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing book celebration; Otterbein College; Towers Hall Room 112; 1 South Grove Street; Westerville, Ohio 43081; 2-4 pm.
  • February 10, 2022; Winks, Drinks, and Vibes; Featured Reader (Concrete Wink); Sunbear Studios & Gallery; 22 W. Main Street; Westerville, Ohio 43081; 6-8 pm.
  • My postcard/poem, “Beyond Sliced Bread: The Greatest Things,” will be on exhibit in Inverted Syntax’s The Art of the Postcard series (2018-2021) at Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, Colorado starting February 11, 2022 through March 6, 2022.
  • November 19, 2021; Launchapalooza: my book launch party for all three new books in 2021; Austen & Company; 1530 South High Street; Columbus, Ohio; 7pm
  • November 4, 2021; Featured Poet in connection with launch reading for Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Austen & Company; 1530 South High Street; Columbus, Ohio; 7pm
  • October 17, 2021; Featured Poet (Of Stanzas and Stilettos: Poems from Head to Toe of It) in connection with the exhibit, Distinctly Paramount: Fashion & Costume from the Paramount Pictures Archive; Decorative Arts Center of Ohio; 145 E. Main Street; Lancaster, Ohio;  2pm
  • June 19, 2021; Featured Poet; Strawberry Harvest Festival at the Weinland Park Berry Patch sponsored by Franklin County Master Gardeners; 3 pm
  • April 19, 2020; Featured Poet; Second Sunday Poets–Book II: Verse 2; Wm. N. Skirball Writers’ Center; South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library; 1876 South Green Road; South Euclid, Ohio; 3pm  CO-VID CANCELLED
  • April 17, 2020; Featured Poet; Popular Culture Association Conference; Philadelphia Marriott Downtown; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 8:15 pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • April 16, 2020; Featured Poet; Big Blue Marble Bookstore; 551 Carpenter Lane; Philadelphia, PA; 7pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • April 4, 2020; Workshop Leader with Concrete Wink; “Poetry with a Hefty Trowel of Attitude;” South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library;  Cleveland, Ohio;  1:30 – 4:30 pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • March 28, 2020; Featured Poet; Women of Appalachia Project; Ohio University Multicultural Center, Baker University Center; Athens, Ohio;  6pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • March 17, 2020; Featured Poet; Art on Madison; 14203 Madison Ave.; Lakewood, Ohio 7:30 pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • March 15, 2020; Featured Poet; White Whale Bookstore; 4754 Liberty Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA; 5-7 pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • March 12, 2020; Featured Poet; Loganberry Books; 13015 Larchmere Blvd.; Shaker Heights, Ohio 44210; 7pm CO-VID CANCELLED
  • March 3, 2020; Drop Jaw Book Launch (Don’t Let Me See Your Lips Moving:  An Evening of Poetry & Ventriloquism) with ventriloquist Bod Abdou;  Streetlight Guild; 1367 E Main St, Columbus, Ohio; 8 pm.
  • February 22, 2020; Workshop Co-leader with Sayuri Ayers; Bootleg MFA; Winter Writing Festival presented by Main Street Ravenna; Ravenna, Ohio.
  • January 15, 2020; Featured Reader; EAT OUR WORDS; Green Drinks Celebration; Green Columbus; Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center; 2201 Fred Taylor Drive; Columbus, Ohio; 6-7 pm.
  • January 11, 2020; Workshop Co-leader with Sayuri Ayers; Bootleg MFA; Ohio Poetry Association; Columbus Metropolitan Library, Northern Lights Branch; 4093 Cleveland Avenue; Columbus, Ohio; 1-4 pm.
  • November 20, 2019; Featured Reader; Culinary Poetry; Franklin County Local Food Council:  Auditorium at the Columbus Health Department; 240 Parsons Ave, Columbus, Ohio; 5 pm.
  • November 16, 2019; Featured Reader; CONCRETE WINK; Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry; 1820 Coventry Rd.; Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118; 7pm
  • September 21, 2019; Featured Reader; Culinary Poetry; Clintonville Farmers Market; Donatos Stage; Clintonville, Ohio; 10 am to noon.
  • September 15, 2019; Featured Reader;  Poet’s Hike;  Sun & Moon Poetry Festival; Yellow Springs, Ohio; 9:30 – 11:30 am
  • September 11, 2019;  Featured Reader; Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry; 1820 Coventry Rd.; Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118; 7pm
  • August 7, 2019;  Featured Reader; CONCRETE WINK; Prologue Bookshop; 841 N. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 7pm
  • July 21, 2019; Featured Poet; Tongue- in- Groove Poetry Music Jam; Millard Fillmore Presidential Library; 15617 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110; 6pm
  • July 17, 2019; Featured Poet; Latitudes Poetry Night Series; Compass Coffee; 647 E. Market Street; Akron, Ohio 44320; 7 pm
  • July 14, 2019; Featured Poet; Responding to Selections from the Pizzuti Collection; Decorative Arts Center of Ohio; 145 E Main St, Lancaster, OH 43130; 2pm
  • July 13, 2019; Feature Poet; YSU Summer Festival of the Arts; One University Plaza; Youngstown, Ohio 44555; 2 pm
  • June 30, 2019; BOOK LAUNCH!! (featured poet); Peripatetic Poet Series;  St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church;  30 W. Woodruff Ave; Columbus, Ohio; 6:30 pm
  • June 27, 2019; Creative Writing Workshop Leader in connection with the Ohio Arts Council’s Exhibit, Thread Count:  The Intersection of Mathematics and Fiber Arts; Riffe Gallery; 77 S High St, Columbus, OH 43215; 5:30 – 8:00 pm
  • May 18, 2018; Featured Reader; CONCRETE WINK;  Last Exit Books; 124 E Main St #1, Kent, OH 44240; 7pm
  • May 1, 2018; Creative Writing Workshop Leader; Pump House Center for the Arts;  Enderlin Circle, Yoctangee Park; Chillicothe, Ohio; 7-9 pm
  • April 30, 2019; Featured Poet; The LIght of Seven Matchsticks; 5601 North High Street; Worthington, Ohio 43085; 7 pm
  • April 13, 2019; Featured Poet; NE Ohio Literary Roundtable with Crisis Chronicles Press; South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Library; Cleveland, Ohio
  • March 27, 2019; Featured Poet;  Gramercy Books; 2424 E. Main St.; Bexley,Ohio 43209; 7 pm
  • March 3, 2019; Featured Reader; CONCRETE WINK;  Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe; 233 Xenia Avenue; Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387; 3-4:00 pm
  • February 6, 2019; Featured Reader; CONCRETE WINK; Speak Up Against Gender Violence:  Poetry & Performance; Jackie O’s; 24 West Union; Athens, Ohio 7-10 pm
  • December 14, 2018; Featured Reader, CONCRETE WINK; Madhouse & Firefly at Serendipitous Vintage; 403 E. Front Street; Monroe, Michigan 48161; 8 pm
  • November 30, 2018; Featured Reader, CONCRETE WINK;  The Dairy Barn Art Center; 8000 Dairy Ln, Athens, OH 45701; 6-9 pm
  • November 15, 2018; Featured Reader/Book Launch; The Book Loft; 631 S. Third Street; Columbus, Ohio 43206; 7 pm
  • November 13, 2018; Featured Reader; Calamari’s Squid Row; 1317 State Street; Erie, PA 16501; 6:30 pm
  • November 11, 2018; Featured Reader; Uncloistered Poetry Series; Calvino’s Restaurant & Wine Bar; 3143 W. Central Ave.; Toledo, Ohio 43606; 6-9 pm
  • October 27, 2018; Featured Reader; Poetry and Art Night; 7100 Graphics Way; Suite 3200; Lewis Center, Ohio 43035; 7 pm
  • October 20, 2018; Featured Reader, CONCRETE WINK; Borderlands:  Poetry on the Edge; Main Street Books; 104 N. Main Street; Mansfield, Ohio; 2-4 pm
  • October 3, 2018; Featured Poet; Soap Gallery; 117 S. Champion Street; Youngstown, Ohio; 7:30 pm
  • September 29, 2018; Featured Poet; High Arts Festival; Uncorked Stage; Akron, Ohio; 5:15 pm
  • July 15, 2018; Featured Reader; Westerville Music & Art Festival; Westerville, Ohio; Noon-1pm.
  • July 8, 2018; Featured Reader, CONCRETE WINK; Uncloistered Poetry Series; Calvino’s Restaurant & Wine Bar; 3143 W. Central Ave.; Toledo, Ohio 43606; 6-9 pm
  • June 27, 2018; Featured Reader, Columbus Metropolitan Club (Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks:  A World Heritage Site);The Boat House at Confluence Park 679 W Spring St, Columbus, OH 43215; Noon-1:15 pm
  • April 21, 2018; Workshop Presenter (Ohio Poetry Association) ; “Lights, Camera, Action…Poems:  The Intersections of Film and Poetry”; Otterbein College, Towers Hall, Room 110,  1 S. Grove St., Westerville, OH 43081; 1-4 pm
  • April 15, 2018; Featured Reader, CONCRETE WINK; Peripatetic Poets; Global Gallery Coffee Shop; 3535 N. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 6-8 pm
  • April 14, 2018; Featured Poet; Ohioana Book Festival; Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square; 75 E. State Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 10:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • April 6, 2018; Featured Poet; Apple Tree Books; 12419 Cedar Road; Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106; 6 – 8 pm
  • March 24, 2018; Featured Poet;  ReadLocal Author Fair; Marion Public Library; 445 East Church Street; Marion, Ohio 43302; 1-3 pm
  • March 10, 2018; Workshop Presenter (Lit Youngstown) ; “Lights, Camera, Action…Poems:  The Intersections of Film and Poetry”; Noon – 3 pm
  • January 28, 2018; Featured Poet; CONCRETE WINK; Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe; 233 Xenia Avenue; Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387; 3-4:30 pm
  • December 9, 2017;  Reading and Writing Workshop; CONCRETE WINK; Lawrenceburg Public Library; 150 Mary Street; Lawrenceburg, Indiana 47025; 1-4 pm
  • October 26, 2017; Featured Poet; CONCRETE WINK; Gramercy Books; 2424 E. Main St.; Bexley,Ohio 43209; 7 pm
  • October 20, 2017; Featured Poet; Sight of Music; Cultural Arts Center; 139 W. Main Street; Columbus, Ohio 42315; 7-9 pm
  • September 24, 2017; Featured Poet; One World Festival; Bryn Du Mansion; 537 Jones Rd NE, Granville, OH 43023; noon – 5 pm
  • September 19, 2017; Featured Poet; CONCRETE WINK; Chase Public; 1569 Chase Ave, Suite 4; Cincinnati, Ohio 45223; 6:30 pm
  • August 13, 2017; Featured Poet; Gramercy Books’ Authors Festival; 2424 E. Main Street; Bexley, Ohio 43209; 1:00 – 4:00 pm
  • August 1, 2017; Featured Poet; CONCRETE WINK; Rider’s Inn; 792 Mentor Avenue; Painesville, Ohio 44077; 6:30 pm
  • July 28, 2017; Featured Poet; Newark Arts Festival; Newark, Ohio; 5 – 8 pm
  • June 15, 2017; Featured Poet; CONCRETE WINK; Book Loft; 631 S. Third Street; Columbus, Ohio 43206; 7 pm
  • April 8, 2017; Featured Poet; Ohioana Book Festival; Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square; 75 E. State Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 10:30 am to 5:30 pm
  • April 7, 2017; Featured Poet; Ohioana Book Festival Preview Night; Book Loft; 631 S. Third Street; Columbus, Ohio 43206; 7 pm
  • March 20, 2017; Featured Poet; The Poetry Forum; Bossy Grrls Pin-Up Joint, 2598 North High Street in Old North Columbus; 7 pm
  • March 12, 2017;  Featured Poet; Celebration of OPA’s A Rustling and Waking Within; Toledo Museum of Art; 2445 Monroe Street; Toledo, Ohio; 2pm
  • March 11, 2017; Featured Poet; Celebration of OPA’s A Rustling and Waking Within; Wexner Center for the Arts; 1871 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210; 2 – 5:00 pm
  • October 15, 2016; Poetry Workshop Instructor–“Grounded and Launching, The Poetry of Place”; Upper Arlington Library, Main Branch; 2800 Tremont Road; 3:30 pm
  • August 14, 2016; Featured Poet; Art 360: Art Hatching Across Ohio, Closing Ceremonies; Columbus Museum of Art; 480 E. Broad Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 2 pm
  • June 4, 2016; Featured Reader; Poetry at Perkins: In Celebration of the Night Sky; Perkins Observatory (Ohio Wesleyan University); 3199 Columbus Pike; Delaware, Ohio 43015; 8 – 10 pm
  • May 12, 2016; Featured Reader; Canzani Center; Columbus College of Art and Design; 5 p.m.
  • April 27, 2016; Featured Poet; Cuyahoga Country Public Library National Poetry Month Web Page Featuring a Poet Each Day in April; Cleveland, Ohio
  • February 25, 2016 Featured Reader; The Pendleton Arts Center Series; Pendleton Arts Center; 1310 Pendleton Street; Cincinnati, Ohio 45202; 7 pm
  • October 27, 2015 Featured Reader; The Bistro Poets; Sips Coffee House Poetry Series; 101 South Main Street; Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050; 6:30 pm
  • September 26, 2015 Featured Reader; “Voices From the Past” Serpent Mound Park (Shelter House); Adams County, Ohio; Noon to 3 pm
  • August 13, 2015 Featured Reader; Paging Columbus: At the Door; OSU Urban Arts Space; 50 W. Town Street, Lazarus Building, Columbus, Ohio; 6-8pm
  • July 18, 2015 Featured Reader; OPA All-Star Picnic/Fundraiser; Jeffrey Park, Bexley, Ohio; Noon
  • April 26, 2015 Featured Reader; Living in the House of Yes:  A Poetry Reading Honoring Jennifer Bosveld; Jung Haus; 59 W. 3rd Avenue; Columbus, Ohio; 2 pm.
  • January 18, 2015 Featured Reader; Peripatetic Poets; Global Gallery Coffee Shop; 3535 N. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 6-8 pm.
  • August 30, 2014 Featured Reader; Ross County Park District; Buzzard’s Roost Nature Preserve; Chillicothe, Ohio; 6 pm.
  • August 26, 2014  Featured Reader; Sips Coffee House Poetry Series; 101 South Main Street; Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050; 6:30 p.m.
  • May 18, 2014 Featured Reader; House of Toast Series; Half-Price Books; 1375 West Lane Road; Columbus, Ohio; 2 pm.
  • December 4, 2013 Author book signing for Kahiki Redux; Columbus Historical Society @ COSI; 333 West Broad Street 43215;  6:00 p.m.
  • November 26, 2013  Featured Reader; Sips Coffee House Poetry Series; 101 South Main Street; Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050; 6:30 p.m.
  • November 21, 2013 Featured Reader; “The Modern Table” Riffe Gallery; 77 S. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215; 5:30 p.m.
  • November 9, 2013 Featured Reader; Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry; Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118; 7:00 p.m.
  • October 19, 2013; “1000 Words/1000 Moves for You Call That Art?” Columbus Cultural Arts Center; 139 W. Main Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215; 7-9 p.m.
  • April 4, 2013 Featured Reader; Beehive Books; 25 North Sandusky Street; Delaware, Ohio; 6:30 p.m.
  • September 26, 2012 Featured Reader; Beehive Books; 25 North Sandusky Street; Delaware, Ohio; 7:00 p.m.
  • June 26, 2012 Featured Reader; Sips Coffee House Poetry Series; 101 S. Main Street; Mt. Vernon, Ohio; 7:00 p.m.
  • May 19, 2012 Featured Reader; Ohio Poetry Association’s All-Stars; Bexley Public Library; 2411 E. Main Street; Columbus, Ohio; 1-4 p.m.
  • May 10, 2012 Featured Presenter; Pecha Kucha Columbus; Eartha Limited; 371 Maier Place; Columbus, Ohio; 7 p.m.
  • April 20, 2012 Featured Reader; Wooster Music and Arts Festival; Wooster, Ohio; 8 p.m.
  • June 26, 2011 Featured Reader; Peripatetic Poets; The Whetstone Gardens; 3700 Olentangy River Road; Columbus, OH; 7 p.m.
  • June 1 -25, 2011 Featured Poem; “Tilting;”  The Language of Art Exhibit; The High Road Gallery; 12 East Stafford Avenue; Worthington, Ohio; Opening Reception; June 5, 2-4:30 pm.
  • May 2, 2011 Featured Reader; William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest winner; Poetry Forum; Rumba Cafe; 2507 Summit @ Hudson Street; Columbus, Ohio; 7 pm.
  • November and December 2010 Featured Poem; “Lineage;” Conceived in Cloth…Crafted in Words (poems in response to quilts by Off Our Blocks); Ursus Gallery; Columbus, Ohio.
  • September 9 to October 22, 2010 Featured Poem; “Another Urban Disturbance;” The Language of Art Exhibit; Carnegie Gallery at the Columbus Main Library; Columbus, Ohio; Opening Reception; September 9, 5-7 pm.
  • April 2, 2010 Featured Reader; Mark Hersman’s Music and Poetry Series; Pumpkin Hollow Cafe; 24 Bell Street; Bellville, Ohio; 7 pm.
  • February 24, 2010 Featured Reader; Upper Arlington Library; Main Branch at Tremont; Columbus, Ohio; 7 pm.December 9, 2009 Featured Reader; Rattlebox Series; Espresso Yourself Cafe; Columbus, Ohio; 7:30 pm.