Poetry Readings
2022
March 23 — Launch party for The Relativity of Living Well, hosted by ByVaultWorks and Sisters, Brooklyn, featuring MC Hyland, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, and Michelle Rescigno, MC’ed by Nashwa Zaman
March 15 — Online Launch for The Relativity of Living Well hosted by The Operating System and Elæ Moss, featuring Kay Ulanday Barrett, Angela Hume, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, and Leigh Sugar (virtual)
March 12 — Muktadhara Foundation's 6th Annual Young People's Festival "Day of Healing and Love to Our Community,” featured reader with Tanaïs, Jean Sebastien Surena, Orin Begum, Samira Sadeque, Jard Lerebours, Nova, Lutfun Priya, Cast, Prithi Khalique, Amira Hassan, Samiya Munzur, Ali Fahmida Moyuri
2021
Sept 16 — Word is Bond, co-host with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, featuring José Olivarez, Divya Victor, Hala Alyan, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef
Sept 10 — Kan Ya Makan Brooklyn, featured reader with Sara Elkamel, Alia Haju, MJ Hodeib, Hind Youseff. Organized by Hala Aylan and Sara Akant Deniz
May 19 — Asian American Feminist Writing Workshop Reading presented by Kundiman & Asian American Feminist Collective, featured with Aishvarya Arora, Salonee Bhaman, Ching-In Chen, Joy Helena Chen, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alyssa Mae Cruz, Fatema Haque, Victoria M. Huynh, Promiti Islam, Julie Ae Kim, Rachel Kuo, Hairol Ma, MAT aka Mary Ann Thomas, Erme Maula, Linda Sachiko Morris, Sam Nakahira, Amanda Nava, Goeun Park, Jas Perry, Ramya Prabhakar, danny ryu, Shivani Davé, Senti Sojwal, and Tiffany Diane Tso
April 13 — Featured Reader at Luya Poetry: “Slumber Party!” organized by Chris Aldana S. (virtual)
January 30 — Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, fundraiser and video feature
2020
December 7 — MC and Co-Host with Kay Ulanday Barrett for Mouth2Mouth Open Mic Series at Asian American Writers Workshop featuring Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Jake Skeets, Porsha Olayiwola (virtual)
October 30— “It’s Spoopy!” Halloween Variety Show organized by Emma Kaywin and and Jesse Krebs, recorded video streamed on Twitch, with Emma Kaywin, LostBoy, Shanita Bump, Maggie McMuffin, Venatrix, Kia Sangria, Manish Melwani, Glars Belusional
October 26 — MC and Co-Host with Kay Ulanday Barrett for Mouth2Mouth Open Mic Series at Asian American Writers Workshops feauring Donika Kelly, Golden, and Mejdulene B. Shomali (virtual)
October 17 — The Poetry Project’s CRUSH 20, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, Outdoor reading with Paul Aster-Stone, Che Gossett, Erica Dawn Lyle, and others, organized by Suzanne Goldenberg.
July 29 — Liminal Lab Presents Alter/ Altar III: Animal Anarchy Alchemy Archive: Fugue State, An Interdisciplinary Embodied Anticapital Exorcism or, Public Works in Progress with Jean Carla Rodea, Sierra Ortega, Liz Bowen, Kristen Gallagher, Joe Natsa, Dudgrick Bevins, EJ Cohen, Marcel, Thomas Choinacky, Becca Erwin [Levy], Jessica Scott, Christine Scanlon, Becca Lo Presto, and Resse Francis (Virtual)
July 18 — Gender Reveal Party: GLOW, Online reading with Jan-Henry Gray, Donika Kelly, Omotara James, and Nina Puro (Virtual)
June 18 — More Than Organs, A Launch Reading and Pride Celebration, Asian American Writers Workshop, Pride x Book Launch for Kay Ulanday Barrett’s More Than Organs, Facebook Live Reading with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Jimena Lucero, Eddie Maisonet, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Jubi Arriola-Headly, Natalie Sharp, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Rajiv Mohabir, and Eddie Maisonette, with ASL interpretation by Brandon Kazen-Maddox (Virtual)
2019
December 4 — Pen and Brush Presents, representing Bone Bouquet, a reading and celebration with Joan Cusack Handler and Dawn Raffel. Pen and Brush Gallery, New York City, NY
November 8 — Celebration of exhibition for Georgia Elrod, Peninsula Art Space, a reading with Joanna Valente, Joselia Hughes, Liz Bowen, Maryam Parhizkar, Mercedes Roffe, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
September 20 — “Sounding Failure: Against Convergence as a Utopian Ideal,” reading and performance at &Now Conference, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
September 15 — Singapore Unbound Series, a reading with Emily Brandt, Paul Aster Stone-Tsao, and Tyler Morse, Private Home, New York, NY
September 10 — Celebration of three-year anniversary of Kay Ulanday Barrett’s When the Chant Comes, a reading and celebration with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Jimena Lucero, Kyle Dacuyan, and Aldrín Valdez, Berl’s Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
June 7 — Book Launch Party for MC Hyland’s The End and Angela Hume’s meat habitats, a reading with MC Hyland, Angela Hume, Ian Dreiblatt, and Ada Smailbevic, Berl’s Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
May 20 — Asian American Feminist Collective Presents Our Voices, Our Stories: An Asian American Showcase, a reading with Jes Tom, Thahitun Mariam, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ashna Ali, Joanie Leon Guerrero, and Wo Chan, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
May 10 — Launch of ERROR, Issue 23 of No, Dear, a reading with Ariel Yelen, Chase Berggrun, Chelsea Fonden, Cherly Boyce-Taylor, Dana Knowles, Eric Tyler Begick, Frankie Baker, Kat Rejsek, Krystina Alphonso, Marina Blitshteyn, Nicholas Mara, Paul Aster Stone-Tsao, Tessa Bolsover, Tyler Morse, La Sala, La Cantina Royal, Brooklyn, NY
April 11 — NO MICROPHONE, an experimental reading and showcase with ann/drew gayle, Ian Hatcher, Max Steele, Cat Tyc, Kyle Dacuyan, Betty Eastland, Millie Kapp, Lydia Okrent, Emily Oliveira, Katherine Cooper, Matthew Shalz, The Poetry Project, New York, NY
March 12 — CUNY Graduate Center’s Turnstile Reading Series, a reading with David Groff, Keith Gandal, and Hunter MFA students, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
March 6 — Memory as Past, Memory as Future: Poetry of Queer Diaspora reading and panel with heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Juliany Taveras, and Arhm Wild, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, NYC.
February 16 — Boog City 12.5 Festival reading series, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY
January 1 — New Year’s Day Marathon, The Poetry Project, New York, NY
2018
August 30 — Launch for 4th issue of femmescapes, a reading with Miatta Kawinzi, and Zefyr Lisowski with ASL interpretation by Samantha Kuperberg, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY
April 15 — Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA) with Toby Altman, Tom Bair, Sam Corfman, Knar Gavin, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Sam Lauer, Christopher Schaeffer & Orchid Tierney, White Whale Bookstore, Pittusburgh, PA
January 6 — Thesis Show for Hunter College Art MFA Students Celebration Reading with Laura Henrickson, Peter Dimock, Callie Garnett, Eugene Lim, Daniel Poppick, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY