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  • June 1, 2024, New Orleans, LA: "Poetry Buffet" at the Latter Library with Ariel Francisco, Jonathan Kline, and Monica Mankin

    April 21, 2024, New Orleans, LA: “Tender Rage: Asian American Women Poets on Rage, Community, and Care” at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Cathy Linh Che, Sally Wen Mao, and Jane Wong

    April 3, 2024, New Orleans, LA: Unlikely Saints: A Night of Poetry at Bar Redux with Valentine Pierce, Caroline Rowe, and David Rowe

    February 8, 2024, Kansas City, MO: "(Re)Vision: Creating a Sustainable Writing Community” at AWP with Sarah Audsley, Tamiko Beyer, and Dharani Persaud

  • December 14, 2023, Arabi, LA: Twisted River Poetry Series with Izzy Oneiric

    November 7, 2023, New Orleans, LA: Upcountry by Chin-Sun Lee book launch at Studio 633

    June 10, 2023, New Orleans, LA: The Splice Poetry Series at Saturn Bar with Paul Cunningham

    April 23, 2023, Baton Rouge, LA: Delta Mouth Literary Festival

    April 18, 2023, New Orleans, LA: Poetry Reading & Panel presented by Tulane University’s Department of Asian Studies with Christine Kwon and Daniel WK Lee

    April 13, 2023, New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Poetry Festival Locals Night at Saturn Bar

    April 3, 2023, New Orleans, LA: A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue by Christine Kwon Book Launch at Blue Cypress Books

    March 11, 2023, Seattle, WA: “Adoptee Representation Is a Human Rights Issue” at AWP with Sarah Audsley, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Leah Silvieus, and Alice Stephens

    March 10, 2023, Seattle, WA: “"Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History” at AWP with Marianne Chan, Cynthia Dewi-Oka, Jessica Stark, and Emily Jungmin Yoon

    January 5, 2023, New Orleans, LA: A Poetry Reading to Support Reproductive Justice at the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting with Skye Jackson, Karisma Price, and Cate Root

  • October 22-23, 2022, Newark, NJ: Dodge Poetry Festival

    March 24, 2022, Online: “Who Are Adoptees and Who Has the Right to Write about Them?” at AWP with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Leah Silvieus

  • December 5, 2021, New Orleans, LA: An evening with Joshua Nguyen and Maurice Carlos Ruffin at Blue Cypress Books

    November 18, 2021, Online Everywhere via New Orleans, LA: For the Love of Form: 21st Century Ghazals at the Words & Music Festival with Mark Neely, Elizabeth Gross, Daniel WK Lee, and Brad Richard

    November 18, 2021, Online Everywhere via Miami, FL: Three Poets on Geography, Intimacy & Dislocation at the Miami Book Fair with Raymond Antrobus and Carlie Hoffman

    October 2, 2021, Online Everywhere via New Orleans, LA: The Poetry Buffet with David Havird, Benjamin Morris, and Karisma Price

    September 30, 2021, Online Everywhere via Spartanburg, SC: Wonders of Writing Symposium with Esteban Rodriguez

    July 26, 2021, Online Everywhere via Atlanta, GA: Poetry Atlanta Presents with Andrea Jurjević and Aruni KashyapJune 16, 2021, Online Everywhere via Asheville, NC: Malaprop’s Bookstore Reading with Tariq Luthun

    June 11, 2021, Online Everywhere via Pittsburgh, PA: White Whale Books Reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen

    June 6, 2021, Online Everywhere via Brookline, MA: Brookline Poetry Series with Chen Chen

    June 3, 2021, Online Everywhere via Belmont, MA: Belmont Books Reading with Robin Rosen Chang, Lara Egger, and JC Todd

    May 27, 2021, New Orleans, LA: Cleave Launch Party with Shaina Monet and Carolyn Hembree at Octavia Books

    May 20, 2021: Online Everywhere via Johnson, VT: “Writer to Writer: Conversations on Craft & Featured Readings” presented by Vermont Studio Center with Tamiko Beyer

    May 14, 2021: Online Everywhere via New Orleans, LA: Tulane University Library Lunch Tray Series

    April 27, 2021: Online Everywhere via Suwanee, GA: “An Online Conversation at Read It Again Books” with Arhm Choi Wild

    April 23, 2021: Online Everywhere via New Orleans, LA: Tubby & Coo’s National Poetry Month Reading with Jerika Marchan, Brad Richard, and Naomi Winston

    April 20, 2021: Online Everywhere via Athens, GA: Avid Poetry Series with J. Drew Lanham

    April 13, 2021: Online Everywhere via NY, NY: “Telling Our Stories Ourselves: An Evening with Adoptee Poets” presented by Also-Known-As, Inc. with Sarah Audsley, Arlynn Dunn, and Lee Herrick

    April 7, 2021: Online Everywhere: “HAVE COME, AM HERE: A Gathering of Adoptee Poets in Celebration of Cleave” presented by Kundiman with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Sun Yung Shin, and Leah Silvieus, hosted by Matthew Salesses

    January 27, 2021: Online Everywhere via New Orleans, LA: “Delgado Reading Series” with Daniel W.K. Lee

  • November 22, 2020, Online Everywhere: “Poets in Pajamas” with Arlynn Dunn and Ansley Moon

    October 30, 2020, Online Everywhere: “Adoptee Remembrance Day Vigil for Adoptees Without Citizenship”

    April 23, 2020, Online Everywhere: “A Poetry Editing AMA Live on Instagram” with Leslie Sainz

    April 19, 2020: “Fractured Prisms: Rendering Narratives with Poetic Sequences” at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Sara Audsley, Esme Franklin, Kristen Hewitt, and Megan Pinto (cancelled due to covid)

    April 19, 2020: “Teaching at the Edge: Poetic Pedagogies” at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Ching-In Chen, Jill Darling, Melanie Maria Goodreaux, and Sarah Rosenthal (cancelled due to covid)

    March 28, 2020: “TAKEN: Adoptees Speak Out” at Split this Rock with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Leah Silvieus (cancelled due to covid)

    March 5, 2020: “Who Are Adoptees and Who Has the Right to Write about Them?” at AWP with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Leah Silvieus (cancelled due to covid)

  • November 23, 2019, New Orleans, LA: “Literature & Lunch: Poets & Po-Boys” at 912 Julia with Raven Little, Jerika Marchan, and Brad Richard

    April 21, 2019, New Orleans, LA: "Are We There Yet? A Live Poetry Podcast Recording" at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Jacquelyn Brown, Ching-In Chen, and Muriel Leung

    April 20, 2019, New Orleans, LA: “Adoptee Book Club: On Fostering Community and Kinship” at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Ansley Moon

    March 30, 2019, Portland, OR: "Adopted Korean Women Writers: History Shapes Our Writing Journey" at AWP with Julayne Lee, Leah Silvieus, SooJin Pate, and Kim Sunee

    March 18, 2019, New Orleans, LA: Lucky Bean Reading Series with Jerika Marchan

  • October 2, 2018, New York, NY: Season of Dares Launch Party with Leah Silvieus and Ansley Moon

    August 26, 2018, New Orleans, LA: “Women’s Equality Day Poetry Reading and Fundraiser” with Carolyn Hembree and Anne Babson

    April 22, 2018, New Orleans, LA: "Everyday Muses: Poetry Show & Tell" at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Stacey Balkun, Chloe Hanson, Christopher Louis Romaguera, and A Scribe Called Quess?

    April 21, 2018, New Orleans, LA: "Antenna/Press Street Press: The Sister Arts in the Modern Age" at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Brigid Conroy, Elizabeth Gross, Benjamin Morris, and Sara Slaughter

    March 30, 2018, San Francisco, CA: Literaoke at AAAS 2018 at Kearny Street Workshop

    March 29, 2018, San Francisco, CA: "Reclaiming the Adoption Narrative in Asian American Poetry" at the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, & Leah Silvieus

    March 7-10, 2018, Tampa, FL: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference

    February 16, 2018, Hillsborough, NC: Bull City Press presents the House Party Reading Series with Conor Bracken, Sarah Blake, & Cameron Awkward-Rich

  • October 4, 2017, New Orleans, LA: The Spirit of the Staircase book launch party at Antenna

    September 15, 2017, New York, NY: 2017 NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series at the Vernon Writers House with Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Aamina Ahmad, Dominica Phetteplace, Ebony Flowers, & Ama Codjoe (2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipients)

    June 22, 2017, New Orleans, LA: Dogfish Reading Series with Laura Mullen

    April 21, 2017, New Orleans, LA: "Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian American Poets Encounter the South" at the New Orleans Poetry Festival with Ching-In Chen, Vidhu Aggarwal, & Kimberly Alidio