Readings

Upcoming:

Point Sur Lighthouse, Big Sur, California. A Tor House  poetry reading with Kent Letham, Anne Mitchell and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts. August 29, 2026.

Tor House, Carmel, California. Poetry and the Natural World. October 24, 2026.

Past Events:

Tor House, Carmel, California. Poetry reading with Rachelle Escamilla and M.K. Chavez. May 16, 2026.

Monterey International Poetry Gathering, Monterey, California.  “A Trio of Voices.” Reading with Adela Najarro and Patrice Vecchione.  April 20, 2026.

Tor House, Carmel, California.  “Poetry and the Natural World.”  April 4, 2026.

Point Sur Lighthouse, Big Sur, California. Tor House Fall Festival Poetry walk. October 5, 2025.

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California. First Fridays Poetry Reading. October 3, 2025.

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California. Ekphrasis Workshop. September 27, 2025.

Tor House, Carmel, California. “Poetry and the Natural World.”  May 10, 2025.

Tor House, Carmel, California. “Poetry and the Natural World. ” April 26, 2025.

Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, Pacific Grove, California. Reading with Andrena Zawinski. January 13, 2024.

Friends House, Santa Rosa, California. Reading with poet Tobey Hiller. September 21, 2023.

Maria W. Faust 2023 sonnet contest winners announcement and reading, Winona County History Center & Zoom, July 15, 2023. You can listen to the event here (I am at minute 41.19)

Featured poet, Turning Pages: Poetry Now, with host Gene Ptak, KWMR , June 21, 2023.

Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, California. Reading with poets Andrena Zawinski, Jennifer Fellguth, Laura Bayless and Peter Serchuk. June 3, 2023

Henry Miller Memorial Library, Lines On Line Book Release and reading with poets Peter Serchuk, Dane Cervine, Rachelle Escamilla, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, Kathleen McClung and Indigo Moor. April 30, 2023.

Ellipsis, Volume 57 virtual debut, April 23, 2021

AWP Conference, “Bending the Arc Toward Justice,”  with Kathleen McClung, Lynn Thompson, George Higgins and Rebecca Foust, March 7, 2021

Henry Miller Memorial Library, “Lines Online” poetry series, September 2020

Poetry Express, Berkeley, CA, March 9, 2020

Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA,  February 16, 2020

Classic Lines Book Store, Pittsburgh, PA, October 15, 2019

Young Presidents’ Organization, Chevy Chase, MD, October 17, 2019

Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA, November 9, 2019

Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland, CA, August 2019

Poetry Express, Berkeley, CA, August 2019

Reed Magazine 150th Anniversary Celebration, San José State University, San José, CA, September 2017

Poetry Unbound, Art House Gallery, Berkeley, CA, April 2015

Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA, March 2015

Poetry Express, Berkeley, CA, October 2014

Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA, August 2014

Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland, CA, May 2014

Bird and Beckett Book Store, San Francisco, CA, April, 2014

Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C., January 2014

Laura Schulkind