Events

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Harry's Poetry Hour, online, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

I'm honored to have been invited to be a featured reader on Harry's Poetry Hour this day! The program is available online and streamed to residents and staff at MPTF, a residence for retired workers from the motion picture and television industry. Please log onto the following Zoom link a few minutes before 1 PM:

https://mptf.zoom.us/j/86032964290?pwd=UjNSMnhJMjNQekVZcHV1WUpacDJLdz09

Password: MPTF

Thanks to host Harry E. Northrup, to MPTF Studios Director Jennifer Clymer, and to the entire Creative Chaos team!


Previous Events

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Redwood Writers Fiction Anthology Reading, 1:00 p.m.

I was delighted to be invited to read from my story "Promises" among other writers whose short fiction was selected for the Redwood Writers 2024 Anthology titled Transitions. What a welcoming and inspiring gathering of the California Writers Club, Redwood Writers, in northern California! 

Friday, April 26, 2024

Presentation at Raymond Carver & Tess Gallagher Writing Festival, Port Angeles, WA, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

My craft talk is titled "Evoking Our Familiar Places in Writing." Come hear my presentation along with those by two other panelists on related topics!

Monday, April 8, 2024 

Launch and Celebration for the San Diego Poetry Annual 2023-24,  Point Loma Library, San Diego, CA, 6:30-8:00 p.m

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Words to Uplift poetry reading, San Diego Writers Festival, 3:15-4:45 p.m.

I'm honored to have been invited to read at this event of the San Diego Writers Festival, taking place at the Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave., Coronado, CA 92118, at the outdoor stage in the Quad!

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 

Launch for the new issue of SALT: Old School Truth & Beauty--Poetry and Commentary, Blue Whale Poetry Series, Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara, CA, 4:30 p.m. 

Sunday, November 19, 2023 

Online Launch for the fall 2023 issue of the online journal Inlandia: A Literary Journey, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)


September 2023

Thank you to everyone who provided encouragement and donated in support of my participation in Tupelo Press's 30/30 Project  in September 2023!


Thursday, February 23, 2023 

Riverside City College's MUSE reading, online, 6:30 p.m.

Featured poet. Open mic, also! 


Thursday, February 16, 2023 

Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m.

I'm thrilled to be reading with the amazing poet, writer, and teacher Cecilia Woloch at Chevalier's Books, 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles 90004. For more information, click here! 


Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Featuring at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry, Ugly Mug Cafe, Orange, CA, 8:00 p.m.

 Ugly Mug Cafe, 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866. $4 cover fee. For more info, click here. Open reading, too!

NEW!  YouTube videos of two poems from my feature at the Ugly Mug:


Reading from Field of Everlasting 

California Writers Club, Orange County Branch, Members Open Mic

December 3, 2022, at the Anaheim Packing Co.

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Second Sunday Poetry Series, Los Angeles, 5:00 p.m.

At the Studio Theatre at St. Denis Building, 3433 Cahuenga Blvd West, Los Angeles, CA 90068. Reading along with host Alex M. Frankel, who is launching his new book of short stories. Open reading, too!


Sunday, August 28, 2022

Cecilia Woloch & Friends Reading Series, Online, 12 noon (Pacific Time)

I was honored to be reading with the brilliant poets Joan Larkin and Cecilia Woloch!


Sunday, June 26, 2022

About Place Journal reading; recording available online by clicking here 

Log in to hear readings by contributors to the recent issue of About Place Journal  as well as a panel discussion about the issue's theme: Navigations: A Place for Peace.