Yetzirah Reading Series, online, Sunday, September 7, 2025, 5PM EST
Boston Poetry Marathan, online, Saturday Sept. 28, 2024
Pete’s Candy Shop, Brooklyn, NY, Friday, June 14, 2024, 7PM EST
The Flow Chart Foundation, Close Reading in a Virtual Space Series, Hudson, NY, Leading discussion of Lyn Hejinian’s “[a straight rain is rare…],” Thursday, May 9, 2024, 3PM EST (zoom)
Salon Salvage, Troy, NY, Saturday, March 30, 2024, 7PM EST
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, “Visual Poetry, New Vistas,” Troy, NY, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, 6PM EST
Cafe Lena, 20th Anniversary Reading, Saratoga Springs, NY, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2023, 5PM EST
Goddard College, Reading with Tongo Eisen-Martin, July 15, 2023
University of South Dakota, Craft Talk, November 2022
Lit Balm, with Erika Wurth, Caroline Hagood, and Lynn Melnick, Oct. 29, 2022
University of South Dakota, Reading, Sept. 30, 2022
Boston Poetry Marathon Summer 2022, August 5, 8–9PM EST
Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Spring 2022
Bernadette Mayer’s Mid-Winter Annual Reading, St. Rocco’s Reading Series, Dec. 18, 2021, 7PM EST
Calling All Poets First Friday Reading Series, Dec. 3, 2021, 7PM EST
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, June 26, 2021, 4PM EST
Downtown Writers Center Reading Series (Syracuse, NY), April 23, 2021, 7PM EST
New Orleans Poetry Festival, Lavender Ink Reading, April 18, 2021 4PM EST
Eugene Paul Nassar Prize Reading, Utica College, April 15, 2021, 7PM EST
Mercy Street Reading Series, April 11, 2021, 7PM EST
TGI the greatest indoor reading series, March 5, 2021, 7PM EST
Cultivating Voices LIVE Reading Series, Jan. 24, 2021, 7PM EST
PANK Books’ End of the World 2020 Reading Celebration Party, Jan. 21, 2021, 8PM
CavanKerry Press 20th Anniversary Reading Celebration, Dec. 13, 2020, 4PM
Cafe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY, Dec. 2, 2020, 7PM EST
Eastern Michigan University, Nov, 30, 2020, 8PM CST
Utah Humanities Festival (virtual), Salt Lake City, UT, October 1, 2020, 7PM MST
Into the Aethernet Reading Series, Sept. 12, 2020, 8PM EST
Boston Poetry Marathon, August 6, 2020, 9:10PM EST
Iowa City Poetry July (virtual), July 28, 2020, 7PM CST
Bryant Park Reading Series, NYC, July 2020
Sleepy Hollow Poetry Festival, Sleepy Hollow, NY, June 13, 2020
The Social Distance Reading Series (virtual), Green Mountain Review, May 2020
Bridgewater International Virtual Poetry Festival, May 2020
POETRY IS BREAD Reading Series (virtual), April 2020
PANK Books, NEW BOOKS 2020 Reading (virtual), April 2020
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, Intersectional Feminist Reading, Panel with Allison Joseph, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Venus Thrash, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and Shira Dentz, Washington DC, March 28, 2020
College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, March 19, 2020
AWP San Antonio, TX, TARPAULIN SKY ESSAY PRESS UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE BIRDS LLC REALITY BEACH OCTOPUS DOUBLECROSS March 7, 2020
AWP San Antonio, TX, PANK/HAYDEN FERRY READING March 5, 2020
GREEN KILL Gallery, Kingston, NY, February 28, 2020
Triangle Quarterly Reading Series hosted by Anton Yakovlev, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, February 8, 2020, 5:30PM
“Slow: A Symposium in Praxis & Theory” hosted by MCLA and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: “Traces & Tracing: Slowness as an Approach to the Phenomenological in Creative Writing,” panelists Shira Dentz, Adam Tedesco, & Shena McAuliffe, November 1, 2019
Spotty Dog Books, Hudson, NY, October 12, 2019, 7PM
Chop Suey Books, Richmond, NC, July 15, 2019, 6PM
So and So Books, Raleigh, NC Richmond, NC, July 14, 2019, 7PM
Word of Mouth Reading Series, Art Bar, Kingston, NY, July 11, 2019, 7PM
Writers & Words—a Baltimore Reading Series, MD, July 9. 2019, 7PM
Poets in Pajamas Reading Series (live video) hosted by Sundress Publications, June 23, 2019, 7PM EST
Chauttaqua Literary Festival 2019, “Reclaiming Voice: The Recuperative Promise of Poetry,” Panel: Jericho Brown, Lisa Fay Coutley, Shira Dentz, Richard Hamilton, Adam Tedesco; Ballroom, Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, June 21, 1PM
Bright Hill Press and Literary Center of the. Catskills, Treadwell, NY, May 9, 201,
Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, April 28, 2019, 3PM // with Geoffrey Babbitt, Catherine Taylor
New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, April 19 & 20, 2019 // with Lavender Ink
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, April 16, 2019, 4:30PM
The Bookstore & Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox, MA, April 12, 2019, 5:30PM // with Wendy Chin-Tanner and Adam Tedesco
AWP off-site readings, Portland, OR, March 29 & 30 2019 // 3/29 with Lavender Ink, Essay Press, Reality Beach, Tarpaulin Sky, Acre Books • 3/30 with Unlikely Stories
Amherst Books, Amherst, MA, March 16, 2019, 7PM // with Adam Tedesco and Seth Tourjee
Spoken Word Sundays NYC, Great Weather for MEDIA , Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street, December 16, 2018, 4PM // with Janet Hamill
The Accidental Player Reading Series, Wooden Shoes Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 7PM // with Geoffrey Babbitt and Suro Kim
Utica College, Utica, NY, Jackson Lunch Hour Reading Series, Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 12:30PM
Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY, Saturday, October 13, 2018, 4:30PM// with Susan Lewis, Laura Hinton, and Amy King
&NOW Conference 2018, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, Saturday, October 6. 10:30AM–Noon // “(An) Alternate Notion(s) of Home” with Mary-Kim Arnold, Johannes Göransson, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Albany Book Festival, U of Albany, Albany, NY, Saturday, September 29, 2018, 10AM–4PM, Table TBA
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 6:30PM
Kingston Spoken Word Reading Series, Kingston, NY, Saturday, September 8, 2018, 7PM // with Susan Lewis
The Book Store at Stuyvesant Plaza (a book signing!), Thursday, June 28, 6PM
Pete’s Candy Shop, Brooklyn NY, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7PM // with FENCE and friends
Word Barn, Exeter, NH, Friday, June 22, 7PM
Volume Reading Series, The Spotty Dogs Books & Ale, Hudson, NY, Saturday, May 12, , 2018, 7PM
Dutchess Community College, Process to Text Reading Series, Washington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Thursday, April 19, 2018, 7PM
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, The Gray Comma Reading Series, MCLA’s Design Lab, North Adams, MA, Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7PM // with Kathline Carr
Thomas Cole House National Historic Site, Catskills, NY, Saturday, April 7, 2018, 4PM// with Mary Kim Arnold and Kristin Prevallet
Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY, Saturday, March 31, 2018, 1PM // with Dan Rosenberg and Geoffrey Babbitt
Wells College Reading Series, Aurora, NY, Friday, March 30, 2018, 6:30PM
AWP Tampa 2018, Off-Site Reading, Tarpaulin Sky/Essay Press/Reality Beach, Blind Tiger Cafe (1901 E 7th Ave), Ybor City, Friday, March 9, 7PM
AWP Tampa 2018, Salmon Poetry Reading, Book Launch! for how do i net thee, AWP main convention hotel, Thursday, March 8
Russell Sage College, The REV reading series, Troy, NY, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, 7PM
Bascom Lodge, Mount Greylock State Reservation, The Historic Curatorship Program, with Kathline Carr, North Adams, MA, Sunday, June 11, 2017, 6PM
Hobart & Smith Colleges, Guest Poet, Geneva, NY, Thursday, March 9th, 2017, 7PM
The Seligmann Center, Chester, NY, great weather for MEDIA, Oct. 9, 2016, 2PM
Living Poets Musical Theatre, part of Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival, EMPAC, Thursday, June 9, 2016
Volume Reading Series, The Spotty Dogs Books & Ale, Hudson, NY, Saturday, April 9, 2016, 7PM
AWP off-site reading, Opodz, Los Angeles, CA, Here is the fabulous list of presses: Anomalous, Drunken Boat, Gold Line, Noemi, Ricochet, Shearsman, Tarpaulin Sky. Friday, April 1, 2016, 6:30–8:30PM.
Ada Books, Publicity Complex Reading Series, Providence, R.I., Saturday, March 6, 2016, 6PM
Amherst Poetry Festival, reading with Dara Wier, Amherst, MASS, Oct. 3 2015, James Tate Memorial Stage, Emily Dickinson Museum, 3PM
&NOW Conference 2015, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2PM, March 27, 2015 // “Rose Secoming” with Pauline Oliveros, Kathy High, and Celia Bland
Spring Poetry Reading at Downtown Arts Center of the Capital Region, 2 PM, March 22, 2015
Appalachian State University Visiting Writer Series, Boone, NC, November 2014
Pine Hill Review’s Funday Reading Series, Sunday 10/12, 3pm The Low Beat 335 Central Avenue, Albany NY
Utah Humanities Festival, Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 7PM
The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY, Aug. 23 at 2PM
Woodstock’s Kleinert James Art Center, NY, June 28 at 6PM
Writers Read, Good Purpose Gallery, 40 Main Street, Lee, MA, June 26 at 6PM
Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY, with Suzanne Parker, June 4 at 7:30PM
Community of Jewish Writers’ Event, Beth Agudat Achim, Schenectady, NY, May 19 at 7:30PM
JCC Schenectady, NY, May 18 at 2PM
NYU Bookstore, NYC, with Sandy Florian and Lucy Ives, April 8 at 6PM
Poetry in the Community, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, Reading and Q&A, with Cara Benson, James Belflower, Dan Wilcox, K. Mojavi Wright, and Elizabethe Kelley, April 1st at 7PM
Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Boston, MA, December 10 at 6PM
Yes! Reading Series, Albany, NY, November 22nd, 8pm @ Albany Center Gallery
The New College of Florida, Black Box Theater, Sarasota, FL, May 3, 2013
University of Southern Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, FL, Poetry Month Festival 2103
“On Hybrid Writing: Mating an Elephant with a Giraffe?”A presentation by hybrid writers and panelists Shira Dentz and Ely Shipley. This event is part of the Fifteenth Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. Salt Lake City Main Library, Level 4 Conference Room, October 2012
Westminster College, Reading with Amy Gerstler, Salt Lake City, UT, September 15, 2012
Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Sugarhouse), Salt Lake City, UT, June 30, 2012
Bookstore 1, Downtown Sarasota, Florida, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 6PM
USF–Sarasota-Manatee, Poetry Festival, Thursday, April 5, 2012
The New College of Florida, Cook Library, Sarasota, Florida, Wednesday, April 4, 2012
University of Tulsa Presents Verse = Unversed, Manhattan Bar, Chicago, March 2012
After Word Bookstore, Chicago; with Drunken Boat
Thursday, March 1, 6:30-8:30PM
Parlor Press (Free Verse Editions)/Rescue Press/Shearsman Books
Location: Columbia College Chicago–Hokin Hall, 623 South Wabash, Room 109
Cost: FREE
Time: Wed., Feb. 29, 6.00-7.30pm
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Prairie Lights’ Live, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2011
Whitworth University, Speaker and Artist Series, Spokane, WA, September 2011
Bay Area Poetry Marathon, San Francisco, July 2011
Cornelia Street Café, with Timothy Donnelly and Ely Shipley, NYC, March 2011
Bowery Poetry Club, Shearsman Books’ 30th Anniversary Reading, NYC, March 2011
Salt Lake City Public Library, with Julie Carr, February 2011
Bad Shadow Affair, Lost Lake Lounge, Denver, CO, February 2011
International Visions Gallery, Washington D.C., January 2011
The Zinc Bar, with Laura Hinton, NYC, December 2010
Ken Sanders’ Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010