Upcoming Readings Previous Readings Sunday, 5 April 2009, Readings from Letters to the World, National Museum of Women in the ARts, Washington, DC. Thursday, 17 April 2008, Pride Reading, University of Maine, Orono, ME. Thursday, 28 February 2008, Poetry and Community in the South, Reading and Panel discussion to celebrate the release of Letters to the World, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA Saturday, 18 August 2007, Tea & Poetry, Perennial Pleasures, East Hardwick, VT Tuesday, 14 August 2007, Queer Poets Reading at Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier, VT Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:30 p.m. The Nora School Poetry Series, Silver Spring, MD Sunday, August 27, 2006 1 p.m. Tea & Poetry, Perennial Pleasures, East Hardwick, VT Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:30 p.m. The Nora School Poetry Series, Silver Spring, MD Academic Presentations “Lesbian Poetry: Textuality, Intertextuality, and Materiality,” Quick & Dirty V, University of Maryland Graduate Student Symposium in LGBTQ Studies, April 2009, College Park, MD. “Lesbian Poetry Archive: An Exploration of History, Literature, and the Archive,” Queer Arts Conference at University of North Carolina-Asheville, March 2009. “Blogger Grrrls,” Society for Textual Studies Conference, March 2009. Friday, 12 September 2008, “Love Should be Put into Action! On the Aesthetic Closet in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry,” Lifting Belly High, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Saturday, 5 April 2008, “Meeting Loving, and Losing the Beloved Muse: Thinking through Lesbian Relationships in the Poetry of May Sarton and Marilyn Hacker,” Why Study Women’s Poetry, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY. Saturday, 29 March 2008, “Not Your Grandmother’s Sonnet Sequence: The Feeling and Form of Marilyn Hacker’s Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons,” Text and Techne, a graduate student symposium, University of Maryland. Saturday, 22 March 2008, “Begin Again: A Tribute to Grace Paley, Sekou Sundiata, and Sandy Taylor,” panelist, Split This Rock Conference, Washington, DC. February 2008, “Queer Cultural Organizing,” Creating Change, the National Conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, Detroit, MI. Wednesday, 25 April 2007, "Uncoupling Lesbians," Quick and Dirty III, the graduate student symposium, University of Maryland. Saturday, 31 March 2007 Conference Presentation, Nuclear Pandoras, A Feminist History of the Nuclear Age, Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference, Bucks Community College.

Upcoming Readings

Previous Readings

Sunday, 5 April 2009, Readings from Letters to the World, National Museum of Women in the ARts, Washington, DC.

Thursday, 17 April 2008, Pride Reading, University of Maine, Orono, ME.

Thursday, 28 February 2008, Poetry and Community in the South, Reading and Panel discussion to celebrate the release of Letters to the World, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

Saturday, 18 August 2007, Tea & Poetry, Perennial Pleasures, East Hardwick, VT

Tuesday, 14 August 2007, Queer Poets Reading at Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier, VT

Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:30 p.m. The Nora School Poetry Series, Silver Spring, MD

Sunday, August 27, 2006 1 p.m. Tea & Poetry, Perennial Pleasures, East Hardwick, VT

Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:30 p.m. The Nora School Poetry Series, Silver Spring, MD

Academic Presentations

“Lesbian Poetry: Textuality, Intertextuality, and Materiality,” Quick & Dirty V, University of Maryland Graduate Student Symposium in LGBTQ Studies, April 2009, College Park, MD.

“Lesbian Poetry Archive: An Exploration of History, Literature, and the Archive,” Queer Arts Conference at University of North Carolina-Asheville, March 2009.

“Blogger Grrrls,” Society for Textual Studies Conference, March 2009.

Friday, 12 September 2008, “Love Should be Put into Action! On the Aesthetic Closet in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry,” Lifting Belly High, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Saturday, 5 April 2008, “Meeting Loving, and Losing the Beloved Muse: Thinking through Lesbian Relationships in the Poetry of May Sarton and Marilyn Hacker,” Why Study Women’s Poetry, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday, 29 March 2008, “Not Your Grandmother’s Sonnet Sequence: The Feeling and Form of Marilyn Hacker’s Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons,” Text and Techne, a graduate student symposium, University of Maryland.

Saturday, 22 March 2008, “Begin Again: A Tribute to Grace Paley, Sekou Sundiata, and Sandy Taylor,” panelist, Split This Rock Conference, Washington, DC.

February 2008, “Queer Cultural Organizing,” Creating Change, the National Conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, Detroit, MI.

Wednesday, 25 April 2007, "Uncoupling Lesbians," Quick and Dirty III, the graduate student symposium, University of Maryland.

Saturday, 31 March 2007 Conference Presentation, Nuclear Pandoras, A Feminist History of the Nuclear Age, Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference, Bucks Community College.