Thursday, Nov 20, 7:00 PM.
CLUSTER Museum, 307 Main Street, Ann Arbor.
with Russell Brakefield, Michelle Yang, and more!
“Close your eyes and open your hands”
Reading that pulls its theme from artist
Matt Shlian’s solo show at CLUSTER.
Link with full info here
Free and open to the public
Thursday, Nov 13, 7:00 PM
Immanuel Clarkston, 5860 Andersonville Rd
Waterford Township, MI 48329
“To strive, to seek, to find, and yes, to yield”
My title adapts the last line of Tennyson’s
“Ulysses”; I’ll discuss that poem briefly
as an example of potentially fruitless
endless searching, with other poems
on faith and form. Q&A following.
The talk is part of Immanuel’s series, Questioning Christianity,
offered by the wonderful pastor Micah Jelinek.
Free and open to all, believers and skeptics alike
who want to pursue questions of faith.
Thursday, Nov 6, 7:00 PM
At the amazing Scarab Club!
217 Farnsworth St, Detroit, MI 48202.
SECOND FLOOR. Free
“‘What Are You, Banded One?’: Poems of Wonder, and a Generative Writing Workshop. We will read a few poems that seek out wonderment as doors to both perception and blessing. Then, given a prompt, we’ll write together into wonder.”
The Scarab Club, just down the block from the DIA, is one of Detroit’s most iconic gems, founded and built by artists in the 1920s. There’s a smalI parking next to the building, and then street parking if the lot is full. The event is hosted by Detroit CRU, a a multi-ethnic Christian campus ministry working with many universities in southeast Detroit. 
*recent readings*
Wednesday, June 11, 6:00 PM
Schuler’s Bookstore, Ann Arbor
with Dunya Mikhail and Ellen Stone,
and Rachel Nelson and Onna Solomon!
Westgate Shopping Center
2513 Jackson Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Free and open to the public; full details here
Tuesday, April 8th, 7 PM EDT via Youtube Live
Youngstown Live/d Series: click here for details
featuring writers who have called Y-town “my town”
hosted by Lit Youngstown
with the resplendent Allison Pitinii Davis!!
To attend, visit Lit Youngstown’s
YouTube channel and click on “Live.”
Saturday March 8, 2025, 2:30 PM EDT
Powow River Poets Reading Series
Thursday, February 27th, 6:00 PM
ArkaText Literary Festival
University of Central Arkansas
Thursday, December 12th, via Zoom 5:00 PM ET
2024 Image Art Salon
Wednesday, December 4th, 6:30 PM 
Literati Bookstore
with Derek Mong! reading from his new book,
When the Earth Flies into the Sun
Thursday, September 26th
Michigan League Ballroom, 6:00 PM
with poets J.C. Scharl and James Matthew Wilson
hosted by the Kateri Institute for Catholic Studies
free and open to the public
Tuesday, September 24th, online
Skazat! Reading Series
Monday, April 8th, Mount Pleasant, MI
The Wellspring Reading Series
Saturday, May 11, Toledo, OH
Uncloistered Poetry Series
hosted by Jonie McIntire
Tuesday, March 26th, Rochester MI
CW Faculty/Alum Reading
with Andrew Collard!
Oakland University, 5PM. 
Thursday, Dec 7, 7:00 PM
Loganberry Books, Cleveland, Ohio
with Brian Brodeur!
Wed, November 15th, 6:30 PM, Ann Arbor MI
“Blurry Radiant Landscapes”: Russell Brakefield
(My Modest Blindness) and I read from our new books!
Ann Arbor Downtown Library
Wed, October 25, 6:30 PM, Royal Oak, MI
“The Wild Midwest”: Sarah Carson (How to Baptize
a Child in Flint, Michigan) and I
read from our new books!
Royal Oak Library
Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Sunday Reading Series: Prose, Poetry & Cocktails,
with Brian Foley & Dina Elenbogen
The Hungry Brain
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
The Maternal Interior at Ann Arbor Art Center:
an exhibition of art and literature
with Julie Buntin, Alana DeRiggi, Ellen Stone, Jacinda
Townsend, and Michelle Yang!
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
RHINO Reads! with Dara Yen Elerath
Sketchbook Brewing
821 Chicago Ave, Evanston IL 60202
3:00 PM; free and open to the public
Friday, April 7, 2023
Pre-release reading for Wolf Trees
with Jennifer Metsker (Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise)
Literati Bookstore
124 E Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI
6:30 PM, free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
University of Toledo’s Dept of Disability Studies presents
a reading from Wolf Trees
4 PM, Carlson Library, Room 1005
katie hartsock 